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During our pre-intern training we were all asked to make a presentation ...
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During our pre-intern training we were all asked to make a presentation on 'our contribution to medicine'.
This video was my answer.
Photos taken by me, music by Tan Dun from Hero and Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness by Peter Connelly and Martin Ivesen.
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laukaiyang08 uploaded a new video
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Drawings and narrative are mine music belongs to Prince of Persia Sands ...
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Drawings and narrative are mine music belongs to Prince of Persia Sands of Time by Stuart Chatwood and Tomb Raider Underworld by Troels Folmann and Collin O'Malley.
Working under the assumption that the band would play after this for a night of dance or what not, I fashioned this epilogue with the idea of closing the evening.
In case it hasn't been apparent Scheherezade was the queen in the Arabian Nights (A Thousand and One Nights), in which she told the King a story each night for 1001 nights for reasons I encourage you to explore.
I had a dilemma with portraying Scheherezade because a Thousand and One Nights is a compilation of literature of the region, it was compiled during Islamic Persia's time and Scheherezade and the King are usually portrayed as Muslim. I have since then found out however that the premise of the story itself is actually set in Sassanian times thus Scheherezade and the King should technically be Zoroastrian. In the end I followed tradition and portrayed Scheherezade more as a Muslim instead of a Zoroastrian.
The concept of having six nights to tell six year's worth of photos was to highlight how time passes really quickly and how in retrospect, six years seemed like six nights.
The cliff hanger of sorts at the end, well it's to comfort people that the this story never ends and so graduation or not, our individual sagas continue in the long story we call life.
Incidentally to find out what happens next, look up either Pirooz II or Yadzgerd III. So until we meet another night, this is Kai signing off for now :)
The poem at the end:
Last night by the cliff of moonlit dreams,
Our paper wing became real enough to fly.
But though dawn is nigh I cannot soar,
Too heavy with longing for more time with you.
Six autumns, or was it six nights?
Sceherezade at a thousand and one or two,
I've had more than double that.
Still my friend,
If I could have just a bit more time with you.
You alone know the tears I've shed,
And with bloodied hands helped pick up the pieces.
Shared the lashes on my back,
And lit each dark night with fireflies in the breezes
But then again where would more time lead?
One more story? More unending tales anew?
More apologies? More goodbyes?
Or a lifetime of wishing, for just one more night with you...?
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laukaiyang08 uploaded a new video
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This is the last chapter of the narrative sections.
The artwork and narra...
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This is the last chapter of the narrative sections.
The artwork and narrative are mine but the music belongs to Jesper Kyde from the Assassin's Creed Demo and the chime at the end belongs to the composer of MYST II.
This chapter further expands on the 'is this what I want' question meant to reflect our own uncertainties in our final year. The fact that you've made it to final year, must mean you're destined to do this (if you believe in destiny), but after 6 long years - is it still what you want? What about all the other things in life that may not survive between the transition of student to professional?
Ahriman's taunts are meant to reflect on how in life sometimes patients get well, other times patients don't; some of them are grateful some of them are not - why take the risk? What's the attraction?
What Gupta says before he chooses is actually taken from the Hippocratic Oath. I ran out of time to look for suitable music and also to splice it together satisfactorily enough, but in the end I thought the silence fit things quite well.
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laukaiyang08 uploaded a new video
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The Fifth Age
Drawing and narratives are mine, the music is by Hanz Zimme...
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The Fifth Age
Drawing and narratives are mine, the music is by Hanz Zimmer from Dream Works's The Prince of Egypt (one of my favourites).
The title of this chapter is 'The Romance of the Three Kingdoms', if you flip through the grad book the clinical year's splash page for 5th and 6th years is also called that. This is in reference to a Chinese classic that is about the fall of the Han Dynasty when China was in civil war between three kingdoms. I'll leave you to dissect the connotations...
In this tale the part of the Princess had to be down played a fair bit. The Three Kingdoms here refers to the civil both to the internal conflict between having to chose between three things as represented by the three ethnicities of the three characters.
When I think of fifth year, I remember a lot of strife between the clinical schools and also I remember the breakdown of idealism of a lot of people who started to question whether this was really what they want in life.
Gupta's internal struggle was meant to be a metaphor for our own struggle with coming to terms with our career that was going to be in our grasp very shortly; and that we had a choice between going ahead and not.
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