Things I've Missed Part 2 - Redemption

24.07.09 Friday - I had class in the morning. i very short session just to cover up last week's lesson. I canceled the rest of my class today just to make sure I've got enough time to do the changes of the current job if there's any amendments. I'm suppose meet up with my boss later to pass him the files. I found out there's some mistakes I've made, rushed home, did some correction and drove to Rampai OldTown Cafe waiting for him. Starving at this moment, so i ordered some food for myself. This 'some' food is like ALOT of food... Its been like ages since I had a proper meal. I can't remember the name of all the foods though... (Some of the picture were taken on weekdays while I'm working at OldTown Cafe)

seriously checking my mail for amendments

too much caffeine this week... need lemon water to neutralise things

this bun taste good!

prawn noodle

trying hard to keep my eye open after a overnight work

files to be submitted

its call curry potato toast i guess... :)

nasi lemak!!!

After passing the disks, I rush to MPSelayang to pay my parking ticket. I was pretty pissed of this. I usually bank in cheque at night but the cheque deposit machine is offline the other day. So, instead i went to the bank at morning. In god speed, I was manage to settle everything within 2 minutes. And when i was back to my car, i saw a officer writing parking tickets to another car below the shades of trees. I thought i was safe. When i start driving, a paper was clipped on my viper and guess what, JACKPOT!!! At the moment all i can think of is: I've been working non stop for weeks and i deserve my pay. And now the government want a piece of it too. I pay taxes too. I then realise from my parent that they usually hide themself before you leave the car and once u do so, they'll do the job. Fucking desparate as you can see... Even pissed when i reach MPS to pay my fine. The whole road to MPS is full of trees and decorates. Its like riding to heaven. When i reach, MPS looks as grand as a 5 star hotel. They use the citizens money to build a 5 star office... What's the purpose? I queue for my turn and then...

me: nak buat rayuan
officer: (silent for at least 5 minute)
printing machine: jiek jiek jiek jiek
officer: bayar sana...
at this point the fine has reduced to 50% which is RM30
me: nak tanya, saya baru parking 1 minute dah kena saman dah. Kalau macam tu, Nak bayar ticket macam mana?
officer: kalau bayar dalam masa 10 minute lepas kena saman, boleh buat rayuan.
me: ... (walked away speechless)

sitting here doing the so call 'rayuan'

10:24 banked in

10:26 parking ticket.

Seriously i don't need 2 minute to walk from the bank to my car. MPS is definitely trying their best to get your money!!!

during the payment, boss called. Before this i send him a message saying that i need a rest tonight. I'm dying here. Will start working tomorrow (Saturday). He started talking in a bossy tone. At this moment i feel like im not being appreciated. So i replied with my point as well. I've been working for 2 week non stop on this project. Amendments is definitely more than 10 because everyday is dateline ever since i took this job. After arguing for 10 minutes or so, he decided not to talk about it anymore and hang up. moment later, he text me saying "get some rest tonight, start working tomorrow". I was wondering... Why cant he let me rest abit before i get mad and tired? Still mad at this time but i just ignore the message as I didn't want my emotion to take control of me.

From MPSelayang, I drive to IKEA just to walk around and get myself released. I actually had the decision in mind that i will definitely buy "that" office chair today! But just to make sure i dont regret, I rounded twice in the showroom. I've bought the chair and a shoe rack for mom.

Its just outstanding...

can you feel the confort?

getting the pakage from the store

Fixing the chair was fun but i was really exausted at this time. Pizza for dinner and straight to the bed at 10am. When i woke up the next morning, it was already 12pm. I can definitely sleep for few hours more if it wasnt the job's call... Sinced Im already awake, might as well start working. Boss reach my house at 12pm. He wanted to do some correction himself. Im impressed this time. This is the first time he shows his technical skill of After Effects in front of me after knowing him for more than 5 years. We did some talking, laughing and working, ignoring yesterday's call, just to get the job done. He left at about 4pm and Im going back to work...

parts of the chair

before

after

im definitely posing like im enjoying it... rendering at the same time :(

Its Sunday night 8pm now and my job is consider done. Hope no more amendments and mistake again this time...

p/s" next week's class will finally be back to normal again! Thanks to all the students who gives full coorporation this week.

Things I've Missed Part 1

I got a job last Wednesday and have been working since that day, non stop! It’s almost a week now (and still not done yet), rendering the preview frame now, and looked away from my screen for awhile. For 1 short moment, my mind goes blanked… and slowly, feeling how comfortable is “peace”. And from there, I realize that I’ve missed a lot of stuff during the past 7 days…

I’ve missed the proper meal, proper rest, the 3000 hits of my blog, updating others’ blogs, groups discussions, Face book, Messenger, brother’s phone call, hanging out with friends, Harry Potter, Ice Age 3, games, schools, students, shaving, tennis, and most of all a relaxing weekend with ‘you’…

Out of no where a ‘ring’ sound snaps me up from day dreaming. The render has complete and I have to get back to work…

I just want to apologize to everyone that I’ve ignored this week. Sorry that I can’t make it to the ‘mamak’ session with DML1 as promised and definitely sorry for canceling the class…



--To be continued--

Am I Really Dying???

I've been working non stop these few weeks. Tiring but at the same time energetic. Never really had the chance to get out and hang around, not even some time to blog. I just woke up from a short nap, going to start working again soon. Feel kind of lazy so might as well update the blog abit.



Sometimes I wonder why i work so much. Come to think of it, I started as a lazy shit ever since I'm in kindergarten. I've been skipping classes since i was 5 years old, was a drop out during the primary school, and definitely not in the 'good boy list' in secondary school. My performance in the college is not outstanding as well. Wonder how am I able to end up as a educator + workaholic after graduate...



I've mentioned this before, I teach not because of money. I actually like teaching. Being able to see my students graduate or achieve something, makes me feel proud of them and myself at the same time. Now why do I still work extra in the industry? Perhaps the achievement of completing each and every challenge is way more satisfying than anything else.



Yesterday while while having my meeting with Aaron and Shawn, Shawn asked both of us if he is gaining weight. I tease him abit but at the same moment i was thinking, what makes both of them looks so healthy? Everyone's been saying that i had to eat more but the fact is, i eat quite alot and it's just impossible for me to gain weight!!! Shawn also mentioned that Jamie (Shawn's friend) says, I look like I'm going to die very soon... Spechless... But I guess life is not measured by how long you lived, its about how excited it is. Agree?



"If you are working for a living, why kill yourself working..." quote from movie series Weeds.

Thanks~~~

I did not went out this week. Job after job after job, which is a good sign for me =p. well, I've been handling a corporate video for SSF Sdn Bhd this week. No doubt, it was shitty. Well, the one in charge of this job happens to be one of my best friend, Dave. I think the main reason that this job gives me such a headache was because my friend got no experience in post and production before. Not to mentioned everything was in a rush and we barely got time do the pre-production. Which leads to a non stop material adding and editing. Dave actually tought that i was pissed of the way things work out. He apologise to me when i sounded at him the other day. Actually, i wasn't angry of him or the job, its just a form of me releasing all the pressure. I'm not going to be gay and apologize here.

Brothers mana ada overnight anger one~~~

But still, i feel like when it comes to job, someone has to be the lead. In this case, Dave doesnt seem to have the power to ordering me around. So, i made decision on most of the part in this video. Its hard when one tries to deal between money and friends. I didn't wanna choose to stand on either on the side, so, I've set up a self principal to avoide shits...


1. Never deal with a friend when it comes to business. Or in other words, when it comes to business, we have to ignore the friendship part!

2. Never deal with a family member.

3. Locked down the budget and jobscope before proceeding.

4. No payment, no product. Late payment, late product. Low budget, low quality. (this is to protect myself as well as controlling the quality of the job.)

Im not talking about design and video field only, infact this should be applied to every job if you don't wanna get bullied and complain right after that. To my students who are still studying, you might not agree with me. Well, this is something that I couldn't teach you verbally. Its all based on your own experience.

In here, I'd like to thank all my lecturer who have taught me to be who I am now. You taught me to be stronger even if its through harsh way. I understand now... Thanks to those that gives me an opportunity. You also gives me confident and hope at the same time. Specially thanks to:

Adam for being supportive all these times.
Yusri KRU for your short and straight to the point advices.
Kevin for giving me my first 'official' freelance job, even when we both started as strangers.
Mr Donne for the experience from the mistakes i've made.
Ms Teng Sok Hooi for guiding me, still...
Shawn for his job experience.

Thank you for joining in the MUD 07'

Thanks Kent for everything. All the best in U.S.

Thanks Kent and Dave for being my friends

Thanks Brendon bro and Nicole jie for all you gift and souvenirs

Thanks Ms Teng for the share and care that never ends.

Of course there are alot more to thank here other than this. "sorry if your name wasn't here" But I'm grateful for what I have. Even now that I'm teaching a whole bunch of monkey in the school, I will still thank you guys for listening and keeping me up to date on what's the trend...

Thank you all for reading!!!

Heart to Heart

I don't really know alot about this job. Only get it at Saturday and dateline is Sunday (today). well i did deliver it. I grew up having pressure as my dinner... This is so yummy!!! My task is to create a visual design based on the producers sketch, from sketch. This is a set for a talk show for RTM i guess...

The producer, Jamie emphasize on the lighting the most. so i guess i could try to do something different this time. This is actually my first time using photometric light with radiosity control. The texture is just a plain bitmap, and i was quite amaze by the result of it. Rendering time is much more faster than i expect as well... with 71 light in my scen rendering a pal frame takes about 1 minute.

modeling and wireframe

lighting confirmed

first concept frame with texture and mapping.

correction and final render

close up host

close up guest

top view

I haven't got the chance to post the high resolution version up on my picasa web album. I'll do it at semester break most probably. Time to get back to the education work now... I got 4 proposal to be mark!

Lepa Bajau + Eating Week!!!

It’s been long since I last update my blog. I’ve been busy. <-- Looks like this lame excuse have been saving me for countless times^^ well, I’m very sorry to those that are checking for updates and there’s nothing much here. 1 of my most handsome student in DML2, known as Pokupie, told me that I actually have consistence reader… been thinking why the heck when I first started blogging back 5 years ago I only have 2-3 small potato reader… guess I'm 1 step ahead than the current trend by that time =p

I’m not going to blog about MUDay this time because I still haven’t get all the pictures and videos from Aaron. I guess, it’s best I blog about what I’ve done over the past week. I’m really busy la this time…

First and foremost, I’ve got this job of modeling a 3d boat (lepa) and animating it. As usual, changes and changes that I’ve already get used to it. But it was fun to finally touching the software again for real! Back then when I was studying 3d, I'm really interested and do a lot of self explore, but the more explore, the more I get confuse. At the same time, comparing now and 2 years ago, it’s been a really big jump! This is to all my AMLers, don’t give up on this software just yet… It’s boring, confusing, tiring but when u achieve your goal, the joy is priceless…

These are some of the concept frame rendered while progress.

Lepa's based shape

with roof and side handle

1st concept frame

side view

close up side view

top view

sailing away

after correction side view

tail chase

Of course, I still have to eat and sleep… I’m not going to talk about sleep (same old lucid dreaming stuff) this time. And now I realize that it’s not fun at all once u know how to control your dream. Learning how to CTRL+Z it… :( I guess I’ll just post up some pictures of good food that I’ve taken last week ^^

22nd June, Monday @ Pappa Kopitiam – A normal working Monday where class ends at 8pm. I was hungry as hell after my class. My ‘special’ friend then calls me and asked if I would like to have dinner with her. I said ok but we don’t have a head of direction. Planning to eat a simple meal and we pass by the new business area at Sri Rampai. I drive in and have a quick peek. We both decide to have our meal here. The environment is nice and quiet. So…

im having my chendol as desert! super nice and sweet...

she's having cincau longan

normal kuey teow soup that taste nice^^

nasi lemak ayam. super spicy sambal

fish cake side order

24th June, Wednesday @ MUDay – About an hour before the movie, me, her, Aaron and Cc stop by at Jalan Imbi for breakfast. Aaron used to work in a very famous post production house located in this area. According to him, there is a very famous egg tart here. So we had our early coffee and meal here. It tasted fine. I wasn’t really enjoying the tart because there is a mentally disorder guys disturbing us, not to mention I got a parking ticket too…

Aaron enjoying his egg tart

yes, he smokes too ^^

Aaron showing off his bite

this is non halal... im sorry if you're a Muslim >.<

27th June, Saturday @ Madam Ho – Lunch^^ A day before, I actually had a meeting with Shawn here. Im not particularly hungry at that moment, so I only ordered a drink. It was a business meeting after all… I’m not used to eat while discussing on work. So the next afternoon, me and my special one drive here and have our lunch. The environment was superb. I like the food there but ‘she’ said it was too salty. Perhaps im just super hungry that time.

orange juice

ice coffee + ciggie ^^

my bbq fried mee hoon (vermicelli)

XO fried noodle

On the same day, I had dinner with my family at our usual restaurant hang out at Selayang. We had lobster sashimi^^ this is actually my first sashimi… It taste good^^ For your information, the restaurant do not supply the lobster, you’ll have to walk next door to buy the fresh lobster. We also had vege, fish and noodle that night!

every one turned exited once this is served ^^

my cousin Rachel and Rebecca taking pics

everyone starts complaining after take pictures for 5 minutes...

Still the same Saturday night, I called Han and ask if he want to hang out. He said ok. So he drove me and my other half to Sungai Long to pick up Katrina. Only after that, we decide to hang out at Taman Saga, Cheras. It’s just a normal stall with lots of people and nice food. The view is not particularly nice but you can still see the city center from here. Guess what, I just can’t stop when it comes to food! Few hours ago I had my lobster and now I’m already hungry^^

i don't know what is this... Katrina's drink

jasmine tea

my longan tower!!!

chicken chop with cheese prawn ^^

look how smokey it gets

taste awesome!!!

29th June, Monday @ Pappa Kopitiam (again!!!) – Since last week after we had our meal here, we fell in love with the environment and the food. So, without argument, both of us went dinner again here. This time I sit on a different place and ordered different food. I guess both of us is just too greedy this time. I had my tummy all fill up with food before going back…

my had soya cincau

the very famous Pappa Roti

fish and chip with rice...

konlow curry noodle

tong yuen with soya milk

Thank god for giving me so much great food!!! By the way, to me, the 3 best thing about life would be eat, sleep, and shit. Again, thank god!!!