In these 12 months...

01. I've worked in Triangel Jewellery @ Plaza Damas. I worked there for 8 months since February 2007 and decided to leave the job because there were too many dramas happening in it and I think I was worth more than the pay they gave. Seriously. I never had free weekends for 8 months. Imagine. And my pay could not even cover my daily expenses. However, I cannot deny that I've met a new good friend, Joyee :) 02. I've got a laptop. Although its not a new one but I'm glad that I've one. Thanks to my lovely cousin. With it, no more arguments (I mean less) with my brother and more time in my room. I dislike spending so much time in his room. Muahahahaha. 03. I've travelled to Kuching for the very first time. Yes. I'm a Malaysian who stays only in the area I'm now. I've not travelled to places like Redang, Terengganu bla bla bla. Only a few like Malacca, Penang, Ipoh and Kuantan. And the objective of going to Kuching is to work. I had no time to have fun there at all. Damn sad. # 04. I've got a new camera!!! Okie, one good thing I earn from working in Triangel is to get to buy myself a brand new camera. Yes, I still insist that the pay is bloody low but I worked my ass off and I worked full time during the month of June to buy this okie. I love my camera to bits. # 05. I've run Project Phunk with my fellow team mates, The Phunkers. This is part of my college assessment to run a charity project. Project Phunk was the name that represents, Providing Hospis Understanding and Kare. I had fun during the project. I was assigned to take pictures throughout the whole event, have the official blog, design this and that. BUT I was terribly upset with the marks given by the lecturer who cant even recognise his students who worked. I bloody did so many things and got only 35/50 and my team mate from the same department who did not contribute, not to say nothing at all but not event 10% of my effort and score 40/50. And when I inform this to my lecturer, he asked me one question that left me speechless, "WHO ASK YOU TO DO SO MANY THINGS!?" Enough said. Overall, no regrets for what I've done. I still like it minus HIM :) # # # 06. Had the first SSGians' reunion. This is one night that I enjoyed a lot. I get to see lost friends ever since we graduated from high school. Damn. Meeting them back after 2 years, the feeling is great. I really love my high school friends. I hope we can have another one in 2008 :) # 07. I've got my blog a domain! Yes yes yes yes yes. I've got a domain and web hosting for my blog but I'm still stuck with blogger. Muahahahahahaha. Noob mar. 08. My work appeared in The Star Rage. I like taking pictures and it definitely feels great when people actually look at them and tell me that they are nice. Full page of the front page somemore. Damn proud. YAY! # 09. I've joined the best production house, Carrot Films for internship. This is like one of my best working experience although I'll receive no pay. During this two months, I've joined the crew in 2 shoots which are Castrol and Astro. We'll have another MTV shoot next month. Wow. It is fun having my internship training there. Really :) # 10. Last but not least, I've got a car! This time, it is no joke. It was a gift from someone which is not so convenient to be disclosed here. I'm very happy! Finally, my long-wanted gift is here :) #

One of my best Xmas

... because I have this :)

It's Christmas Day

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL :) May you all have what you wish for, included me!

Moments Captured in Genting

I went to Genting Highlands for a day right after the Castrol shoot, 19th December 2007. And here are the pictures taken during my family trip :) #01 The camwhore girls. #02 The candid shot of the not-so-camwhore-kids. #03 The very cute but stubborn KaiWen. And this is her first trip to Malaysia :) #04 KaiWen took thic picture and I was having a bad hair day :( #05 Elaine and Ivan, who was busy playing games in the handphone. #06 Me and my babies!!!! :) #07 The little ones and their balloons I took for them from the clown. #08 Tammie on the merry-go-round. #09 Tammie in the mini go-cart of Paris Genting. #10 The cousins in the very very slow boat @ First World Plaza. #11 Elaine and the little kids in the ferris wheel. I wasnt allowed to go in because they said it'll be overloaded!!!! #12 Ivan on the reindeer ride. Damn scary okay, I'm afraid of heights. #13 KaiWen the tofu girl :) #14 The very cute little boy, Ivan. #15 With the Christmas tree. IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY TOMORROW! #16 Later, we left the kids in the hotel and went out to the theme park, just the two of us! YAY! ;p And this is Elaine buying treats for the little kids. #17 The candy shop. #18 Us on the elephant ride. Childish ride ;p #19 It was really very very very very cold but we still wanted to try on an ice-cream. It was very very cold that my hair went wet once I'm at outdoor. Seriously. #20 For a moment, I thought I was in London. Hahahaha. #21 I took this ride once when I was young but it wasnt that scary when I ride it last week. Omg. #22 By the time I landed on ground, I was a bit pening lor. #23 It says take great shots from this angle wor... #24 My favourite shot of the trip! SEE IT WAS THAT FOGGY AND COLD! #25 The quite-lousy-Genting-jump #26 Elaine, me and my bling bling cap ;p #27 The kids with the lollipop Elaine got them earlier. #28 ANother favourite shot because she doesnt smile oftenly. And lollipops makes her happy :) #29 The partial-family shot before leaving Genting.

To Santa From Me

First Carrot Shooting

Dear all, I had my first television commercial shooting with Carrot Films 3 days back at Jalan Hang Lekiu for Castrol. It was F-U-N! And before you continue reading, I shall let you know before hand that this is a heavy picture post with the timeline of the shoot day. And my task for that day was............. more than what was planned earlier. 04.49am - Time to wake up and get ready for the day. 05.30am - Left my house and was picked up by the runner to the set. 06.10am - Reached Jalan Hang Lekiu, the set and saw tons of people there already. They include the assistant director, line producer, production manager, production assistant, prop masters, art director (which annoyed me a lot!), caterers, mr. facilities and many many more. They were already there a few hours before I reached. The whole street was ours that day. Muahahaha. 06.15am - Breakfast at the caterer's tent. 06.30am - Trying out the bikes. Make sure that they are fine. 07.00am - Painting the zebra crossing from yellow to white. Setting up props like the traffic lights, the stalls (magazine, corn, dim sum and basket stalls) as the backgrounds. The sky was clear and bright by then. And the talents plus extras arrived too. 07.13am - Setting up the lights, where we get artificial sun lights and cleaning up the road. 07.18am - Start to arrange the motorbikes. And I actually took a lot of pictures as told. And I also think that I look funny in the picture above. 07.30am - Setting up the cameras. And the director, Henry getting ready for the first scene too. 07.33am - The extras, motor bikers were on their marks getting ready to be brief on their roles. 07.45am - Wardrobe for the main talents arrived. I was assigned to pick up the agency people, Ogilvy Singapore from their hotel. 08.15am - Back to set with the agency people. 08.27am - "Locking" the place and make sure no other unwanted people appear in that area. It was tough because sometimes you might ended up getting scoldings from the public like I did. 08.40am - And serving the agency people was part of my job. I am supposed to make sure that they have everything they want, they need and stuffs. 08.45am - Final checkup on the props and motorbikes. 08.50am - And camera rolls 10 minutes later till 6pm. And trust me, the hours later were basically the same where the camera rolls, it rains for a few minutes, pause, then the crew set everything back, camera rolls. And each scence takes at least 30 minutes and this continued till 6pm. Therefore, instead of repeating actions in the timeline, I am going to share pictures I took till the shoot ended. #01 It was very dark when we just reached the set, Jalan Hang Lekiu (somewhere very near Petaling Street). #02 The sun was coming out slowly. #03 Me helping out the prop master to set up the magazine stall. #04 Me standing in the middle of the street, LOST! #05 The director's seat with the shootboard I prepared earlier. #06 The extras as the pedestrian and the magazine stall behind. #07 The bikers waiting for Putra's arrival. #08 And here comes Putra the purple villian. #09 In this scene, Putra, the purple villian is asked to drive fiercely and scare the pedestrians away. #10 The action purple villian, Putra and his very ying bike. #11 And also, he had a very very very cute bike. #12 The clapper board that we always see in "the making of's". #13 The annoying art director with his prop, the dim sum stall which has REAL kaya paus inside. #14 The actually visual you cant see on television. Haha. #15 The crowd who most of them thought we were filming some mat rempit's movie on tv3. #16 We have also a scene where his motorbike shrinked. #17 Cheong, the very loud assistant director in black and the camera crews. #18 The special talent who got the most attention from everyone, the very cute granny who need to scold Putra. #19 My favourite shot of the day. #20 Putra with the very cute granny, Lim Yoke Lin. There is actually too much picture to share and I only picked a partial to share here. Before I forget, there is also another main talent besides Putra. He is Amar, the good guy who was very quiet during the shoot. #21 The very quiet Amar :) #22 The street with the fake Castrol advertising board on top of the shop. #23 A closer look. #24 The basket stall that was placed as the background of the shoot. #25 My colleagues, Azim the production manager and Shan the line producer for Castrol's job. #26 The talents getting ready before the camera rolls. #27 Me helping out the prop master again, to pick the nicest bottle among for package shoot. #28 The very ugly, sweaty and chubby girls. #29 And finally, this is how the shootboard look when we are all done :) Yay! And that's for the day. It was indeed a very fun day. What I did taking pictures, was serving the agency people, taking care of them, pick up rubbish on the floor, help out when anyone from the crew needs help, provide water and tissue for the talents, assist the granny, running here and there and many more. Wow! Can't wait for the next shoot which might fall on the 29th of December. Yay yay yay!

My Sunday Morning

This morning I went all the way to Carmen's house at Bukit Jalil from Ampang just to take Kungfu shots for this. It might sound silly but it gave us another chance to play a fool with the camera. Hahaha. But we had only a few hours to play because I need to rush back to Ampang Grocer to give out Sunkist orange juice. Muahahaha. #01 We started with Cindy. And guess what? She brought her dog, Panda along. The dog which hated me forever. Vice versa. Muahahahaha. #02 And they had a mother and dog-ther jumping shot which scared Panda a lot. Too bad doggie. Cindy was marvelous okay, she can jump up very very high. The best among the three. Then we had Carmen to do her Kungfu pose. She had a little trouble doing it, maybe she wasnt 100% awake. #03 So, we had Cindy to help her out and they ended up wasting my camera's battery. #04 Something random I took while they were experimenting the Kungfu poses. Meet Thin-teen :) #05 After awhile, she got it! But Thin-teen damn kacau okay! Shoo! #06 Wow, this look very Kungfu to me minus her funny face which later led into laughters. Okok, next it was my turn to show off my Kungfu poses. I did research last night okie but I failed almost all nice poses and I ended up with a silly one. #07 What a failure attempt. Oops. And Thin-teen very very annoying lor. #08 Second attempt. Failed. Ugly. #09 I ended up with this picture because I cannot afford to jump anymore. My muscles were actually aching. Well, not Kungfu-ish though :( #10 Later, we continued playing bubbles. And look at my fake Levi's watch I bought in Petaling Street for only Rm15 ;p #11 And this is what I did :) Anyway, can someone teach me how to do animation in Adobe Photoshop. Man, I dont know how one lor... #12 A picure taken with Cindy's smile shutter sony camera. Very hard only can sense my smile lor. ISH! Then then then, we had a very delicious and cute brunch at Carmen's place before we leave to work. #13 The brunch prepared by Carmen's little princessy sister, Carin. Anyway, I dont know if I've written my "oishii" correctly or not. I kinda forgotten the language I learnt. #14 And this is why I called it cute. The sushi came in heart, star, triangel shapes and many more. I feel like eating more sushi now! And this was how I spent my Sunday morning today :) What about you?

Serving Fresh Carrots #05

Day 21 Its a brand new monday, a brand new boring monday where I almost did nothing besides printing and printing. Day 22 A public holiday for me. For almost 3 weeks, I dint had a FREE day at all. On that day, I went out to have a hairdo and to my grandparents' place. And I found flower on the cactus! After years, finally the flowers on the cactus blossomed. And I caught a picture of little Tammie being cheeky. Oh! Someone lost her front tooth. Hahahaha. Day 23 That Wednesday was the fastest Wednesday which I've been through because there were alot of things to do. At first, I followed my colleagues out to buy tools and stationary for the shoot day. And I embarrassed myself at the shop. Because I adore disco ball so much, and I saw tons of it in the shop, my eye glued on them and tripped over a vase beside me. Very malu lor. Later, we went to banks, furniture shops and mamak stalls before we headed back to Carrot. Back to Carrot, I had to prepare the director's shootboard which is going to be used on the shoot day too. Me and the shootboards. And these did really occupy my whole Wednesday :) Day 24 I started my day in office watching DVDs because no task were given. But after awhile later, my executive producer gave me a research to do about Dubai, it occupied me till 7pm. I was taking it like my college assignment, was very serious about it. Hahahaha. Day 25 And during yesterday, I started my day watching the Finale Season of ANTM Cycle 9. I'm very very very disappointed with the results. Jenah should have won. Jenah should have won. Jenah should have won. Jenah should have won. Eww. *I cannot recall what else I did* OH! And I did alot of photocopyings. ALOT. ALOT. And attended Carrot Films' monthly meeting. It was quite an interesting meeting. And I guess that's all for my week 5 of internship. Week 6 will be a very packed week for me. There will be a BIG suprise on Monday plus my whole family from Singapore is coming over for the week. A tvc shoot on Tuesday and maybe Wednesday, which means I cannot join my family trip for both the days. Man. So ngam for what. And a family gathering and special activities on Thursday and what's for Friday? It's the tong-yuen day!!!!! One of my favourite yearly festival :)

In The Carrot Stall #04

I know that my blog is growing spider webs because of my laziness. But besides being lazy to update my blog, I'm actually quite busy with work that inculded internship and weekend jobs at supermarkets. Very tired. No rest at all. Day 16 I've got a new colleague. She's an assistant director from Shanghai. Quite a nice girl to approach because she has tons of stories about her shooting experiences to tell me. And before she came to Malaysia, her last shot was with Jay Chou!!!!! I damn jealous okay. And she also showed me that commercial of Jay Chou. Very cute! You'll never get to watch it here. And my task for the day was, video download and compilation and online research for shooting's props references. Day 17 As the shooting date is getting nearer, we had more things to do. That Tuesday, I was assigned to do the checklist for tools we need during the shooting day. There's quite a lot of things to check, which are like the camera box, production box and first aid kid. And for those stationery which are not available in the boxes, I was to order them through fax. At first, I thought tools in the production box would be things like director's chair, video tape and bla bla bla. But things inside were actually, cups, plates, plastic forks and spoon, tissue papers, garbage bags and man more. Haha. Out of my expectation. Day 18 As the the following day, there was NOTHING to do at all. Seriously. Just print pictures lor. Print pictures my colleague took on recce. What is recce? Recce is the process of going to the location and see whether its okay for a commercial shooting. A new word! :) Day 19 That day, the talents of the up-coming commercial, Castrol came to the production house for wardrobe fitting. I was assigned to take care of the clothes, let them wear and just look after it lar. Then again, compile and print the pictures of the talent in the clothes. Day 20 I watched ANTM cycle 9 during work because I was given no task. I was very very very happy that Bianca was eliminated. I want Heather :( And right after I finished my favourite TV show, I was called to a meeting with the director for the commercial, Henry Ooi. You can click here to see his work :) He's a very nice guy I would say. And I just realised that I havent been taking any pictures, not even did I on my camera for the whole week. Sorry. No pictures in this entry ;p

Drinking Carrot Juice #03

And during the 3rd week of my internship, I did more than before. Yay! Day 11 I was having monday's blue. And well, I was given no task and during the whole day I was surfing the internet reading blogs and even watching videos in youtube. Was very very bored. Oh! I did some photostating as well. Boring! Day 12 Today we did nothing more than video complilation. Die die bored. Day 13 WEE! I looked for shooting locations, called them up for details and permission for shooting and lastly, went to the place to take pictures or references. Haha. I felt very happy that I can go out of the office to do the task given. Hehe. The place I went was a Buddhist Monastery @ Brickfields and these are the pictures I took there. #01 The temple, Maha Vihara Buddhist Monastery at Brickfields. #02 Part of the temple, it was a sunny day that day and thats why the sky is so pretty :) #03 Another part of the temple. #04 And they had got alot of rabbits at the garden. The rabbits were free from cage. Very cute and very obedient. :) #05 They were not afraid of me even when I'm so near to them. #06 There were alot of pretty flowers too. White hibiscus! #07 And also PINK hibiscus too. #08 And some very nice blue flowers too. The colour damn nice. Day 14 I called up more locations, downloaded more video clips for complilation and also take pictures of product for references too. #09 And during lunch, we went The Curve for McDonald. Day 15 More video complilation and also, attended the 2nd pre-production meeting of the upcoming commercial that we are going to shoot next month. Muahahahahaha. And that's all for this week. A little less boring but still bored week. I'm looking forward for more!!!!!!