The Shooting Gallery Days Come To A Close
0 Comments Published by Elix Arkan on Friday, July 18, 2008 at 11:57 PM.
Today marks my last day as an intern at the Shooting Gallery. It is also the last day for Nicole and Vanessa, both of whom I will probably see again next week.
Here's a recap, for two days I've been doing street-casting. Which the superiors made seem more serious than anything else. And they don't ask us about it today despite setting the scary quota in place and all that. Anyways.
It was a sad beginning to the day. Shiqi and Jasmine came into the production room early in the morning and we all took last photos together. I cannot yet express the amount of gratitude I have for these two fellow interns, not only for providing the best intern days ever, but also for the company on long shoot days and also for bringing their cameras today.
Then it was saying bye to Jocelyn, the Line Producer.
And then upstairs to stone around before helping Kelvin with some stuff. And of course, the creation of The Escalation of Boredom video. Which I was commissioned by Kelvin to do. Then it was shuttling to Deena's desk to cure boredom whilst waiting for lunchtime to swing round, and then onwards to lunch.
Lunch was, as ever, at Palm Gardens, the nearby coffeeshop. I ate my farewell chicken rice, and coincidentally the Chicken Rice Uncle who loved us Interns so much was also leaving Palm Gardens for Toa Payoh. We had lunch with the Photography guys, Jocelyn and Janice.
Then onwards to the Fruit Stall, where jokes like "uncle's banana" and "auntie's mangoes" were made, not to mention where Nicole killed half my pineapple (Kelvin's pin-ap-play) while we were shoving around.
Back to the office, the video had completed its rendering, and it was premiered to the Shooting Gallery world.
And then Janice came to say her farewells, and "not-to-be-strangers". Another friendship closes its curtains in the context of the workplace. I feel absolutely guilty at this point for not having said goodbyes to Freddy, Chris, Uncle Seb and Auntie Karen. I shall rectify this when I return for the Intern Farewell Dinner we're trying to set up with the People.
Then read a script for Juan, and then helped with another script development, and then waited around, before we all left to go for some poly-photog-students' travel to Japan photo exhibition (I'm not being deliberately mean, I just can't seem to wrap my head around the name of it now, it's some Japanese term/word in which they'd substituted the last word for whoa, I remember that much, just that it's slipped my mind for the moment).
We went in a group of Nicole, Vanessa, Desmond and me in Sze Ling's car. Johna, Shiqi, Jasmine and Deena went in Kelvin's. Eric went with Norbert.
Got there, stayed awhile. Got out. Had cheap wine and smoked a cigarette with the guys.
Went to a Malay restaurant at McKenzie Road for dinner. Chatted, laughed and fed a hungry black cat. Laughed over photos in phone, talked about people in the office and laughed even more. After that, Norbert left with Bernice (who came along after the exhibition), and Kelvin suggested Vietnamese coffee at Killeney (?). Deena, Eric, Desmond, Johna, Jasmine, Kelvin, Kelvin's Girlfriend Neng Li (?), Sze Ling and me ended up at the old Ya Kun (I think that was it, but I can't be too sure). The rest had gone home. Grass Jelly with Longan all around at Kelvin's suggestion, and he doesn't have any. Talk more about everyone.
Hitched a ride back with Sze Ling. The talk with him was enriching, for its life lessons.
Back home, need sleep. Need to be at Boon Lay at 11 am tomorrow.
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Now playing: Marie Digby - Spell
via FoxyTunes
Here's a recap, for two days I've been doing street-casting. Which the superiors made seem more serious than anything else. And they don't ask us about it today despite setting the scary quota in place and all that. Anyways.
It was a sad beginning to the day. Shiqi and Jasmine came into the production room early in the morning and we all took last photos together. I cannot yet express the amount of gratitude I have for these two fellow interns, not only for providing the best intern days ever, but also for the company on long shoot days and also for bringing their cameras today.
Then it was saying bye to Jocelyn, the Line Producer.
And then upstairs to stone around before helping Kelvin with some stuff. And of course, the creation of The Escalation of Boredom video. Which I was commissioned by Kelvin to do. Then it was shuttling to Deena's desk to cure boredom whilst waiting for lunchtime to swing round, and then onwards to lunch.
Lunch was, as ever, at Palm Gardens, the nearby coffeeshop. I ate my farewell chicken rice, and coincidentally the Chicken Rice Uncle who loved us Interns so much was also leaving Palm Gardens for Toa Payoh. We had lunch with the Photography guys, Jocelyn and Janice.
Then onwards to the Fruit Stall, where jokes like "uncle's banana" and "auntie's mangoes" were made, not to mention where Nicole killed half my pineapple (Kelvin's pin-ap-play) while we were shoving around.
Back to the office, the video had completed its rendering, and it was premiered to the Shooting Gallery world.
And then Janice came to say her farewells, and "not-to-be-strangers". Another friendship closes its curtains in the context of the workplace. I feel absolutely guilty at this point for not having said goodbyes to Freddy, Chris, Uncle Seb and Auntie Karen. I shall rectify this when I return for the Intern Farewell Dinner we're trying to set up with the People.
Then read a script for Juan, and then helped with another script development, and then waited around, before we all left to go for some poly-photog-students' travel to Japan photo exhibition (I'm not being deliberately mean, I just can't seem to wrap my head around the name of it now, it's some Japanese term/word in which they'd substituted the last word for whoa, I remember that much, just that it's slipped my mind for the moment).
We went in a group of Nicole, Vanessa, Desmond and me in Sze Ling's car. Johna, Shiqi, Jasmine and Deena went in Kelvin's. Eric went with Norbert.
Got there, stayed awhile. Got out. Had cheap wine and smoked a cigarette with the guys.
Went to a Malay restaurant at McKenzie Road for dinner. Chatted, laughed and fed a hungry black cat. Laughed over photos in phone, talked about people in the office and laughed even more. After that, Norbert left with Bernice (who came along after the exhibition), and Kelvin suggested Vietnamese coffee at Killeney (?). Deena, Eric, Desmond, Johna, Jasmine, Kelvin, Kelvin's Girlfriend Neng Li (?), Sze Ling and me ended up at the old Ya Kun (I think that was it, but I can't be too sure). The rest had gone home. Grass Jelly with Longan all around at Kelvin's suggestion, and he doesn't have any. Talk more about everyone.
Hitched a ride back with Sze Ling. The talk with him was enriching, for its life lessons.
Back home, need sleep. Need to be at Boon Lay at 11 am tomorrow.
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Now playing: Marie Digby - Spell
via FoxyTunes
I've been working on several TVC shoots so far, so life hasn't totally stagnated. Although I've discovered that I would really love to do the pre-production planning for motion picture projects. It's been long hours thus far for each shoot, sometimes 2 different shoots on two different days, thus requiring me to wake up early on both days and leave late as well.
The last one beat the record of all the others though. We came in at 8 am and left at 5 am the next morning. This one was a killer. I might have reported 7 am in a different post, but this is cause I've forgotten all of this - and anyways, what difference does one hour make when one has to leave that late in the night?
Other things that have been going on is me wondering if I should come back here for my PI, and how I'm supposed to get the right job that I want if I can't get that stupid form to CAO by the 30th.
Figure it out.
The last one beat the record of all the others though. We came in at 8 am and left at 5 am the next morning. This one was a killer. I might have reported 7 am in a different post, but this is cause I've forgotten all of this - and anyways, what difference does one hour make when one has to leave that late in the night?
Other things that have been going on is me wondering if I should come back here for my PI, and how I'm supposed to get the right job that I want if I can't get that stupid form to CAO by the 30th.
Figure it out.
