-- Sunday, August 27, 2006
back from chalet from the weekdays and im back to work straight. phew
havent really recovered from the lack of slp from the chalet and im working 16 hours straight for 2 days.
arrrr.
chalet. hmmm. it was at aloha loyang.and i tell you. it was sooo much better than a normal chalet/bbq pit. the chalet was much much much bigger. the tv was bigg. the fridge was bigg. the cooler was hugeeee. and they gave us every single utensils. oh oh oh oh. plus the 6 beds they provided!
all for 70$ for 2 nights!
yea. it was very very fun. alot of laughters. though there was the time that i was so so so so so so so devastated. cos i lost 20$ of our budget. apparantly, the hp pouch, which was holding the budget, slipped out frokm my wrist. everything else from the moment we exited sheng siong and flagged for a cab and reach back to the chalet, it was all a blur. i cant remember, cos i was answering both calls and smses. traumatic i tell you. but i have a feeling that it dropped between the the exit from shop to getting on the taxi.
i practically chased down after the taxi when i realise that the hp pouch was missing. but it was not inside.
haiz.. o well.
so, i only got a few hours of rest before going back to work yesterday at 730am. we were late, but so were the rest. anyway, we ended at midnite! and we have to be here, for another day of shooting at 8am!
so yeah. well. i think i was still shagged from the chalet that i left my wallet on the bench yesterday morning while waiting for my uncle to pick me up to the shooting location.
I WAS MORTIFIED! i called my dad (thank god he was at home that morning) and he went down to get it. he smsed me back that he found it but theres no cash in it.
somehow, even though i was tired like shiat, i knew in the back of my mind that he was joking. but still, i couldn't shake off that feeling that it was true.
so i tried to sneak and call my mom hours later to find out. but she HAD to ask my dad whether there were cash in it. LOL! yea, there were cash. everything else was in place.
so ive been away from home for more than 1 week. thanks to work, then chalet, then work again now.
i have not properly chat with my family face-to-face for a longggggggg time. i came back home yesterday night (this morning) to only tell my mom that i'm home and kiss my kid brother.
today. i called home and dad picked up. i asked for mom (as usual) and he shot back this.
"then you don't want to talk to me?"
LMAO! it sounded funny because it came from him. of all people, i didn't expect such a thing to come from him, hahah.
owell. u noe wad. im actaully typing this away at work, everytime the camera crew set up. and it made me realise something.
i want a laptop. what would i do without this heavy junk school laptop. and i have to return it by this monday. haiz.
hopefully, with the money i earn from this part time work (and the many to come, excluding the literally peanut-worthy mccafe stint) i can get one for meself. and a new camera lens for my baby camera. :D im so proud of my baby. did wonderful stuffs for me throughout this filming production.
especially my keagan kang shots :D:D:D:D:D he even complimented me for being a great photographer!!
ok, he didnt exactly said that, but he meant it. he said that i have a very good eye when im taking pictures.
happy sigh
she went on and on and on and on at 12:57 am
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-- Sunday, August 20, 2006
very very very busy
been filming. working for my uncle. im the assistant director/sometimes production assistant/sometimes onset photographer/sometimes 'conty' (continuity) person.
and this is day 2. or rather an hour ago was day 2. today is day 3. and i have to be at the location at 7am. owells. at least its just 2 bus stops away, thank god. if not it would have been at marsiling and i would just not have time to post this.
so yes, day 1. exciting. hot and sunny. but still fun, though had to get use to the environment and crew and all of the names.
oh have i mentioned that this is a telemovie? and that keagan kang's in it?
hotness, i tell you. day 1 i was starstruck and awed at his sexiness. u gotta hear his voice in person!!
and i got to photograph him. he smiled at meeeeee. and he also sat next to me. and chatted with me. awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
but by day 2, yesterday. well, used to him around but still shy i guess. wahahah. again he smiled at the camera for him.
i tell you. nurul is mad jealous. keagannn kangggg.
its going to be an exciting 2 weeks for me. i shall brag about this during the chalet on tuesday. wheeeee. watch nurul, i shall bring the on set piccies. including the smiling keagan. :D
right. i have to sleep.
no. i can't. cos i gotta transfer the pics i took and arrange them according to the scenes. wah piang. but whatever. i actually do enjoy. even though its tiring like mad, by spine screaming in pain at times, i really enjoy. very fun and theres alot of stuffs i've learnt. much more than when i was at school. o wells.
speaking of spine. the doc and nurses let me bring home my x-ray next week. so far, the people i showed it to had a shock when they saw it. so yah. i try to get a pic of it uploaded and see what i mean when i'm still 40 degress senget (crooked)
:D
she went on and on and on and on at 1:05 am
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-- Friday, August 11, 2006
i'm still blissfully happy.
fyp finally ended yesterday at 130pm. after presentation.
oh the presentation. where do i start? im afraid of tearing up again just talking about it. but since i havent been updating much, i would very much like to update on this part of my life. the end of the final year project. the start of something very very new.
well, let me go back to the presentation. hours before the presentation, we still have no dvd burn, because that darn technician refused to extend the lab for an additional 30 mins. so we had to come back on the presentation day itself to burn. zak came early to burn the dvd since she's the nearest and also she knows about the dvd burning and stuffs.
plus noi, sara and me had ndp the day before the presentation. more abt that later.
anyway, all of us reach school around 930ish and the dvd is ready. thank god. we tested it and everything turned out fantabulous. then its the report that i have to complete. and my speech. i got not speech. its more of an impromptu speech during presentation...
but in truth, i didnt wanna speak much during the presentation. cos during the interim presentation, i got word that the other 4 members got a b instead of the same a as me because they didnt say much.
and inside, it just tore me apart that i got an a and they got a b. it didnt sit well with me. so this is a sort of a chance for me. i let them do the talking. so i quietly just sits aside while we're rehearsing the presentation and 'pretends' to say my speech.
so it was our turn to present at 1145. we load the dvd, open up the website and starts. i open up the presentation with me telling the judges that they will be watching the trailer.
the judges are jeanine, our supervisor, jennifer and meng lai.
after the presentation, i step forward, spoke 2 short sentences and hand it over to sara. followed by nurul, then ridwan, then zak, then ty, then me.
well, basically, i trashed wadever i 'wrote' for me speech and just go with the flow, explaining briefly about the website and pointing here and there and thats all. i then tell them to sit back and enjoy our film.
i sit back, watching the film, saying along to the lines (which all of us have remembered by hard - "tomorrow exam you know!") and turning around occassionally to look at the judges. at time i even see other students at the next room peeping through the door. the feeling was very overwhelming for but i calmed down.
then end of the film, i step forward and tell them that zak will be talking next. again, short. after zak, its followed by tziyun to semi wrap-up the presentation. when she's done, i step forward and tell them for the last time that they will be watching our making of.
this is it. the making of. the one we tried to hide from jeanine because we wanted to surprise her with what we did for the making of. its a combination of making of, deleted scenes, bloopers and storyboard references. and a very emotional ending. the ending, thats the part of the making of all of us have reserved tears for.
as all of us in the room watch the making of, i can hear the judges laughing along with the funny parts of the clip and it just brought immediate joy to my heart. and slowly the tears form up. but thennnnnnN!!!!!
noi fell over and started making weird noises. it was a combination of laughing and crying. she was really wailing, silently. and coincidently, i found a packet of tissue behind me and gave it to her. then i heard a sniff behind me, where jeanine sits.
and i heard sara (next to me) saying "oh shit!" and wiping something of his eyes. =) zak on the computer, the light from the screen highlighting her teary eyes. then i see tziyun's already red face. ridwan? haha, i didnt see him. but knowing him, he kept it all inside with that pretend straight face of his. so yeah. seeing my team members in this emotional state brings tears to my own eyes and i started crying.
crying for everything. for fyp. for the hardship that we went through just for fyp. the hard commitments we had to make for fyp. the 4 hours of sleep. the emotional breakdowns we had during fyp for fyp. the increasing budget. the everything.
its almost coming down to the end of fyp and it hit hard for me that its all ending. its finally going to be over.
i wipe the tears. and it stops. but dang it, the timing was bad. cos just when i calmed down, that emotional part of the making of came in. the audio just tears my heart again and my face felt wet again. the visuals, the text message.
"16 weeks
5 filming days
4 script revisions
3 emotional breakdowns
2 reshoot days
1 project"
i was slowly bawling. then it was over. the clip ended. i wiped the tears and step forward again. i turn around to look at the judges and to end the presentation. but what came out was my quivering voice and then a bawl from me. i turned around and everything just came pouring.
my group laughed at my sudden outburst. because it was really truly funny. my voice! it shooke and went high it was so funny lah.
sara was like, "why did u do this to me????!??!" he looked around and see that the girls were crying and couldn't speak. ridwan no way would speak. so sara stepped forward and made the funniest speech ever.
"well the girls told me that if this were to happen, i were to step in. so yeah.. the end."
all of the judges' faces were red. jeanine was cryinggggg! jennifer said that our making of have such an emotional ending that it brought tears to her eyes. then meng lai said that our packaging items were very well done and congratulated us for doing such a great job in making our film look like a real film. then jeanine.
she said that no matter how many times she watch our film in the past to check on things, we never fail to make her cry. then she started crying and grabbed some tissues!
it was truly an emotional moment for all. we all knew it. it was all over. everything we did for fyp has finally paid off. i have a very good feeling for the fyp.
our fyp.
im very very thankful that it came to this outcome.
and im also very glad and proud of my team mates. they spoke more for the presentation, i let them. im especially proud of ridwan because he took note and spoke louder, he was more friendly in a way and he was understandable. he was presentable. it was very nice to see him presenting. then sara, he did an awesome job with the making of lah. the making of is all truly his work. zak made the absolute great job on the audio. ty did a FANTABULOUS job on the packaging. and nurul wasted no time when she tried to fix and edit the bug that had infected our film a few weeks back. everything paid off and im so proud of them.
but, it was kinda sad that i had to fall ill on that fateful day. couldn't celebrate much, instead i felt more like puking hahaha.
so yeah. the first official day free from fyp. and i have nothing to do. ahhha. owell, a new chapter is about to be open soon when internship starts.
speaking of which. i have an interview this coming thursday with sara. i wont say for which company just yet. until its confirm, i shall break the news. im both quite excited and intimidated by the upcoming interview. i hope it turn out well.
oh! about the ndp thing. lol, i aint no motivators lah. those people wearing long-sleeved yello shirts hoping around the stadium.
nah, im part of the live feed camera crew okay? that means whatever we shoot, it'll be shown on the giant screen there. not tv, tv are mediacorp stuff. so yeah, it was very very fun. besides worrying about the presentation, we still had fun. we saw the president! quite a feeling actually. then the fireworks. im so glad we had a tape and recorded it. :D the fireworks were amazing. and i cant get the absolutely everybody song out of my head ever since we started rehearsing. lol.
it was fun while it lasted. definitely truly a memorable day.
so what now? well, it felt weird that im not at school rushing to finish with the film edit. but its all good now. i had a 13-hour long sleep just now and im not complaining. it was a goooood rest. and i feel better.
so, the holiday have unofficially started. hah. im waiting for a reply from my uncle. he offered me a temporary job at his productions to be an assistant director for 6 days. exciting!!!! the money's good too :D so i hope that work out for me.
well, i spend quite a long while typing this up. i hope u had a lovely time reading through this long post. i tink i end it here. i keep u updated on the interview thing for sure.
later!
she went on and on and on and on at 8:36 pm
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-- Friday, August 04, 2006
www.crashd.xviation.com
See the hard work we have put into this project. Note - it's still being constructed, so ya. =)
Please tell me whether you can watch the trailer or not. It's crucial as it seems only some people can see it. Thanks.
she went on and on and on and on at 12:27 am
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-- Tuesday, August 01, 2006
i'm having happy tears as i took a look at our almost completed dvd package.
but i shall save it. for that perfect moment when its finally completed. when all the hard work is finally being paid of.
i'm very very happy.
she went on and on and on and on at 7:55 pm
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