It's done finally. Yes. The Yearbook. Took a hell of an effort and a hell load of commitment from some people to get it done, but yea, it's done now! Am so in the mood to go around hugging all my committee members, but maybe I'll save that until the actual print (sample copy) comes out :) (In)patiently waiting for that which will come soonest by this Saturday (!). Extra big thanks to Pam, Nunu and Debbie who worked over time (well more like work the night shift!) from 10 to 5 to complete the cover (long story here...) Anyhow it was BRILLIANT and a BIG thanks to them. They're probably still asleep right now after that effort though... Never mind haha...
Haven't blog in almost a month because of yearbook, studies and laziness. Exams have started and I'm really hitting my strides now in studying. Sometimes there's just no time to make for other stuff. Haven't pick up a racquet in weeks as well, which would come as a surprise (dismay?) for some people... Oh well, the things you do for work...
Anyhow I digress. This post is about the Yearbook and ALL about the Yearbook. I must say I am immensely proud of it. This one bore starkly different memories from the last one I did in SFI. For one, I was REALLY in charge with the teacher just supervising (remember Mr. Ngoh, Chong?) and had to do all the work-chasing, last minute editing and updating Ms. Cheah (the teacher advisor) with the progress. Pam helped immensely of course, along with Tony, Dolly, Yan and Amira with the designing as I'm Photoshop-illiterate (not anymore!). Anyhow I didn't realise how under-staffed I was in the designing department until the workload started rolling in and people were scrambling to finish the designs. Having designed a few pages myself, I must say it IS hard work. I know Leong Hoo (the last Student Editor) did it last year as well, learning Photoshop from scratch to help supplement the designers, but now having done it myself, it really takes a hell lot of effort and apparently, he did much more designing work than me.
Procrastinating is a norm in any project and this one was no exception. Thankfully everything got done because of incessant nagging, stalking and "some" bashing of heads and I think the final product should live up to its predecessors. While that meant (for me) playing the whip and bad guy sometimes and yelling and hollering and raising hell, at least the work got done and no hard feelings taken (I hope) between both parties... Surprisingly, it was the most talented and experienced people who could have finished the job in no time at all who procrastinated, and I must say I was quite frustrated at that. Also ran into some technological glitches with laptops crashing and going missing but thankfully that's been solved as well. Am really sorry about Yoska's notebooks though. Hope you get even better ones with the insurance money ;)
In terms of length this is also the longest yearbook I've done. A grand total of 192 pages, not including the cover. Editing and proof-reading was hell of course, but luckily Ms. Cheah got the entire English Department to help out so I'm hoping for an (almost) flawless yearbook. Seems Mr. Sutherland proof-read the entire thing in 5 hours, which is definitely a herculean effort! All thanks to him for his input to the Yearbook (and no thanks for making me spend an entire weekend editing 192 pages...).However despite the length, the page order for the Yearbook was relatively easy to sort out as everything just fell into place neatly. The order haven't changed much through out the years and I can't see it changing much more either. All I needed to watch out for was which pages went on the left and on the right so that was relatively easy so to speak. It also helped that last year's order was also passed down to me before Leong Hoo left, which saved me a lot of time flipping through last year's Yearbook to come out with the page order.
Finally, I can't possibly thank everybody without mentioning dear, dear quarterduckpam. Yeap, that's her. Pam.
If you compliment her she's going to be modest and said she did nothing and was just on the sidelines etc. so DON'T give her the chance to! But seriously after the amount of designing she did I don't think you can say that you never got involved, can you Pam? Thank you so much for all the funky designs (check out the Yearbook for details :), man-managing the designers, listening to me rant and keeping my temper in check. Yes, she's the nice one (sort of). I'm the one that has my knives out constantly. Am sorry for constantly eating into your sleeping time / leisure time / study time / staring-at-Daniel-Radcliffe time but oh well, haha, too bad for you... I'm sure she's as happy as me that this is finally finished so that she can get back to her Chem and Bio books. Anyways big thanks to her for putting up with me for the duration of this whole thing. Also big thanks to all my committee members (sorry I can't write individual paragraphs for you ^^) Antony, Amira, C.J., Wei Ern, Hui Wen, Yan, Dolly, Yoska, Kevin, Joanne, Samantha, Ikram, Nunu, Farah and Hui Ming (and Debbie for the cover, even though you're not in the committee). Thank you all so much for all your effort and dedication to the Yearbook. It has been a pleasure working with you guys and I think you can be justly proud with the work put in. Kudos!~Zhongy~
P/S OUTING NEXT TUESDAY FOR ALL COMMITTEE MEMBERS!!! PLEASE CLEAR YOUR DIARIES FOR 3RD JUNE 9 P.M.!!!
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Thursday 1 May 2008
So I have finally succumbed to peer pressure and hopped on to the Facebook bandwagon. Guys and gals those who have Facebook accounts, PLEASE ADD ME as I'm too lazy to be looking around for contacts.
On another note I seem to be incredibly lacking in decent photos (or photos which I look half-decent in.) Might be high time to start snapping photos (or getting into group photos) so that I can keep a half-filled photo album of some KTJ memories (or indeed childhood memories). Ughhhh.... Was never photogenic in the first place...
Am hating the current Malaysian politics scene now which is in a massive disarray. Anybody who saw the telecast of our parliament must be shaking their heads... Utterly disappointing... If things continue like that there won't be much of a future for Malaysians left to hope for. Seriously if they keep on acting like that, we might as well elect people who will behave in less childish manners and can get a better job done. At least parliament will be civilised... I cannot believe this is what 50 years of democracy have brought us to. MPs, please lead by example and carry yourself in a dignified manner. If you can't do that, get lost. Malaysia doesn't need people like you around, especially to lead the country. And that goes for BOTH sides.~Zhongy~
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