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This is the japalam section.
Pantang (2016)
by Gabrielle Ang
Second Place
National Poetry Competition (2018)
Under-18 Category (English)
the gates of hell have opened
golden leaves join the ashen papers on the floor
sentinels stalk the streets of sin city
the inspectors we never saw watching our every move
everything is dying
but they come back home to the house of death
to pick up joss sticks stuck in ash
to replace the roses
their mourning exes handed them
a pearl in their mouth
rather than a stone on their finger
will foretell how many minutes
they have decayed since life
wife or widow;
people reunite in fire and ash
"eh, pai kia, don't go swimming lah," mama says
"if you get lost pray to saint francis ah,
tolong, tolong, don’t turn around
if you do you’ll see wild things abound;
“keep your rosary and don't anyhow step in the lalang,
don’t ask why and
watch where you tread, sayang
or the ghost will catch you with a parang.”
what i didn't know as a wee child
was that everyone ends up dead
not just because of a bullet to the head
or too much pain to be read
we disconnect too much to be fed
to be led to the heavens we were taught about
but those heavens weren't for me.
PANTANG PANTANG
Love Is Universal Filter (2021)
Instagram filter for Universal Music Group.
LOVE IS UNIVERSAL
Playlisting for Universal Music Group and HYPE Magazine
Taurus Szn for Digster Singapore
Gender/Genre for HYPE Magazine
PLAYLISTING
Keeping Up With The Countess (2020)
For the National Environment Agency (NEA) and Ngee Ann Polytechnic School of Film and Media Studies
Directed and Written by Gabrielle Ang
Starring Chloe Tan, Noreen Shazreen and Zuriel Isaac
Assistant Director: Tan Jia Hao
Producer and Floor Manager: Aurora Teresa Chia
Lights and Graphics: Danelle Seah
Visual Mixer and Editor: Jared Quek
Set Design and Audio: Xavier Poh
Camera Operators: Khoo Sin Yee, Swathi Nair and Claire Ng
Special Thanks To: Amalina Mohamad
KEEPING UP WITH THE COUNTESS
Pray (2019)
Directed by Braven Yeo
Based off the poem, “Pantang” by Gabrielle Ang