I'm so fucking bored at home its not funny

I need to find work, i chanced upon an ad by some NTU students looking for a soundman for a 5 day shoot and decided to apply

Yesterday was my assessment and to be honest, I was a little intimidated by the setup. 3 lecturers sitting in a panel and I had to face them and surprisingly enough, i had 80% praises and 20% criticisms from the most critical person in the school.

I pretty much got screwed for the directing exercise which i felt wasnt that good either. But he gave me some really good comments about my solo project (Staring Into The Sun_) and based on the feedback by the lecturers, he said i have a very good eye for detail, the structure and intensity was good and a lot of other stuff HOWEVER, the emotional aspect was lacking. I guess thats why I just hate acting. let alone in my own film lol.

Then the best part was when he was talking about my grades. First he said my grades were fine, then he said they were excellent, then he said i topped my batch HAHAHA WTF.

And then they went thru my research journal thingy and deduced that I will never be a producer. Herman then asked me where do i see myself going, and to that I said i'm still trying to decide between sound design, cinematography and directing and he asked me to take my time to discover and to also help out with the seniors for their projects.

It was a pretty good, laidback session haha but wtf i topped my batch???! Oh and Herman told me not to let my head swell up. I just hope that wont happen either.

One down, 5 more to go.

I had this weird incident happen to me a few days ago.

I had just finished lunch outside school and was walking back to my building while messaging my friend on my phone when this random guy suddenly called out to me. There were some other people walking around as well so I was wondering why me.

Then he suddenly started smiling as he walked towards me and said "sir, you're very lucky you know" so obviously i wanted to know why i was supposedly very lucky even though i rarely experience good luck and he went on to say that I have 3 lines on my forehead which generally is supposed to mean that I am quite blessed.

Okay so he went on about how the past 3 years of my life was quite bad but apparently, after december 2009 onwards up to end 2010, i will enjoy a so-called golden period. Okay fine, then he took out a blue piece of paper and scribbled something on it, then he crumpled it and gave it to me and asked me to hold it in my hand. Okay so i did just that then he proceeded to ask me a bunch of questions.

First he asked me to name him a random flower. Initially I wanted to pick carnation but then i thought, nevermind i'll pick Tulip. Then he asked me for a number from 1 to 9. I chose 3. Then he asked me for my age, i said 25. Then he told me that if whatever I just answered, tallies with whatever he wrote down in the piece of paper in my hand, then whatever he said abt my life becoming better next month is true, otherwise i have to wait til im abt 30-50. So he asked me to take the piece of paper and open it up.

FUCKING HELL IS WAS TULIP, 3 AND 25!

Okay so he also said that I have one bad habit. I tend to be too frank and tell people off and some people cant handle it. He asked me to cut it down a little and he also said that apparently I will end up with a very nice girl soon, and apparently my luck will get better after i'm with her. Thats the part i find really bullshit, normally when I end up with girls, my life only gets worse lol

the holidays are finally here!! oh man what an intense term this has been and yesterday i played L4D for 4 hours haha wtf

Yesterday was the final screening of the semester and they showed Abraham's film and I was involved in it as both art director and sound designer. The lecturer thought the sound design job was awesome and so I know I did a pretty good job after all. That film has to go into my portfolio for sure.

In the morning we watched this film by Peter Bogdanovich called St. Jack that was filmed entirely in Singapore in the late 70s. Oh my god the nostalgia hahaha and its a fucking funny movie, first time you hear hokkien curses in a Hollywood movie lol.

Time to relief all that stress and now all thats left is our assessment and its freedommmm.

IM DONE WITH MY ASSIGNMENTS!!!

Now left assessment on the 24th and its holidayyyyyyyyyyyyyy

oh my god i need to find a job or something im fucking broke.

listen to trance music late at night fucking shiok balls

The semester is gonna end soon. Just left with 2 more days of lessons and then theres assessment on the 24th and its overrrr

I am fucking stressed out, burnt out and pissed off. I had a 2100 word essay wiped out cos of some cheebai error and i spent the next 3 hours rewriting the whole thing to 2850 words.

I will have to spend the holidays doing something meaningful to keep the momentum going but also not forget to relax. So lets see i've got...

Joy's film as art director
video art installation project

need to record sound samples for my next short film. I'm too tired now to talk about that but maybe i should eventually write down my ideas so i wont forget.

The year is going to end soon damn it just means i'm going to get even older.