i had a song in my head and sang to myself softly while i was on the MTR (subway) but then i forgot about it when i met a fellow co-worker and started a conversation.

it was a good song with a simple but subtle melody. a bit artsy yet popular in style.

yesterday was the first class of the video course i signed up for. i think of it as more of a video workshop with the 'Tang house' as our subject. it was good and i enjoyed it, more than the other course i took almost a year ago with CUHK which cost over 20 times more. the CUHK one was basically a lot of lecture and little application. the learning process here at this class is more interactive and we already get to shot and experiment on the very first day of class. and it's super cheap, or you can say super valued.

i figured that the course is pretty low-budget to begin with. it doesn't provide computer or any equipment (CUHK has computer but we hardly used them, such a waste of resources) and class took place at government facility (which is free for July and August I think) which is very economic. the only cost is really for the teacher who actually uses most of his own equipment (ibook, speakers). Little Fat is his name. He seemed to enjoy himself and this is probably a piece of cake for him because as he revealed later, it was his first time teaching. It didn't seem like it, he was very natural and didn't show any nervousness. he's a video editor and he showed us one of the MV he edited.

it was a little like back at UCR video art classes where we were shown different videos, the exception is that we didn't have to watch any long movies in this course. Little Fat is a likable person and he asked me if i edit video too. well i do, but not professionally. i told him that i studied fine art and like playing with video.

i think i enjoyed it coz in one part, i like our discussion on video especially since i haven't done that in such a long while, it's very refreshing; i get to shot finally and get some kind of (minimum) critique and praises; i was doing something that i like and etc...

today, i realize that not too many people get to do what they want to. job and career wise, and in life. doing what you like as you job and accomplishing your goals is a rarity.