One Thousand & One Posts

1. FADE IN.

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3. Act 1

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5. INT. SLEEPING ROOM - MORNING

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7. PETER wakes up.

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9. PETER: (V.O.): I've had a sweet dream...

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11. Pausing.

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13. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Today's Singles Day, created by Chinese males in the 1990s. They wanted to break away from singlehood.

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15. Pausing.

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17. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): The number one "1" resembles a bare stick.

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19. Pausing.

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21. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): And now, 11/11 has been become the largest online retail shopping day of the world.

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23. Pausing.

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25. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): My family didn't shop any last year. I've a conference to attend this afternoon.

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27. Art 2

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29. INT. STUDY - LATER

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31. Peter works on his laptop.

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33. PETER (V.O.) : Is Nov 11 a special day to the world?

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35. Phone in hand, Peter does his research.

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37. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): It's Remembrance Day, commemorating the end of World War 1 in 1918, and honouring those who had fallen because of the war.

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39. Thinking.

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41. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): But how can one remember any veteran who died over 100 years ago.

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43. Pausing.

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45. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Actually, what did they die for?

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47. Pausing.

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49. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): For peace in combat areas? To establish a new political power? To enforce a political ideology?

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51. Researching.

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53. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): World War I led to the fall of Germanic, Russian, Austrian-Hungarian and Turkish dynasties.

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55. Reading.

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57. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): It destabilized Europe, laying the conditions for World War II.

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59. Pausing.

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61. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): What happened in the Far East then?

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63. Researching.

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65. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Japan declared war on Germany in 1914 to capture the German Tsingtao and succeeded. They pushed for outright control of Shandong Province.

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67. Reading.

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69. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): How about the situation of Hong Kong around that time?

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71. Researching.

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73. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Britain declared war on Germany in 1914. Few British in colonial Hong Kong chose to go back to Britain to join the British army.

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75. Reading.

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77. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): In 1917, the Hong Kong Government passed a Military Service Ordinance requiring all males to serve in World War I.

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79. Reading.

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81. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): As a result, at least 75 Hong Kong residents were killed outside Hong Kong during World War I.

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83. Thinking.

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85. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): They died for no particular reason.

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87. Act 3.

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89. INT. SLEEPING ROOM - NIGHT

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91. Peter checks his online publications.

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93. PETER (V.O.): Oh, I've published 1001 posts.

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95. Recalling.

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97. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): When I was a kid, the Arabian folk tales were captivating.

99. Pausing.

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101. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I loved Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba.

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103. Pausing.

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105. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): I believe others loved them too.

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107. Pausing.

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109. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): The dates and authors of those Middle Eastern and Indian stories aren't certain.

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111. Pausing.

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113. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): For my One Thousand and One Posts, I write every one of them.

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115. Pondering.

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117. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Would they become Peter Cheung's Stories from Hong Kong, China? Let me have another sweet dream...

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119. Peter sleeps.

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121. FADE OUT.

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123. THE END