Let me recall......

So much details...... a week ago at this time I was still in e midst of preparing for bb's present, a movie clip who contains memories of Me & Her. It was supposed to be a perfect present for a perfect 21st birthday, but things didn't turn out as smoothly as it was supposed to be.

Back from 16/9/05, I started with e movie clip as a "Director". I've gathered all e songs and pictures for e perfect present for my perfect sis. I remembered I slept quite late that night, but still I got up unusually early e next morning to get started with my project over at Bong's hse. I was hoping that BertZ doesn’t ask me out for that weekend so that I could fully concentrate on her present. Luckily she really din as she was busily preparing for her birthday as well. Heng! So on Sunday night (18/9/05) ard 9pm at night after halfway doing with her present, I’d decided to join Bong and company for mooncake celebration somewhere near her house. Indeed, I’d a different Mooncake Festival. Usually I don’t even celebrate or whatsoever, but this year with Bong and Sinting, I must say I’d some fun in this special festive season. We played with lanterns, ate mooncakes, had some chinese tea, took some pictures.

Yeah! Sinting's new pomelo cap!

Then again Monday (19/9/05) back to my workstation, working and at e same time stressed about completing e present in time. TingZ and Bong accompanied to orchard to buy e main present for BerTZ. A Burberrys wallet which I long wanted to get her. This wallet is only one of those I could afford for her. If I have e money, I would get her e latest PDA handphone, a Lessie doggie, organize a birthday surprise on a yacht.. blah blah blah…. So many things I could do with that money. Haha! Too bad I’m not able to do it as yet. Anyway, I don’t really find that wallet nice, but I knew she would like it somehow. And I thought that was not the main thing that would constitute to my present, the Movie was then. So without second thought I bought it. Together with a Piglet Mug for her office use, and e second Piglet soft toy.

Tired sial... (Taken before e shopping spree)

Our Hoegardens... Hehee!

Me & Sin (I strangled her, but not knowing she poked my head : )

Yaaaaa.... Fighting with Bong again!

After 2hours plus of intensive shopping (for a person like me who doesn’t like shopping at all), we decided to stop at coffee club for a drink. This is e second time I was there. Looking at e menu, decided to have a beer as a form of relief. Not much of a choice, I took Hoegarden (introduced by Yaowei). Bong & TingZ ordered e same too! There we drank happily, taking pictures again. After a tiring day, we finally headed home, while I continued my project for awhile before I rest for e day.

Tuesday (20/9/05), OMG! Its nearing and my heart beats faster day by day. And I’d a competition on that day, 2nd game of e TNP after-5 pool league. I hated it when I still have my things to do, and this competition was holding me up. It was a Home game, I specially took 2 ½ hrs of time-off to catch some rest before I go for a short warm-up. BertZ and Jen came. Yaowei rushed down from work too. William also. I had a good play on e first match. I won. Second game, my opponent Jef Tan won. And e last game, I lost again. Haiz… Really hate losing.

But I can’t blame myself as I haven’t been practicing for a long long time le. It doesn’t took me long to get it over, cos I was more stressed over my movie than anything else, really! But when I got home I knew I needed more rest so that I could get more things done before her birthday comes. Presentation would be on Sartuday (24/9/05). By then I was only left with 4 days to complete. Comes Wednesday (25/9/05), TingZ and Bong were giving me ideas for a Birthday card which I wished to make in time for her birthday together with e movie. But then again, I didn’t manage to get any materials, cos I really got no idea at that moment. So I headed home. Stomach not feeling well again. Good! That would be my excuse for not attending work on Thursday then. I worked on e present till 2 plus, I slept. Morning after informing everybody including my boss that I was sick, I went back to sleep. I woke up at around 10+, continued with my project masterpiece. Creating pictures seems so effortless, but I realized it was not so. Took me hours just to create that few precious ones. I met Bong for dinner, and over to her house to complete e clip. TingZ came after her lesson also, very onZ! While I was doing with my project, they watched VCDs, Bong was tired so she fell aslp 1st, woke up about every 15mins to check me out. Haha! Sinting was concentrating with her show. I knew she din wanna bother me too! I did drink abit that night also lah. To keep me going. Yeah, at ard 6+, as I was about to complete my project, e com hang or something. It took sometime to restart, I fell asleep within seconds. I woke up at 8am, watched e final piece that was going to be burn into disc. But somehow it jammed somewhere, dunno why. Everything was perfect liao, yet this problem cropped up. While dealing with this problem, I did some editing like blending e songs together, adjust some of e timings of e pics and all, it was 11+am liao. We were supposed to meet BerTZ at 1.15pm to go Malaysia, JB. And I was supposed to go help her buy her top for her birthday. Rushed home, bathed, and took a cab down to citylink with Bong. Bought her top liao, took a train back, jus in time to meet her, together with Sinting.

3 of us so tired, wished to quickly settle berTZ down in m’sia for her hairdo, cos I don’t wish to explain to her why my lethargic face and movements. Bong almost slipped her mind and wanna talk about e show they were watching overnight. Luckily she realized quick and changed topic. Haha! So finally we left berTZ at e hair salon, while we were browsing through e Shopping Centre. Sinting bought sports shoes for her dad and herself, while I bought a pair of footwear for myself too. Quite cheap lah. Its been sometime since I last bought something for myself. Then Bong brought us to makan at “Malaysia garden”, not unfamiliar to me, cos I used to go there with my Rebels group. Just that e stall she frequent is different from us. We sat in that open area, ordered crayfish, kangkong, frog legs, toufu, and 3 huge glasses of sugarcane. Haha! Real big sia! We had a good time, a good talk down there. Then I realized that Sinting is a mummy’s gal. A big baby. Haha! I was never able to “sajiao” to my parents like she did. Or maybe its been so long time since I did that! Anyway, we headed back to Holiday Plaza to pick my stylo baby from e salon. Nice one! Wonder how she would be able to go back to work on Monday. We shall see.

So tired le, gotta go back home and prepare to go chalet. And my heart is still with e undone project. I don’t have a choice, went back chalet with beRTZ and family. Rebels prepared a surprise for her, they were all there before us. I was e last to know about e surprise. Jen presented her birthday card to her, a great special one. I was feeling quite bad at that time that I was unable to gave her mine. Many thoughts came into my mind. Haiz. Feeling abit sour. I called Bong to tell her. Cos at that time I could talk to nobody except somebody who understood what I’d gone through for e project, that is Bong! So I compromise with Yaowei to fetch me home e next morning so that I could finished up with her present.

Good that I was still able to catch some sleep before e zui hou chong ci. Got up at 9+, went home, started with my birthday card. It took me easily more than 6 hours to complete e card. e shape and design of e card I made was damned plain and boring, but I like e part where I composed for her. Hehe! Headed to Dewei’s hse with Yaowei to see e problem around 6+pm. And then to Bong’s hse to make e movie disc cover while they rectify e problem for me.

I'm so glad to see this photo as I couldn't make it in time...

Just then at around 8pm, I received a call from BertZ. She told me she was cutting cake soon. I knew I couldn’t make it, so I was kinda upset. That was not e main reason that upsets me, I got to know from Yaowei and Dewei, that e final piece they burnt out had this lagging problem like e earlier ones while playing on e vcd player. Could you imagine how I feel at that very moment, when you couldn’t make it to e cake cutting session of your beloved sis, couldn’t help her with her preparation of e birthday party, cos all e time you had spent it on a movie clip which in e end wasn’t a successful one? That kinda feeling? Felt like so much like crying at e moment. But I held up. And was thinking of how to present it to her. There we were on our way to east coast chalet, I was also packing up all my presents, e card, e mug, e wallet and e DISC…… Many thoughts running through my mind, “I should have started everything a month ago…” “I should have…… this and that” Regretssssss!!!! It’s all my fault.

Bong was with me, while TingZ and Evelyn were already there. She was lost of words too, she didn’t know how to console me, so she kept very quiet. That was good enough, I needed just a listening ear at that moment. When I reached and saw BertZ, of cos she questioned me! I became speechless & helpless, just gave out a sigh and I walked into e chalet. Actually I planned to play e movie clip when all her friends were around, but then myself haven’t even take a look at e final piece of work. I don’t even dare to play it. Secretly took it to a corner when Yaowei came, tried it on e laptop to see e results. It was far from what I thought it should be. Large pixels, poor resolution, though e audio was ok on e laptop, but earlier on they tried on TV, e audio lagged too! So, what do you think? WTF! Cork up!

As J.E.W watches e movie created by myself....

Anyway, waited till almost 12plus, before I got her full attention and was able to explain to her what had been going on while I played e distorted failure movie on e dvd player. Well, things didn’t turn out as bad as I thought. The audio was some part abit lagging, pixels abit better, and it ran smoothly somehow. I dunno what happened, but I knew that Bong, Sin & Eve were giving me some kinda moral support which I needed badly at that time. Especially Bong who had gone thru all these with me. BertZ was encouraging too… She kept commenting that its gd, its gd! No major faults at all. I dunno whether to be contented or what, I just kept nodding my head. Anyway, I hoped she liked my masterpiece. Something that I first ever tried doing for someone who seemed so important to me in my life. A great lovely sister, BertZ. Afterwhich really had a good sleep and rest! Finally it’s over! Happy Birthday my dear sis! Jie loves you!!

2 of e few photos we managed to take during e chalet!

J.E.W on W's 21st Birthday!

JEWyYy Kisses for W!!! MMmmUaK!

Lastly, I would like to extend my appreciation to all e following friends:

Ms Bong – Thanks for helping me so much with e movie, e time u spent with me (in case I got any queries), e effort you put in this movie more than a normal friend would. The patience you had for me! Everything! Thank you so much!!!

Ms Ong – The moral support by staying overnight with us together, giving me comments and ideas on my movie as well as e birthday card. Accompanying me to buy e present and all! Really thanks!!

Mr Loh – For fetching me here and there to complete my tasks. And helping to rectify e technical problems that we encountered on e last day! Thank you so much!!

Mr Dewei – For e scanning of photos / converting of movie program to vcd formats and trials we had gone through. Thanks a lot man!!

Above all these, you guys really gave me lots of encouragment!


Really thanks to all of you, otherwise my movie wouldn’t be completed at all!! This present means a lot to me and my sister!! I’m so glad that I’ve all of you around to help me through when I needed help! Thanks, Pals!