Friday, December 01, 2006
PSSSSSSS3! So I hear the PS3 has finally arrived in Brunei. I also hear it will set you back 1800 of your moolah. Apparently you need to book first, and they try to get their grubby hands on a set for you.. I'm not sure if I should really fork out $1800 on a game console now considering I hardly find time to play on my PS2 these days! And I am pretty sure my missus will not be keen to come home to see yet another console sitting in front of our BIG @$$ TV.
Can I get one honey?NO!
In any case this week has been filled with some interesting events. I haven't been able to write anything because I have been so tired from work that by the time I get home there's no more energy left to use my nogging to write something decent in the blog. Anyhow, here's a list of the Top 10 highlights from the week:
1) While driving home from work, I came across a REAL freaking idiot of a motorcyclist probably wishing a death wish. I am driving my SUV on the fast lane at around 110Km/hr just in front of Empire Hotel and suddenly I see this IDIOTAS zoom pass me.... between my SUV and the metal barriers on the right hand side.. Sometimes I really wonder what goes through the brains of these idiots when they drive so recklessly the way they do? Is he not able to use that complex human brain (as complex as an Idiot's brain can get, I guess) of his what might have happened to him if we had accidentally clip each other? He would probably do an impression of Superman before being mangled up on the tarmac.. I just don't understand why they do the things they do... I certainly do not want to have to deal with that in my conscience....
2) Yet another traffic related event: kids sticking their heads out of their parents' car and the dad doesn't even bother to get them to sit down and buckle up.... I don't know what to say and do about these people, so I don't bother.. As a young boy I distinctly remember a little girl of around 10 falling out of her vehicle when her dad turned her car at a traffic light cos I think somehow her door opened accidentally.. It was not a pretty sight.... but she was ok.. just in shock..
3) On a lighter note, over the week I've seen a rather nice white MX5 with full bodykit parked outside my office. Me being an avid MX5 fan have been admiring it and thinking to myself how wonderful it would be to own one, especially that one cos it looked good. Add two blue stripes running through the middle and you'd have a pretty cool roadster.. Yesterday while admiring it, I noticed though it had something stuck on the front bumper grill.... and what are the odds.. I see, yes, a dead bird... like the one I mentioned in my previous post.. stuck on this little roadster's bumper grill.. nice..
Can I get one honey?NO!
4) Today, we brought our daughter to her FIRST ever Movie at the cinema. My daughter has this fascination with Penguins and when she saw the big Happy Feet poster, you could see her face light up! I think she enjoyed the experience and I hope somehow she remembers it when she is all grown up. The first time to the movie was a magical moment for me and I still vividly remember my first ever trip to the cinema (Bolkiah) to watch a chinese film .. long long time ago..
5) The person who contacted me about Pusat Ehsan has turned out to be someone I know. She didn't know who I was until I told her and she was very surprised. I am waiting for Pusat Ehsan to call me for a meeting. Very eager to get going on this so I hope they contact me soon. Fingers crossed this pans out...
6) Dec 10th will be the Brunei Marathon. I will be out there this year, not running the marathon, but taking some footage of the event with my DVX+Letus35. I am sure there will be some inspiring moments and I hope to capture them as they unfold... oh wait..... just as I was writing this, I just remembered.. December 10th is my daughter's birthday... have plans for it already.. Bouncers and all....oh well we'll see how I can fit in the Marathon cos I'd much rather take videos of my daughter's birthday party....
7) My MacBook Pro did not go to sleep again when I closed the lid! This time I had already put it in the sleeve but left it in a cabinet in my office. Half an hour later I opened up my cabinet to hear the fan whirring away and the whole thing getting hot.... ! Something's up with the latest security update patch!..
8) I've realised after seeing a friend and colleague of mine working on Photoshop that I might be not so good at Titleing (or is that Titling? yeah it is titling). When I saw him work with Photoshop, and how he transformed a blank canvas into a work of art, I was amazed.. He's a true artist as he REALLY has the vision to create works of art.. He has kindly agreed to work on a new logo/avatar for me as well as working on titling for me for future projects (note: Photoshop PSD files can be transferred into Final Cut's timeline and rendered into the timeline as a clip. I have tried this before where I animated each individual layer of the PSD file individually). Not difficult but a fair bit of work and time consuming while waiting for it to render).
9) We caught a small monitor lizard in my colleague's office.. yes in his office. He was about to reach for a bag and there it was. We managed to get it out by trapping it in a bin, and when we released it, it tried to attack us .. it eventually walked off into the bushes...
10) It's almost the end of the year, and a few more training sessions to go and I will be pretty free apart form the odd projects to work on. Once I have more free time, it's back to Hobby Time and I hope to do something before jetting off to Taiwan for a well deserved holiday and opportunity to shoot a doco...
That's about it for now.. I've just brain dumped the whole week into this post. Tomorrow is a full day of errands but hopefully not a stressful day....
Until the next post...
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5) The person who contacted me about Pusat Ehsan has turned out to be someone I know. She didn't know who I was until I told her and she was very surprised. I am waiting for Pusat Ehsan to call me for a meeting. Very eager to get going on this so I hope they contact me soon. Fingers crossed this pans out...
6) Dec 10th will be the Brunei Marathon. I will be out there this year, not running the marathon, but taking some footage of the event with my DVX+Letus35. I am sure there will be some inspiring moments and I hope to capture them as they unfold... oh wait..... just as I was writing this, I just remembered.. December 10th is my daughter's birthday... have plans for it already.. Bouncers and all....oh well we'll see how I can fit in the Marathon cos I'd much rather take videos of my daughter's birthday party....
7) My MacBook Pro did not go to sleep again when I closed the lid! This time I had already put it in the sleeve but left it in a cabinet in my office. Half an hour later I opened up my cabinet to hear the fan whirring away and the whole thing getting hot.... ! Something's up with the latest security update patch!..
8) I've realised after seeing a friend and colleague of mine working on Photoshop that I might be not so good at Titleing (or is that Titling? yeah it is titling). When I saw him work with Photoshop, and how he transformed a blank canvas into a work of art, I was amazed.. He's a true artist as he REALLY has the vision to create works of art.. He has kindly agreed to work on a new logo/avatar for me as well as working on titling for me for future projects (note: Photoshop PSD files can be transferred into Final Cut's timeline and rendered into the timeline as a clip. I have tried this before where I animated each individual layer of the PSD file individually). Not difficult but a fair bit of work and time consuming while waiting for it to render).
9) We caught a small monitor lizard in my colleague's office.. yes in his office. He was about to reach for a bag and there it was. We managed to get it out by trapping it in a bin, and when we released it, it tried to attack us .. it eventually walked off into the bushes...
10) It's almost the end of the year, and a few more training sessions to go and I will be pretty free apart form the odd projects to work on. Once I have more free time, it's back to Hobby Time and I hope to do something before jetting off to Taiwan for a well deserved holiday and opportunity to shoot a doco...
That's about it for now.. I've just brain dumped the whole week into this post. Tomorrow is a full day of errands but hopefully not a stressful day....
Until the next post...
Oh and if you have the time please visit this site and show our support for it.
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