Chinese New Year

The festive season is finally here. This is my favourite holiday because not only does it have good food and lots of money(red packetssss), there is also the true meaning of family togetherness during this festive season. We usually have our reunion dinner on New Year's eve. This meal must have special dishes which represents many different things. Prawn, represents happiness. There are many more dishes that represent money, peace and joy too. Everybody has to be present for this meal which emphasises my point on family togetherness. On the first day of new year, we have to visit our relatives. This makes sure we catch up with those who we seldom meet throughout the year. This also brings the family closer together. Usually, for my family, we go visiting on the first day and people visit us on the second. Which makes things more simple for those who want to visit. Definitely, the chinese new yeat is a great time for children as they meet up with their cousins to play games and catch up over the holidays, and do not forget the red packets! Lastly, the festive season is a great time for fun and relaxing, chit chatting with relatives, eating great food, candies and lots of snacks. Just remember, take good care of your health and you can have a great time.

Tiger Woods Nike Ad

Look at the first video. It is a 30 second long advertisement that took days maybe weeks and hours of practice to produce that advertisement. Although it is only 30 seconds long, the skill and determination needed is so great. It is so ‘unhuman’ like that you may think it is a magic show. You might also be watching the video and you are admiring the skill, you may also say that it is computer graphics. Look at the video and do not doubt Tiger Woods. His determination on the course is also portrayed in his personal life. Firstly, you need the skill to bounce a small golf ball on a golf club that fits the size of the golf ball perfectly, which means that there is no room for error. Secondly, you need the determination to do it for such a long time, although 30 seconds may seem short, it is long in terms performing that ‘trick’. Take a look at the final shot, where the ball is bounced up high and Tiger Woods hits it away with a full swing. Isn’t it amazing that a human can do that, I mean it will require hours of practice that not many of us is willing to take up. The timing and the accuracy of that shot had to be 100% correct or else the trick would not work.

Look at the bloopers; I put them there for a reason. You can see Tiger Woods’s frustration every time he missed the ball. Think. That is only a few seconds maybe minutes of frustration. How many hours do you think he spent on this just to produce a 30 second ad? Maybe 24, 48, 72 hours, nobody knows. Tiger Woods is referred to as an alien from another planet on the golf course not only because of his amazing shots he produce under pressure but also because of his skill and determination. Just by looking at a 30 second video, you can see where he got his reputation from

Collaboration project

We have chosen this video because the amount of determination needed to create this video was humongous. It is said that the people who created this video took 6000 times to finally get the sequence right without any disruptions. They had to reset the pieces 6000 times. Think about it. If you were to reset a domino set more than once, you would have given up and tried another day. They took 6000 times before it was finally done. What a feat! We really admired their determination to create this video. Look closely, the video was taken in one take; the camera was smooth with no breaks in between. Everything had to be precise and there could not be any mistakes.

Done by Ryan Chee
Justin Goh

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