CHANGE (wayneczx 2009)

Update

2009-10-13T02:41:00.000-07:00

Don't bother reading unless you are interested in my old post.
I'm now at http://waynefilms.com

(Past/Present) and (New Webpage)

2009-08-24T04:55:00.000-07:00

HEY PEOPLE, due to pure laziness and sian-ness, I've yet to blog for about 2-3 months!!! Poly life have been extremely busy the past month (not until last week when my 2 months holiday started!), it is just crazy that 3-4 major assignments can be all due in one week, and almost everyone starts doing their assignment just the night before it is due (when the assignment is given one month in advance from the dure date!!!).

So far my results is average compared to my classmates ( below average perhaps), one topic which I never fail to fail is story telling, my lecturer gave me an F for the 1st of the 3 drafts I'm supposed to hand-in, It is really really demoralizing for me, knowing that I've tried my best, but yea, "people who tried their best, have not done their best". One other irritating topic for me is photography, it is not as easy and Idiot-prove as it sounds, It is extremely Demoralizing (had to use it) because I always thought that the pictures I take is good, but my ego tumbles the very moment I compare mine with the other pictures taken by my classmates. At least I passed the module. without merits.

One other think that I just found out which struck me is the jumbling of my class next semester. For those of you who scratched your head when I said jumbling, I meant to say that the poly mixes the people around every single semester, means I'll be in a different class every 6 months. While it may seem normal for some, I for feel extremely uneasy about the idea of swapping around. I'm a relationship person, I love to forge close relationships with the people around me, but this scheme is sorta stopping me from doing so. When It comes to friends, I'm an extremely picky person, it is not easy for me to get along with anyone, males or females. but yea, it is the poly's idea, can't change it.

Well, putting studies and negativity aside, It is finally my holidays!!! (again). I have not really plan on anything to do, have been on a few outings with my poly friends, other then that, I'm at home. I am usually locked in my room the whole day, playing my guitar for hours, surfing youtube for random videos and watching the latest movies (illegally) through the web.

One recent project which occupied most of my time is my personal webpage, It have been going on in my mind ever since I started to make videos in secondary 3, I really want to start an online portfolio for my future. I never thought that a webpage would be so hard to built, all the htmls and stuff, but I'm learning to built it one step at a time. I would like to thank my dad who kindly let me use his server for the webpage, but I had to pay him 20bucks for the domain I bought. Currently, my webpage is in the mist of construction, but the skeleton is out, I've got two cover's posted under "MUSIC" for testing purposes, do leave comments if you have any suggestions. My webpage would contain my photography portfolio, my past/present video projects, and my guitar covers (yes, I play the guitar....badly).
I'm currently waiting for a close friend, Nicholas, from TP, to complete his exams so he can help me with this project.

Without further ado, my webpage is: www.waynefilms.com

Finally, to all poly people, have a nice constructive, fruitful, delightful, fulfilling, enjoyable and pleasurable(sounds wrong...ok i'll stop).. holiday!

For the JC friends (all the best to your promos and end-year test), For the secondary school people, all the best for your Os and End-year exams!

Till next time, peace-out, wayne

(if you come across any spelling errors, "liek tihs", please notify me as I'm lazy to read through my post again, lol, thanks)

2009-06-16T05:44:00.001-07:00

My holidays are really extremely boring, friends are all busy and some are overseas, and I'm held captive at home with projects... The picture above is taken before it started to pour... sian.

Another Post...

2009-06-14T09:30:00.001-07:00

It's been a thousand years since I last posted one my blog... i've been facebook-ing alot... well, just went sentosa with kuanyi, rachel and iqbal a few days ago.... purpose of this... It is to test our new cameras we bought... particularly me and kuanyi haha. But school have been extremely busy, one project after another.... my holidays is packed with 3 projects... it is just very tough to juggle. Anyway.... the sentosa trip....It is a long time ever ssince I been to sentosa.... we went onto siloso beach to take some photos while iqbal eats his food.. Then we stopped by palawan beach.... over there, we went across a bridge to a mini-land known as the southern most point of asia. we took a few group photos there, and then went up a viewing tower... the view from up above is just priceless.... Me and kuanyi actually took a video of the entire sunset with our cameras movie function..... After about an hour or so of slacking and walking about the viewing towers, we went back to siloso beach to meet rahman, he was selling light sticks haha, rather cool to see a friend at his workplace... he displays a different less-nonsense personality,,,, haha..... Well, that was what we primarily did in sentosa.

Life is getting Busy

2009-05-17T00:45:00.000-07:00

Hi again, I've not been posting much so far as life is getting extremely busy.

Monday: Had IS class and I have to write a reflection on Maternity Leave and Marriage. Weird topic as I have no idea on it. When home straight after class.

Wednesday: Story Telling class was, once again, great. Mrs Phuah Once again allowed us to eat our breakfast in class. After which, we had photography class. It was a waste of time as the teacher didn't really do anything such as practical.

Thursday: We ate at the alumni club after lunch again. It was rather filling.

Friday: Studio production was great. We were taught FM's cue as well as how to control the lightings. After class, we went t vivo city for lunch and to catch the movie. Me and Kuanyi pulled out of the movie due to the pricing and went around to source for our camera instead. We got a rather good deal in china town.

Boring Day...not so..

2009-05-07T07:04:00.000-07:00

Well today is one of my worst day's ever. Firstly we have art and design which is so embarrassing as we were forced to draw and sketch out a figure, I am not so much of an artist so it was hard for me to figure it out. Well, my lecturer walked passed and say : "Well, wow your face certainly look like a sphere to me...", I asked myself: "now what about the body?" I drew a hulk-like figure which is in contrast with a feminine model we were supposed to draw. Anyway, I'm not the only one who was funny, one of my classmates drawing looked like power-rangers.

Then I had Introduction to film... I had to endure two hours of keeping my eyes open.... It was not the class or lecturer who was boring, I certainly think that it was my full lunch.

After that, I stayed back with Kenneth to do some work before I left for archery. Archery was painful, maybe I didn't hold the bow properly??? One thing bad about it was I didn't had the guard on, so the string would hit my forearm after releasing the arrow, and pulling the arrow back with 3 fingers was tough... So archery ended at 7.30 and I began my long Journey home. I reached home at 9.30pm and now here I am exhasted....

That was my day...... something to look forward to tomorrow..... STUDIO PRO!!

That was my day....

Evening Sky: (from fms block)

Story Telling is fun...Well photography is...

2009-04-28T19:45:00.000-07:00

I am seriously in love with story-telling class, our lecturer is so humorous and fun-loving, the best part is, she doesn't have a humorous face, which makes it all even funnier when she tells a joke.

Photography class doesn't make it to my personal wall of fame for now, our lecturer gave each of us a SLR and gave us 1 hour to take 36 pictures, I thought it was simple at first, but I was not... Me and my friend (kuanyi) walked half the school just to take 12-20 out of our 36 pictures.... We had to rush last minute so we began snapping random things, like the roots of trees, my macbook charger (random) and one of my other classmate took a picture of my eye..... to show dominance wow ..... Anyway my class is totally united, I'm extremely happy...

Well, here are some pictures I took in school today:

Story Telling Class:

Story Telling Class

A picture I took with my hand phone of the convention center when I was on photography assignment today:

Same Picture, but edited to make it look more outstanding:

Second week..

2009-04-27T11:42:00.000-07:00

WOW, the first week of school have already pass, time sure does flies like an airplane. What happened in the first week? Basically nothing.. lectures, theory, and FRIDAY... bye. very short post...

My location:

My classroom

2009-04-24T08:01:00.000-07:00

Went to school almost late today, I was looking so much forward to my studio production module although I wasn't expecting much other than a simple square room with one or two cameras.

The moment I entered the studio door, it wasn't just an empty square space, it was not what I expected. Three rooms, a video control room, an audio control room, and a studio connected by sound proof doors. I was taken aback when I saw number or switches and handles we were going to operate, yes it would be hard, but it was way cooler than I thought.

We were given about 1 hour to play with the equipments, my class ended up filming a short recording instead, they were having so much fun acting like interviewees. Then there was the real fun part where we were given directions to film a proper show.

There were two rehearsals and one recording, I volunteered to be one of the three camera operators for the project as I was soo curious on how these studio cameras operate, well it's pretty much the same as our conventional cameras, but a 100 times clearer, a 100 times more sensitive, a 100 times more harder to handle, and a 100 times more expensive. Our lecturer actually told us that the repair cost of a damaged lens is equal to our course fees.... wow.. about 1-2k ...

Well the shoot pretty much went well, we had fun playing while learning...

The studio control room..

The video mixer, it was hard to operate but easy to get used to..

The entire set up.. The studio is HD-Ready, but the camera's aren't HD, no funds...

The studio.... I heard that rain tree pictures have used this studio before...

The cameras... looks bulky... but it produces some quality that is out of this world...

The props and the lighting, .... we were allowed to set up our own props and use the things available in the props room... Our lecturer told us that there were about 200 lights hanging down from the ceiling, well, when he asked us to give a wild guess, I said 20.....

On air.. my classmates are awesome, they are able to be soo im-prompt when acting.. and some are really hilarious....
"Ready, 3 2 1, Take cam 1"..... some studio language...

The camera screen.... I am suspecting that the reason for the screens to be black and white is because it is easier for us to check if the camera is focus or not....

That's it, I'll post more in the week to come...

NPFMSFOC Camp

2009-04-08T07:24:00.000-07:00

It's just weird that poly is so much different from secondary school; well, weird in a good way. I had to wake up at 6 am on the first day of camp just to travel down and camp starts at 9am, well, so much for living in pasir ris. Camp was pretty boring on the first day, other than movie screening of horror film 1408 and the super funky mass dance, we had some mass games and couldn't play outdoors for most of the day due to the lightning risk alert.

Second day was pretty awesome, we had the amazing race in the morning and most of us were high. Afternoon was pretty slack as they gave us a super long break to prepare for our performance item for the night. Then came the highlight of the day, the water bomb mania. It was pretty funny to watch the group leader plan for the water bomb fight, they were so serious and was strategising as though we were planning for real warfare. The fight actually did turn out quite bitter as some people from the other groups played dirty when they came to body slam a whole bunch of water bomb which belongs to us.

After the performance at night was dance, I joined the dance for awhile till I couldn't take the pounding music and decided to join some other people who were sitting at the open air balcony outside the roof. The last night sleep was annoying and fun 'cause there was a whole bunch of hippies who started to draw and "toothpaste" on the faces of the other people who were sleeping.

Third day was just clean up and dismissal. Well, overall camp was great, got more infused into poly life and met cool people there.

New School New Life

2009-04-04T06:54:00.000-07:00

My school camp is coming up, now i'm just confused with this change, my friends are gone, I'm all alone now. Something that I really need to improve on is the way I handle my friendships, I always say or do things at the wrong time and because of that they leave. Sometimes I wonder and question myself whether my friends are really close friends or I'm just bluffing myself that they are close to me... They are always the real foundation of the way I'm living. Now, my friends are all in the same poly while I'm in a different one, that really doesn't help in my life now. But this is what I have to sacrifice in order to follow my dreams and passion, my friends... I'm also changing myself to adapt to my surroundings rather to have my surroundings to adapt to me. I REALLY just hope that god will give me some really close friends in my poly. I'm also confused with something else..

Touch's Top FIVE

2009-03-01T07:41:00.000-08:00

Due to the ever increasing trend of owning an Ipod touch or Iphone, I decided to do a short app review on my favorite apps:

Pocket God
Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D
Spore Origins
Bejeweled 2
Tower Bloxx Deluxe 3D

My Jailbroken Ipod Touch's Springboard
*Installer, Installous and Cydia allows you to download all apps for free and customize your TOUCH

POCKET GOD:
This stress-relieving game allows you to control "Islanders", "Weather","Earthquake" and a huge volcano. Toss your "Islanders" about, drown them in water, strike them with lightning and pour lava on them. The game play is Extremely Simple, just tilt your phone to change their center of gravity, Shake your phone to give them and earthquake, and just touch to hold each of them. Here are the screen shots:

Sadistic ....

Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D:
This racing game fully if not almost fully resembles "MarioCart". Surprisingly, the Accelerometer is amazingly sensitive to minor tilts when I run this game. The game play allows players to use "power-ups" to slow down each other. Bends can be rather tricky to maneuver though but it with some practise, it should be fine. The main boon of it is the graphic UI,however, this game doesn't really addicts me although I occasionally play it. Screenshots:

Starting PAN effect before the start of each game....

Spore Origins
This game involves the full evolution of creatures. the user have to go around to eat creatures that are smaller than them in order to evolve. The cool part comes in when the user edits their creatures, the game allows almost any modification to a creature when its it's time to evolve to the next phrase of live. The graphics may be laggy but it gives an extremely life-like feeling to the entire game. Screenshots:

*Users have to avoid being eaten by bigger creatures

Bejeweled 2
An extremely addictive game. The point is to get 3 or more jewels in a row by switching the target jewel with the one beside it. The graphics of this game is flawless that is why it crashes from time to time. It comes with a variety of modes to choose from depending on personal preference. Screenshots:

Tower Bloxx Deluxe 3D
The goal of this challenging game is to stack blocks of apartment rooms up on each other to construct a huge building without dropping. Users can choose to play in career mode to build an entire city, quick game to challenge themselves to building the tallest, and time attack to challenge themselves against the time given to build a certain section. The GUI of the game is 10x better than the cellphone version and it doesn't lacks. Screenshots:

*GUI 10x better than cellphone

EXTREMLY LATE NEW YEAR

2009-01-09T02:56:00.000-08:00

HI GUYS happy belated new year, it's 2009, new year... just can't wait for my new life to start, my new friends, my new walk, my new journey. It's been 'a little' busy the last few weeks, going back to school at least 2 times a week to help out with the sec one orientation, catching up with some of my friends for lunch, as well as to complete some things for my portfolio (in case i can't get into the course i want)... yup... I'm blogging to myself. 12th Jan is my O-level results, all the best to my cohort .... and myself...

Windows 7 (watch out)

2009-01-06T03:08:00.000-08:00

Hi guys, just reading up on the new 'windows 7', successor of windows vista for microsoft. It's beta is coming out this 9th Jan... It's just lame that microsoft is releasing a new window before windows vista stabalise.

What's wrong about vista?

It's worst than xp...
Security Flaws
Where is the new security patch for the IE flaw that the world is talking about?
Doesn't have backward compatibility with xp
UI slows the whole window down
Needs at least 2gb ram, so if windows 7 comes out, they'd better think of the space it needs
The stupid hardisk partition which is for restoring purposes, takes up half of my original hdd space
Where's sp 2 or patches?

Yup, so if windows 7 come out before all this is taken care of, the windows vista community would suffer big time, some people might just say that windows 7 is still in beta release, but I can assure you that if windows vista can;t make it, neither windows 7...

Another thing is the new touch feature of windows 7, so that means everyone needs to get a touch device, be it a touch screen computer like hp touchsmart or perhaps a tablet, so they are actually planning to earn their profit through tablets? Well, lets see something first before we say more...

Merry Christmas

2008-12-24T06:57:00.001-08:00

Dear All, I would like to wish every one a merry Christmas, every time a Christmas pass, It reminds me that one years gone, well, to all my friends out there, we will all be leaving each other in 5 days time, I have hated some of you SO much that I become closer you guys instead, it's all part of friendship haha. Well you guys would not be forgotten easily in my mind although perhaps I may be just another hi-bye person to some of you, but, I can honestly say that I've been with the greatest bunch of people during my pass 10 non-tertiary years of my school life. Till we meet again, all the best for your Os (to some of you), and all the best to the rest of your life(for the rest of you). Bye

2008-12-07T02:53:00.000-08:00

My favorite song from planetshakers
Click Here to Download (10.5mb)

Download some other songs from Planetshakers:

*To listen to it immediatly without downloading, right click it> properties> copy the url> open windows media player> file> Open Url > paste it inside> enter

Nostalgic Collage

2008-11-23T04:46:00.000-08:00

Just some pointers to ponder... ..

2008-11-21T10:26:00.000-08:00

Have you ever wondered why on earth are we living in this world?
Have you ever wondered whether there is more to this meaningless life?
Have you ever wondered about your destiny after life?
Have you ever wondered why is there religions in this world?

Common Questions which have a simple answer... Purpose

Have you ever lived purposefully?
I believe it's not a religion, religions are things that are 'made to believe', it is a true answer with historical prove... scroll down ... its written...

Rain Down - Delirious

2008-11-20T07:54:00.000-08:00

So i'm crazy over delirious.... rain down

Council Retreat

2008-11-01T10:00:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, especially secondary 4s and 5s councilors, retreat is nearing and I strongly encourage all of you guys to come for council retreat, if not the first day, then at least the second and third day, it is like our last supper, fun, exciting and memorable.

2008-11-01T08:15:00.000-07:00

so now it is 9 days more to the end of Os, and -16 days to Os, 11th November is coming... ... but what do I do after november the 11th ?

2008-09-20T22:57:00.001-07:00

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2008-09-18T08:06:00.001-07:00

Comfort, taken for granted

2008-09-15T07:17:00.000-07:00

This is clear evidence that we've been living a life that we don't deserve to live in. Based on a true story, 2000 years ago, a person came down to lift sin from all man kind, by throwing all burdens on himself. This is not religious as it is the truth, if not for him, we won't be here today. This movie is R-Rated. It is called 'the passion' by mel gibson.

2008-09-15T02:39:00.000-07:00

2008-09-15T00:05:00.000-07:00

31 more days to O levels and 19 more days to graduation. Isn't it soo exciting to see that we have endured four years, or 'enjoyed' for most of us. I'm starting to feel kinda sad, not because O levels is coming, but because we have to move on. I still remember my first day in this school, the first person I met, my first acheivement and every single one in my first class. It is just so strange that I am the only one feeling like this, perhapes majority of the cohort is too busy preparing for O levels. I feel that we should just take time off to realise reality, because after all, it is not only about O levels, it is about friendship that we've made over the years, and how much we have developed since then.

2008-09-14T08:57:00.000-07:00

Should We Be Worried?

I guess not, with consistent studying.

2008-09-14T08:13:00.000-07:00

This is the video i've done dedicated to 4E3 (class of 2008) Good luck for your Os.
The cd we gave mr teo (form teacher) contained this video. Enjoy.

The Cd actaully contained this image
(not seen in the video) in the selection menu:

2008-09-14T08:03:00.000-07:00

Hillsong United
Second Chance

You called my name, reached out your hand,
Restored my life, and I was redeemed,
The moment you entered my life,
Amazing grace, Christ gave that day,
My life was changed, Went from my shoulders,
fell the weight of my sin

Chorus

So it's with everything I am, I reach out for your hand,
The hope that changed a second chance I've gained,
On you I throw my life, casting all my fears aside,
How could greater love then this, ever possibly exist

Consume my thoughts, as I rest in you,
I'm now in love, with a Saviour, Bearing the marks of his love

Chorus x2

Bridge

So I wait upon you now, With my hands released to you,
Where a little faiths enough, To see mountains lift and move,
Yeah and I wait upon you now, Dedicated to your will,
To this love that will remain, A love that never fails

2008-09-14T07:48:00.000-07:00

Kinda bored.

Hi World

2008-09-14T07:08:00.000-07:00

So I decided to create a blog to track my progress to Os. Os is round the corner, I know this could be a complete waste of time, thus I would only post when i am free.

Honestly, this is not my first time blogging, however this is the first blog in my secondary life. This not meant to be those 'emo' blog. catch up soon