Anyway, since the start of the year, I guessed that today’s English lesson was the best of the year! Today, we were learning about some of the techniques in scoring for oral examinations. As usual, when the teacher announced that we will be learning about oral, I knew that this lesson will be full of jokes and laughers. But, this lesson went even wilder then I have expected as our teacher demonstrated some of the bad examples of reading. It really made me laugh out loud (LOL) and almost cried. Indeed, she proved to us that she has the ability to be the teacher in charge of the drama club.
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At first, I made a new film-look vintage animation for the video. However, due to the massive size of the photographs sent in by my friends taken with their huge mega-pixels cameras and the slow computer of mine(as compared to the current video-editing industry computers), the rendering time of a 2 minutes short portion of the 6mins video took 17 hours to render. I guess that if I continue and stick to that plan, I will not be able to meet my teacher’s submission dateline as this video might be shown during my school’s assembly during the trip’s presentation. If it is presented, I hope that this video will leave a great impression on the students. It would be a disgrace if the video is boring as I might be placing my logo and name in it.
I did my flag-day together with Willis and soon, Marc joined in too. Indeed, many gave us the moon-faced, puffy and sickly look of rejection as we politely asked for donation while others would reroute their walking direction away from us. Worst among all, one of them even shouted at us, claiming that he had no money, not even a single cent. I guessed that he must be facing some strong financial difficulties but, shouting at a group of teenagers serving the community through flag-day sure made him embarrassed. He should be at shame of himself. On the other hand, there are many generous people who donated banknotes instead of coins around the towns too. Some of them even encouraged us for supporting the community. Most importantly, we had fun and an adventurous time serving the community together although there had been a few awkward moments.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
7:06 PMIt is 31 March 2011, and here is the release of the Chinese New Year celebration video. Do help me to tag your friends in the video on the KngjqProductions Facebook page and provide some comments to it too! Feedbacks are greatly appreciated guys!
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
9:55 PMThis message I received in the afternoon gave me back the lost confidence in creating the Geography Trip video.
Recently, due to some animations problems and the lack of ideas on creating the video, made me extremely felt up. I was fearful that the result of the video might not be well liked by my friends and viewers since I will be using the same animations styles as the previous few videos. In the past few months, I have received a few feedbacks from my friends regarding my monotonous videos. As the maker, at times, I felt that my videos are really not up to the industry standard too. That made me kind of disappointed too.
But this afternoon when I received this email, I felt that someone is appreciating and giving support for my videos. The confidence is back indeed. That shows that how strong an appreciation email or message would be.
Monday, March 28, 2011
8:01 PMI almost forgotten, the physical fitness test is just a few days away. In order for me to pass my 2.4km running test, last month, I went for jogging at the track near my house for at least once per week. But in the recent weeks, I have stopped that workout schedule due to my lack of fear of failing the test and my hectic school life. In the past, what motivated me to jog once every week was the fear of failing my test and became the laughing stock of my class since most of my classmates are extremely robust. But this fearless spirit began to grow as time passes by. That shows how feeble I am in self-motivation.
Another physical fitness test component that I’m bound to fail would be the pull-up station. I wondered how I managed to pass last year’s pull-up test. At that time, I didn’t know how to do the pull up station properly. I guessed that the reason I passed the test last year’s test is because I jumped and pulled myself up while grabbing onto the bar. I’m not sure whether the teacher knows that I’m doing an improper pull up, but I still managed to pass that station last year unexpectedly.
This year, it would be a greater problem since the minimum passing number of pull ups to do is three. I doubt that I could even do a single one. But what can I do now?
Sunday, March 27, 2011
6:37 PMDo my videos look similar? If so, are they boring? These questions made me ponder for the past few hours as I was thinking of a new style of animations to suit my upcoming geography trip video. But my computer is limiting what my mind can think of now; many effects that I thought of are not supported by my computer due to the massive rendering time required. I would need a high speed computer that suits those high-end animations. I guessed that I’m still not fit to use these industrial effects on my home computer. Hence, I shall stick with an old animation style format which has been used widely in most of my videos. Hope it will not be too boring for my viewers.
At first, I made a new film-look vintage animation for the video. However, due to the massive size of the photographs sent in by my friends taken with their huge mega-pixels cameras and the slow computer of mine(as compared to the current video-editing industry computers), the rendering time of a 2 minutes short portion of the 6mins video took 17 hours to render. I guess that if I continue and stick to that plan, I will not be able to meet my teacher’s submission dateline as this video might be shown during my school’s assembly during the trip’s presentation. If it is presented, I hope that this video will leave a great impression on the students. It would be a disgrace if the video is boring as I might be placing my logo and name in it.Hope that this video will be a success and it will be ready in a few weeks time.
Friday, March 25, 2011
11:37 PMIt’s Friday, Friday, Gotta get down on Friday!
I have finished creating the video poster for the upcoming geography trip video. It will be released on 16 April 2011 or maybe earlier as the video might be used to present at school. It will be available in True HD this time as well as stereoscopic 3D on YouTube as well as Facebook. It will be a tedious video project, but hope that the results would be nice so that I wouldn’t feel that my efforts are wasted.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
11:02 PMThank God that it didn’t rain this morning. Otherwise it would be a frosty journey to school.
I was shock that I didn’t know how to answer the questions in today’s physics test. Normally, I would study my test on the day itself since I have lots of free periods in between lessons. But I still managed to do pretty well with that formula for the past few physics tests. However, on today’s test, the questions that were tested were mainly theoretical questions which totally made my mind blank. Since I don’t understand the topic in depth, answering these questions would be a problem. For the first time, many questions were very new to me. Now to me, even passing is a problem for me. I shouldn’t been so complacent about my results in the last term. This is a big mistake indeed. I’m sure than my physics teacher would suffuse with anger again once he sees the ‘awesome’ results of the class.
After school, some of my friends and I went to celebrate Rachel’s birthday at her house’s void deck. Although it isn’t a grand party, but she is certainly happy and delighted that we celebrated her birthday. I will have to earnestly thank the noodle stall uncle at school that helped us to keep the cake in his refrigerator. Without his help, I would have to carry the cake to the class and leave it under my table which is troublesome. Also, there will be a risk of having the cake crushed too since my insane and rowdy classmates might knock my table down while fighting against each other. Yep, that happens most of the time. But I still love my class; our high spirits are always infectious.
There is PE tomorrow. Hope that it would be a great day morrow.
Monday, March 21, 2011
9:15 PMI’m back to the monotonous school life, where almost every day of it is boring. I can start to feel the physical and mental pressure from it too, mainly the pressures from the teachers and friends. On the other hand, the freedom of waking up late is gone. But well, what can I do. Life goes on.
For the first time in the year, I miraculously passed an English test. Indeed, it’s a great encouragement to strike for better marks next time; at least there is an improvement for now. When the teacher was announcing the names that passed the test from a list, I thought to myself that chances of my name appearing in the list would be impossible. But once she mentioned my name, I felt as though a huge weight of worries had been lifted off my shoulders. Certainly, that made me able to breathe more freely. Although it is just a minor pass, but it’s still a great encouragement to me.
Tomorrow would be other boring day at school. Hope that the day would speedy day that ends fast.
Anyway, the preview for the Chinese New Year video is ready. Those with the private link, please remember to view and review it. Thank you!
Saturday, March 19, 2011
9:07 PMThe Saturday morning dawned crisp and clear. I jumped out of bed earlier than usual for the sake of flag-day. Initially, I didn’t want to participate in this monotonous job because I hate to face the common rejections from the public during flag-days. But after some persuasions from my friends, I decided to give it a go. After all, this will be the final CIP activity that my school will be offering to us this year as they would want us to concentrate on our studies for the rest of it. Therefore, I should treat it positively and not to fill my mind with fears and worries.
I did my flag-day together with Willis and soon, Marc joined in too. Indeed, many gave us the moon-faced, puffy and sickly look of rejection as we politely asked for donation while others would reroute their walking direction away from us. Worst among all, one of them even shouted at us, claiming that he had no money, not even a single cent. I guessed that he must be facing some strong financial difficulties but, shouting at a group of teenagers serving the community through flag-day sure made him embarrassed. He should be at shame of himself. On the other hand, there are many generous people who donated banknotes instead of coins around the towns too. Some of them even encouraged us for supporting the community. Most importantly, we had fun and an adventurous time serving the community together although there had been a few awkward moments.We travelled by foot from Commonwealth, the place that we were supposed to be circulating on, to Holland then back to Dawson by bus, trespassing many other school’s flag-day territory on the way. But who cares, this is for the same organization after all. While travelling around, we asked people for donation too. This way, we manage to collect more donations as compared to our classmates since they were stationed at only one location. However, after all the travelling, we were completely drained. But it’s a good thing too since we summoned every ounce of energy for charity.
From today’s flag-day, I think that most of the Chinese are more willing to give since most of the donations were from the Chinese. Whereas only about 5% of the total donations collected were from the other races. But it doesn’t matter, at least some gave.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
11:46 PMYea I know, this is a lengthy post with more than 1764 words. That’s good isn’t it?
After breakfast, we made our way to a pineapple plantation site through a long, enduring journey by bus which took about more than half an hour to travel there. While travelling, all I can see from the bus’ windows were oil plantation sites and grass patches. This shows that how big Johor is as compared to Singapore. Even travelling from one destination to other will require such a long time. When the teachers told us to get down the bus when we have arrived, many gave an audible sigh of relief that we are finally here. We dashed down the bus to the plantation site where we got close with the bees and plantations. We even have a chance to taste bee pollen’s, which has high nutritional and medicinal values. Although in most cartoons and movies, bee hives normally have a loud buzzing sound. But in fact, there isn’t any. In addition, it’s also my first time having such close contact with the bees. A great experience indeed!
It took us about 40mins to reach our destination. The restaurant is located near the coast of a fishing village and it extends into the sea area supported by concrete pillars. Since we were having our meal above the sea, there are fishy odours from the sea. Too bad we couldn’t hear the swash and backwash of the wave. Otherwise, it would definitely be a great place to have meals. I sat with the big eaters in my class and we managed to gobble up 6 huge bowls of rice. We were like vultures that didn’t eat for days. Once the waiter placed a fish on our table, in less than 30 seconds, half of the fish’s flesh on one side and fish’s head disappeared. In addition, I took extra crabs and clams from other tables that couldn’t finish it since those are my favourite seafood. We took about thrice the time of others to wipe out the dishes completely and, we were so proud of it :) Even the teachers and publics were amazed by our speed. After the meal, we ordered some coconut drinks for RM3 each, which is relatively cheap I guessed. I have not drink coconut water and scooping the tender meat from the young coconuts for a long time. Now thanks to this trip, I managed to get the opportunity to drink and eat it.
After the half an hour tour, we proceed on to our last destination of the day, the Tanjong Piai National Park, where we get the opportunity to see with our eyes the Mangrove trees we studied in Geography and the wild life species there. There are wild monkeys around the park too and we were told not to feed them. With an adventurous mind, we tried tasting the salt directly from the leaves of the salt secretor mangrove species which the tour guide claimed to be clean. As we progress on, we reached the tip of the southern point of Malaysia. From there, I would be able to see Singapore although it was surrounded by huge transport ships around its port and the wonderful sceneries of the crystal clear sea and mangrove forest. After the tour in the park, I was quite disappointed since I didn’t manage to see any kneed roots in the mangrove national park. But it is still an awesome experience overall.
After all the immigration process, we arrived at school at around seven forty five. I nearly fell asleep during the long journey back. Immediately after alighting from the bus, a group of my friends and I went to my mother’s stall to have dinner together to round off the long and tiring day with scrumptious meals.
It has been a wonderful day at the school’s Malaysia Geography trip. I have not been to Malaysia for a long time. In fact, the last time when I went to Malaysia, I was only six years old. Revisiting Malaysia after such a long time gives me a surge of excitement about it. Although it was an exhausting trip with a few awkward silences, I have learned much new knowledge and harvested a great experience from it.
I arrived at school in the morning with a flurry of excitement for the trip, hoping to see the same frantic spirits with my classmates. However, all of them looked so fatigued. I guessed that many of us were still not used to the early assemble time since, we were all still in our March holidays where sleeping late is common. But once we board the bus to Malaysia, everyone turned off their sleepy mode and chatted boisterously throughout the journey. The teachers did scolded us for making so much noise in the bus. But the intoxicating thrill of the trip made us invulnerable from the teacher’s words until, they stood up...
After we have crossed the border between the two countries, a tour guide accompanied us throughout the day in Malaysia. She told us many interesting facts and features about Malaysia while we were travelling to a small town called Gelang Patah for breakfast. After a few minutes in Malaysia, I got annoyed by the number of useless messages I have received from the Malaysia telecommunication companies, welcoming me into Malaysia along with some of their advertisements.
There were many different kinds of coffee shops around Gelang Patah, selling many different variety of Chinese and Malay foods. After walking around the place with my friends, I finally decided to have Roti for breakfast; that’s when a problem came in. I didn’t know that the Malays in Johor do not comprehend English. Therefore, there is totally no room for communications with them. I tried to order the food myself, but the uncle replied me with a chunk of Malay words and hand gestures which I don’t understand at all. I have to ask one of my friends who studied in Malaysia before to help me order the food I wanted, Roti Boom. I choose that because it’s hardly sold in Singapore whereas my friends have chosen other varieties of roti. Roti Boom is a smaller but thicker roti in a round shape, with diluted condensed milk spreading and butter on it. It tastes like a crunchy candy since it’s an extremely sweet roti, but it has the burnt taste in it making it unique. However, I didn’t manage to take a picture of it since I gobbled it up once it arrives.
Unexpectedly, it took them more than 15mins to prepare my Roti Boom. By the time it came, almost all my friends have finished their rotis. That made me wondered if they are just slacking or lazy to do their work because, they do not seem to be busy at all. And of course, that made the impatience me very annoyed. But the inexpensive price of the Rotis and its sweet taste abolished the anger in me.
After breakfast, we made our way to a pineapple plantation site through a long, enduring journey by bus which took about more than half an hour to travel there. While travelling, all I can see from the bus’ windows were oil plantation sites and grass patches. This shows that how big Johor is as compared to Singapore. Even travelling from one destination to other will require such a long time. When the teachers told us to get down the bus when we have arrived, many gave an audible sigh of relief that we are finally here. We dashed down the bus to the plantation site where we got close with the bees and plantations. We even have a chance to taste bee pollen’s, which has high nutritional and medicinal values. Although in most cartoons and movies, bee hives normally have a loud buzzing sound. But in fact, there isn’t any. In addition, it’s also my first time having such close contact with the bees. A great experience indeed!Moving on, we proceeded to a rattan and salted egg making site through a 15mins of bumpy bus ride. After the previous destination, everyone seems to be in very good moods. The noise in the bus has slightly increased. Everyone, including teachers were laughing and giggling among themselves too. The atmosphere of joy was infectious. In Johor, the sites are very remote. Places seem to appear in the middle of nowhere as they are surrounded by jungles and trees while wild animals roam around the roads too. Now that’s cool since I don’t see those happening in urban Singapore.
As we reached the remote site, we learned how to weave our own rattan baskets as well as making salted eggs as souvenirs. Although we were taught how make a rattan basket, our inexperience hands weaved the rattan strings into other structures such as bowls and bow. I was hoping that the result of my rattan would be a beautiful basket. However, as I didn’t tie the rattan tightly, the structure will not support the design of a basket. Therefore, it became a freaking bowl. It will definitely be a great souvenir to remind me of this wonderful trip I had during my secondary school days.
After enjoying the rattan and salted eggs making experience, we headed to Kukup Seafood restaurant to have our lunch. As the teacher announced that, there was a buzz of excitement for seafood as some boys at the back of the bus cheered boisterously while we were heading to the Seafood restaurant; looks like some of us were really hungry. But I’m not really as excited as them since my mum’s stall cooks seafood too.
It took us about 40mins to reach our destination. The restaurant is located near the coast of a fishing village and it extends into the sea area supported by concrete pillars. Since we were having our meal above the sea, there are fishy odours from the sea. Too bad we couldn’t hear the swash and backwash of the wave. Otherwise, it would definitely be a great place to have meals. I sat with the big eaters in my class and we managed to gobble up 6 huge bowls of rice. We were like vultures that didn’t eat for days. Once the waiter placed a fish on our table, in less than 30 seconds, half of the fish’s flesh on one side and fish’s head disappeared. In addition, I took extra crabs and clams from other tables that couldn’t finish it since those are my favourite seafood. We took about thrice the time of others to wipe out the dishes completely and, we were so proud of it :) Even the teachers and publics were amazed by our speed. After the meal, we ordered some coconut drinks for RM3 each, which is relatively cheap I guessed. I have not drink coconut water and scooping the tender meat from the young coconuts for a long time. Now thanks to this trip, I managed to get the opportunity to drink and eat it. With our stomach full, we went to the residential areas in the fishing village nearby to learn more about the lives of the locals. I have never been into a fishing village before although I have seen them on televisions and the internet. It’s like Singapore back in the olden days, where the slow-pace and simplicity life can be found. The pathway that links the houses together does not have any railing. So therefore it is extremely vulnerable to fall into the muddy river where bugs and mudskipper swarm. One of my impish classmates nearly fell into the muddy river as they were pushing each other around. I wonder what will my teachers do if he fall in. This visit to the village definitely increases my sense of belonging to Singapore and I felt fortunate to be born in Singapore.
After the half an hour tour, we proceed on to our last destination of the day, the Tanjong Piai National Park, where we get the opportunity to see with our eyes the Mangrove trees we studied in Geography and the wild life species there. There are wild monkeys around the park too and we were told not to feed them. With an adventurous mind, we tried tasting the salt directly from the leaves of the salt secretor mangrove species which the tour guide claimed to be clean. As we progress on, we reached the tip of the southern point of Malaysia. From there, I would be able to see Singapore although it was surrounded by huge transport ships around its port and the wonderful sceneries of the crystal clear sea and mangrove forest. After the tour in the park, I was quite disappointed since I didn’t manage to see any kneed roots in the mangrove national park. But it is still an awesome experience overall.On the stroke of half past six, we proceed back to Singapore with great harvest of knowledge and experiences. The whirl of excitement seems to flush away as our energy were all drained away from today’s trip. Everyone was either resting or sleeping during the journey back to school at Singapore. The bus was dead-silent, until the tour guide brief us about the immigration departure from Malaysia and the seriousness of bringing chewy gum back to Singapore. Since there is still a long journey back to Singapore, I took out my Galaxy Tab, and snapped a few random shots of my friend sitting beside me in the bus. After editing the photographs with Photoshop, it turns out pretty well to me. Check them out!
After all the immigration process, we arrived at school at around seven forty five. I nearly fell asleep during the long journey back. Immediately after alighting from the bus, a group of my friends and I went to my mother’s stall to have dinner together to round off the long and tiring day with scrumptious meals. Overall, the trip has definitely increased my knowledge and awareness of the way of life of the people and culture of Malaysia and increased my interest in what goes on in other parts of the world. This is definitely one of the best school trips I ever went to.
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