Our friendship is rather special. Its about nostalgic times of younger days where we both dreamt of having our own Private Investigation company and started our own music band that went with the name 'Image'.
We got together creating songs for fun and sometimes for competition. Rich was the Music Director because he was very good with various instruments while I was only familiar with the piano and thus provided backup to song arrangements.
We made mainly Chinese music as local English music was never popular in Singapore.Its not as if that with the Chinese language, we managed to release an album but I guess there was a certain level of satisfaction when we performed on national television and winning some awards in a local songwriting competition.
Rich went on to pursue his dreams while I left mine to seek things that I felt was more important - bread and butter. Not that I found a pot of gold but I tried finding but found nothing but mud. Nevertheless, I tried.
Rich too tried hard and worked hard to accomplish what he set out to do - film and music. He never gave up despite the rough rides as he believe in what he did. He liked the arts. Despite family protests, he never wavered. He fought strong
Yes, you may say his family is well-to-do but he started everything on his own with minimal help from his family. He and his wife Kat fought side by side to start Richman Club Studios , the brainchild of Rich.
Two or three years back, Rich was nominated in the region's Golden Horse Awards for successfully using special animated effects on his short feature film he did for his alma matar, Singapore Management University (SMU).
I am very proud of this friend of mine and he will always be a role model for me. He believes in everything he fights for and has a never-say-die approach on whatever he wants to achieve. I wish him well and hope he finds what he has been searching for and perhaps some day give us Singaporeans something to be proud of in the Hollywood dominated film industry.
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