Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Been a while

Wow. I don't know how long it's been since I used this, got hooked on Tumblr. But now that has more people reading than this one did. Maybe this can be of more use, more serious or personal thoughts. I don't know.

Right now what mostly absorbs my thoughts is what I want to do with my life, and I'm not really sure. I guess I'm afraid, afraid of being lost like my brother and sister are. My brother has absolutely no clue what he wants to do, and it's been bringing him down for the last few years. I fear that he falls into little bit of depression and doesn't know where to go. I don't want to be lost like he is. It hurts to see him this way. He's a smart guy, he's just totally lost and has no direction. And then there's my sister, who seems like she has more of her life together, but she studied something she only partially liked, finished it because she had already spent so many years of her life on it and now is completely occupied by her job that it's hard to talk to her. She's so anxious and just kind of has a negative sort of energy around her. I feel like she's wound up too tight. She really needs to relax. I miss the sister I used to talk more to during my first two years of college. I've never been that close to my sister cause of the age difference and the fact that she's been away most of my life. I've always admired my sister and looked up to her, to the point that I would imitate her, but I've never been as close to her as I am to my brother.

I just don't know what to do. I don't want to be lost like they were. I want to know what I want but I'm not sure. And it really scares me.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Because I feel like it and I've been thinking of things

I am bored right now so here I am. It's been a while since I blogged. I've never been the kind of person that can maintain a diary or a journal. I get bored quickly.

But on a side note, as of today I've been quite entertained reading The Anonymous Production Assistant's blog. It's interesting to hear about what my life after college will probably be like. I'm not the kind of person to read blogs (outside of my friends' but most of them hardly do so as far as I know) but I enjoy this one. It's nice to read it and know what he's talking about a bit, especially when he mentions a show or a film theory. It makes me both excited and terrified for life after college. I know it's going to be hard and time consuming, whether I'm on a job or job searching. And I'm coming to terms with the fact that I will probably have to live in LA for the next few decades, hopefully get to live in NYC for sometime at least. I will also be needing to get a car by the time I graduate from college and very possibly before next summer, when I'll hopefully be interning, which means I'll be suck in LA.

So I guess what I'm realizing is this will be the last summer before I have to I'm really going to immersed in that world and my life in Daly City will be becoming more and more of just my hometown where I go to visit instead of live. I'll be seeing less and less of my families and friends here, which makes me very sad, but this is the career I choose and I have to at least try it out for a couple of years.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Yo

I haven't blogged in FOREVER and yet I suspect this will be a short post.

So yeah, life. Got 3 weeks of class left and then about a week and a half of study break/exam and then I go home. Might be an usher for Commencement for the School of Theatre. If I do then I'll be staying in LA for an extra two or three days. Actually, would be cool if the 480 screenings were before then so I could actually go watch them this semester. that would be awesome.

I'm registering for classes on Friday. Can't wait for next semester. Gonna take 290 which means I'm gonna make 5 short films in the span of one semester, 4 individual ones and 1 group work. Can't wait. Gonna be soooo busy but should be fun. Also gonna take a photography class, black&white film. See if I want to get a photography minor maybe.

Oh right also this friday gonna give Kristina a smoking burn make up. that should also be fun. I've done injury, cadaver, meth addict and fantasy makeup so far. Will do some editing for Platforum on thursday. Got hw to do which I should be doing now. I want classes to end but don't want to deal with all the stuff that's due before they finish.

hmm saw the SOT production of Into The Woods last friday. I liked it. Urinetown was better but this one was good too. Then went to watch Second Nature (improv group) like usual. It was the Alum show. Hilarious. THen on Saturday we went to watch T-pain perform. That was cool too.

and that's about it for now. really should go back to reading.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Been a While

So I know I don't post anywhere near a regular basis but here's an update on me for those that are interested:

This last weekend was fun. Me and my friends all pretty much entered a Film Festival: Campus Movie Fest. We did this last year too but this time around we split into 3 groups and I got to do more. So I worked on Leslie and Hannah's movie. The basic story of the short film is before the film starts boy had girlfriend, boy cheated on girlfriend, girlfriend dumped boy, and now they run into each other at a Party. So the movie starts at that party, they're awkward. he still likes her. he gets drunk and passes out. Dream Sequence! So he has a musical dream involving himself, girlfriend and girl he hooked up with. SO then he wakes up, realizes he's an asshole and goes and apologizes.

So on Friday, my friends shot the morning parts of the movie, (him going to apologize) and then at night we shot the party scene, and then using a bright theater light on the balcony, made it seem like it was day to shot him walking up. Shooting the party scene was funny because I was with Tom and Kristina and the random conversations they had were HILARIOUS. So that was friday. After shooting we went to watch improv which was fun too.

Then on Saturday we shot the dream sequence. Now my friend went and got some theater lights and HUGE black drapes to hang in the living room so it seems like Boy is in darkness in his dream. So we filmed this in Leslie's living room, so the couch was stood up and put in front of the door. We had a fog machine to use in the dream. And then we had the Crisis. So they were testing out of the fog machine and we had all windows closed and the AC off. There's no door separating the living room with the hallway leading to the bedrooms. The fog fills up the place and the fire alarms go off! Luckily the one that calls the fire department didn't go off but still we were panicing. So we open all the windows and the door to let the fog vent out of the apartment and we hear sirens. So we panic even more, thinking the fire truck is coming, so we quickly get the couch down since it was a safety hazard how it was and try to fan out all the fog. Then we realize that it looks like the place is on fire cuz fog is coming out of the place and it looks like smoke so we're hoping no one calls the fire department thinking the place is on fire because it looks like a lot of smoke is coming out and the alarms were going off. But luckily nothing happens. So after panicing we film the scene and only use the fog machine at the very end, making sure to air out fog in between so it doesn't fill up the place again. I get to be a grip and be Haley's (who is playing the girlfriend) own personal spotlight. And then when we finish filming we export everything on to the computer while we go over to kevin's to give him the birthday cake his mom sent to Leslie and Hannah to give to him. After that we go to the Groove to have dinner and celebrate Kevin's birthday and watch Zombieland.

When we get back, I stay up with Leslie and organize the clips so that I could just edit on Sunday. We realize we have to cut out a person's scene cuz we didn't get all the shots we needed for it filmed.

So then it's sunday and I go over to their place at 10am and start editing. Everything's going good. Leslie feeds me. Everything's good and then we realize that the dream scene is 3mins and 46secs long. The movie can't be more than 5mins. and then other scenes easily take up 2-3mins too. So we spend the rest of the time finishing the other scenes and then cutting them down until we get to under 5mins, which took a couple of hours. We had to cut out another character which was sad and didn't even really have time for credits and the actually party scene. We merged the credits and party scene as an opening for the movie which worked out pretty well. Then I handed it over to Leslie for her to color correct and add music and background noise.
I went to bed after 1am that day.

So then on monday night we watched all the movies we made, which were all much better than last year's. Good stuff. The finale for USC is this coming thursday so we'll see if any of our movies made it to USC finals.

The week's been ok since then. Had a midterm yesterday. Right after finishing the test, I was speed walking to catch up with my friend and totally tripped and fell. And now my knee hurts from where it bleed and it hurts to bend cuz of the skin being pulled so walking up and down stairs in a pain in the ass.

This weekend will be spent editing a master cut of our CMF movie just for fun. And then studying for my midterm on wednesday.

Peace out, yo.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Being Alone Sucks

And by this I mean I don't like being the only one home in the apartment. Gives me too much time to be alone inside my head which isn't always fun. Part of the reason I hate being alone, especially in the late afternoon/evening I think is because all my life there have always been people home with me at this hour. I'm just not used to having the place all to myself at this time of day.

But anyways, in other news. It's interesting. The first year of College is for making groups of friends, while the second one is for finding out of that group of friends you made, which are your actual friends and which are just friendly acquaintances who happen to be your friends' friends and who you really don't have anything against. I can't wait until you get to the point where you actually get close to people. Or maybe I'm just slow at that part. I guess, maybe so, considering that all my really close friends i've known for 5+ years, so there's that.

I guess in the end I just miss my lovable losers and my family. So warm and comfy the home is.

Monday, July 27, 2009

Long Time

So it's been a while since I blogged. Summer's been nice. Hung out with people more than before. Got a job and been lazy when I should be working on my application. Thanks to my BFFLs for helping me out with making my video for the application that is due before Sept 1st. It really means a lot to me. You have no idea.

Today was a good day. Cherine's birthday was a lot of fun. Can't wait for our next sleepover.

This summer been looking a lot at wikihow about How to tell if a guy likes you or how to tell a guy you like him and the such. Fun stuff.

Lots of Friend Zone talk. We need to get out of this zone my buddies.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

This Past Week

So for three days straight the fire alarm went off at our dorm. On Wednesday (the first time) I had just finished eating with my friends when it rang. The firefighters came, and the alarm kept turning on and off. An RA with some buddies were video taping the whole thing. Then the firetruck tried to get out and the front right wheel hit the sidewalk. Fail. Then for some reason they put out the ladder and set it up to go on the dorm roof but didn't go? Fail again! We finally got to go back in and then about an hour later the alarm went off again. Apparently it went off again on Thursday but I was at work, and then on Friday it went off again for the last time.

Friday night was interesting. We wanted to go to the movies and cheer up our friend Hannah who was down because her boyfriend Carter had gone home again for the weekend. We were going to watch 17 again because Hannah loves Zach Efron. So five of us go with her. We get into Kelsey's jeep and Hannah goes in the trunk as she has done before. Around 10-15 mins later we getting into a car accident. What happened was for some reason two cars in front of us just randomly stopped on the freeway with no warning. Kelsey hit the brakes but it was all too suddenly and we ended up hitting the car infront of us which had already hit the car in front of it. Then the car behind us hit us. We're all ok though, and Kelsey's car is pretty ok except for one headlight.

My friends took Hannah to the hospital yesterday to get her head checked out just in case because she's the one who hit her head the most, but she's fine and is getting some medicine.

I can now say I've been in a car accident...