Concerts and Chaos

Maybe I'm getting old, but somehow I am losing touch on how and why youngsters love certain things. Attending concerts for example. While it is good fun and all, but there are really a lot of things that can ruin your enjoyment. This is the place where people:

*Shove at each other. I don't get it. Why the hell people do that? This leads to some people:

*Squeeze their way in front. Sorry, it sucks to be short. But if you want to be front and centre, arrive to the venue EARLY, like an hour early (The place fills up like mad once the gates are open).

*Smoke amongst the crowd. Really? Don't you know not everyone prefers to inhale tobacco unlike you? At least bear it for a while until the show is over. Or move away to light up. Also, there ARE minors there.

*Endure the rain, sweat and suffocation. Also, people jumping all over and step on your feet. Think really hard before you come.

Well I went to the All-American Rejects concert on Halloween. The show was worth the wait, let just say the experience could be better. On the positive note, the songs they perform are pretty good. From usual crowd pleasing "Dirty Little Secret", "Swing, Swing", "My Paper Heart", "Move Along" and "It Ends Tonight", and also the songs from their recent album: "Gives You Hell", "The Wind Blows", "I Wanna" and more. Tyson the lead singer is a hoot, entertaining and funny.

Advice to Reality Show Contestants

Before you can actually sign up for anything to be featured on a TV show. Here's a few things you need to consider

American Idol:
*If you can't sing, don't bother auditioning.

*Making silly gimmicks, costumes or other craziness WILL NOT be taken seriously.

*If you're not liked by Simon, don't bother changing his mind. Quit even though you're through.

Survivor:
*If you cannot stand the heat, monsoon rain in random times, don't sign up.

*Backstabbing is necessary trait. Never think you can be super nice to win. That's really rarely happen.

Amazing Race:
*If you cannot swim, drive a manual car, afraid of heights, water, wild animals etc. Don't sign up.

*If you're actually facing your fears, suck it up and do it. Don't whine and complain.

*If you cannot appreciate foreign cultures, don't bother signing up.

America's Next Top Model
*You must be at least 5'7". Sorry, if you're short, you're standing no chance in the real world.

*If you are 23 and above, don't bother starting out as a model. Unless you look REALLY, REALLY youthful.

*You really have to endure Tyra's craziness to survive.

*Bitchiness is a plus.

Glee!

Watched a few of the episodes and Here's what I feel:

I LOVE this show. But somehow the show seems to make efforts to make me hate it.

For example, Will Schuester. God knows why he loves to relive his old days with his boy bands and all that. Ugh. And still oblivious to know that his wife is faking a pregnancy to keep his marriage!

The stereotypes are overplayed. The gay one, the sassy black woman, the dumb jock. Whatever.

The Auto-tuning of the singers. Ugh, makes me pissed off. Why cast good singers when you want to auto tuned to death? Especially Finn, whose voice is the worst of the bunch.

But there are things that I love too.

Principal Figgins is awesome to watch. If you ever catch his Mumbai Air ad (in the show), it is downright hilarious!

Sue Sylvester, the cheerleader coach, is awesome. Her quotes are so random it's so funny. And she is deliciously evil. I like!

Music wise is always awesome. Here's a sample of their cover of "Rehab":


Could have showed you the performance clip. But youtube removed them... Copyrights and all.

Home Run!

In my last legs of my academic year, and I am chugging along and barely hanging on.

I wish I still have the passion to move on. But argh, where is it? Is it because my batch is dwindling? Or is it the project isn't fun anymore? Is it just me? Come on, two more months and you're outta here!

Focus! Focus! Damn you Facebook! Twitter! and forums I visit! Damn you distractions!

Anyways I have come up with stories to pitch once I graduate. Funny I have some enthusiasm for what it is uncertain in the FUTURE, but not what's current and concrete. =P

Oh, I have a new pair of glasses. Will post a picture if I am in the mood for pictures.

Working on ideas... in a holiday noless

Ever since I have been studying for a degree, my mind wanders on what I would be in the future. I doubt it would be an animator or a 3D designer... because there are people out there outclass me in any way possible. What I was sure about was to do something about the media, be it PR or advertising, broadcast or print.

So after my internship is over and I returned to campus and everything has settled for the holidays, I have my goals set for the first time in 3 years: writing.

Writing for TV/movies specifically.

For those are wondering why, here's why: I had always had a knack of writing stories and creating stories, since high school. Every essay choices during exams I picked is ALWAYS narrative, because it is not very restricting, the words flow much easier compared to writing a factual/descriptive/reflective. Most of all, you NEVER need to worry about being under the word count (Though you need to watch out the time restrictions, because you know, it is a test after all). Which is WHY I ventured Film & Animation, because that's the only majoring that is anything remotely related to storytelling.

So there are two ideas I am tinkering right now:
-FYP idea. Our theme is about "Rhythm", so I need some associations about this particular word. No cliched music-driven animation (Though it would be after all that), so it is about music, rhythmic patterns in life.

Possibly would be done in Motion Graphics and some green screening (Not going to call it a VFX because it isn't).

-Writing my first TV script. I meant it to be pitched somewhere (I doubt it would be here. Possibly in the US). This is fo sho, y'all! I drafted the story outline in a short story form to check out any flaws and fix it before it would be turned into a script.

I sent the story out to some of my friends and got pretty mixed reviews... Not bad for a first timer but I still need some fine tuning to make it appealing.

That's all for now. Signing off.

Can You Hear the Birds Sing?

I just set up a profile in Twitter and... I have no idea WHAT to do with it.

I pretty slow in picking up the latest web fads. I used to be such, and I still am. I only started blogging at 2005 when everyone already typed tons of posts in their blogs, adding friendster, myspace and facebook only after multiple attempts of my friends persuasions and prodding and now this.

It looks kinda of convenient for me, like just type in whatever you want to say in short little blurbs. I kinda looks like the status update in facebook, only shorter.

If anyone whats to follow me, please do so by clicking the link at the side column.

Tweet away, folks!

Earth Hour

Well I really did my part. Though my mom doesn't really see the point of doing it anyway.

I'm no stranger to just merely turn off the lights, cause in my area power failures are becoming a norm already. So I'm pretty cool with that.

Being this part of the activism forces me to think a little about my forgetful self. I tend to leave some electric appliances left on for hours. Lights, fan, computer etc. Guess I have to knock my big head to ALWAYS remember to turn it off after use.

Of course this energy conserving thing is not suppose to be a one off, cause not applying it in your everyday life just makes it redundant. Cheers

Royksopp - Remind Me

Really cool music video.

Sorry for a 1 month hiatus. Just have nothing much to post and there is not really a time for blogging

Adele - Chasing Pavements

Lily Allen - The Fear

This song really speaks the truth about people today.

Lily Allen Rules!

Sheryl Crow - A Change Would Do You Good

Very ingenious video. Also featuring Ellen DeGeneres and Andy Dick.

The Hives - Two Timing Touch and Broken Bones

The video is so surreal. Like it.

Chinese New Year 2009: Year of the Earth Ox

Well, this year my family decided to go somewhere else: Ipoh. It's a place one of my cousins live in, and we're pretty excited to celebrate this new year with somewhere different.

First off: Ipoh does have it's charm of its mountainous geographical area. (Seriously, it really feels really good with the hills reaching the clouds and my parents are literally excited about the sallow caves they spotted). We went to a cave temple there, and it was a Buddhist version of Batu Caves. And yes, It was crowded even for the new year's day where people supposed to be at home celebrating. Yea, my family included.

I can't believe I'm so damn freaking tired when I'm driving back, I'm overcoming it with loud music and humming them. Too bad, i had to pull up at the nearest R&R stop to ask my sister to continue the rest of the journey. So, Ipoh is farther than I thought it would be.

All in all, it was a great experience.

Lily Allen - LDN

Internship: Week 0

The reason I name it week 0 because it's not really my official internship period yet.

So I got my internship placement in Motiofixo, located in Cyberjaya. It's great news that is near my place. So no fuss, traffic jams or something stupid while traveling to work.

So far the big guy is just showing some of the ropes in the place. My first impression: Very laidback and casual, but it's still business and work. Hopefully my actual job have an environment as such.

And yes, there's a gaming console at the lobby! But it's only allowed after office hours.

More updates soon.

Hotel for Dogs trailer

Something interesting to watch.

Blackberry ad

Pretty creative...

Switch the Channel

I remember the last time I did blog about the music nowadays being such a crap fest that people will just listen to without even considering that the particular song even make any sense. I think television is quickly following to sunk its quality.

Back in the day when TV is pretty much a staple entertainment in most families, there were pretty good shows that is surely suit someone's tastes. Comedies are cleverly written and are actually funny, some intrigued story lines for dramas and some really, really good sci-fi and adventure TV shows. I think that stopped around early 2000s.

What happened? Reality TV. I admit, I am a sucker in some of the show in this genre. Some reality shows are really crappy (watch the ones in MTV), some just drag people out from their everyday lives and put them into a competition, or just in a house with cameras. Boy, some people did just anything for the camera. I mean ANYTHING.

What about the wholesome ones? Well there are still new dramas/sitcoms and actual scripted shows featuring REAL actors, unfortunately they weren't as popular as they used to be. No, not because they suck, but people just prefer to watch either-the run-of-the-mill spin offs of the same genre (I can even tell you which one are these: Cops, hospitals and lawyers). Or the reality crap as described above.

Furthermore, I am pretty pissed that there are already 3 shows in the same network had been canceled. All of them are pretty new TV shows and all of them are pretty different than the rest. I'm refering to ABC's decision to yank off Eli Stone, Pushing Daisies and Dirty Sexy Money. 2 of them I just started to appreciated.

Ah well, it seems to be there is no future of creative writing in TV shows. One can only hope it will be better in the future, once people realize there are better shows on DVD than the ones currently showing on TV.

New Year.... 2009

Woah 3 days past in 2009 already. And my head is still set in 2008.

Some things just move too fast, others move too slow to me. Guess things just move at their own pace of their liking, never at the pace that I want. Hmmph!

Last month is the usual PC fair, and boy the crowd is still massive as ever. (the promoters are even more, I dunno why they need 80 promoters to gather at the end of their booth to pass flyers). I got myself some RAM. Storage devices (External Hard Disks, Thumb drives) are ridiculously cheap (I should have got them anyways).

Anyways, no blurb at Ireland Worlds about MMU, or even a single Malaysian team, or even an Asian team... On the other hand, Oxford Union is going strong with 3 teams in semi-finals, along with Monash, Queensland, Victoria Wellington, Manchester and Harvard. Barely know anyone of them in the teams except the guys from Monash, possibly Queensland (the Aussies are a great and friendly bunch one you get to know them)

And then there were 362 days left in 2009.