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Movies!!!

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Ok..This is kind of short notice. I decided to do an entry on the film that I want to own on DVD but some I have acquirred already.

2000s DVDs:
*Ratatouille
*Little Miss Sunshine
*No Country for Old Men
*Lord of The Rings: The Trilogy
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
The Bourne Ultimatum
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
*Shaun of the Dead
*Hot Fuzz
Initial D
Infernal Affairs
The Royal Tenenbaums
*Click
Across The Universe
The Incredibles
King Kong
Goal!
*The Darjeeling Limited
Little Manhattan
*South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Cloverfield
Shrek 2

1990s:
*Edward Scissorhands
*Fight Club
Toy Story
*The Matrix
Resevoir Dogs
The Silence of the Lambs

Those movies that have a star beside it means those movies I have to own on DVD. Some of these films are ones I find to enjoy very much. All of these movies connect me in a very personal way. In the next upcoming posts, I would write a review per post so you guys won't be bored when you come to my blog. :D If you're free, go check them out at www.imdb.com or www.wikipedia.org .

As for now, let me bid you farewell. Have a great day ahead!

Fun Shooting

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Now then I realise what's it like to be a movie director. Zakaria asked me for my help to film a short clip about himself for his polytechnic course so I decided, what the heck, let's just try. I had no experience at all in filming really. All the ideas in my head just stayed there but I didn't use any of them because I didn't film anything.

The 1st shot that we had to do was filming a dark scary alley where seldom people walked. I found the spot near my house and started shooting. It was hard to get the angle so as to achieve the effect so we tried walking with the camera slowly and tried zoom in slow. To our surprise, the walking one had the effect. Zooming loses it because it looks very robotic and not natural.

Afterwards, we headed to Starbucks in Eastpoint because his camera has ran flat of battery so while charging it, we planned out what's the next scene going to be like. We were like animated characters, moving our arms all around, trying to get some ideas out and we tried with the FX sounds that Zak had on his Mac Book. We even planned it out on a storyboard. For those who doesn't know what's a storyboard, it's a piece of paper with many boxes of pictures depicting what's the scene going to be like in rough sketch. There we have it, a storyboard for Zak's video.

Later on, we went to his house to get a couple of scenes done. We had some fun with the knifes. The longest shoot was trying to get this scary shot of the knife being thrown back, ready to cut something, and looking murderous as possible. But we forgot to sync with the FX sound so we had to do it again. Thanks Zakaria's sister for the drink and his mother for the food...It was delicious, really. =D

Overall, it was fun yet tiring shoot. Planning everything and setting the mood and the place was difficult. Besides we did not have a crew to help us out. I want to thanks Zak for giving me this opportunity to work with him. Thanks, man! I spent like the whole night helping him out and I got home at 12:20am. Even though we spent the whole night shooting a simple 2-3min clip, we only got it like 1/3 to 1/2 done! No wonder directors usually spend a week on a scene which is only like 10 mins of the film. Now I wish I could do abit more of filming after my O Levels...before I enter my polytechnic course! =DDD

That's all for today! Thanks for reading
PS: YAY!!!!!!!!!! SHE'S COMING BACK!! WOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Hold That Thought

Sunday, April 20, 2008

I received bad news on Friday...I was shocked how fast she made her decision. She only took a day to think it through. What's more shocking is she decided to not get involved in it anymore. Why?! Seriously, why?! You told me a lot of reasons why you didn't want to come back at all. I understood them, really. I know you are afraid but where's that love you used to give us? Where's the spunk that you had? Where is that senior who was so brave to tackle any problem?

There are many people who makes a difference in someone's life at this stage. You are that person who made a difference in my life...it wasn't much but it's greater than the other people's efforts. I literally treated you like my big sister whenever I'm out there in the streets or school or anywhere. If I have offended you or emotionally hurt you, I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you in any way. I don't want our friendship to lose that flame.

I know you started to regret about it...But why did you hear it from him? Why not hear it from the horse's mouth and try to understand. I know what he said was hurtful but you got to listen and interpret what he's saying. Miscommunication is what lacked between you both. That guy is going to make contact soon but I don't know when.

I can't my mind right after receiving this news. My emotions are in turmoil and I had lose interest in my hobbies..I keep thinking about it, thinking how to salvage it. I am trying my best to keep my hopes up but somehow it is not working. I even lost the mood to study so I'm prepared to fail my mid-year exams. The reason why all this is happening is because I love you, as a sibling, and I hate it when such shit happens...

So hold that thought, cool down, let him explain himself and understand his intentions...Don't leave us hanging here, on the verge of destruction.

Don't Regret

Friday, April 18, 2008

It was the last day of Band Practice until the exams are over. So naturally it would be the time we would oil our instruments to keep them from rusting for 3-4 weeks.

But we started off the practice with doing sectional when Mr Pisit was around. Sir came in with a foul mood. I think it was partly because the Percussion Section had lost both the Super Mario's Percussion II and Percussion III scores. Well actually I think it was the main reason. So Sir demanded us, the Percussion section, to play the whole piece, from start to the end. I struggled a bit for the Ending Theme because I haven't learnt up the whole movement so it didn't quite sound good.

And yeah, he knew we lost the scores. As one of the leaders in the Percussion Section, I felt guilty for my own actions because I did not take good care of the scores and did not help the juniors sort out their parts. Through this situation, I realised it's very important and crucial we keep our own scores and as leaders, we must oversee everything small details and not neglect our juniors and leave them on their own. I hope the juniors will learn a lesson and not repeat the same mistake again.

The instrumentation list that I did, I was quite happy that I finished it but Su Juen and Kelvin said that I did it wrongly. I was shocked because I didn't know it was done wrongly but also I wanted to learn how to do an instrumentation list out the proper way. So we did the instrumentation list...I found out that actually a score is designed in a way that it usually allows 2 players to play one score. Some of the more heavy pieces scores is usually done by one person only. It was educational and fun at the same time.

I feel glad that the Alumni are coming back to help us out. Though it seems they are taking charge some times but they have the best interests at heart. They came back to help because something is wrong with our playing or our organisations. Don't see it as a nuisance, we are inexperienced so we need as much help as possible to make this concert a sucess. I wouldn't come back if my juniors feel I'm interferring too much. It will just make them hate me. So please open-minded and think for the greater good.

Haiz...why must it turn it out like this??....

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Somehow I feel that my life isn't clicking with anyone else. Maybe I started in this school on the wrong note. In the class, I'm being shunned away by those three girls who I never say "Hi what's up?" to them. I played no importance at all to the class activities. I'm not the one who goes up and everybody cheers. My social life is at stake here and I can do nothing about it. I made drastic changes to myself in order to fit in. I am not on a flip switch.

I'm not everyone's Raymond. I don't feel loved at all. Neither appreciated. It's a shame really, because I can do more than what I'm doing now but I just don't have the X factor. What am I? I am just follower...What's so great about me? I am not cut out for a leader. Now I don't even know why I'm picked as the Concert Master for my school band. Hui Xian got more guts thaN I have. Hell, Syazwanie is awesome too. As far as I see it, I'm not making any damn progress in my life. I feel I let everybody down including myself. I'm not as brilliant as my English teacher had said. Everything that I have done is through hard work. Sincerely working and practising, hoping to make a change in my studies.

Even now schools are not focusing much on studies. Rather, they would want to nurture leaders out of them. Being a leader is something much more than practising. You got to have it in you already, that's how I feel. I am just me. I'm a nobody. Shaun, Farhan and probably the rest are going to forget about me in a decade. But I won't forget the people who made a life-changing experience for me. Those wonderful seniors and my band mates and especially Sir. I'm just good at following orders, I'm not good at giving out.

Oh Johnny wishes he was famous
spends his time alone in the basement
with Lennon and Cobain
and a guitar with a stereo

Speed-typing Test

Saturday, April 05, 2008

76 words

Speedtest

I was introduced to this gimmick by Choon Yi on a bored Wednesday. Ever since I did this, I was hooked. Hahaha...Have fun :D

There is just so much things going on now.

MT teacher, Ms Chia, had just given birth and she is now resting and enjoying her maternity leave, while Mr. Wong is suffering with more students in his class. Let's hope his faith is strong enough to tolerate all of us. Janus and Edison went to 4e7 for MT and it's horrible for them now. I won't mention the reason.

I got Social Etiquette just on Monday. It was an interesting lecture by Ms Henny. She is very, very lady-like. She told us what not to do during interviews and told us that the way we stand or sit depicts what kind of person we are. There were a few funny moments.

Super Mario is, surprisingly, improving. We got almost what we wanted for the first movement, but I felt that we're not playing together as a percussion ensemble. We are like struggling to keep up with one another. We need more than this if we were to deliver an amazing performance on Viva La. Oh and I managed my drumset part for "Do-Re-Mi". But I can do more than that, I know.

I went out with Su Juen to Expo to help her out with her shopping. She bought foolscap papers, a pointer-pen, fanciful exercise books...Then she added in a Kubrik's Cube for me as a late-birthday present...Aww shucks, I felt kind of bad 'cause I didn't get her anything for her birthday. Don't worry, Su Juen! Next year, I'm saving up for yours, I promise. And your ten dollars too!

Xiang Chou is officially a homosexual. I can't believe he gets influenced so easily. He's a smart dude, but a lazy one. If he joins the band, I suppose his discipline will definitely improve but at the moment, no way. Sorry, man. People who game too much, like you for an example, don't have the discipline but I hope my perspective of you would change and for the better.