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It is about the Assyrian immigrants in Sweden. Very relevant as well since Sweden is increasingly anti-immigrant. In fact, EVERYWHERE IS. Assyrians have successfully integrated into their system so check this story about how one man acts as a leader to his community.

There is something deeper about the Assyrian community that isn't fully depicted in this video. I listened to what the club owner had to say about Assyrians and it moved me incredibly. He talked about how Assyrians long to have a country of their own, a place where they can call home. It reminded me of the Jewish diaspora as well. (Now they have Israel, which is still high in contention and at war) And here we have the Assyrian diaspora... who have no home, no nation, and they are continually moving, searching for somewhere where they truly belong. Can you imagine living with an identity but have nowhere that you can truly say is your nation? It's like you're Singaporean but there is no country called Singapore and you're constantly carving out a community of your own in other people's backyards. But because you're an immigrant, no one would wholesomely welcome you. It's incredibly saddening and stories like these need to be told.

While producing this video, I was extremely touched by one of our team members, Stefanus, who is a print journalist. This video was sort of supplementary to his story on Assyrian immigrants. He didn't have to but he went ALL OUT to make sure we got a contact for our video. I still remembered the day when he told me he managed to get this profile in our video, David Durmaz, the captain of Assyriska Foreningen soccer team in Sweden for us.

I remember being so so thankful to him, really. We bought tickets for a match and talked to anyone we could find. I tried talking to a parent of a soccer player. I managed to speak with the player in the end, but was too mesmerised by his beauty that I couldn't really communicate HAHAHA. But yeah, it was a dead end. But Stefanus, wow, he really got to one of them over there and secured an interviewee. FOR US. He's one heck of a good journalist lah I must say.



And here were the two of us, Reshma and I, about a month ago,


Editing the video with final touches in our favourite place - the editing suite. yay.

I had a small chicken drumstick in my mouth when we took this photo btw don't mind me HAHAHAHA.


The guy in the video looks like Adam Levine from Maroon 5 I swear. While we were there, I just looked at him and told him in his face that he looks like a singer. He doesn't know who or what Maroon 5 is though. I guess.. there are places where pop culture hasn't reached hoho.


Alrightey then, that sorta is the end of my Go-Far videos. Hope you liked them and that they were up to YOUR standard dear oh mighty & powerful anonymous Internet people.

More posts to come~~ I've been meaning to write some.