ah yes... another one of those many times i sit down (anywhere.. just gimme a block of wood by the roadside and i'll still sit down) and munch on sth... thinking.

Sounds too corny to you? it does as well to me... but people really do these things. I mean.. sitting down and thinking.

Let's review..... perfect lifestyle... perfect friends (one witha perfect family and two little brothers.. one cheky arse who punches people and the other with relatively big and firm leg muscles fro a pri sch kid) ... perfect history.. perfect bla bla.....

i don know why... but many people love to come over to me... pull me towards them and whisper to me these few words,"Let me tell you a secret" or sth along those lines. Ive got secrets from many people... ive got Tianyu's, hasrul's, javis's, sarah's, aik's, jason's, father and his business and sometimes even teachers .... many!!!

But why? i have no idea.

And secrets told get repaid by one (or in a very special "Tianyu's case" back in 2003) of my deep dark secrets... oooo..... deep and dark as in..... im an evil bastard. Beware.

I dont know wht else i want or need in time to come. Its jsut one of those scenes whereby the guy is on a bed of leaves on a little roof in the middle of school and he's beaming the brightest smile anyone could give while he recalls all that he has and the camera either circles slowly arond him or slowly zooms in onto his face (no no the latter camera movement wont work for me). Everything is just so nice.

Sweet 18.... yeah.. sweet 18.... im coming 18 soon as well..... still an adolescent... still a "teenage boy".... and i feel that my journey through this environment is almost complete.

oh dear.. am i falling into depression again? am i gonna die again? is something big gonna happen now? is the feeling here?

well.... maybe... there's a hint of all that in me now. But in any case.. i may be enjoying too much.

okay ill be talking to myself from here on.... beware of the ramblings.....

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i lvoe the simplicity of things. Why do i need such a posh lifestyle? Why would i need that country club membership? why would i need to be a close buddy of that oh-so-famous person? I dont need al these. ive experienced a hint of all these and i should say that everyone else is the same. They all have wrinkles. They all have emotional.. whiny problems... they all fart... all these glamour and stuff has just been made more glorifying by simple camera angles and lightings in the media.

I lvoe playing in the mud. Literally. Put me in my No.4 uniform and throw me into the jungles (with a sociable companion, maybe) and i might come out of it a couple of years later and claim it was one of the most beautiful years ever.

So there.... i dont need the glamour.... the fame... the looks (ive learned to live with that... damned brown skin and hairy legs... and the spots! oh dear! ) and i most certainly do not need..... hmm how would i say this.... well..... that lifestyle ... that certain lfietsyle... i dont know the word for it... but anyways... yeah.

ok enough of that. Let us/me move on to more ramblings...

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Froma very young age.... i love "getting into the minds" of other people.

I loved coming up with hypothesis and stuff and tested how other people will react if i were t do sth outta the norm (ok maybe not that lame...) ..... like i dunno.. if someone tries to fight with you... offer him a french fry..... (what? it worked... i almost got beaten up in tampines interchange. I offered the hairless punk a fry and the entire gang left happy.)

I try to put myself in other people's shoes... or my friends.. more often.

It's like.. "ok.... his background is this this this...... he looks like this this this.... but then again everyone else is the same most of the time... so maybe how i would react to this this this might be the same for him. maybe if i keep doing the right thing... i may get that thing i want from him." be it materially or otherwise.

and so i do stuff accordingly... "ok say it THIS way.... not THAT way... this tone... this movement... eye contact! eye contact! body posture! cmon! ok good... now.. tap a bit onto his history! ok good... make things more personal to his background.. good good.. go for it audi! you're almost there! ok good... now bring him in a very defenseless and submissive state! ok tt didnt work out as expected.. but nevermind... Ok good.. he seems to be in deep thought and wonder now... good... ok audi... tease him and leave him empty..... say that u gotta go now!"

then it continues,"... oo he seems reluctant to be left stranded like that in deep thought... GOOD... job well done! now.. to get what i want..."

Psychological mindgames. People detest that. And by claiming (claiming... saves me from finger-pointing) that i play mind-games on people will most probably get a lot of people more careful around me.

But then again... i seem to knwo my basic.... limits.. to stuff like these.

And i think many other people have this dilemma of "i dont look like what i imagine myself to be.".

Did you know that sometimes.... when i happen to pass by a mirror and see myself... i just get disgusted by what i see. And with me... are another million more people who feel the same way (about themselves).

I guess the grass is always greener on the other side.. but for now.. a cap solves most everything.

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more ramblings...

I have this desire to excel in most everything i do.

No... not a perfectionist.. i noe that nothing can be perfect.. and that some things just CANNOT be done (like in my case... winning the heart of that oh-so-lovely girl..... cos of the public's (maybe) opinion to the relationship which will most probably cost me more than its worth.)

Ok let's see wht i love to do.... video... scale modelling... gaming..... playing a musical intrument.... singing..... speaking english (believe it or not, Mitch!)... speaking german (believe it or not, Shaun!) and of course... that mind-gaming thing.

Shaun says that a hobby isnt something you/i want to excel in.. but something that i enjoy doing with no serious thought of excelling ie quality work.

But th problem is here is that.... i want to excel in ALL these things!

so.. what? i dont have a hobby?

I want that uber-fantastik gaming machine (hello, alienware! hello, jealous donald... LOLZ).. i want that quality concert grand piano and those magic floating fingers... and i want this that this that....

but isnt this... contradiciting to my "perfect-everything" rambling?

i shoudl say no.

I have access to all these.

it's not as if i'm asking for that gold plated tap in a mini-HDB toilet with a simple claypot toilet bowl beside it (omg did i just say claypot?) which would definitely take lots of money and time and SKILL and gold leafs, not to forget, jsut for me to craft that stupid tap with my own hands (did i also mention tht i like to BUILD the things i want?).

Im not all crazy about cutting down those skinny little frail trees along Singapore roads to make my piano as well. I'm talking about... PLAYING the piano.

ok.. off topic... sorry.

Wait... there's a topic?

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90% (or ..gasp... more!) of singaporean teenagers blog. Even that slow nerd in class MIGHT have a blog. Though we might wonder what the hell he writes on his blog (hello, ming hai.. wht the hell do you write on ur blog?) the guy still has a blog!

I hate blog-surfing. ...Singaporean blogs, i mean. MOST of the time... the bloggers rant on how TOUGH or DIFFICULT their lives are. True true... some peole DO have hard lives here in singapore. true. But first of all... you have freaking access to a computer! and you can type! OMG the hardships you are going through!

"Yoos yor blain okay yoos yor blllaaaaaiiinnnn~~!!" (Phua, 1995, Phua Chu Kang)

Ok so the blogger has issues.... then she (yup.. i'm using the female term..) goes on to explain the cause of her ditraught. What are we expecting?

family dead? parents quearelling? broke your leg? war in iraq?

no no no no NO NO NO!!! NO to all these!

"muh fwen bakstab miiee"

OMG.... GGEEEZZZZZ WHHHEEEEZZZ!!!!

HOW INTELLIGENT!!!

my mind races faster than my fingers could keep up. No audi... you shall NOT type our your thoughts.

No audi.. NO...

*fine fine....

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So the camera has stopped twirling slowly around me... the screen is black.. audiences are showing their arses to the credit rolling onscreen. My airtime is over and ive successfully gotten rid of 75 percent of my blog readers (which. is about... three? i'm left with one... muh-self..... oh dear)

I'm off to kuching.... "wish me luck".. and umm "dun miss miie 2 much, ya?" and hmm...."i lurvee eeuu allhz" and "R2D2 C3PO!!"

next post.... i'lll be talkign about how evil MEN are and how they all LIE and how men cannot be trusted and how some people should be killed for backstabbing and also how some teachers should die because they kept babbling 1.0045 seconds after the school bell rung the afternoon before and of course.. i'll be telling you all what bus number i took to here and there and who i "OH MY GAWD" met along the way.

:)
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Friday, September 23, 2005 | 0 comments  
Guess what... on the day NVP1 was postponed, Jia Hui came up with TWO scripts for our little mini project.

There were two... one was war... the other was a horror story. I picked horror story because it was easier to do (fine... i admit...).

So the next night (yesterday), i received the scripts at about 10pm... printed it... went to bed.. next morning (thursday), or afternoon, rather, i woke up (took bus number 11.. then i saw X larhz.It's been a while since i saw him larhz... ok some of you might not get that joke.), scribbled down shots on the scripts... packed my equipment, and was off to north view at around 330pm.

Jason and Jia Hui couldnt find talents to play out this short script.... so they volunteered. Good... because then we dont have to explain on how the story is to anyone. We started shooting at 1630. Ended at six.

Got home.. edited everything... played with some effects for the second scene... got some advice from "Shaun the Wonderful" (shaun.... -.- ) on what keys to press for the type os score i wanted (i did a bad job. I'm gonna get a trashing from him.) and yes... i shoudl say.. i've exported the video and stuff... and its playing NOW on this blog!

I like this video a lot. Yes yes i may be scared of everything but it so happens that besides war flicks, i love doing horror stories. Ironic aint it.

I think i'll be showing this video to the production crew as an example.

Okay... for the first and the last time... i'm gonna sound needy and whiny and seeking for attention....i'm gonna say this...."PLEASE TAG!" (about the video.)

So this is done.... Okay who else wants to make a video??? *waves hands wildly*


*The title of the video was given by me. I know... it's so stupid... I'm not good at one-liners. And Jia Hui is holding the script of NVP1 in the first scene... LOLZ!!

What? Cant i laugh?

Anyways... the link for the video is... http://www.freewebs.com/meinbereich/videos/have you heard.wmv

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I think sheryl's still bleeding..... i showed her the Mock Shoot video and she went wild over the internet on how adorable Rastus is....

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And Beth can slang... wow!

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* I'm off for Johor till monday from friday evening onwards. No internet. No shopping. No TV (ok i can live with that) and No video editing (NOOOooO!!! NEEEIIIiiiinnn!!!). Open house for johor is on the 24th... such a hassle...

Till then.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 | 0 comments  
NVP1 has been POSTPONED.

A few reasons to this: Lack of MALE lead character.
: Insufficient time for production.

It is very very saddening, personally. It was as if 'Finally! everything's gonna run!' one day and things started to dwindle.

I think Mr How has received the news that the project has been postponed, relayed by the oh-so-hardworking-producer, Hai Ting (i've tortured her a lot.). Some of the crew like Aaron and Jia Hui didnt want a postponement but unfortunately, i have to.

I'll be walking right into Madam Aini's office within these two days to discuss with her issues related to the production.

As well as, of course, cleaning up pre-production work like editing scripts, planning shots and going through the "who wants to be a part of this project?" phase once again.

Sad sad indeed. But nevertheless... there are a handful of very very enthusiastic crew members in this project. I would be more than happy to finish this production in a jiffy. (but if they were to leave... ouch...)

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The Johor house has been completed as of yesterday. My father has been coming in every weekend (only to leave on monday for work.. by plane) to check on the house.

Seems like everyone else is going to johor (including some of my cousins.. oh dear...) on thursday night. I'll be the lone ranger (with a sister to boot) going this friday. Till monday.

Aye... my video projects are getting screwed day by day.

And my father asked me to video shoot the entire open house this weekend as well.

My mum told me, for the first time,"Don't forget all your equipment~~ (ala "Don't forget your breakfast~~!!")

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But hey.... the least i could say to all these projects is that one very interesting one might be coming up pretty quickly these couple of days; I was itching to shoot a little short video today so i asked Jia Hui if he was feeling the same. Wham-bam.... he might be coming up with a simple two-story page script by tomorrow night. :)

I'm just itching to edit videos......

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Shot a little video myself today (of myself. Again.)

The genre is (naturally), war.

Imagine Berlin, 1945. Ah yes... now that shoudl get your mental images rolling.

*For the second half of the video... well... there is NO video. Just audio. Well i cant just go down to the field with my rifle and shoot myself running along it.. so well.. audio works best. Some of you might hear very familiar voices in there as well.

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Enjoy.

DISCLAIMER: The 19th Century Napolic Wars Rifle is not able to discharge rounds. It is a dummy. It was bought at Ceasar's. Therefore i am not in possession of any dangerous weaponry. So there.
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TODAY's MOCK SHOOT for NVP1 WAS SPLENDID!!!

I mean.. it wasnt the stadnard i aimed for (in a mock shoot) but im amazed at the frame composition in one shot. and plus.. the AUDIO levels... ive never played around with manual audio controls but i think Aaron the sound assistant pulled it off quite well.

Such a very filled afternoon today i guess. I thinki made quite a mess somewhere (everywhere.). I received nws at the end of the day that some people pulled themselves out of the production. OUCH.

Talent-wise was a MAJOR problem as well. Double OUCH. Hopefulls came and went very quickly. but it hink the producer as well as the others produced a very storng back up plan... we're using Clara as our main character!!! whee!! finally.. i ahve on my video projects.. =p ... Sheryl as the other girl (finally.... ) and as for the guy... well.. GX was a very strong choice within some of the crew but no.. he didnt want to. ...

worse comes to worst.. I am the other main character. Oh dear.. somebody please SAVE THE PRODUCTION!!

I only have Wednesday and thursday left to shoot... less than 12 hours, in total. almost impossible to finish a shoot. But nevertheless....

I've been criticised by many for takin up this project, really. Many have called me an idiot... others say im wasting my time... some asked me to prioritize (my video projects are piling.) . But NO. I WANT to finish this project... Treat it as a .... final gift from me before i disappear. (after this... i still have commitments to my crew.)

Okay, enough. The video playing now is the mock shoot we did today, edited, and polished. There are PLENTY of jump cuts. PLENTY of continuity problems. But i'm so in love with the lighting (picture quality was compromised here for online viewing) and im in love with the composition. Well im in love with Rastus's cheekiness as well...:)

* Frame clippings from the video are presented below.

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and for fun.... this is me... in Russia... looking out of a window of a bombed out home during the Second Great War. For ze Mahtherland, I sahkrifice myself.

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ENJOY!

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Saturday, September 17, 2005 | 0 comments  
So shaun and i shot flames at each other because of the last post under the comments section. There has so far been no conclusion. Each of us stand opposite each other on that grounds. What happens now? Does one of us whine of each other from now on? NO. ABSOLUTELY NO. That is just so utterly CHILDISH!

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I met up with Hai Ting and Sheryl a couple of days ago along with Beth. And now since the guys from OBS are back and stuff, NVP1 can carry on with the next phase of the project; PRODUCTION (shooting).

Story has been finalised. Rastus and Rasmus will be acting. Beth and Zar will be the main characters (for now). Jia Hui the cameraman is having a helluva sunburn on both his legs (He pulled down his pants infront of me and showed my the sunburns on is legs; fair and smooth at the inner thighs and lobster-red on the others parts ) and i wonder how is he gonna stand walking around with the camera.

Sheryl and I actually thought of having Guo Xiong and Clara to be main characters as well. But O levels are coming for them, "in 47 days.". We'll call them if we have no other choice.

Shooting commences next week after school. On monday, i'll be conducting a little mock shooting on one of the scenes so that everybody knows their places. After that, we'll be expecting shootings for thenext couple of days, three, if a reshoot is needed.

Storyline's simple really. Let me post up the synopsis they wrote in to me:

A boy And a girl were best friends. They had been through thick and thin together. One day, there’s this new transfer student in their school. The boy took a liking to the girl and decides to buy a necklace for her. His best friend thought he was buying for her. Instead, he gave it to the new transfer student and they got together. After a few months, his best friend asked him why he did not say “ I Love You” to his girlfriend after so many months. He then told her that he will tell that to her tonight. At night, he calls up to his best friend instead and told her “ I Love you”. ( had not thought of the names of the characters)

I liked the story. Jason liked the story. Most everyone else liked the way it went (but i have this feeling that other crewmates dont know what the story is about yet.)

Hai Tin wrote the script, as mentioned before. i intended to discuss with her on ways to shorten the script because it was a bit too draggy and chatty. Sheryl chipped in and said it was too formal as well. So we did some edits here and there.... Jason's currently adding a few things as well and i'm yet to receive the new script.

I'm very excited of this NVP. I was reading a forum dedicated to my camera and I'm amazed that i havent been using my camera to its fullest potential. it really is a good camera!

Watch this trailer of a feature length video sent in for a competition: Sundowning.. just an example of the quality Sam is able to deliver: http://www.gumspirits.com/sundowningtrailer.html

* This video is copyrighted to Gum Spirits Productions.

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I'm thinking of opening up a business soon as well. Maybe after NVP1.

I'll be registering 305 Studios Productions into the.. um.... official thingy.... .

But then again... i still need a crew. Otherwise 305 Studios Productions will only be doing editing. NO. I want to shoot stories!

Will be discussing with Justin and the guys after the Kuching trip on this business idea.

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Kuching trip has been confirmed. Joyce (yes, i put-ed your name first), shaun, I and Mitch (yes, i threw your name last. i am PISSED with your knowledge of words i do not understand.) will be going over to Kuching.

* and Mitch just made something very clear to me. My Audio Tech Tutor, Tan Chin Boo, was born in Kuching (or so she says). After she said that, i think i know Chin Boo from somewhere. I'll ask if he knows Holiday Inn Kuching.

The awaited itinerary would be the same as when i brought the guys over to Kuching last Novemeber (one week after i bought Sam!). Well... at least... the itenerary of what we were SUPPOSED to do.

There'll be trekking... eating... ocean sports (count me out.)... travelling to the Mulu Caves (maybe) and other activities that just get us all out and naked in the forestry of Sarawak.

Ok maybe not all is forest. Some city... (oh yeah... the city size is about as big as Ngee Ann. Small? yes. Though i'm counting city as in the places where tall buildings and hotels are nucleated at.) stuff.

There's an upright piano in one of the bars there (Serapi Restaurant. Shaun, TAKE NOTE OF NAME!) and i would just love it if Shaun were to play on that piece of musical instrument tht i think no one has tuned in decades.

And yeah... they'll be sleeping in my room. Enjoy the soft toys! and dust!

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Enjoy the video playing now: My Twin.

It's just another snippet i took when i was bored this afternoon. (and pondering what to reply to Shaun's comments in the most SUBJECTIVE manner possible.)

* Notice that my shelvings, boxes and BED are gone? yup. No bed for me from now on. And my living room is practically furniture and tv-less. All's in Johor now.
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I have been criticised and given looks at many times by many people whenever i say that i adore "ah bengs" (or rather.. after Shaun pointed it out to me recently, teenage chinese gangsters).

Ive said it many times and i'll say it again. I ADORE/LIKE/ADMIRE/SUPPORT them!

they are, i should say, one of the most loyal group of people in this country, including adults. Many of them understand camaraderie, friendship, filial piety and most importantly, LIFE; something that many of the so-called top students in schools dont even understand or even BOTHER to think about. It seems to me that quite a few of those so called smart ones have a very lousy attitude i.e. Selfishness on many aspects i.e. social responsibility and tactfullness.

Whenever i look at these teenage chinese gangsters on the train or bus or wherever, my tendencies are to reel myself in and stay low-profile. Not because i'm terrified by them (intimidated, maybe... cos i dont think that that JC top student opposite me would even give a damn if a glass were to maim me at that point of time.) but much rather that it is VERY DIFFICULT to split such a group. (All day long everyday i read about this person "backstabbing" (there's this word called GOSSIPING. Use it.) the other and the "victim" whines and whines about hwo much she treasures their frenship..... BORING. Friendship is taken so lightly these days.)

note that i'm speaking of REAL teenage chinese gangsters. I'm not talkin about those guys who are just so... fake.

I spoke to a real gangster one afternoon for quite a while (some of us noe... one i always speak highly of..) and he paused..... and said, in a mix of hokkien, english and mandarin, something like," There are many fakes out there that add to the misconceptions of us (chinese) gangsters. Real gangsters will never break up. Everytime my gang starts beating up a member of the other group, his groupmates start to run away. Rarely do we get one where everyone stays behind and fights together."

I was in a rather mild/low-level gang/group in Lodge... yes we did some extortions and such. I wasnt holding such a high "rank".... just someone who often had everything they need. And i must say that no matter how much we would tease each other... curse each other.. whenever one of us gets in trouble (like for example... me breaking windows.... Well it was fun...)... MOST (some werent loyal) of us would cover eac other. (but then again... i didnt like all these covering up here and there so i just admitted myself... was supposed to pay for the window... and also RM500 for throwing pebbles at a teacher's Proton Wira.... but didnt happen.)

Loyalty is almost non-existent a lot of those we consider as successful. i detest these kinds of people. Many of time i hear about that boy who scores all As for his exams and his father is a doctor and such and whenever i am asked to follow their example, i shut off completely because sometimes... these people i'm being compared to are people i know and they have that irritating selfish attitude and untactful mentality. They mock their own school and long for the day they can be free from "hell". They mock the teachers that, at least, TRIED to teach them. They do not care how their other classmates are faring... they do not care what about what the principal is saying.. they do not care what ANYBODY tells them if it is against their own selfish attitude. Many of such type of people litter our schools and instituitions. Dont get me started on how these peple think of friendship; material.

Another thing i noticed was that RARELY does any of these teenage chinese gangsters FREQUENT ORCHARD ROAD or the CITY. Toa Payoh, i know, is their hotspot... so is Ang Mo Kio.... The eastern towns of Singapore and yes... YISHUN.

I cant describe much in words on what i feel for these gangsters. They are just so powerful and... crticise all you want... they are VERY CUNNING. not to mention higher tolerance level to matters than many of us here. (how many gangsters you know committed suicide? and how many of those "better-off" students commit suicide?)

And i think they complain and whine less than those who have money to buy phones, branded goods, shoes, gadgets, "orchard road clothings" and such. And dont make me start comparing on those who just revolve their entire life activities on getting that Canadian citizenship or American name or titles for themselves.

Just to be balanced... i shoudl say that these gangsters should attend school more often and not skip it. Reason is because..... schools like you-know need people like them to "beat it to shape" and eradicate all nuisance of FAKE gangster wannabes who put tattoos in the middle of their two eyebrows and knuckles plus those with unkempt hair. I await the day when i see teenage chinese gangsters run all of these fakes down. No more skater wannabes... no more guitarist wannabes..... no more smoker wannabes... no more "coolio" wannabes... no more "-muh" wannabes...NO MORE FAKES.

Maybe i should start taking pictures of "Bengs"

*Yes i do like SYLVESTER SIM. .... and mind you, in my opinion, he's not BENG.

p.s. I am NOT a so-called beng. I dont have a gang. I cant fight. I cant tolerate much. I cant hold my balls in place better than the next guy. Therefore, you out there, are not in any position to say that i am "protecting my own kind". PLUS.... i tried to base my opinions, UNBIASED and UN-RACIST. I tried.

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a few years ago, as i lay down in my chair, dreaming the day off while the teacher was droning on about... things..... i had this... some sort of... image... or scene... or sequence.. in my head. I looked forward to the day i can say,"There has never been a time that i can remember of me not thinking about the guys." and really mean it.

I guess this is the day then.

My hard disks are an archive of Ye Ol' Friend's teenage life.... most 200GB of them.

I found a compilation of the videos I, and some others, took of them during the span of.. what.. three and a half years. It was shown to almost the entire North View Air Unit during our batch's ORD cermenony.
Its really a three-part video. Ive posted up the middle part of the video here, now, for all to see. This vidoe was taken entirely with my old, trusty handycam, a Sony DCR-PC5E (bet you didnt care abt tht...).

As you can see... i am very fond and proud of these people (exclude the you-know-which race you see on the video. It was there so that i wont be deemed biased.). I am also very proud to say that i have over 50 tapes of my entire secondary school days... whihc accounts to about 60 hrs total. I will be keeping all these tapes, in a safe, soon, once i get one, free from the elements and inconsiderate intentions. I treat the tapes like a time capsule.

In fact, i think that i am so nostalgic to the extent that i keep MANY time capsules. Shaun was helping me pack up my things in my room a few days ago and he gave me the most shocked stare anyone could when i started brining out my secondary one textbooks, worksheets, items into the boxes to bring over to johor. Not forgetting those form Lodge and the diaries (i found sth new abt myself.... ive been writing diaries for a very long time... this blog is a diary as well, mind you). He also saw my Doraemon comics collection ( 50 books.... I'm a fan.) and the comics i drew when i was... when i was younger. And just a few minutes ago, i found my Doraemon drawing did when i was in kindy.

I unpacked my cupboard as well today... clothes... clothes.. TONS of them. But if anyone were to look through my clothes.. they would most probably be amazed to find that of maybe a hundred pieces of clothing apparel.... eighty or more of them are/is faded, dusty, torn, too small, unworn. Why? reason is that i keep my clothes. I have clothes i wore from 1996 and beyond brought back from holiday inn (no space to keep things there too.. so somethings came to singapore.)

Anyways back to the guys.

There has never been a time that i can remember of me not thinking about the guys. Literally.

No matter how much fun, success, and luck i experience in my school activities, personal projects... i dont think i have ever completely froget about them. Sometimes i'm doing a project, as a cameraman... and while the shooting is going on and the camera is rolling... i'll be behind the camera.. asking questions like,"I wonder what Henry will think about this story." or maybe " What would Aik say if he saw that girl?" or sometimes," Gawd... that guy sounds so like Hasrul..." and the classic, "Techno... trance... Jason..."

I think i still... pretty much.. revolve my life around them. Well.. what can i say? I'm too dependant on people.... no matter however others might perceive me to be.

In general, however, i think that secondary school life always has a big impact on us and those that go through it. I can only reason this to the fact that many of us are growing up and shaping ourselves to the people around us at the age range of 13 to 17. Our hormones then tend to amplify emotions to a very large extent that we model and conclude to decisions ourselves to some experiences which we might deem silly once we reflect on them in our coming years. i think North View lacked in teaching its students this aspect of life. They expect us... to transform suddenly into "thinking, responsible adults" from.. what... a primary school kid? I just think that it is a very large error made by its management, its teachers, its board of directors and the school itself, i must say, to not give much emphasis on this issue to its students.

Enjoy the video.

*My condemnation posts are itching to be published...... soon.... beware...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 | 0 comments  
I just had dinner with Tianyu just now at LJS... exam's coming for him, Donald and practically everyone..... i'm just about to feel guilty for having a holiday so quickly.....

I received NVP1's first draft script and Tharik's gangster story synopsis when i got home (comp was left on).

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Hai ting wrote NVP1's script... since Jason left for OBS and didnt mangae to pass her the script. I read through her script... and i am truly impressed by the way the story went. though some parts of the script was, should i say, draggy and chatty, the other scenes were propelling the story forward in quick, meaningful successions. i liked the ending a lot. A romance story... ah.. yes... just my forté...
i still have to bring her and Jason down together one day to discuss the script firther, make ammendments, search for locations and talents and such. I really loved the script. Really. (though there were some format issues but we can look past that, can we?)

NVP1 is behind schedule now by a mile. A mile of postponements, courses, problems and such. The school originally intended the shooting t be completed by LAST WEEK... whihc means the video shouldve been done THIS WEEK. But so it goes... the team.. practiacally all the boys.... are in the NCC.... and courses are aplenty. More than half the team left for Pulau Ubin yesterday. Curreently im keeping in youch with Hai Ting regarding paperwork. And Sheryl... oh dear... i keep delaying printing her documents until i think she's bored with me already. Nevertheless... ive already gotten new printer ink.. im gonna print it out NOW..... and pass it to her tomorrow... during recess~~~~ surprise!!!

Sam cant wait for a check-up at the Canon store. I think it needs it.

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Tharik's gangster story is... i should say... fickled. I just called him to discuss with him what needs to be thought of for a story. I think he, himself... doesnt know the beginning, midle and end of the story. But then again... i read through hios synopsis a few times and i can sense he's trying to do a type of scene.... which i also enjoy shooting... he wants to do a fighting scene between two groups of people. It's in an alleyway, though. And i do not want to go through the hassle if informing the police that we will be shooting a fighting scene. i think i shuld tell him to make it indoors. We'll be meetingeach other this weekend to talk things out.

Once the script is done, he will be sourcing for talents; people to play the characters. Naturally... he and i want the guys. ill be calling them all soon (maybe tomorrow) on this upcoming short video produced by THARIK NEZAR son of AKBAR (khalid and akbar are friends. :) ). We really hope the guys would share our enthusiasm.

And orgasm, if they really want to.

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I'll be shooting some videos of Yishun soon as well..... once i get more tapes. Will be exploring parts of my (and many others') heartland in a way never seen before by the normal human eye.
Then ill be off to hmm... let's see.... North View, maybe... then Raffles Place.... and other heartlands...

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I'm getting very.... annoyed... at how the general public sees the video camera... or MY video camera, to be more precise.

many of times i get caught by the police, residents, shopowners and cars (they do honk at me while i video record).

Im not sure.. is it the size of my camera or what? I never had these kinds or problems when shooting videos INSIDE shops or IN SHOPPING CENTRES with my old Handycam.

It does get on my nerves; one day im walking.. i see a very nice view.. i start shooting and suddenly the entire shot is spoiled because a security gaurd walks by in the frame, looking sternly at the camera.

And the police aren't very nice either. One time, i was holding my camera, doing some avant-garde recording, a police car truns from a corner... passes me... and SCREECHES to a halt. Some Malay policeman stick his ugly face out of the window and... naturally.. ... assumes his postion by calling me,"BOY".

I turned back.. took out my wallet... gave him my IC.

"I am a student of Ngee Ann Polytechnic. This is my camera, i did not steal it. I am shooting videos for my own keepsake. I dont think i am breaking any laws by shooting on the street."

He looks at me, takes my ic.. looks at it.. doesnt write anything.. passes it back and closes the window... blabbering from inside the car.

It irritates me a lot..... so much that this weekend, im going down to Beach Road to get a short or vest, rather, made which will read,

"I AM A VIDEOGRAPHER. I KNOW MY RESPONSIBILITIES. PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE MY OCCUPATION AS SUCH. THANK YOU."

Then i'm gonna put at a little corner, small but big enough to able to be read,"305 Studios Productions."

and if there's still space, i'll write the whole thing out again in CHINESE.

I hope this plan would at leat, minimize the encounters with people who love spoiling shots (and the art, for that matter) whenever i have my vest on.

If it doesnt, then i wonder if the people here know what "ACKNOWLEDGE" means.
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The other day i went out to the city with you-know-who and took a few shots of the place.

Finally... i must say.... i found the statue of Sir Raffles.... not just one of them.... TWO of them! whee!

Ive compiled al the shots... and squeezed them all to one short clip which is currently playing now.

To download the video, http://www.freewebs/meinbereich/videos/Singapore - City Hall.wmv

i hope that some of you people who STILL say "Singapore is boring".. should come down to this place where no shopping centres are around.

I believe we all should learn to.. well.... "walk slowly" every now and then.

Enjoy.
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Monday, September 12, 2005 | 0 comments  
Ok i just got back from Johor last night (the people there are difinitely more different than us... even though we're just a kilometre away...) and a few "mystical" events took place as well... many..

but for now... back in Singapore... ive work to do....

lots of videos to complete plus shoot.

Busy busy busy`~~~~~ but then again ill keep entertaining you all with videos....

btw if you wanna download past videos (lolz....).... here are the links..

"Donations..." - http://www.freewebs.com/meinbereich/videos/NKF.wmv

and for the one playing now...

"Shah's Antics" - http://www.freewebs.com/meinbereich/videos/joke one.wmv

* too bad i cant make shaun's playings available for download (because he wouldnt like that...). So sorry...

till then.

note: THARIK is coming with a script! lolz for now.. after talking to him.... he said its gonna be a mafia-type sorta video... starring the usual gang... =p... script's coming in this wednesday...
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