GOSH I NEED TO BLOG
Monday, July 6, 2009

Just finished a mini film shoot guerilla style with Jean, Kristy,Jared and Dixon :)

It was good fun. Expect to see some production stills taken by Dixon soon. I really miss production.

Work is...work. I'm getting used to treating it like work. Sometimes I can't stand it but you know through it all I can see God blessing me so clearly so I'm grateful that in hardship I can get to know God more and see how much He cares.

I find I really look forward to the weekend and dread mondays. I've now been inducted into working life together with all its woes. I honestly can't wait to get back into production, I really miss it and hey if I don't practise it I'm going down. but you know this contract work allows me so much freedom. It allows me to network and do side projects.

It also ends in October and gives me space to spend time with Sandra who's still coming down in November YAAAY.

But sometimes I just feel like quitting. but no I must be a tough cookie. I must rise from my failures and become triumphant. :) and I must rely on God and his everlasting strength and wisdom. I guess I need to know what it's like to struggle and to not be good at something and to be reprimanded for not being more sensible even if it's uncalled for most of the time.

I've always managed to avoid such situations because I've always done what I loved : all things film and tv, theatre and the arts in general. So yeah perhaps I need this for these few months. I've learnt alot but gosh darn it I can't stand the office.

So inside I'm a very mixed pot. I feel excited that I'm depending on God and all that good stuff but at the same time I feel overwhelmed by the nature of the advertising and marketing world and wondering every couple of days whether I can LEAVE.


Anywho.here's a sneak preview of the shoot


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In response to Jared's Jo Jonas post
Sunday, June 14, 2009

The original spoofers of beyonce's single ladies.
Check JT out! lol lol lol



enjoy on a stressful day.
coffee or tea is recommended

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Work or whatever
Friday, May 29, 2009

Working for this event thing makes me realise how much I am truly meant to do something else :D
OK big words for someone who has only been working for a week. Unfortunately because time is short there is no training period it's been a week but it feels like a month. You're expected to already know. But then again I guess that's what work is like, deadline after deadline, meeting after meaning and multi-tasking.

except coming from a very comfortable tv production background this whole event thing is definitely foreign. definitely = work life.
oh production. it's work but it's like I went to Mars I should be on Jupiter. same galaxy absolutely different environment
how I miss rocking up for shoots, shot planning and dreaming bout making a film that doesn't compromise your creative vision. I miss setting up lights and dolly tracks and marking that DV tape; Day 1, Tape 1.

I also realise I'm quite the hermit. I like staying at home. I like the solitude and I also like that I only have a few friends. I like watching tv and then reading a book and maybe watching a tv series on youtube. I like choreographing at home for no reason and pirouetting in the hall. I love it it's making me smile right now. and you know being a video editor hermit life suits me just fine.

I'm also rusty on the editing, I realised that working for Jon for a month. rusty as nails. but that won't side track me. Just makes me wanna learn more. makes me want to sit down for hours with random footage and experiment all the ways I can manipulate it. Oh yes there's that whole networking thing that production people need to do. I'll do it, what's more I can do it,

especially if the other ppl also share similar hermit habits. then there's an understanding, you know when you have to work, there's not pressure to talk. you can just do your work and talk when necessary. a big part of production is knowing when to just shut up. i.e:

DOP: light on

Camera: camera rolling

Sound: sound good

Director: action

then silence for as long as it takes. Oh will you receive a fierce glare from the crew dare you be chattering away.

I miss it. But you know people ae the same everywhere. The need to be witty the need to have something going on. C.S Lewis wrote about it in Screwtape proposes a toast.

Oh well I'm really grateful for the work. extremely grateful and I do enjoy it on some level. no way am I squandering this opportunity. it's just not what I'm passionate about. but I am the sort of person that likes the challenge to be good at anything I'm working with, it can sometimes bring out the worse in me but you know learn learn learn.

random part begins:
you know what else? everyone including myself expect for others to elicit a response to something the same way you would. but I don't think it happens that way or is meant to anyway. I mean that's just a really complicated way of saying we're all judgemental and we're all closed minded on some level or several levels. some ppl won't admit it, thinking of themselves as people who would never judge someone else. well it's just not true. but you can work on it? :D

ps: I talk so much rubbish sometimes :D tho I think I made sense here. btw first meditative/internalizing/self reflective blogging I've done in a long time. i think it'll will be a long time before I do it again.

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Just a regular update
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

So it's the month of may I've been 23 for a week now and starting a very formal job on the 25th of this month.

Gah, I am really turned off by the thought of a desk job. Which is what I'll be doing. Phone calls, excel sheets, office politics and semi formal wear. Squeak!

For 5 months. but you know I've avoided the whole profesional job thing long enough. I suppose it will do me good. force me to be disciplined and wake up at 630 to avoid the peak hour jam.

But at the end of 5 months I'll definitely be looking to jump straight back into television production. And perhaps my 5 month experience will become another tool in the basket eh? Well most probably.

Anyway I'll be working as an event coordinator for AdAsia 09 also known as the Asian Advertising Conference. My office is at the Eastin area. The conference takes place from the 22-24 of October. Someone asked me what an advertising conference is for. Well I have no idea.
What's more...I got all this information about AdAsia of the net. yes research is important so I at least KNOW what I'm organizing. LOL LOL LOL!

So no I'm not working for a particular company, I'm just working as part of a temporary team specifically for this event only. Our team will be sharing office space with I don't know who.

So keep me in prayer if you can. I lose concentration very quickly and my attention span is erratic. so pray I'd be focused ALL the time. LOL
SIGH. I does not want to go to work. but I do. but I don't. if that makes any sense.

Still I'll finally be able to save money. and it definitely forces me to be organized la. I mean you have not seen my room. I don't know where anything is! and I have so many things to do that I should have done a month ago. tsk tsk.

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Alice In Wonderland
Monday, May 11, 2009


Typical. I'm 10,000 million miles away from home or whatever, currently dealing with a splitting headache and there's a crazy woman threatening to have my head. I would yell back at her but I'm so distracted by the sheer absurdity of this place. The room is pungent with purple smoke, thick red stripes of carpet line it from top to bottom. A ridiculous collection of cheap plastic flamingos serve as tables and everyone around me is dressed in variations of dumb. As in tight, white and patterned with red hearts. I must say I'm adept at tuning out voices especially shrill annoying voices that this woman (whom I've never met before) posseses in great quantity, no, I'm more interested in that man. I don't mean I find him attractive, just fascinating. His hair for one sits so high above his head allowing me to see him even though a massive sea of white and red stands between us. He strikes me as somone elegant in his beautifully cut silk suit obviously designed to flatter his stout frame. It causes him to stand out from the rest of these dimwits surrounding me. For some strange reason I have a strong desire to stroke his hair.

Something he holds in his hand gleams for just a moment. I see it now, a silver pocket watch also impeccably made, he seems to be looking at it with a pained expression. I bet he too wishes to get out of this disastrous place. I want to go over, talk to him, I feel he would understand me and he could take me to a better place, one without ugly pink flamingos. But wait he seems to be coming towards me, my heart thumps in anticipation, I'm sure he's an intellect, someone with good taste and an even sounding voice. It would be a relief. Hold on, he's approaching the shrill voiced barbie doll in front of me! My eyes follow him in horror, he bows to her kisses her hand and whispers something indistinct in her ear, I'm trying to make out what it is but before I know it he turns on his heel and makes a swift exit. Where? I can't see the exit, I think it he went right. The crazy woman is starting to scream something, something about having her men deal with me. A waitress is passing by I can see her just to my left carrying six pink martinis on a tray. Not waiting a second more I push her towards the shrill voiced barbie doll with a stupid tiara on her head and run towards the direction that man with the pocket watch went a minute ago. I'll see him again I know I will.
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another parody thing :P.so uh...haha what do you guys think? I just wrote it really quickly I know if I think too much I won't be able to write anything.

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