The purist in me is calling for blood as I search the web for a digital SLR.....my preferred brand of choice...Nikon.....tho I choose Sony for the mundane everyday camera....for video it's Panasonic....
I come from a, though I would like to say long but in truth, rather short tradition of photographers. My garndfather's a photog, my dad a rather gung-ho enthusiast and now my mom is trying to pick up my granddad's mantle........alas though...I still don't quite think mommy dearest has quite picked up the eye for it.......
Photography is a art......it's not just point and shoot.....tho you can do that with a lomo....lomos are fun.....actually...even then...you still need an eye for lomo...........
The ever elusive 'eye'......or perhaps it's just me.......but I think you really need to have an eye for these things...it's like art...and is a art.......you can learn it....like so many other things.....okay is it just me or did that just started to sound like the Nokia N95 ad on TV?
Okay but back to the purist.....I've always been a purist when it came to getting my own SLR......I've always loved the idea of being about to process your own in prints....call it nostalgia...I remember standing in my granddad's dingy little dark room waiting while he processed prints in near total darkness........for a lil kid......that was like an adventure......I don't know...to me...there's just something about holding a print in your hand.....something that resulted from a chemical process with silver gelatin.....it's the smell of it........instead of just a print-out from a computer.......photo paper means jack shyte.....
But in this age of digital media and with the advent of Photoshop..........going digital is much more wiser no? Plus that little preview screen is so useful...I mean how shyte is it to only find out you fudged up a shot after you process it right? I rue the day James started poisoning my brain with ideas of digital SLR!!!
So........digital it is.......or can I buy both? Hehehe............
Wednesday 30 May 2007
Tuesday 29 May 2007
Wealth of Personal Experience
Personal experiences are often the source of many artistes works, be it film, music, lyrics, play, novels........for film.....nothing beats the feeling of working through this one experience in your life and through it...hopefully finding closure........
Creative works are.....afterall...an expression of it's creator's self......whether it be personal or not....it stems from the inner working of the creator's mind....so personalisation I suppose, is inevitable.....
My newest short, Chocolate Cherry Menthol, is one such example.......tho not so much for closure coz I think I've already got that.........but I just feel that Chocolate Cherry Menthol is a story worth telling.....
As with all creative works based on real events....embellishments are bound to happen, as will romantisisations and the names of most involved will be changed to protect our sanities and us from JAIS....hahaha.....
For those involved.....don't worry you'll get first read before it goes into production.......afterall.......it's partly your story too........just keep in mind.....tha ultimately......to most everyone else......and for all purposes it is fiction.....
Chocolate Cherry Menthol in cinemas .......soon?
Creative works are.....afterall...an expression of it's creator's self......whether it be personal or not....it stems from the inner working of the creator's mind....so personalisation I suppose, is inevitable.....
My newest short, Chocolate Cherry Menthol, is one such example.......tho not so much for closure coz I think I've already got that.........but I just feel that Chocolate Cherry Menthol is a story worth telling.....
As with all creative works based on real events....embellishments are bound to happen, as will romantisisations and the names of most involved will be changed to protect our sanities and us from JAIS....hahaha.....
For those involved.....don't worry you'll get first read before it goes into production.......afterall.......it's partly your story too........just keep in mind.....tha ultimately......to most everyone else......and for all purposes it is fiction.....
Chocolate Cherry Menthol in cinemas .......soon?
Wednesday 23 May 2007
How does this bode for me?
People have said many thing about my looks.......the most common being that I look kacuk.......
Then there are those who say I look like some famous people.....thankfully girls........they include......
So what do you think?
This weekend MediaCorp is having the KL auditions for their imfamous re-animated Star Search.....and I'm going for the auditions...
Does looking or not looking like the above mentioned stars bode well for me?
Only Time will tell....
Till then folks....wish me luck! I'm taking it easy this time around tho......not use getting all flustered........But I am preparing a song.......a bit of a song.......just in case....... ~_^
Then there are those who say I look like some famous people.....thankfully girls........they include......
Jacelyn Tay - Singaporean MediaCorp Actress
Ai Tominaga - Supermodel
This is what I look like...
So what do you think?This weekend MediaCorp is having the KL auditions for their imfamous re-animated Star Search.....and I'm going for the auditions...
Does looking or not looking like the above mentioned stars bode well for me?
Only Time will tell....
Till then folks....wish me luck! I'm taking it easy this time around tho......not use getting all flustered........But I am preparing a song.......a bit of a song.......just in case....... ~_^
Friday 18 May 2007
Hope Yet.....
Heard of the new art space in PJ? The one helmed, so to speak, by local theatre notoriety Dramalab's Zahim Albari?
No?
Well.....check out This Article on the brand spanking new PJ Live Arts.
Where is this breath of fresh non-KLPac air located?
Right down the street from my neighbourhood (and most probably yours too).....easy mornings to work then....and no shortage of food! And supplies a plenty just a few minutes away...not to mention the Pasar Pertanian in the mornings and the Pasar Malam on Mondays.....
Nice.....
My my.......two weeks on the job and I'm already thinking of jumping ship......well....it is only an internship afterall...... ~_^
No?
Well.....check out This Article on the brand spanking new PJ Live Arts.
Where is this breath of fresh non-KLPac air located?
Right down the street from my neighbourhood (and most probably yours too).....easy mornings to work then....and no shortage of food! And supplies a plenty just a few minutes away...not to mention the Pasar Pertanian in the mornings and the Pasar Malam on Mondays.....
Nice.....
My my.......two weeks on the job and I'm already thinking of jumping ship......well....it is only an internship afterall...... ~_^
I want to save you....
"I Want To Save You"
by Something Corporate
standing on the edge of morning
scent of sex and new found glory
playing as she's pulling back her hair
she drives away
she's feeling worthless
used again but nothing's different
she'd stay the night
but knows he doesn't care
home by three
deafening quiet
the porch light's off
yes they forgot it
she'd cry herself to sleep
but she don't dare
and she wants to be a model
she wants to hear she's beautiful
she's beautiful
i want to save you
i want to save you
i need you
save me too
i want to save you
dressed by dawn and out the door
no light
she memorized the floor
so she could leave without being detected
she works till three
it's uniform
she dreams that he'll come by the store
she prays for days
when boys mean she's protected
and she wants someone to see her
she needs to hear she's beautiful
she's beautiful
i want to save you
i want to save you
i need you
save me too
i want to save you
and she won't sleep
she won't sleep
and she won't sleep
at all
i want to save you
i want to save you
i need you
save me too
i want to save you
let me save you
by Something Corporate
standing on the edge of morning
scent of sex and new found glory
playing as she's pulling back her hair
she drives away
she's feeling worthless
used again but nothing's different
she'd stay the night
but knows he doesn't care
home by three
deafening quiet
the porch light's off
yes they forgot it
she'd cry herself to sleep
but she don't dare
and she wants to be a model
she wants to hear she's beautiful
she's beautiful
i want to save you
i want to save you
i need you
save me too
i want to save you
dressed by dawn and out the door
no light
she memorized the floor
so she could leave without being detected
she works till three
it's uniform
she dreams that he'll come by the store
she prays for days
when boys mean she's protected
and she wants someone to see her
she needs to hear she's beautiful
she's beautiful
i want to save you
i want to save you
i need you
save me too
i want to save you
and she won't sleep
she won't sleep
and she won't sleep
at all
i want to save you
i want to save you
i need you
save me too
i want to save you
let me save you
Monday 14 May 2007
More than I can chew.....
I might be in over my head here.....
Faridah offered me the job of SM for Joanna's show, Enemy of the People. Unable to really turn her down...or even to demote myself to the position of ASM......I'm now the SM.....
I mulled over the idea of being SM for a cast of 20.....and frankly...I'm freaked....20 people is one venti sized order for lil' ol' me......
Ack...I don't really know what i'm ranting about....I'll just suck it in and do it...I always do anyways....I might die in the process....but I'll survive.....haha....
Faridah offered me the job of SM for Joanna's show, Enemy of the People. Unable to really turn her down...or even to demote myself to the position of ASM......I'm now the SM.....
I mulled over the idea of being SM for a cast of 20.....and frankly...I'm freaked....20 people is one venti sized order for lil' ol' me......
Ack...I don't really know what i'm ranting about....I'll just suck it in and do it...I always do anyways....I might die in the process....but I'll survive.....haha....
Friday 11 May 2007
Multiple Possible Futures
Multiple Possible Futures....that sound like something right out of a Sci Fi movie...heck...it probably is.......
What I see lying before me.....are multiple paths, decisions and choices that all lead to a multitude of of destinies...... now which one is the one for me?
Mainly I'm divided into two camps.....the artistic theatrical purist....and the commercial fame obsessed fanatic.......oh and a third...the insane one that wants both but has no idea how to actually physically achieve it.....
Artistic purity comes with staying home and roughing it out in the wild wacky penny-pinching world we local Malaysian living-mouth-and-foot theatre practitioners call The Local Arts Scene...
Commercial fame and superstardom on the other hand....comes with a harrowing equally penny-pinching luck-be-a-lady-for-the-next-six-months trip to the land of Idol-dramas-with-badly-written-scripts and image-obsessed tv stars and pop idols........
The final one....oh puhleeze....let's not even go there...I mean...how is it possible?? Two places at once? FUR'GET A-BA'OUT ID.....But I could possible be digressing..
A fortune teller once told me...that I'd achieve recognition here.....and perhaps she was being nice about the Taiwan prospects.......but as I've said many times before in my old blog....I'd most certainly kill myself when I'm 35 if I don't at the very f-ing least give it the old college try.......
Which of course diverts from the subject tittle....
okay.......like all my ramblings...I've lost my train of thought...my original train of thought....
But what perhaps I am or was trying to say is....was.....there are so many possibilities for me.....to be philosophical, us all........how will we know which is the best choice...or the right choice? I mean...each possibility that presents itself has it's own validities.....mine does anyways.......there is just so much I want to achieve...and time is not exactly on my side anymores.......
Again....perhaps I should take it like Baks and Tracy....take it as it comes one thing at a time....
Dilemma dilemma dilemma.....
What I see lying before me.....are multiple paths, decisions and choices that all lead to a multitude of of destinies...... now which one is the one for me?
Mainly I'm divided into two camps.....the artistic theatrical purist....and the commercial fame obsessed fanatic.......oh and a third...the insane one that wants both but has no idea how to actually physically achieve it.....
Artistic purity comes with staying home and roughing it out in the wild wacky penny-pinching world we local Malaysian living-mouth-and-foot theatre practitioners call The Local Arts Scene...
Commercial fame and superstardom on the other hand....comes with a harrowing equally penny-pinching luck-be-a-lady-for-the-next-six-months trip to the land of Idol-dramas-with-badly-written-scripts and image-obsessed tv stars and pop idols........
The final one....oh puhleeze....let's not even go there...I mean...how is it possible?? Two places at once? FUR'GET A-BA'OUT ID.....But I could possible be digressing..
A fortune teller once told me...that I'd achieve recognition here.....and perhaps she was being nice about the Taiwan prospects.......but as I've said many times before in my old blog....I'd most certainly kill myself when I'm 35 if I don't at the very f-ing least give it the old college try.......
Which of course diverts from the subject tittle....
okay.......like all my ramblings...I've lost my train of thought...my original train of thought....
But what perhaps I am or was trying to say is....was.....there are so many possibilities for me.....to be philosophical, us all........how will we know which is the best choice...or the right choice? I mean...each possibility that presents itself has it's own validities.....mine does anyways.......there is just so much I want to achieve...and time is not exactly on my side anymores.......
Again....perhaps I should take it like Baks and Tracy....take it as it comes one thing at a time....
Dilemma dilemma dilemma.....
Wednesday 9 May 2007
The virtue of my profession.....
You know what...doing the 9-5 drawl.....just starting out doing the 9-5 crawl....and I've realised and am abso-freakin-lutely thankful and goddess blessed to have found my profession....coz really..if i were to do the usual 9-5 thing.....i'd go stark raving mad abso-f*ckin-lutely bonkers...
I mean...how the hell do they have time to do shyte?? I mean...you wake up at godly hours to toil through rush hour morning traffic....then go home in the evenings.....which by that time you're too knackered to do anything! What the hell kinda life issat?!
So thank the heavens above that I'm an actor-entertainer-talent-model-theatre practitioner.......we work odd hours, nights and evenings and have the rest of the time to ourselves......goddess bless the human need of entertainment.....
I mean...how the hell do they have time to do shyte?? I mean...you wake up at godly hours to toil through rush hour morning traffic....then go home in the evenings.....which by that time you're too knackered to do anything! What the hell kinda life issat?!
So thank the heavens above that I'm an actor-entertainer-talent-model-theatre practitioner.......we work odd hours, nights and evenings and have the rest of the time to ourselves......goddess bless the human need of entertainment.....
Tuesday 8 May 2007
So the rat race begins...
Right.....
So yesterday marked the beginning of my mini sojourn into the rat race.....I say mini coz it's an internship...and it's only 10 weeks....... ; P
KLPac's alright....haha...for me...it's kind of like coming home? Coz I already know everyone here....well virtually everyone here....and they all know me. So it's cool......but really there's really nothing much for me to say about interning at KLPac.......aside to complain about it being a pain to go to lunch without a car...so thank goodness for friends.......and I don't sit close enough to Gary...*pout*
Oh well...interns can't be choosers....
So yesterday marked the beginning of my mini sojourn into the rat race.....I say mini coz it's an internship...and it's only 10 weeks....... ; P
KLPac's alright....haha...for me...it's kind of like coming home? Coz I already know everyone here....well virtually everyone here....and they all know me. So it's cool......but really there's really nothing much for me to say about interning at KLPac.......aside to complain about it being a pain to go to lunch without a car...so thank goodness for friends.......and I don't sit close enough to Gary...*pout*
Oh well...interns can't be choosers....
Friday 4 May 2007
Presence...
Just came back from That Was The Year.....Sek Thim's new show playing at Pentas 2 all this weeka and next......It's definitely worth a watch...if you only watch one play this year...make it this one......but this isn't a review......I just wanted to say that to help publise the play........the review for it will come next week when I watch it again.........see!! I'm watching it twice! It's definitely worth it!
Anyways....plug over....
Right...so I just got back from That Was The Year......and it just went to prove something that I've always known and thought to be true....for me anyways...
站在舞台上的男人是最有魅力的 。
I don't know. There's just something about seeing a person on stage. And having that stage presence...being in his element........that just attracts me......
Tonight it was Malik...one of my Happy People.....Happy People are to me, people who just by their mere company are able to make me smile...I haven;t seen him in ages and only very recently did I realise that he was in That Was The Year.... But anyways...watching him onstage.....doing his thing.....that....concentration..and dedication.......is...awe-inspiring..... It's like when I saw Gary in Screwed... Or when Nick does his songs.......it's just that belief? in what they're presenting to you......That's also why I love YiDa, Chaw Ge, Daivd Tao...musicians who really love their music........That's why I like Oguri Shun, Fujiwara Tastuya, Narimiya Niroki.....actors, who despite not having seen them onstage....from their movies and TV stuff...I hope to Goddess they're that dedicated...and I think they are...I mean Yukio Ninagawa's gotta at least have that much foresight.....That's also why I'd do almost anything to help my boys, my real boys....coz I see their potential.......I can see what they could be if they'd just set their minds to it.....
Jeez...I make myself sound like some...贵 人 ....someone who's actually influential enough to make a difference........but every little bit counts no? Everyone needs someone to believe in them no? From that one person...it can multiply to two...then three...then four...then perhaps even exponentially......all it takes is just one person to open the right door......
Hhaha...from a post that was suppose to be a lament about my ideal boyfriend....it's turned into something else entirely.....but that's the way thoughts go....jumping from one thing to the next........how philosophical......I'm so pretentious........and I'll admit it tho.....I am......Pretentious.......it's my middle name.......
Peace...out....
Anyways....plug over....
Right...so I just got back from That Was The Year......and it just went to prove something that I've always known and thought to be true....for me anyways...
站在舞台上的男人是最有魅力的 。
I don't know. There's just something about seeing a person on stage. And having that stage presence...being in his element........that just attracts me......
Tonight it was Malik...one of my Happy People.....Happy People are to me, people who just by their mere company are able to make me smile...I haven;t seen him in ages and only very recently did I realise that he was in That Was The Year.... But anyways...watching him onstage.....doing his thing.....that....concentration..and dedication.......is...awe-inspiring..... It's like when I saw Gary in Screwed... Or when Nick does his songs.......it's just that belief? in what they're presenting to you......That's also why I love YiDa, Chaw Ge, Daivd Tao...musicians who really love their music........That's why I like Oguri Shun, Fujiwara Tastuya, Narimiya Niroki.....actors, who despite not having seen them onstage....from their movies and TV stuff...I hope to Goddess they're that dedicated...and I think they are...I mean Yukio Ninagawa's gotta at least have that much foresight.....That's also why I'd do almost anything to help my boys, my real boys....coz I see their potential.......I can see what they could be if they'd just set their minds to it.....
Jeez...I make myself sound like some...贵 人 ....someone who's actually influential enough to make a difference........but every little bit counts no? Everyone needs someone to believe in them no? From that one person...it can multiply to two...then three...then four...then perhaps even exponentially......all it takes is just one person to open the right door......
Hhaha...from a post that was suppose to be a lament about my ideal boyfriend....it's turned into something else entirely.....but that's the way thoughts go....jumping from one thing to the next........how philosophical......I'm so pretentious........and I'll admit it tho.....I am......Pretentious.......it's my middle name.......
Peace...out....
Wednesday 2 May 2007
Tell Tale Heart
Right...so I caught Gavin Yap's new show, an stage adaptation of EdgarAllen Poes' Tell Tale Heart on Sunday. Courtesy of Faridah who gave a bunch of us free tickets......
So what Do I think of the show?
It could have been better.
How?
The writing could have been improved and so could the direction.
I liked the inclusion of multimedia...it's still kind of...something new in the Malaysian theatre scene...but other than that..that's about it.
Swee Keong's physicality is awesome......very...precise.......but this piece didn't really let him shine.......I thought he quite good in Girl from Ipoh. I know he mainly a dancer, but I think he'd make a pretty good actor too.
The choice of casting U-En is a bit iffy for me. I find it a bit hard sometimes to understand him. The annunciation and accent needs working on. U-En has this really distinct way of speaking that permeates all his characters. As does his posture. It makes all his characters blend into each other in a way. A bit....if you've seen it once, you've seen it all.
So what Do I think of the show?
It could have been better.
How?
The writing could have been improved and so could the direction.
I liked the inclusion of multimedia...it's still kind of...something new in the Malaysian theatre scene...but other than that..that's about it.
Swee Keong's physicality is awesome......very...precise.......but this piece didn't really let him shine.......I thought he quite good in Girl from Ipoh. I know he mainly a dancer, but I think he'd make a pretty good actor too.
The choice of casting U-En is a bit iffy for me. I find it a bit hard sometimes to understand him. The annunciation and accent needs working on. U-En has this really distinct way of speaking that permeates all his characters. As does his posture. It makes all his characters blend into each other in a way. A bit....if you've seen it once, you've seen it all.
Lazy Days...
Gawd...I'm so lazy....I couldn't be bothered to right this stupid essay and these gawd awful journals to hand in to PT for the final module of the course. I get the whole memoirs angle...but really..I'm still too young for memoirs.......and I understand that they need something other than our presentation to gauge our performance and give us a grade on.......but doesn't she realise that it's kind of doing the same thing twice over? The essay and the journal...if both are written properly...are EXACTLY THE SAME THING!
Or perhaps I'm just plain lazy...and yes....i probably should have written my journals as we moved along during rehearsals and production.......but I was just so lazy......I had so many things on my plate!...the production...then came StarIdol....then Amazing Race Asia.......and I did quite a lot for the production okay? I did costumes, designed them anyway...but I got them drafted too! And I cut the materials...and to get them drafted I had to go to KL!.......I made 9 out of 17 mask for the backdrop screen......I downloaded some of the sound bites...not to mention ran over to Justin's house in the middle of the night to get the soundscape which we eventually did not use done......okay...writing it all down...it suddenly doesn't seem like much....but still......okay..perhaps...the end is...I'm a procrastinator by nature and I'm lazy.......I don't know....
Either way....I just think that all this homework for this module is stupid....oh....and I came up with ALL THE MONEY for the royalties.......all 350 ringgit........compared to Shape of Things it's tuppence I know...but still......and seriously.....if we really shouldn't be touching that precious 200 bucks....PT...keep the money, coz you obviously need it more than I do.....
But I digres.....I....am.....lazy......
But I shall persevere...........I shall finish this damned paper.........
Or perhaps I'm just plain lazy...and yes....i probably should have written my journals as we moved along during rehearsals and production.......but I was just so lazy......I had so many things on my plate!...the production...then came StarIdol....then Amazing Race Asia.......and I did quite a lot for the production okay? I did costumes, designed them anyway...but I got them drafted too! And I cut the materials...and to get them drafted I had to go to KL!.......I made 9 out of 17 mask for the backdrop screen......I downloaded some of the sound bites...not to mention ran over to Justin's house in the middle of the night to get the soundscape which we eventually did not use done......okay...writing it all down...it suddenly doesn't seem like much....but still......okay..perhaps...the end is...I'm a procrastinator by nature and I'm lazy.......I don't know....
Either way....I just think that all this homework for this module is stupid....oh....and I came up with ALL THE MONEY for the royalties.......all 350 ringgit........compared to Shape of Things it's tuppence I know...but still......and seriously.....if we really shouldn't be touching that precious 200 bucks....PT...keep the money, coz you obviously need it more than I do.....
But I digres.....I....am.....lazy......
But I shall persevere...........I shall finish this damned paper.........
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