abandonment.

Dear staffs of Ban Kai Pictures,

I am proud to announce that we have completed our first project! I just finished doing the paperwork and had them all filed up nicely, just need to put the tabs tomorrow to make it prettier :) As I reflect back on this journey, I feel really blessed to be in this group! We may not be the best, but I know that everyone of us gave our best to see this project a successful one :)

A short thank you note to
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+ Amalia
for understanding our point when we had to do a swap in the role,
also helping Nat in directing the talents on set :)

+ Dayah
for helping me with all the co-ordination with the talents and keeping track of the schedule on set :)

+ Nathaniel
for taking up the challenge of a director and led us well through the production,
also composing music and doing the audio mixdown :)

+ Jonathan
for being our art director, a meticulous soundman on set and the foley artist :)

+ Jeri
for being the pretty director of photography who withstood the hot sun, doing the rashomon pose
on a hot ground and being clear headed throughout :)

+ Aloysius
for being the best camera assistant we can ever have, the fast editor who got rough cut out within two days and all your valuable pointers :)

+ Chee Meng
for guiding us throughout the project, blessing us in small and big ways (eg. groundsheet, fetching us to buy lunch etc) and imparting us your knowledge with every opportunity you have :)

You guys are so wonderful! :D Let's give our all for AFP #02 and make it an awesome one! :D


Love,
Jia :)


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It's 1.15am now and I am just done with whatever paperwork I could compile for Advanced Film Production. There is still about fifteen percent of it done, but the number of pages have already amount to 127! Hopefully I can get everything in tomorrow night and I will have it binded.

I really feel like sleeping, but I have yet to finish studying Media Law. Heard that the test is hard, but I pray that whatever I study would be retained in my memory and that God would bless me with wisdom to handle the questions.

Took a sugar roll from the refrigerator and I thought of supersheep. All I wanna say from the depth of my heart is "i miss you" :) Hope to catch up with you soon.

It's 1.20am now and I think I should head off to do Media Law work. Tomorrow/ Today is gonna be a long day, wrapping the day with the rendering of Advanced Film Production Project One.

I just took medicine and will soon knock out, but I pray that I will wake up in time to view final cut! Had a day of shoot with Maybelle, Jeri, Cheryl, Rosanah and Amalia. Didn't really do much, but the company was really fun. We ended the day with some silly game that only inflicts pain on our hands! Pictures up later. Then it was a time of catching up with Maybelle while we return back to school at 11.50pm to return equipment and the journey back home! It was good :) Hopefully we can have more of such!

OKAY, I think I just told myself that I will wake up earlier on Monday and Wednesday for the rest of the semester so that I can wake Jeri up. She cannot afford to miss or be late for Media Law! If not, MAMPUS!

I know life is getting busier, tougher and more stressful,
but remember that as you think that you are alone or that you are about to break down and cry,
be reminded that the other thirteen people are together with you in this journey.

Though we only got to know each other for barely seven weeks, you guys have been really wonderful to be with - all the laughters, joy and crazy things we do as a class.

We shall enjoy our Regional Cinema's showdown quiz with all the crazy things the few of us have came up with, do fun things like bringing Kaki Fuyong to Advanced Film Production's class, sleeping and waking up to seeing each other in the days to come!

Hang on, my dear classmates :)

I just suddenly remembered that love is leaving for holiday tomorrow. Though we haven't been meeting or talking much lately, the feeling of "missing" lingers. Sorry love, for neglecting you. I hope you have a great and enjoyable time and hopefully when you are back we could catch up! :)

Superson never fails to make me laugh!
He caught me online and actually screenshot it and sent to me, LOL.



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Okay God, I am willing to be stretched, to be tested, to be moulded.
I have so many things to do, to attend to, but I have so little time.
But by Your will, things will be done, people will grow.
I want to meet so many people, spend time with people I love, but I have limited time.
No, I am not asking for forty-eight hours, I just ask for every interaction with a person be fruitful and real :)

Helped out group two's shoot today and truly thankful to God for a good weather for their outdoor shoot :) Also made me feel blessed and thankful for my very own group. Truly excited for project two's shoot! :D

Ended the long day eating Frolicks with Jeri and continued on our conversation over many random things. Also dropped by a shop that made us all so excited about a particular thing! Man, can't even begin to describe how thankful I am to God for this great friend in life and how we are ending our FSV days together! :D

Have been working on my World Issues essay the entire morning and it is really a pain to write essay! If you ask me for my view with NO NEED of citation I would gladly do it, but with citation, it makes the entire thing so ma fan.

Anyway, so while I was working on my essay, I toggled between my facebook and essay and came across this photo I had uploaded. It still amuses me, though. There was a slight, just a slight, of discussion.


Not too long ago we exchanged messages:
jia: have a blast at church, dearie!!!
jeri: yay thank you! we have 180new youths coming! hahaha. awesomezzzzz. time to win souls for christ!
jia: woohoo so cool! remember not to be spacey!!! HAHA.

Love this girl, right Bongz?


LET'S TAKE A PHOTO SOON! :)

1. This year's Christmas is going to be different.
2. I want to finish my final semester well with my wonderful and beloved friends.
3. I am going to sleep now.

Good man are hard to come by,
that is why I seldom say "he is a good guy".


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Have been awhile since I really spend sometime with people.
Had a random thought of relaxing myself after D.I on Thursday,
C & J, want? Let me know :)

That was what Chee Meng said on Friday at CAGE.

When I was showering halfway just now, I suddenly thought of my sudden tear that rolled down my cheeks on Friday when Maybelle asked me the outcome. Supersixteen made me cried, or rather, how the entire thing was handled. But Chee Meng has been a great lecturer in cheering us up with the groundsheet, walking up and down the block to lend us his stuffs upon seeing how we were packing our equipment, driving Jeri and myself down to North Star to unload equipment, picking up Nathaniel at Geylang, fetching me to buy lunch, showing us how to do a smooth dolly and offered to do it, and many others. Thank you, Mr Lau :)

I am thoroughly tired. Sleeping for an hour and staying up under the sun for the entire day wasn't funny at all. But my heart is so filled with thanksgiving for how He has blessed us with great weather, good casts, awesome lecturer and fun classmates to work with :)

Ended today by having dinner with Esmond and Shuping at Soup Restaurant. What a good way to close up a tiring day though I didn't touch 3/4 of my rice :) Day Two, here we go! And AFP #02 is going to be exciting! :D

It is already middle of week #05.
There are many things to do and due on week #08.
Advanced Studio Production's Variety show is going to keep us real busy.

I am lack of sleep.
I just printed out some paperwork for this weekend's shoot,
but whenever I check the weather forecast, my spirit is a little crush.
God, please make it not rain, grant us a cloudy and sunny day, please?

Oh dear,
I am going to sleep and wake up at 4am
and see what else there is for me to do.

It's 4.36am and I am 3/4 done with my TV Assignment. I am going for an hour nap before heading to school for a long day of class that ends at 7pm. Man, what a way to start a long week ahead.

God, I want to trust in You for daily providence.


Goodnightys, everybody.

Tonight is going to be a long night. I have yet started on my TV Assignment and I just went out and came from fetching my mother from station because she felt faint. The reason was simply because she was working hard for me, for the family and her last meal was lunch.

My heart aches, period.