She has taken me for a real ride in the past few months. Since the time I finished with my finals(last June) till now. Talk about travelling out of the norm. But then again - I guess its nothing spectacularly amazing. Others have travelled a similar path. Here's a little nutshell version - brace yourselves, its been a loooooong while since I've blogged and I'm not even sure if I can finish this in one seating!
Lets see, in chronological order:
1. Finished final exams - June '06.
2. Played "Cockatoo" in Clive Barker's Frankenstein in Love - directed by Gavin Yap - staged end Oct till Nov '06. Also doubled up as a Production Asst for the play - helping source for costumes and props.
3. Started work in Popiah Pictures Sdn. Bhd. Nov '06. Started as a Production Asst with Nescafe Kickstart (season 3) - driving production van, buying lunch and dinner, doing grunt work, helping a little bit with sourcing sponsors and doing a little bit of Assistant Director(AD) work.
Close to the finishing bits of Kickstart - I moved on to THE FIRM (currently airing on NTV7 at 9pm to 10pm every Sunday!) as an AD (who goes out on shoots and essentialy 'assists' the Director) and also helping to liase with all the various sponsors and ensuring that the challenges for each episode are controlled and contained so that we have something to shoot and not piss the sponsors off.
In fact, suffice to say, from about January '07 till just yesterday (July 8th), my Life was THE FIRM. I was given the opportunity to be apart of it from the very beginning and almost to the very end. I say almost, because at this point, editing is being completed and I was only involved with the editing process till ep 6. I am not privy to the process from ep 7 till ep 10.
There are various websites to check out re: THE FIRM.
I'm sure you can find more if you are inclined to do so. Google it.
4. Throw in a dancing class (last year), some open mic gigs and a 1st time Stand-up Act by myself, making my first short for BMW SHORTIES, a lot of kickboxing in spurts ... that encapsulates most of what I've done.
Oh and of course spending lots of time with my new found love - Anrie. :) Come July 28th, it'll be a year - unchartered territory for someone like myself. Scary but enjoying every single day of it.
5. Now I'll be moving on to my next free lance job - working with YouthMalaysia.com Sdn. Bhd. on 'Gegar U! Colours of Our Nation' event road show. For the next 2 mths I'll be travelling a lot around north and south of M'sia as well as Sabah/Sarawak organizing quite large scale events in colleges, universities and shopping complexes to raise awarenes and hype for Malaysia's 50th Merdeka celebrations.
It'll culminate with a 50 hour long event to commerate the 50th Merdeka up in Penang later in Aug.
6. After that? A new business venture which will hopefully lead to the rest of my life. :)
Thats it in a nutshell.
Like I said, Life can be a real bitch. But she's been pretty good to me. Can't complain. She changes on me every now and again. Quite frequently since last June '06 actually. Everytime I think I'm set on a single path she throws a land slide at me and dares me to walk through it, or to take the longer path or to just sit there and wait for the road to clear. She changes her look constantly. Sometimes I look at Life, my Life, I stare at her and analyze her but she looks different to me every single time.
So here's to you Life.
Hopefully I'll be blogging more often now. You lot take care - if there is still a 'lot' that visits this ere ole website. :)
