Monday, January 24, 2005
It was a really long weekend for me. Spent the hari raya working on my presentation for 306. Gotta present, facilitate class discussions and keep the class awake for 1.5 hours. Its funny how our presentation guidelines change over the years. In year 1, there was no time limit for our presentations. Then in year 2, suddenly we were all give time limits, so we suddenly had to keep track of our speaking times and have dry runs prior to the actual day. In final year, last sem was the worst, cos my presentations always had too much content and we found it hard to squeeze everything into the 20, 25 mins that we are given, such that I got penalised once for a presentation for exceeding the time limit. This sem, whoa, both my presentations are 1 hr and 1.5 hrs! Now we have too much time, and dunno what to talk about! So in comes the games for the class to play, the discussion questions etc etc..all these were picked up from the Grp A pple who seem to love to make their presentations so entertaining.
So, for my up and coming presentation on tuesday, we decided to spoil market, and have some fun too. Our presentation has so much corniness in it that i'm worried my tutor might penalise us for being unprofessional. But we will be presenting professionally and dressed professionally anyways. Just that we included some really corny stuff in our slides and games. And to end it off, we made a home video.
Anyway, being an ardent stephen chow fan, if I were to make a video, it would definitely be a comedy. A slapstick, classic stephen chow comedy for that matter. So anyway, I am going to share my creation with all of you and hope it makes u laugh your head off! If it doesn't, guess you either do not have a sense of humour, you do not like stephen chow, or you do not have a sense of humour.
I tried my best to find a free web host to host my video since its only ard 2 mb, but to no avail. Found this site called streamloaders.com and I thought it could host for free, but I got tricked. (fancy the trickymaster getting tricked!) When I tried to host the video, they said "sorry but freeloaders are not allowed to host videos, pay $4.95/mth and be a streamloader and host your videos now." Are they corny or what?! but i like.
So anyway, i have no choice but to resort to this method.
To watch my video,
go to www.streamloaders.com
enter my username : mingmong
password : mingmongster
then you will go into this email looking account and you will see a file there called "stress relief from 306". Thats the video. Click on it, a page will open and u will see an option to play and to download. I think downloading will be faster since its only 2mb. Clicking play will stream it on media player, and i tried it, its quite slow..
Watch it before you read further! Don't wanna spoil the surprise!
Watch it and read on!
These are pics I took to commemorate my debut as an actor.
The things I do just to be an actor.
1) I wore that torn t-shirt. Where did it come from? Boonie (the lead actor) brought it from home. What was it used for prior to the filming? IT WAS A FLOOR RAG. *deadpans*
It was no joke wearing that piece of shit. It stank as hell! But, being a professional actor, I had to ignore the smell, ignore the grossness and put in onto my bear skin.
2) I had to put on the most effective pimple cream on earth. SAF's camouflage cream. Unlike most pimple creams, this one causes pimples, thus being named the most effective pimple cream.
3) Put my finger into an electric socket to mess up my hair
4) Play with my crutch. (which is not a wise thing to do, playing with crutches. karma. that's prob how i got my crutches anyway)
About the video.
The bicycle part was purely a last minute idea. We were doing our ppt that fateful afternoon in the lab, and Boonie suddenly thought of it. He meant it as a joke, but I took it seriously. haha. But the problem was, we did not have a bicycle. So, the plan had to be shelfed. However, as though it was heaven's will that I add more stephen chowness into the video, when we went downstairs to the carpark, I saw a bicycle in front of me at the bicycle stands! UNLOCKED! So i 'borrowed' the bicycle. Hope the owner doesnt somehow see the video though.
We meant to use a mercedes, but on a saturday evening, not many cars were in sight, so we had to settle for the biggest one available.
How did the light appear behind Boonie? haha. Go figure.
For non-stephen chow fans, the beggar part was a spoof of KFH.
For those who dun know what KFH is, are you in this world?
So how did you guys like it? Tell me whether I should put it in my presentation too!
