Put aside competiting with peers and all.
We are still under the same 'family' or so - Singapore!
We have our very own film making lalala. What I believe
is that what film makers, designers, etc are here to make
things simpler, better and to send a message across though
any comfortable mediums! So I'ved picked out some of my
favourites and those I'ved watched and place it right here!

Short Film - My Girlfriend (我的女朋友!)
   

Don't trust the thumbnail above, is really a girlfriend.
The girl selling newspaper quite cute right, don't you think so?
Alright, maybe acting haha! Not much emotions for me
but I think it was a fun film to shoot and watch.
The boss reminds me of nick and the one
working for him like jing guo. LOL.
Below is part two! :)

Short Film - Going Home
 

I cried towards the end man.
According to a source from youtube, the old woman
died because of old age and not because of this disease.
I think this award winning short film is amongst the most
meaningful and greatest I've seen from home ground so far!

Video Backdrop - Tell You Something
 

From Yours Truely
(P.S. Don't cringe, I know I'm playing the wrong notes :)
Done within 3-7 days, this video was supposed to shown
on the screens after my planned performance at a hospital
on 26th December last year that unfortunately got cancelled
and so I made a quick arrangement to perform outside Far East Plaza!

Commercial - Funeral
 

I think this is the longest commercial I've ever seen
on Singapore TV, do you think do? At least for me.
Quite a far extend for a message eh. Was the
director Singaporean? Either way it was nice :)

Music Video - Beautiful, Dirty, Rich
 

Take it a little lighter and closer, filmed by TP students,
I really love the whole cheorography. The timing,
selection of actresses and actors were very
well thought I thought. Some even
mentioned the guy in blue was
hot. hahahahaha. really? hmm.

BAH.
Why is the timing so screwed.
Why must the weather be so cloudy?
Caught the American Music Awards preshow online
and it didn't air right before the show started!
Wasted my time! -.- Mixed reactions from
Janet Jackson fans which started only when
they all noticed instead from a promise of a 8-minutes
performance, time recorded was only 7 minutes (hahaha).
GaGa did her crazy lil thing and Alicia, imo, brought the house
down together with Jay-Z for "Empire State of Mind" which I later
caught up on youtube after the sky turned darker. =.= double for that.
Going to school in about a few minutes, hopefully the sky treats me well
this coming Wednesday! Am thinking: Should I cycle to school this block?
I could save some of my allowance from transport afterall..
hmmmmmmmmmm...

Welcome back after about 10 days of not updating?
Anyways, I would like to thank each and everyone
who visits my blog and of course to those who
remembered, wished or recently celebrated with
me on my birthday! A guy like me, so full of
oneself, should be utterly grateful for the
friends he made along the way through
the journey of life.. chim right? haha.

Here's the update: do hear a cover I recorded on 16th November
on a medley of "Doesn't Mean Anything" and "Every Breath You Take".
  
I felt that these two songs sounded really similar but of a different take on a same topic
and that it sounded to me as both songs are about losing someone dearly and
feeling helpless of not being able to do anything except to make believe
that everything will be fine. This is dedicated to anybody out there who
has lost somebody that they truely love. As a few has asked me but:
I will not be performing anytime soon
but only because I have a lot of ideas in mind as I am trying out new things
and more but I can't find the time and place so I have to push back but
will update here with more information as we get closer though.

derek

12 November - Assignment Submissions
13 November - Dreams II Concert
14 November - Birthdays Dinner
16 November - MTV EMAs 2009
17 November - Janet Jackson's Greatest Hits Album
17 November - Alicia Keys: Dancing With the Stars
17 November - Sister's Birthday :D
18 November - Janet Jackson's interview on Michael
18 November - My Birthday :D
20 November - TB Results
22 November - American Music Awards
24 November - Alicia Keys: Today Show Concert Series
28 November - Gong Gong's Birthday Dinner

Special update on 21st November :D

Happy November, everyone!
Don't everyone love this time of the year when the weather
is cooler and it is closer to the New Year? I love it!

Actually I find that there are so many things on my mind
but somehow, I find it pointless talking about it
because nothing good will return. Some may
already know but I'm under pressure
to hand in my work when I have to
 juggle my time with work, family
and friends - let alone personal
time for myself, which is bad
enough and now, without
being late for submission.
What's worst, I saw a post on
Facebook with the list of names
who handed in late with the title as
"Public Shaming"
It's not like we planned for it.
It's not like we didn't put in our best effort.
It's not like we didn't have our own personal timetable.
How to hand in quality work when we can't have time
to execute something good without having anyone disturbing
us in class daily? and also fail for being late to submit our assignment?
I'm not in the list but I think this is getting way out of hand and a total bullshit.

A lot of things happened on the first week
but there were some which I really couldn't forget.

Doesn't Mean Anything
While I was eating my lunch on Thursday at Mensa with my friends,
I started waving profusely when I saw someone really familar. One of
my unfriendly coursemates, (I think) saw me looking at his direction and
thought that I was waving to him, sort of tilited his head upwards (to return the
greeting, I suppose, without a smile - lol, I don't know why), which is besides the
current point I'm about to bring up: I saw Pete! He's one of my closest friends from
Indonesia and he's an Alicia Keys fan (holaa!!) because I didn't really expect to meet him
here in Singapore and it was a complete surprise but sadly, he will return next week
as he's here to help his brother with some family problems. I have to agree with
him that her new song isn't as good as her previous but nevertheless,
anything from her! (ELLOS! If you are reading this :)

Happy: And you know it.
Happy to be in the same class with Siti and Leslie for this block,
happy for TB competition to finally come to an end, finally.
Happy that school starts 30 minutes later then before,
happy to have Monday off this block and
I'm especially happy for D!
(btw, I'm that someone lol)

Leslie just came home this morning
from the week's long field camp and
now has a sore throat while my sister has
her friends over to spend the time while she
cooks dinner and have a random gathering today.
I watched The Blue Mansion with Jun Xiang yesterday
and as mentioned in a youtube video trailer I saw, I
actually agree that this is a good Singapore film
but I think many from the production crew
were not local. Watch 500 Days of Summer!
What is it like to be late for latecomers session?

1,000+ views on my latest youtube video :)
Remember to press pause on the background music before pressing play below!

   

With the help from a talented local musician/gamer/magician/etc,
 Reuben Wong, I decided to record my own English version
of Byul/Star from the soundtrack of 200 Pounds Beauty.
----------------------------------------
When I feel the wind blow in this place,
there I see the stars beyond this window pane;
Shining so bright, here and tonight
and I wish youre by my side.
Whisper in my ear saying:
"Don't be afraid",
that same old voice has spoke to me
and I need your embrace.

And even though my
courage told me just to be with you
even though I tried my best to hint you.
But afterall, my deepest love for you
had just fallen through.
I held back on too.
Someone is already there for you.
Should I stay or should I leave this room?
Like the stars that shine so brightly,
I still feel so strongly for you
----------------------------------------
Lyrics written by: Reuben Wong & Derek Heng

BOOMZ
Caught your attention? Ok good, I'm feeling naughty.
(Not sure what it means? Check out the Urban Dictionary!)
Watched a few videos about Ris Low, who wishes to be a nurse or open up a cake shop
working with (beauty pageants' favourite mentions to help) ex-convicts from the YRP
after the credit card incident, I then came across the next related video
which I do not know how was it related to Ris Low! This is about
Pasir Ris' unsafe water (old news) and below is the video.
Check out which school is having fun in dirty water!


Link: http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-sg&vid=9bc5aa8a-8802-49a1-be5f-bbf186247c72
Credit: MSN

37.8 degrees'(
diarrhoea
vomitting

Happy Mid-Autmn Festival

Since my previous entry, after coming home from the gay club,
I have been out and about (except going for picnic!) around Singapore! :D
Apart from the club experience, which I wouldn't mind going again (and I intend
to go sober and not get a hangover the next time), I cycled around the East side
with my family for a few hours, finally went swimming and a quick jog, a
wake-up call visit to haw par villa as well as several sakae meals with
different people including a meal by myself. I doubt I will stay at
my grandmother's place because of lack of beds and I believe
the stay at the park will not happen because no khaki lol.

Got my results a day right after Children's Day (what a gift!)
and I will review my 1st sem of 2nd year hopefully in my next entry!
Will edit this entry with some random pictures (yayy) later tonight.

It is not as fun as I may be seen in the photo above but I visited Haw Par Villa today and I thought
I spent a great hour (or so) learning something so real yet so unsure if it's real.

How many levels of Hell did you recall?
Eighteen right? I still have no idea how many levels but according to an attraction
in Haw Par Villa, I long wanting to know, it's actually ten. Um, that's more than enough, actually.
For interested visitors, do note that that Chinese park is FOC, but this attraction needs SGD$1
from you to maintain the place to keep it as scary as it is - and I'll tell you why! 

Go through Hell
Walking through the so-called "Hell Exhibition" - about this place you should have heard before somewhere,
you may even imagine how does it looks like and now you actually get to see it in figurines - is a real adventure
for those who are interested to visit Hell when you are only alive without experiencing any form of heat.
I remember when I was buying the ticket, the uncle asked "One person?" I replied "Yup!" and slowly walked inside.
While walking in, there were a few God figurines around and the only God that had my attention was God of Earth.
I hurriedly rush in front and prayed even before I decided to proceed. I don't know but I just felt like I needed to calm
myself down because I was thinking of all my sins yesterday night (I couldn't sleep thinking about the outcome).
You know - sometimes I do not know if God, who is represented by a God figurine, would actually get my prayers?
That's why I'd always look for the can of joysticks before I start to pray. Can someone who knows any details if
I could just pray without a God figurine or anything about this because I am quite curious, thank you!
From then on, I went through hell and wish that I will never get to experience this afterlife as mentioned in my
in one of my earlier post in August 2007: http://derekheng2020.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DFDB4182B681F6D6!607.entry

As I am also not a fan of paying content, I will end here by giving you a list of what nots.
I will not show you the consequence - as that would be the interesting part - so do drop by Haw Par Villa!

Wanted to set off somewhere this morning but it started
raining and I couldn't get up so I decided to push it a day later.
Haha! Such a procrastinator and a lazy bum.

Did you watch the VMAs?
I watched it live online the other day and it was really the best VMAs in many
recent years. Gee. I was really excited because some of the biggest names I
grew up with were there coupled with a few new performers I was really
interested to see what do they have in store for us (Madonna, Janet,
Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga, Pink, Taylor Swift, etc). What a lineup!

I cried right after Janet Jackson's performance because they had never performed
that song before together and that was the only time. A few hours ago before the VMAs,
a leaked photo of Michael Jackson on screen without Janet Jackson in the Scream video
showed up in a Janet forum and many fans were saying "OMG notheydidn't!" sort of remarks
which I also did because that means the performance was going to include the dance together.
And it really did. Madonna's speech was abit too long for me but the anticipation for Janet was there.

Lady Gaga's performance was spectacular because of the message behind of the meaning of the
song "Paparazzi" she was trying to put accross. I took clear notice and watched it several times
to notice the crashing sound right after she was introduced to the stage and the sentence
"Amidst all of these flashing lights, I pray the fame won't take my life." right after a few lines
of "Poker Face" tells the story of a celebrity being chased by paparazzis all their life which literally
drive them to their graves. It's really amazing, dispite the fact that she changed clothes 3/4 times!
THUMBS UP. Hail Lady Gaga = new generation of Madonna :D

Alicia Keys and Jay-Z ended off with a song so powerful and meaningful were they were, New York,
with the song "Empire State of Mind". Truely empowering and you can see almost everyone in the
crowd were feeling it. Stupid Lil' Mama crashed the stage towards the end and reason being
she was feeling to hyped up about it and even said in an interview later that she realise Jay-Z
wasn't feeling her presence (hello?!). Alicia Keys gave her point of view while she was talking about
her new single, Doesn't Mean Anything, and said that they would appriciate if Lil' Mama could stay
in her sit feeling hyped too. Hahaha!

Kanye, you're an ass. Beyonce, you have class!

Have you all ever tried www.be2.sg?
It's an online match-making website I came across while finding the
best route to HPV. So I tried it and you have to answer a few questions
before they actually allow you to enter your profile page. And when you
enter, they will tell you have completed 10% of your profile. So once you
complete the other 90% or so, you can view those recommended partners
whose profile matches your likings and all. I thought that it would be nice!
Do try it out and see if mine matches yours. Hahaha!

Have you ever stayed up through the night doing
something with the television switched on and
notice how Channel 5 shows happy cooking/architechure shows
in the morning, boring day-time shows by the afternoon and interesting to horror
movies when it's close to late night? and the whole cycle repeats through the day?
Imagine watching a horror show when you just wake up, interesting.

Life is soooo precious.
I caught a short clip on the tribute to September 11
victims and the firemen invovled (this Friday, my brother will
be going into Army on this date). It is interesting because these
days we get to see destructive movies animated and nicely illustrated
but when it actually happens, it's no longer fake or no longer acting.
It's real. People's lives are in danger and you just don't know what
to expect. The reaction to passerbys shown in the documentary
seemed shocked when the police told them to back off
and run north. People need directions when shit
happens. Signs must be given because they
don't know where to go and they have to
be constantly reminded by those
who has the answer.

I just cannot wait for the holidays.
There's so many things I feel like doing
and not to have anything at the back of my head.

Happy *Belated* Teachers' Day!
Ms Wee in the front :D
Saw a few teachers,
sadly our form teacher
shifted to another school.

It was funny because we were joking
about how the 'procedure' went::
Teacher: "Let me try to remember your name"
Teacher: "Where are you studying now?"
Student: "How's the school/your class?"
and when there's an awkward silence,
Teacher: "Have you meet the other teachers?"
Teacher: "It's nice of you all to come down,
but I have a meeting later.. so see you guys!"
Good don't get attention.

I wished you earlier but,
Happy Birthday, Jingy!
Hope you have a great day :D

If you're ever going to the movies,
please check for discounts especially if you're a
SAFRA Card holder. If not, you can ask from me and
I can lend you my card to get discounts from GV. (:

I spent my day with Jun Xiang on Friday watching
Final Destination (I keep saying Final Fantasy!) and
the show sadly was quite predicitable. I didn't really
follow-up the previous ones but I thought, why not.
$13 for 3D Movie without discount man. Anyway, went
inside Uniqlo which I wanted tried on this denim and it felt
so great. It's so comfy and.. also made me feel too.. sexy. LOL.
Was the same day I saw Jolene and Nick in the bus on our way home.

Meeting some of my friends later today to go back to sss. :D

I guess here's my last entry of the week, but firstly,
Happy Birthday, Matthew,
Happy Belated Birthday, Mom!
Thank you for always being my listening ear and
being a strong mother for another no matter what happens.
Hope you had a great day!

A day after I wrote down my feelings about life, one of
my uncles passed away in the arms of Serangoon Por Por (Mom's side) and we all
were invovled in a way or another for his wake and funeral during these past few days.
To my uncle Fat Fat, I will always remember your stories, laughter and presence. You've
brought us memories of happiness and we will contiune to remember them.
With love, Derek.

What I learned about this unfortunate event, but was never the cause of it,
is that we must never take the people closest around us for granted - no
matter how irritating the person may be, no matter what they did before,
no matter what he does to you - for you may never ever  have the chance
to forgive him or her again. If there is no one invovled, then don't be
angry over the littlest things because life is way too short.

We went for dinner at Marina Barrage with Haig Road Por Por (Papa's side) and
Gong Gong who was on wheelchair just now, together with uncle Jeffrey and
Yatavee for mom's birthday dinner. There was a positive atmosphere there.

I hope Serangoon Por Por, my mom and my other relatives - especially
Sally yiyi, uncle Peter and uncle Andrew's family will soon get over. With that,
starting tomorrow, I will continue from the pile; full of work
undone all through the week.