Silence..

Silence is consent? Silence is golden? What is silence??

Silence is avoidance. I'm avoiding it too.
Maybe not avoidance. Maybe it means that we're too busy with our own lives to care.
Maybe it means that it ends here. Or does it?
Waiting for someone else to approach me about it, if ever.
Cause I'm tired of waiting.
and I'm tired of giving in.

I'm grateful to some, so far. But what has happen to the rest. especially two I've always looked up to and respected.
Where have you gone to? Why have you gone there. and to the other. Why have you gone back there? and have you? I have no idea.
All I know is that I'm contented. But I wish for things to be better still.

So be it. will see who bothers to ask about my sending off.

-blog's are for ranting aren't they? -
-as if anyone reads this -

AMBUSH

sometimes i feel it's a rather unfair world. alot of people go out of camp to do nothing. just to spend money and enjoy life. Some others like me actually have things to do outside. but we just have to be kept in here. For wad? seriously.

zero six five three. which means 6 mins more to gather.

you know sometimes you just feel like blogging about lots of things. but you just can't. Coz you're afraid to blog about 'restricted material'. most of these things are emotional things. oh well.

Starhub is screweing with my reception. quite frustrating really. Can't wait to get out.. feeling sick. really. everything makes me sick here. the smell, the look, the people.. especially a few in particular. haha. But seriously. Nose and stomach not feeling too good at all..

write, written, wrote.. really just random. haha.

I'm on medical leave again today.. yup.. so spent some time editing at home.. Already finished Ron & Reo's.. just waiting for them to send the music over.. i guess i'm actually quite production.. max i need for a full day vid is prob 2 days.. that's inclusive of digitizing, editing, dvd authoring,burning and designing the label.. most of the times is the client's that drag the collection date because they can't send me their stuffs early.. oh well..

Currently listening to: FACE DOWN -RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS

i think i can edit much faster with some sort of music in the background.. not too familiar music ofcoz, if not half way through I would have this itching temptation to go practice my guitar.. or violin.. or piano.. haha. oh play around with garageband.. or blog. like what i'm doing now.. think i'm gonna make it a point to blog more often.. whether or not people actually read this.. coz after all it's something i'd like others to read.. it's worth making a journal of it. at least a few years from now i can actually look back on this and LAAAAAUGH.. (quoting garfield and jon)..

been indulging in red jumpsuit apparatus and some old matchbox 20 songs recently.. been watching a lot of violin tutorial vids online.. which reminds me i really need to get practice before that next violin lesson.. (which is when?). Well Jay said that he could see i know what kind of sound or standard I want to achieve.. so he can safely teach me new stuff every lesson and trust that i practice.. well.. i agree with him, i know what sound i want to achieve every lesson so i will not go for the next lesson if i can't achieve that sound.. wad for waste the money and time you know? hahaha..

Curently listening to: Closing Time - Semisonic

semisonic.. truthfully i never really heard this actual song until i heard weird al's polka medley in his running with scissors album many many many years ago. hmm.. that's something different from me i guess. i actually listen to weird al. haha.. I don't think i know anyone amongst my friend who listens to comedy music.. i actually kinda like flight of the conchords.. (eunice, haz, james likes them too.. )

Currently listening to: Bella Lullaby - Twilight OST
Too slow for tonight..

Currently listening to: Jasey Rae - All time low (punk goes acousti 2)

acoustic punk.. the acoustic-ness actually takes away alot of the immaturity in that kind of music.. probably is less whiny. haha. kinda nice.

Been getting quite used to my LG renoir.. i realised that Bing Lu is a LG supporter.. hahaha.. but the sad truth is that LG really has a lot of restrictions. It's not a very user-friendly, personal kinda phone.. You want that, you can go for Sony Ericsson..

Currently listening to: Hysteria - Muse

as you can see i'm spending quite a lot of time blogging.. i like my posts to be very lengthy and random.. with specks of my thoughts every where. hahaha. anyway about the phone.. the renoir needs more firmware updates and more downloadable applications man. the games, themes are really limited.. but yeah.. it's all i really need in a phone. 8mp camera with a rather good strong flash.. on top of my unlimited sms/mms free starhub plan.. it's really snap away.. and send! organiser is alright.. and WIFI is good really.. any government related areas all have wireless@sg so i really can connect to the internet anywhere.. PDF and document reader is there.. so i can open all my files, ebooks, word, excel, ppt, documents.. why not? for less than $100 after everything is sold, traded in, arrangements made.. i guess it's really good. If i decide not to sell my k800i.. it's like spending below 200 for 2 phones..

Currently listening to: Megalomanic - Incubus..

about the new band girl.. she's like 19? and her schedule seems more packed then my NS,videographer life WITH hazry's police officer life added together. and she has like a curfew at 10pm everyday. Wad the? 19 year old JC student with a 10pm curfew? WOAH my bass sub woofer suddenly got really over powering.. anw. yah. hanyuan claims she's good. but we haven't had a chance to jam with her yet. actually i feel looking for a singer is really a waste of time and an excuse not to have practice seriously. i mean we can continue if whatever we intend to do without a new singer wad. We've wasted like 2 years searching for one already. it should be something done concurrently with practicing and writing.. not done seperately? i dunno.. anyway.. just hope that we would be able to perform regularly before i leave for melbourne.. starting from lovetheworld CAFE at the flyer..

but that's not main concern right now. Got so many things to settle.. really gotta sit down and think about what i should or should not be doing right now.. wait for my COE to be sent over.. prob this week.

i think i'm wasting a lot of energy on getting angry and frustrated at things in camp.. first it's the e4 thing.. now it's camp. haiz. wad's wrong with my life man.. certain ppl think that by doing certain things a certain way it'll be better. what he doesn't know is that all he did is piss everyone off and no1 would wanna do those certain things his way and worse, even not the way before. haha. good luck to him man. big tree's gonna catch on fire and die off soon. just wait for the right temperature to trigger off the right kind of 'bush-fire' haha.

thinking of whether it'll be wise to get a laptop at this weekend's it fair at suntec...
tried playing a little bit of bright lights on the piano today.. really forgot how to already. hahaha..

that's it for me today.

currently listening to: next year, baby - jamie cullum

love this song too.

A post about TV...

Well i'm down with gastric pains and a cold.. well lately i've got a lot of things going on.

There are some flying emotions back there.. I can't say who or what in case I get into trouble for blogging about restricted material. Don't want that to happen eh. I'm just happy to know that I'll be out of there in less than 100 days... 

Anyway i'm on medical leave today so I managed to catch abit of the new and overly promoted 'Happily Ever After'. Hmm.. trust Jack Neo to name a Singaporean made TV drama after a Disney Hollywood film based on Snow White and the 7 dwarfs.. oh well.

The straits times did a write up of the drama serial last week.. you can check out the link here:

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Lifestyle/Story/STIStory_343184.html

oh when I say 'you' i actually imagine that people read this blog.. hahaha.

anyway, i don't understand what the big hoo-haa is about this particular drama serial that they have to spend so much time and money to advertise it so frequently on Okto... Oh by the way, the trailer's  is really similar to the typography and style used in the trailer of 'The Wedding Game', i almost thought it was.. Oh and they took the liberty to tell the whole world that the show was shot in HIGH DEFINITION. oh 'wow'. 

So i was having  my breakfast at the table in front of the TV and I saw my mum and aunt watching the 'new jack neo english show' ( that's what my parents call it, they don't really remember show names). There I was with high hopes for the TV serial directed by the high profile Producer/Director Jack Neo.. only to be disappointed totally by a lot of things. And then it made me laugh. These thoughts were going through my mind, or rather my mouth:

HD? What HD? hahaha.. I can get the same quality shooting with SD on DV. 

The lighting, it's different... I can see the attempt to make it more real.. I understand that the DOP is trying to steer away from the very standard and common BRIGHT lighting techniques that has been used for all Singapore made dramas.. but really.. it still looks flat and it lacks depth. Sound wise, horrible! i could practically hear the air con in the restaurant scenes. I mean come on man.. spend more time paying attention to detail.. 

Ok, cut them some slack. Maybe they didn't have the proper budget.

But worse of all.. the casting. The 'calefare' aunties and some actors just sounds very unnatural speaking in English. What's more- standard English.. not the english that we use to communicate in everyday life. Somehow it just feels like the scripts have been translated directly from a mandarin script. When the parents of the lead actress started speaking in Mandarin to each others.. suddenly it seems like the show turned professional again.. hmm.. I think the producers could have spent a little more time and money to search for better speaking casts.. ok, fine maybe Neo wanted those aunties to be very er... Auntie. But Auntie's who are very Auntie don't speak perfect english. I felt they were almost reading from a script with weird stops in between sentences and over exaggerated emotions...

Infact, I've been noticing that English TV shows produced by Singaporeans are done quite amateurishly... I know.. the main reason is budget and time. I guess it'll still take some time for producers to break this barrier... They need to get out of the mentality that shows made for free-to-air english TV needs less attention that shows air-ed at a 9pm slot on Channel 8. Stories can be told, scripts can be written, but as actors and directors.. you really need to get into the character and really feel what it's like to be that character. Directors should dare to alter the way things are being written in the dialogue of a script... 

Remember the Leap Years? that was a good story. But the writer didn't try hard enough to convert her Novella into a Film Script. Maybe she didn't bare to, or maybe the director thought that keeping it that way would be something new? Maybe she thought it would inject some sort of artsy fartsy feel to the film? anyway, whatever the reason or the motive, I wasn't feeling it. It you mean to do something, you gotta make it more obvious. 

The actors talked like they were reciting a prose from some literature text. I don't wanna go into Qi Yuwu's acting... haha. He was fantastic in 881. But he was a mute, with his voice only being heard in the narration. 

When was the last time I really enjoyed a good Singapore made english show? I guess the most memorable would be Under One Roof and Phua Chu Kang.. The kind of shows where Singlish was allowed to be used.. and the actors seem more natural and comfortable speaking that way. 

Up till now i still stand for Singlish as a Singaporean identity.

It's not a kind of English, just a way of speaking that everyone in Singapore can understand.

Probably it's time for the people behind that speak-good-english movement to take a look at the english TV Industy and ask.. WHAT HAVE WE DONE?

http://windwaterwinter.blogspot.com/2009/02/thinking-in-my-shower.html

talking about me eh... well. we thought we gave u wad u wanted. Here's the chat with u on msn on 29 Oct:

10:51:28 touched to the heart (jq_normalguy@hotmail.com): seeya this sat!

10:51:51 Wei Liang: okok

10:51:55 Wei Liang: wad u want for birthday?

10:52:09 touched to the heart (jq_normalguy@hotmail.com): hmm.

10:52:12 touched to the heart (jq_normalguy@hotmail.com): don't know

10:52:18 touched to the heart (jq_normalguy@hotmail.com): oh

10:52:25 touched to the heart (jq_normalguy@hotmail.com): i want a part-time job

10:52:27 touched to the heart (jq_normalguy@hotmail.com): haha

10:52:38 Wei Liang: hahahahaha

10:52:47 touched to the heart (jq_normalguy@hotmail.com): nowadays no money liao

10:52:50 Wei Liang: haha

10:52:53 Wei Liang: den i give u money ba

10:53:01 Wei Liang: everyone wants money nowadays

10:53:03 touched to the heart (jq_normalguy@hotmail.com): wah, sounds good

10:53:04 Wei Liang: veri broke

10:53:14 touched to the heart (jq_normalguy@hotmail.com): oh ya, dice's gift

10:53:16 touched to the heart (jq_normalguy@hotmail.com): i think i bao hongbao lah

10:53:21 touched to the heart (jq_normalguy@hotmail.com): 10 bucks

10:53:22 touched to the heart (jq_normalguy@hotmail.com): haha

10:53:40 touched to the heart (jq_normalguy@hotmail.com): i'm going broke soon

cool huh...

2nd version

A Selamat Story

THis is the one with comedic BG music. and title screens. I'm doin another more serious one. Take a look..

Hey. it's AHM! run ppl! not me though.

Hey. previous post was deleted for some reasons. yep.shan't say why.

anyway. gonna have a small gathering of friends and relatives on 30 august. So sorry xiangwei, means i'm gonna steal some of our friends. for a while la. before they head over to urs. hahaha.

been looking at clubsnap forums for budget second hand camcorders.. didn't wanna keep renting for ever. It's getting a bit straineous on the wallets each time is like $100+ per cam per day. Managed to find a decent one for less than $2k. so shall take a look at it on monday..

AHM this sunday. book out tml after lunch. work over night tml till friday mornin. den go back there on sat night to work overnight again till AHM day. Ya. u guys run one morning. we got sai gang to do. hahaha. good liao la. at least dun have to run.

hmm.. i need to do up my website quickly man. too many ppl asking to view my works via internet. I can't be driving up to their places all the time. It's wasting time and petrol.. ok. gotta speak to zhihao soon. flash or normal text. I think flash looks better. more room for customisation i guess. i think. i dunno.

changing the list of wants at the side already. i think it needs some updating. hahaha.

1 more day @ home

been busy lately.. lots of editing to do den the class gathering..  ok.. wad i did today in short...

1. fetched dice to sch
2. cut out a simple show reel of my vids for Cecilia
3. delivered dvds to CClia and jerry
4. borrowed freedom writers, WTC, and Cloverfield DVDs
5. skipped lunch
6. had a free double cheese burger @ 5
7. had fried prawn mee for dinner
8. Consult doctor...
9. watched 1/4 of freedom writers till the speakers blew
10. watched VV dramas on TV instead

Things to do tml:

1. finish up kTV vid esp for dice mum's class (10 pc)
   
2. cut up the summary vid
3. cut up the fringe vids
4. print the labels too...
5. rest well
6. book in!

kena confined this sat coz my bunk never throw rubbish before booking out this weekend. like wad the? think he talk cock la. hopefully he forget...

I need a camera.. DVX.. need to find a way to get it... 

got my first 21st bday present!

and prob the best one.. hahaha.. yep.. from my parents.. cost them a total of $704.. 

tadah!

from synwin.. Singapore brand.. made in China though.

Genieve recommended this brand.. her own one cost like S$2.5k so this is like nothing.. i wanted to get the $340 one.. but my dad didn't like the tone and the resonance.. ok he just didn't like the sound. i didn't like the tone and resonance.. or the lack of it. hahaha. yup.

anw lessons will begin on the 16th of august.. supposed to start next sat. but it's national day.. and ya.. blah blah.. 

anyway i caught The Dark Knight at engwah sunplaza just now. haha.. didn't actually catch him.. i went to see the movie. was a little bit upset in the beginning.. coz i bought tix online.. the movie was at 9.. but we reached at around 9+.. and the queue was like damn long. worse still.. they didn't have another counter solely for online booking ticket collectors.. so we had to stand in line. and i was like thinking.. i'm wasting my $10/tix like tt.. coz i'll have to wait like 30mins before my turn. so dice thought everyone else was buying tickets there for the later times.. so i decided to try my luck and ask the next guy before the box office whether he mind if i just collected my tickets coz i was like 10mins late for my movie alr.. he was nice and all and let me cut the queue. TO MY HORROR.. some idiots at the back of the queue started shouting and cursing me.. i remember a few lines most vividly "halo mister.. we also collecting tickets wad" , "my show also starts at 9+" and "what's the queue for mister?".. yah. so i just turned got the tix and tried to get out of there and into the cinema asap.. didn't even want to get the popcorn alr.. 

blame engwah for not having another counter.. i'm just functioning as i would at cathay and GV where the online tix bookers should get priority.. and at a swipe of a shiny card we should get our tickets in less than a min. well.. i got mine in about a minute.. but it required a booking number, my credit card and a shower of insults. oh well. i'm never going back there again on a weekend.. ironically.. this place usually has the least movie-goers.. today was a real exception i guess.. but i guess the directors of Engwah can expect a complain letter coming in very very soon.. didn't really get to enjoy the rest of the movie.. but it all got better towards the end. The joker was well played i can say.. two-faced wasn't really villian-y enough. and i can't stand batman's low rough voice.. sounds like he got a frog stuck in his throat and he has trouble controlling his breathing and spit. hahaha

anyway.. back to normal life after sending dice home.. 

things to do this weekend:

1. edit KTV vid
2. edit dice montage
3. edit dice reflections (done)
4. organise DMC bbq for next weekend
5. buy violin (done)
6. soccer
7. borrow DVDs for in-camp boredom relief
8. get MC probably..

what for?

It will be nice to play in a complete band that completes songs and practices their parts each time they play. i'm kind of pissed off already bout how this current band is progressing. firstly. No singer. I've been their singer for the past dunno how long. 2ndly , never practice parts. Never practice how to audition singer? own parts already cannot settle wanna 'judge' others ability?? haiz.. told onion today already. Let's settle with a singer within the next 2 to 3 practices. if by those time we still can't get our parts rite. dun wanna learn parts and everything. den can forget about it alr. Michael asked me to play with his band this weekend. i'm tempted. but i dun think i can do it la. but den maybe i will. change is good yea?

let's see what songs did we try today, songs that were 'ok' are with a '*'

songs that sucked with a '^' :

1. Stockholm syndrome*
   
2. starlight (never complete)
   
3. smooth criminal ^ (sounds terrible today)
   
4. sweet child o mine ^
   
5. she will be loved*
   
6. i will survive
   
7. crawling in the dark^
   
8. Disease* (never complete)
   
9. Zombie (muddy)
   
10. Dare you to move ^ (some dunno their parts. wrong key. wrong notes)
    
11. meant to live ^ (same as above)
    
12. Flights of fancy^ (wrong time signature, dunno lyrics)
    
13. californication (dunno parts)
    

sad la. super sad. that's it la. we shall see. after NDP lo. after onion and mike ORD. we shall see whether should continue. give it 2-3 practices. yup.

the small one's out too!

bloody hell. It feels like the dentist injected the anaesthetic into the wrong part of the gum! hurt like hell when he was like pulling the bloody thing out. that's not the worse part. He didn't give me an MC at all. and now my whole left cheek feels numb, I can't eat, I can't do anything, all the nonsense thing. gonna go to my own doctor already. Now I'm feeling a bit of headache and the hole is still bleeding. pffft.. and bcoz its just an extraction only $8 is subsidised by SAF. and i have to fork out the other $32.. wad the hell.

anyway. booked my other surgery appt on 11th august. 2pm.. got a bbq on 10th august so ya.. following that another 5 day MC.. hahaha.

sleep is a good thing. unless it makes u late.

It's the first time i'm eating potato salad with cucumbers.. chien brought them from home. haha. not bad la. but still the kartoffel salat in frankfurt still the best.

ok. Review on today's shoot. Tiring. Not much sense of satisfaction. Presence not felt. they dun seem thankful for my discount or what i am doing. She has no idea wad is happening and wad she is signing. I'm sure. all that for a fee without much profit. overheads too high mindice says.. think next time i MUST deal DIRECTLY with the customer. cannot go through middle-man.. or in this case middle-woman. the information gets disseminated wrongly and creates mis-communication. 

But i'm very thankful for dice for helping me promote my stuff while i'm busy doing my work. Really like my assistant sial. so cool to have her around. esp when i have trouble with the mandarin and dialects.. think all the trouble started coz everything is done in mandarin and i never meet the Karaoke Teacher directly la.. pffft..

Anw, michellle from my brother's church agreed to jam with us this thursday. luckily Friday got Medical appointment.. and zhihao's birthday.. haha. damn it man all my weekends are so packed with either birthdays or video work this year.. 

I'm damn tired now. going to rest a while.. 

We should play like this...

dare  you to move live at San Diego... cool Intro.. 

another one of those tiring weekends

Feel cheated by the camp.. supposed to have off this monday ma.. why got off become no off. haiz. lucky i tuesday got appointment to take out stitches. and friday got NSC appt. thurs nite intend to jam and I only intend to book in in the morning on Monday. 

Ok btw. I'm now totally convinced that no1 reads my blog. my hit counter just stays stagnant daily. if not it'll be a 1-2 number jump max.. haiz. oh well.

anyway my bank acct almost empty alr. spent some money today.. think it was worth it. well spent money:

1. 500GB WD HDD - $155

2. Light Weight digicam tripod  - $15 ( org. $19)

3. 20 (4 boxes) Mini DV tapes - $120

4. Philips Head Phones - $19.90

5. Cinegear Rental: 2 Pd170s, tripod, 4batt, 2 adaptors, 2wide angle, 2 UV filters - $200

so that's why i'm so broke. oh well. will slowly get the cash back. all these are little investments for the long run so i don't mind. at least i don't spend useless money on like branded clothing and accessories like some ppl do... yea?

Went to Mike's Facebook to check out his vids on us at gashaus. It was definitely more in-tune and better.. hanyuan stole the entire show with his trumpet. But sad to say i still think ellse is a little off key a lot of times. i think the moment she can't hear herself that's it la. haha. anw, Michelle from my brother's church gonna jam with us this week.. hopefully this time a singer turns up during our Jam sessions. Too much bad luck with singers alr.Mike even suggested i sing for us. haha.. seriously i won't mind. But dun think the others like my singing la. rite? haha. the truth hurts. hell i sing better than 80% of the singers hanyuan introduced to us.. the i don't wanna miss a thing guy is the one i remember the most. hahaha..

Back to burning CDs. den maybe soccer tml. maybe. 

Jamming Tonight

Here's the list of things i've done this week.

1. Jerry & Michelle's 15 Version + Princess Hours Intro

2. Jerry & Michelle's Photoshoot 7min Final with Subs

3. Jerry & Michelle's parents Montage

4. De Avaganda Percussians 2 Concert Video

5. Extracted bottom left wisdom tooth

6. Plan camera and set up for Sunday's coverage

Here's the list of things i've left to do by this week

1. Distribute DAP2 Video

2. Give Jerry & michelle their Videos

3. Finish Dice's europe Montage

4. Cover Sunday Event

Then there's the things i want to do:

1. Jamming tonight (Jammed from 12.30 - 2.30am!)

2. Xy's bday meal (won't be able to make it)

3. Buy dumbbell weights ( bought for $24.90)

NDC pain killers are useless

the prescibed pain killers sucks! after 2 hours the pain is still there. still the old panadol works best.. haha. 

oh crap. the pain.

OK.. the op was a piece of cake. no pain at all. just a lot of weird drilling and cracking sounds. eyes were covered so it felt a little weird. but the doc gave me enough anaesthetic to keep me from screaming in pain while he cracked that tooth into 4 main parts and dug it out from that hole. Still bleeding now. after like 3 hours later.. 

here's some evidence that i got that tooth out. hahaha

pain killer is useless.. the pain is still killing me. think i should go distract myself with some work. that way i dun get hungry so easily also. oh god. lucky i only extracted 1 tooth today. imagine if it were 2. The pain. omg. think my next extraction should be after my birthday or something. haha.