After thoughts of a month long project.

i havent been updating my entries because i’ve really been busy with a month long project on Singapore. This project is supposed to be a showcase of how unique Singapore is compared to the rest of the world. But it isnt your usual “Visit Singapore” campaign kind of ad. We had to actually come out with a physical product to tell the world about Singapore and her flavours.

My team came out with a couple of ideas, but narrowed down to one. Our concept revolved around a very singaporean take on eight different issues in Singapore, namely, Kiasuism, Education, Social Media, Merit System, security, censorship, singlish and Foreign talent. We wanted to engage the audience with these issues. so we portrayed a different side of every issue and got the audience to break the fences they usually sat on. We used T-shirts to portray the eight different issues of our Motherland. Its quite a pity that time was a constraint because we could have sold the tops to see which side of which issue actually struck a heart with the audience.

i’d LOVE to go into the details of the project, but it will bore the hell out of anyone. so i’ve attached links to a supplementary video we did for the project. and of course, a making of and compilation of spoofs and bloopers.

all in all, its been an awesome time with these fifteen people i worked with. from the people who handled the packaging, to the people doing the video, and the whole conceptual development, everyone kew their roles, everyone knew that it was up to them to stand in the gap, and no one else was going to stand up for them. whenever they saw some other “department” of people in need, they helped, they stood in, they made the difference. i learnt a lot in this project, apart from the technical skills itself. i learnt not to judge a book by its cover, when we first came together, we had a different perception on each other. i was thought to be an all boys school kid. others were thought to be lazy. but we quickly threw those perceptions out and worked. and after the end of it, i think our idea was great, our execution was awesome. because everyone played the same game.

can this project be better? sure it cane, with more time, with more money, with greater printing experience and guidance, sure we can. but as of now, i’d say we’ve put in our best foot forward and im impressed with these people whom i worked with. To Ahmad, Azhar, Hansel, Azri, fadz, Lili, Sarah, Jiayi, Gwen, Jacky, Lynette, Carlsson, Yazid and Seph, you guys made me see what a great team is all about, the essence of a good team is passion for what you do, mutual respect for each other, standing in the gap for those times when the others were in need and believing that the idea was good and sticking to it even when we doubted ourselves.

School.

I know i havent updated whats going on in my life for a long time. maybe its the sudden increase in certain priorities in my life. Certain ones i neglected.

i officially started school two, coming to three months back. its been really awesome. i think this one year will be a milestone year in my life. i am learning, but above and beyond that, i am forging friendships which i think will last long. i guess my experience working in We! Interactive has helped me tremendously in my route towards my goals in school. i thank the people who have sown into my life.

School has made me see a new perpective on life. i believe everyone has the ability and knowingly or unknowingly, he/she plants seeds into other people’s life. What they can choose however, is whether they choose to sow good seeds or bad seeds into others’ lives. you sow lies, fake personalities and gossip, you reap an image of lies, fake personalities and gossip in your mind (and more importantly, others’ minds too.) But if you sow a positive image unto others, if you lift them up when they are down, if you start being yourself, start getting real, you actually create a positive image unto people’s minds. and all that popularity and fame will come to you. Chasing after superficial things like popularity, fame, they all fade sooner or later. it will be but just a figment of one’s imagination. but if one causes a positive change into someone’s life, he plants an idealogy into his thoughts. He makes the person think, and change for the better.

in everything we do, do it with passion, do it with love. hard work pays off. last minute work doesnt, and never will pay off. keep a good attitude, never lie. lying covers up the truth, the more you lie, the truth gets covered deeper and deeper. one day it might get covered so deep, its difficult to dig out even when you want to. “feeling awkward” is but just a feeling. push it aside. do something great. we fall hard, or excel, at least we tried.

i leave everyone with this tune i heard.. (omg, i can go on and on about how good this piece is. the guitar is simple and good, olivia sings perfectly…)

Some say love, it is a river
That drowns the tender reed
Some say love, it is a razor
That leaves your soul to bleed
Some say love, it is a hunger
An endless aching need
I say love, it is a flower
And you, its only seed

It’s the heart, afraid of breaking
That never learns to dance
It’s the dream, afraid of waking
That never takes the chance
It’s the one who won’t be taken
Who cannot seem to give
And the soul, afraid of dying
That never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snow
Lies the seed
That with the sun’s love, in the spring
Becomes the rose