Chaang moi

Our thailand trips at CHIANG MAI ENP

2008-09-09T08:11:00.000-07:00

Don't be alarm if this entry is the same from my blog entry, i copy over here from it... =p

Day 1, flew to bangkok at ard 740 am... then transit flight to chiang mai.
reached there at ard noon.
brad, mammoth... our person in charge came to fetch us with the driver.
he wore a shade, very muscular...

ha then we went to the office to take the volunteer shirt before heading to the park.
first day, we just roam ard the park... explore it. as brad show us our room, and the place there.

if i'm not wrong, have electricity problem that day.
we hav a thai blessing ceremony that night. strange dogs howling...

there's a lot of dogs.

day 2
morning we did volunteer work. morning chorus = corn plant cutting. woo~ tedious 3 hours.
we have to chop down the plant, and carried it out to the pavement... gt a lots of cuts. and a cut on my face. ouch.

aft morning chorus, mammoth brought us ard the park, to the nature area and a much closer view to the elephants.

every day we will go some filmming. during our free time.
have discussion at night. and tranferring of footages to harddisk.

lunch time is at 12pm = 1 pm in singapore
dinner is 6.30 = 7.30 singapore time
every meal is like a mountain, with 6-8 dishes. as it's buffet.

there's blackout on day 2.. we walked in the dark back to out HUT.
at first we gals wanna bath, when we are in the toilet we found out there's no WATER too...
but aft yvonne rushed the toilet, the electricty came back. there's light n water.
we cheer like mad. haha damn hilarious.
like some pity gals hoping for water n light and the wishes is granted. ha

Day 3... Morning we clear elephant's poo... and
afternoon work, we did trans-planting. by loading the seedling onto the lorry and unload them.

i and xiang filled up the enitre lorry, woo...

at night we learn the elephant song in THAI.
CHANG CHANG CHANG... ha.
jean know the full song.

Day 4 Morning, we cleaned the buffalo shed...
clear the poo and wash the shed.

aft tat, wes's grp went to neighboring Thai sch, to teach the student.

while xiang's grp walked ard the park for film ming.

Managed to get a few nice shots, JAcen climbed onto the tree. like a real mahout haha...
Actually we are going to elephant heaven today, but due to the wet weather,
it is dangerous for us to travel up the hill.
so it was cancelled. =(

2pm, our afternoon job is to peel corn. Aft which filmming again.

Day 5

Washed basket, and do planting / carried piles of plant down the slope.
Gt lots of cut... OUCH.
Noon, went to elephant camp to see some performance.
It totally turned us down, knowing that the elephant suffered severely behind those performance trick.

Interview LEk (the founder of this park)

I just love the baby elephant it's so CUTE. haha...
oh ya. i gt snap by an elephant's ear, and it's mahout laughed at me! $#%^^*$%%$@

Day 6 (sat)
Yvonne is not feeling well today, so she chose to stay in out hut.
There was a very loud thunder storm one day, i can't remember when, and it's pouring very heavily.

tat's johnny...

morning, girls clean the cat house.
guys clean the buffalo shed.

dinner is great tonight, TRADITIONAL NORTHERN THAILAND dishes.

then we have the performances by the mahout. at night, we found out that, some of the footages went missing.
we transfered footages till quite late 2 am...

Day 7
It should be a "off-day" for all volunteer on Sun.
and morning work you guess what?
we were asked to go and cut plants! damn it.. that beachhhh again.. i know it's wrong speellling.. purposely.
even mammoth agreed with us.

argh.

during the elephant bathing time, we finally went to play in the water, and i bath the elephant.
current is very strong. i could hardly stand!

syafiq no.2... we still that he resemble of syafiq haha.

tat's johnny... i miss him!

at night aft dinner, we played math scrabble.
i and yvonne beat the 3 guyz =x loser haha.

then me, xiang and mark went for some thai massage.

Day 8 (1 sep)
The last day at nature park =(( kind of sad.

we are say to be free. since it's our last day. no work aft morning chorus.
brad bought us up the hill to explore and look ard...
walked for abt 1.5 hours...
the hill is very steep, and i'm wearin slipper, in the end i hav to climb barefoot.
but mammoth exchange slipper with me.

aft noon, we do some filmming.
and hav another interview with Lek due to the fault.

the lighting at that point of timeis very good for filmming. THe colour is very nice!

then ard 3 plus, we hav to rushed back to pack our stuff as we leaving at 5pm.
took quite a lot of pics with the people there. yup.
the tour guide, the kitchen people, mai - the video grapher, some of the mahout.

just dun wish to early so soon at that time.

at 5pm... we are on our way to chiang mai with brad.

he brought us out for dinner, and hav some shopping as we are leaving tml morning.

we will miss him. yup.

back to hotel, wanna see some of my teammate slping style? haha

the next thing you know, we are heading to the airport the next day.

and wroof... we are in SINGAPORE. yaawnss...
2 sep 2008, we are back....

TUES,,,, shopping day. tiring~~

2008-08-20T23:16:00.001-07:00

this time, is to shop for our trips...
we went to a lot of places... woo... spent the whole day!

went to bras basah, peninsular plaza, plaza sing, army market, raffles area etc...
we are used to being squeeze in wes's car...

hav lunch at Lau pa Sat...
eek smeelly toufu...

onli jacen n xiang like to eat...
west dun even try..

cha kway tiao, wes's fav... he influences me n jean.. haha. yummy.

ERP is simply taking our money away... damn it.
ha.. we are damn stupid or unlucky.
but it's hilarious of what we experienced...

at first is the timing before 1200-1205.. charge 50 cents, and we are like 1203 that time!!
are we unlucky?
another encounter, it really makes us laugh our stomach out..
at ard 528... we are on the road, then we saw the sign someting like 500-530pm is 1 bucks,
then we went like no no no don't turn it, we keeps skipping the ERP until it's like 529!
then
mark: wouldn't it be more expensive aft 530?
at first all of us tot that there will be no more charges after 530, DAMN STUPID...
then we rushed before 530 through ERP, guess one, on the dot, it turns 530!
we were being charged 1.50 bucks...
hahahaha...

We went HIGH in the CAR...
repeating "Fall for you - secondhand serenade" for like 10 over times... and just blasted the song and sing our lungs out... ha. insane SCT. cos we are BFF... lol...

i bought a damn cheap trekking shoes.

Dinner at MAS AYU...
yummy... love the nasi goreng kumpong

The WEs's group

the Xiang's grp...

flyin on the monday... 0740

counting down... 3 more days...
woo~

signing off,
TINA

Tee shirt Design

2008-08-18T08:59:00.000-07:00

Hey guys,

below is the design which we will be using for our tee. The silhoutte will appear on the back of our tee, while the temasek text will appear on the front. As for the logo and the crew only, it will appear on the left and right sleeve respectively. I hope this is ok with ya'll. Printing will be done tomorrow, 19th August so that we can get the exact fit we want. Bring money.

Above is the white version of what will appear on the tee

Above is the black version of what will appear on the tee

3Monkeys

2008-08-17T10:55:00.000-07:00

Finally, im here to blog, BECAUSE, i'm the only one who has the picture we took with Kumar. Oh well, it was supposedly to be an MOI outing, but it ended up to become a SnapChopTwist Productions outing AGAIN. I think there's so many things for us to do before we leave, we cant seem to finish them! Not about the story or whatnot, i must say we're almost ready, just that all ideas' in our head and not put down on paper.

CHECK OUT WEIXIANG'S FACE!!!

FINALLY! PICTURE WITH KUMAR!

Anyway, we went shopping for our stuffs today(19082008) at various places. We kept eating, therefore Wesley's car got heavier and heavier each time we alight and get in the car again. Surprisingly, we could fit in the car without the squeezing in and out like when we tried squeezing the first time. We're all skilled-ed.

So yeah. Beg me for all the 3 monkeys pictures.

Signing Off,
AW Jean
BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, BFF!

A day out with the crews.

2008-08-16T23:41:00.001-07:00

Thurday... 14 august 2008

A trip to the ZOO...

watched elephant show...
is the elephant happy or just acting to be happy?

group pictures...
the thailand team. SCT productions.

we went to want Kumar yesterday night. 16 August...
please upload the picture =)

we are flying in a week's time...

Tina

our animal personalities

2008-08-16T04:28:00.000-07:00

Zoo Trip

2008-08-15T10:09:00.001-07:00

We are back from the zoo!! Pictures will be uploaded soon!!

stay tune!

hahaha

Mark

another crews outing...

2008-08-13T08:38:00.000-07:00

hey hey crews... please end off with yr name, so that we know who blogged...

So far... we have been busy brainstorming of ideas for our shoot.
flight is settle.
for the carnet thingy, it's ARGH... just wasting our time!
but at least me, jean and wesley have a bonding session with one another =)

tml TML...
the crews are going to ZOO and Night SAFARI... haha..
bring DSLR and P2 camera..
wonders how we are going to manage. hee...

i'm looking forward for the outing!!!
meeting place 11am at bedok inter....

wee...
snapchoptwist crew,
Tina

flying off

2008-08-13T07:24:00.001-07:00

we will be flying off on the 25th aug at 740am!

most things are settled now and we are still planning on our story..

Thursday, 7th of August 2008

2008-08-07T09:40:00.000-07:00

Special Thanks to Jean and Tina for their efficiency in the paperwork.

The preproduction of our trip seems to be going according to schedule. We are efficient and we are learning alot. In addition, the bonding, is FANTASTIC. The sleepover at my place managed to cure insomics. It was either the boredom from the documentary, hardwork or the ALCOHOL. HAHA! There is a great bond with one another as arguments and conflicts among each other have begun about the mood of the show.

debate: SERIOUS SETTING OR A LIGHT HEARTED TOUCH TO IT

Who will win? Whose idea will be sold? Who will be more persuasive? Mark or Jean and Wesley? Stay Tune and watch. HAHA!

I feel that it is great to voice out our opinions about things as it is after all a group effort. Clash of ideas are part and parcel of group work. It's better to have a argumentative(in terms of ideas) group than a sleeping group, yea?

As we work more on the life of elephants there and the lifestyles of them, we will be able to come up with a better story. We just have to always focus on the Theme, Focus and Purpose of the video apart from keeping client in mind, Animal Planet or Discovery, professionalism is a must even though we are students. We should never think we can't do it. If there is a will, there is a way. It's worth the effort. Dontcha think?

pre-planning progression...

2008-08-05T22:56:00.000-07:00

Woo~~~ our trip is finally approved!!!

alright... i think that our blog will not included all the minutes we have write,
just some of the activities we done, our ideas..
or or or FEEELLLINGSSS...

quite excited, yet worried.

as our ideas of story is still not out yet...
we went to wesley's place for to watch documentary...
"Temple of the tiger" and some nat geo wild show...

hmmm... really have to start brainstorming!

monday... 4 aug... we went to watch "BAD HABITS"
damn heavy movie, that keeps u thinking... woo~~ ha.

tues....

we learnt 900 from JAC.. oh i forgot to snap a pic during his lecture..

haha... west's spec =p
waiting to collect 900 @ store

night hang out... at wesley's place
damn a nice place to slack...

morning...
wesley's hse have sleeping aura...

2008-07-31T20:36:00.000-07:00

Ideations
Wesley's group - "elephants no longer work. "
Director - work on the idea
Editor - develop story

WeiXiang's group - come up with concrete idea first.
Director and editor - work on idea

*more ideas to be contributed*

Entire production team will arrange for a DOCUMENTARY WATCHING/EVALUATING SESSION and VISIT TO ZOO.

Tentative Dates:
Documentary watching @ Wesley's House - next tuesday, 5 August, probably... staying over at wesley's place
Visit to zoo -!!!

2008-07-30T09:49:00.000-07:00

we are to keep our fit fit fit.. Running from today onwards!!!

Rules of the game..

2008-07-30T09:39:00.000-07:00

6 people.. 2 groups..

To produce 2 half hour documentaries by the end of the entire SIP period, and several 1-2 minutes cuts as interstitial.

Location: Elephant Nature Park Thailand

Groups are divided to do 2 different stories

Group 1
Director - Wesley
Main Cam - Mark
Editor - Jean

Group 2
Director - WeiXiang
Main Cam - Jacen
Editor - Tina

Main Roles
Director
Cameraman
Editor

Games begins on 25 Aug

OST

2008-07-28T23:40:00.000-07:00

Roles

jacen and Mark - Neopets camera man and logistic
Tina and Jean - Production Manager, Editor, Soundman, Travel agent , holet booker and SKW
Weixiang and Wesley - Director, Behind the scenes, idea from story, photographer.

Yvonne - Boss..