-- Friday, September 29, 2006
yes. the ever lovely him again.
anyway. come monday, i'll be starting work officialy at mediacorppp. exciting and scary.
just last week, we had orientation on thursday and friday. i fell ill on thursday, so sara was all alone there, hah. but i did came the next day, despite coughs and a very bad runny nose. oh, and my nose started picking up very very weird smells, so that makes the uncomfortable list as well.
well, basically, we were taught the basic job we were supposed to do once we start our internship. its an early orientation cos the current batch of interns will be leaving a week before we started. so everything have to be pass over to us.
well, from what i see, we'll be doing quite a routine over there. can't say much. CAUSE I'M NOT ALLOWED TO. =]
im both excited and scared. just 2 more days!
then we helped out the crew last saturday for the dance floor auditions. i got to hold the mic! ahha. its very cool to wear the crew t-shirt, plus the tshirt was noice! again, thats all i have to say. 'cept the trailer for the dance floor is out. i went screaming in front of the tv just now in front of the family, "I TOOK THAT SHOT! I INTERVIEWED THEM! THAT'S MY HAND ON THE MICROPHONE!!!"
=]
loves it. its gonna be hard work, that i can predict, and tell. 2 more days.
now that im starting internship soon, im now wondering what to do with mccafe now. should i quit right now? or still do my part time duties during the weekend?
still pondering.
she went on and on and on and on at 11:19 pm
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-- Saturday, September 16, 2006
okay. i fixed the layout url. see mr kissable lips yet?
anyway.
i had to do opening for mccafe this morning. i havent done opening in more than a year. and alot have change. we cant take cab and claim anymore. so die die must reach by 630am. thennnn, the previous pple already display the cakes, so its alot of weight lifted on my part. if i had to display the cakes and muffin AND make sandwiches in time for breakfast.... !!
so basically, i came to gwc. the glass door was locked. i knocked on it. i saw feet through the mirror inside, but i guess they still can't hear me. so i BANG on the door. lol. i made a beeline to the cafe itself, dump my bag in the storeroom. go inside the chiller, get all the sandwiches ingredients and enter.
first thing early in the morning do what? CUT TOMATOES. i cut 30 tomatoes in 15 minutes, lol. then made all the sandwiches. i was targetting to get all the sandwiches (including the lunch one) done by 10am. but no go. the moment cafe actually open, customer keep coming in non-stop. i had to go back and forth to send orders and run back to get a new order. and the sandwiches were non-stop as well. had to make allllll the time.
and i was alone in cafe for 3 whole hours. the 8am person couldnt work. and i found out last night. great. farhan tried to reach earlier though, but he still reach around 10am, his supposed time, lol. he came in with messy hair and stressed face. hah, poor thing. and note that i didn't have a single thing to bit for that 3 hours. not even a sweet to pop cos it was that havoc and crazy!
so anyway, it went crowded like that for a long long long while. by noon, both of us were barely standing. we could barely think straight. yes. 2 person in shift on a weekend. it was tiring lah, making everything in one go.
but owell, money money money. and i got a PR letter! i have no idea what it means but it sounds great. first time in my 2++ years that i gotten such letter. lol. have yet to see it though.
right, on another note, my results. got it on wednesday, the day on/after filming, which i will talk about later. hmmm, seems to be going backwards eh?
woke up at 130, turn on computer and check my results.
it was goooooooood. i am very very very very happy.
Final Year Project - A
Advanced Audio Production - B+
Slang & Accent - B+
Advanced Computer Animation - C
Or was it C+? Either way, i really really dont give a damn about that module anymore. i pass that, i DELIGHTED.
so yesh. my hard work for fyp, got an A!!! my second A!! the first one when to the totally unexpected Music for Moving Images last semester(s). i didnt even think i get pass b for that, lol.
extremely proud of this A now. though in the remarks, A and DIST are actually marks above 80. so i have no idea why 5 of us got A, and one got DIST. truth be told, i would like to get the honorable four letter word.
now that part is done. on tuesday evening, i went down to meet sara and his own CanonDVFest group to help them out. in all honesty, i actually called sara and asked him whether i can come down with them.
because. i. was. bored.
and i actually had this itching to go filming again, so there i called him. and he went yea, i need second cameraperson. =D
met them all at kallang at 7pm. filmed around that area till 11pm. proceeded to tampines interchange and reach there at 12midnight. had supper at the 24-hour mcd. by 130am, we left for the next location, reach at around 2am. and filmed non-stop till 6am. very very very tiring.
BUT I ENJOY VERY VERY VERY MUCH.
i get to play and work with the canon XL2. the heavy XL2. and i actually am filming again. yay. i kinda got high when we were filming, but then i didnt let that known. cos, it'll be weird and all, lol.
anyway, a lil sbout what we did.
basically, its the last 2 scenes of their production, both fighting scenes. i was, according to sara's words, "the second camera unit" lol. but i like the camerawoman tag leh. anything interesting much to say about the first part. sara "promised" me that i get to see ridwan kena whacked.
but all i see was shah and jason grabbed him by the colar and yelled at him. lol. that's all?!?!? i want ridwan to be bruised and pushed and punched!! hah, kidding. but the part where shah yelled at him, ridwan burst out in laughter. his reaction on camera looks hilarious lah, hoho.
over at the mcd. i was feeling extremely sleepy already. i bought coffee, but it only make my brain active, not my eyelids. so i was talking and whatever with my eyes closed.
iqbal and hadi came after that to fetch us. next location was at an ulu carpark next to a road. this carpark is meant for the big school buses, lorries and trucks. and it was super dark. i was walking almost in a zig-zag manner cos of the sleepiness.
WORST. i ended up giggling to myself, and all the other people who didn't know me, just kept looking at me. hah. in the dark, they see this girl wearing pink holding a huge camera on her shoulder and walking around aimlessly. seriously, i just couldn't control it. aha.
but as soon as sara got things going, i felt sane again. film film film. i think the outcome of their film is gonna be great. i mean, in the beginning, their first draft was incredibly ambitious. they managed to make something that is singaporean. lol.
by 550am, i was waiting for sara to say the magic words. it's a wrap. i only got it at 610am. heh. went home, took a shower, and went to sleep. and i woke up at 1230pm check results, and went back to sleep till 730pm. niceee.
so i talked about today and the past. now futureeee.
next tuesday gonna have a combined ptn lunch with our supervisor jeanine. pizza hut at townnn. yummy. then, i've been discussing with my uncle about future projects together again. he says he wanna ask me work with him. already, we have talked about some concepts and proposals that you might actually see soon in tv ;)
so the exciting kan!!!!
heeheh. then, im eagerly waiting for october to come so that i can get started with work at mediacorp. then, hari raya also. i've already began to spring clean my room and there's a lot more to go.
but before raya, its ramadan first. i cant wait to go jalan jalan at the new bazaar location. wheee.
okay. i'm dry now. have a nice day!
she went on and on and on and on at 9:12 pm
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-- Wednesday, September 06, 2006
yes.
hello gorgeous
meow.
she went on and on and on and on at 8:48 pm
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killed from the very creatures he loves and tries to protect.
i don't know about you. but i think that's the gracious way for him to part ways with the world.
im saddened by the news. but im quite relieved and glad that his suffering was short and that he did not die another way like being hit by a car or something. that would have been quite devastating really.
as if the world isnt devastated by his death already. im both shocked and glad that many many many people are affected by this.
the man really is a true icon. recognised by many, across the world.
he will be missed.
condolences to his family and friends, wife and kids.
rest in peace, steve irwin (1962-2006)
she went on and on and on and on at 12:18 am
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-- Sunday, September 03, 2006
remember that job/internship interview i had a few weeks ago with sara? the one where i dont want to mention about? well, i wanna mention about it now.
sara and myself have been accepted to mediacorp. yea baby. we're gonna be with mediacorp from october to january. we'll be under the on-air promotions team. basically, those trailers you see on tv like lost, sometimes even those movie blockbuster tag! so yea, very exciting.
eeeeeeee. im very very very very the excited. really. i mean, forget about the past entries where i sometimes talk shit about them, but to work with them people. them pro peopleeee. aiyaiyaiyai.
so yea. very good news and very exciting. very thankful too cos it's a very huge stepping stone to somewhere higher perhaps.
and ive been thinking. how committed am i to go in this kind of line? benny, the guy who interviewed me and sara (also u can see his name in the credits of some shows), even asked me the same type of question.
do i really want to be in this line?
i just wrapped up a production with my uncle. i did plenty of things there and i learnt alot of things there too. i get to see a sneak peek of how the stars/talents will behave on set, how the camera crew work, how the production assistants will always run around getting things ready and making sure it is ready. and i also got to observe the money spend for such a production.
all of these are very intriguing to me, you know. it sounds so exciting to me really. im not that bothered by the long working hours or the 4-hour sleep or the taxi rides back and forth, the food they served you and etc. thought im VERY sure i eat my words on that, but i dont care really. because i know that thats the things that come along in this working line.
i realised about it right after my dvid assignment. the one where i got to film myyyy story and acted in it too, hehe. but yea, after we did that, i start to think back about what we did for the assignment. we had to chip in cash for food and transport. both us crew and the cast. and locations, and props, and wardrobe, and the time we spend for filming and the everything else.
i wasnt surprised by the amount of work my group did for my fyp project. i wasnt surprised we had to stay late to correct scripts, deal with people who last minute back out in acting for us, cast problems, crew problem. i wasnt surprised at all. i knew it was coming when i decided to make a short film for my final year project. im sure my group expected such things, but i have a feeling they got a little shock on some things. but that doesn't matter.
cos what matters now is that im going to be working irregular hours, finished dateline stuffs asap. going home late at night in a cab. and perhaps coming back to work in a few hours time. well, i dont know. cos im not really sure myself what exactly is the scope of my job there. im waiting for benny to call us to confirm everything.
oh, speaking of cab rides late at night. haha. i've already warned my mom about me being in this line. during the fyp filming period, she keeps calling me when im coming back and why im still out so late. or why im out so early. lol. then during the recent production, she ALWAYS call me when its nearing midnight to call why havent i reach home yet. and going back take what? with who? i tell you, lucky im working with my uncle and that im going around with him, otherwise, i think my mom will be having a panic attack that im out after midnight and taking a cab home.
my family have.... no.. wrong.... my mom has this thing about us girls going back home alone in a taxi. especially at night. owells.
so yes. i've already warn and pointed out things to her of what to expect in the future. filming is ALWAYS ending late. its just like that. we will ALWAYS overun the schedule and will sometimes look like it will never end. yea stuffs like that. but im sure she will still call me late at night to ask "WHY AREN'T YOU HOME YET?!!"
boy. i kinda cant wait to see her reaction when im still in the office working past 1am!
as of right now. since im free from fyp. i've been busy with ... nothing. really. my body clock is back to normal. that means im back to sleeping for 12 hours. then i got nothing to do, switch channels, play games. im not even trying to go back working in cafe. im getting worried with the amount of slack time im having right now, haha lol.
and worst. im broke. my uncle's paying me next month, so that gotta wait. cafe money is cheap. and im not even buying anything from comex this time around! shocking horror! grrr. i went there on the first day looking and oogling at the laptops. then had a sneak peek at all of the cameras eeeeee. still have that giddy feeling. haizz.. i cant even afford a new mp3.
duhhh..... hmmmm... ramadan is coming. tomorrow, im going on a fasting spree for 4 days straight! finished up my debts! :D
she went on and on and on and on at 6:56 pm
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