Continuity Video Project

I've been M.I.A on blogger for quite some time. YES I know.

Today we started filming and have FINISHED filming for our little project entitled "The Coke".

Thanks to everyone being so cooperative, so in the end managed to finish filming in 2 hours.

Now I really do realize how tiring filming how can be. So everyone who were involved today, XIN KU LE!!

And I've still got a bloody storyboard to draw. There popped out so many expected shots luh, as compared to the original number of expected shots (which were only 12).

But oh well, I just can't wait to edit and see the final product. Heheh. Be patient, Shirley. Next week, next week...





Halloween and the Eve, is gonna be packed with many tasks:

1) Rehearsing for radio presentation (stress, stress...)
2) Red Camp PANDA committee meeting (I've still yet to come up with a list of materials that can be used to decorate the room, PLUS the budget list...)
3) Interview at Orchard (hopefully I won't look so haggard after a long day at school)




I also look forward to meeting Bob, the photographer of My Paper. He'll be teaching us photography :)



Alrights. Wish me luck!

UFM 1003 Finals

Last Sunday was the finals for the UFM 100.3 DJ Hunt competition!





Went down to support YJ :)

Last year's champion.

The judges and other DJs.





Host #01: Ah Ken.

Host #02: Ke Min.

4 people in black = Xiao Yuan Bang.

If it wasn't that YJ was one for the top 10 finalists, I wouldn't have been able to go backstage and have a seat in the RESTRICTED area. :)

All thanks to her! XD

UFM 1003 Open Auditions 2008

Last Sunday, the 1st UFM 1003 Open Audition was held at Compass point. I thought I was going to be late so I cabbed there. Cost me $8, if I don't remember wrongly.




I was the first few contestants to up (6th to be exact), so wasn't prepared for their Situation Question la. It was something about Andy Lau forgetting to zip up his pants during some event. Then I was supposed to act out how I would tell him about this without embarrassing him in front of the 'supposedly-present' audience. I was indeed caught by surprise! I didn't expect this kind of situation would be posed to me, so I wasn't at all prepared for it.



After the results were announced, a staff from UFM 1003 came over to me and told me that I had NEARLY gotten into the semi-finals because I was supposed to be the 9th (8 contestants were chosen to get in the semi.) Oh well, I must have lost marks in the Situation Question. So she asked me if I was going to the 2nd round of the open audition, because I was SO CLOSE in getting a place in the semi-finals. I thought: Why not? So I agreed to turn up and compete again 1 week later. However, I already knew there would be even more contestants competing, and even MORE competitive ones.





And I was right! Today, there were 66 contestants who signed to compete in the final round of the open auditions. I found out that I was the 54th contestant when I went to the table to get the sticker tag. Oh gawd, I'm SO not going to be so lucky, I'm definitly not gonna have much chance to get into the semi-finals this time round...





Just before it was my turn, there was a rather quite long interval. All I remembered was that I was standing at the side of the platform waiting, my heart thumping so hard, my left hand trying to hide my quivering right hand...




Yeah. That's the sort-of 'stage fright' I'll experience in every competition that'll require to talk in front of an unknown crowd of audience.




I just wanted to gain more experience, hoping that I can someday overcome the fear of competing in front of so many eyes which are staring at you. I wasn't too concerned about winning anyway.





There was a contestant who was from China. She had been a news reporter for 4 years, and 1 year's experience in hosting or something. She mentioned something which I didn't really understand at first: Having the ability to compete doesn't mean that you are suited for that job nature; being an expertise in a particular job doesn't mean that you are competition material.





When I finally arrived home after a 1-hour bus trip (it was really horrible, my motion sickness acted up halfway again...), it finally dawned upon me that the above 'theory' was right. I finally understood what the China contestant meant. Yes, I'm confident of being able to do well in the media industry, whether it is the radio or tv. But I admit that everytime I'm in front of a large crowd during a competition, I'll start feeling stressed, and I'll be so nervous all over. If it was just the judges and me, I wouldn't be such a nervous freak.









Oh well. What's meant to be mine is mine, whatever that isn't wouldn't belong to me anyway.






Just like what mum said last night when she opened the main gate and let one of my cats run away. I don't why, but I wasn't feeling at all worried when we were looking all over for him. I just had the feeling that he would come back to us.










Just as I was going to turn in for the night, my mum told me she couldn't sleep (must be because she feels that it's all her fault for letting the cat run away), and so she went out again at 10pm, so that she could relax and walk outside. Oh well, I knew that she would be going to try her luck to see if she would be able to find him.









Alas, mum came back and woke me up. (I was feeling so groggy, so didn't really take a look at the clock to see what time it was.) She found him. I KNEW it. But still, it was rather a relief to me. At least mum wouldn't have to continue to blame herself for losing the cat.









Anyway, Alleluia! All thanks to the Lord for bringing him home safe and sound...









After the audition last Sunday, YJ and I had dinner at Bugis Junction.










After that we went to a private party organised by the Cozycot people. It was the last day, and also the last hour before the party officially ended. It was already 8pm when we arrived at Parkview Square. (I even thought that it was some 5-star hotel! But the bar waitress told us that it was just a commericial building -.- What a waste it was actually, if you ask me. It should be a hotel instead la, so grand.)









Anyway, it was closing time, so of course we quickly registered our names and got our goody bags. I didn't expect to get SO many. In the end, we made 2 trips back and forth the main level and the 3rd floor, so we had MANY bags in hand. We couldn't take home all that anyway, so we finally gave away 4 bags in total to the bar waitresses, and also 2 bags (bottles of water la) to the toilet staff at Bugis. Haha, this shows that we're not totally greedy okay, we're generous too :p

It was such a chore organising the goodies, but it was all worth it :)

From this....

...to this! Finally:D

I think the next post will be about my outdoor shoot I had last week. The photos are still with the photographer, so be patient alright :)





(But I just can't wait to look at the outcome! Hehe.)











p.s. I hate blogging at night... the photos just take FOREVER to upload! =.=

Cleo Makeover Shoot

Went for a shoot at Orchard a few days ago.




I didn't have to put any make-up at all before going out, so just had to put on my shades. Save me the trouble of putting any concealer at all. Haha.

The make-up artist did a quick and good job! I loved the way she did my make-up. The make-up wasn't really thick but I liked the way it was anyway :)

The hair stylist was even faster: he took like only around 5 minutes to style my hair? At first someone wanted my hair in a 'mohawk' kind of style, but in the end to be on the safe side, the hair stylist didn't do anything 'wild' to my hair.

Although the white top was nothing 'extravagant', and was nothing like my usual style, it went well with my denim shorts, and looked simple yet elegant. I like :)

While I was waiting for the photographer, there was this caucasian family and the 3 of them were smiling and pointing at me! I always thought that all of those white-skin people with sharp noses were the so-called 'superior race' with the nicest features. But I never knew that they too DO admire asian people like me. Their compliments really made my day :)






My goodie bag and a voucher from Laneige.

SHOPPING TIME! Hahaha...








In the end I spent nearly $200 in 2 days, with over $80 solely on Laneige products. (Money fly away~)

But I got these freebies in return, so I didn't really complain much.

Here are just some of those things Laniege gave me...

I've been wanting to buy a pair of new heels for some time, but so far nothing has caught my eyes...

Until I set my eyes of this pair of gold-sequinned heels on my way home!!!

Without flash:

With flash:

Okay, the camera didn't really capture its beauty, but I swear it's really pretty in real-life!




Yes. Enough of my shopping for now!



Here are some of my favourite photos:

Yes, I'm trying to improve my cam-whoring techniques day by day...

The recent rain dampens my mood to go out :(

Rain rain go away, come again another day...

Mid-Autumn Fest at NP

Mid-autumn Fest



An extremely long day I had in school today!
I left home at 9am, and ended up reaching home at 11.30pm!
Today was indeed memorable.

Although I didn't win anything for the lucky draw, which I had expected, I had brought home with me not just prizes which could be seen or used, but even MORE meaningful things which money can't even buy.

This was the last event which we year 2 committee members were organising: Mid-autumn festival. And next year february, we will be having OUR own farewell party. It's really surprising how time flies. Before you least expect it, 1 and a half year of life in polytechnic is gone. That means there's another half more to go. Half of the 3 years, I mean.

In the past few days, Vina and I were busy with the decoration stuff. We spent our time going to Bras Basah to buy our materials and finish up with the I-LOVE-CHS badges, went to the library to cut out the star shapes, painting the 3-D moon and 2-D stars with fluorescent yellow and glow-in-the-dark paint, blah blah...

Today we were putting those BEAUTIFUL stars everywhere in the little theatrette at the Convection Centre. And of cos, not forgetting we had to take off EVERYTHING we decorated once the event was over.

Oh well. That was one of the few things I did, without forgetting that I hosted the Miao-maio Game Show together with SH.

As the minor comm members, we contributed a lot. But without our dear vice-chairman YJ, all these wouldn't be possible. She must be the one having the most stress. A round of applause for YJ :)

Also had a sort of H2H (heart-to-heart) talk with YF. She shared some matters with me, and I could really empathise with her. It's as if I almost found someone whom I can really talk to. Someone who does not have a fake personality, someone who doesn't say something but have another totally different meaning to it. (I'm not referring to anyone in particular here, just making a general statement.) And maybe I could even share the Wuhan University dorm with her and YJ, hopefully? Haha. Still have another semester to go, anyway.

YES. I DO mean another semester. ONE MORE FREAKING SEMESTER. And most probably our whole year 2 batch will be studying in China TOGETHER at the same time. Chances are there'll be no more splitting into 2 seperate batches. But still, I think lots will be drawed, as to who goes to ZUCC, who goes to Wuhan. Latest news which leaked out from the one of the teachers today okay. I can't remember who, but I think it's Nan laoshi. They haven't announced this officially yet, of cos. So probably attachment will be delayed? Hmm.

Only the 5 of us from L1 were there, sad to say. But oh well. There'll be more food to eat! Hah. I'm not a greedy pig okay :X

I'm not gonna comment too much on the event today. But I think that those 2 comedy skits which the year 1s had put up were entertaining! Good work :)

Another thing which I'll probably never ever forget: I sat in Nan laoshi's car when I went home! Yes! He actually drove the car to Dover Mrt Station! Hehe. Not forgetting to snap some pictures in the car. Haha. But of cos without flash, if not it'll be embarrasing if he knew that I was still taking pictures at that point of time.

Admirers of him: maybe next time you can try to spot which car in the carpark is his? I'd be magnanimous enough to reveal to you that it's black in colour :)

I took MANY photos with my camera, including the one which belonged to SH's friend Yue Ming. Thank you. Simply loved the 12X zoom which his Canon camera had! It was grreaaat :) I really liked the way which I could zoom in on someone from a reeaallly far distance. But it was only 6.0 mega-pixels, as compared to my Sony which was 7.9 mp. I still like mine better :D

Okay. I've realised I've written quite a lengthy post. To me, this is already lengthy. Considering the fact that I haven't written a post THIS long for a long period of time.


Since I can't afford to sleep late because I've a shoot coming up, I'll just let the pictures do the talking.



Here are just some of the nice ones which I took with my Sony: