Ultrashox

I can’t believe that I nearly explode when at my mum’s place. Just before dinner, I was kind enough to give you a call and asked what’s up. What I get is a deja vu of what had already taken place. What the !@#$. My mum almost hide and my wife and dad quickly grab my son away, who was playing with me while I’m on the phone!

This is copied from my Facebook. For those who didn’t get to read in full of what wrote. Happy reading.

Think I’ve really had enough. Problem is that it’s just me. I can’t work with someone like that. I don’t have that kind of patience. That’s it. After this job is done. I’m gonna pull myself out of this mess. Time to get my act together, rebuild my life. Good luck, and spare me from all your 大道理.

I know what I can do and have to do. I don’t need someone else to tell me what I should be doing or telling me how experienced you are. Don’t treat me as if I know nothing about my job, or what I’m doing. You don’t teach man how to pee, or teach a woman how to give birth. Just because you teach, doesn’t make you an expert. Good luck again to you, and whoever is going to work with you.

Your thinking of I’m not as good as you, but that does not make the fact you are that good either, compared to me. I may have been labouring my life for the past 13 over years, but does not mean that I don’t see or work with many different people.

Don’t think you are the one who faces challenges all the time. The fact is, we all do. And how you overcome it, is what makes people respect you. Not by telling me all your woes and experiences, plus I’m still new and this and that. Save it. It may work on others but not me.

That’s the last straw. And if your motive is to bump me out, you did it. Congrats. Now go find yourself someone else good enough to work with you.

Ciao~!

So much has happened over the past months that I almost forgot that I had a blog here. Let’s start with the recent outbreak of the H1N1 virus. It was initially isolated to just Mexico and the situation was almost in control. At least that was every global leader claimed, which didn’t last for long when Asian countries like Japan started to have infections locally. This was bad as Asian countries started to have infections by people returning from affected countries.

Back home in Singapore, the number of infections are rising rapidly. I’m seriously wondering if situation is going to get any worsed than this. While buying coffee, saw the headline on the Newpaper which says “H1N1 has went over the tipping point”, if I remember correctly. From the looks of it, the world has not seen the worse of the virus yet.

After a week of bad weathered health and rushing out deadlines, I finally agreed to see a doctor and get myself MC-ed and rest for half a day. I was involved in the 48 Hour Film Project along with Eric, Andrew, and XJ, not forgetting Andrew’s wife-to-be, Gina for fixing up the script, and Eric’s friend, Ben for casting the role in the film. It was an unbelievable experience as we really had all the talk and almost did nothing possible to make it happen. Well, I will be writing that one on another page. Anyways, end of the story is that we nearly did not made it. But we did.

After that weekend, everyone kind of disappeared. some went on course, some on study leave and some on leave and some on off. It just left with me, trying to clear up some work for the week before going on course today and tomorrow. It is not the work that drives me under. It’s the exhaustion from work in recent months and last weekend’s project that brought my immune system down. I knew that coz’ I didn’t had symptoms of flu till I woke up on Monday morning to get to work. Anyways, it was a good break though, taking offs in the middle of the day and a day off and another MC within the week. Glad that I’ve managed to push out some completed works before the weekends and now I’m relaxing in a corner in Starbucks after course typing this post.

Speaking of which, Stefano was surprised to see me here. I’ve told him that I didn’t register for the course and it was my friend who did the registration. But anyway, it was interesting to recap on things which I haven’t been doing for a long time, especially the basics. Recalling the basics is the toughest thing when it comes to simple animation in After Effects. It’s just day one for me and tomorrow is going to be real interesting as we’ll be touching on expressions. Something whihc is more complex than just drag and drop.

One last thing, tomorrow is the premiere of our film along with all other teams short film. Hope that we will win some award!

Good luck!

Finally done what I’ve wanted to do. Submitted my work to Eyeka Asia for the Coke Zero competition. Cash prize of $10,000 to be won. 3 more days to go before the judging starts. Right now there are only 19 submissions and of them all including mine, the most interestingly creative is the one done by channelbox. The concept is really good. and special effects are even better!

I wished if I could come up with something like that. Afterall, they are from a team and I’m just an individual. Oh by the way, my concept was about video conferencing made possible. Since the theme is impossible made possible, so I thought of several ideas but none of them seemed right. Then just one fine day while some big business on the toilet bowl, this idea of video conferencing came to me and got me started finally. And so there it was and I submitted my work for the competition. Crossing my fingers now and hoping to win, although I don’t have much confident of it.

Anyways, past weeks including this had been a real rush for me. Quite a lot to do and finish up especially after finishing and submitting the competition work. I was also looking at some training opportunities from 3dsense.net. I am particularly interested in the Specialist Certificate in Autodesk Maya. In order to extend myself further, I guess I have to go ahead with this training. I know I won’t last long enough to see myself graduating from private degree studies, especially when I’ve been there and done that. So short courses to get the industry standard skills is still the way to go for me.

Feasibility of a proper qualification versus industry skills. Anyways, I would certainly agree that some proper qualifications would be appropriate if I’m climbing a corporate ladder. But what if I’m looking at industry skills that are necessary to increase my worth? I guess, I’m a more pragmatic and would really want something that enables me to do my work better. So that explains the reason why I’ve been looking at creative related diplomas and certifications of industry skills.

Kind of same feel when I decided to go into regular service with the navy in the past. Always there are people who discourage me and see alternatives.

Well, currently I’m working on my own portfolio to put up on the web. I’ve also encouraged my wife’s younger brother to do his. Coz’ I guess for a creative personnel to be recognized easily, his/hers portfolio is a must have. Qualifications come later.

I don’t know how but I just some how realized that. Especially after I left the service and got my current job, I realized my direction which I’m heading and had been wanting to do a lot of animation and motion graphics designs.

I’ve really had enough of Windows. I’m lazy to walk over to the editing suite to the authoring, I thought I might as well just stay at my desk these few days to do the chapter markings. Give the Windows some face by doing some high quality work here. But what the heck! crash on me 3 times a a row! What a lousy OS! If not for the fact that the entire organization is reliant on Windows workstations, I would have asked for a Mac instead.

Stupid OS, can’t even get my work done efficiently and wasted so much of my time! Dumb Windows, get a life!

One of the things I hate most about websites is the interface and accessibility to the sites. I really can’t imagine how badly design of the website can affect my mood to surf the site and almost immediately wanted to give up. But anyways, it’s about dinner time so, just bite the bullet and move on and go through the ordering process from scratch again and again, till I get to the confirmation page.

Worst part is, the entire site is built on Flash, if I can guess correctly based on my past experience. I can’t imagine how disastrous it is when the user has to go through the unneccessary steps to surf the site. Pizzahut must have been paying peanuts to the designer to get this site up or maybe it is the designer trying to be funny.