Bucket List

Bucket List

1. ~Be a great Father

2. ~Buy My father a Jaguar

3. ~Help my father start a successful business

4. ~Start my own successful company that joins my passions and talents with business and the Great commission

5. ~Stop working for money by the age of 40

6. ~Retire both of my parents to an amazing home of their choice

7. ~Travel all over the world (Europe, Australia, Asia, India, Africa, South Asia)

8. ~ Live on multiple streams of residual income

9. ~Publish 5 Books

10. ~Positively influence the mind of a fatherless boy

11. ~Start my own foundation, program, facility and community resource center that provides financial support and meets the needs of under privileged youth in Toronto and other Canadian cities. Eventually branching off into the United States and than world wide

12. ~Shrink my feet from size 17 to size 12

13. ~Own an airline

14. ~ Marry the Woman of my dreams and give her the best life a woman would ask for

15. ~ Bring as many people to Christ as heavenly possible

16. ~Hear “well done”

17. ~Laser eye surgery

Branding Day ~ What an Experience!

Well Well Well.

After 10 days of painstaking 1 hour a night sleeps, spending hours in front of the computer, behind the camera and around my group members; it all came down to this one day. Branding day, the official INFINITE productions coming out party of 2010/ 2011.

And what a day it was, filled with laughter, professionalism, entertainment, good music and positivity. I have had a lot of experience running shows but only a handful of shows where I was the director and project manager and host and head chef and waiter at the same time. Sooo, first off I would like to give some advice to all the future event planners out there; here is a list of some helpful tips.

1.      Stay calm in the midst of the storm

 (this is the most important part) If you are the Capitan and you don’t stay calm, your ship is going to sink. Chaos is on the other side of the line that separates a calm and collected project manager and a disaster of a show.

2.      Proper preparation produces perfect performance.

Simply put, EVERYTHING THAT CAN GO WRONG WILL GO WRONG. For example, we planned for an amazing event with 2 rehearsals prior to the show. Everybody came at 6:30 and everything was going smoothly, for about 5 minutes, then we realized our decorations bag had been stolen from our class room over the weekend and we lost about $60.00 worth of decorations, plates cups napkins and very expensive table cloths. Again staying calm is key. After rushing to Wal-Mart and spending every penny I had to y name I tried to salvage some of our decorations. Upon my return I was bombarded by a swarm of technical disasters. The mic's were not working , the slide show wouldn’t open, and to top it all off, 5 minutes before we were told to start, a we blew a fuse and knocked out power on the whole left side of the room. STAY calm, somehow I managed to have an amazing show!

3.      Professionalism at all costs.

When you are holding a show, you are to be professional from the start of the day to the end. When you wake up and address your family, do so in a professional way, when you are on your way and you see somebody on the bus, approach them on a professional way. You never know who's watching. Staying in that professional mindset will bring you way farther than trying to put on a professional mask.

Hope you enjoyed my tips and found them helpful!

The show was amazing; we really enjoyed the adjudicators, and did a great job throughout all the chaos that was going on behind the scenes. Secondary the Girls group was AMAZING! I love what they did, I must say I do love our idea more but theirs was equally as professional and wholesome. I hopefully landed a few gigs as well! I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know all the adjudicators, performing for all our guests, and serving! Serving is a great thing to do, it’s fun and humbling.

In closing I would like to say both groups did an amazing Job. Not to say that I wouldn’t absolutely LOVE to win, I mean, I would probably be devastated to lose simply because of the level of work and money put into the production. But, either way, it was a great day, both groups get a great mark and we successfully branded the class! All the work we put in will not be in vein, so somebody might have to change a logo or a colour, let’s see the bigger picture!

Opening Notes

Good Day World!

What a world it is that we live in. God is good all the time!
Well I am Jordon Veira (aka J-Maali). I’m an actor, poet, comedian, producer, film maker, director, motivational speaker, mentor, student and child of God!

My Journey

I’m on a very exiting path. I am a student of the arts and glad to be one. I love the arts and most definitely plan on moving forward in the arts for a career choice. I discovered myself at the age of 15. I have always loved being on stage. At an early age, my mother (Coco Matthews) was motivational speaking. Being under her tutelage has significantly affected my growth as an artist and person. Since then I have always immersed myself in the arts. The arts were always kind of an escape, a refuge from challenging environments growing up. One thing my mom always taught me is that you create your own happiness, no situation or circumstance will change that. I have embraced that theme to the fullest and plan on staying on my straight, narrow and joyous path of self discovery and expression. God Bless

J-Maali