The Next Step

I've finished up my studies in London, and though I'm kind of feeling wierd in saying it, I'll miss London. After 5 years, I finally get the chance to live in a lively, big city again. I'm used to large cities. I can't live in a small town. I need the hustle and bustle a large city provides, along with its list of amenities, although London definitely needs lots of work on some aspects. Nonetheless, having some *proper* chinese food was great.

So what's the next step? Get a job, I guess. It's not an easy prospect, nor is it an impossible one. It's just a mentally daunting one where I'm afraid. What exactly I'm afraid of, I guess it's just preparing in my mind to see all those rejection letters piling up. But as friends have told me, I've got to keep trying and that those letters are in no way a reflection of my ability. They just have got no vacancies is all the situation is.

In a strange land, I am. I've got to stop talking like Yoda, cute and wierd as he might be, but a muppet he still is.

The time during the course has been very good to me, and I've felt like I've come out of a huge valley with a lot of knowledge. And after a month of rest and relaxation, it's time to enter another valley. This time of work, of getting work. But at least one thing's for certain, I've finally found what I want to do and I'll put my hands to it and do it well.

God is faithful, God is good. He holds my hand though I fear, he holds my hand.

Onward and Upwards

We wrapped our 35mm ad shoots last Friday and then proceeded to the nearby pub to celebrate with odious amounts of alcohol. Michael tried to get me drunk, but I guess lack of sleep and 7 pints later... he ended up looking like that.



I guess what's left to do is to prepare for the thesis film. We've been studying the entire year for this film. But unfortunately, we're all so tired at this point I'm not sure there's any energy left to actually shoot the thing. The entire year we've been just been bombarded from all sides, if not theory-wise, then project-wise. Anyhow, we end on August 31st and then a well-earned break before deciding what to do with the next step of my life.

Strange thing is, even though it's only been - or will be - 8 months, it feels like a much much longer time has elapsed. Which is good, because I'd rather have done this than spent another year glued in front of the computer playing World of Warcraft or whatnot, wasting time raiding and farming for what essentially is, ones and zeroes resting on magnetic media.

I've got the basic script for my thesis film and I'm excited to shoot it after I've worked out some kinks in the language. Scriptwriting was never my strong suit though I try my best at it. Sometimes I wish I could be like my friends who can actually write decent stuff.

Anyhow, I managed to get a shot of me with the 35mm Panavision Camera so here it is. :)