little new achievement

Well, last few days when the first glance on the email title saying "Japan Media Arts Festival". I got shocked and heart beating fast faster fastest~... OK, I not sure what am i talking. The email basically looks like this:

Dear Tan Wei Peow,

Thank you for your recent application we received from you for the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival.
This year we have received 2,645 applications from 49 nations and regions.

Following the thorough review by the Jury Members, we are pleased to inform you that your work has been informally chosen as one of the Jury Recommended Works of the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival. 

＜Jury Recommended Work of Art Division＞ 

Registration number： 10010344
Title of the work： Difference of Similarity　
Name of the artist： TAN Wei Peow　

After the approval for the screening result by Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, official announcement of the winners is supposed to be made on December 8th. 
We would ask that you not report or announce the status of your work before the announcement. 
Your cooperation is much appreciated.

Kind regards, 
Japan Media Arts Festival secretariat office

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The 14th Japan Media Arts Festival Schedule 
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[Official Announcement of the award-winners] 
Thursday, December 8th, 2010 after 6:00pm- /Japan time
http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/

[Previewing] 
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 at The National Art Center, Tokyo 

[The Exhibition of Award-Winning Works] 
Wednesday, February 2nd - Sunday, February 13th 2011 
at The National Art Center, Tokyo 
http://www.nact.jp/english/index.html 

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The Japan Media Arts Festival secretariat office
c/o CG-ARTS
1-11-2, Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0031, Japan 
TEL +81-3-3535-3501 FAX +81-3-3562-4840
Office Hours: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on weekdays

I was wondering why not they just tell me whether i got into the winner list or not, instead of telling me my work has been informally chosen as one of the Jury recommended works. "Informally". Why don't they just inform me when everything is confirm and finalize? I did not win any prizes in the end. It was like putting a pack of Lays in front of me and grab it away. But, anyway, my work has been "officially" now chosen as one of the excellent works from each division from the Jury Committee. Below are the steps to go to the "official" announcement page.

Key in plaza.bunka.go.jp/english in your browser window.


Click "The 14th Japan Media Arts Festival Prize winner announcement"

Go to right side of this page.

Click "Jury Recommended Works"

Go to Art Division/Visual Image, my name and work is in the second in the list.
Or you can click the url below to the page straight away.

http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/2010/recommend/

http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/festival/2010/recommend/

Since my work is not recognized by the Malaysia government as a 1 Malaysia concept video because it's major language is in mandarin. Then I should consider going to Japan! :D

收获

请问现在还有没有人看我的blog呢？自从工作后，也没那个心情和时间去写了。也没有像以前当lifeguard时候的那么多有趣的事情讲了。就算有，也没怎么要写。

这两天感觉收获了不少。听了些好久没听到的忠言及劝告和看法。想想，好像自从开始工作后，也没什么机会会听见这些话了。如果不是因为那些话是说来给学生听的话，我也应该没有机会再听见。毕业后，就开始因为工作而一直向前冲，不知不觉就盲目的冲了两年多。

这两年里，如果有juniors问我做freelance要收多少，一开始工作的时候，要把薪金还是学习还是工作环境放优先，我也不会回答或给个比较稳固的建议。自己也好像迷失了方向，但我的seniors都说以我现在的年龄会有那么多顾虑和不肯定，是很常见的。开始真的想想自己未来的路。而正当你在烦这些事时，往往就会有些事情发生。它可能可以是让你烦上加烦，如果换个角度来看，它可以是你在最烦的时候，变成一道光，领着你走向光明。