While on the way, Ms Winny calls me, telling that they will be late today as they are preparing for shooting. I didn’t expect the traffic become so clear that it takes only 30 minute instead of 45 to the office, so I arrive at around 9.30am again.
At 10.15am, one of my co-workers come to the office and ask me to go to groundfloor. At ground floor, Mr Micheal and 2 of my co-workers are in the car. Mr Micheal then ask me to come in and we headed to my car.
At my car, Mr Micheal ask us to transfer 2 big box onto my car. Then I and one of the co-workers was asked to go to ‘Cinerent (M) Sdn. Bhd’ and pass the item to them. The Cinerent (pronounced as Si-Ne-Ren) is at Kepong, nearly 15KM from the office. On the way to the place, there was a RM1.60 toll.
In Kepong, suddenly my car overheated. My car is 20 years old Proton Saga and probably no longer be able to survive on heavy traffic jams.
I park my car on some shops area and pops up the hood. I detected the problem. It was the thermostat housing leaking water.
Luckily car sparepart shop and Hardware is nearby so I head up there to buy sealant gasket and some spanner. After 15 minute I fix the problem and fill up the radiator with 2 large mineral water that I buy from grocery shop. I then straight headed to the location.
10.45am - At Cinerent, I and my co-workers unloaded the item and bring up to first floor. Now I know the item which is in the box was the main camera, costs about RM300,000. At cinerent, a few recording crew test up the camera and its equipment. My co-workers asks me to wait here while they borrow my car to buy few items that Mr Micheal ask him.
Camera RM300,000. HD 1080p Digital Recorder with Hardisk, Branded ‘RED’
‘Cinerent’, where the camera were tested
Camera Crew testing the camera
12.00pm - The crew finally finish testing the camera. I then help loading a bunch of camera equipment onto a lorry. All of the item are big and heavy.
Camera Equipment loaded into the lorry
12.30pm – Mr Micheal and Ms Winny came to the Cinerent. As my car are still being used, Mr Micheal asked me to ride on his car. We then headed to the recording studio.
12.40pm – We arrive at ‘Green Cow Studio’ in Kepong, a few minutes from the Cinerent. The lorry which I help them to load the equipment before are already there. I then help the crew to unload the equipment.
1.20pm – After the item has been unloaded, Mr Micheal ask me to follow him with his car again. Mr Micheal, Ms Winny and 1 of my co-worker Fai then headed to lunch.
At first they headed to one Thai shop. They asking me if this shop is okay. There was no Halal logo, and to confirmed that I also asking the shop owner himself and he say no muslim eat here.
So we search for another shop. Ms Winny then suggest ‘Old Town Kopitiam’ and I said okay since they serve Halal food and I and my parents has go there a couple of times. Our food was ‘on table’ by Mr Micheal.
2.00pm – We then headed to a hardware shop.
2.15pm - Mr Micheal and Winny busy disscussing with the shop owner, while I wait outside. There are also 1 of my co-workers already there. One of my co-workers are absent today.
2.30pm – 2 of co-workers who borrow my car also came here.
2.40pm – Mr Micheal and Winny finally finish buying the item. I and all of the co-workers then headed to the studio.
Green Cow Studio
2.50pm – We arrived at Cow Studio. We start by unloading items that we bought from hardware shop. There are a large bucket of white paint, white cloth, some long piece of wood and few tools.
3.00pm – We then arrange the wood piece (about 1.5 meters each) near the foot background. Then 2 of my co-workers climb up to the crane and measure how long it is from top to bottom. After that we measures the white cloth and cut it onto long pieces. Although it sounds simple, the job take almost 2 hours.
I attach the tension cable to the wood
My team mate which help me during the process
Around 5.00pm –Then we need to align the cloth piece onto the wood piece and staple it. The cloth will then hang on to the wood. We then split our work into 2, which 2 people for each team. First team will paste cellotape inbetween each cloth piece so that they become a very large piece. Second Team that is on top of the crane will hang up the cloth. Including me, there are only 3 guys inside the studio, so Mr Micheal and I do the paste job while the other 2, Jason and Fei do the hanging cloth job.
Around 7.30-8.00pm – Mr Micheal and Ms Winny go out to buy us dinner. One of my co-workers, Kok Fai come in to help us out. Before this he is with Ms Winny and is not in the studio.
Around 8.30pm – We still doing our job. Mr Micheal come to give our dinner. Although it is nasi Goreng and ayam packed in polistrine, and Mr Micheal told me he bought the dinner at ‘Kedai Mamak’, I doubt its origin so I decided not to eat as Halal food is a serious matter in Islam. I’m not really hungry at that time by the way.
The others meanwhile are not hungry yet so they continue doing their job. My team has finish their job so all we need to do is help them whatever necessary, such as moving the crane and pasting the cellotape inbetween the large pieces.
Hanging the white piece
How the cloth was hanged (On the wall). The cloth on the ceiling is not installed by us.
Around 10.00pm – We almost done our job. Mr Micheal then set-up his camera to test the background. The background should look like a clean continuous white. There is some bad spots such as wrinkle, bad cellotape and bad floor surface so we need to fix that.
Around 10.30pm – The floor need extensive paint job on some areas, so I was asked to remove uneven surfaces on the floor using scrapper.
Paint bucket and various tools used during the job
Around 10.50pm – We paint the fixed floor surface with white paint and a roller.
11.00pm – Ms Winny and Mr Micheal dismiss us. I meanwhile have to fetch up 3 of the co-workers back to the main office at Kelana Square. There they will be using Ms Winny car (if I’m not mistaken) to go home, as it is too late already to commute using the LRT. By the way, Mr Micheal told us to go to the studio at 6.30am tomorrow.
11 51pm : I’m still at Federal Highway
12.20pm – I’m home.
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