A Temp Track

Rambling on Jan 12 - Finally I replace the auto-play track with link to the song, 手紙 at my Silent Diary ...
手紙 - a Temp Track

The ‘temp track’, a temporary mock-up of a film's soundtrack, is assembled from pre-existing music prior to the real, commissioned score being composed. It is a "blueprint" for the film score

... alright it sounded like I copied from somewhere. I was my note I jotted down in film scoring class laaa... I already memorized it, like a piece of roti tisu!

This is what I keep listening to now... a temp track for the end credit of the film I'm working on now.
I don't understand Japanese, but it's definitely a charming song... I've been listening to it nonstop since an hour ago, I kinda hate it now. LOL.

When doing the song, I shouldn't listen to it anymore. You can only listen to it before you start doing it... It's just my rule.
And actualy it's true! If my itchy finger go click this song when I'm working on it.... hell, the outcome will sound like the original no matter how hard I try to get rid of it.

The song should play automatically and NONSTOP... so, get what I mean? I bet you wanna leave here, right now.
AIYO, there is a button you can press and get it shutup, DUH!

HEY, Check out my baby girl on the side column, scroll down... Pretty eyes huh?

Hug Me

hug me
Originally uploaded by yasmin the storyteller.

I like SEPET very much. I think this is one thing all Malaysians should be proud of.


SEPET Trailer, still stunning after 2 years.
Check out Yasmin Ahmad's blog.
Also, Check out the review and discussion on IMDB. It is rated 8.0... SEPET well deserves it.

Holy smoke!!!

GIANT ROTI TISSUE!!!! Dudes, Please go find out this place... we must 'mamak' there.

'm really working

Sorry for being disappeared on MSN or whatever messenger. I'm really working. If I don't finish this, I don't have a peaceful Christmas. Solving some technical error (my fault) of this cue. The director finally changed to a more compatible frame rate - 29.97 drop frame... but I was still working on 25 fps.... another disaster.

~ A message
Alright, some little things went wrong. I totally forgot about the frame rate when I started working yesterday. When i realized this morning, it was too late. 
I already fixed these two scenes - Dream and Sex scenes. The last two scenes where Monica is leaving and he is alone were totally messed up. I still need time to fix them. 

James, again, sorry for my carelessness, and apologize if this delay causes any inconvenience. 

Merry Christmas and a Greeting to Paul Way and Hoi

It's finally the holiday season! I'm taking this opportunity to wish you all the best for the holiday season and a happy new year!



Click here if the link doesn't work
Sang by one of the most wonderful singers I've worked before, Chew Paul Way.

I also wish the just-married couples Paul Way and the Hoi will go through all happiness and difficulties together and forever. Two souls, one heart, let true your love stories never have endings.

Merry Christmas!!!! See who....

I know the embed flash player is so ANNOYING, so I took it away.... but I still recommend you to click this link and see who that is. LOL.

Click here to watch a CUTE one!

OK.... showing off my embarrassment

More pictures @ My Flickr Photo Albums

OK, Now you can kacau me and laugh the hell out of me.
I went to snowboarding @ Mountain High. I think I got the trick quite fast, but not quite right. Most of time, I was just able to sustain on the board for 5 seconds, fell, got up, couldn't stay straight, and FELL, got up, skate few seconds, fell, got up... keep repeating all these actions about 10 times a trip down the hill and went throughly insane in this so-called "enjoying" learning process. Worse than baby learning walking I'm sure!
I would fall in 10 seconds for sure - either I fell out of control or I chose to fall to stop coz it went crazily fast or was going to crash into a tree or stuff.

THEN, I got COMA for more than 24 hours after I got home, then the next 24 hours I was a the deadpan stoneman... after another 24 hours my body still hurt like hell, duh!!!

OK... grouching now!!! When we were going to leave that place, and I saw an area, like a walkway, a flatter slope where was crammed many people in together, and people snowboard there. Then I asked my friends what's that place... they said that was for beginners. I.... can I use bad word? FARK!!!! They didn't bring me there, coz they said I would learn so much faster if I go for the higher one... learned from falling is the most efficient way and enjoying!!! F
So I won't be troublesome next time and they don't have to take care of me and I HAVE TO go up the peak with them, next time, which is next week or two weeks later, at another bigger and higher snowboarding mountain - Big BEar!!!!!!

Now wanna wallop someone to LEPAS KU PUNYA GERAM from the snowboarding, and being cheated.!!!!!

PS: Actually this message was originally sent to Martha. Lazy to write a new one. Modified and use it... recycle.

Ok this is the trail map.
http://www.mthigh.com/trailmap/mthighmap.swf
I took the cable car right outside the Big Pines Lodge to go up the hill. OK.... it's beginner trail.... but there are easier trails near the chilren's academy or another one right outside the Bullwheel Bar and Grill. My friends kept pushing me to go up the highest point of the West Resort. I couldn't even see the top.... and it's definitely NOT fun to roll down from that 70-degree slope. I SEE, this is the reason they brought me to the higher trail and wanted me to learning from falling, so that I could go with them. JERK!

I think the most emberrassing one was taking off at the terminal from the Cable car chair, or the lift chair. It never stopped for you to get down. I gotta take off to the "runaway" track with my left foot on the board. (the lift get close to the ground at the terminal but the lift doesn't stop). Why only one foot on the board. Because before you get up to the cable car, you gotta queue up and you technically can't move with your both feet on your board, unless you jump like kangaroo, and you are not allowed to get on to the lift chair if one of your foot is not on your board. So your gotta walk like a crab or a penguin depends on where you put your the other foot. I went up 4 times... maybe 5. I fell everytime when I took off at the terminal... every farking time. The 1st time I fell was an disaster. It just didn't come across my mind I was in the middle of the way, and would block anyone coming down. I just knew my right calf (the right feet was off the board) hit my snowboard and pained like hell, and people screamed "get away, go go...." too late... two people at the back of my lift fell on my both sides, awfully. They didn't hit me thou probably because they tried to avoid me... and another two people hit them from the back... I was in the middle going no way. My bad... :P
I'm sure the "lifeguard" lady... or the "snowguard" recognized me. She said "be careful" after the last time I fell. SO WHAT.... I am dumb!!

PS: Fark is Julian chan's term... A better term to avoid lecture from people like ExUPMer and whoever. Anyway, I think FARK works too. Thanks Julian. :D

Santa Claus is coming to town.... DUH !!!


This was a gentle fall.


Videos on Mountain High Official Site. Really Cool.
http://www.mthigh.com/video/VideoVault06.7.html

Thank you, no next time. I wanna live pass 30 in one piece. LOL
Aiya... Shoehorn isn't afraid of anything. I think i'll go again, but not if I'm still in pain.

Don't eat too much !!!

Last week firefighters in the Malaysian village of Kampung Jabor were called in to remove the bloated snake (pictured) from a roadway. The reptile had swallowed an entire pregnant sheep and was too full to slither away and digest its supersize meal.... Read more about Python Eats Pregnant Sheep

《山海经·海内南经》：“巴蛇食象，三岁而出其骨。”战国楚·屈原《天问》：“一蛇吞象，厥大何如？”
It's really awful to die like this - so-called 人心不足蛇吞象
Direct translation - A man whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to seallow an elephant
LOL

But this one even more stupid... and brainless.
Python Bursts After Eating Gator

Another one...
Snake Swallows Electric Blanket

How Smart Is Your Right Foot?

Some forwarded stuff to share with you guys. I would freak out if I do it fast, but still can do it.

This is so funny that it will boggle your mind (I kept laughing after I tried it 4 times....weird!!). And you will keep trying it at least 50 more times to see if you can outsmart your foot.

But you can't!!!

1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction!!!

I told you so... And there is nothing you can do about it.

Make sure you pass this on to your friends... They won't be able to do it either.

Perfume: the Story of a Murderer

I went to the screening of the Perfume: the Story of a Murderer at Paramount Studio in Hollywood. 
Can't spend much time here, just jotting down some note for you guys. Check it out.
A decent film... but it can be much better. Still a good film I recommend. Great music, but not a master piece. 



Trailer - http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/perfume/
IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396171/
Composers - http://pale3.com



Saw this near the screening theater in Paramount. Whole glass armoire full of statuette, including Oscar: Titanic, Forrest Gump, Ordinary People. Also Emmy Awards, Golden Globe etc.This one below was the God Father



More about the original story from a book. A best-seller in Europe like Da Vinci Code in US.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer RED CLASSIC

In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His story will be told here. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name - in contrast to the names of other gifted abominations, de Sade's, for instance, or Saint-Just's, Fouché's, Bonaparte's, etc. - has been forgotten today, it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, wickedness, but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent.

In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench barely conceivable to us modern men and women. The streets stank of manure, the courtyards of urine, the stairwells stank of mouldering wood and rat droppings, the kitchens of spoiled cabbage and mutton fat; the unaired parlours stank of stale dust, the bedrooms of greasy sheets, damp featherbeds, and the pungently sweet aroma of chamber-pots. The stench of sulphur rose from the chimneys, the stench of caustic lyes from the tanneries, and from the slaughterhouses came the stench of congealed blood. People stank of sweat and unwashed clothes; from their mouths came the stench of rotting teeth, from their bellies that of onions, and from their bodies, if they were no longer very young, came the stench of rancid cheese and sour milk and tumorous disease. The rivers stank, the marketplaces stank, the churches stank, it stank beneath the bridges and in the palaces. The peasant stank as did the priest, the apprentice as did his master's wife, the whole of the aristocracy stank, even the King himself stank, stank like a rank lion, and the Queen like an old goat, summer and winter. For in the eighteenth century there was nothing to hinder bacteria busy at decomposition, and so there was no human activity, either constructive or destructive, no manifestation of germinating or decaying life, that was not accompanied by stench.

And of course the stench was foulest in Paris, for Paris was the largest city of France. And in turn there was a spot in Paris under the sway of particularly fiendish stench: between the rue aux Fers and the rue de la Ferronnerie, the Cimetière des Innocents to be exact. For eight hundred years the dead had been brought here from the Hôtel-Dieu and from the surrounding parish churches, for eight hundred years, day in, day out, corpses by the dozens had been carted here and tossed into long ditches, stacked bone upon bone for eight hundred years in the tombs and charnel houses. Only later - on the eve of the Revolution, after several of the grave pits had caved in and the stench had driven the swollen graveyard's neighbours to more than mere protest and to actual insurrection - was it finally closed and abandoned. Millions of bones and skulls were shovelled into the catacombs of Montmartre and in its place a food market was erected.

Don't even want to think what will turn out tomorrow

I had been living at the the equator for more than 25 years, I mean near the line... just so scared of tomorrow !!! I really wanna escape.

I think this is the place I'm going tomorrow.


Just like last time I left a message here before going to Magic Mountain....
if I don't show up here after 24 hours, errr make it 48... tell my mom!!!

Kampong boy going to snowboarding.... DUH
Doreen.... bye :D

Just being sagittarius

Alright, I'm a sluggish, I'm clumsy... Just I don't like writing my blog on iWeb (a supplement web tools that comes together with Mac computer) anymore... So, I spent one whole day 24 hours working on this, coming back to blogspot.

Anyway, just being a real brainless sagittarius... I just did what I wanted to do, just follow the arrow dude. and finally, here I am - back to blogspot.

WORSE thing... meeting James (The director of the short I'm scoring now) tomorrow after lunch.... kinda in deep shit, and OKKKIIEE, the principle of Realization applies!

The Circle of Composing Gig
Hyper-Inspired Beginning, then the clearly stated period of 9 stages
Red underlined is the stage I am in now.

1. Always an Excessively Perfect LONG Draft

2. So-called "Writer Block" Realization

3. Proscrastinate (Often a House Cleaning Season)

4. Hyper-Motivated "The Deadline Factor" Realization

5. Draft-to-Craft Aggressiveness

6. The "Oh F*ck I'm Screwed!" Realization

7. Everything Cram

8. 24hrs Deadline (AFTER) Cram

9. After War Knock-out Celebration

Sooooo, Get ready for the CRAMMING proccess

DUH

Bobby the Legacy

OK you know what... this time I say I’ll write only one sentence and I’m going to write one sentence!

BOBBY, music by Mark Isham.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/bobby/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308055/
I went to the screening yesterday in Hollywood. It’s just a mile away from the Ambassador Hotel, the place where Bobby was assassinated. RFK was great and he could be the best president in this country. The film itself isn’t excellent - don’t expect too much on the music too, but get ready to be surprised on watching a dozen of big movie stars. Demi Moore is old! Sharon Stone, hell, I don’t know for what hell sake she showed her winkles in Basic Instinct 2, but luckily Sharon is a real Sharon I saw here. Watching the legacy... it’s just heart-warming bitterness. Every word he said is still so powerful. OK STOP go watch.

Going to Warner Bro Studio, Burbank this Sunday to for the screening of THE GOOD GERMAN, music by Thomas Newman
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thegoodgerman/
This should be good !

Best quote from the BOBBY - a mexican said: We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us!!!! LOL

OK here I am... Two paragraphs plus one sentence! Back to work... ciao

When a Sag meets another Sag

It’s certainly true when a Sag meet another Sag...


都是你讓我痛苦

　　不擅長保密的射手，一旦見異思遷或是感覺冷淡時，約會、電話的次數都會明顯的下降，打電話去或是CALL他的呼機也不會回，有大哥大的會常常關機，反正你們見面的次數越少，距離分手的時間就越近。愛逃避問題的射手座是打太極拳的老手，只要對這段感情覺得很痛苦，他絕對有本事讓你以為問題出在你自己身上，往往等你清醒過來，再回頭已是百年身，覺悟吧！

射手座也是最缺乏信心的暗戀者。射手座看到合適的異性，鼓不起勇氣追求對方或者刻意接近對方。對射手座來說，暗戀是無從入手或者不能落手的棋局。他們經常徘徊於情愛與放棄之間，不知應否表白愛意。

射手男心底深處有不為人知深度的一面，可是婚前的他實在太輕浮了，常常滿嘴胡說八道，再加上孩子重的他處世態度很自由行為又狂放不羈，可是一旦他步入婚姻之後細膩的一面就出現了，有必要時他不僅可以洗手做羹湯，還會全力去照顧另一半，最重要的是他會對婚姻非常忠實。

When Neogio chatting with Silverfish

12:18:52 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: .
12:19:02 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ？
12:19:25 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: ...
12:19:34 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: :|
12:19:49 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 想问你一见事
12:20:24 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 怎麼啦
12:20:59 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 你现在有没有男朋友？
12:21:11 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我不是跟你講過
12:21:20 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我有很認真的跟你講過喔
12:21:26 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 有？
12:21:39 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 你先想想我有沒有講過
12:21:50 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 你都沒有認真聽喔
12:21:52 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 現在問我
12:22:04 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 有
12:22:14 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 恩我跟你講過吧
12:22:22 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 是
12:22:25 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 对不起
12:22:37 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我記得我很認真的跟你講過說
12:22:59 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: ok
12:23:17 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 怎麼啦
12:23:32 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 為什麼問我這個事
12:23:34 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 快說
12:24:13 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我可能没让自己记住吧
12:24:56 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 你一定有事
12:24:58 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 快說
12:25:03 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 没有拉！！！！
12:25:04 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 是不是有女朋友啦
12:25:06 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 有
12:25:12 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: grrr.
12:25:13 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 一訂有鬼
12:26:15 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 有人跟我说你有男朋友的
12:26:24 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 别试
12:26:48 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 誰
12:26:52 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 不過重點是
12:26:57 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我有跟你講過
12:27:03 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我不是沒有跟你講喔
12:27:04 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 然后我想。。。 你有跟我说。。 但我没让自己记住
12:27:09 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我很真的跟你講過
12:27:14 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 有拉
12:27:20 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: :(
12:27:25 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 对不起
12:27:42 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ....
12:27:56 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 喔
12:27:56 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 可是我真的没记住
12:28:06 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 可是你記得我有根你講過吧
12:28:34 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我昨天记起来了
12:28:44 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 昏倒
12:28:56 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 真的对不起
12:29:19 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我没有想要破坏人家
12:29:26 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 沒有事阿
12:29:39 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 哦
12:29:47 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 大笨蛋
12:29:48 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 沒記住
12:29:50 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 好
12:29:59 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 好什麼啦
12:30:04 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我開玩笑的啦
12:30:15 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 你要好好珍惜
12:30:21 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我
12:30:22 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 如果是好的感情
12:30:23 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 喔
12:30:29 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 对不起
12:30:32 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我自己知道阿
12:31:42 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 真的被你打敗了
12:31:46 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我以為你記得了
12:32:06 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 如果我记得。。。 我不会对你那么好。。。
12:32:08 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 笨蛋！！！
12:32:27 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我我不会让自己对你那么好。。。
12:32:45 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 那样做很坏
12:32:48 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 昏倒
12:33:14 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 怎麼搞得好像我也很白癡
12:33:21 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 沒發現你好像根本忘記這件事了
12:33:28 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 。。。。
12:33:52 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 哭
12:34:14 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 如果我记住。。。 那我很坏把？
12:34:22 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ㄟ
12:34:30 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 就不知道再想什麼
12:34:50 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我可能一直以为你们有问题。。。
12:34:58 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ....
12:35:11 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 可能一直以为你喜欢那GL 比较多
12:35:17 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ㄟ
12:35:18 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 阿
12:35:19 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ㄟ
12:35:20 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 阿
12:35:28 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 怎么样？
12:35:53 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 只覺得真難怪你會這樣覺得
12:36:25 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 有一点难看
12:36:40 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 難看???????????
12:36:49 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我拉！！
12:36:52 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 难堪
12:37:09 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ㄟ
12:37:13 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 沒事阿
12:37:29 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 就想起來就沒事啦
12:43:57 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我前女友这星期结婚
12:44:08 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 難過？
12:44:14 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 没有
12:44:18 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 为他开心
12:44:36 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我那时和他一起不是那么好
12:44:37 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 那很好阿
12:45:40 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 深呼吸
12:45:47 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 出去走走
12:45:59 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 誰？
12:46:10 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我
12:46:32 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 哦。。。。
12:46:36 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我刚才
12:46:46 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 喔
12:47:17 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 在一家民歌餐厅唱歌
12:47:26 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 你？、
12:47:35 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 自弹
12:47:48 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 打工？
12:47:51 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 客人都不让我走
12:47:53 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 跟我朋友依樣
12:48:01 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 不是拉
12:48:15 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 朋友请我去吃饭
12:48:20 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: then
12:48:46 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 说一定要我上去弹唱我才可以回家
12:49:01 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我不想
12:49:05 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 呵呵
12:49:06 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 很不想
12:49:16 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 但他们一定要我上去
12:49:33 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 然后客人和DJ 也不让我走。。。
12:49:55 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 就在上面呆了很久
12:49:59 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 昏倒
12:50:37 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: :p
12:50:40 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 闷闷 的
12:50:44 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 怎麼啦
12:50:45 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 出去走走
12:50:49 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: bye
12:51:25 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 你
12:51:32 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 還在因為剛剛的事再悶喔
12:53:03 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 很难才找到自己喜欢的。。。 有点无奈。
12:53:12 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 不讲了
12:53:23 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ㄟ
12:53:25 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 幹嘛啦
12:53:29 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 真是滴
12:53:33 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 别人喜欢其实自己会很幸福:D
12:53:35 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: hahaha
12:53:49 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 什麼啦
12:53:58 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 但我会 逃的
12:54:01 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: :D
12:54:02 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: hahah
12:54:08 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: aiya...
12:54:12 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 没事拉
12:54:28 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 你！！
12:54:48 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 經
12:54:50 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 身边的如果不珍惜！！
12:54:50 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 驚
12:55:07 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我会 看不起你！！
12:55:22 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ㄟ
12:55:28 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 那我有備你看不起?
12:55:31 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 讲完！‘
12:55:49 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 散步去
12:55:52 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: bye
12:56:13 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 8o|
12:56:15 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ...

Just a Little

For the sake of 6 years in my memory... just a little gloomy.
I’m truly happy for you, greeting under my breath.

DAMN... Martha’s words keep whispering in my ears since this morning. You giggle, I burn Shah Alam !!!

Digital Disaster

I have to grouch about this...!!!

I accidentally deleted a folder on Nov 12, Sunday. and I didn’t notice!!! Emptying my trash without double-checking... typical SAG!!!

All my work in 3 weeks, 4 projects, all of a sudden, disappeared, evaporated!!!

I think I deleted them in the morning. Then in the afternoon, I realized the folder I wanted to delete was still on my desktop.... WHAT THE HECK!!! It was like... magnified and seems SUPER BIG at that moment. FARK (Julian’s version of F*ck) !!!! “Then what did I deleted” I thought.

Where is my “Latest Work” folder??!!! Hell, spending whole evening to call AppleCare (who cares about me since I didn’t pay for it), calling apple centers, looking for aids and the program that does data recovery. I finally got a program called File Salvage. Pretty cool, Got another program, Data Rescue... Both programs rescued my deleted data, not only those in the “Latest Work” folder, but ALL deleted data in these few months. No way to rescue only those files from “Latest Work” folder, and No way to trace the file deleted date. So, I got about 200 Logic files and few thousands of audio files in .wav, .mp3, . aiff, etc formats. No file names, All messed up!!!!

I gotta open one by one to find those files back in the”Latest Work” folder. Spent like, let say, 24 hours, and I ended up sleeping only 2 hours. Woke up at 8am continue....

Here I come, the most GERAM (Frustrating in Malay) was, FARK!!! those audio files that laid out on Logic Arrange Windows.... ALL MESSED UP!!!!
The regions are still there, but they couldn’t recognize the right audio files. Hell !!!
OK put them back, match them, 2 days 2 nights !!!

Here and there some small tiny “data hunt”, another one day. On Thursday that week, NOV 16. I started my work as usual, on James Bathroom Film and Mo’s Album... 5 days just flew away because of a stupid click!!! FARK!!!



Little Children

I almost didn’t go this screening, because it was my birthday. Not really cool to spend my birthday in a theater... My only intention to go to this screening, Thomas Newman

But indeed, Little children is a fabulous film. It is a surprise for me. Thomas Newman was there with the music editor Bill Bernstein. This is one of the film well demonstrates his composing techniques - IMPROVISATION!

Some of the cues, he composed it to nothing, not to a score, no notation. Just some graphic draft, hand it to a group of musicians he has been working with for long time and trustable, and they just improvise. First time I heard about it when I just arrived in LA... I was like... WTF? That’s not composing Thomas.... But after watching his American Beauty, I thought it was excellent.

It was the 1st time I heard Thomas Newman talked about his improvising composition. What he has in mind before improvising with musicians were
- Time code, and all necessary changes or what we called spotting note from editor.
- His tempo
- His patterns, that can be used for repetition, or whatever purposes
- The idea of direction
.... I remember this few things he said.... but isn’t it terrific? I still don’t really agree with his method. But I asked myself after that, can I do it? if I do it is that the same fabulous sound? I can’t answer. Ok, then that is composition! I like Thomas Newman very much since American Beauty. Although he doesn’t seem put a lot of appreciation (should I say that? or he just forgot how he did it) of his past gigs in his mind, he really did a great job on this Little Children... he just move on and concentrate on the next film.

This is master piece of his. I saw some ugliness of playing spontaneously, but there is something... something very organic that can’t be done with notation. He used his technique and confident to do it, outside the box but not too far as usual, and he successfully making a great balance between comedy and tragedy and perhaps some children element in there. I think it was a very excellent job!

It is my dream to try what he’s been doing... maybe when I’m big enough to do it that way.

I really like what he said especially when dealing with editor. He never tried to change the story, never tried to go against the spotting notes. and Thomas said, “I always stick with it, I don’t dare to change”. In order to survive in Hollywood, I think it is really important to know what you should do and what you shouldn’t and he is one of the best examples.

Go surf online for the review of this film... it is surprising. The film itself is a good. And Thomas contributed a score to help strengthen the picture to bring about the musical vein of comedy-tragedy mood... not too much and not ignorable.

More about Thomas
THOMAS NEWMAN (Composer) has been seven Oscar nominations for his film work for LITTLE WOMEN, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, UNSTRUNG HEROES, AMERICAN BEAUTY, ROAD TO PERDITION, FINDING NEMO,and LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS. Newman also won an Emmy for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music for HBO’s award-winning SIX FEET UNDER. Since the beginning of sound film, the Newman name has been an integral part of the evolution of film scoring. Thomas is the youngest son of the legendary Alfred Newman, nephew of Lionel Newman, brother of David Newman and cousin of Randy Newman. Thomas Newman studies composition and orchestration at USC, completing his studies at Yale. He considers his greatest mentor to be Broadway’s Stephen Sondheim, who was deeply impressed with Newman’s originality and championed one of his earliest works. Other films he has scored include MEET JOE BLACK, THE HORSE WHISPERER, UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL, PHENOMENON, AMERICAN BUFFALO, IN THE BEDROOM, PAY IT !
FORWARD, ERIN BROCKOVICH, THE GREEN MILE, JARHEAD, CINDEREELA MAN, and FRIED GREEN TOMATOES, and for television, HBO’s acclaimed 6-hour miniseries ANGELS IN AMERICA directed by Mike Nichols.

Some Brief about Little Children
Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly and Patrick Wilson star in LITTLE CHILDREN, the latest work from Oscar-nominated Writer/Director Todd field. Based on the novel by Tom Perrotta, LITTLE CHILDREN centers on a handful of individuals whose lives intersect on the playgrounds, town pools and streets of their small community in surprising and potentially dangerous ways.

What a party for 29


My roommates and friends threw a surprised party...
I thought I could sneak through the 29th birthday. I thought I could spend the last 365 days at the celling of youth, quietly.... well, it’s quite happening thou. Ok... here I go... 365 countdown

This is what I look at the past 10 years and coming 10
20...21...22..23.24.25.26..27...28.....29...............30.....31....32..33.34.35.36.37...38....39...........40
You will see the gaps between 29 and 30... so huge, and seems so far. As what Nori said, “you will be fine once you pass 30, everything just comes in a way that you don’t really bother and care”. LOL true true true, I think the graphic above is pretty true about numbers.

Thank Connie for everything, Thanks all my Thai buddies from UCLA Smakon - Connie, Peter, Kanit, Nicha, Tiffany, Clara.

Thanks for my basketball “kaki” (buddies in Malaysian slang) - Peter, Kanit, Ken (another Ken), Jeff (and his girl Jennifer)

Last and the most, Thanks for my lovely roommates - Fumi, Shioko, and Jessica. You all are the best roommies !!!

You can click here to see the party walkthrough (with all my ramblings). Just click NEXT
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hfken/313402839/in/set-72157594346528004/

Or, here to see the pictures in my Flickr archives
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hfken/archives/date-posted/2006/12/calendar/