Jump!★

It's been a while since I've had days like this. I was able to sleep in without an alarm clock waking me up. I'm a pretty early riser so I'm usually the first one to be up in my family - I seldom sleep past 8am anymore. Then I settled down for breakfast with a cup of coffee and a whole avocado with honey while taking my time reading. It's 9:30am and I'm in front of my computer after doing some journaling in my planner. What a productive morning, if I do say so myself.

This pass week has been busy busy busy. For the first time, I was able to attend Kre8tif! (Southeast Asia's Creative Conference & Content Festival) at Cyberview Resort & Spa. The event is an initiative from Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) an agency under the Ministry of Communication & Multimedia Malaysia, with the mandate to develop the creative content industry in Malaysia. Basically people from the creative industry meets under one roof in this 4 days event to network, discuss new technology/ pipelines/ strategy/ etc, celebrate achievements, share knowledge and most importantly enjoy the free food! They even had alcohol at the networking party to, I guess, loosen things up hahaha.

My company sent me for the Masterclasses that was held on the first and second day. I would say that being a 3D Generalist has proved to be helpful in this case because I was sent to attend a variety of classes that I would not have the chance to if I were not a generalist. I'm a greedy person and I like to learn, so I was pretty enthusiastic about it! I got to be hands on with Blender and ZBrush which I have never used before but now that I've dipped my feet in them, I am hooked. Almost immediately I went home and downloaded Blender on my PC to practice more.


In the Arnold Masterclass, I won a Bluetooth speaker by answering the quiz. It was mind-blowing to think that a few weeks ago, my Mom had been asking me to help her buy a Bluetooth speaker online but crunch time at work began and I barely had time to browse since I'm working 6 days a week and about 10 hours each day. So I was extremely amazed and grateful that a Bluetooth speaker just landed in my hands. Like wowww.


Back in the office, we're actually rushing to start compositing a new episode, so I stayed back to finish up since I spent most of my day at the event. It was tough because I felt so goddamn sleepy after the classes. A few of my colleagues stayed back too so we had dinner and desserts together! Ever since starting work, I feel that I see my colleagues more than I do my family, in which they agreed. It was funny.

I went to Kre8tif! again on the final day because I was assigned to man the booth. It was a welcome break from the hustle of work and it reminded me of my university days when I used to be active in clubs and societies. A few good things happened that day, one of them being that I got to shake Gobind Singh's hand because I was at the booth. He is our Communications and Multimedia Minister and it was my first time meeting him.



Another good thing was the lunch and dinner buffet! In fact I had too much junk to eat and drink that I experienced a stomach ache in the middle of the night later. I guess I let myself go a little too much. No regrets. I guess I'm greedy in this sense too.