My Prerogative

Mood: Hopeful               Music: "A.D.D." by Bathsheba

Yay…I’m officially a screen-writer…woohoo! Submitted my ‘baby’ this afternoon to Bernice and that wraps up my Play + Screen Writing class. One unit down and four more to go.

Incidentally, I broke my record for staying in college for the longest hour. I was at college since 9am this mornin to shoot my monologue scene for James Lee’s class. The shoot took me and Zalikha 3 hours. Attended Bernice’s class and used the remains of the evenings, say 6 hours to edit my footages. I wasted two hour trying to log + capture my footages into the lamo mac using Final Cut Express.

Baloo, thank you so much for the camera. It really helped to da max… and just to reconfirm Zalikha, I really did not break the mirror for aesthetic purposes…(chuckles)

Left college at 2am and now I’m here resting and chillin b4 I continue on storyboarding. Things are coming together for me and I’m just amazed how much I have tahan/endured.Definitely by the grace of God and support of my wonderful mates.

Thankz Eri, Charlene, Grace for being there!

Dao, I’m still counting on the Singapore trip man. Fingers crossed, really wanna leave Kuala Lumpur for a week and just chill and spend time with meself. But first, boleh teman I pergi renew passport tak? (paiseh…paiseh)

Mood: Stress                   Music: "Hot As Ice" by Britney Spears

A: Wah, so stress until don’t feel like eating…

B: Yea wei, I’m actually forcing myself to eat cause I know it ain’t good for health if I don’t eat.

C: Don’t say ar, sometimes I wanna sleep in peace also cannot. Lie down but my mind is filled with so many things.

A: Sien… one week liao not been having enough sleep. Work…and…work…and…work…

B: Can’t wait for the semester over man…

C: Stress…stress…

ABC: (sigh)

DEDICATED TO ERI PENG, CHARLENE MENG and WHOEVER THAT IS GOING THRU DA SAME!

Mood: Pain                  Music: "Piece Of Me" by Britney Spears

It’s like a broken car windshield. I’m trying to hold on but there are times it feels heavy and I’m too weak to keep it up any longer. Never knew I can be so weak…

It started with a blow but nothing really happened. Like the windshield, as time passes, the cracks seems to spread and become more severe. I’m really trying to hold it up but it keeps coming back to hurt me… It’s really painful keeping myself up! Never knew it could be this difficult!

I cannot…cannot…cannot tumble until Dec 7! Only after that, I can break and shut myself from humanity for maybe a few dayz, maximum a week…I know I heal fast. Right now, just keep on pushing…pushing…pushing….

Oh Lord, only you can help me thru this…PLEASE!

Mood: Happy                 Music: "Piece Of Me" by Britney Spears

It was beautiful…It was mezmerising simply because the cityscape glowed during sunset. I was very particular bout the time we should arrive exactly at KL TOWER. No matter what, we need to be there b4 7pm.

Once we arrived, mom headed str8 to the duty free shop to buy stuff. Me on the other hand was walking around like a crazee photogrpaher snapping different locales at different angles for my story. I needed to get as many pictures as possible because that particular mood and setting will vanish quickly.

This is for my final assignment where I have to write a screenplay based on a particular location in Kuala Lumpur. I was assigned KL TOWER. I wanted to capture the beauty of the city during the sunset and with the photographs I captured, I’m gonna create a story/drama that will take place in that exact location. Pretty excited bout it cause this will be my first screenplay. I really hope to write a good one cause one day, I wish it would be filmed for real!

FINGERS CROSSED…

Had dinner with mom at The Marketplace at Jalan Yap Kwan Seng, it was exquisite!

Mood: Exausted              Music: "Break The Ice" by Britney Spears

Wahliao…the day started at 10am and ended at 2.30am for me. This is what happens if you do production work. And I don’t mean pre or post production work yet, I mean literally production work.

So I picked Zalikha a.k.a Bathsheba up from Drams at 12pm and headed straight to college by 12.30pm. We left at 12.45pm picking up Eri, Bryant & Nick. Reached BANDAR BARU BANGI at 1.45pm. Had lunch and chilled till 3pm.

From 3pm onwards, our director Zalikha worked on the scenes with the actors at different locales. THE GARDEN, THE BEDROOM, THE BATHROOM, THE HALL…Rehearsals went for quite bit cause we really wanted to nail down the scenes and capturing the exact moment for footage. During rehearsals, the cinematographer (which is ME) had the opportunity to explore n experiment with different styles and angles to capture a particular scene.

By 6pm, we knew we had to start shooting as the sunlight would take a change drastically…We were so very close in getting all our footages under the natural sunlight.

Night came and we were shooting indoors all the way with the help of the ARII lights. It is usually the light set-up that takes the longest time, followed by getting the best camera composition and then shooting the scene for real.

We were very blessed as the weather was beautiful and Zalikha’s aunt provided us lunch and dinner. We were a great team as there were unity in the way we worked AND everyone were co-orperative and gave positive energy. As much as the process can be quite tiring and dreadful, we managed to pull thru as a team. PHEW…

We also wanna thank Nick Davis for volunteering to help us out. And to my team mates, Zalikha, Eri & Bryant, WE DID IT…Now what matters most is post-production work. Gotta spend weeks to edit our footages perfectly to bring our story to live. FINGERS-CROSSED!

A very fruitful DEEPAVALI!

Mood: Touched           Music: "Kasih Sejati" by Siti Nurhaliza

I almost cried from where I was sitting in the auditorium. It was beautiful…it was magical…watching the life, the love and the inspiration of P.Ramlee being enacted right b4 my eyes. I was so overwhelmed and captivated by the production. I was inspired, so inspired, hoping one day, I’ll be a part of an amazing production such as this.

Yes, I almost cried…There were great moments captured on stage. The songs and scores sung by those amazing actors swept me through a wonderful journey into the life of P.Ramlee. The set was absurdly grand. The lights magically brought the environment to life. As much as I don’t know P.Ramlee personally, suddenly I miss him to da max.

Azizah…you were the one…you were the one that started it all. Saloma, thank you for standing by his side all these while.

Encore…encore…SPECTACULAR PRODUCTION. Great work and thankz Tiara Jacquelina! I’ll be patiently waiting for soundtrack

Thank you Vernon, thank you so very much for the expsensive ticket. 

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