November 2010 Entry

Right at the end of the month. Punctual. Let’s go!

=====Work=====

I know I mentioned I was thrown into a custom shoot at the beginning of the month. That actually went well. It really felt like being part of a team rather than working individually like how things are normally done. This is how things should be done and hopefully they continue to push to do things like this from now on.

And…I put in my 2-week notice at my current job yesterday (11.29.10). I had the plan formulated for a while and was just waiting to execute it on the proper date. My previous mention of a proposal last month was scrapped. I was going to see if I could just work here part time since I’m not always needed, but after talking to a few people it just seemed that cutting ties would be best so I’m not dragged back in later. Now that I think of it, they probably wouldn’t have taken me up on that offer anyways. A friend asked if they even bothered asking why I wanted to leave or if they tried to convince me to stay. They didn’t and I’m not surprised. I am surprised that they just didn’t let me go the day of instead of letting me stick out the rest of the 2 weeks. But I have to show and teach what I do to a coworker who will be taking on the load. They’re not hiring anyone to replace me from what it seems. That and them not trying to keep me on board are a couple of things that shows you how bad a shape things are in. There’s more to this tale, but I won’t divulge it all online. Ask in person if you’d like to know.

Almost everyone (that didn’t know beforehand) was shocked with me leaving. A few have expressed that they don’t want me to go, but it’s time. I didn’t burn any bridges with anyone nor did I speak ill of the company in my resignation letter. Sure, they weren’t the best, but what’s the point to talk bad about them on my way out. I’m just done. My last day is December 10^th.

I have actually submitted my resume somewhere to work with a friend. I’ve been told I’d be getting a callback, but I’m okay if I don’t. I could use the time off to relax for a good month or so. Plus I could concentrate more on RFM and trying to get more work for that as well as improve my camera and editing skills. So I’ve known what I’d be doing post-Digital. It’s just whether or not I get this other job that is the unknown at the moment.

=====Video Games=====

Sonic Colors (review) - click

Donkey Kong Country Returns (review) - click

Beat both of those a week into their release. I was hoping more from Sonic Colors, but I got exactly what I wanted and more out of Donkey Kong Country Returns. You can read the reviews to see why. And that leaves one game left for November; Epic Mickey. I will be picking that up later tonight. Epic Mickey will also be my 100^th game review I’ll be doing. I’ll talk more about the future of my game reviewing after I review Epic Mickey so stay tuned.

=====Royal Flush Media=====

Not much to note with RFM this month. I finished a piano recital after waiting a long time for a response from the client. She wants to book us next year for another recital. I worked on a friend’s wedding. It was done as a nice gift for them, not for pay. We were attending the wedding, not working it. While editing that video, I did wish I took more liberties with filming things though. Oh well. I was more caught up in the spectacle that I was at a wedding anyways.

I’ve kind of slowed down on anything RFM related for the rest of the year. Other things are keeping me busy anyways. Can’t balance all of it at the same time without something going wrong or not being as awesome as it should be.

=====Broomball=====

A friend and I attended another broomball event put on by a church. 55+ people playing! It was crazy seeing all the people there, most being children. Fortunately the person that put it together had us split the rink into halves and had the children play against each other on one end and the adults playing on the other. The smaller field of play made it more frantic and the action was pretty much nonstop. I lost track of the score, but it was high scoring. I’d say at least 3:6 with our team winning. That 2 hours went by so fast. Thanks to Compass church for putting it together and letting a couple of strangers join in on the fun.

=====Thanksgiving=====

Thanksgiving isn’t the biggest holiday in our household. Ended up doing nothing except stay home. I actually have more unpleasant memories of Thanksgiving than good ones. That’s probably the reason I don’t care to do much on this holiday. But if I get invited to a gathering, I’ll do it.

I did receive a genuine Thanksgiving wish from someone. Was told why they were thankful to have me as a friend. It was very nice to read.

=====Final Thoughts=====

Congratulations to the newly engaged couple!

The Miz is WWE Champ! Awesome! Can’t wait to go to the TLC PPV in December.

November birthday wishes to those that had them this month.

Karaoke is always fun. Time really flew by last time we went. They do need to update their songs though. We still find songs we didn’t know they had, but having more new stuff to sift through would be nice.

Looking forward to T-ara and After School’s comebacks in December. Had to move to a new After School forum since they merged recently.

Heal up fast and properly, Tiffany. I and all your fans missing your bright presence.

Been listening to Shakira’s Sale El Sol (The Sun Comes Out) album while typing this. She always puts out good stuff.

The weather is doing whatever it wants. We’re just here for the ride.

R.I.P. Leslie Nielson.

The annual Christmas party is happening soon. CC and I are planning out the games to play and getting things ready for the big day. I’ve also been working on a New Year’s video. Just need footage from December and I’ll be set. Thanks to those that I’m collaborating with for these holiday features.

Again…I feel like I’m missing something.

Video time? Yes, video time. Not much this time since things have gotten busy on the non-video front.

The Wedding of Jackie and Garo - 09.05.10 from Royal Flush Media on Vimeo.

Barry Chooses Your Destiny from Royal Flush Media on Vimeo.

Thanks for reading. Be healthy, be thankful, and be loved. Take care.

October 2010 Entry

A few days late. Been busy. Here we go.

=====Work=====
Still sucks here. I have come up with a proposal for the company as an alternative to me just flat out quitting. I will mention it to them sometime in November. Not a good time right now as things are somewhat busy and some key people are missing.

I’ve actually been running out of things to do. The last thing I made myself do was take these 4-5 large bins full of cords and went through the trouble of untangling and arranging them into separate bins. Yeah…I have little to nothing to do at times lately. Heck, I typed out this entry at work.

Although at the beginning of November, I was thrown in to be part of an important custom shoot last minute. That was actually interesting…and that’s November news so I’ll leave this sentence to force myself to talk about it in the next entry.

=====Video Games=====
Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 (review) - click

Only played Sonic 4 this month. I enjoyed it. I do have a list of 3 games that are set for November releases so next month should be busy with game playing time.

=====Royal Flush Media=====
Been busy with some RFM stuff. Are big thing of the month was being hired for Lucia’s “Epic Dance” event. The event was fun and the work part actually flowed smoothly (at least to me). The footage and photos came out great and we’re further cementing ourselves to be Lucia’s go-to team for media purposes. Plus the videos are getting viewed a lot and at least more people are learning the name Royal Flush Media.

An extra thing I did for fun was film Brette’s “Thriller” class on Halloween Eve. I slapped the RFM name on it to get our name out to another group of people. I’m hoping that some of the parents of kids in her classes will gain interest of who and what we do and maybe hire us for stuff their kids do or for family events.

Videos will be posted at the end as usual. I will only post a couple of the “Epic Dance” videos since there were 9 total. Check out the rest on our YouTube or Vimeo page (shameless plug).

We are doing some behind the scenes stuff with RFM to further its business. Please help and let people know who RFM is. We have a Twitter, a Facebook, Youtube, Vimeo, our own site, and maybe more down the line to get our name out there. So to friends/family/strangers that read this blog, please help spread our name.

=====Broomball=====
A bunch of us got together to play Broomball. It had been a couple years since I first played and I have always wanted to do it again with friends. Needless to say, everyone had a great time. Even the people that didn’t want to play ended up playing, ha. It’s just tons of fun. It ended up being a tied game, but it was great when we did score.

I did get whacked in the mouth. I was one of the few that bled that game. Sure, I could’ve gone back out after about 15 minutes, but it is fun to just watch also. I at least played for half of the game so I was fine sitting out and filming afterwards. Everyone had fun and that’s all that mattered. I for sure won’t forget it.

=====Halloween=====
Ah…Halloween weekend was busy. Funny, I did things on Friday and Saturday, but not on the actual day of Halloween. Well, I made the video of Brette’s class from Saturday on Halloween. Eh, I was kind of burnt out anyways. 2 days of being Edge, ha.

On Friday, Brette was teaching “Thriller” at Sonia’s World of Dance and invited me to come (VIP) because Univision was filming the class. It was cool to see where else she teaches and to have everyone that attended the class dressed up in costume. Man, it was hot dancing in costume…lots of sweat. I did talk with some of the people there afterwards. A couple of guys were excited that I was dressed as Edge and that I had the coat, shirt, and especially the belt. We took pictures, ha. As I was leaving, one guy complimented me saying I was the best dancer in the class. And a girl in the class talked to me at my car and invited me to join her and a couple others in the class to go to a Michael Jackson Halloween thing going on. I would’ve considered going were I not going to meet friends after class.

So, yes…I was on Univision. Video at the end of the entry.

Saturday, I filmed and participated in Brette’s “Thriller” class at Soundbox. Another great turnout with the majority of us in costume. It was so fun.

Afterwards, met up with friends (also in costume) to eat. Then we headed off for “Scream on The Green” at Discovery Green. Tons of people in costumes, several booths set up (karaoke, psychic, etc), people acting in character, a screen set up to show “Beetlejuice,” and a costume contest was going on. I was expecting a little more to be going on, but it beats not doing anything. I did spear one of my friends and it got some people’s attention. Some little kids called out to me saying “It’s Edge!” Ended up taking photos with them and let them try the belt out. That belt certainly calls attention to itself, ha.

We then went to go karaoke in our costumes. Ah…karaoke.

All in all, one of the more memorable Halloweens I’ve had.

=====Final Thoughts=====
I am now on Facebook. Find me if you want to. I will accept you…if I choose to.

Ordered tickets to the WWE TLC PPV coming in Houston in December. Excited.

Speaking of wrestling, I now carry both of my iPods with me. One has all my foreign music on it. The other has all my wrestling and video game music. Soon I will add all my English music on there. Just being lazy with that at the moment. Ah…I enjoy listening to my wrestling music a lot. Didn’t realize I missed it. A lot of those songs conjure up great memories.

SNSD made a comeback in Korea with their 3rd mini-album “Hoot.” I like their concept. The song is catchy and they’ve had great comeback performances. I’m still waiting for my copy to arrive.

I joined a forum recently for After School (After School Play). I’m starting to like them a lot more. Kahi is my favorite. The forum is small and not super active like Soshified so I can keep up with it. Thanks to one of the members there, I found a place to start watching Invincible Youth again. It’s been great catching up on what I’ve missed since Hyunah, Yuri, and Sunny left.

The weather has gotten cold. Thank you. It feels great.

Like always, I feel like I’ve forgotten something.

AND NOW, time for everyone’s favorite part of these entries (I assume), the videos. Again, if you have troubles viewing the videos, let me know or else I won't know. You’re getting six this time. Remember, if you want to see the rest of the “Epic Dance” videos, visit RFM’s Vimeo or YouTube page. They were all spectacular performances.

KT Anniversary Year Three - Broomball - 10.08.10 from Royal Flush Media on Vimeo.

SNSD - SooYoung Special Announcement Interview from Royal Flush Media on Vimeo.

(Not an accurate translation. Done for fun for friends like the Sunny one from last month.)

Epic Dance - Performance 1-1 - 10.16.10 from Royal Flush Media on Vimeo.

Epic Dance - Performance 2-2 - 10.16.10 from Royal Flush Media on Vimeo.

Brette's Thriller Class - 10.29.10 (Univision) from Royal Flush Media on Vimeo.

Brette's Thriller Class - 10.30.10 from Royal Flush Media on Vimeo.

Thanks for reading. Have great days and stay healthy. Take care.