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There is this new project at work recently where we have to come up with little skits and video-cam ourselves. (By the way, if someone tells me he or she has to video-cam himself or herself, i would think of low budget porn straightaway. Dunno why. I think becos i have trash friends who had been injecting dirty stuff into my head from more than a decade ago, that's why.)

Being a perfectionist, I have many ideas on how we can film ourselves and the angles to take so that it's not so boring, and it'll look very much like how it does on TV. So for our first shots, I wasn't too pleased and wanted to re-take the whole thing, despite 374,638 NGs.

However, before I can suggest a re-take, a team-mate expressed that this is not her real work and she wanted to get her priorities right. That is, this project is not worth taking up so much of her time. She is not wrong. But am i obsessive with getting everything done with my best put in?

I don't know.

Anyway, I just want to say, it's damn tough being both an actor and a director. When I play director, I have to explain and get the team to understand how the angles should be taken, and the "steps" they gotta take in order to achieve the required results. Somehow, words are interpreted differently and eventually, the angles for most scenes are just not what I had initially wanted. But this is teamwork, so if the rest of the team think it's fine, then so be it. After all, being one of the actors, the re-takes and NGs had really worn me out.



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On other news, a friend just had a little baby girl and I went to the baby shower alone yesterday. Some friends came and left, while the others weren't there yet. I was left alone among hordes of people for quite a while. Despite the mommy trying to find time to talk to me, she was most busy and I couldn't keep her to myself for long.

It is during times like this that I would think: Thank goodness I smoke.

Congratulations to Cheryl and Wee Yong on the arrival of little Megan. Despite her size, Megan has really beautiful eyes.