I haven’t realise how important my mom was to me.
Im gonna write a song for her this minute, right away.
And I’ll sing it to her perhaps when its ready.
I love you mom.
This touching video is made in honor of taylor love, a beautiful young girl fighting against a rare kind of cancer.
Do visit taylorlove.org
Yes, success is sweet and victory is even sweeter. Although it was only a 3rd prize, and we didn’t rank in the top 2, it was still sweet victory.
Final round of judging I would say is quite confusing, blurry and a whole new fresh experience, and it certainly gave us more insights on GM, and the judges did help alot on the knowledge part.
The whole GM project was a little rush, with us neglecting it a little at the start of the june holidays, not really bothering about it, then after that realising its deadline, and the starting to work at it at vivian’s house, which was considered a complete failure. We all learnt from our mistakes, then proceeding to 2nd round of filming, sourcing for places to work at it, to get interviews, getting people to be surveyed, then most importantly, work on the whole making of the product, which happens to be..like a roller coaster. Files were always lost and bugging vivian certainly helped alot! So we edited the clips, cut them short, tried very hard to put them together, planned on the structure of the video, and then rushing like mad dogs at night trying to get people like Min Pei to help to do the frames of the titiles like Myth 1 Fact 1 etc. etc. Deadlines constantly were pushed back and soon after each day the product was being cut, combining, tough searching of suitable sound clips and never ending of publishing the videos (which always took really long), the waiting for the videos to be published and saved, the uploading of the videos which took ages as well, then soon realisation that there’s something wrong in it, and editing must be done again, and often editing is tough as you move one clip, the others all get shuffled and you have to get them all in place. On the second last night, we were aware of the lighting in the room as well as the muffled sounds, so vivian and I had to call for urgent meeting immediately the next day, and thanks dad for driving vivian and I to complete the production, and rush camcording at the market, the script holding, pointers and everything. Then vivian and I had to stay for the entire after noon just to complete it, rehearse the saying of the facts, and voice recording was tedious as the camcorder was not working really well. Then through the whole night till 2am-3am the completion and the final uploading of the video, and finally the sudden horror of not putting disclaimer right at the start and had to immediately insert it, publish it again and finally saved it into the floppy disk and the delivery of the product. It all takes alot of effort, hard work, sweat and sincerity of the team, yet the feeling is indescribable.
Although we do not have professional equipment, nor do we have camera man but just vivian wobbly holding the camcorder of hers, we still made it to the end and completed the final round of judging. All our effort was worth it. Every little try be it nicole’s attempt to video in front of her door or team work put in contributes to the success of our video, a 3rd prize video.
Most importantly, everyone who has helped us in one way or another and the support given to us be being present at the final judging today! Thank you so much.
Captures of the finals today
Lets all pray for more opportunities to live laugh and enjoy like this!
Everyone lets all add oil for eoys!
The extreme week is over and now I can finally breathe a breathe of relief, to sooth my emotions because there has simply been too much to terrorize for.
Now that the waves have surged passed, its a great thing that sunshine reveals yet again!
And do you notice, sometimes in life we make decisions that are probably going to change almost everything of us? Just one nod away and you could be living another life, socialing with another group of people.
Decisions aside, next monday is the long awaited teachers day celebrations! I wish all teachers an advance happy teachers day for your hard work, love and effort that is put into us students that always wants us to be the no.1 in your hearts! going back to PCPS to laugh at the fishes in the koi pond might be of some fun i guess..
Well I have a flooding pool of emotions going into me now, and nat probably knows why.
Hmm I’ll continue waiting for LAI’s phone call (she say’s she’s going to call me in 5 minutes) although I have no idea how reliable that is and at the same time waiting for my 11.30 favourite time of the week.
And Lai, you have a bad habit of abandoning me at school.
Too many things to say but I don’t know where to start. I’ll blog maybe somewhere tomorrow when my thoughts are kind of arranged.
Till next time.
That day I heard somewhere on the radio that we all are very lucky to be able to choose presents for someone that you love or cherish. Because there are many people in the world who does not get this chance. They are not beside their loved ones and don’t even get to see them, not to say to choose gifts for them. So its a kind of a blessing to be able to buy something for your loved ones.
And I would like to agree with this very much.
Its saturday and considering the fact that there is no school on Monday, I feel like hopping around at Orchard Ion, since it feels like all my classmates have been there one day or another, and I haven’t. Pray that my dad can drive the whole family there later.
It has just occured to me that how some music can match so well with how you feel, and even the lyrics rhyme with what your heart is thinking, and even though you are so well known of its tune, you replay it over and over again, no matter how many times you have done so simply because you find so much comfort in something that can actually understand you.
Speaking of music, Cheryl Lai is going overseas for 1 whole week, abandoning me in school all alone without any desk mate, and I’ll have no one to borrow the bendy ruler from! And leaving myself to the tortures of Chinese Oral and Chinese Paper 2. Sounds horrible isn’t it? Yes and especially when you know your very dear desk mate is away at Okaido savouring the taste of Sushi and probably sniffing away at the peach blossom of the autumn flowers.
But at least I get a free souvenir from Japan!
I’ve just been reminded by my mom that my end of year exams are here in 1 and a half months. But think of the wonderful times after that! I have loads and loads and loads and loads of plans coming up. Enjoying post exams life is one of the best things in life, and I’ll be going to LONDON! Are you feeling jealous already?
Au revoir, for now.
Courage-the twist
Courage.
When I talk about courage here, no, I’m not trying to prove myself by asking you to gain courage to jump from a cliff, or swim in a sea of depth 1000m.
When I talk about courage, I talk about changing yourself. Courage give us the ability to leap over bounds, to overpower yourself, and to cross the line to the other side where the sun is brighter. Courage is that.
Many of times we do not believe courage because we feel that it is best to always stay the same, this always. Sometimes I think that by doing that, it would be better for everyone, to heed what the elders say, to listen to them and to always do what they tell you to and what nots.
The truth is that, I’m just giving myself an excuse. Because I do not have the courage to confront, to ask, to say, to mean, to convince, to do what I really want and what that is best for me. Alot of times its like that, in love, in life, in decisions, in what you do. That is why Im never growing up. That is why I haven’t found what I really are. That is why Im not living out myself. Courage is really all about taking a step out of yourself to pursue your dreams. Its not about being a replica of someone else just to please that person and to think that: Oh, its the best like that because there are no arguments, and everything will stay at peace.
Today Im talking so much about courage. Because I sincerely feel that if you never have that courage to overcome what’s stopping you to do what you want, you’ll never find satisfaction. There is really no point at all to stop your courage just because it’s for someone else’s good. I don’t mean that you do not heed other’s advice when you have courage. You have the courage to listen and to do. You have the courage to clear facts out to prove what your point really is. Not that you don’t listen at all. Have courage. Have the courage to overcome the scoldings, the disapprovals, the unhappiness, the pretends. You need courage to grow up, not to pretend.
Remember, it is only when you have the courage that you really becomes you, that you really grow up. Nothing will stop your way if you have courage, if you have the courage to be really yourself.
From tomorrow, I’ll have courage.
Its now or never.
