Lazy fingers in action!

Aug 19, 2008 in Updates

Finally I’ve decided to lift my lazy fingers to blog… So many things had happened.. Paris came and went… then convocation came and went.. and freshmeat (AKA freshmen ceremony) came and went too. Been so busy those few months man, first time brought work back home to do man.

Ok, list of to-dos things. To upload photographs of my Paris and Rome trip, it has already been 3 months! Then, some convocation group photos of my section, I guess that will come first, since my boss had already edited them. And then… Congrats to WM for the arrival of his 1st child!! We will definitely miss you while you are on leave yeah =P

As usual, I’ve lost all sense of inspiration to blog, so I shall post some pics from the convocation.

Being serious, obviously the one in center is my boss. Two people in the group are freelance cameramen that we employed for convocation.
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All trying to imitate the “crane master” action

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(These are all my section colleagues in action! No freelancer in sight.) Taking photo with the ‘magnificiant’ crane itself! Serious shot again. Don’t know why so squeezy at the back =X
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Funny shot again! Who has the most stupid expression?

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Today…

Jun 17, 2008 in Updates

Haven’t been updating my blog religiously again… It’s one of those times when you have things to blog but is just lazy/busy to type them out… Went to the Avid HD Launch seminar today and then took half day off. The seminar was interesting, basically introducing Avid Interface and Assist, which is a step forward into technology, no more logging shots on papers and sitting beside the editors all day/week for producers. Suppose to be good for achiving too, but the guy didn’t really touch into that…

Digressing a bit… my colleague asked me if I went IT show last weekend…
me: “no ley, didn’t go,  don’t like to squeeze with people.”
colleague: “I went ley!  I wanted to buy a DVD player! then ended up I bought a 42″ plasma TV!! You know what? It comes with a DVD player and a home theatre system!!”
And as if it wasn’t funny enough, he laughed very loudly after saying that..
me:”How much was the plasma TV?”
colleague:”thousand seven hundred dollars!”
me: “…………”
Ok. It wasn’t funny.

Anyways.. after the seminar we went Ikea for free coffee (2 of my colleagues have the Friends card), I then shopped for a chair for my computer desk, and ended up buying the cheap $8.95 foldable one, after much consideration. None of the small chairs there were better than the one I saw at courts yesterday. Wanted to go back to courts and buy the $79 comfy but yet not too big chair (cos my space is limited) but but but since I’m there, heck, can sit can already la, so I BOUGHT IT.

After that went to do more errands which I shall not mention, then reached home, wanted to change the modem to the old one… oh yes, I must mention this. My Wireless Modem is Spoilt! I’d never imagine modems being spoil, especially in less than a year. I really cannot accept the fact that it isn’t working. Sigh. Now I must send it in for servicing. Is this suay or what? No. Cannot be. It must be the modem.

So ended up I didn’t change the modem, (and all the other things that I planned to do) was reading a friend’s blog and the past entries since I haven’t been to her blog for months. It was so damn funny! Especially there’s one entry that she posted up her makeover photos from donkey years ago, and her comments at the photos. I was so laughing to myself! Missed her sense of humor man…

Anyways.. time to get back to doing proper stuffs.. checking out now… my mom is cooking my favourite soup tonight!! “Giam Chai Ah” or aka salty vegetable duck soup.. (don’t know translate correctly or not.. haha) Yum yum!!  


Thoughts…

Jun 12, 2008 in Updates

If you keep thinking of something/ somebody Day and Night, does it mean that you are going crazy?


Totally…

May 13, 2008 in Updates

Super damn busy this week.. clearing my work before I fly off~ Super duper tired, especially when there’s some last minute stuffs elsewhere and I have to wake up at 6am today just to go to the place and make the damn changes. Always have a feeling that I’m being tekan by you-know-who until she sent me a nice sms saying that I can use her machine this morning, she will only be coming in at 11am. (too bad I have to work at 8.30am) Sure or not?? Normally, the soft hearted me will not bear any grudge after seeing the sms, but to her… very difficult.  Lets not talk about you-know-who, so dampening.

Over lunch yesterday, to our horror, boss announced that be prepared for the server shutdown on 15th!!! What??? After lunch there was a mad rush to finish up projects, backing them up, etc, etc. Why everything on 15th?? Felt like doomsday man. Then today, little boy say the doomsday is not on 15th.. he will extend for us until end of the week… thank god.. extend one day is better than nothing.

Counting down… 4 days to go!!


Happy Birthday to You!

May 12, 2008 in Updates

This post is dedicated to…..

Happy Birthday to Mr Andrew Choong! Wowwwwww… how old already??? Time passed so fast!! Have a sweet sweet day and enjoy every birthday k! Remember… Age does not matter!! Stay happy~


Friday the 13th (and Saturday the 14th??)

May 04, 2008 in Updates

WARNING! The Longest and most Wordy Blog Post I have written ever!  

Friday is a bad bad day… Felt like Friday the 13th to me. First of all, it felt like a Monday, I guess it’s the same for everybody… Let’s start with early in the morning… my producer came and say want add this… and that. which is normal.. even my buddy see her normally quite enthu one, but today he saw her his reaction surprised me. He was like “Oh, today you got come ar.” (Cos my producer is freelancing for this project so she don’t need to come in office everyday unless got filming la) Wah.. need to be so sian or not?? Then the moment she came in, we went out for breakfast. Like very bad ley.. but think everybody low morale today. Even woonster is not free to join us for breakfast. 2nd of May. I think buddy is devastated that the canteen is closed and the food court don’t have his favourite oily mee and beehoon breakfast. And he cannot imagine life ahead without all these cos the canteen is closed forever! Yeah, he take all these very seriously one hor.

Then 10am is the family meeting. Talk about moving house and appraisals. Not so bad, but wasted the whole morning. Big boss suppose to view my very important video at 2pm but he brought forward to 12pm. Then we wait… and wait.. and wait.. until 1pm. Still no news. Boss say wait another 15mins if big boss never come then we don’t hiu him already. Haha, like real. Then my low morale buddy say he don’t care, he hungry die liao want to go eat lunch. He really can’t do without food man. We came back at 1.45pm and ended up big boss just finish seeing the video. So bad of us, sigh.

Then another meeting at 2pm. This time big boss just want to see 2 sections. And we were told the bad news that after the inventory check, around 200 items are missing. and out of these 200 items, 75 items are above 2k, which means die die also have to find them, if not we have to pay for it! Some items even dated back to 1985! What the fish? My buddy is so very angry after that meeting. He say if we, (me, him and woonster) whom just joined for less than a year, (woonster even worse, joined less than 2 months) have to pay for all these then he will quit! Hrmmm… I think it’s quite a huge amount, even if divided among 2 sections one person also have to pay quite a lot. No wonder he’s so angry. Sigh. Just have to take one step at a time…

Then… we were told to go in for another meeting at 3pm. This time, it’s a bua-ing session about upgrading ourselves, if not we will be behind time and people won’t want to request for our services anymore. Bua and bua.. specifically for those who didn’t get bonus and increment last year and they were complaining about it.

By the time we finished, it’s an hour to knock off! Meetings are great to pass time, but not when you have tons of things to do! Then boss came and told us to finish the other video (which we haven’t even started on) by 15th of May!

Then, worse of all, a friend’s mom passed away and I went for the funeral that night. We were just at his house warming yesterday and we didn’t know anything at all. So contradicting. hai.

The best thing on Friday is the Taiwan Porridge we had for dinner cum supper.  By then I was exhausted. But managed to finish up some work before I sleep.

Saturday.
Not as bad as Friday but more bad news. No hard disk available for me so I have to go back on Monday to encode the stuffs. The schedule for June came and there’s a new show up on 2nd June, which means I have to encode it on 19th May! (Luckily I finished watching that show already!) But it’s very very tight, considering that I have to wait for the end tag from auntie, and I’m flying off on the 17th. Gotta work out my own schedule. Hai.

Went home and work out a list of to-dos for the weekend, including IM, 3G n NTU. Came up with 9 to dos. It’s a wonder how things gets done when you can see it on paper. I’ve done 5 out of 9. Still sticking to the 1 article per week principle. Die die also must have at least 1 article to submit per week. Submitted one already on sat night (cos they seems to be getting slower in approving articles so I submitted early) and I think I should write 1 more! If I have the time that is… Need to relax a bit also! Tml will be the start of a stressful week!


Shit.. Shitty.. Shittiest…

Apr 25, 2008 in Updates

Had a bad, bad day yesterday. Nothing seems to go right for me. Want to digitize tapes got error, want to import movie files got error also, ended up have to do more things to get the footages into the system. Then to make things worse, something cock up on the other side and I got a scolding from auntie. Lost all mood to work. Lucky it’s around knock off time that shitty things happened.

Suddenly produced 3 articles after that last night. I guess I felt inspired that my IM project must move on faster. The alternative income is easy job but I hate to work with auntie. Hopefully IM can generate enough to replace THE EASY JOB N SHITTY PERSON. Too slow now, with 1 article per week, and no results showing. Gotta have more products too… My new object of interest will be After Effects Products!

So many things to do but so little time! Low morale……


More Discovery about Editing…

Apr 23, 2008 in Updates

Having a major mental block now… Scratching my head very hard… looking for inspirations on net… how do I edit the montage to gel with the provost interview? Surfing through the Avid website and found a lot of amazing videos, one which I like the best is The Nab 2006 Customer Showreel video. It has the most amazing Picture in Picture Effect that I’d ever seen, and I’m totally blown off after watching it!

http://www.avid.com/video/video_window.asp?vidName=NAB06_teaser&videoID=172

Granted, I know it’s easy to create picture in picture effects. In fact, it is the most idiot proof effect in the whole of avid, in my opinion. But, to be creative in this effect in so many different ways is not an easy job, plus you have to animate the movements to the beat of the music. Tough, for a rookie like me, that is.

Another video which is pretty useful for beginner Editors:
http://www.avid.com/video/video_window.asp?vidName=xdvediting&videoID=85

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Oh! Found a way to edit my montage! Back to work~


Low moralez….

Apr 22, 2008 in Updates

Had a bad start to the day. Early in the morning jammmmmmmmmmmm until sian. The jam began at SLE Upper Thomson all the wayyyyyyyy to KJE slip road. This is the worse ever. Not to mention that I don’t even see the accident site when the traffic began to clear. What the fish??? What is the bloody jam all about??? By the time I reach office, it’s already 9.20am. 40mins late. My colleague is even later, at least I’m not the only one, almost felt like going home halfway through the jam. ><

I submitted one article again last weekend.. Got 1 opt-in but still no sales. I guess it can’t get any worse than that… up to 16 live articles now.. still very very far from my target… Gotta increase the productivity! Have to try to market IcontentRobot too! Where should I start from? hrmmm….


More!

Apr 16, 2008 in Updates

Learnt a couple of useless things today. Dapper… Yahoo Pipes… and we spent nearly an hour exploring google earth! So exciting! No need go Europe liao! Use google earth you can roam the whole world~ Just on your com~

Also learnt a few things that I already know of, like del.icio.us website, and google stuffs. Oh, and aiderss.com, a lil bit useful if you are a hardcore blog surfer. You don’t have to go through all the posts of the blog, this thing will analyze the blog for you and pick out the higher ranking/more interesting posts. Too bad I’m not one. I’ve actually posted 2 entries on this course. I think my colleague posted 3. Yes. It’s that bad.

I need to write more articles. I’m progressing real slow, with 2 articles last week and 1 this week. I think I need IcontentRobot … very much!

A note to add.. The course and instructor is perfectly fine, it’s just that it’s not for me.