My little place to talk cock sing song…

Its been a while since i’ve posted anything here… so long i told people i don’t have a blog. Anyways, last semester was the epitome of a ball breaker of a semester, everything was snowballing to the point where i didn’t even have time to breath, even after handing in the assignment… i had to think to myself - "was that it… any more?".
i’d say the hardest for me personally was the 2 TV production assignment. Being probably the final shooting assignment before i graduate, i tried to make sure that the final product was … well, at least watchable. At least Miss Leong was charitable with the marks when it came to my group… Highest for documentary and we did ok on the studio shoot (mostly because i was a lousy host… omg… and the make up !!!!). That, plus Mr. Beh’s insanely generous marking for 3 of my essay and my mid-term made sure that i can rest easy during my finals. I practically just went to Christina and Tracy’s place (must be politically correct here… failing to mention either 1 might land me in trouble…lol) just to lepak. Now, that place is gonna be my favorite lepak spot… hahaha… "i’ll be back babes".
What else eh?… hmmm.
Well, most Chelski supporters are now shitting in their pants, their beloved manager aka special one couldn’t tahan that russian pimp… now we see the true face of most Chelsea supporters (OH, i’m a Mourinho supporters… not Chelsea…), padan muka.
Am i so sure that Chelsea gonna buckle in their self made pride, no… they still have Lampard, Essien and Cech, the rest can go tapau. But truth be told, i’ve always have a huge amount of respect for the "special one", he reminds me of a young Fergie, so feisty and so bloody damn confident about his team. Saw the final interview after he left Stamford Bridge, Mourinho seems like a like a pretty nice guy… i’m sure to support any team he manage in the future, and i hope his new will take apart Chelsea… shave that bloody lion bald…hahahaha.

MANCHESTER UNITED… only 1 united… the rest are just there to make up the numbers.

Possibly the best rap song on earth, Tupac Shakur is probably up there with the best with this song. It recollects how a boy that was bought up from the streets with violence and drugs… how tough he is, he still loves his mama. I consider myself a mama’s boy, i’d get my greatest strength from her. Like Tupac, no matter  how much hard time i’ve given her… she’ll always be appreciated.

(Turn up the volume on this one… imagine his words in your thoughts… i guarantee a tear or 2)
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Dear Mama By Tupac Shakur

You are appreciated

When I was young me and my mama had beef17 years old kicked out on the streetsThough back at the time I never thought I'd see her faceAin't a woman alive that could take my mamas placeSuspended from school, scared to go homeI was a fool with the big boys, breaking all the rulesShed tears with my baby sisterOver the years we was poorer than the other little kidsAnd even though we had different daddiesThe same drama, when things went wrong we blamed mamaI reminisce on the stress I caused, it was hellHuggin' on my mama from a jail cellAnd who'd think in elementary, hey I'd see the penitentiaryOne day, running from the police that’s rightMama catch me, put a whoopin' to my backsideAnd even as a crack fiend mama You always was a black queen mama I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a manYou always was committed, poor single mother on welfareTell me how you did it, there's no way I can pay you backBut the plan is to show you that I understandYou are appreciated

(Chorus)Lady, don't ya know we love yaSweet lady, place no one above yaSweet lady, don't ya know we love ya

Now ain't nobody tell us it was fairNo love for my daddy 'cos the coward wasn’t thereHe passed away and I didn't cry'Cos my anger wouldn't let me feel for a strangerThey say I'm wrong and I'm heartlessBut all along I was looking for a father, he was goneI hung around with the thugs and even though they sold drugsThey showed a young brother loveI moved out and started really hangin' I needed money of my own so I started slangin'I ain't guilty, 'cos even though I sell rocksIt feels good putting money in your mailboxI love paying rent when the rent's dueI hope you got the diamond necklace that I sent to you'Cos when I was low you was there for meYou never left me alone 'cos you cared for meAnd I can see you coming home after work, lateYou're in the kitchen tryin' to fix us a hot plateJust working with the scraps you was givenAnd mama made miracles every ThanksgivingBut now the road got rough, you're aloneTryin' to raise two bad kids on your ownAnd there's no way I can pay you backBut my plan is to show you that I understandYou are appreciated

(Chorus)

Pour out some liquor and I reminisce'Cos through the drama, I can always depend on my mamaAnd when it seems that I'm hopelessYou say the words that can get me back in focusWhen I was sick as a little kidTo keep me happy, there’s no limit to the things you didAnd all my childhood memoriesAre full of all the sweet things you did for meAnd even though I act crazyI got to thank the Lord the you made meThere are no words that can express how I feelYou never kept a secret, always stayed realAnd I appreciate how you raised meAnd all the extra love that you gave meI wish I could take the pain awayIf you can make it through the night, there's a brighter dayEverything will be alright if you hold onIt's a struggle, everyday gotta roll onAnd there's no way I can pay you backBut my plan is to show you that I understandYou are appreciated

(Chorus)

Sweet lady, lady, lady, lady

Feeling alittle bit emo lately… do’t know why.
Ozzy pretty much sums up my life…

Ozzy Osbourne - Dreamer    \m/(^o^)\m/

Gazing through the window at the world outside
Wondering will mother earth survive
Hoping that mankind will stop abusing her sometime

I’m just a dreamer
I dream my life away
Today
I’m just a dreamer
Who dreams of better days
Okay
I’m just a dreamer
Who’s searching for the way
Today
I’m just a dreamer
Dreaming my life away
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah

K700 cannot… i repeat cannot take pictures if your life depended on it…

Yet why am i posting pictures like this?… maybe its the flu… scrambled my brains.

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Ako… conti shot

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Want to know how they do car scenes?… with big suckers.

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The 2 biggies of Malaysia TV dramas.

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Office scene… corporate drama mah…ZZZ

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Wedding scene.

Its been a month now since industrial training, its been a helluva ride, seeing how a production is being planned, organized, and developed right in front of my eyes. It was a bit boring at first, sitting in the office watching astro and surfing the net. Now i understand what Soon Teng said when she meant "better rest now, because when the shooting starts…", and i was like "how hard can it be?",
well its hard… very very hard.
Imagine working from 8am till 12 midnight… that’s 16 hours a day… I’m working 2 office hours in a day!, with 1 off day every 10 shooting days. How are they expecting me to concentrate through all that? This project was doomed from the get go… unfinished script, unconfirmed shooting locations, unconfirmed artist and temper-mental staff. It was like what Richard (my producer said) "The planing of this project felt like it was planned during a mamak session, then decided to shoot the next morning". On average we shoot around 7 to 9 scenes… which is bad. The thing is the entire pre-production crew and technical crew are not communicating with each other… and expect the interns to know everything! Everybody here has the mentality of "glad its not my ass that is gonna get served"… so you’ve got to be on your toes all the time, "Sing mouk" us Chinese like to say.
But having said all the bad things about this project, there are some good things to come out off it, First, a director that is willing to share every single thing about film making with you, as 1 of the technical staff mentioned to me - "Some director just wanna get things over with as quickly as possible, they don’t give a shit about you or any thing besides completing the project" which i consider very very self-fish, i mean who are we to refer to if we wanted to know more things about film making? Thus making the whole "industrial training" program felt like a "cheap labor" program instead!. Another good thing is meeting all the actor and actress, seeing them outside of screen, they are like part of the family now, they even tease everybody on the set… Ako Mustafa is the joker of the pack… there is never a day without him having pranks, joking around and just making the entire set just feeling abit more relaxed. Dato Rahim Razali is definitely the king, he usually requires only 1 or 2 take to complete the scene, and he brings such emotion to the character of a father. Yasmin Hani is definitely a honey in really life… what an eye candy! Shaped like Barbie and an ability to speak Chinese, she is definitely a hit among the Chinese crews.
Looking at it, it isn’t half as bad as i though, just maybe I’m tired and sick (I’m writing thing while taking MC for the day). Caught the sniffles, bah my nose feels like a Kuala Lumpur rush hour jam and everything i eat taste like paper… being sick sucks big time!

Simply brilliant…

Artist: Dashboard Confessional
Song: Stolen
Album: Dusk and Summer

We watched the season pull up its own stage
And catch the last weekend of the last week.
Before the gold and the glamour have been replaced
Another sun-soaked season fades away.

You have stolen my heart.
You have stolen my heart.

Invitation, all in grand farewells, crushed the best one of the best ones.
Clear liquor and cloudy eye, too early to save the night.

You have stolen my heart.
You have stolen my heart.

And from the ballroom floor we are in celebration, one good stretch before our hibernation.
Our dreams assured, and we all, we’ll sleep well.

Sleep well, sleep well, sleep well, sleep well.

You have stolen my, you have stolen, you have stolen my heart.

Watch it spin around to the highest peels, you are the best one of the best ones.
We all look like we feel.

You have stolen my, you have stolen my, you have stolen my heart.

Anybody wanna go watch MUSE on Feb 25? Drop me a comment… Dun want to go alone.

Haven’t been updating lately because of my internship at Double Vision, busy preparing for the shooting schedule.

Yesterday me and Christina went to see Akon live in RUUMS at the Life center, Funny thing about the whole thing is i wasn’t suppose to go to the event, i had a shooting that was canceled at the very last minute, won a couple of passes at the very last minute, and i have to thank MTV for the entire mix up, they sent me VIP passes instead of normal access pass. You wouldn’t believe the line that was there, and i though those Chinese singer promos i went to were insane, the bloody line started from the main entrance which was at the 1st floor till the entrance of the parking lot on the lower ground floor, you could understand my shock when i went to line up… i couldn’t see the back of the line, kept walking and walking till i reach the entrance of the parking lot. Then i remembered i had VIP passes… hahaha. Well the VIP passes weren’t exactly that exclusive, we went to the VIP line and there were hundreds of people in front of us already, plus there was a special VVVIP section like the movie, where this guys just points to the security guard at the door and point at a couple of hot girls behind him and they get to get in… but i didn’t care, compared to the line outside… the VIP line was like a line at a fast food outlet. Finally after nearly lining up for 45 minutes, we managed to go in… and the first thing we looked for was the toilet. Then we got a couple of drinks and went to look for a nice spot to stand… behind the camera man… brilliant because it was directly opposite the stage and we got a good view of the stage. I was amaze at the number of colored people there… white, black, brown, yellow… usually i only see Chinese people… what to do, i only get Chinese singers passes all the time (haiz). Then Colby came out to emcee the event to boos !!! what’s up with this people? of course he told us that the event hasn’t started yet because they’re still letting people in. About an hour after the original Stated time (8.30) then Colby came on stage for the second time to give away some gifts to the crowd, then he introduced Akon to the stage… but it was his DJ (Billy D i think) and the band that came on stage instead… to be greeted to booes…WTF again! You should see the expression of Billy D, he was like "Did you just booed me"?… then he pumped the crowd up with a number of popular rap songs… the crowd was rockin’ at that point, then the moment we’ve been waiting for arrived… "KONVICT…MUSIC"… what? … "KONVICT… MUSIC". Akon came out with  "Shake Down" to a really rockin’ crowd and i got to admit, it got me pumped up as well. I couldn’t remember the entire song list but as predicted the loudest cheers were for his more famous songs like "Smack that", "Bonanza", "Sole Survivor"… but i believe everybody in the crowd was waiting for "Lonely" and when he did it, the crowd wanted to strip him… throughout the show there were people grabbing his shirt and pants… but this time they really wanted to strip him naked, it was funny because after the show the DJ was like "Anybody seen Akon’s headphone… please return it".  After the show, i was prepared to leave when Colby announced that those with the album to line up and Akon is gonna sign it… couldn’t let this opportunity get away so i went outside and grabbed a copy… for RM25 which to me is a terrific bargain because a normal CD cost like RM38-45 easily. Lining up again was outta control, like all the other promos I’ve been to, chaotic and disorganized. The only difference between this 1 and the others i’ve been to is fake posers who claims to be Akon’s brother… sister…girlfriend… illegitimate child, telling the security guard that they know Akon and beg to be let in to meet him. Those stupid middle eastern bastards don’t blardy understand the words "With CDs only"… crazy Iranian guy was on stage acting like a fool, he didn’t even understand what Akon was telling him to do, at least that Sudan dude made Akon laugh - "Guys don’t do that". So, after forcing my way through, i finally got his autograph…damn contented with the whole thing, and Tina got her picture with Colby. The whole thing lasted till 11.30pm and i got home at around 12.30 with a headache and yawning all the way home.

The whole event was a blast from start to finish… next show i’m really looking forward to is the Boyz II Men concert in Genting. I’ll try to upload the vid i took of Akon performing "Lonely" on youtube, but its gonna be in crappy quality. You can also catch the show on MTV on 3 of Feb at 5pm… i know i will.

*Edit*

here it is… in all its crappy glory

Akon in malaysia

(Thinking of changing to blogspot or xanga… friendster’s blog sucks, cannot even embed medias)

Well… the day has finally arrived, the day all BC and AV students goes to their respective company to undergo their training. I’ve got to admit, I’m a little nervous here, I’ve never worked in a production house before… this is a great experience for me and I’m really looking forward to it. Sadly I’m the only 1 in my uni to be posted here so i won’t be able to share any stories with anyone, but I’m not the only intern there, if what Soon Teng tells me is true, there will also be interns from Han jiang, so I’ll be making friends with people outside my usually circle of friends. Right now I’m busy reading up on the drama that I’ll be working on, and also reading up on the duties of an assistant director (Grand title… crappy work). Really liking the working conditions - 10am to  6pm, and with a producer that hates morning, that means my working hours is never and i mean never in the morning!!! wee!!! and with a casual working environment, i don’t have to wear office wear (which i think is absolutely fantastic!). So wish me luck for tomorrow and hope i get through this alive.

Something i found quite funny on a forum…

HER DIARY
Day night, I thought he was acting weird. We had made plans to meet at a
cafe
to have some coffee. I was shopping with my friends all day long, so I
thought he was upset at the fact that I was a bit late, but he made no
comment.Conversation wasn’t flowing so I suggested that we go somewhere
quiet so we could talk, he agreed but he kept quiet and absent.I Asked
him what was wrong - he said, "Nothing."I asked him if it was my fault
that he was upset. He said it had nothing to do with me and not to
worry. On the way home I told him that I loved him, he simply smiled
and kept driving. I can’t explain his behavior; I don’t know why he
didn’t say, "I love u, too."When we got home I felt as if I had lost
him, as if he wanted nothing to do with me anymore. He just sat there
and watched TV. He seemed distant and absent.Finally I decided to go to
bed. About 10 minutes later he came to bed. I decided that I could not
take it anymore, so I decided to confront him with the situation but he
had fallen asleep.I started crying and cried until I too fell asleep. I
don’t know what to do. I’m almost sure that his thoughts are with
someone else. My life is a disaster.

HIS DIARY
Today Man-U lost to Arsenal !! GOD DAMN IT.  !!

*Sometimes we think too much when actually its something trivial…

I obtained a copy of the new OASIS album called "Stop the clock" yesterday, its a retrospective (best of) album of old OASIS songs and it struck me… i miss the good old days of good music. How do i categorize "good music", its when a song comes on, you don’t turn to another station. Every single song on that album is top quality when it comes to lyrics, melodies and arrangement, and finish listening to the 2 CD makes you feel wiser, makes you wanna make the world a better place, want to stop wars and end poverty (exaggerating). Sad to say songs this days just make me feel cheap. "Singers" like Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Hillary Duff and High School Musical… are kids this days listening to this crap? not to mention good singers like Gwen Stefani (post no-doubt days) are making songs that makes you wanna kill her, her new song "wind it up" with the yodeling is right up there with Paris’s "stars are blind" as my "irritating songs of the year" list. I look at my playlist on my winamp and see very few (like 2 -3) songs that are recent, what happen to songs like "the masterplan" or "champagne supernova" or "wonderwall" - probably drowned out by talentless singers.

Here’s the lyrics to "The Masterplan" by OASIS (could you believe its a B side track?)

The Masterplan

Take the time to make some sense
Of what you want to say
And cast your words away upon the waves
Bring them back with acquiesce
On a ship of hope today
And as they land upon the shore
Tell them not to fear no more
Say it loud and sing it proud
And they…

Will dance if they want to dance
Please brother take a chance
You know they’re gonna go
Which way they wanna go
All we know is that we don’t know –
What is gonna be
Please brother let it be
Life on the other hand won’t let you understand
Why we’re all part of the masterplan

I’m not saying right is wrong
It’s up to us to make
The best of all things that come our way
And all the things that came have past
The answer’s in the looking glass
There’s four and twenty million doors
Down life’s endless corridor
Say it loud and sing it proud
And they…

Will dance if they want to dance
Please brother take a chance
You know they’re gonna go
Which way they wanna go
All we know is that we don’t know –
What is gonna be
Please brother let it be
Life on the other hand won’t let you understand
Why we’re all part of the masterplan