This is the Singapore we want...YAY!!!
National Day is just next month & we had decided to make a 1-minute clip to be sent to CNA for the production of a documentary called "The Singapore I Want". Wai came up with an absolutely good idea, which is to use red knobbly sea stars to make the Singapore flag. And thus, we headed to Sekudu on 2 consecutive mornings to get the shooting done.
The night started out with intensive packing of equipment
Tripods,cameras, lights, just everything! even a 'stuffed chinchilla'.Hmmm...
We had full 'boat' on both mornings, exactly 12 people during the trip. We were told to dress in either red or white to show our patriotism for the country but we werent told to sit separately according to colors!!
It just happened naturally.
As soon as we reached Sekudu, all of us got into our normal routine.
In search for animals! And, of course, the stars of the day - the red knobbly seastars.
Awwww...beautiful sunrise!!!
We were extremely lucky. We found more sea stars than we expected and we tried to arrange it into a crescent and the 5 stars as similar to the Singapore flag.
But they just kept moving around =
Our first morning was rather dull. Wasnt as wonderful as the previous Sekudu trip. What we saw was just nudibranches, nudibranches & more nudibranches
But on our second morning, something attracted us all to a common spot.
What was so attractive huh?
Bet you didnt know. We got a snake!
Dr Chua found the file snake (Acrochordus granulatus) & Ria was so excited about it. Soon after, almost all the crew members rushed over. Ria said that the last time she ever encountered a snake during her trips was one year ago!
Wai seemed to love the snake very much
"Wow~~It's soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo CUTE!!"
Tom, on the other hand...Erm...
Either he's trying to stink that snake to death with his bad breath or just wanting to eat the snake up. Poor snake.
Haha. Just kidding.
Just minutes before the tide came in, we finally reached the climax of the trip. We were to shout "THIS IS THE SINGAPORE WE WANT....YAY!" with extreme enthusiasium but we all kept laughing at how fake we tended to sound in front of the camera. Oh gosh...
So, let's try imagine us screaming that line in all types of expression. We even tried the Ah Lian style, just trying to sound as local as possible, and I think only the "YAY!" was the only thing that could not make it. Errm...*embarrassed*. But we tried very hard already!!
The recordings done on the second morning looked better, probably coz we had become so experienced in shouting the lines over & over again. Of course, all of us were very happy with the recordings. Thumbs up, everyone! If possible, your big toes too! When we are happy, Mr Froggy is happy. So are the sea stars.
Back at Ria's place, we cleaned up everything & slacked at corners where we viewed our tapes.
We laughed ourselves to death while watching coz of the failure to express ourselves successfully in enthusiasium and hitting each other in the face and bottom as we raised our hands in the air. But we believe we can make it better...... next year?
We arent sure if our clip will be broadcasted, which apparently depends if the documentary producers from CNA survive from exhaustive laughs while watching our clip, but... let's just glue our eyes onto the TV on 9th August, yeah?
Sekudu was fun. Shouting that line was even more fun! Good job everyone!
Can I have one clap? *clap*
Two claps? *clap clap*
Hmmm.. that sounded familiar...
=D
The night started out with intensive packing of equipment
Tripods,cameras, lights, just everything! even a 'stuffed chinchilla'.Hmmm...
We had full 'boat' on both mornings, exactly 12 people during the trip. We were told to dress in either red or white to show our patriotism for the country but we werent told to sit separately according to colors!!
It just happened naturally.
As soon as we reached Sekudu, all of us got into our normal routine.
In search for animals! And, of course, the stars of the day - the red knobbly seastars.
Awwww...beautiful sunrise!!!
We were extremely lucky. We found more sea stars than we expected and we tried to arrange it into a crescent and the 5 stars as similar to the Singapore flag.
But they just kept moving around =
Our first morning was rather dull. Wasnt as wonderful as the previous Sekudu trip. What we saw was just nudibranches, nudibranches & more nudibranches
But on our second morning, something attracted us all to a common spot.
What was so attractive huh?
Bet you didnt know. We got a snake!
Dr Chua found the file snake (Acrochordus granulatus) & Ria was so excited about it. Soon after, almost all the crew members rushed over. Ria said that the last time she ever encountered a snake during her trips was one year ago!
Wai seemed to love the snake very much
"Wow~~It's soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo CUTE!!"
Tom, on the other hand...Erm...
Either he's trying to stink that snake to death with his bad breath or just wanting to eat the snake up. Poor snake.
Haha. Just kidding.
Just minutes before the tide came in, we finally reached the climax of the trip. We were to shout "THIS IS THE SINGAPORE WE WANT....YAY!" with extreme enthusiasium but we all kept laughing at how fake we tended to sound in front of the camera. Oh gosh...
So, let's try imagine us screaming that line in all types of expression. We even tried the Ah Lian style, just trying to sound as local as possible, and I think only the "YAY!" was the only thing that could not make it. Errm...*embarrassed*. But we tried very hard already!!
The recordings done on the second morning looked better, probably coz we had become so experienced in shouting the lines over & over again. Of course, all of us were very happy with the recordings. Thumbs up, everyone! If possible, your big toes too! When we are happy, Mr Froggy is happy. So are the sea stars.
Back at Ria's place, we cleaned up everything & slacked at corners where we viewed our tapes.
We laughed ourselves to death while watching coz of the failure to express ourselves successfully in enthusiasium and hitting each other in the face and bottom as we raised our hands in the air. But we believe we can make it better...... next year?
We arent sure if our clip will be broadcasted, which apparently depends if the documentary producers from CNA survive from exhaustive laughs while watching our clip, but... let's just glue our eyes onto the TV on 9th August, yeah?
Sekudu was fun. Shouting that line was even more fun! Good job everyone!
Can I have one clap? *clap*
Two claps? *clap clap*
Hmmm.. that sounded familiar...
=D
5 Comments:
Hey..
Just saw this entree being referenced from tomorrow.sg. It's a small world after all.
oh my god! the sunrise was terribly amazing! and a bit looked like sunset. How's that?!
the trip is wonderful and much interesting than all those we had experienced in the 3 year ens study. what a shame!
anyway, most important, have u got BLACK after it? wahahah~~~~~
Nope. I believe I'm pretty resistant to sunlight. =p
& yes it was a wonderful trip =D
Hmm... is it just me... or does the rock formation behind the 5 seastar photos look like a GIANT GOBY.......... perching on a rock... the white thing as the eye.... or have I been hanging out w zee too much... hmmmm
Hmmm....
You could be right!
But if you go to the island itself, you'll know that the rock is actually a frog shape, made up of a few rocks sitting close together. The rock with the eye painted on it even has a mouth in the right place!
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