Comments on: Most tiring, tedious shoot of all time http://sheylara.com/2007/05/28/most-tiring-tedious-shoot-of-all-time/ The sometimes damsel in distress Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:23:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Mike M http://sheylara.com/2007/05/28/most-tiring-tedious-shoot-of-all-time/#comment-82504 Mike M Sat, 31 May 2008 13:28:27 +0000 http://sheylara.com/2007/05/28/most-tiring-tedious-shoot-of-all-time/#comment-82504 Are you still a part of this production? Are you still a part of this production?

]]> By: Mike M http://sheylara.com/2007/05/28/most-tiring-tedious-shoot-of-all-time/#comment-46385 Mike M Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:09:46 +0000 http://sheylara.com/2007/05/28/most-tiring-tedious-shoot-of-all-time/#comment-46385 It gets a lot better AND a lot worse :) It gets a lot better AND a lot worse :)

]]> By: Qiaoyun http://sheylara.com/2007/05/28/most-tiring-tedious-shoot-of-all-time/#comment-17482 Qiaoyun Wed, 30 May 2007 16:37:09 +0000 http://sheylara.com/2007/05/28/most-tiring-tedious-shoot-of-all-time/#comment-17482 uglyfatchick: yeah tell me about it!! Monster: Haha I can imagine. Hope the weather gets better for you soon! Don't want you to fall sick with the heat! Miss Loi: Cool, thanks for the illuminating explanation. I guess you're right that all school kids want high marks, which makes every one of them a perfectionist. :P But in my opinion, there are two kinds of perfectionism. 1. Wanting to appear perfect in order not to lose face and to be superior to others. 2. Wanting a piece of work to be perfect in order to live up to your own standard, to please yourself that you can do it. I suppose there are also people who actually have both traits. I think my director belongs to the 2nd group and I respect people like that, although it isn't always a constructive trait to have. Bee: Thanks, cuz! Appreciate your support and kind words! ;) darkelfin: Hahaha. Nobody dye hair lah. That kid is a Eurasian and his hair colour is natural. This reminds me, I have something to blog about that, but have to consider first in case kena sue. lol. uglyfatchick: yeah tell me about it!!

Monster: Haha I can imagine. Hope the weather gets better for you soon! Don’t want you to fall sick with the heat!

Miss Loi: Cool, thanks for the illuminating explanation. I guess you’re right that all school kids want high marks, which makes every one of them a perfectionist. :P But in my opinion, there are two kinds of perfectionism.

1. Wanting to appear perfect in order not to lose face and to be superior to others.

2. Wanting a piece of work to be perfect in order to live up to your own standard, to please yourself that you can do it.

I suppose there are also people who actually have both traits. I think my director belongs to the 2nd group and I respect people like that, although it isn’t always a constructive trait to have.

Bee: Thanks, cuz! Appreciate your support and kind words! ;)

darkelfin: Hahaha. Nobody dye hair lah. That kid is a Eurasian and his hair colour is natural.

This reminds me, I have something to blog about that, but have to consider first in case kena sue. lol.

]]> By: darkelfin http://sheylara.com/2007/05/28/most-tiring-tedious-shoot-of-all-time/#comment-17451 darkelfin Wed, 30 May 2007 09:25:42 +0000 http://sheylara.com/2007/05/28/most-tiring-tedious-shoot-of-all-time/#comment-17451 now tat u mention it...not realistic leh, since when can school kids dye hair. now tat u mention it…not realistic leh, since when can school kids dye hair.

]]> By: Bee http://sheylara.com/2007/05/28/most-tiring-tedious-shoot-of-all-time/#comment-17427 Bee Wed, 30 May 2007 03:33:24 +0000 http://sheylara.com/2007/05/28/most-tiring-tedious-shoot-of-all-time/#comment-17427 I am so impressed by your tenacity and iron will to make it in showbiz. I know you'll make it, because you've already "arrived" and "made it" inside. I am so impressed by your tenacity and iron will to make it in showbiz. I know you’ll make it, because you’ve already “arrived” and “made it” inside.

]]> By: Miss Loi http://sheylara.com/2007/05/28/most-tiring-tedious-shoot-of-all-time/#comment-17426 Miss Loi Wed, 30 May 2007 02:00:20 +0000 http://sheylara.com/2007/05/28/most-tiring-tedious-shoot-of-all-time/#comment-17426 According to dictionary.com, perfectionism refers to "A propensity for being displeased with anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards." Growing up in a system where we're told that your PSLE results can potentially impact the rest of your life, where a dip in a solitary test result can trigger all sorts of panic button, where students are afraid to make mistakes (I've encountered tons of these), where students are afraid to voice out/ask questions for fear of "looking silly" ... IMHO all these point to a perfectionist attitude with the (unfounded) belief that a fall can hurt you real bad. And the bad thing is that this can easily manifest itself in one's attitude later on in his/her working life and you get your typical Singaporean middle-management who is cursed with the overwhelming fear of "not looking good" and is generally "displeased with anything that does not meet their extremely high standards". Admittedly I'm guilty of generalizing here and of course there are many who <i>bochap</i> (doesn't this term sound a tad derogatory?) such things. But till the day most of us learn to ... umm ... <em>laugh it off</em>, I believe our proud <i>kiasuism</i> culture will remain a subconscious form of perfectionism that exists in most of us whether or not we're aware of it. $0.02 According to dictionary.com, perfectionism refers to “A propensity for being displeased with anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.”

Growing up in a system where we’re told that your PSLE results can potentially impact the rest of your life, where a dip in a solitary test result can trigger all sorts of panic button, where students are afraid to make mistakes (I’ve encountered tons of these), where students are afraid to voice out/ask questions for fear of “looking silly” … IMHO all these point to a perfectionist attitude with the (unfounded) belief that a fall can hurt you real bad.

And the bad thing is that this can easily manifest itself in one’s attitude later on in his/her working life and you get your typical Singaporean middle-management who is cursed with the overwhelming fear of “not looking good” and is generally “displeased with anything that does not meet their extremely high standards”.

Admittedly I’m guilty of generalizing here and of course there are many who bochap (doesn’t this term sound a tad derogatory?) such things.

But till the day most of us learn to … umm … laugh it off, I believe our proud kiasuism culture will remain a subconscious form of perfectionism that exists in most of us whether or not we’re aware of it.

$0.02

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