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Well, I sprained my shoulder by rushing down a 200 meter sprint w/o proper warm up.

Yeah, I deserve it, I guess I'll be out training for a while... Whole arm feels weird though.

So yeah, I haven't been here awhile, been wasting time on digg . Great site to waste time, apart from my blog.

Working in the Media is awesome, and I'm havin lotsa fun...

Here's some reeeaallly skilled improv by people in the series, Thank God You're Here in Australia and the UK. Hilarious stuff, great for lectures or tutorials or just procrastinating in general... as I did for like 3 hours... =X











Haha, stick around for more of those... well, I'm off to send some emails...

Man! There reaalllyy are stupid people out there. I guess the saying goes "In this world only 2 things are infinite, Human stupidity and the Universe- I'm not sure about the latter."





Check youtube for more!

Ok, people I've been too lazy to blog lately, but here's some of my time to help you guys get the kicks in lecture or in class or at home.

Today's gonna be LIP DUB post Day!!!

Inclusive of my own class's lip dub, there are some that are really fun as well.

Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps by the Pussy Cat Dolls! and my Class.



Here's Jessica Alba's one.



Collegehumour, Busted Tees and a few other staff!!!! Yeah!!! Their Jobs are AWESOME! THEY DO THIS FOR MONEY!!!




Enjoy!!! too lazy...

Alright, so I'm gonna make it quick. Many things are happening right now and I'm still rushing to complete assignments. It's crazy!

Life's pretty hectic, I need to sit down to chat with people sometime soon, or else I'm gonna blow up.

Still, I procrastinate quite alot....

Here's a mary poppins remix for the remix.





Here's something for the guys, though I find the concept quite creative:




Bump that fist!




Amazingly, This guy's stories aren't all that interesting, but the way he tells it and his editing, he keeps his audience hooked! Great skills to emulate and learn!


Hope I took some time away from your assignments. Good luck finishing them!

Zackae Out!

Who knew that at the age of 17, I would get swarmed with so many different cross roads in life. Cross roads that would lead me to places I wouldn't even began to imagine. I don't wanna make the wrong decisions. What I wanna do, what I wanna major in, what I wanna live for, where would I be, How do I wanna live my life. I gotta start soon, or the opportunity would just pass me by...

Would another opportunity like this come? I wouldn't know. I have so much work on hand now, to plan for my future would be all but carefully thought out. I need people to go WITH me, I can't bear to face the unknown alone. I'm too afraid, never leaving my own comfort zone. I'm sure many people understand this, but they are easily contented, they stay. But I wanna break out of it and see where this roller coaster ride lands me, in the arms of the devil or in paradise. Who knows? I don't, but I wanna slowly edge my way, tipping the scales for me to enter into the world where dreams come true.

Success stories aplenty, how many among the total population actually have those stories to tell? So many questions, I cannot possible fathom the answers.

Who is willing to join me, among the craziness, to head into the world of the unknown, seeing where it would lead us. Definitely not blindly, it should be with careful planning, but not now, soon, I need to get started.... My Future is Imminent....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYvgvJ35u84


Zackae out!

Hey peoples, just to tell you guys a little about my life right now.....

well, you see.... It's been 6 weeks since the start of my second year in TP CMM.... and it has been quite tough up until now....

Time has been flying by as I try to get shit ready and stuff.. but now, during the so called 'TERM BREAK' (remember the phrase is only referred to loosely by our lecturers) I have assignments that could take years to complete, but due in about 2~3 weeks time.

Hurray! Three cheers for work cramped up like people trying to get a bus ride in Calcutta.

Current Checklist of Projects and assignments:

Lip Dub
BMR Pilot Survey
BMR Individual Lit Review
Film Journal x3
Film Term Paper
Filming & Editing of Public Service Announcement
Filming & Editing of Television commercial
Interviewing and Packaging Audio of 'Why I love the music that I do'
Audio Commercial
Filming and Editing and Trouble shooting of Pledge Film Competition

Percent Completion: ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 10% Completion

All to be done by the end of June.

Oh and by the way, just a shout out to anyone who has a vehicle available for transportation of Cameras and Tripods and stuff on 20th and 21st of June please contact me! Need your help desperately!


Now, on to the lighter stuff,

This guy's patience in editing is..... wow...



And here are a couple of original songs that are seriously SERIOUSLY awesome, take a listen, you can do your work later...









Wanna write songs like their's someday, haha I wanna do many things someday, but time.. just don't let me...

NOW GO BACK TO WORK!!!

Zackae Out! Comment!

Right, so I know most of you are having exams and here's some news, I don't!

BUT, holidays are packed as shit with assignments, so what's the diff?

Working on some creative projects recently... not for school, for myself, for fun and for my future portfolio =)

Participating in the Video Competition for National Day- My Pledge. We haven't decide on the story line and stuff yet anyway lol, it's just the signing up that's done. Hope we will think of some awesome ideas.

Right err, on a more serious note.. I realised as I got older, I kinda noticed more things, things where I thought didn't mean anything actually plays a huge role in people's relationships, be it friends, couples or family. Got lotsa tendencies to predict how people's gonna act after hearing or after something happens. I do get things wrong sometimes, but I mean, better safe than sorry right?

Ok, right so here's for you guys who want some more entertainment:

Here's the Shamwow advertisement, I'm sure it was on Singapore quite sometime ago, and now it's becoming a hit in America:



and here's his other advertisement, Slapchop:



aaaanddd.... DO NOT MISS THIS, LISTEN TO THE WHOLE REMIX ROFLMAO:





HAHA! Zackae Out! Comment!

Greetings, people of the interweb. I haven't been posting much because I've been, yes, you guessed it! ...... Pretty busy lately.

Basic Media Research is a module I think is responsible for the high suicide rates among teenagers. Imagining going through academic journals with several pages with a detailed analysis and then arranging them in the order for your OWN journals. Hurray! See you detest the module already.

OK, enough with the mundane stuff. The new intake in our Kayak racing team is quite good, with many people with potential. Though the key to unleash it is by balance and technique... which I'm still struggling with... However, I sure am motivated by them self-training, some even every day!

As for the entertainment part, I think CMM should have another 'tak kiu' session. Was fun going back to play soccer after I've stopped play with secondary school mates.

Just did a film critic on this movie called O Brother, Where Art Thou? and the songs are GOOD.

Here's the 3 main ones that are awesome. Go, get hooked on them.








Post comments! Zackae out!

I don't know what's the deal these days. People are all trying to get famous by doing covers on Youtube. Granted, there are many artistes who HAS got Youtube to launch them into stardom, but you see desperate people trying to get themselves noticed with their head barely out of the water.

However though, there's this 14 year old girl Krista Nicole that deserves her spot in Hollywood. She just needs a Music Label to go along with her voice. Her covers of Taylor Swift's songs are good!



I've just handed in a Public Service Announcement and a Television Commercial proposal and have 3 Film Journal entries to hand in next week. Trouble deciding the other 2 movies and if I should do one on a chic flick =/.

Here's one of the scene of one of the Film that I'm writing on. American Psycho.

Sadly, I can't embed the video, you'll have to go to Youtube to watch. Here's the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIvd3zzu4Y

Here's one of the Articles from Collegehumour that is funny as hell,

Parents Just Dont Understand: 5/13 on CollegeHumor, It's about how people in the older generation don't get how technology works.

Go check that out.

Hope you guys enjoyed that! Zackae Out!

How are you guys? Still hanging on? It's my 4th week into school now and the deadlines are COMIN' IN! Late nights are getting more frequent now and there aren't even for entertainment- they are for assignments. So life's getting a little confusing right now, with mixed up priorities, procrastination and plain laziness. But, I'll still churn out work no matter.

Entertainment will always be in my life regardless, so here's something to help you guys get through your load of work:






Haha! Enjoy! ZacKae Out!

Sorry but I just have to put this on. Damn it's funny as hell.

Life has been pretty mundane recently, everything going smoothly. Although deadlines are getting nearer and the imaginary Gordon Ramsay is gonna make me bite my own ass if I don't get everything done on time.

School's gonna be a whirlwind this semester! Love script writing and coming up with stuff, getting creative, basically. It's just that, editing and doing the storyboard is just oh-so-tedious. Still, I'd rather do this then sit in class stoning with my graphic calculator trying to figure out algebra formulas.

Had my Understanding Theatre CDS earlier on and Samantha is quite a partner. Had a great time reading lines with her. On a side note, I do very often get crappy roles to act out lol.

So here's a little bit a cheering up for you guys out there who are just bored and visiting my blog for the kicks and procrastinating your work.

Cyanide and Happiness:


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Had enough?


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Cyanide and Happiness day!


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Man that one made me LAUGH!


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And the last one before I'm out


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See you guys!

Hey Hey people! Seems like the general mood of everyone I know is improving, considering the number of times "yay!", "happy" and "excited" appeared over my friends' facebook status updates.

I'm not doing too bad either. Rash has more or less disappeared. Most prolly because I didn't trick on grass, or on any where else for that matter. Passed the Kayak Racing Team Trials! Endured 1 hour of torture man. My shirt was drenched in I think pretty much every bodily fluid I could discharge. Super thirsty at the end. Man! The bridge was the killer. I could handle the push ups and sit ups, but the bridge sucked every once of energy I had left away in just about 5 seconds.

Understanding Theatre is an incredibly FUN-filled CDS ever. We get to act out characters, inanimate entities and animals all in a day.

So we had this particular exercise where we walked around in speeds between 1~10, 5 being average walking speed around the classroom. The speeds we were to walk in was given by my tutor and sometimes he would randomly call out a student's name. The student had to immediately go into a character and say something or make a sound associated with the character he/she is playing. The rest of us had to go to the person and mimic the character exactly, in both action and sound. So this one time, he called out my classmate Elaine. She wasn't prepared so she shouted "Oh Shit!" and almost immediately she got an echo of about 20 people saying "Oh Shit!". LOL. How fun is it to hear so many people shout "Oh Shit!" at the same time?

Helped coach to carry some boats from Pasir Ris PA Water Venture to be refurbished for us to use in the near future. We get to use the boats that coach trained to become Singapore's fastest rower! Wooo! But most of them were in pretty bad condition. I was positive I could crush a boats bow with my bare hands. That was how poor the boats' condition were. Still, those antiques were and eye opener. Very different from the boats we're using right now.

Going for the CornerStone mass run tomorrow even though I didn't sign up. lol. Just for fun.

Sam See introduced me to this website Fmylife.com . It's a website where people posts events where they got their day or even their lives f***-ed up. Pretty amusing to see others in extremely hilarious plights and situations. Go check it out. Great to kill time.

Improv Everywhere has a great motto: We cause scenes.

Here's the ultra famous scene they caused, even reported on the news I think.



Thanks for reading! Comment!

Zackae Out!

Heh, My first competition on a K-1 boat basically, as expected, turned out to be a bust. LOL. I lost to everyone like about 100 meters.

It was funny seeing everyone zooming ahead of me after the starting horn was blown. *Honk* *6 other people flew in front, leaving me about 50 meters away from them in a span of about 10 seconds*

No worries though, my aim was to complete the race and that I did.

School on the other hand is awesome as usual. Though I know I am slowly gonna lose my life away because of the hours I have to put into my course work. Have a great bunch of friends in my new class 03, messing around with the cameras and such.

Tomorrow is the day. I'm gonna be the Last Man Standing at the Sports Complex tomorrow. I will EARN my place in the team. Already waiting to wear my shades for a loooooooong time.

Yeah about my tricking, it seems tricking on grass gave me a horrible itch. So I was planning to work out something with the Captain of TP blazers about borrowing their mats. My aerial and 540s will hopefully come soon.

Right other than that, the only new thing in my life is Restaurant City. Pretty addictive and most importantly a Time Killer. Check it out if you haven't already. It's on Facebook.

It seems the Britain's Got Talent do usually have skilled dance crews participating, but their synchronization is somewhat a bit off. Nonetheless, it's a good performance. Here's the latest group, Diversity:

Hey ho peeps. It's the beginning of a new semester! Yay! ...NOT

Missed not having any deadlines on the back of my head ALREADY. It's barely even a week since the new term started.

Well, I'm in year 2 now. Having some awesome awesome modules like Film Theory and Critic + Single Cam Production + Audio Production. Who could ask for more? Lovin' it! Not the deadlines, so just to clarify I'm not contradicting myself.

PA Paddle this weekend and trials for the team next week. Am I up for it? I can say with 90% confidence for both. I know I'll finish my 300 meters race on Saturday or Sunday but I won't win anything. My physical condition is at it's best ever since I was born and I'm pretty sure I'll pass the trials.

Gotta give Props to my Vice Captain Kok Wei for putting in effort to change. I can see that he knows what position he is holding right now and is living out his duties. His willingness to accept constructive criticisms is commendable.

Aside from living out my dream job of working either in Saturday Night Live or College Humour, my life has been quite fulfilling lately.

Though tricking just gave me a rather bad rash after a few sessions on grass. Arrugh, Nature is making a fool outta me. drill tornadoes drill tornadoes drill tornadoes.

Great to see some of me friends from Poly to talk trash with. haha that's just so awesome.

Meh, Runny nose and Cough medicine making me REALLY DROWSY. Just watched Inkheart and I must say, although there are a few instances where the character's decisions didn't make any logical sense, the whole film is actually quite entertaining. Go watch.

Here to leave you with some French Acrobat that does subway stunts. Yeah, go figure.



Right so see you in school or whenever I see you

Zackae Out!

No, not the game you were thinking. Swimming, running, rowing, tricking, burpese, pull ups in the span of 2~3 days can literally drain your system so much that you'll have trouble moving around the following days.

Swam and Ran for pretty much half of the day yesterday and then proceeded on the trick later in the afternoon is taxing! But, I love being air-borne while doing a trick.

I have to increase my flexibility. My kicks look noob-ish and really fugly. I wanna hook kick someone in the face with style!

School's reopening and I don't know why but they like to release the time table a few days before school starts. Like how is that gonna get us prepared huh?HUH?

Yay for new intake, boo for doing trials lol! But, I'm kinda confident with my physical condition now to take all of it.

Must get this trick down someday: Cheat Gainer




ZacKae Out!

Attended their wedding at Cornerstone Community Church and boy, it was wonderful. Friends and Family put up performances for them and some parts got people crying.

Sorry I couldn't go for your wedding dinner! (Even though I was the one who requested it...)

Went to dinner with YHFC instead, celebrating Sel's birthday at weirdly the Coffee Club. Their overpriced foods don't even taste that good. lol

I'm very interested in tricking right now but I need to find people to trick with... Man it's hard to find people with the same interest...

Still practicing on the basic "hook kick" and the "tornado kick".

Here's a College Humour mock advertisement I've been wanting to post up for quite some time:




ZacKae out!

Guess it's one of those times in our lives that people take for granted. When something goes wrong, we suddenly remember how much peach we had before it happened. This few days are days where time is spent doing the standard routines. Going to training, eating, sleeping, repeat.

I'm not complaining, it's not that bad.

Who knew that so many people were playing on Garena using pirated versions of Left 4 Dead, Warcraft III or Call of Duty. But playing with friends on L4D is a definite stress reliever.



YouTube is seriously awesome!

I wanna do Stand-up one day, Here's Pablo Fransico, he's good!



Here's his Jackie Chan bit.


Haha! Enjoyed that? There's more. But I'll show them next time

Zackae out!

Gah! I think I have a bad case of Verbal Diarrhea. Sometimes I say things without thinking and in the end, I cause either a misunderstanding or insult someone. Man!

Many things I've said that I wish I could take back.

The worst is still facing the people that I've uncontrollably leaked my vocal waste onto. Awkward!

As we grow older, I believe we will speak less and definitely less openly with others. It's an inevitable progression but yet an all-so-necessary one. Tell me, who would rather speak their mind and be a douche than keep quiet and be an amiable person?

But boy, is it hard to shut the fudge up. Sometimes I gotta remind myself to keep the fudge quiet or I'll cause more misunderstandings.

Mouth-Filter Mouth-Filter Mouth-Filter


I guess sometimes it is the perceived anonymity of the Internet or the convenience to voice out one's opinions to millions of other people that-
1) Bypass the Mouth-Filter
2) Feelings multiplied exponentially by the magnitude of people reading the opinion

I often say things I don't mean on the Inter-web with my own username to my friends/peers. I seriously need more self control lol.



To People I have offended on the web due to lack of pre-Mouth-Filtering, I sincerely apologise and I will try my best to prevent the same thing from happening again.

Here comes an entry a little heavier than my usual self. Training has been alright but there's just a constant gap in the team that I'm currently in. So many obstacles to overcome, so many trials to go through to prove myself. The upcoming trials will definitely test my mental ability. However, I don't know how far it will be stretched....

I'm afraid and a little frustrated by the fact that the same feeling of uncertainty has settled upon a bemused heart like mine.

It was during last October when I found out that a Sports team in TP was taking in new people. Bryan told me that the canoeing team was recruiting and I actually had a shot at entering. I was shocked. I heard the trials were mad crazy, with friends getting hellish bruises on their bodies during sit ups. I don't know if the pain and the mental torture was worth it because I don't know what's canoeing like. I have never actually seen a racing kayak (or even a bandit for that matter) before and I didn't know what to expect. I talked to some of the existing members the first one being Josh to find out more about what to expect and if there were trials this time round. But the one that gave me the most confidence was oddly Dion.

This was the first time in Polytechnic that I had the feeling of uncertainty (apart from tests and exams). I didn't know I could even take it because of my poor physical condition. Dion consoled me and assured me that I had a chance because the team convinced coach to remove the trials and allowed us to leave on our own accord during the consecutive trainings. I really felt that this was a shot for glory I could take and I went for the "Orientation" by the team. We played "medicine-ball rugby" and were briefed by coach for the first time.

I was mentally prepared for the challenges up ahead but a few other incidences caught me by surprise. I had a few misunderstandings with the team, but I gritted my teeth, thickened my skin and continued to push on. Though these misunderstandings did leave a scar in the relationship between me and the team, I believe we have moved on.

And then it came. Coach told us that the remainder, despite showing up for trainings, were only meant to be cut down to even lesser people. That was the second time the feeling struck me. My seat is not made of stone. In fact, it's made of sand that will be washed away by the moving water unless I continue to show my worth by building the seat higher. We had a sculling test which I didn't go so that didn't assure me a spot in the team (that's not concrete either.)

A few weeks later, there was something which I could hold on to, some confirmation. We had a 2.5km race, up to the 500m mark and back and a 300m or 500m sprint, I can't really remember which but I came in first for both. I was elated. Coach praised me and I was on cloud nine.

I knew I could remain in the team. I wouldn't be kicked, although I can't say the same based on my relationship with the team. There was no team spirit among the new intake and the previous one, there wasn't any solid team bonding. Honestly speaking, there really isn't any right now either.

Fast forward 4 months later, I am finally on a K-1 boat. I've endured some trainings (though it isn't all that tough from what I gathered from the seniors), I find out that the whole time, my batch was still on "Probation". Wow that kinda hit me like a bus. I knew that there will still be trials for the '09 intake. I, out of my own will, want to participate in the trials in order to prove my worth that I will still  be in the team despite my outcome. And because of that I will, train to the best of my ability not to throw the team's image away (which I have been doing so often as according to my seniors).  Instead, I have to participate in the trials like any other and will be subjected to the same as the new intake- leaving the team if you can't make it through.

I respect the decision since it's by coach and I also am willing to prove my worth. I don't wanna be the kid who got the position because he's father is the CEO (You get my drift?). But it is unsettling all this while to be ridiculed and be told that it's not going to work, that I can't make it for 6 months and then the message reinforced during the trials. Boy oh boy, I know I am not going through much compared to other people but still my heart is heavy. Insecurity and the lack of confirmation thereof is a mental killer. You can literally dig through your whole body inside out just to get an answer and then be willing to roll over and die.

Can I make it? No, it should be "I must make it". I heard that physical training can only prepare you so much, but my mentality pivots the outcome. I'll be stretched to my limit. Janice will be there, Charles will be there. I promise to support them as much as possible because we will be able to wear the "Temasek Polytechnic Team Canoeing" shirt with pride, because we earned it. It isn't only a shirt when you've been through toil and turmoil for it.



It says: "The Difference Between A Successful Person And Others Is Not A Lack Of Strength, Not A Lack Of Knowledge, But Rather In A Lack Of Will"

Well, It's Go Time.

ZacKae out!