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This is Day 1 of a short story series in image screenshot format. It is a fanmade spinoff based on Reddit user Vidzilla's short story on a Z3 outbreak.

It is about the Z3 zombie virus outbreak through the view of various media platforms and in the view of a person in Singapore

So I was in Mr. Roy's class when he talked about living through the break up of USSR and stuff like that and I realised that our generation, the 90s, had lived through a lot too, it's just we take so much for granted and we dismiss things so much that we barely realise how fast the world is changing.

Therefore I'm going to start this list about the things that I've lived through. I hope that I can keep up and update it in the future... Also I'm wikipedia-ing a lot too. I should really write down what I learn too and how I feel... hmmm.

Damn. Wiki is down to protest SOPA. I'll come back tomorrow...
Anyways, I've decided I would read up more on events that is interesting to me and maybe do a 'reflection' sort of page so this will be the main page and I will post the links below... for future me to come back and read maybe?

Who'd even be reading. 0.o

1994 (After July 14):

• July 17 – Brazil wins the 1994 FIFA World Cup, defeating Italy by 3–2 in penalties (full time 0–0).
• July 18 – In Buenos Aires, a terrorist attack destroys a building housing several Jewish organizations, killing 85 and injuring many more

So after not posting for a very long time and breaking my promise once again... I'm back to rant about how the year has been... and what a year it has been. To be frank, this year felt like it had been 3 years instead of just 1 because the year seems to have been segmented into three different sections that just felt damn long.

Despite feeling very long, the year had passed by in a flash... oxymoronic sentence but it is the truth. One moment, it's enjoying the days after O levels, next thing you know we're starting school and i was so excited about the things i'm learning. Then the semester flew by and i start to juggle work and school...

I'm actually quite glad that this year is ending... sort of. This had been a year of mixed feelings. I once told someone that unlike my secondary school years where each year could be given a name (Sec 1: The Foolish Year, Sec 2: Going Overseas Twice, Sec 3: Major Fail Everything, Sec 4: Pure Fun), this year would be hard to give a name to, but now that i'm typing here on the last day of the year, i realised that there is a name for this year.

It has been a Transitional Year


This year was a transition from Secondary school to Polytechnic. That's an 'of course'. For the first four month of the year, i was playing. pure playing... it was probably the most fun yet boring period i ever had, but now i'm seriously missing it... what did i do? hmm facebook check~

[please skip this paragraph if you are not interested in knowing what i did for the first 1/3 of the year]
The year started with a trip to the various Polys... Me, Serene and gang also went to Punggol Park to fly some Wish Lantern in the hope that our O Level results would be good...
Of Open Houses and Wish Lanterns
And then there was Mr Chew's wedding...
Decorating my room
An 8th monthniversary trip to the Science Center with Dear
(Ok i very tired copy and paste link liao... go facebook see future me or friends who even bother to read)
Me, Serene and gang went to marina barrage to celebrate hardi and serene's birthday, then Serene and I went to take the Flyer soon after..
There was a games day at Wern Chieh's house, a trip to sengkang field to fly kite with Serene, then to Botanic Gardens... We went to a park for CNY, and then DPA started and there was 10 weeks of sianness doing modules i wont gain anything from. At least the video module thought me somethings that were useful for VPPP module when real school started.
I Celebrated Valentines with Serene at Chinese gardens, went to Mawai for DPA, took more photos with Serene, went to East Coast, drop some eggs from 6th floor, Celebrated Ivy's birthday, went to labrador and sentosa with serene, went to toys museum, riverside walk and so on and on......

I had so much fun, and most of my memories of this year were all cramped into the start of the year that it really felt like it was another year but not 2011...

But most importantly I feel, there was a transition in my goal in life. This year, I questioned myself a lot, whether what i thought was what I wanted is really what I wanted. Even though it's the end of the year, some and most of these questions that i asked myself have been left unanswered...

Did I pick the right Poly course?

At the start of the year, i was really really excited about starting school. After all the fun i had, it was starting to wear off and i really wanted to start doing something, to learn some things. It seemed like the exact thing that I wanted to do... But over the year, as photography became more and more attractive to me, and after meeting people like Hong Rui who helped me develop my skills, i was seriously wavering... So i asked myself:

Is 'directing' and 'writing' really what I want to go into?

The school term started and i was really having fun doing the things that I loved... But then i got my scholarship. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to have got the scholarship. But the thing is that with that money, I bought myself a Canon 60D and thus started my actual journey into serious photography... After spending enough time getting to know my camera better and getting confident enough, i started Creates Studios with Serene and that's when I realised that maybe, what I wanted to do were wedding videos and photos... Is writing what I want to go into? I'm still not sure....
Directing?
In June... or was it August? I shot my first short, a competition piece for Cine65. I was nominated... for a first try, i felt very encouraged. Yes, i want to direct, maybe even edit. But no, i don't think i would make for a good cameraman. At least I know how to handle one and what my lecturer said was true. Know how to use it so you wouldn't be lost in the industry.
Half of this question is answered...

The last three months had been a blur as i juggled school work with working... Spending my hardearned money to upgrade my equipment was very satisfying and i got a taste of how harsh society and the industry could be, be it in photography or film...

For now, I wished that Serene and i could have went to australia to study at a university instead of Poly and saved us some time. But all I can wish for truely is that i can be exempted off some modules when i go there after NS

I realise at this point that this is very much about all i can speak for about this year... So i shall look back to my reflection post in 2010 and see if things had worked out the way i thought it would have.

Looking back at 2010 and comparing:
Studies
Last year when i typed my year end reflections, i thanked dear for making me work so hard... Now, Thank you dear again for helping me attain my 9 pointer :) It was something that sec 1, 2 and 3 would never ever had thought i could have gotten and i am still very happy and slightly surprised by it...

Choir and Mrs Yeap
What i spoke of last year still ring true, despite the bitter bite to it. But right now, I would like to thank Mrs Yeap for the advise she has given me, and even though she had been giving me a lot of attitude towards the end of my secondary school life, she had been very nice to me from sec 1 to 3 despite me not having contributed much to the CCA

SLB
Intensive had been great... I didn't help out much, but i am happy to have passed down some 'wisdom' to me juniors...

Health
I think that my health had improved a lot this year... less diarrhea :)

Photography and Videography
The funniest thing was that i said i wanted a Nikon D5000 but instead got a Canon 60D. I said that Vlogging was fun but i had since stopped doing it.


Looking forward to the 2012:
I told myself that my resolution for 2012 wont be all the bullshit "i will be a better person" and that "i want to have better school results". I should be doing these all the time. Instead, i want to set more realistic goals and to question myself and find out the answers by the next year.

1. Get a Canon 5D MK2 at least...
2. Upgrade my Photography and Videography Equipment
3. Be serious about Cine65 next year and win something!
4. Find out whether I want to do photography or film for Uni

Shaved Shane is hot, Daryl grows much more likeable and Andrea is turning into a whiny bitch.

The Captain deserves his star!

To be brutally honest, the original poster (not this one that I used to feature the movie) was absolutely a cheese cake. I did not find my self attracted to it at all. The fact that the villain of the movie was portrayed hovering above everyone else just did not seem attractive to me at all. But now, looking back, it does make sense to use these posters. The movie felt very old-school superhero. There wasn't any "The Dark Knight", "I'm-filled-with-darkness" kind of vibe coming off this movie.

In many sense, Captain America felt very Spiderman. It was lighthearted yet serious. I couldn't figure out why the scene where the Captain first used his powers seemed so familiar until I read on io9.com that it felt like the scene where Spiderman first flew through the streets sling by sling. Come to think of it, the shots were kind of similar too, flying over cars, great panning shots...

Generally speaking, Captain America delivered a good dose of entertainment. Despite it not being as cheesy as I thought it would be, it still had some classic Hollywood movie churning formula in it, what with the.

SPOILERS AHEAD

... what with the great mentor speech and the avenge your mentor storyline. It was able to pull it off because the screenwriters were able to successfully tweak the "with great power comes great responsibility line" and make it fitting and unique to their own movie. I was also greatly entertained by the nice shots used in the film, particularly the one where the Captain meets his enemy for the first time and before they could go full out on each other, the bridge that they were on split apart and forced them apart from each other.

Another thing that I liked was the way the screenwriters wrote the relationship between the Captain and his crush. For a man that was bullied from the day he entered school till the day his muscles magically grew, it was really endearing to see how his personality at it's core did not change and he still was that man who was bullied and would never have known how to talk to a girl. The teasing and arguements that the two had were extremely humorous and sweet at the same time, which just makes it all that hard when we (most of us) know that they can't be together because the Captain has to be transported to our present times.

The only problem that i had from the movie was the way the screenwriters handled the climax. For one, I wasn't satisfied at all by the way the villain "died" (you're never dead in a science fiction film/show unless you see the body). There wasn't a real full blown fight, and the entire movie had been building up to this moment and suddenly it was just over?

Furthermore, i didn't really understand how the plane was uncontrollable and could appear over the northpole within seconds when it was going to crash into New York very soon. Why fly yourself into an ice when you know you can hold your breathe super long and have super speed that can take you to dry American land very quickly.

I didn't buy the climax and the ending, moreover, Captain America is an awesome summer blockbuster, had it not been for the bad marketing and ending, it would have had drew in more audience and be a near perfect film.

Nonetheless, it is my top few favourite super hero films.

Hey guys! It's been a few months since i've typed anything in here... over the months, i think less and less people have even bothered to come back here, and those who do i guess just happened to found my blog on some google search about some topic i ranted about in the past.

In any case, i'm gonna start blogging again, partly because i realise my English have started to rust over the months and also because i really am watching too much TV and movies. I need some place to rant, where better than my neglected blog? Anyways, i changed the blog layout to this which would be easier for me to rate and show posters.

I think i'm going to talk less about what's happening in my life now since there's really nothing much to talk about and even if there is, i rather tell it to my friends face to face or announce it to the whole world on facebook. From now on, what comes up here will probably be thoughts that i have, movie reviews, tv episode reviews, short stories and some works that i did.

So... as a reminder to future me that might be wondering what my blog looked like at this point of my life...
here goes:

As the counter on the side of the blog reads, my blog is already 5 years old, that's approaching a third of my life and a lot of memories are stored here. In no way am i going to delete this blog. I will definitely not use this domain anymore and by next year i'm going to switch it over to my company's domain under a subdomain. (I'm not that rich). Besides, i find the domain stupid now.

So, back to what i was ranting about, i really want to preserve the little things that i have here, the layout changes and stuff. Maybe down the road i will find it stupid. I probably will. Sometimes some of the stuff here is so embarrassing i wish i could delete them, but they were part of what i am, they formed the road that i thread to get to where i am. I think it's only right that I leave them here as a reminder to myself how much i have grown...

Guess that's all i have to say for now, i think i'm going to review Captain America next post.

Signing off :)

P.S. Not a single singlish, good job me :)