i'm very tired now. the preparation for the symposium, the rehearsals and the symposium itself is very energy draining. shunjie can vouch for it.

ok so basically, as winner of the best film paper, i have to present my paper at the symposium on Singapore Cinema at the Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium. most of the energy was drained worrying about the presentation cos i was really god damn nervous. as in seriously

"we've been classmates for so many years, this is the first time i see you so vulnerable" - Shunjie

yah, imagine how nervous i was.

so i spent thursday night preparing my powerpoint and then there was a rehearsal on friday, which ended at 9pm. after which, reach home still had to make changes and then practice. cos i needed to be really sure, or i will go to the stage and faint. so slept quite late and then today was the symposium.

oh right, initially jean said that eric khoo will be turning up so i got even more nervous cos my paper is based on 12 storeys, which is an eric khoo film. but he didn't in the end, cos he had My Magik stuff to do i think.

ah well, the presentation went fine. i was a little nervous at first but after a while, the nervousness just died down and i just looked at zhairui's hair to maintain eye contact with the audience. thankyou zhairui's hair. nobody asked me questions, so i was really damn relieved.

BUT. cos there was like extra time after all 4 paper presentations, the 4 presenters had to go back onto the stage to kena shoot -.- it was damn horrible. it's like standing in front of 200 people with bazookas. but the questions i had were ok. OOOOOH! time to brag.

ok so this guy stood up and addressed the question to me and shunjie. he started by saying we had IMPRESSIVE PRESENTATIONS. impressive leh. not even good. impressive. heh (: and the question is not important but ms teo said i answered the question well :D yay.

ok so the bazooka shooting ended and then it was break. so me and shunjie went to look for the guy who said we had IMPRESSIVE PRESENTATIONS to thank him for his compliments. this guy gave us his namecard and asked us if we could send him our papers and presentations so that he can go through them and maybe they will appear in some magazine (!!!!!) and we looked at his namecard and he is a CEO FROM NEWYORK! that is like ultra cool. we impressed a ceo from newyork. haha. he's namecard had newyork, singapore, hongkong and shanghai so we were like WOW. and then after that jean told us that he actly held a film festival the size of oscars. so we were like O.O and i got really high.

wait i havn't finish bragging.

so during the same break, me and shunjie were looking through the windows of this door which led to some staircase. so we pretty much look like a couple of idiots staring through space and then the CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER OF THE MEDIA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE came up to us to praise us for our presentation and paper. he gave us his namecard and offered to help us in the future if we ever need. he is super nice. and i tell u, EGO INFLATION!

wah i type this until damn shiok :D

and after that were presentations by the cineodeon team. i think the guy from ITE east, welven tan, is quite funny. he's a director with his own short films. must take note. he may make it big next time. then was the jury award presentation. 12storeys and eating air basically took most of the awards for feature films. i like eating air. it's nice. highly recommended. and then prize presentation and basically that's about it.

the movie tickets will come later. some printing stuff i don't know what, but they will come later through mail :D so excited :D i get 50 film garde tickets, if you still don't know.

so after that, there was this press conference. so initially i thought it was like chnl 5 chnl 8 chnl u or straits times or sth. so i was like damn excited about it cos i've nv seen a press conference before. and yah i was really excited lor. and i started worrying what if they asked me qns in chinese and how to answer "how do you feel about winning?" and you knw wad? the "press" is like student magazines from nus or ntu or somewhere -.-

oh and mrtanbeethiam, executive director of afa, asked if we wanted to review the dvd compilation of 9 singapore short films which will be out in october and we said yes. ok he asked shunjie first, cos the compilation theme was family, which is related to shunjie's paper and then i asked if i could do it too :D our reviews may be on the website leh. haha. but now is talk only la, no action yet, so this one kiv. heh.

ok so yah that's about it for the symposium side. so wonderful. haha. and i'm really damn proud of myself for completing my presentation rather smoothly. the praises just made my ego bigger than it already is. haha.

ok so cineodeon 08 ends today. the young critics program has been a really enriching one. with all the various inputs of ideas and opinions by film studies students, noob students like us and professionals. i really learnt alot. and i will watch the days. yeah. ah i just sent emails to the mentors for their erm.. mentorship. as dunmanians, we must take the intiative to thank people for their help. yay. lol. and i get one T3A :D

oh we took a picture with royston tan. wanted to take with kelvin tong and jasmine i forgot her surname. they directed eating air, fyi. but they were gone really fast so nvm.

ah i'm really tired. but really happy :D