Tuesday, August 30, 2005;
wheeeee.... the feeliin of being able to work on 3 computers and the photocopier all at the same time is exhilarating...
it's now 7 am and i've been here for around 30mins... got my Plastic surgery presentation photocopied... 15sets of 14 pages, now printin off my ethics stuff... 106 pages long... one computer's rendering the tv programme, one computer's renderin a dvd... and the other... busy printin my stuff... so while i wait for all the renders and what-nots to happen. thought i'd leave a line, juz to prove that i'm active.... and up and about...
hmmm casserole and apple crumble tonite! can't wait... lookin forward to 6pm 'cos that's the time my day ends... and i can go home n continue cooking...
supposed to have class yesterday but it got shifted to today... but looks like more shifting to do...
SCA edit suite's down... josh made a big boo boo and now the decks and the G4's ka-put... so left with the G5... BUT I DUN THINK HE'LL BE GOING CLOSE TO THAT THING...
Oh juz to add to the randomness... i like the feelin of paper fresh from the photocopying machine....
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6:58 AMY
Friday, August 26, 2005;
arrrr so full... feel like rollin on the floor... FAT...
and i burned my hand while cookin dinner 'cos hot water splashed out of the pot... :(
we had... wait for it...
Emperor Chicken and MANTOU n CHILLI CRAB but without the crab... 'cos crab too ex.
hahah juz like the durian incident... so pathetic... but it's ok... i'm willing to go so low juz to satisfy my craving...
Beth's dad is here for 2 wks... it's her performance tomorrow night... Hopefully everythin will go juz fine... :) It should and i'll be cookin lunch for the band... dunnno what to cook yet... probably bee hoon... hmm we'll see... go grocery shoppin again.. for the second time... juz went today too...
hmmm the car's drinking water like petrol... it's not funny...
Oh whoops... i mean... drinking petrol like water... salah...
Hmm ok lah i need to get some motivation to do my assignments... like i said... life is going to be interesting...
Oh i had a hot chocolate from the cafe today... paid for by our principal Jeff... BUT IT MADE ME SICk... came home with a bad tummy... :(
Ok... enuff for now... Sister Act 2 is on TV...
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9:36 PMY
Wednesday, August 24, 2005;
Pam's really wierd... i was in her office earlier to ask her about the dvd and here's a sneak peak at our conversation
Pam: "Michelle do u ever wear girlie stuff?"
Me: "No, why?"
Pam: "Oh i'm just curious. I want you to go and buy something girlie"
Me: "Umm... i've got some girlie stuff but i don't wear them here 'cos i'm always carrying things around?"
Pam: "oh... right... right..."
and i left the room... puzzled...
Like... what's that supposed to mean?
ok think i'm finished for the day...
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4:19 PMY
Life's going to be really REALLY interesting for the next 15wks... Found out yesterday that Roger (Head of CCTV) is off on his annual leave.. for FIVE WHOLE MONTHS... Till Feb... umm i wonder what happened there... Knew something was up but was not aware it was that major? Christa n I are still wondering... in fact i think everyone is... like... what do u do with 5 whole months of nothing?! anyway it means that the workload normally shared among 3 of us (Roger, Micah and I) will be down to only 2 of us... with the 25yr Anniversary thing comin up, and the normal amount of TV programme datelines to meet...
looks like this is the breakdown of my weeks...
Monday 9am-12pm CCTV, 12pm-4pm Class 4pm-8pm dinner? and if need be, Nights will be in CCTV doing whatever i can to lighten the burden of all the workload, OR doing up my research paper and my other STACKS of assignments...
Tuesday 8-1.30pm class 1.30-5 CCTV or later
Wednesday and Thursday 9-5 or later CCTV and the random videos in college that has to be done
Fridays 8-11 Class 11 onwards CCTV
Saturdays Assignments, Housework, clean car, Grocery shop for the week, and MAYBE CCTV???
Sundays CCTV... even if not rostered i think I might need to go in...
well oh well... Good times... and my new lecturer GIVES LOTS OF ASSIGNMENTS... meow...
Simon McCntrye's (or however his last name is spelt) is creating so much noise outside... sayin hi to everyone in the office really really loudly... and the only reason why i'm updating now is because i'm waiting for my video to be compressed... another 30mins to go... n it's not even the best encode! 'cos that will take too bloody long... 9HRsss....
I still can't help but think Mavis mentioned me in her blogs and made me feel nostalgic all last night... OH So much for a diet... I ate KFC... 'cos was supposed to cook my emperor chicken that would have taken 2hrs of steaming but my meeting ended at only 5pm and by the time i got home it was 5.15pm... and i was so hungry i thought i could have fainted...
anywayz... the compressing's done... so back to more editiing...
Oh yes.... tell me... do i look desperate? WHY IS IT THAT SO MANY PEOPLE KEEP TALKIN TO ME ABOUT GUYS... grrr..
ok ok i'm signing off for now...
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11:46 AMY
Tuesday, August 23, 2005;
HA! MY INTERNET WORKS AGAIn! THANX JON!!!
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8:35 PMY
Friday, August 19, 2005;
I think the word PROCRASTINATING is a little overated...
THE INTERNET ISN'T WORKING AT HOME AND I'M SUPPOSED TO BE FINISHING MY RESEARCH THIS WEEKEND... damn it!
and i woke up this morning feeling worse than i did 2 days ago. Can't even swallow my saliva 'cos my throat hurts, my head feels like i've got 20 bricks in there... my eyes can't stay focused for a long time and i sound congested... AND i forgot about class being changed from 9 to 11.30am so i didn't even have to be here in chapel at 8! could have slept in... oh well can't be bothered going home n comin back again 'cos i haven't got much petrol left... THIS TANK WAS SUPPOSED TO LAST ME TILL NEXT TUESDAY!!!! grrrr ok back to editing Hayden's EP launch...
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9:29 AMY
Wednesday, August 17, 2005;
sigh... drama drama drama... had to redo part of my video today 'cos half of it went offline...
my shoulder's still swollen... and i'm kinda bored... Long day today 'cos i've got to direct for the night event... well at least the video's now done... i'm watching Harvie Krumpet at the moment... kinda procrastinating... could go help out in the studio with the infobreak shoot but can't really be bothered... haha i handed in a request for an extention for the research paper 'cos i dun think i'll be able to get it done in 4wks... hope it gets approved... statistics...grrr....
hmmm Harvie's quite interesting and funnily enough, quite funny... $390,000 for that animation...sheesh... ok i'm really rambling now... nothin much exciting happenin in my life right i was juz updating for the sake of updating... would be funny if anyone came in to the room and see what i'm doing...
CARPE DIEM - Seize the day... haha from Harvie the Krumpet... and another Fakt: there are three times more chickens than humans in the world... wonder how true it is?
hmm oh another random fakt from Harvie, Rubber bands last longer when kept in the refrigerator. Whahaha
hmmm and the average person uses 19 miles of dental floss in their lifetime.
okok, i can hear u say: Stop it already u're driving me crazy with all those fakts...
so for now i'll sign off here and come back later when there's something to update.
10mins till the rest of the college gets released from classes and 9hrs more till mine... damn the firewall, can't get onto MSN messenger... :(
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1:07 PMY
Monday, August 08, 2005;
A big thank you to all who wished me well for my birthday... yes i'm getting old...
i was busy with work... thus not being able to update this blog sooner... had a documentary to finish on the colleges that's going to be a special feature on the Presence DVD. Talk about pressure huh... plus... it had to be done in a 12days...
kinda got forced to add credits to it as well... 'cos Pam (the Dean) said so... so yes i've got my face and name in the credits...
Pam and I calculated in the 12days working on the Documentary, I did 26hours of shooting, and 152hrs of Editing... plus the 3-4hrs of sleep a night and another hr or so for meals, plus 30mins for driving to and fro, that was pretty impressive. Good to hear that they were happy with my direction... with little major changes made. Just politics that caused some minor changes... all the major people have seen it and there'll be viewing on this Tuesday in School...
Hmm seems like i'm workin on all the big stuff this yr... editing shows that go on air around the world weekly and Directing n editing a showreel of college worth 5mins that's going around the world on all dvds too... add another 2mins worth of video and we could even enter it in TropFest...
We calculated the actual budget that this documentary would cost and it would have been done in 4wks, with a AUD$60,000 bill... we did it in 12days, with $400.
Anyway... i reckon the rest of the time that was unaccounted for in those days went to my birthday celebration... THe girls organized dinner with Hayden's help. It meant alot 'cos it was the first day in close to 2 wks that i was home for dinner for once and the fact that there was mood lighting at home, with Boys 2 men playin in the background... and gado gado n mee goreng... what more could i ask for... and the company of friends. The day was quite interesting in college too with everyone wishing me in the midst of me running around trying to get the documentary done. Kesty (Jeff's PA) made an announcement and got me to stand up in front of everyone in chapel and close to 250students sang HAppy birthday... I WAS QUITE EMBARRASED.
Since then, i've had many comments. Jacque Rao said she looks at me differently now that she knows i'm only a baby... everyone for some reason thinks i'm 25?
Jeff and Pam gave me a birthday card and 4 movie tickets as a thank you for the documentary so that was quite nice. Pam said she wants to nail my feet to the ground so that i cannot go anywhere next year...
I was calculating last nite... 20more weeks or so till the end of the year... so if i were to leave for good... that would mean... there isn't alot of time left? So where am i going from here i wonder... time seems to be ticking away...
But for now... i shall go back to research for my research paper and my ethics paper due in a few weeks... and to complete another 9 videos sitting on my desk waitin to be edited...
Here's some of the gifts i got...
Bedroom slippers from Christie (Hayden's Sister)
Desk ornament from Anita
Keychain from Ivone and Angelcheeks ornament from Beth
Pillowcase from Hayden plus mariah's latest album
So to all who wished me well... THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN...
At the end of the day, it is not gifts that matter but friendships formed...
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3:32 PMY
