This is a post that I was looking forward to writing for a long time. My extended vlog post and finally a heart to heart post. Finally, I can talk to all you IreviewUreaders and open the door to my life now. Firstly, the vlog I can't believe it's been 5 months since I last uploaded a vlog. No wonder my vlog file is exploding. Unlike my other vlogs, in this extended vlog I touched on:
- Singapore's Birthday - National Day Parade
- Fort Siloso
- Party Poppers Singapore Event
- Cuauhtemoc, the Mexican Navy Ship exploration
- Light bulb drink formation + popsicle
- Instant hot pot testing
- Cat Mario
- Singapore American School Event
- Museum Hopping - Trick Eye Museum, National Gallery Singapore and Asian Civilisation Museum
You can view what goes on at the Party Poppers Singapore launch here. Get yourself some Party Popper while, you're at it.
- Ukulele and voice cover on帅到分手
The white part is honey dew 🍈 The pink part is strawberry 🍓
The Orange part is rock melon
Photo taken from @ireviewureadsh instagram
- Attending the National Day Parade - 00:24
- NDP (Dynamic Defence Display Part 1) - 01:16
- NDP (Parade & Ceremony) - 01:52
- NDP (Dynamic Defence Display Part 2) - 2:40
- NDP (Show) - 3:08
- NDP (Fireworks) - 6:10
- Fort Siloso - 7:04
- Sentosa Shots (Balloons) - 9:55
- Party Poppers Lion Dance - 10:17
- Exploring the Cuauhtemoc, the Mexican Navy Ship - 12:31
- Instant Sichuan Mala Lazy Hot Pot Testing - 14:34
- The formation of the light bulb drink + popsicle - 17:25
- Cat Mario - 19:22
- Singapore American School Event - 20:01
- Trick Eye Museum Snippet 1 - 22:04
- Museum Hopping - 22:25
- Asian Civilisation Museum - 22:49
- National Gallery Singapore; Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow exhibition - 23:03
- Trick Eye Museum Snippet 2 - 25:58
- Short voice + Ukulele cover on帅到分手 (Shuai dao fen shuo) by NICKTHEREAL - 26:51
For more photos like this, do follow me on instagram.
In fact, there's so much in that single video I even created a content page for you to hop around. You can view the content page here or in the description box of the video.
- Plan script (Optional)
- Rewatch some of the footages I have recorded
- Record videos - middle part
- Edit videos
- Plan narrative
- Voice over
- Search for suitable free to use music
- Record ukulele for start of the vlog and end of vlog
- Write out subtitles
- Trouble shoot videos
- Try to input subtitles in youtube and fail
- Try again
- Write out blog post
- Edit cover photo for video - This step is where I edit the craziest stuff to produce the most outrageous photo for the video. I guess that's why my vlog photos or should I say my video covers often look so bombastic.
- Rewatch video at least 3 more times to determine it's perfect - In actual fact it's 20 times. I can even memorize what's in the video.
- Figure out what tags to put
- Figure out what to write in description box
- Search previous posts for the links
- Figure out the title - immense difficulty
- Finally post.
- Embedded video at the sidebar
- Edit original video to become a short clip for marketing purposes.
- Add subtitle and other stuff in the short clip
- Market through social media and other sites - Time consuming
- Participate in other discussion
- Re-market if time permits
- Do it all over again
Vlog 5 & 6′s content page:
Why I don't produce videos as often?
In simple terms, videos takes 3 times as long as a blog post would take. To breakdown each and every step I take when it comes to video production are:
All this takes over a week for I spend my mornings and afternoons doing other stuff. Yes, it is time consuming but I do hope with practice, I would find a way to reduce the time I take to edit and produce a video.
The Cover for the vlog
Before we move away from the topic of the extended vlog, let me touch on the cover. The nutty cover with multiple me dancing every where and a godly me in the skies. These are all edited in microsoft powerpoint. Amazing! The idea for the cover is trying to incorporate everything in the vlog on the cover. That may be the reason why you can see so many things on my cover. Or should I say on most of my vlog covers.
Confused is my middle name
Now back to the heart to heart part. For the past month, I'm sure you would have notice a lot more sponsored posts and such on my blog. First of all, I do try to keep a balance of sponsored and non-sponsored posts. However, because of the time constraint that sponsored posts have, I would have to publish them first. Thus, the influx. Do note that although these products, services and such were sponsored, I was genuine in my reviews. I guess the label ' Note: All my opinion given here are my honest opinion on the product. The fact that it's sponsored does not change my thoughts about it.' is automatically applicable to all of my sponsored posts now.
I guess wrote this part as to not only resonate with you but myself on what I'm doing here. I'm blogging full time. Kind of. I mean while I'm waiting for my graduation, I'm blogging full time. Judging by how things are going, I should be doing this full time until the end of the year. Before I find a job and this go back to being a sideline again - let's all assume people want to hire me.
I'm not saying, I don't see the possibility of blogging full time forever. I'm sure there's hope. There's a glimmer of light. On the other hand, my degree also costed 27K. Let's at least try to put it to good use first while I'm young.
Honestly, I feel that there's so much to do and not enough time. For those of you who followed throughout the years, you would have know that I like to create side projects. I like to improve things. I like to be busy but I do not know how to judge how full is my plate. I would often pile too much until either I found that my heart is not fully in it or the stack falls over. It is only then I could see clearly what is important to me. This only happens when I'm confused and I'm at the crossroads of my life. I guess the reason as to why I blog so much is because I am running from reality. Putting finding a job off. I have issues. We all have issues. Procrastination and ignoring my issues seemed to be my move now. Not quite sure what my next move would be but it better be good.
I should get my Sh*t together
Or I can fulfill my wish of being a writer and gather some more stuff for my portfolio. Or so I said. Who knows, I may even go mad and move abroad for a month. That doesn't seemed like a bad idea right? I don't know. The future seem so confusing for me. Nothing is set in stone. Everything is possible. I guess it all comes down to if you were to die tomorrow, what do you want to do today? I want to write. For writing never dies.
What now?
I'm trying to finish up what I've started. If you remember 2 months ago, I was following a pinterest course. Well. I was attending it halfway. Then, the influx of sponsors came. So, I didn't finish it. It's on hold, just like every other side projects in my life. Refer to point - I should get my Sh*t together - for this part.
In attempts to get my life together, I've adopted the habit of incorporating daily yoga in my life. On top of that, I try to wake up at a reasonable time - between 11 to 3pm. I know it sounds ridiculous to call that reasonable time but it's a huge step for me. As mentioned in my previous post, I sleep at 6am and get up at 2pm but it eventually became 4pm. Time just past so much faster when you wake up when the sun is down. I don't know what logic is this but it just does. Thus, I've decided to lengthen time and experience daylight once again.
So I'm trying. Little by little, day by day. Additionally, I found a mantra. A simple mantra that made my day a little more positive everyday:
- At the start of the day: A positive outlook on the upcoming day
- During the day: A gentle and constructive reminder that I should achieve more mini-goals to have the day deemed a good day. In simpler terms, I can't just roll on my bed all day and wathc youtube videos and call that a good day. I have to actually do something. Be it something small like getting out of my house - I don't go out much, so getting out is big for me - to writing a page in my journal. Yes, I'm still journalling. I'm looking for the right time to reintroduce my old and new pages on my social media.
- At the end of the day: A positive reflection on what you've done during the day
Today is a good day
By reminding myself that today is a good day, made me anticipate the day even more. It made me eager to do more things, to be more positive towards how I see things. I am not a very positive person, neither am I negative. I'm more of a meh person. Being the meh person it's easy to roll into negativity because of the lack of feelings for everything. I don't want that. I am sick of that. It comes to a point that I was merely surviving and not living. By choosing to live, I have to remind myself everyday why. I have to make an effort. I have to change. With this simple mantra, I am not only reminding myself to ensure that the day ahead is going to be a good day but it gave me the push as well. Although I do cave in to the procrastination monkey at times, I am currently winning the battle against negative Nancy.
I know that there are plenty of quotes out there saying "It's ok to just breathe today." For those taking it too hard on themselves, I do agree it's a quote for them. Whereas for those with the procrastination monkey in them, this quote only ruins us. We keep reminding ourselves that it's ok to just breathe and we simply do nothing. Sometimes, it's not ok to just breathe and do nothing. At least not for me. Therefore, I've changed to recite this mantra in my head instead for it represents:
Beauty: Food: Others:
As of now, I'm seeing positive changes everyday. What about you? What's your go to mantra/ quote?
It was a great 2 months
- Looking for hair salon sponsorship so that I can redye my hair - I have a distinct black and brown colour on the top halve and bottom halve of my hair
- Will be heading to C3 Anime Festival Asia 2017 if nothing crops up - my plan is to cover AFA and get some stuff. It's been long since I've wandered into an anime festival. Yes, I'm a closeted Otaku. Ok Kind of. This is clearly a goal. Why is this here.
- More cute stuff! I know this blog is not really cutisy kind but I do want to include that genre.
Mentioned above, IreviewUread have a busy 2 months. My blog posts were going up like rockets. For those of you who've missed it, here's a run down of what I posted the last 2 months.
When you wish upon a star
Finally, the last section of this very long post. My wish list! The last time I wrote a wish list was on the blog that I had during secondary school. I graduated 2 times since and I'm approaching my 3rd graduation at the end of the month. I guess that depicts how much time have past. Is stating wish lists still in or is that just a thing of the past now? Either ways, here's my ever changing wish list or should I say my goals list:
This is my hair goals kind of hair. Or anything with purple and pink. I'm crazy about those two colours. I'm fine with red too but I've done red before so it's time to try something new.
I guess that's it. I'm more of a follow the wind and make a nest kind of person. So I do embrace whatever is thrown to me in a professional manner. Or at least I hope.
That's finally the end of this heart to heart session. Do watch my vlog if you have not and Namaste
