Sunday, April 30, 2006;
Hmm today just shows how tired I am... i think?
I forgot my password to Blogger to blog... but finally after a few tries i got it right,
Dropped the iron while i was ironing this morning... and for once, when Hayden called to see if i could pick him up from the airport, I was still asleep and he must have heard it in my voice... to tell you the truth, i don't really remember what was the conversation? I have had 2 nights of this week... but it feels like now that i'm starting to slow down a little, i'm feeling the full impact of it... 13 days to thailand... and still a whole heap of stuff to be completed by then...
At the moment doing a multitask again... transfered all the media onto my external so that i could work on the the second Non-Linear suite (NLE) while CCTV gets printed off on NLE 1...
one of my students was hanging around yesterday and was saying how jealous she was that I was only a year older than her but doing so much more... didn't think much about it till lunch today... actually it's quite sad when i see what some of my pri sch classmates or high sch classmates are up to... NO that's not pride setting in... there's still alot I want to achieve.... and hey no one's perfect...
Grr... having to re-render all the projects 'cos i couldnt copy over the render files... oh well... at least now it will all be on the hard-drive... and i'll just bring this hard-drive over to Thailand...
Went to Chatswood earlier for grocery shopping... having people over for dinner on Wednesday... n Mussels were cheap... so i bought a kg of them... I finally decided to spend $14.50 on 4 bottles of Eu Yan San Chicken Essence... IT'S SO FREAKING EXPENSIVE!!!! but i think i need it... my brain just ceased to function yesterday afternoon... and it's starting to be cold... n i feel my body weakening just by that little bit... so i'll just "chicken essence up" and hope for the best? hahaha
Oh last friday morning Stephen had a breakfast meeting at the shang-ri la hotel in the city but he got lost in the city... Wait... in the first place, HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHERE IT WAS?!
For some reason I had called him... n found out that he was lost so i hopped on the net... found the location, got out my UBD and guided him there... hahaha
When he came back, he gave me a stuffed Koala with the Shang-ri La jumper which is sitting on my dashboard, as a thank you... how funny...
Petrol's really expensive at the moment... and i'm on the last of my tank... hopefully that will last me till Tuesday and i'll get more... First time i'm doing this... hahaha it's so nerve-wrecking... The red light did come on twice today... -_-
got lasagne for dinner tonite... didnt prepare any and i'm directing so i've got my share catered for... but hmm just think of all the fats in it... EWwwww...
ok lack of motivation... shall surf while the computer renders...
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2:58 PMY
Saturday, April 22, 2006;
OK... it's taken me a day to recover from the madness of the last 2 wks... stayed in bed till 10am this morning... so on to the next big thing on my list... Thailand trip and all the work needed to be done for it... Big production meeting on Tuesday for 4hrs *ITS SUPPOSED TO BE A PUBLIC HOLIDAY* in the city with DAvid Bussau...
hmmm I'm still amazed at how someone of his calibre could be so... humble... Actually it's a little too scary...
To think i've been meeting and having breakfast with him...
Anyway... I finally got a chance to vacuum the floor after 2wks... -_-
And i've fallen into the myspace trap... 'cos i've just started one up...
the influence of too many pple in college having one...
I've got too many friends in friendster to give it up though... so i'll just have to maintain the 2...
The weather's starting to cool and i love the arvos when the sun still burns but u don't feel hot and sweaty...
Back to my diet on Monday... been eating too much gourmet food in the last week...
ok.. writer's block... so i think i'll just leave it here and write another time... but for now, back to the required readings... *ARghz*
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5:12 PMY
Wednesday, April 19, 2006;
2 days to go till the conference finishes... Had an early night yesterday... ok... earlier than normal for the last 2 wks... got home at 11pm 'cos Clare needed to use the decks and there was no point for me to be around... which explains why i'm already here at work at 7.20am... and have been here abt an hour ago...
It was Mindy's birthday yesterday so... Happy birthday lil' sis... hope u like the present...
mmm The conference has been going well... except for the fact that there are many tired people around... So... someone tell me again... what were we thinkin when we said we'll have 2 annual major conferences together, immediately after Easter production???? and looks like we're doing it again next year... but it gets bigger... downtown...!!! which means... alot more manpower and money needed... plus a longer drive... Not too good seeing that petrol prices are soaring....
Looks like i'll need a V drink today... it's only 7.30am and i'm yawning...
We had a CCTV faith partners tea yesterday with Pst Phil n Chris and i was introduced to all the faith partners as a staff member... was a little scary but here's what scares me most... Pst Phil knows my name... -_-
I know Pst Chris knew my name 'cos of previous work with her but................
Anyway... enough ramblings... one version of CCTV's done... time to put on the next one...
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7:22 AMY
Thursday, April 13, 2006;
the dreaded blue line fever...
ha no it's not a real fever... it's the name of the disease for having to wait for the computer to render the videos...
Easter production Matinee went well this morning... trying to rush the videos for tomorrow morning's service... gah... had like a gazillion things to finish today...
The dvd stuff i was trying to get done last night at work just didn't want to work... ended up taking it home and spent the whole night extracting it between applications.. took me about 7hrs... and it finally finished at 7.30am this morning. Thank God i did have a bit of a sleep... set my alarm clock for every 2 hrs to check on the progress of work and made any neccessary changes. ended up rushing to work this morning.
Gah... my throat feels like a sand paper... no good at all... still another whole week to go before i can start to slow down a little... but still have lots to complete... that's the week of holidays, and i'm planning to finish up 1 freelance job (more like a favor), 1 instill ad, my short film, textures and segments for thailand, all on top of my work...
Right... got Anna to go to the supermarket for me... she got the stuff i needed.. V-drinks to keep me n Stephen sane for the next couple of days... and chocolate for the crew... wanted to go to the supermarket this morning to de-stress but ended up having to rush to work 'cos the DVD took much much longer than i expected it to be... literally 24hrs worth of work and mucking around with the computer to try and grab a 30sec clip.... Well when the big boss says so... what else can you do...
can't blame us for wanting to be "can-do" people... Guess it will all be worth it at the end of the day when it does impact the viewers tomorrow morning...
Stephen got me thinking today... actually lots of stuff going through my mind, life and the usual stuff... but just not allowing myself to think too much 'cos i need the space in my head to do work...
Blue line's gone... back to work for Ms tan... till laterz...
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8:19 PMY
Wednesday, April 12, 2006;
hmm... i think i'm having to get used to the long days again... started working in CCTV and man have i come in at the right time, the week before easter, and immediately after easter is Presence and Phenomena, all in the same week, running one after the other. Just what were we thinking? 22 different segments in a week... ok not a week... 4 days!
It's now 10.47pm and i'm sitting at the computer waitin for the application to finish what its doing so i can set something to run throughout the night... the night used to be young last year but this year just ain't the same... I get tired more easily... Like now, i'm buggered... ok more like wasted... my brain started to malfunction about 2hrs ago... but i've still got to push through to get this done by tomorrow in time for Friday's svc... had about 4.5hrs sleep last nite...
Anyway a million things to get done by tomorrow and things arent working the way it should be... so i'm just going to take the work home and try on my computer...
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10:49 PMY
Saturday, April 08, 2006;
Had a long day today... Got up in the morning and went to the supermarket... had promised to make sushi for Stephen n Pam today... 'cos we were having a big bbq for the students during the rehearsal break and Stephen can't eat red meat... and all we had were sausages... Got home in time to make the sushi, and went to college to meet Pam.
Pam n I were doing the BBQ today... it was fun... Nice weather and everything... cooked up a total of 200 sausages -_- *rolls eyes* ahhaha Some of the students called me the BBQ queen... and at the end, i think I got very good at cooking sausages...
Stephen had asked students to bring drinks and a salad and I wonder what the message was 'cos we had a couple of people coming up to us with a whole lettuce and other veges for a salad... hahaha They ended up doing the salad themselves in the staff room while Pam n I continued with the sausages...
Both Stephen n Pam finished the sushi too... i actually made it in a hurry n wasn't sure if it was going to be nice but oh well... the response seems to be good :P
Had to stay after the first rehearsal to direct for service too... had KFC for dinner *very very bad* it was kinda crazy, with 3 videos one after the other but the videos were on different tapes... so i had abit of a scramble durin those segments... we ended up only playing 2 videos... Oh and we only did a sound check 4mins before service started!!!! I had both Anna and Nic on cameras tonight*ok Anna, if you're reading the blog, I'm talkin about you*... It was their first time and they did quite well... First time i had a crew who are all new... with 2 cameras to cover the service.... -_- MICAH U'RE KILLING ME... hahaha (i'm just using that phrase back at him... 'cos he said it to me all the time last year...) Well I have to say the coverage was quite good... normally I'd have a chance to relax a little and check my mail n multi-task... but tonight, i was really directing the camera operators... well nice to have a challenge once in a while... but they did really well... having to get used to suddenly standing for such a long period of time and having only each other for support, which means every second shot was theirs... except for when i made a big boo boo and cut to Cam 1 insteaD which didn't have an operator...
Anyway i should get back to my reading now...
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9:22 PMY
Monday, April 03, 2006;
Shit! I just got a letter in the mail from RTA to tell me my car registration's been way overdue... how come i didn't get the renewal forms from them in the mail before it ended?!?!?!? grrr... so i've been driving for a mnth with an unregistered car... which could have landed me with a $400 fine if i got pulled over by the coppers... and to make matters worse... My computer's down... which is going to require money...on top of the 300 that is due for medical... and the monthly rent's due in 10 days... ARGHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh WHY IS IT ALL SO COMPLICATED??? MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY....
ok... sorry i was just venting my frustrations... dun mind me...
Note to self: Welcome to the real world Michelle...
Oh... i hear a dog barking next door... it's the neighbour's youngest daughter's birthday... God i hope they didn't get a dog for a present... 'cos it's going to drive me crazy..... sounds like a puppy because the barks somewhat sound high-pitched... *rolls eyes*
And for those who don't already know... daylight savings is over... which means Sydney is now 2hrs ahead of Singapore... weather's starting to get cold to... and Hi to the days where the sky gets dark ard 6pm... in fact when i left earlier at 7pm... IT WAS DARK.....
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9:14 PMY
Saturday, April 01, 2006;
ok... for those who've been wondering why i haven't updated in a while... here's a very good reason why. MY DAMN COMPUTER IS DEAD AGAIN... n it's costing me a $150 bucks to get it fixed... grrrrrrr... secondly, Solomon was here visiting from Singapore so whenever i wasn't in class, we'd be out somewhere... i'm just having a very lazy afternoon today to recover from the week. I borrowed Anita's second laptop so i could write abit... and more importantly check my mail and plan the day. Speaking of which, i still have 1/2 of the apple crumble i made last night....
So here's a quick re-cap of the week... and pics will be up when my computer comes back to me... it's already taken a whole week :(
Last Sat night, picked solomon from the airport after service...
Sunday morning, we went to Pancakes on the rocks for brunch, walked along the rocks market, Solomon did some shopping, and on the way back to the car which was a gd hour walk away, he popped into a couple of shops... we then headed back, in time to change and go to church... It was a very long service 'cos Theo Wolmarens was visiting.... Service started at 6pm n apparantly finished at 10.15pm... i left at 10pm 'cos we were starving... Took Solomon to KebabWorld in Dee Why, where u could find the best kebabs... sat there and ate, and as usual when service ended, a few people that i knew rocked up to get their meals too... After dinner, we went to Dee why beach... and sat around... got home around 12pm... n had a chat till ard 2am... and at the same time, we watched United's new live album recording... i bought it with my 80+ voucher from college last year. SO i still have a 50+ credit there...
Monday, took the computer into the shop for assessment of the damage, took Solo to Tarocash where Bernice works, he bought a pair of pants... and he walked around the mall till Anita picked him up. I had to leave early to go teach my class... after class, i came home, got changed and we took off into the city for dinner at the revolving tower at Centrepoint... Had a seafood feast... think i had a serve of oyesters n 3 serves of prawns to myself... Solo tried camel n kangaroo meat...
Tuesday, we had college in the morning.... Theo was a special guest and i directed... umm we then went to the gym in the arvo... we met Bonar and Anita and drove to Bankstown for dinner... had vietnamese noodles... came back and they went to the supermarket... while i went back to college to supervise the second years on their shoot... stayed till Craig arrived and went home as i was already buggered by then and was driving to the Blue Mountains on WEd morn. Apparantly the shoot went till 5am on Wed...
Wed morning, we left at 7am and started our journey to the Blue mountains... weather was pathetic... it was raining and i was hoping it would be better when we got there... Solo slept throughout the 2hr drive while i battled to keep my eyes open and drive safely as the roads were wet... and it was really foggy up there... visibility with my lights were only about a 100m... We both went up as heros, in 3/4 pants and a t-shirt and in Solo's case... a singlet... i forgot we werent in the summer season anymore and the temperature up there was about 17deg that day hahaha... the fog started to clear only around 11am... but still was bad... we did however see the 3 sisters, did the rainforest walk... and took some pics... We somehow figured on Tues that Solo knew Beth my old housemate.. so we headed back into sydney around 2pm... and went to the Factory outlets near beth's house... we did a bit of a shopping. well to be exact, an hr's long... 'cos we arrived ard 4pm and the shops closed at 5pm... Had a bit of coffee and solo had a muffin... we then visited beth, andrew n zach... n andrew gave me a "present"... hahaha Left their house around 7.30pm and then headed to Chatswood for dinner...
Thurs morn, solo sat in Jeff and Pst phil's class... we went to the beach for a tan in the Afternoon, came home, picked up Anita and bOnar, went and did abit of a shop so he could experience late night shopping... i ended up buying a 5 piece for $100 'cos i needed it for the Thai trip in may.... the 3 piece luggaes had missing pieces... and most of the 5 piece ones were missing too... I then took them into town and walked around Darling Harbour, and went to Astral Lounge for a drink... we left
around 10.30pm.... and headed home
Friday was just a slow day... we woke up late.. had lunch at Coffee club at the mall, did a bit of a grocery shop... and then came home, cooked... and went straight to the airport... after which, me and Bonar met Anita in the city to listen to a live band play... IT was really good.... got home ard 12.20am but...
Oh bought 3 DVDs earlier... VideoEZY's going through a renovation and were selling their dvds each at $7.95... Got Cinderella Man, Mr n Mrs Smith and The Island... good buy... anyway, its time for me to go... need to get changed...
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11:33 AMY
