《花木兰》 ( Mulan )
Monday, November 30, 2009
Posted @ 3:56 PM


《花木兰》 ( Mulan )

This movie will tug your heartstrings.



They had this line in the movie:
"在战场上,绝不能有感情"
You cannot have any feelings at war



But seeing that your men, each one of them dying one by one at war, pushes you further to keep on fighting... is because you have feelings for them, you want to fight, for them. And it is feelings, that gives you a glimpse of hope again.
Hatred, is a kind of feeling too.



The theme song - 木兰情, sang by Stephanie Sun

At war, you have to kill, and everyone can do it:
"你不是害怕,不是不敢,而是不愿意"
It is not that you are scared, not that you don't dare, it is that you are not willing.



The last battle with the Rourans will stir your emotion on the Wei's spirit, to die at battlefield with no fear. You are not able to do anything as your enemies are killing your people in front of you, even if they are killing your friend, you can do... nothing, because you have others, who are equally important to you to take care of.



They had no other choice, no other alternatives, no other way out... at war, or at personal level.

Mulan is a really respectable and strong, capable woman, to be able to fight for her country and stand up for her countrymen.

But she couldn't do the same for love.


木兰 (Mulan):
"你说过,要是能用你的性命去停止这场战争,你早就做了"
You said before, if you could use your life to stop this war, you would have done so.

文泰 (Wen Tai):
"要我放弃我的性命很容易,但是要我放弃我心爱的人很难"
It is easy for me to give up my life, but it is difficult for me to give up the one I love.

It will dawn upon one that some other sacrifices are worth much more than sacrificing your life.
And if things still had to happen this way to solve the problem, what was the 12 years of battle for?

《花木兰》( Mulan ) has left a deep impression on me.
The great cast is also a key which adds to the emotion in this movie. Zhao Wei is really impressive with her portrayal as Mulan. She is the right choice. She is still so pretty! And the weight of the armour she has to wear is comparable to those the guys are wearing, which is slightly lighter than the estimated 10kg or the other estimated 18kg!
Chen Kun is good with his expression of the inner emotions for his character - Wen Tai, and of course handsome =x and though Jaycee Chan plays a slightly minor role next to the two of them, his character - 小虎 (Xiao Hu) lightens the mood in the movie.

The story is is heart wrenching at some parts, and the ending will move you to tears, with a little humour sprinkled over the show, this movie is a must-watch.

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Professional crew
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Posted @ 11:11 PM

OMG. I was gonna upload pictures from my camera and when I started looking for it in my bag, I realised it wasn't there! Then I was thinking, I brought it back I'm sure! Confirm + chop! Then I think again, did I take it out when I reach home? "NO~" But I still went around looking for it... after about like 5 - 10 minutes searching, I suddenly recalled 3rd bro borrowed from me when I reach home. -.-! STM. *Slap myself*


Went for a shoot in the morning with ShiR, Ying and Jov @ Fire Station.

Pretty cool and we had fun going into the vehicles for phototaking!
Oh but before that, they had an emergency call halfway during the shoot and their firemen ran and grab the gears and jump into the vehicle, everything happen within like 2 minutes an off they went!




This muffin was in courtesy of Ashley's dad, a rather humourous guy haha

The soundman Johnny was a MunTong lookalike! Then when we told him, he said someone did mistook him for MunTong before, even their names are similar please... BattTong! And uncle Richard was exclaiming agreeably with us, saying that he has always find it so but didn't manage to bring it up, then say that they look like they came out from the same casting model (一样的模型) and the whole conversation was so funny! Johnny also look like my older cousin!!

After the shoot, we were back in MCS, then Jov, Ying and I went to see Sheng Siong Show's rehearsal.

Went to the 'legendary' backstage which I've been wanting to take a look at... waha~ shiok. Mich's audio console is so complicated that lots of question marks are popping above our heads when she's explaining to us.
Their rehearsal are somewhat similar to ours as they call-out to those at the panel, then they will play the game accordingly, and when the camera has to capture the shot of the judges, someone from the crew would stand-in also... haha and it's pretty interesting.

But for a one-hour LIVE show, with 10 over mikes/clip-mikes, 3 audio consoles, props in/out, CG, VT... they only did segments rehearsal with all the adjustments ONCE. No full-dress rehearsal! Then off they go for dinner break. So ZAI! Very impressed.

Actually, I've been impressed by how the crew work with the equipment and all... it really take years of experience and learning... There's so much so much so much more for us to learn, and I like that. Everything seems so interesting and great to experience!




Heard from Mich that they have classification for the various scale of shows... like Mega shows are shows like charity shows, Countdown, Chinese New Year, International LIVE feed shows... those are even more complicated and busy.

It's such a smooth flowing process when you watch it on TV, but the amount of work behind it is tremendous. All the technical skills that the crew has is priceless. Most of them have worked 10, 20 over years, and they know their job very well. It's so different from what we learn in school.

Learning about TV studio management in school is like,
you have to mark in this 2 sentences as maybe: Cam 1 - MCU person A,
then next 2 sentence: Cam 2 - CU person B
and etc.
And at that point in time when I was learning about this marking in for which camera to take what shot of who, I was thinking, HUH?! For a few minutes of recording there's already so much work needed for the marking in on the script, what about those that goes on for an hour?!

And, the studio director would be busy giving cues to the cameraman every now and then... which all of us end up in total confusion!
Well... we are just students... so we are doing it this way. The pros do it this way:

It is when starting to work on oktoLIVE! that made me realise, no, they don't do that. Not at all! The individual cameraman would already know what shot and they should be on during the rehearsals, and the VM would automatically cut from shot to shot without specific instructions from the studio director unless instructed. The AP would do the countdown steadily. Audio technician would do the fader in/out of the music automatically. Everything is so professionally done. It takes years of experience to do that though.

*CLAPS*

It really ain't as simple as how you see on TV.

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Complete...
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Posted @ 3:05 AM

I've just completed my last assignment... of the whole of 3 years in Polytechnic.It'll be the cohort dinner later in the evening. I bet we'll all be in tears. Let's see...
Sign off @ 3.06am


Updated after The Last Day in SP.


And I was right.
We took pictures before the last lesson starts in case... you know.


You see, they are blur in like 3 out of the 4 pictures for this self-timer mode phototaking. TSK.

This was a picture video done by Ping and played during our last lecture on Wednesday... Many of us teared...


This is George Teo who taught us in Year 1, making us do performances for him as PM marks. Haha!


Some shots at or favourite Studio 19... though I still prefer it to be called DMS.



And so, we end off the NCT class with the last two individual presentations by Matthew and Wals, and both of them mentioned about this being the last class and thy will miss everyone... and Wals ended off with a picture slide of the 13-individual shots which I combined and posted in my blog post (refer here) during our previous class outing @ Pulau Ubin, followed by an 'unglam' shot of Ping. We totally laughed our heads off at that! I won't be putting up here in case Ping kills me.

Then Ping started to tear. And I tried to control myself by not looking at her... then everyone starts to feel the sad atmosphere...
and one by one, we teared.

Eh you don't see the row on the right hand side laughing at us ok, they also teared and cried!


Sad that it was our last class... together.
It lasted for about 10 minutes, sobbing + laugters at the same time because we also cannot tahan one another being so emotional HAHA. Especially Ping.







Our signature pose - The Day We Stood Still

This shot is so nice right? I positioned it and set it on self-timer mode!




An imitation of Ping's typical pose, Flo does it so well that it's like the exact replica! HAHA But Ping kept denying she does this kinda pose.

I thought it'd be another round of tearing at the formal dinner at night, but it wasn't. We were happily taking pictures with one another before and after the dinner, and even did a cohort picture together, and I heard we were the first batch to do so!


DMC 04!


Spec dip. crew and cast


Random one that everyone just squeeze in to be part of the picture!


My 'partner-in-crime' for oktoLIVE! - ok-to-LOVE/ok-to-have FUN segment!


With the various lecturers, first up Dioni (Class PTN)

Then Trudy (Taught us news writing & feature writing)


And Ms Chong (Taught us professional preparation)


And of course with the sisters-lecturers Ping & Doris!


Oh and the formal dinner etiquette. So many rules to follow that it's like, omg, just bring me to the coffeeshop to eat ok. =x And we tried to practice it that we are so amused by one another with the formalities!





I will miss the days in SP DMC... :)

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Packed week
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Posted @ 2:54 PM

Hi~ Sorry all.
I think I've never tried not updating my blog for a week...
It's been a hectic week with all the project submission deadlines coming up!
It's not like I've completed mine that I'm here blogging... but yah, I'm taking a break whenever the computer is jamming up or just maximising the time as I'm processing how I should go about doing it.

But no worries. 3 more days and it'll be over!
And yes... school will be officially over.
Everyone will start their internship... just like how we've gone through ours for 2 months.





Oh, and Mum has been in Aussie for 2 months too.
Though I miss her... sometimes I just feel that, probably it's good that she's in Aussie since I don't have much time to accompany her too, and at least she doesn't have to see that I'm home late, doing stuff and all... because she will nag at me (HAHA) But I know she meant well. And I feel guilty for not being able to spend much time with Dad and my friends too... I guess this must have been how Mum and Dad felt when they both have to work and leaving me alone at home when I was younger.
And I think, that's practically the situation for most families in Singapore.

Oh well, that aside,
I can't believe that 3 years of education in Polytechnic is ending soon... in 3 days time. It's fast, fast, fast. What can I say?

These were pictures taken after the Career Talk last Thursday.
Photos in courtesy of SinKai.








Though dreading how project deadlines and exams have been driving us to a corner... I still enjoy Poly life, which is probably why time seems to pass so fast... because it is always so when you are enjoying it.

Oh, and one thing I must mention is that, work has been pretty fine, and it's really great that they have been very kind and understanding towards the committment we have for our last couple of weeks in school... I'm really appreciative and touched about it. Thank you C, Lawr, LayH, XinY, Kalai!

Speaking of Kalai, we were invited to her wedding last Saturday!

It's my first time, ok maybe all of our first time attending an Indian wedding! Though we don't really know what was going on... haha but we just follow suit with what they do to give blessings to the couple.


The food were yummy!!


It must have been a real tiring process as the bride and groom haven't rested with the ceremony and all the customs going on for more than 3 hours! They have a lot of relatives... friends going up to them for well wishes...
Kalai's movements seemed restrained with all the accessories on her head, and when she saw us she went "EH!! HELLO!" with her head in a fixed position... then goes on raving about "HEY YESTERDAY'S OKTOLIVE WAS GOOD!!" with an elaborate expression. HAHA


Last Sunday was a celebration for my cousin YiJian's one-year-old birthday!

He is so cute! HAHA



Reminds me of my little nephew XiaoZhu... and recently going through some pictures in my camera, I saw this video of him, playing with a 'worm-like' toy, and he was scared but still wants to touch it... then laughs and fell on the floor. SO CUTE!


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'Ridi - larious' Nightmare
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Posted @ 5:00 PM



4th week of school ended.
2 more weeks to go.

3 episodes done.
14 more to go.

Had a class photo-taking session on Fri & the pictures seem awesome!
Don't know if I'm able to get my hands on those...


Oh a couple of days ago I had a nightmare.

Starts here:
I dreamt that Jov, Leen and I was in a shopping centre... and then we saw a turtle in front.
It was staring at us and we were staring back. Then later it was coming after us with a fierce look!
So we ran!
We ran out and the glass door closed behind us, closing on the turtle. It couldn't push the door open so it went the other way to chase after us.
I don't know why but we were running out of glass doors after glass doors, with it closing on the turtle everytime.
Then later on when we were trying to lookout where the turtle was, we saw a baby pram moving but there doesn't seem to have any baby inside so we thought, it must be the turtle!
So we ran again and finally ran out the last glass door of the shopping centre.
And while we were catching our breathe, feeling relieved that we are safe, we were also talking to someone.
Then suddenly the person exclaimed about something behind us!
It was a huge crane charging out from the shopping centre! (@_@??? right. I also don't know why)
And it was controlled by the turtle!!
So we RAN like nobody's business!!
And later on we gave up, and I told it (or someone controlling the crane) that I will go into the 'scooper', see what they want to do with me, and I went in.
But then it/he says want to punish Jov and Leen first, so they were being scooped into it, lift up to quite a height from the ground, then thrown into the air and caught by the 'scooper' again.
I heard a loud 'THUD' sound and was very worried so I asked if they were alright... and they stood up in the 'scooper'... Jov's nose was RED, and she told me her nose was in pain, then Leen said that her back was in pain.
Then I got very upset and went to it/him and scolded some cheesy line "You have parents, they also have parents, what gives you the right to humilate them in this way?! We only stared at you, and you did this to us! You also stared at us right?!"
Then it/him was kinda stoned there.

-End of nightmare-

ZZZ. It sounds so hilarious when I narrate it personally to the 'main lead' in my nightmare. HAHAHA. I didn't watch any horror movie/show ok... To be exact, I didn't really watch TV for the whole week!

Don't know why such a weird dream. I must be real tired in the dream... kept running.

Oh and yesterday the '3 main lead' (us) went to do project... but we ended up shopping before we settle down, and bought a pair of shoes each. AIYO. Then, never mind. When I was on the way home sitting down in the bus, I saw a NETS receipt which was visible from the translucent plastic bag, then I thought to myself...

"I use NETS to pay just now meh?"
"No."
But the amount was correct.

"Maybe that person put in a NETS receipt" (Then I paused for awhile)
"Can't be what..."

*Then something struck my mind*

*Rewind back to library when I pick up the plastic bag... I looked in and saw that the code no. for the shoes on the shoe box was correct. So I just pick it up.*
BUT! I didn't see the shoe size! 'cos Leen bought the same pair, but hers was a different colour, and we have different shoe size! Then I checked the box. Yes. It's Leen's. -.-!
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Happy start of a week!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Posted @ 11:28 PM

We officially settled in our new office yesterday, and 搬得好! (Timely shifting) HAHA

Kym happened to be in office yesterday, when Megs saw her, he ran into our office to make the 'announcement' LOL and Jov and Leen ran out and "HI!" her... and the next thing was Kym popping by the medialogging room I was in and "SURPRISE!" me!



Went back to MCS after school today and went for lunch first, getting Megs and ShiR to join us... then the next thing I knew was ShiR calling to give me a 'teaser':

S: Hello Lee Yan
Me: Ya Hello
S: You know what?
Me: What?
S: *laugh laugh laugh*
S: The whole city beat cast is here!
Me: WHERE?!
S: *describes*

So we went by after 'lunching' and they were there! Shooting the opening video for the show.
Managed to take a photo with them after going back to office and getting back with Megs. =x



Woohoo! Perks being in MCS HAHA


Tomorrow won't be at MCS at all though.
Now I want to go back to MCS after lessons everytime... jk jk HAHA...


Oh and realised that almost all of us are in the office today! Except for poor Ying2 who's sick.
It's been LONG since all 10 of us are all in the office at the same time!

You must be wondering why is this picture here, from the famous HK series - Heart of Greed. That's because we did a parody photoshoot of it... scroll down to see!



WAHAHA!~ Ok ok here's a photo which is more 'us'!

And this is our publicity material

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Michael Jackson - This Is It
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Posted @ 2:40 AM


When you are watching it... "Are you sure that's a 50-year-old man dancing on stage?!" will pop up in your mind.


Never mind his plastic surgeries, never mind his looks, all that, never mind.


Michael Jackson is a real music talent. Very sure of how he wants his music to be, how he wants the performance to turn out. He gives his best for every rehearsal, every song, every dance. Which all contributes to what we see in the cinemas today.

A performer should treat every rehearsal like a real one-time performance, because that is when you can be better after each one... and also leave behind memories...

And because Michael did so, it was almost like a complete concert which he wasn't able to put up.

Every dancer and every crew for his concert were really looking forward and honoured to be able to work with him, all of them so dedicated to bring the best concert for the comeback of MJ with a BANG.


25 June 09, 8 days to the first concert in London. MJ left us.


It was a real real REAL pity that he was not able to hold the concert for his fans... anymore.
Throughout the movie, I was worried. Worried that it will end soon... because I can't get enough of him. His stage presence, his X-factor, his music, his dance, every moment captures your attention.

Felt the loss of MJ.
Felt sorry for the childhood he had, but it was that kind of childhood that made who he is today.

When the movie ended, I teared.

His death is so surreal, because 'Michael Jackson' - a name which has accompanied us, our parents and the different generations is so inclined on our minds. He seemed like someone who would always be there, always present, always existing.

But he is human afterall.

Even though none of us got to see his 'This Is It" concert, but we saw it still, Michael.
Thanks to your love and dedication to music, that you gave in all for the rehearsals, and throughout your life.


You are the legend. King of Pop.


*For those who haven't caught This Is It in the cinemas, do stay all the way till the credits finish rolling, there's still some of MJ. Last day in cinemas is on 11 Nov.

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2nd ep + Shifting office!
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Posted @ 11:30 AM

*Pressurised by viewership!* Hope it'll be good news on Monday!

15 more episodes to go!
If you've missed the 2nd episode of oktoLIVE!, don't worry, you can still catch the encore on Sundays @ 1pm!

Rehearsals didn't ran very smoothly yesterday and so we were kinda worried for the actual TX. But luckily all went well! Viewers at home will never get to see the tense moments happening backstage. Haha!

After finishing our 2nd episode yesterday, we shifted all our stuff from our office room situated at a cosy corner


to another cosy, secluded corner.


We can laugh as loud as we can now! Not that the previous one cannot, but even with closed doors, we can still visibly be heard outside, and there's many other people's desk just outside of our room. HAHA
Our new office room is still on the same level, with printers just outside and no others.

Man. It was like spring cleaning! Shifting the computers alone is enough to make everyone SEH~ on our seats when we were done. I also took the chance to dump all the waste that has been accumulating since we started work in Sep, and YAY my desk is so neat now. =x
I've got my own small cabinet underneath my table now too, and the new room is bigger with stronger aircon! And YES! We get to choose our own seats, so I've picked one that my computer screen won't be facing whoever is coming in our room. *Privacy!*

Oh, and our extensions changed too... so you can't contact us via the office no. on the namecard. Have to change the no.s on the card manually...

But I will still miss our old okto office!


OH! And only after their first ep of shoot for the New City Beat, they are considering making it into a long-running one instead of a one-off season! YAY! Read here.

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The feel of school
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Posted @ 10:22 PM

Another week of school is gonna pass by again...

Today was the 'One World Day' and Wals, Sam, P.yaya and Nad did a closing performance for it at our SB foyer! Aww... wished I could join them too... but it wasn't possible for us to do so due to our schedules...

Almost the whole class went to support them (time granted by Ping)! Felt the class bonding when we all cheered so loudly and clap together! They did a medly dance and it went great! Would have been even more awesome if more ppl joined them during the MJ dance moves!
*Just BEAT IT!~*

Catch their performance in the video below!


Before that was a singing of Cheng Li De Yue Guang, and WenT, Flo and I were singing happily and grooving to the beat hahaha... nostalgic song. "Cheng li de yue guang, ba meng zhao liang~"

The video we made previously for Ping (see post on 30 Oct) has become a 'trending topic' now. =x Our classmates and juniors are mentioning about it to us and imitating it too!

*Oh sidetrack, New City Beat started their shoot today! (Source from Gurmit's tweet =x)
Become a fan on facebook page here!


Catch the 2nd episode of oktoLIVE! @ 6.30pm on okto channel tomorrow!

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New City Beat!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Posted @ 9:46 PM


Kym & Bryan in their New City Beat's role as Cai Hua & Wan Shi Da

I was aware of their imaging on that day through Bryan's tweet, so made a couple of trips with different people in the okto team and finally saw them in the make-up unit. HAHA

Here's the interview on Xin.sg!
http://www.xin.sg/article.php?article=32950&st=dtl

Must watch the video! So funny~


And also CONGRATS Kym for your marriage!
http://www.xin.sg/article.php?article=32946&st=dtl

Debut 25 Dec, Fridays @ 8pm!

Oh, and YAY I think I'll be able to make it home in time after oktoLIVE! broadcast to catch New City Beat! =x

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1st ep of oktoLIVE!
Posted @ 9:45 PM



It was a whole deal of laughters and fun on the broadcast day... I laughed so hard at the videos taken behind-the-scenes! HAHA I'll find a time to edit it and post it up here.
Meanwhile, see some pictures first!





Aunty Flora in action!


Ping, Mrs Lam (CASS director) and Aikk visited us... and Mrs Lam brought along chocs for us too! How nice~! They were all looking forward to watching the final rehearsal before the broadcast.

Countdown time to 6.30pm seemed so long... and when the song started, my mind was thinking 'This moment has come!'
I wasn't aware of what was going on when I was busy settling the SMS coming in until I passed to Leen, and by that time, already 20 minutes has passed!
Half an hour show just SHROOM! ended.
Timing was ok, didn't overrun. :)
I felt so proud of everyone... any myself when I saw the credits rolling... ^^
And in 5 minutes, we all SHROOM! done with our packing and were on our way back to office.

Ping SMS-ed and told us that she teared 'cos she felt so proud of us. :D They didn't stay when the LIVE show was going on though... and Ping also said she would have cried if she stayed on to watch the LIVE show.

Glad that they were pleased.

*Pat shoulders on okto team* Thanks to all the hardwork!
16 more episodes to go!

Went to Fish & Co. for dinner with Aikk, the team and our seniors Fatimah & Rahim who came to support us.



That's my Sharkie Drink which has the description of DRINK LIKE A FISH!


Our seafood platter!!

We pranked Aikk and he had to stand on the chair and allow all of us to sing Happy Birthday song though it's not his birthday. But well, we have a reason for it, 'cos it's Happy Birthday to oktoLIVE! as well! :D



Actually, I've got so much to talk about... but I don't have the time to blog all about it. Will tell you all when I meet up with you guys! Hehe

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