wah this weekend not bad, 2 parties in a row and a lot of alcohol while at it.

I ended up talking to my lecturer at Mads' party and he finally gave me feedback on the Jonny Syntax script i sent him last week.

He really liked what I was doing but he told me i run the risk of it either being really good or epic failure. Its a huge risk and a very challenging thing to do.

I think i'm up for it.

the work is piling up and the stress levels are getting higher each day

i got abt 11 films to work on this semester...crap i'm gonna be screwed.

People should stop coming to me for relationship advice, my cynicism isnt going to help them in any ways.

But i'm not a pessimist, i'm a realist.

reality is a bitch sometimes.

I dont know if its a rare talent or what, but i have this ability to put myself in the shoes of a character when i write something.

thats the reason why i had to lock myself up in a room in school for an hour as I wrote the first draft of Jonny Syntax. Because in that one hour, I was suddenly a troubled guy with a misguided childhood, plenty of sexual desires and an insatiable amount of anger. I was almost worried I would turn into a destructive force.

Or maybe i'm just mad.

WHY
THE
FUCK
AM
I
SUCH
A
LOSER?

holy shit 3 times in 4 days is no joke. And she almost looked clearly interested just now WHY WHY WHY AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRGGHHHHHHH

I hate the fact that my balls always leave me stranded at the most crucial moments.

I guess the novelty has started to wear off...

anyway now that banyan tree is done, its time to work on jonny syntax; a stylized industrial-cyberpunk biography of a rockstar wannabe.

After a gruelling 1 and a half day shoot and a gruelling week editing, despite being sick throughout the whole time, I'm almost finally done!!

Now all I'm left with is to add the finishing touches, iron out any kinks, do the colour correction and of course sound design. Then the credits roll and I can render it. I will probably cut a trailer too since its also a requirement for SIFF.

What a way to end the holidays. Oh and its a monster, 24 minutes long haha thats the same length as a standard Mediacorp drama.

Its done!!

The shoot went smoothly mainly because of the good work by the cast and crew and we managed to finish ahead of schedule both days and we did not burst our budget. The weather too was perfect. The second day was worrying because it was cloudy throughout the shoot but it was only after I declared its a wrap then it started to rain..like as if the clouds were waiting for us to finish..

Now time for post-production hell. Apparently Sony cameras require a PSB cable to allow a firewire connection to the computer so now that I've returned the camera, I will need to borrow a handycam to do the digitizing. Got 4 tapes altogether.

Really proud of the cast and crew for doing such a great job and extremely thankful to those who helped in one way or another. Lets see how this goes.

ushered in the new decade at siloso beach after we got a bunch of free tickets for the party. Got pretty high on alcohol and music and had fun overall. What amazed me was the timing. We were at harbourfront at 11 and we saw an epic queue for the monorail that stretched all the way down to harbourfront center so we decided to take a cab instead. Got in time and we had 30 mins to finish one 1.5l bottle of jim beam. Then we queued to get tagged and go in and we managed to reach just in time for the countdown. Foam party was fun and hilarious lol.

Tomorrow is finally the start of the shoot...just pray and hope everything goes smoothly, as it is 3 people pulled out and some changes have been made but we'll see

oh and before i go i should rant..

I FUCKING HATE UNRELIABLE PEOPLE!.

Happy New Decade.