Joash The Freelance Videographer (Updated)

Cassie & I have been very honoured to have been chosen to create a series of videologs highlighting the development of the state of Johor. We've been here since Friday & we have been on the roll ever since we arrived. And so far my job as a videographer has been a wild & amazing journey. The luxury of being on a cruise, the rush of sitting on a speedboat, the coolness of attending a press conference & rubbing shoulders with the likes of RTM & Berita Harian, the delicious free food... Our organisers have been great in providing us an awesome experience of JB and its development. Cassie has been great not only in front of the camera, but in planning & managing our work here. It's our first time working together & so far everything has been good.


In spite of all the good stuff, I must say that it has also been a bittersweet experience for me. Being away from my family & May to be on my first field job has not been easy. I miss them terribly. There were some 'firsts moments' in my life here that I didn't get to share or experience with them, especially May, & that really breaks my heart. I wish I can bring my loved ones, pack them in a luggage bag & take them wherever I go.


Tomorrow will be our final day of shooting (for the initial phase of the project). And if everything goes well I can be back home (KL) before midnight. I'll write more extensively on my fieldtrip in JB, but here are some nice pictures for you...

Taking a break at Festive Street Mall, Danga Bay.

The cruise

Cassie Lee

Amazing meal at Anna's kitchen

Sunset by the Bay...

Documentary - Johor Flood

From left: Flood victim(we never got her name), Jason, Samuel

After 2 weeks of uploading with Google Video Uploader, I can finally show the world my little documentary on the recent Johor floodings. Footage were taken in Batu Pahat, Johor, on January 26, 2007. This is way overdue, of course. But recently the government has been talking about measures taken in preparation for yet another possible series of floods, and the problem with that is that after an entire year, we still don't have (or have not heard of) a long term solution in PREVENTING such disasters from happening again.

There are still problems with embeded google videos, so here's the link to my little documentary. I hope that in this time, it will serve as a reminder to all Malaysians.

Day 6 Part 3 Bloopers

I don't know who has been waiting for this one, but I'm really glad that I was finally able to finish day 6 bloopers & upload it with Google Video Uploader, which really rocks (will talk about that later).

This particular blooper isn't all that funny. It was a long day, so no one was really in the mood to laugh at mistakes. Probably what you'll see more in this content is to understand a bit on how we made the movie. Many things were spontaneous, and really fun, of course.

It seems that there's still something wrong with the google embeded videos, so you'll just have to go to this video link here. Cheers.

Vlog - April 24, 2007

23 March 2007, The Pink Ping Pong Ball Story

For complete and full appreciation of this video, one must be in complete and utter boredom.

Currently there's something wrong with the embedded video. So in the mean time, click on the Video link here. Thank you.

Vlog - March 15, 2007

MalaysianLah - 05/02/2007

How I Spent February 1st

1. MalaysianLah Coverage of Federal Territory Day Celebrations in Dataran Merdeka (Liberty Square), Kuala Lumpur.

It's my first time, and there wasn't much there lah - ministers showing up late, singing the national anthem, parachuters with flags landing on Dataran Merdeka, and a lot of marching (too much in my opinion). There weren't many people that showed up anyway. Most of them were reporters (carrying big cameras) & people with video cameras. There was a group of guys who were trying to get girls involved in the marching to pose for their camera phones... hahaha. The rest were most likely families & friends of participants of the celebration and I spotted some tourists.

I didn't stay for the whole thing lah... I mean, how long can you stand by the side of the road watching people march? We wrapped up MalaysianLah coverage & headed to the bus stop. But as we walked away we heard music... We turned back to find the best band we heard that day - the band from SMK Kuen Cheng. That was the thing that made our morning's trip worth it.

2. Winning Eleven 9

Lemuel (birthday boy) & I challenged one another. He won more games than I (5-3), but I wasn't that worried, considering that I was using my newly set up master league team versus the Brazil national team, and I lost 2 games on penalties.

3. Sushi

In the evening, dad wanted to make sushi. May was tired after working from 7am - 2pm (her company decided to work that day, so that they'll get a longer holiday for CNY), but she came & help us anyway. In the end we only had 1 plate of sushi, because we were eating as we made them... Haha.

4. Birthday Celebration at D'Fortune

Joined Lemuel & gang to celebrate his birthday. What's special about this western food restaurant is that they have fortune cookies... We scolded KeXin for taking too much, but she blamed the fortune cookie because it said "Have another fortune cookie". RDTH.

5. PICTIONARY

I invited the birthday party people to come over for PICTIONARY!! Friends, if you want to have a good laugh & your gang has no joker in it (not in our case), play PICTIONARY!! PICTIONARY ROCKS!! We had so much fun. The biggest laugh came when I was trying to draw a dog. After the first 3 seconds I knew I couldn't draw a dog (Melanie thought it was a DUCK!!), so I circled the previous pictures of a cat & a rat. I got Melanie to say "rat afraid of cat, cat afraid of duck?". Annie probably got frustrated, and a phone call came in. As I kept circling the rat & the cat & the 'duck' - with 5 seconds left - Annie said "Dog" as she held her phone on her ears... And everyone just laughed for almost 5 minutes.

So, anyone game on PICTIONARY?