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haha... I think its amazing how video codecs work. Really, each video codec is like a language. They speak to each other in pictures, but in different languages.

i.e.
Good morning = Zhao An

Both convey the same message of a greeting, but in different languages. The meaning is directly the same.
Really complicated... but I'm guessing its how stuff works...

And each company programs their code to be the most compressable (i.e. easy to understand). But it ends up causing difficulty to the raw language (.raw files).

haha... I guess nobody understands what I'm talking about.

I'm just ranting about the why it is so difficult for Final Cut Pro to render a .wmv format video as compared to a .mov or .raw format video.

Its like,
*andrew is in his usual sleepy state, editing the videos like a zombie (zmobie)*
*click render quicktime compressor - xxxx compressor*
*time to completion - 15 mins*
*andrew yawns*
*counter suddenly increases to 1 hour*
*andrew freaks out*

haha... seriously. For a 10GB DDR-2RAM powerhouse mac editing suite, an hour of rendering is seriously a scary thing to see.

like ow? (the same thing would probably be equivalent to 12 hours of rendering on a macbook pro - and approximately 3+ hours on the school editing suites.)

I hate converting .wmv video files... seriously... even quicktime converters have problems with it.

Bleah.

....

I dont know why, but today has been just a super happy day for me.... I'm like crapped with work, but I'm like smiling and laughing the whole day...
Haha... I guess it must be this morning.

I was like going to the gym, then this guy, probably an intern who just finished O levels, was beside me training also...
I realized that he was copying every movement I did... haha.. seriously...

Thats when I started grinning to myself, its like "I use really light weights, as nowadays I do supersets [i.e. light to max load, then reverse again]".
But he was seriously looking.... almost as though studying my movements...

haha.. so I couldn't help but ask him if he wanted help, while grinning away like a bobcat.

Then guess what was his reply?

"I think your body is great! I think if I can become like your size, [i'm guessing muscle structure, not fats.], I think I'm happy already."

haha... I turned red... seriously..

Nobody has ever told me that in the gym before, especially when I never thought myself as anything...

=X

Well.. haha... That got me really happy for the rest of the day ..... =)




Tomorrow, is the last day for one of the nicest interns in STOMP... also one of the right hand-people of STOMP...
its like super sad lah... I guess that the entire team has depended on him for a really long time. Helping out in the photo albums and stuff..

Now that he's gone, I'm like the only one who knows how to program the photo album script.... and on top of my current workload, its going to be a killer for me..

So.... well, I'm still glad that he came and took off the photo album responsibility for awhile...

Yaay! Three cheers to Benny! xD

I'm going to miss him.. seriously... with all his Japanese wisecracks and Nihon-Go!

Haha... I think I'll buy some nice food from my house area tomorrow to help him celebrate...



=X

dont think he reads this anyway.... haha





Do you understand what is loneliness?
When the wind swept peaks gaze down into the abyss.
Craggy fells gush molten ice.

When you've reach the top,
You realize that nothing is as it seems.
You leave them all behind.

When you think that life could be all that you wanted,
The hammer falls.
Nothing is quite the same now...

You and I think, in one unison, in one soul.
Everything and nothing matters now.
Steal my past, path my present.

You. Could make everything different.
You. Could take away the pain.
You. Could see the price.

I'll find a way........ somehow.