Showing posts with label Internship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internship. Show all posts

June 29, 2008

Back In Penang

After 2 months being away, i am finally back. but i felt different as though things have changed much. i wasnt excited at all to be back.
I only have one week of hols left before the new sem starts. and i havent register my subjects yet although the deadline for e-daftar is tomoro. Screw up, i wont even try e-daftar. many of my coursemates tried and was not successful in registering. wat's the point of registering anyway. I would rather do it manually at sch next week. Seems that traditional way is much better than technology in the case of the lousy system of technology which i dun understand why would they introduce it when they couldnt get things right in the first place.

I have the internship report to write which i would just scribble off everything cause i dunno wat to write. I was place in the other company which i only knew on my 1st day and if the sch were to fail me then that is too bad. I dun give a damm anymore on anything.

I cant say i dun like my intern cause i learnt much, pretty much from all the Adobe family, namely Premiere Pro CS3, Encore DVD, Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects(The one i like the most). and some technical stuff.

Will elaborate more the next time. I just need a rest.

June 21, 2008

month of hiatus

Another 1 more week and i will be back in lovely ol Penang. someone told me that it was a breeze driving in penang after the recent petrol hike. i dunno but hope it's true. =) lol.
I was one of the many thousands who queued up the day before it became rm2.70. damm.
but since i walk to work and only go out during the weekends, i save a lot on petrol.

work has been good. i'm getting better, communicating better in the language i totally have no confidence in. So far i have edited a Tv program for 11 episodes, wedding dinner, capturing corporate video, a corporate seminar, subtitle for a TV commercial which will be out real soon, capturing footage for a telemovie and many more. I have learnt much but still there is so much more to learn. On the surface, things have been okay but if you were to dig deeper, many annoying and irritating incident took place as well. I wanna try to forget it but some are as idiot as always and keep people annoyed all the times.

May 28, 2008

results came out. yes, i was disappointed. by far, my worst. but it's okay. i have two more sems to maintain my cgpa, so i will not grumble that much. I should have knew it but the paper i least expected to get the lowest, i got the lowest among the 6 subjects i took. sucks. stupid. grrr..

on the other hand, i shall be super busy next week. so coincidentally, i shall be covering an event which is taking place in FGS Dong Zen temple from 4-5th June and i will be at KLCC on the 6th.
and then 7th June is the Live show at KLCC.i sure hope is going to be fun!

watch Narnia yesterday nite. I find it pretty long and quite bored in some scenes. but overall it was ok. not too bad. prefer the 1st one better.

May 18, 2008

Blank

I cant think of wat title to put for this entry.
*sports update*
Malaysia lost to China in Thomas Cup Semifinal, I thought we should have won it but damm it.. we lost. I am disappointed.
Nicol David won the British Open, congratulations.
Ferrari winning races, Yay!
Man United crowned British Premier League Champion, YAY YAY YAY!
anything else? i cant think of any already. I am missing out on everything except working.

I will also shut myself for 2 months. i do not want to know about any politics and news about malaysia.call me naive but really, i do not have access to internet all the time and i cant depend on mainstream media to provide me the 'oh-so-one-sided' news. So to be fair to the alternative news, i will shut myself. hahahaha.
I saw glimpse of news that Raja Petra was caught. I saw the parliament debate where the talk about the Pig issue where PKR was labelled as Projek Khinzir Nasional and the opposition hit back with BN as Babi Negara. I feel that they are so stupid, why want to debate on things like that. There are so many things to talk about.. wat about the inflation rate??? what has the government done??? I remember i saw the ruling gov promised tat if they won they will try to fight the inflation rate from rising? but really what do we have so far? i cannot see anything except that we are importing more rice from thailand to keep the stock of rice at a higher rate????? blerghh.. enough said, i dun want to know anything on politics in malaysia for this 2 months until i am back in Penang. and yeah, talking about penang, bloggers are uniting to support the Penang FOR Trams project.. I wanna support it!!!! Go Penang, Go Penang Tram!!!! wuhuuuu.. this is so much cooler..
there is more to work than wat i wrote on my previous entry. Certainly language barrier is difficult for me apart from my zero skills in editing. You see, i am an idiotic in mandarin and cantonese and i rarely could speak english to others cause they might not understand me and I might not understand them in mandarin. I am trying utterly hard to grasp this dialect and language. It will take time, but i am trying real hard. More drama but i am just lazy to elaborate on that. Maybe later or never.

Now I shall try to enjoy working, and eating nice and cheap food in Petaling Jaya.

More food on my next entry!

May 17, 2008

Alived and Happy! =)

Finally finally a connection to the vritual world and not sneaking to online. I am in Cyberjaya now. I am touring here until monday and celebrating Wesak Day in a temple here. I choose not to go back cause I want to enjoy 2 months here.


Time flies by really fast. This is a backdated entry which I have typed it out long ago before I was able to find a free internet service to upload this. Yes, I am still alive in the big city of Malaysia. Everything is fine. Do not worry. I have found my way around here and know a couple of place but the traffic here is unbearable and the food is okay and expensive.
Okay, I came here earlier a week before my actual date of Internship starts. Reason being: I do not want to drive down along, so my coursemate wanted to come down earlier and I agreed. So here I am a week earlier and bumming myself around KL with its public transportation. Things are okay, either I went around or I sat at home catching up with movies and TVB dramas.
Then finally, came the day of Internship. They were four of us in one company but one reported to work wee hour in the morning cause they had shooting on that day and he was in the technical team. So, three of us reported to work at the normal working hours. The GM came who is also our supervisor explained to us what we had to do and between 3 of us, one will be chosen and put in the client’s company or so called subsidiary company for the 2 months period. Lucky me or Unlucky me, I was chosen. I knew something was about to happen but not that I am separated from the rest. I was isolated from my fellow mates and was alone. After all the briefing, I was taken to the other company which is few blocks away from my supposed place of intern. My current office consists of the bos, wife and editor , and of course plus me, the trainee, there is four of us. I was asked to intro myself and bla bla bla. Oh, that company is a post-production company which means I shall be doing editing for the 2 months period. You know, i never ever thought I am going to do editing. I never like it. And now, i am place over here where i havent got a clue of editing and the last time i edited was during last Sept 07 where we did our group short video and PSA. Even that editing was sucky cause we really dunno and now i was supposed to edit!!! After the intro and all, the Editor taught me the 1st step, capturing video, according to the cue sheet and all. It was on one company’s corporate video. Up till now, I am trying and coping with editing. And, i edited one wedding dinner’s video. Sucky. But it’s my 1st attempt, hopefully it’s not too bad. Hehe.
I am just lazy to elaborate on work but yeah, it’s life but really, i seriously dont see myself in this field. Life as an editor is to seat in the four walls room and be creative to edit and that’s the final product people are going to see. Whether how bad the shooting was or footage is, the editor plays the most important role in ensuring that the End product is good. I cannot, cannot see myself in this field yet.. just yet. So i had a good chat with the editor. She is in this line for a freaking 8 years and she likes it because she says that in pre production and production you are only seeing bits of each things but in post production, you are seeing the whole picture and she likes the feeling of seeing all and reviewing everything and be satisfied with the final work. And she can even overnight in the office a week without going back home. I admire her but certainly this is not what i want in life. I am done with 2 weeks of internship and there is 6 more weeks to go but up to this point, it is not my cup of tea yet. I could not picture myself in her position.
Talking about life, how often do we get to do things that we wanted? Are we all bosses? But how many can be? Most of us work our ass off for others and they pay us for that? is it worth what we do for them?Underpaid? I really dunno, certainly I am really lost now. I do not have a clear direction what i want and certainly this is yet another juncture for me, and it seems to me it’s a tough one. I have a year more before i officially graduate, hoepfully time is enough for me to think over what i really want to do!

It’s a long long entry,i shall end with some pictures. Enjoy!






P/s : I am not homesick, I am not missing it cause my apartment now is just like home, I have everything here except the Internet. I long to go back after a day work cause it’s very comfortable. I even have a temporary mother who takes good care after me! My life outside internship is seriously darn good....

I shall write again real soon.

April 27, 2008

Agony

I watch the ManU vs Chelsea game with painful heart man. only did watch the 1st half but still it's hard to swallow the bitter defeat. Seeing the team Sir Alex send out was a little disappointing. and seeing Vidic came out so early in the match was worst. That sumarize the day Man United was having. Seriously, so much as i dont want to admit, Chelsea really were the better team.

So now, both teams are level on points is just that ManU is on top with the better goal difference. There is only 2 more match this season and it will then be decided. But seeing ManU have 2 tough games ahead. I doubt whether they will win against West Ham. That team have so much better records against United. If MU lose next weekend, then the tittle will yours truly be with Chelsea. It's hard to accept the fact but i have to come with the worst prediction. But yeah, I am still hoping that there is still the little hope that Man U will win this title. I am still keeping my fingers crossed.

The next game that they are supposed to be focusing is against Barcelona. I do not know whether they will recover from the psychological effect of losing, but still hope they will focused on champions league if they do not want to end up this season without any trophy after playing so well throughout the season with Ronaldo and the team. else, they will eventually lose Ronaldo to a Spanish team looking to lure him there.

I shall hope Man U win any of the 2 trophies they are still playing, hoping for the best. Hahaha.

I still havent pack my stuff. I am too lazy. else i will just stuff everything and bring down to KL just like that. I will just hop to any shopping mall to buy stuff i didnt bring with me.

since i am going to be disconnected from the world, i will miss out on TV, Internet, Euro 2008, 4 F1 GrandPrix, Thomas Cup, French Open, and many many more. Hopefully, i will be able to headdown to any free Wi-fi service available and get the chance to online and update this space. Else, I shall see write after 2 months.

April 24, 2008

*update*

Three more days before i am going down to KL. have been unpacked and packed up my things. so many things to bring down until i dunno what esle that i need to pack. Now, i am feeling dejavu. I feel like dont want to go down there. haihs. i dunno how is internship going to be like, i am really scared. at the same time, i have rejected 2 part time job offer in Pg. Wat to do, i hafta go down for internship. but again, when i graduate next year, then i will be heading for a working life. how time flies, certainly no time for fun.

Last paper the other day was ok. I hand it up early as saya sudah tak tahan. wanna go out early from the hall. straight after tat, i went to help out my friend in the recycling campaign, maklumlah it's Earth Day. seriously, we waste tons of paper. damm it. you know, it's so much of papers when we went around hostel to collect it. Lecture should not use paper, they should have use powerpoint or watever can d.. and exams, just use computer to answer the questions and submit online. Wouldnt it be great and it that way, helping to save natural resources from being chopped away for our err.. not-so-useful notes that we only use to memorize for the SAKE of exams! There are tons of other recycled items as well, plactics, newspaper, etc. Damm tiring but it was FUN!! at least i did something good to our mather nature. hehe.

anyway, i have to go back to uni for the not-so-useful internship presentation tomorrow morning. and sometimes ppl are not appreciative on things we do. grrr.. why cant ppl use their brain to think more? is it that hard??? since there are four of us going to the same place for internship, i prepared a powerpoint to present in front of the lecturers tomorrow. i send it out to 3 of them asking them to see how is it, if it's not okay, they may change it. and just now, One idiot decided to text me, "how are we going to present tomoro?" if i dun bring anything, then wat i am going to present wor? @!$#%$&^*^!@#$%^* i almost wan to text the person back, "use your brain, did i already tell you that we are using powerpoint, so we have to bring our laptop to present it la!! like that also i need to tell you is it!!!!!! but no, i didnt, i politely texted that person, we are using powerpoint, so I wil just bring my laptop to present our stuff.
grrr... how easy was that? and you cant even understand what i said. i already texted them last night that i send the Darn powerpoint to you and saying we are going to present it.. is that not clear enough for you to interpret and decode the message. gr... i want to believe students are all smart but sometimes please use your brain, else if you wan me to think that you are dumb. damm it. cant stand ppl like this and now i really wonder how am i going to survive 2 months with people like this.
If i do have a heart attack, then you know who silently kill me in the 2 month internship period!

April 14, 2008

Week Ahead

seeing man united claw closer to the title with Chelsea as their only challenger to the title after 2-1 win for mu over arsenal. to be fair, it was a tight game and arsenal did had their chances, but luck was on manunited side. so yeah, they won... =)

tis wednesday, shall be my english paper. and next tues will be my last paper, marketing. and i dun even have the mood to study already. most people are done with their exams while i still have papers to go. and it will be a packed time for me as i will be heading over to KL on the 28th with my things to be done in between. bengkel pra latihan amali is the stupidest thing!!!!how could one ever do this bengkel... grrr... waste of time only..

sigh, i am excited to go for my internship, but still another half of me dont want to... Hopefully things will go on well la.. i should not be in dilemma and grumble since i am the one who decided to do my internship in kl. I should instead be happy and look forward to it.

April 05, 2008

internship

Since i am emo and no mood to study. blogging releases my tension away.

The list is out in school for the internship. Here is my entry on where I am doing my internship. JetTv at Merchant Square is where I am going to be for the 8 weeks. I have been there and the place is very new. and there is one cafe nearby there which operates 24 hours. Although the food is more pricey i think i could cope with it. So yeah, the briefing by the manager was that it’s going to be tough. She cant guarantee us whether there is any production in May/June but if there is none, all of us will be doing paper work, preparing this and that and some post-editing production. But if there is production then our working ours is not consistent. Else it will be 10 am to 6pm, Mon to Fri and Sat half day. So there goes my life. My friend and I managed to rent a room in the nearby apartment which is a walking distance from the office, so it’s good la and considering that it is also like minutes away from 1U.. so there is still source of entertainment around.. woohoo...

seriously this is going to be my 2nd time away from home for some time. hopefully i am able to cope well. shall see how things goes then. =)

January 20, 2008

swish, swosh, swash...

typically random but many happening things in the space of my last post and this entry. LEt me see, my assignment is pilling up like a mountain already and yet i never started anything knowing i have one to pass up tis tues. Blerghh.. help me as i have no idea on how to start it.

This is still a looong year to go and i wish it would be over soon enough. dun ask me why. i dun bother to apply for my practical but i get very scared and nervous when i see everyone around me working so hard to get the best place. and i start to freak the hell out of me. but after making several thinking and asking ppl around me, i decided to give up and wait for the school to make the last decision for me. That's it. but that doesnt mean i dun care about my future because i remain positive on my 3 choices would have give me a good impact in the society. GIVe me MAKNA and i will help put in more charity concerning the health stricken patient. i will do my best to help them lessen their burden, at least a lil. haha.

I wish i have time to go for a holiday. I need rest, i need peace to figure out what i want in life. i am a juncture of no-where to go and i need to find myself out. still i am on a looong journey to self discovery.

=)

January 11, 2008

of internship and "hoo-haahss" of semester

Title pretty up sums it all. Yeah, it has a been a headache time considering how short time we were given to apply for our internship.
I browse thru the 26 places for us broadcast students to apply for. All this while, i only had red communication in my mind and my objective was clear, browse the pages to see if red com was there. and straight apply for that. Yup, i did see that.. and after that i was looking down on other companies on the paper, my heart took a 180 degree turn as i saw Majlis Kanser Nasional(MAKNA) on the list for intern to the broadcast student. My choices changed. i dunno why, but i wanted MAKNA instead of Red Com. then i went back and surf the web out. although what done in MAKNA doesnt have anything related to my field of study, it doesnt matter anymore. all i wanted was to help others for their burden and hopefully they dun suffer that much.
but apart of me was still hanging on to apply for production house for a chance to practice my skills.After much and deliberate consideration.. this is my final choice..
1) Skywalker TV
2)Red Communication
3)MAKNA

there you go.. fingers crossed i will get any of the above three for i am lazy to apply by my own anymore. after that will i decide whether to rent a house or stay with my friends..

And yeah. workload begin to increase.. pratically every subject is full/loaded with assignments d. but i cant be bother to start as my mind is wandering off somewhere for i dunno where..
Lets hope that things get going soon enough for me and when i hit that gear, i am not too late with everything.

for now, let me have a peace of mind and a journey to self discovery.