its fresh.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The Morning Air
The only time i was able to enjoy breathing in fresh morning air at 7am, is when i managed to live through the night without sleeping.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
1 month. A big Challenge
Hey guys,
i felt the days have been relatively peaceful. Rather, i would pray more that i can just pass my final semester and pass my exams.
Phew. I really really hope man.
Anyways, everything's going fine around now and i hope that this calm is brought forward all the way to after my exams, and i do hope to immediately take up a job so that i can pay back whatever i can to the 'bills' i might have accumulated.
I really hope that there would be another opportunity for me to move into the production scenes and to also make my mark somewhere in the singapore scene. if given a chance.
Thats all for now. the coming week's gonna be important in clearing most of the homework i have outstanding. PLEASE. GIVE ME MY STRENGTH. hahaha.
alvin
i felt the days have been relatively peaceful. Rather, i would pray more that i can just pass my final semester and pass my exams.
Phew. I really really hope man.
Anyways, everything's going fine around now and i hope that this calm is brought forward all the way to after my exams, and i do hope to immediately take up a job so that i can pay back whatever i can to the 'bills' i might have accumulated.
I really hope that there would be another opportunity for me to move into the production scenes and to also make my mark somewhere in the singapore scene. if given a chance.
Thats all for now. the coming week's gonna be important in clearing most of the homework i have outstanding. PLEASE. GIVE ME MY STRENGTH. hahaha.
alvin
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Just a few thoughts
Well, there were definitely a whole host of things happening in the events co. side now, especially after all the hoo-hah about what exactly happened at cultural night and how the jam band and dance actually saved yin sync and the whole concert per say, with alot of management mishaps and stuff. I sure do hope that Resonation ain't going to be the same way it is for many fronts.
Anyways, as long as your partners are just working with each other professionally, i definitely feel the rift and its really tough to lay in between wondering whats going to come forward for this deal. To blame a person's character is bad, and to really pin point their mistakes is not being fair to their efforts. All i can say is that, probably the choice made should be even more sharper.
Thats the feel i'm getting. Its about trust in the friendship, and lately, its too many small small moves that allow me to misunderstand, or even to a larger extent, prove my intuition about certain individuals. How bad can that go man!
Somehow, i feel that certain friendships are going far, yet some of them are really going further down the drain. Not enough time for them = not enough time to bond = no help in the friendship.
So it happens. Especially when u choose to live in such a complicated society like Singapore and a complicated environment in the midst of complicated people who have somehow thought that they are 'affluent'.
Keeping yourselves to know more people, however, becomes a priority, where networks are solidly important in the world today. Somehow u just have a feeling this ain't going to be working well and all u have to do is pull out conveniently with no slightest bit of contact. Thats cool. Probably thats what many people are doing now.
Which is why i am glad i have a close group of khakis that i can share my woes and happiness with.
That being said, its where i begin my next period in life and how i choose to begin, that is paramount to the rest of my life.
Too many people with knowledge affluence equivalent to the level of a degree grad are changing jobs after finding out their initial choices ain't working out, ain't going up, and ain't moving. i can't blame them, except maybe with an astute judgment and an eagle eye, the career u should be choosing at first shouldn't be something u 'wanna experiment.'
it ain't wrong to do that, but then again, u will never have a 110% mentality the moment u have that job. get it? makes perfect sense right? its about effort i guess, and how ur mentality pushes u.
I applaud u if u are one of those that can differentiate between switching choices and effort. It pours out after two of my closer friends change to want to go into the teaching profession, same as me, but at least, i know that PE teaching is cool and i wanna carry on doing it. so kudos to choice making! and no regrets! Probably too early to say. hahahaha.
I really wonder what my first class of students would find about me if i am a teacher.
Okay, gotta go, the drinks at the wedding dinner was really heavy, and i wish the groomsmen all the best in their hangovers. Well, for some. hahaha. cheers and move on to graduation!
Anyways, as long as your partners are just working with each other professionally, i definitely feel the rift and its really tough to lay in between wondering whats going to come forward for this deal. To blame a person's character is bad, and to really pin point their mistakes is not being fair to their efforts. All i can say is that, probably the choice made should be even more sharper.
Thats the feel i'm getting. Its about trust in the friendship, and lately, its too many small small moves that allow me to misunderstand, or even to a larger extent, prove my intuition about certain individuals. How bad can that go man!
Somehow, i feel that certain friendships are going far, yet some of them are really going further down the drain. Not enough time for them = not enough time to bond = no help in the friendship.
So it happens. Especially when u choose to live in such a complicated society like Singapore and a complicated environment in the midst of complicated people who have somehow thought that they are 'affluent'.
Keeping yourselves to know more people, however, becomes a priority, where networks are solidly important in the world today. Somehow u just have a feeling this ain't going to be working well and all u have to do is pull out conveniently with no slightest bit of contact. Thats cool. Probably thats what many people are doing now.
Which is why i am glad i have a close group of khakis that i can share my woes and happiness with.
That being said, its where i begin my next period in life and how i choose to begin, that is paramount to the rest of my life.
Too many people with knowledge affluence equivalent to the level of a degree grad are changing jobs after finding out their initial choices ain't working out, ain't going up, and ain't moving. i can't blame them, except maybe with an astute judgment and an eagle eye, the career u should be choosing at first shouldn't be something u 'wanna experiment.'
it ain't wrong to do that, but then again, u will never have a 110% mentality the moment u have that job. get it? makes perfect sense right? its about effort i guess, and how ur mentality pushes u.
I applaud u if u are one of those that can differentiate between switching choices and effort. It pours out after two of my closer friends change to want to go into the teaching profession, same as me, but at least, i know that PE teaching is cool and i wanna carry on doing it. so kudos to choice making! and no regrets! Probably too early to say. hahahaha.
I really wonder what my first class of students would find about me if i am a teacher.
Okay, gotta go, the drinks at the wedding dinner was really heavy, and i wish the groomsmen all the best in their hangovers. Well, for some. hahaha. cheers and move on to graduation!
Friday, March 5, 2010
Didn't Really Feel Great.
For once, in my life time during NTU, i quite being involved in Cultural Night 2010. And it did came out as a revelation to me. Probably because i felt that i am always needed to be there to secure the performances.
It wasnt a really great feeling to miss it, but it ain't neccesarily a bad feeling not to be there for the first time. And yes, this time, it really felt like... it was nothing much to me already. Probably because of everything that has happened. I really feel this time round, there was no need for me to go influence the movement of the concert.
Tomorrow's Resonation, another of the music groups that i have painstakingly brought up from the starters. YAC, Resonation, Yin Sync, Cultural... the legacy carries on. These shows are really what brought me up as an executive producer that i am today. But yes, i can really feel that the lessons learnt were valuable enough for me to bring out the best in the future people that i am going to bring out of their shadows.
Yet, hahah. i am really laughing to myself when i say this, and i really mean it. Its the appreciation, or the lack of it. really. probably getting too used to NO appreciation really doesn't mean its OK getting none. Now, the fundamental things i look for appreciation are just that as long as they bring the best out of themselves in performance, i would've kinda secured my duties and be, probably happy.
And then i have cheated myself out of more than like .... let me count..... 7 performing arts chances? so that i can train others? There are sacrifices to make man. but then its up to the individual to decide when to come in and when to leave, and when u leave, dun ask for anything more. Thats practically, what i did today. and it wasnt easy, let me tell u that. cos u know when u look in their eyes, they hope. that u are present, so that u can inspire them in their songs to be better. And i know, i can do that. Yet, i removed myself, having a mini realisation that, probably i just need to have a break from everything for a good week, like how i have been enjoying today.
U know after saying all these, somehow u wanna carry on what u are doing, because u know, u have made a difference in more than 100 lives because of music. And that feels good, cos you always know that whatever you do, even though some of those 100 lives would never be able to appreciate, u still made a mammoth effort in bringing people together, strengthening the faith in themselves, via the best medium in the world. Music.
And yes, i Bring Music to Your Life.
I won't stop. and the best thing is, u know u can make miracles out of it.
3 more weeks, and i breathe easier. FYP, projects, presentations, reviews, field notes. haha last semester. thats the deal.
It wasnt a really great feeling to miss it, but it ain't neccesarily a bad feeling not to be there for the first time. And yes, this time, it really felt like... it was nothing much to me already. Probably because of everything that has happened. I really feel this time round, there was no need for me to go influence the movement of the concert.
Tomorrow's Resonation, another of the music groups that i have painstakingly brought up from the starters. YAC, Resonation, Yin Sync, Cultural... the legacy carries on. These shows are really what brought me up as an executive producer that i am today. But yes, i can really feel that the lessons learnt were valuable enough for me to bring out the best in the future people that i am going to bring out of their shadows.
Yet, hahah. i am really laughing to myself when i say this, and i really mean it. Its the appreciation, or the lack of it. really. probably getting too used to NO appreciation really doesn't mean its OK getting none. Now, the fundamental things i look for appreciation are just that as long as they bring the best out of themselves in performance, i would've kinda secured my duties and be, probably happy.
And then i have cheated myself out of more than like .... let me count..... 7 performing arts chances? so that i can train others? There are sacrifices to make man. but then its up to the individual to decide when to come in and when to leave, and when u leave, dun ask for anything more. Thats practically, what i did today. and it wasnt easy, let me tell u that. cos u know when u look in their eyes, they hope. that u are present, so that u can inspire them in their songs to be better. And i know, i can do that. Yet, i removed myself, having a mini realisation that, probably i just need to have a break from everything for a good week, like how i have been enjoying today.
U know after saying all these, somehow u wanna carry on what u are doing, because u know, u have made a difference in more than 100 lives because of music. And that feels good, cos you always know that whatever you do, even though some of those 100 lives would never be able to appreciate, u still made a mammoth effort in bringing people together, strengthening the faith in themselves, via the best medium in the world. Music.
And yes, i Bring Music to Your Life.
I won't stop. and the best thing is, u know u can make miracles out of it.
3 more weeks, and i breathe easier. FYP, projects, presentations, reviews, field notes. haha last semester. thats the deal.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
For the First Time.
For the first time i attempted script-writing and management of a hall production, and it was a roaring success, 95% occupancy rate in attendance, and my mum got to perform! so i felt filial and happy! hahah.
For the first time, i am not involved in Cultural Night 2010. Even though i had imagined myself to be able to sing my final song in front of many of my friends, i am preparing to deny myself that opportunity for more important stuff, like FYP. right? it is the right choice.
For the first time, i place my trust in Yeow Chong and Meng Kuan to write a script for the very first story of the concert in August! My guts are wrenching, but i kinda need to give them a chance to do things on the big stage! If not, when would that opportunity come? Honestly?
The rest of the performers are first timers and i really hope that it not only helps to increase their confidence, their stage performance, their vocals, but also helps to bond them together, show their parents they are talented, and also most importantly, make it a power show as a Buddhist Organization. I know, i can do it. But i'm putting all my trust, in the rest of them.So please, jia you.
FYP is holding back and i am trying to attempt typing it out tomorrow, hopefully securing 5000 words at the end of the day. My target must not be compromised. I have done presentation for HS 318 now, and i feel good to do the rest of my work. Jia You! FINAL SEMESTER LE AND GRADUATION BECKONS!
Jam Entertainment is of to a flying start as enquiries are coming in swift. I hope to slowly but surely claim a share of the market after two years. Yea? :) Cheers.
Alvin.
For the first time, i am not involved in Cultural Night 2010. Even though i had imagined myself to be able to sing my final song in front of many of my friends, i am preparing to deny myself that opportunity for more important stuff, like FYP. right? it is the right choice.
For the first time, i place my trust in Yeow Chong and Meng Kuan to write a script for the very first story of the concert in August! My guts are wrenching, but i kinda need to give them a chance to do things on the big stage! If not, when would that opportunity come? Honestly?
The rest of the performers are first timers and i really hope that it not only helps to increase their confidence, their stage performance, their vocals, but also helps to bond them together, show their parents they are talented, and also most importantly, make it a power show as a Buddhist Organization. I know, i can do it. But i'm putting all my trust, in the rest of them.So please, jia you.
FYP is holding back and i am trying to attempt typing it out tomorrow, hopefully securing 5000 words at the end of the day. My target must not be compromised. I have done presentation for HS 318 now, and i feel good to do the rest of my work. Jia You! FINAL SEMESTER LE AND GRADUATION BECKONS!
Jam Entertainment is of to a flying start as enquiries are coming in swift. I hope to slowly but surely claim a share of the market after two years. Yea? :) Cheers.
Alvin.
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