Did I tell you that I love my job?
My bosses are most probably the most amazing ones that you could ever ask for, and its rare that you get that gut feeling that these people do it from the heart. My bosses have soul and they're the kind of people that stick true to the craft and do it simply for the love of music and audio design.
I'm amazed that my boss thinks that I'm worth my weight in gold and he does not know how much that means to me.I'm so extremely thankful and amazed that such an establishment like this would actually take me in.
Its really rare when you meet people who do it for the art and who are successful at what they're doing, but despite the horrible reality of life and love, I'm amazed that this establishment has taken me in and is willing to spend their time on me. These are exactly the kind of creative minds that I need to surround myself with.
I mean, what else can you ask for, straight off the bat I'm working on a Transformers trailer, the next project would hopefully be with BMW. If I'd I get to do field recordings of Z4s and M3s and 6 series, if I get hit by a truck tmrw, I'll die a a happy woman. Sadly, my Megatron sounds like a gay man on a mardi gras float and my Z4 sounds like a Tata truck. I've gotta work on the skills. Of course if i get to drive those babies it would be all the better.
heh heh heh....
Shite, I've got to do something about it tomorrow.
Another great thing is, although I'm brand spanking new to this job, my bosses have no airs about them and they're treating me like I've belonged to the family already. I love them! Words cannot express how much I love this establishment.I'm more determined than ever to learn what I can.
Seriously, you don't know how grateful I am. Maybe God does work in mysterious ways. Even though, in my case, love is hard to ignore when I feel that its right.
Upcoming is a client party and i'm looking forward to rubbing shoulders with the big wigs. I'm so glad that my boss is letting me in on it.
Here's to smiles, hellos and how you doing. Put on the game face. Run with it.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
I Love My Job
I think the title says it all.
I love my job.
Against all odds, i was offered another job at another well established studio. What do i do? I'm gonna take it and run with it.
Did I already mention that i love my job?
It's fresh, i've just started. But these people are out to churn industry giants, and i hope i'm one of them.
Never have i been surrounded by execs who are passionate as much as these people are.
Here's to good things.
I love my job.
Against all odds, i was offered another job at another well established studio. What do i do? I'm gonna take it and run with it.
Did I already mention that i love my job?
It's fresh, i've just started. But these people are out to churn industry giants, and i hope i'm one of them.
Never have i been surrounded by execs who are passionate as much as these people are.
Here's to good things.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Is This Karma?
NYC, Monday 19th October 2009, 2:42pm
Yet another not-so-eventful Monday. The studio that I work at definitely has the Monday blues today. Good thing is that their schedules become insane as the week progresses, with a stream of people coming in to audition or the endless live audition sessions via conferencing, those are pretty rad.
The awesome thing is that I start work tomorrow at another studio on 23rd st. This one was totally unexpected. Went in for the interview on Friday, met the boss who surprised me in more ways than one with the good things that he had to say and I was confirmed that day itself to start work tomorrow. I can't wait because the anticipation is killing me.
This studio might be a small establishment with only 10 years in the game compared to the 30 years at the current studio I'm in, but no no no, never underestimate the small guy. They might be little in terms of manpower and a somewhat smaller space but they've got huge huge canons. The client roster is incredible. MTV is one of their main clients along with HBO, Saturn, Olay, ESPN, Nat Geo, Discovery, PBS and lots more.They've got credits in a couple of films and animations too. But... My favorite client...BMW.
Apparently, they're gonna throw some stuff my way real soon. I've been told that its either a Transformers trailer or one of their ads...I'm hoping the Z4 advert.
BMW please....
I hope they give it to me real quick.
Wouldn't it be great if sound designers were paid by their clients with the product that they were working on?heh heh heh...I'd be a very happy camper.
Anyways, that right there is a little bit of good news for me after what might have potentially been a week of soul crushing disappointment.
Which brings me to my question(s).
In the latest episode of House that I watched yesterday, in a nutshell, billionaire is King Midas in the flesh but he had led a tragic personal life. He lost his wife to cancer and now was on the brink of losing his only child to what was diagnosed as an incurable disease.
Mind you, this man wipes his butt with Benjamin Franklins but even with all that money in the world, he can't buy happiness especially after the tragedies that have befallen him.
When he got news that his son had less than a day to live because of this incurable disease, he signed his fortune away to save his son. He basically bankrupted himself in a day,believing that life is a fragile balance of the cosmos, he believed that where there is good, there is the bad too, he was a firm believer in karma and he truly believed that because of his massive luck when it came to money, he lost the love of his life and was losing his only son. He didn't look at it as a punishment of any kind, instead he said that this is the universe trying to strike a balance, everything comes in pairs, the good with the bad.
And because of his beliefs, he signed his fortune away, became bankrupt, but his son lived to see another day and many more...and he was happy. House insisted it was the medicine that saved his son, he believed that it was karma.
In retrospect of this, is there really karma? Or have we grown accustomed to Hollywood romanticizing life? Should I believe in it? For every bad, there's a good and for every good there's a bad.The cosmos work in mysterious ways in order to keep the world spinning on its axis perhaps?
I guess with every cruel, cruel blow that life dishes out at you, it tries to numb the pain with the rewards that persistence, hard work and a little touch of luck might bring you.
But sometimes I wonder, should I go against what I was brought up to be and stop being nice because it risks getting trampled on or should I brave the rain and sing to it? Admittedly, it gets pretty tired smiling in the face of adversity sometimes. Admittedly, sometimes, in my brief moments of despair, I feel that being positive gets me no where. Sometimes I feel like the ant on the anthill that's getting blazed by that mean kid with a magnifying glass.
The 'man' up there works in mysterious ways.But I suppose some of us have to wait for that little ray of sunshine. And maybe, just maybe, that wait makes it all the more worth it.
Yet another not-so-eventful Monday. The studio that I work at definitely has the Monday blues today. Good thing is that their schedules become insane as the week progresses, with a stream of people coming in to audition or the endless live audition sessions via conferencing, those are pretty rad.
The awesome thing is that I start work tomorrow at another studio on 23rd st. This one was totally unexpected. Went in for the interview on Friday, met the boss who surprised me in more ways than one with the good things that he had to say and I was confirmed that day itself to start work tomorrow. I can't wait because the anticipation is killing me.
This studio might be a small establishment with only 10 years in the game compared to the 30 years at the current studio I'm in, but no no no, never underestimate the small guy. They might be little in terms of manpower and a somewhat smaller space but they've got huge huge canons. The client roster is incredible. MTV is one of their main clients along with HBO, Saturn, Olay, ESPN, Nat Geo, Discovery, PBS and lots more.They've got credits in a couple of films and animations too. But... My favorite client...BMW.
Apparently, they're gonna throw some stuff my way real soon. I've been told that its either a Transformers trailer or one of their ads...I'm hoping the Z4 advert.
BMW please....
I hope they give it to me real quick.
Wouldn't it be great if sound designers were paid by their clients with the product that they were working on?heh heh heh...I'd be a very happy camper.
Anyways, that right there is a little bit of good news for me after what might have potentially been a week of soul crushing disappointment.
Which brings me to my question(s).
In the latest episode of House that I watched yesterday, in a nutshell, billionaire is King Midas in the flesh but he had led a tragic personal life. He lost his wife to cancer and now was on the brink of losing his only child to what was diagnosed as an incurable disease.
Mind you, this man wipes his butt with Benjamin Franklins but even with all that money in the world, he can't buy happiness especially after the tragedies that have befallen him.
When he got news that his son had less than a day to live because of this incurable disease, he signed his fortune away to save his son. He basically bankrupted himself in a day,believing that life is a fragile balance of the cosmos, he believed that where there is good, there is the bad too, he was a firm believer in karma and he truly believed that because of his massive luck when it came to money, he lost the love of his life and was losing his only son. He didn't look at it as a punishment of any kind, instead he said that this is the universe trying to strike a balance, everything comes in pairs, the good with the bad.
And because of his beliefs, he signed his fortune away, became bankrupt, but his son lived to see another day and many more...and he was happy. House insisted it was the medicine that saved his son, he believed that it was karma.
In retrospect of this, is there really karma? Or have we grown accustomed to Hollywood romanticizing life? Should I believe in it? For every bad, there's a good and for every good there's a bad.The cosmos work in mysterious ways in order to keep the world spinning on its axis perhaps?
I guess with every cruel, cruel blow that life dishes out at you, it tries to numb the pain with the rewards that persistence, hard work and a little touch of luck might bring you.
But sometimes I wonder, should I go against what I was brought up to be and stop being nice because it risks getting trampled on or should I brave the rain and sing to it? Admittedly, it gets pretty tired smiling in the face of adversity sometimes. Admittedly, sometimes, in my brief moments of despair, I feel that being positive gets me no where. Sometimes I feel like the ant on the anthill that's getting blazed by that mean kid with a magnifying glass.
The 'man' up there works in mysterious ways.But I suppose some of us have to wait for that little ray of sunshine. And maybe, just maybe, that wait makes it all the more worth it.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
First Day on the Job
NYC, Monday 12th October 2009, 3:52pm
So here I am, first day on the job and I'm blogging,ahaahahahaha....
This place is nice,although its a little bit slow today unfortunately but I'm guessing that its gonna start picking up later in the week.I was though able to sit in and watch the audition process and the different ways that the producers here handle them. Might I add,it was an interesting process and these guys have amazing ears.
I gotta learn those Pro Tools shortcuts real quick.
I go in for another interview tomorrow with Rocketboom and Aviary hopefully on Thursday.
I need to keep busy.
So here I am, first day on the job and I'm blogging,ahaahahahaha....
This place is nice,although its a little bit slow today unfortunately but I'm guessing that its gonna start picking up later in the week.I was though able to sit in and watch the audition process and the different ways that the producers here handle them. Might I add,it was an interesting process and these guys have amazing ears.
I gotta learn those Pro Tools shortcuts real quick.
I go in for another interview tomorrow with Rocketboom and Aviary hopefully on Thursday.
I need to keep busy.
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Random Thoughts on a Rainy Day
NYC, Saturday 3rd October 2009, 11:50pm
So here I am, sitting in a train that's not moving and miraculously at this point, albeit being underground, there's service. Shocker!
I've been trying to get work done today to no avail, I've just been super restless the whole day, I don't know why.
Had a skype chat with my sister last night,we talked about all sorts of random things, her pregnancy, her feng shui guy and those funky dreams that she's been having, then I mentioned to her, to check out this documentary online,a NatGeo doc about the Koran. Being skeptical at first about the validity and the western point of view that might be one sided in this documentary, I thought why not, let's give this a shot and see what they have to say about Islam.
To my surprise, it was one of the most well balanced documentaries on Islam that I've ever watched. I remember watching snippets of a Fox channel documentary on Islam and Jihad and it was a total misrepresentation of what Islam is based on. It was shocking at how blatantly Fox could lie about the facts and basing it all on western sensationalism.
This documentary however, represented the Koran in a very positive light. It sought out the ideas and beliefs of both the moderate and the slightly more radical Islamic scholars from around the globe. It covered many aspects of the Koran, from living with the veil to the rights of a woman in the eyes of Islam, right down to crime and punishment, judgement and forgiveness.
What really stood out for me was when this Islamic scholar said that the Sharia is not about judging, punishing and killing, the Sharia is about forgiving and to be forgiven.
Here's one notion that the western world, on a regular basis frequently misinterprets - Muslim women are oppressed.
Untrue.
Islam gave women independence long before the European women were allowed to tie their shoelaces without first seeking consent from their men.
In a world thats dominated by men, i think this is most important.
I think its about time we stop thinking why and start doing whats right. As i've said once before and i'm saying it again, i've not been the righteous and neither have i've been completely good, but i think what i believe in is intact and nothing can shake my faith.
What we need now is to relearn the importance of tolerance and to understand what religion is all about. We have to take the power struggle out of it and just live life as best as we can.
Of course that notion is up to debate. What is good? What is bad? It's for us to judge. But ultimately, I think it boils down to whether you can sleep at night with the choices that you've made. If you can, good for you, if you can't, I think it's about time we rethink our priorities and right the wrongs.
Ultimately, our worldly existence is only temporary. What we make out of it is what counts. Why fight when we can do better?
There's a thin line between culture and religion and we have to understand that. Till we do, the hopeful can only be optimistic.
I hope I fall into that category. I hope that wave of optimism somehow, against all odds but somehow, prevails.
We're never too old or too late to be optimistic.
So here I am, sitting in a train that's not moving and miraculously at this point, albeit being underground, there's service. Shocker!
I've been trying to get work done today to no avail, I've just been super restless the whole day, I don't know why.
Had a skype chat with my sister last night,we talked about all sorts of random things, her pregnancy, her feng shui guy and those funky dreams that she's been having, then I mentioned to her, to check out this documentary online,a NatGeo doc about the Koran. Being skeptical at first about the validity and the western point of view that might be one sided in this documentary, I thought why not, let's give this a shot and see what they have to say about Islam.
To my surprise, it was one of the most well balanced documentaries on Islam that I've ever watched. I remember watching snippets of a Fox channel documentary on Islam and Jihad and it was a total misrepresentation of what Islam is based on. It was shocking at how blatantly Fox could lie about the facts and basing it all on western sensationalism.
This documentary however, represented the Koran in a very positive light. It sought out the ideas and beliefs of both the moderate and the slightly more radical Islamic scholars from around the globe. It covered many aspects of the Koran, from living with the veil to the rights of a woman in the eyes of Islam, right down to crime and punishment, judgement and forgiveness.
What really stood out for me was when this Islamic scholar said that the Sharia is not about judging, punishing and killing, the Sharia is about forgiving and to be forgiven.
Here's one notion that the western world, on a regular basis frequently misinterprets - Muslim women are oppressed.
Untrue.
Islam gave women independence long before the European women were allowed to tie their shoelaces without first seeking consent from their men.
In a world thats dominated by men, i think this is most important.
I think its about time we stop thinking why and start doing whats right. As i've said once before and i'm saying it again, i've not been the righteous and neither have i've been completely good, but i think what i believe in is intact and nothing can shake my faith.
What we need now is to relearn the importance of tolerance and to understand what religion is all about. We have to take the power struggle out of it and just live life as best as we can.
Of course that notion is up to debate. What is good? What is bad? It's for us to judge. But ultimately, I think it boils down to whether you can sleep at night with the choices that you've made. If you can, good for you, if you can't, I think it's about time we rethink our priorities and right the wrongs.
Ultimately, our worldly existence is only temporary. What we make out of it is what counts. Why fight when we can do better?
There's a thin line between culture and religion and we have to understand that. Till we do, the hopeful can only be optimistic.
I hope I fall into that category. I hope that wave of optimism somehow, against all odds but somehow, prevails.
We're never too old or too late to be optimistic.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey
NYC, Friday 25th September 2009, 9:05pm
What did i do at the Giants Stadium?
I WATCHED U2!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
I can now die a happy woman.
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
After Muse and before U2 comes on
With or Without You. This was the highlight of my night.
Where The Streets Have No Name
Vertigo 1
Vertigo 2
Sunday Bloody Sunday 1
Sunday Bloody Sunday 2
Stay (Far Away, So Close!). All i could do was hold my breath.
Mysterious Ways
All i can say is that i had a hell of a good time. I finally got to watch U2 in concert. They're stage set was a killer! Only U2 can pull off something like this.
The circle is complete. Too bad Freddie Mercury isn't around, or else watching Queen would be out of this world.
Next concert in DC...oh the temptation!
What did i do at the Giants Stadium?
I WATCHED U2!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
I can now die a happy woman.
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
After Muse and before U2 comes on
With or Without You. This was the highlight of my night.
Where The Streets Have No Name
Vertigo 1
Vertigo 2
Sunday Bloody Sunday 1
Sunday Bloody Sunday 2
Stay (Far Away, So Close!). All i could do was hold my breath.
Mysterious Ways
All i can say is that i had a hell of a good time. I finally got to watch U2 in concert. They're stage set was a killer! Only U2 can pull off something like this.
The circle is complete. Too bad Freddie Mercury isn't around, or else watching Queen would be out of this world.
Next concert in DC...oh the temptation!
Monday, September 21, 2009
Oh Dear...
I'm quite glad that they've come to a decision to charge 6 people with sedition over the truly embarrassing cow head protest that happened not too long ago. It's sad to see the unraveling of society, what happened? Why can't things be like the way it was before? Or was it never that way to begin with? Maybe my parents did a good job at sheltering us from the tyranny, that we grew oblivious to its existence. But boy oh boy, i must admit, it's quite a rude awakening now that i'm seeing it happen.
What was to be a civilized public dialogue between the residents and the Shah Alam City Council sadly turned barbaric, and what was most obvious is that these people came with no intention whatsoever to come to a reasonable resolution. What ensued was a shouting match and a display of unruly and downright rude behavior.
There's still hope yet. The mob will not, should not and cannot rule.
What was to be a civilized public dialogue between the residents and the Shah Alam City Council sadly turned barbaric, and what was most obvious is that these people came with no intention whatsoever to come to a reasonable resolution. What ensued was a shouting match and a display of unruly and downright rude behavior.
There's still hope yet. The mob will not, should not and cannot rule.
Eid
NYC, Sunday 20th September 2009, 6:31pm
Eid. A time to reflect and to appreciate those around you. A time to count your blessings for another year.
It was a rather quiet one. For some reason i wasn't really feeling up to it this morning. Another Eid away from home, well, at least i managed to skype with the brood on the morning of their Eid Malaysian time.
It's already 3 Eid celebrations that i've been away from. The ladies were in red this year, i would've been too if i were back home.
For some strange reason, i've been in a bit of a funk for the past one week i really don't know why. Ah well, i should kick up my heels and concentrate on what's important, like getting my portfolio ready and buying those damn CD-Rs that i'm supposed to. Keep forgetting it gawddamnit! I need that job! Interviews, whether formal or informal, with potential employers scare the Jedi's out of me.
Happy Eid and here's to better times ahead and i offer the sincerest of apologies, Maaf Zahir dan Batin.
Eid. A time to reflect and to appreciate those around you. A time to count your blessings for another year.
It was a rather quiet one. For some reason i wasn't really feeling up to it this morning. Another Eid away from home, well, at least i managed to skype with the brood on the morning of their Eid Malaysian time.
It's already 3 Eid celebrations that i've been away from. The ladies were in red this year, i would've been too if i were back home.
For some strange reason, i've been in a bit of a funk for the past one week i really don't know why. Ah well, i should kick up my heels and concentrate on what's important, like getting my portfolio ready and buying those damn CD-Rs that i'm supposed to. Keep forgetting it gawddamnit! I need that job! Interviews, whether formal or informal, with potential employers scare the Jedi's out of me.
Happy Eid and here's to better times ahead and i offer the sincerest of apologies, Maaf Zahir dan Batin.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Trippy
NYC, Sunday 13th September 2009, 9:31pm
I couldn't bring myself to try another worm. Thank god for that.
This is so trippy.
moonlit night. hot milo. playing in the background.
trip. trip. trip.
trippy. trip.
perfect.
I couldn't bring myself to try another worm. Thank god for that.
This is so trippy.
moonlit night. hot milo. playing in the background.
trip. trip. trip.
trippy. trip.
perfect.
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