The Tales of Carmensakura

Last Sunday, I went to CHEER 2009. (CHEER is an annual cheerleading competition.) So I went to CHEER 2009 as a journalist. BRATs(young journalists) were all getting together to meet each other and be journalists in this event. I was quite excited about being a journalist in a real live event, doing live coverage. That's just cool. Everyone was with their camera's, ready to snap the pictures. Yup, ever since the BRATs workshop, I'm sure everyone has become :~ a)A blogger b)A camera lover c) Has a freaking twitter account d) Addicted to the computer and the internet So yea, the workshop really did wonders to us! After the BRATs workshop, I thought I already had the taste of real journalism with insane deadlines. I thought the workshop has already shown us everything about journalism. Boy, was I wrong? I thought I knew journalism from head to toe...but I'm wrong. There is so much more to journalism. On that morning, I went backstage. (WOOHOO~! Journalists are allowed backs...

Ok, I'm finally part of BRATs! BRATs means : B right R oving A nnoying T een S BRATs Workshop is a workshop about journalism. We really were exposed to a journalist life. If you think a journalist life is easy, well, it ain't. There's crazy deadlines that means, you have to rush your work. We even get to interview an indie band. (I never knew a indie band meant tat it was an independent band). Anyway, we went street poling. Yup, we went to streets to interview people about their interview. I'm in Video Group One AKA Team Banana. Our group was pretty awesome. Everyone was just so cool and hyper. I miss everyone!! Our videographer being very steady and focus. She's so good that it's as if, she was the tripod. Haha, the future VJ, Mark Chan. If I hear his name one more time, I'll puke. (While editing the video, we heard his name a thousand god damn times) BWAHAHA, one of our interview victims. Poor dude, he got dragged in and was forced to be interviewed. All o...