In a heartbeat.
Well, two of them are still alive but you get my drift. :)

I feel like the bottom kitten represents my friends and I am the other kitten - oftentimes, they're always there to tell me not to freak out and not to panic and that everything will be alright, words that I just need to hear. It doesn't matter if there is still a hint of doubt in myself despite the words, just hearing them will make me feel like everything just might very well be alright.

I hope they know how much I love and appreciate them. ♥

I've been spending time on Tumblr tonight. Particularly at http://fuckyeahamazing.tumblr.com.
I just wanna post some of the posts that I liked.
Cause reposting it on Tumblr isn't enough to share.
I hope you'll find these as inspiring as I do.

Tomorrows marks the first day of the last semester for MTD10 at SAE Institute. It's a bittersweet thing, I can tell you that.
I'm excited to finish my Diploma course and move on to a Degree course but at the same time I am nervous and scared of what the future holds. I'm also gonna miss my college life here for sure. But anyway. I'll leave this subject to be blogged about at a later time.
For now, let's talk movies.

I finally watched (500) Days of Summer last week. Twice. Yup. Twice in the course of 5 days. I was a little worried that I might find the movie boring the second time but if anything, all it did was make me fall in love with it and appreciate it more.
That movie was stunning. Stunningly shot; stunningly told. The songs were great, the actors were amazing.
Watching it the second time abled me to pay attention to the details. It made me pay closer attention to the hidden messages.
That's something I will always be appreciative to my course at SAE for. Being a Film student allowed me to read movies and understand them more. It allowed me to make sense of the shots and scenes they chose. To understand why they included a certain graphic and effect.
I loved every bit of it. The dialogue was witty and fun; even the character's clothes fitted perfectly into the theme of the movie.

The opening montage already had you wanting more, and I think that's what great movies do. Just a few minutes in and you can't wait to watch the story unfold.
The narrator had warned the audience that this was no "love story" but there was still the hope of it being about true love within you when you watch it. I loved how some scenes contradicted each other, that it was meant to do so. How they expressed the feeling of happiness within Tom Hansen (lead actor) after he spent the night with Summer Finn (lead actress) was so creative! I'm pretty sure the audience felt his happines haha! 
How they jumped from day to day as the story unfolds confused me at first, but it all made perfect sense the second time. That's why I loved it more the second time I watched it - it was just more ... 'perfect'.

The ending would not be something you'd expect, and had the audience laughing again. But that's the great thing about this movie. It's no typical love story indeed, but it shows that there is always hope and something to move forward to.
The writers and director of this brilliant film are talented, talented people.
I haven't adored a movie this much since I watched Across The Universe. That movie, I watched 7 times in the course of 2 months haha! 
This is definitely one movie that I will watch over and over again for a very long time.

Can't wait for the next movie i'll adore this much. Will I have to wait another 2 years? I hope not.

Summer: We've been like Sid and Nancy for months now.
Tom: Summer, Sid stabbed Nancy, seven times with a kitchen knife, I mean we have some disagreements but I hardly think I'm Sid Vicious.
Summer: No I'm Sid.
Tom: Oh, so I'm Nancy...

I feel like this past weekend has been one of the best weekend i've had in a VERY long time, and to not write about it to preserve it in my memory would be a waste.

What happened this past Saturday and Sunday was actually part of a job experience. As (most) of you know, part of the course i'm learning involves camera work and such; so we were given the opportunity to hold a real multicamera production for the Indie Youth Fest in One Utama.

It was pretty last minute - SAE only found out that we'd be doing this a little over a week before the actual event. So meetings were held to finalize everything. It was interesting and exciting. We planned out the camera positions and the camera men assigned to each camera. I got assigned to camera 3 along with Erica and Jeff. The day before the event, we found out that our camera is the one that would be doing a lot of moving around (on and around the stage!) and boy, did I panic. But after thinking it through and talking to our senior and lecturers, we decided to try our hand at it.

So the next day we had an 830AM call time and Erica picks me up and we head over to OU. Had breakfast, got our shirts (which is pretty awesome and very official :D) and started setting up the cameras. The weather was killing us. The sun was shining directly towards us for a good part of the afternoon. Thankfully we got an umbrella to shield it out. We took turns trying our hand at the camera and holding the cables when one of us moved around to the stage and such. I didn't try holding the camera free hand on that day - just stuck to the static position on the tripod. I was nervous! Haha.
But I got to try using the Switcher! It was all just exciting. I kinda messed up the few times I tried the switcher but most of it wasn't too bad I suppose. Haha.
By 4PM though, we were all just really tired. But despite the tiredness and the aching arms and the sweat, we were all still happily doing our work. I'm not sure if i'm talking for everyone, but I was still enjoying the day.
The event was about an hour or so behind time so instead of ending at 8PM like planned, the day ended around 930PM. I got home around 10PM and straight away headed for a shower and watched a bit of tv and by 11PM, I was in bed ready to get a good nights sleep!

The call time for day 2 was 10AM so we got to sleep in a little bit more. Got to OU and hung around a bit before setting up around 11AM. After we were set up, nothing started yet so Leng and I headed over to the Wii room the organizer had set up and started playing Wii Sports haha! Our lecturers was karakoe-ing in the room provided hahahaha!!
After a while we left and went to play Guitar Hero instead! :D That was fun. Hehe.
Then it was back to work! Recorded and stuff, and got to direct as well! That was scaaaary. I'm pretty sure i'm shit at Directing. :P
After that, Leng and I went to the place Lenka was supposed to be performing at and waited for her to come on. But it just took too long! So we decided to head back along with one of our seniors who also wanted to see Lenka. We headed back and went to work. Missed her gig but I didn't really care to be honest. :D
So after Kelly told me to just try the free hand camera, I did. Soooo glad I did! It was so so so fun! The shots were better up close and the experience of just walking around on stage and getting different views and angles was just really fun. Loved it.
It felt like the whole thing was ending way too fast. I wasn't even tired on day 2! So weird. Haha.
When everything was over, it kinda sucked. xD
We took lots of pictures and had lots of laughs while we were packing up. Gathered around and our lecturers just spoke to us and stuff. It was great.
Got to discover some really good local bands and artists during this event as well.

On the way home on the second day, Erica and I were discussing this and we're just really thankful to be given this opportunity. I learnt a LOT during these two days and i'm pretty sure all of us did too. I remember during Sunburst when I saw the camera man moving the crane about, I was thinking to myself that I want his job. I got to somewhat experience what it'd be like if I did get a job like his.
I'm not sure if it'd be as awesome as it was once i'm outside in "the real world". The SAE crew that weekend just made it better to be honest. They were all easy to get along with and there was no drama or whatever shit.

I can't wait for the October one. Hopefully that would be as awesome, if not more, than this one was.



More pics later.

I know I haven't blogged in a really long time, the blame for that goes to my procrastination habits and to college work. More to the former though; because if I don't procrastinate I wouldn't have to rush on assignments. But yeah. It seems to be a part of me! *shrugs*

So anyway. This will be a short one I would think. Though I am less occupied by college work, I feel like there is not much worth blogging about. My life is pretty uninteresting right now. But i'm not complaining. :)

Aliya (lalaland8789) left to Melbourne this morning to further her studies. I'll miss her but I'm happy for her, I hope she knows it. We've all been dreaming of the moment when we get to study abroad. Syahida (idajj) was the first to do it last year and now another one of us has done it. It's exciting. I can't wait for my moment to come. *prays*

ANYWHO. Here, have a meme from seanachais.
( 5 things )

So check there la if I don't blog in ages like this. Link: twitter.com/mayalabeille :D

But look; I'm blogging right now!

Lately I seem to be having the 'inspiration' to blog late at night; usually when I lay in bed about to sleep. I just ignore it though, not bothering to get my fix. Till' now. It's slightly pass 2AM at the moment, and while most people would be asleep - I lie wide awake, typing my thoughts into words that would hopefully add up to make an understandable entrance into the state of my mind right now. I have a feeling this might be another case of word vomit, so I apologize in advance.

I've been feeling like I might drown in the amount of work that must be done. But yet, the work seems to stay the way it is; only getting lesser very slowly. To say that procrastination is the issue would not be 100% right. I mean, sure I procrastinate. But I do know when I should stop and get going with whatever work I have to do. My main problem would be not knowing how to start on some of the assignments. Though I feel a wave of relief after Thursday's meeting with my group mates. Hopefully everything will go smoothly. The assignment we're working on right now is possibly my least favourite one ever. It's so ... not my thing. I don't like it. But not everything is the way you want it, nay? So I shall endure it. I just hope that I can catch up soon enough. Pray for me. =) 

Another thing that's been on my mind is, (How do I say this without being tacky? Can't I guess.) my future. As in, after I finish my Diploma course. Haha, not very far into my future. But you know. Apparently my course will end in March 2010. It's crazy how fast time has passed - I still remember the start of the first day in college! Anyway, I plan to pursue a degree, but where and in what, I am still unsure. I would love to major in Film. I find a great interest in it. I am just afraid I might not be good at it. But I guess it is still a tad early to say that as i've still got 2 more semesters of film studies left. We start Editing next sem - can't fucking wait! I feel like I should start experimenting right now; randomly filming stuff and putting them together. I've actually had a few ideas for music videos, just never really thought too much of it. I should stop doubting myself and my ideas. Even if they're not as good, writing them down and keeping them wouldn't do any harm. No one has to read it. Right? Right?
The issue of where to pursue a degree at is also confusing me so much. I'm looking into options - speaking to Mr. Suthan and hopefully Mr. Aarif soon, checking out colleges and their programs, finding out accommodation prices, etc. I am thankful that my dad is willing to send me overseas. But the guilt of him spending so much of money is not easing things. I guess it is still too soon to think about all these. I should just concentrate on finishing my course at SAE Malaysia first. 

Oh how my mind is so scattered right now.

On another note. The amazing people, or should I say Content Manager, at Junk Magazine has given MTGH such great opportunities. One was giving us tickets to Ratatat's gig here to use as contest prizes. I feel a great deal of appreciation to them for helping us out like this. Be sure to check back to the site around the next 2 weeks or so to find out what the other opportunity they gave us was! ;)

OH OH OH! HAHAHA! I got locked out of my house last Wednesday. xD  I usually don't carry a key with me as someone is ALWAYS home when I get back. But for some reason on that day, no one was home when I came back. So I was stuck! I sat outside, talking to my neighbours kids' when their dad asked me to wait inside their house. I didn't want to at first (segan la kan. haha ) but did anyway. They were nothing but nice to me! Waited at their house for an hour ish before my brother came home. It was lol-worthy.
I also got locked out the next day but it wasn't a biggie cause Qis was with me and we went to meet Tengy after. :DD 
I'm gonna go make a set of keys for me soon. Even if I don't need it. HAH.

So, how does one get to Malaysia from the moon? :0  [Thanks, orange_nerds for this!]