Sentosa yo.

So yesterday Afiq, Nana, and I met up for a random chillout session at Sentosa. Fiq let me play around with his Sally for pretty much the whole day (of course with several annoying interceptions by Nana), and it was fun. Can’t wait to get my own 400D. But I don’t know whether I’d change my mind once Survivor season 69 kicks off in Tekong. We’ll see how it goes.

Anyway I wonder what’s up with the timings for American TV shows. One week they’re aired, and the next it’s as if they never existed. C’mmon man. And where the hell is episode 2 of Knight Rider? I don’t mind being patient though. In the name of good TV. Unlike Police and Thief. I recently saw their latest episode the one where the 2 clowns thought their new neighbours were aliens. What the fuck was that?

For starters, the white balance was off for certain shots, even within the same scene. If our local production can’t even get these fundamental technical issues right, how are we supposed to improve our overall standard of TV?

Also, could they be more direct about selling Singapore as a tourist attraction? The script was insulting the audience’s intelligence. I mean I’m sure STB is one way or another funding the show, but you don’t have to make it so blatant and just ruin the whole show with lame ass dialogues in the name of promoting the country. The irony of trying to make us look good by slipping in all these “Come visit Singapore!” messages is that it really shuns people away if they witness how laughable our TV shows are (yes I know Police and Thief IS supposed to be laughable. It’s a comedy after all, but I’m talking about laughable as in “laughing at” concept rather than “laughing with”).

This is sad man. The government is trying to make our media scene more vibrant and syiok, but if only they’d realise they’re also sandbagging the whole process if they keep wanting to jump on the opportunity of squeezing in whatever crappy fakeass messages in our shows.

I think a good step forward we have thus far is “The Noose”. Yeah I know sometimes the skits are a bit overdone, but there are underlying messages in them. Classic political and social commentary. We need more of that. It’d be fun to see how they roast the government with the Mas Slamat issue.

I’m done ranting.

The Wait

Everybody’s just jaded. Now that school is over, everything just comes hitting at you all at once.

This is it. Isn’t it what we’ve been asking for?

To cross that finishing line? 

To finally say goodbye to 3 years of brutality and torture?

 Well, it is.

Just that even after all of the shit we went through, after all those tiresome months of work and fake-ass smiles, it still is not over. There is still post-tertiary education to think of. Then there is work. Family. Sick. Death. It never will be over. Unless you press pause, and quit.

And then you unlock a new level called heaven and hell.

Table for one, please.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I could make up a story about what this photo means, or what I’m trying to portray in it. But the truth is:

I’ve got no idea.

I blink alot

Heikal and Wardah were fooling around with the camera and recording me doing something embarassing. When I played back the clip, I realise my eyes kept blinking, with very short intervals in between blinks. It’s very distracting, and I can imagine how annoyed a person I’m talking to face-to-face must be feeling. Even I’m irritated by this fact.

I guess I should start putting on glasses, but damn, last time I remember, I lost 4 spectacles back to back. I don’t want to buy a fifth, and only having to lose a fifth.

It’s nice to write after a long time of not doing so. My internship at Ria has forced me to convert my tongue to a full-time Malay. The good thing is that I finally have an avenue where I can use all the Malay words and idioms I have learned back in secondary school. However, the bad thing is that, if I recall correctly, I didn’t really absorb that much from Cikgu Zainal then, which pretty much means that there’s nothing much I can apply or show off at work.

Nevertheless, these days, in spite of all the late nights at work and tons of money spent on taxi fares, I’m a very happy man. So I guess it’s true what they (who the hell is this “they”) say: you will enjoy your work if what you do is of your interest. But I can’t really confirm yet whether radio shall be my next path, but right now, it doesn’t seem like a bad choice at all.

The warna and Ria family.