{"id":69926,"date":"2013-11-07T17:02:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T22:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=69926"},"modified":"2017-01-26T13:55:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T18:55:34","slug":"time-out-singapore-profiles-michelle-chong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/11\/07\/time-out-singapore-profiles-michelle-chong\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Out Singapore profiles Michelle Chong ’00, director of ‘3 Peas in a Pod’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actress and filmmaker Michelle Wong ’00.<\/p><\/div>\n

The movie 3 Peas in a Pod<\/em>, directed by actress and filmmaker Michelle Chong ’00, draws obliquely on her Bates experience, she tells Time Out Singapore.<\/em><\/p>\n

The road-trip film follows three university friends from Singapore, Taiwan and Korea as they drive across Australia after graduation.<\/p>\n

Chong, who wrote the script, tells writer Benita Lee that she wanted to “do a story about being young and passionate, about loving unconditionally and not having to care about work life and meeting deadlines, to try and reminisce that period of my life.”<\/p>\n

For Chong, “that part of her life” was at Bates, where she studied for a year, and the script draws on her feelings and observations about being an international student.<\/p>\n

The experience, she says, “taught me about separation and how sometimes friendships and relationships are quite transient. You develop such strong friendships there, spending 24 hours a day together, seven days a week. But in the end, you have to go back to your respective countries. At that moment, you don\u2019t think it\u2019s goodbye forever, but it is.”<\/p>\n