“Here they are, Ladies & Gentlemen… I hereby present to you the Best Movies in Hollywood & Bollywood over the years… Starring the winners and nominees for Best Actors and Best Actresses blahblahblah… ”
(Click on the posters for larger images)
These are the posters my company D&D committee had appointed me “Art Director” to do the ‘morphing’ work of employees’ faces to real movie posters. (I have no idea why they call it morph when true morphing involves animated change of faces). Not all are of professional standard, but we sure got a good laugh out of ‘em. Responses were mixed with colleagues not recognizing themselves, suspense when some are trying to name who’s who, and the “Hey!!! I didn’t realize I can look that good (... or bad)” reactions.
Overall, the works were not that hard but just time consuming, so I didn’t exactly put 100% effort on them. Why should I? Why should I slog an hour each night Mon-Fri after work for a week, 5 hours each day Sat-Sun for TWO weekends, making my wife feel neglected, and they are after all only for FUN. No monetary reward. No recognition to help my career in anyway. Then I thought again that I’m still happy in the end that everyone enjoyed it. It’s still worth the effort when the posters can leave a legacy that can help remind everyone the TRUE definition of FUN with this company they can never find in another organization. I’m happy it helps make this last company D&D a memorable one…
Schweetiee… see what I meant? They’re not that hard to do. It’s the coordination of what movie posters and whose faces to fit nicely that took most of my time doing them.
Oh! Btw… can anyone find me in the posters? (Clue: “Mode. Edna Mode… Cricketing of cannons ... and guest.”)
Been busy with 2 of the many merger integration projects (though it’s officially a ‘merger’, the bigger one themahem… eats up the smaller one uschee! by logic).
Has been offered a new role with the bigger company, effective coming Feb. Has met my big boss already. Nice lady. I’m sure I’d enjoy the new experience… Thrilled!
Going to India for a 2-days meeting this coming week… Not sure what to expect. No time for sightseeing.
The company D&D was a success! Comments from our HR Director: the morphed posters I did was an unexpected highlight of the night with the most positive feedback. 10 of the 12 posters we displayed around the ballroom were stolen by end of night!
Running 10-km for the Dec 4 Standard Chartered Marathon. (Not really prepared… think I might do as well as last year…)
Can’t wait for Schweetiee & Benny to be back! Holiday season will only be officially declared upon their touchdown.
I think I’ve busted my monthly bandwidth with that huge Twilight file. I’ve removed the link for good. For anyone who wish to get it, please e-mail me personally.
Having read Clapbangkiss’s blog posts for the past week, it suddenly dawned to me how lucky I am. When I’m seeing netizens evolving into bloggers telling dramtic episodes of their everyday life, I was at first wondering if I’m on the wrong planet. With so much scandals and gossips circulating around ordinary netizens these days (a phenonmenon only occuring to entertainers and politicians in the past), I was almost convinced that I’m the only one left in this world who does not have such drama to tell…
... Then it hit me. Why should I even bother to wonder? True to Dawn’s words ”... as if we don’t have enough drama in our daily lives”, we do have our own personal drama of various scales. There are those who live a life full of stories to tell everyday, while there are others (like myself) who have little to share when the usual catching-up “How’s life?” question comes up. Broken marriages, infidelity, bankruptcy etc. aren’t exactly fictional and aren’t popularly used as elements for good TV soup operas anymore. They are so common these days at our urban pace of life here in Singapore that stories told in movies and paperbacks are moving towards the next school of ‘extraordinary stories’ compared to those our parents used to read.
I’m leading a very simple life. And I should be glad of this. With a boring but stable job, a happy marriage, a variety of constructive hobbies and last but not least a peaceful family, what is there to complain about? Absolutely nothing! Sure there are worries about future and financial needs, but who doesn’t have these?
Bottomline of these is simply what an individual aspire to achieve in his/her life. The more sophistications one wants to live with, the more complications one should expect. The limelight game of popularity is not a simple path. With more people knowing about your existence and your life, there will definitely be more comments, good or bad, about your personality. The term “friends” has such a wide scope of definitions these days. Other than referring to those who are true friends who care, it is also so conveniently used to refer those ‘associates’ whom one had known only recently, or ‘hi-bye’ friends whom one hardly knows very much about. It’s just a matter of time before negative comments come to you from some of these so-called ‘friends’.
Putting the popularity game aside, ‘having fun’ is also another term used as an excuse for troubles many created for themselves. Catching up with true friends is naturally a way of ‘having fun’, be it hanging out over coffee, or going crazy together at parties. However, admitting it or not, there seem to be many who have a second motive when hanging out to have fun with ‘friends’: to be seen/heard with so-and-so. The objective of this motive is to know people who knows many people, or to give the impression that you do. That way, the attention-seeking motive is achieved.
So that comes back to the simple million-dollars question: What is your aspiration in life? Do you get satisfaction and your sense of achievement from being popular, or rather, being constructive? Dawn… or anyone reading this, you might feel that I’m directly being an antagonist to your lifestyle… I’m not. I’m just speaking in general of what I’ve observed, seen and heard. I have nothing against anyone, and I am not judging. I might not understand your innermost personality, but that’s how others like myself perceive your plight. Rumors out of jealousy or not, there has to be a reason why such rumors are started or jealousy provoked.
I think I’m digressing…
As I mentioned, I recently realized that I’m leading a simple life, and I should be happy about it. I’m free of all the dramatic complications in my life. I don’t have disturbing rumors about me. Though it can be boring sometimes, I think I’d rather forgo the fun part of being popular just to stay peaceful.
After 150 over Mondays I’ve struggled out of bed unwillingly to head for work, I’m still faced with the usual post-weekends blues. That’s right, it’s not ‘Monday Blues’ but the post-’holidays’ blues along with all post-weekends and post-publichols alike.
Long gone are the days when Monday Blues were less noticeable during school days, when time-table changed by the quarters and when I used to start the school weeks on Tuesdays. Working life start on Mondays and ends Fridays irregardless. The change of mindset from 3-4 off-peak days to full 5 work days weeks is a long process. I must admit I have still not accustomed the auto-weekends-to-Mondays-switch.
I’m no longer complaining the inactivities I’m faced over weekends. I’ve gotten comfortable with spending some quality time with my wife and also extra time to play around with music-mixing. (Now coming to my on-going mentioning about my music-mixing hobby, I’d tell another story in separate post.) Without the must to finding new things to overcome boredom, we now find quality time together over weekends just doing the usual things, even doing housechores and laundry. Sound sweet and almost out of a fairy tale, doesn’t it?
Well… not exactly. When you are faced with someone consistently for 2 days every week, familiarizing an individual’s personality and body language, there can easily be times of constriction on space. When you are becoming so predictable and likewise having in your mind someone whom you can predict almost every moves and words, your automotive sensors would start to get lots of firewall parameters.
Don’t get me wrong. This is not a complain, nor is it a bad thing. It’s just a phase to get to know your partner better in a way. Yes, many who have had long cohabitative relationships would have argued that a couple should delegate some time and space for their individual selves. I would not disagree, but I think it is still possible to maintain a sticky relationship if each knows how to assimiliate the other’s behavior. When I feel like doing something on the computer, she’d leave me be and do some chores. When her part is done, I’d take a break and let her surf the internet while I start my part. When both parties get involved with mundane things like housechores, conflicts can be avoided.
That’s my thought for a Monday morning… (Jeez, I sure have a long week ahead…)
Oh! Btw… Great news to share! I’ve got my new role at the newly merged company. In other words, I’m offered a job instead of being classified redundant… so… YAY!!!
Hmm. Other than Mel-o’s note about how slow Twilight download, I don’t see any other comment on that post. Perhaps music isn’t a popular topic here. I shall keep my focus on other topics then.
Had a strange dream last night. I dreamt of three persons. One was Sunsun, one was someone who’s supposedly my friend (but I can’t recognize who she was) and the third was Sunsun’s friend (who’s a stranger and a new friend to me).
Doesn’t sound strange at all? Wait… that’s not all. The strange part about this dream is that all three characters in this dream were the same… They’re all Sunsun. While Sunsun as my wife looked like herself, the other two – my friend whose face I don’t recognize and Sunsun’s friend whom I’m a stranger to – were two other versions of her who don’t look like her. As strange as some dreams we might find when we wake up from them, I was totally aware that there were three Sunsuns, with two not looking like her, and yet not feeling strange about it.
There were mixed elements in the dream. The setting was a chalet with a small group of friends (whom the rest I don’t quite relate to). Being movie-like watching myself (in my 1st person perspective) interacting with three versions of the same person, I treated each with a different level of intimacy. While Sunsun in herself is just as physically intimate as she is in real life to me, Sunsun as my friend was a little less.
Between this friend-Sunsun and myself, there is this child-like kind of friendship… simple and innocent. On one instant in the dream, she jumped out of the shower thinking there isn’t anyone in the room and while a little shocked to find me there, she just stood there naked and asked me to help her get a towel. She was not embarrassed by her nakedness, nor was I embarrassed that I’m faced with a friend who’s naked in front of me. Do not be mistaken of any erotic element in this episode. It was pure innocent connection between us that was comfortable. It was this that tells me that this was Sunsun in personality. She felt just like a friend or a sister who made me feel like a child again. The connection between us was like that of two 5 year old kids… simply innocent.
It was the third Sunsun-persona who was a little more naughty. While this stranger-Sunsun was seemingly slimmer and mysterious, she was the kind who frightens me yet entises me at the same time. Possessing the devious side of the real Sunsun, this stranger-Sunsun kept seducing me the whole time, knowing that I’m her best-friend’s hubby. While knowing this is also Sunsun in another persona, I kept resisted each attempt of seduction. At the back of my mind, I just knew this stranger-Sunsun smells of trouble and I just wanted to avoid getting myself burnt. Yet at the same time, as human as one might be enticed to danger, I welcomed a few seconds of physical contacts but escaped before it got too hot. It was very much like putting my hand into a flame for feeling a second of masochistic pleasure in the pain.
Strange enough? Three versions of the same person in my life. Three different connections. What does this dream really mean? I’m still pondering. Perhaps someone can give me an interpretation of this all?
Here it is, my first full album mix attempt. Genre is a combination of hard trance and hard dance. Inspired by memories of the adrenaline rush I used to get from rave parties back during my school days in US. Most with futuristic electro sounds and some with heavy bass. All pacing fast at 145 to 149 BPM. Enjoy!
Playlist
1. Save The Future – Save The Robot
2. Be My Lover – Lisa Pin-Up
3. Robot On Drugs – Save The Robot
4. Never End (Hellhouse New Edit) – Yoji Biomehanika
5. Freedom (Lee Haslam Remix) – Dave Holmes
6. Intruder – Armin vs M.I.K.E.
7. iRobot – Save The Robot
8. System – Oliver vs PBM
9. Flood Control – GTR
10. Electro Chemical – Save The Robot
11. Cruize – Ingo presents Guffy
