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Christopher 啟明

About Me

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An American filmmaker and writer living in Taiwan.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

People who make me feel good about myself, and not by being worse off than me...

My Blog

Tuesday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFFqKz_Dflo This is my entry for CNN International's "The Screening Room" mobile phone film competition. Hope you like it!
Posted by on Sun, 24 May 2009 09:56:00 GMT

my grandmother’s eulogy

As many of you know, I am an ex Jehovah's Witness.  In one of the groups I belong to, I wrote and posted the circumstances around my grandmother's funeral and the ideological clash that ensued.&n...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:31:00 GMT

revelations

So, I'm meeting this buddy of mine today.  He tried to dangle this 3 million U.S. dollar downtown pad in front of me as if  (I am from a very prominent family in Taiwan, but my personal fina...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:41:00 GMT

psychin myself out

So I'm back in the internet cafe.  I keep thinking one of these nights, I'll buy three hours instead of my requisite single hour, and actually get some writing done, since I seem to dread doing i...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:13:00 GMT

mischievous devil's advocate

The following is a response to the bulletin titled, "every girl's dream guy," pasted below: Every girl's dream shopping buddy maybe... "Every girl's dream guy," is a bulletin that gets posted in one...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:16:00 GMT

medical depression and Taiwan

The following is a portion of an answer I gave to an individual who asked me my opinions on how depression is viewed in Taiwan.  I found myself teaching myself even more than I was informing the ...
Posted by on Sun, 20 May 2007 11:02:00 GMT

the 1st chapter (?) of my autobio. let it rip!

This is the potential first chapter of my autobio, tentatively titled, "Small Heart." Please let me know what you think...! My life today In classic Hollywood narrative filmmaking, the first scenes...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:18:00 GMT

Conde' Nast or Kinda Nasty?

My full time travels to Asia began in early May, 2004. Enroute to Taiwan, I stopped through Japan for a 5 day vacation. In Japan, on the second day there, I went into the Sony headquarters in Ginza,...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:03:00 GMT