Video from a long time ago

When I was back in Malaysia, Kevin found out about our home movies (8mm), they were all in a plastic bag - hundreds and hundreds of feet worth. He insisted that we transfer them to DVD to keep for prosperity. It's funny how my sister and I weren't as excited as he was..maybe coz it's our past. Anyway, I called up some places in Malaysia and found out that there's no place to the transfer so we brought them to the States.

At first I found some really expensive quotes to do the transfer but then I discovered that one of my club buying warehouse does it too. So, I brought one reel there to test it out. After a few weeks, the call came to let me know that it's ready. It was nerve-wrecking and exciting.

After I brought it home, I popped it into the DVD player, sat down and watched these long ago images in front of me with my mouth open. The images seems to have a 3-D effect in my head. For example, there was a scene of us bathing in the river, and we were playing with this big leaf. I actually remembered the sensation of how the leaf felt and how it looked like - every golden vein.

Anyway, there's a lot of stuff in that one reel. I edited one for You Tube - had to slow some parts down a lot coz my Dad loves to pan very, very fast and I was all dizzy watching it. Due to the slowing down, it created some white lines on the screen so do expect that. This part of the home movie was the time when our family went to Zurich, Switzerland to visit my uncle and aunt. My late Mother looked so young (she's younger than me now in that film), and it was so nice to see her again in that time. My late Grandmother is there too. The rest of the family is still alive so I think they'll definitely enjoy watching this especially the 70's outfit and hairstyle that everyone has.

I hope you enjoy a bit of my past too.

-Haniza-