Thank you

When everything comes to a full circle, the goodbyes are bade and we become a piece of history, or perhaps in more flattering terms, a mini legacy.

I never could’ve anticipated how my last days at Mega Media would turn out to be, when just two months ago I was on the verge of hysteria, being saddled with workload no straight man could possibly carry, spending countless hours contemplating with the value of work and its demerits, renewing my drive to get off the track of slavery and hop on to the fast train to be an independent filmmaking trader.

Never could I have imagined forging bonds with a group of people I thought I would solely maintain a working relationship with and nothing beyond that. Never could I have imagined meeting a group of people full of determination, zest and drive, all having their little dreams inside of them, with something they wanna do in their lifetime before they depart from planet earth. Never could I have imagined learning once again more from the people around than the work I’ve been involved in.

This heartfelt entry is dedicated to all of you.

“Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him. We… seldom say much about those treasures, because people no longer want to go in search of them. Later, we simply let life proceed, in its own direction, toward its own fate.” – Paulo Coelho

My admiration goes out to all of you, having equipped with skills that have gone through years of polishing and from vast experiences. Those things you all are so good at and stuff I could not have possibly done well (or messed up an even bigger time) without all the guidance and patience with me. Those great times we’ve spent together – in the editing suites, filming out in the sun, at the go-kart circuit, drinking ourselves silly, or those various random moments we’ve had – all of these will be firmly etched at the back of my head, forming part of those memories I hold dear to.

We, the graduating students, are now embarking on the journey towards the end of the road from school, inching closer to the harsh realities of the pragmatic working life that will soon embrace us with open arms, where we forget who we once used to wanna be, what we used to wanna do, and all those aspirations we have had, having vanished into thin air as we come to terms the real world where fulfilling dreams means our stomaches cannot be filled. Settling for a safe and secure job would be the second best, and finding ways to keep ourselves sane as we submit ourselves into the unspoken slavery to our monthly paychecks would be one activity we would be getting used to doing.

The uncertainties lie ahead of us, as those days of breaking rules and fulfilling our idealistic individual expression will come to an end. Reality will soon hit us, and we will come to an abrupt realisation that things are never as rosy as what we have imagined it to be when we were still young, and most likely, innocent.

Maybe I’ve been reading too much of Paulo Coelho’s books. Maybe I’ve been thinking big too often. But from the sheer fact that people in the creative industry are all talented souls waiting for that big break, I see them being repressed by the mundane mediocrity of work where self-expression is often dictated by bosses and superiors who probably know nothing much more than those involved really do, but for the sake of conforming to commercial norms or profitability, the creatives rarely ever get to call the work as their own.

I humbly dedicate this entry to all of you out there, because from the bottom of my heart, I hold deep respect to you because you’ve impacted my life a great deal, even though it has only been a short span of six months. I learnt many valuable lessons that could not have been taught to me from books; things that couldn’t be deemed fit to be put in my internship report, I penned them here.

Just a very short thank you note for me to be remembered by.

Thank you. Very very much.