Song: Doa Buat Kekasih

Tapi Ramli Sarip tetap legend.

Vid: BM Project

Remember that I mentioned that I need to create an ad/video for BM project. Well, here it is. I think this will be the first and the last time I'll be doing something like this. Nevertheless, I had fun doing it. Trying something new is always a fun and memorable moment.

We had very little time to complete it, and none of us actually had try editing a video before, but we managed somehow to submit it properly. Enjoice !

Disclaimer: This is a work of an amateur. Noob perhaps.

P/s: Will be deleted in two weeks time

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I dream on

Like a traveller

In isolated desert searching for water

In cold winter longing for shelter

Soft wind that blew through thick woods

Watching the leaves fell onto my palm

As flock of swallows glided through the air

Singing the ballad of birds

Sweet, calm and fair

I dream on

In between the border of reality and fantasy

In between instinct and reason

Sealed ambition, confined courage

Scented hope enveloped in mind

Giving the leg another step in front

I dream on

Countless days and nights

Breathing, and hurting

How I wish to fly and keeping time

But I'm just another traveller

With nothing, without a dime

Vid: The Attendance List

I owe a lot to these people. Hee. Kalau tak pergi kelas, memang capai fon then text member.

"Weyh, tolong sign untuk aku. Thanks"

Our daily lives hero.

Becoming a scriptwriter

"Class, for one of your projects, you need to do a short video or an advertisement for a product."

"What?" is what I had in mind.

I've never done any of these, nor I've had any interest in doing a video, for fun or for a class assignment. I used to participate in school theatre and drama during highschool, but making a video is a totally different thing. When drama has a quite flexibility in storyline, and sometimes spontaneous act can be so admirable, a storyboard for a short story or video entitles a different criteria to make it interesting. And plus, you need skills in video editing and cinematography.

We chose to make an ad for "Awal Muharram / Maal Hijrah" celebration since an ad for a product is quite hard, and for other festivals, I think they are too mainstream/cliché.

I was in charge to write the storyboard and the script. I have a few ideas while I was browsing the youtube searching for meaningful ad/video for hari raya/chinese new year/deepavali celebration as well as watching videos made by famous vloggers, trying to search for an inspiration.

A 3 minutes video. Trying to connect a plot with something not to cliché, interesting enough to deliver the message of "Hijrah", not too many dialogues, short plot (due to time constrain) and well, I prefer something that is more abstract (not too straightforward) and also something that we have in our daily lives (a problem, a culture, something like that, involving society).

We barely have a month to do things from scratch, from making a storyboard to filming to finalizing the video but I'm already stuck at the first phase, the storyboard. It's a huge responsibility, and I don't know why I accepted it. If you fail to produce a good plot, you'll be filming crap.

Sigh.

Yeah, sigh, but I have a thing in mind. Hope so.

p/s: writing a story for a book is much more easier than to produce something that needs filming. Aigoo~

Hello, Again

I had a random chat with my senior from Canada.

And to point it out, she said she used to read my blog. Quite a surprise.

And then, I don't know, I just had this feeling to read back all my posts since the day that I started out this blog. A sunken feeling that I want to say "Hello" again to myself, to know what kind of a person I used to be back then. What kind of things that I wrote about, what do I feel during that time.

I found myself again.

It's not like I'm surrounded by walls or barbed-wire fences. I lead a good life, I might have to say. Not nearly as good but good enough. And to look through those emotional, pathetic, somewhat good (eh, puji diri sendiri), and mediocre posts again, I realize my own weaknesses.

Melancholy, I yearn for love. Of past, I dwell in them. Of future, I'm afraid. Of present, I struggle. Sometimes, I rise like the morning sun. Other times, I fall like autumn leaves. But that doesn't make me feel small, as I gallantly walk through those days.

I did a little time travel.

On this worldly line, I used to have passion. Greet by warring winds, I do carry prayers and ambitions. And I am the witness of myself.

I listen to myself again.

He talks to me about beauty.

Vid: The Science of Happiness