These two weeks were so happy and sad and stressful and satisfying and filled up with all sorts of emotions. There were a lot of final stuffs going on because of our last lecture, last presentation, last assignment, last gathering and stuffs. So, let's go at it one by one.

Final Year Project
Lol, the keyword is FINAL. Because it indeed is final. And, just last Monday, we were so relaxed and thought that our FYP was more or less settled. And then, BAM. During our mock-pitch to our lecturers, we learned that our trailer sucked, our concept sucked, our treatment did not work, and our pitch did not work. And because of that, our transmedia content needed adjustments as well.

So, for the remaining time, we had to put our FYP through a major overhaul. Our heart was slowly cracking and the pieces were slowly falling out as we cut and cut our trailer, break down and rework on our concept, and redid our powerpoint slides.

Finally, on that day itself (Saturday), our pitch went fine. The judges were super nice (if they weren't, we would be chopped to pieces already), and our super under-developed so-called "new concept" helped us through. And once it was over, we were throwing our hands into the air, and all our worries flew away as we rejoiced and feel sad at the same time (because, well, it is over).

I've got to say that I really liked two of my coursemates' concepts: 'The Girl Who Grants Wishes' and 'Unit 13-44'. Their trailer were really good too.

Popping into Unit 13-44's celebration
Okay, I know I was freaking extra, but I joined their team's celebration in Adventure Cove. It was really great and really fun. Went through a super long lazy river, and everyone got stuck at one point, just watching stingrays fly by. Queued up for super long for lots of variations of slides, all of which were fun. Drowned Floated in the wave pool. Et cetera. A pity they didn't have 6-people rides.

Ate at Malaysian Food Street, and then tried to catch a bus back to Habour Front. Tried. Funny thing is, there was a crowd going up the bus. Annzy randomly told me not to worry because I would be able to get on the bus, and the exact opposite happens. After Annzy, Pascal, and Stefanie got on, the bus driver shut the door and left me outside. And no matter how much the three of them asked the uncle to open it, he completely ignored them, leaving me abandoned by the bus stop like a lost and homeless dog.

In the end, I caught another emptier bus with seats while they waited for me at Habour Front.

PCAP Potluck
Kind of a final gathering for our PCAP at Marina Barrage. Everybody brought so much food @_@ And we could not finish. I learned that there are two new couples in my class (so sudden and random), and it kind of became the theme of the night, I guess. Played cards, and then decided to play Murderer, since we were a large group. Somehow, the two murderers or the police and a murderer always end up sitting side by side.

It was quite fun and funny that we were actually picnicking on the floor instead of the grass because of the threatening rain. While heading home, had some guy talk with some of them and listened to people emo about relationships and the lack thereof. I don't know about other people, but sometimes I like to pointlessly think about these stuffs to balance out my emotions. If I'm too happy, these things give me a reason to emo a little. Lol.

Meeting up with secondary school friends
Met up with Guang Yi, Wei Jian, and Zi Xing yesterday for Ramen Play, bowling, and PS3. As usual, I'm not a big fan of Japanese food, although sometimes my actions contradict that fact. Bowling was quite funny. We were trying to challenge one another on who can roll the ball the slowest. And mine was pretty epic, in the sense that it rolled at 2 miles per hour (think of the speed a cat strolling), exactly at the centre of the lane, until it eventually knocked onto the pins at such low force.

And then we tried again, and this time it was so slow that the ball fell into the drain and rolled back onto the start of the lane.

Motor Stormed, Dead or Alived, and Last of Us-ed at Guang Yi's house after that. They were all pretty amazing, and now I definitely want to play The Last of Us.

Chiso Zanmai!
Went with Yvette, Zhao Yi, and Wai Meng this time. The food was great and affordable as usual. Learned to eat sashimi, but avoided eating more because my stomach doesn't like raw food. Nice, chill time spent till it was time to go to school.

Last day of school
Started by watching some of our OLP videos, but I guess we couldn't watch them all due to a lack of time, so we went through a super long briefing about our internship stuffs as well as FYP feedback. Mj drew the whole of 02 in chibi form! So cute, haha.

Finally, got to know of our internship posting. I'm probably getting posted to Threesixzero Productions, and my job was to assist in a Chinese drama series (trying to make my role sound nice here, lol). Mary said that it's going to be super tough, but it sounds so exciting! And to get to work in such an established place is such a privilege. So near my house some more, haha. Really, really hope I get in.

After knowing our posting, our parents came and it was time for dinner. Also got back our bag of memories which everyone wrote for one another in Penang. So touching :'D

So yeah, that's about it. Hope all goes well :)

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It felt like at least 500 billion years since my last entry to me. Nowadays when I open up Blogger, I just feel lost and wordless. Probably writer's blog? Haha. Regrettably, I'm still going to be talking about my not-very-interesting life, since that's the only thing that doesn't give me a block.

Labels: dtvm, health, mehmeh, pcap, things that happened

Okay, an update of my life. Things were a little bit crazy and really positive ever since I went to talk to Mr Ng, my dip-plus lecturer. Along with the whole "getting a grip" thing, there were also lots of assignments and some fun moments of celebrations.

The day I quit tuition (last Saturday)
It was some kind of farewell to my tutee whom I had been badmouthing and complaining about for a long time. Honestly, he's an okay kid as like any other kid. Teaching kids is just not my thing. The money I get for tuition is great, but I didn't want to waste their money anymore because I felt like every week was a waste of time for all of us. Plus, I really need Saturday mornings off for rest.

On Saturday, my dip-plus group also met up to discuss our next facilitation. Turned out to be quite funny when we tried to do our own activity.

The day we thanked our mothers (last Sunday)
Celebrated Mother's Day with the mothers and the grandmother in a Tze Char stall. Super nice and relatively cozy. Cereal sotongs are the best. Can tell my grandma really enjoyed the big family gathering. Unfortunately, my uncle was also suffering from heart attack and was hospitalised, so his immediate family could not come. Something to worry about, too.

Random days of a healthy lifestyle (family)
So apparently, my sister suddenly became quite enthusiastic about exercising, so we started exercising together. Jogging at Bishan Park with siblings, gymming in the early morning in the unproductive Bishan gym, and listening to my brother train my sister to build abs. It's actually quite funny.

The days when we submit our assignments (school)
Basically, school was the big flow of assignments. Finished our Media Entrepreneurship presentation/report and extremely tedious Filmmaking research essay. For the Filmmaking, I analysed The Hunger Games. Chee Teng's folder for submission is pretty cool/cute. It said "I hereby declare that by submitting my document, I agree that Mr Chee Teng is the coolest lecturer". Well, we had to submit our assignments, so the coolest lecturer he is.

For the Media Entrepreneurship, I interviewed Wei Jian's girlfriend, Jessica, and researched on her blogshop, RackSpaceProject. (rackspaceproject.blogspot.sg) I kind of screwed up in the Q&A segment for the presentation. You must be thinking that Q&A is something that you can't screw up; Apparently, you can screw it up if you answer "I don't know" more than once.

And then there's the iBook project and FYP, both which I'm really enthusiastic about. I mean, come on, we are publishing our own eBook! :D And creating a TV show.

The day when "you like it?" becomes sexual (Thursday)
Spent the morning lazing around even though I hate wasting time. Afternoon was FYP tutorial, in which we had to give feedback for one another's ideas. This stage never fails to drain all my energy and positive emotions away. Rejections and rejections.

Then, met up with the bros + sis to have Chisozanmai! Unfortunately, Wai Min, Joshua, and Ru Wen could not make it, so it was Jt, Guang Yi, Zi Xing, Wei Jian, and me. Chisozanmai was great. Orgasmic food, nice environment, nice window seat, good variety of food. Best buffet I've had so far. Threw away all my gastric-caused restrictions and just went crazy on the food. I'm not regretting it, and it was awesommme. By the way, it was meant to celebrate Jt's birthday. Got her a 'The Hobbit' book - glad she liked it :)

And also finally bought 'Dishonored'. Why was everything just so right? Maybe I went a little crazy. Due to Zi Xing's story about his classmate poking people's armpits gayly and asking "you like it?", we went a little weird with the whole poking at random holes and asking "you like it?" thing.

And we created a Wong Zi Xing fan club.

The day when I became Asier Sai Han Don (Friday)
Due to drinking mocha + teh tarik at night, plus my sensitivity towards caffeine, I couldn't sleep at night actually, and only finally collapsed at 6am. Woke up early to gym with my sister. Spent the rest of the afternoon doing CNG. Rushed out all the colouring so that I don't have to worry about my part anymore. Now I can gloat over that fact that it's my groupmates' turns to be busy, before I step in and help up wherever.

Met up with Jeanette and Jt in the evening. Caught up, learned that someone can procrastinate in the middle of exam, and I got a new name. I was wearing my "Easier said than done" shirt and a cardigan over it, so certain letters were blocked, which formed the words "Asier sai han don". And that became my name. I kind of like Asier as an English name, honestly.

And because I love sharing stories and Jt and Jeanette listen to my stories, I just had to get their input in my FYP concepts. Which helped so much. Went a little overboard with snacking - pizzas, cream puffs, and cakes. I feel like a prisoner who just released himself. Now I can eat all sorts of food, and I'm feeling really high about it.

After 2 hours, Syahindah and Li Yuan (Indah and Jean's JC friend) finally reached. After going back and forth, and long waits, we finally got into Swensens for our desperately-needed dinner. Also spammed ice cream. Celebrated Jt's birthday again, and chatted. It was generally a great day.

So, that's it for the week. Throughout this week, I had also been reading Percy Jackson (Lightning Thief). It was a fun read, though it was meant for children. Can't wait for Sea of Monsters to come out in the theatres. And I actually like both the book and the movie in different ways.

Yeah, I don't know how to end this post, so let's put an abrupt end to -

Labels: dtvm, family, mehmeh, pcap, teaching, things that happened

This week was an explosion. Basically, formed a lot of groups and prepared for a lot of assignments this week. I see busy weeks and months ahead, but I thrive in busy schedules! Kind of. I hope.

On-Location Production is exciting. It's announced that we're going to Penang to film, and we're going by plane. Grouped with Avelin, Cx, Elijah, Heidi, Hira, and Rebecca. I like the grouping. Organised people.

Creative Writing Project is, so far, okay. As for filmmaking, we formed our groups. I grouped with Zhao Yi, Annzy, Yvette, and Jezebel.

My dip-plus, which is now called 'Work Group Dynamics and Social Psychology', suddenly became really fierce. Grouped with Aveline, Nasir, Kai, Hong Xiang, and Qi Min. You probably don't know any of them, though. So, in this group, we have to do 2 x 1-hour lesson/activity facilitation, 2 presentations, and a test. The first facilitation is due in, like, 3 days.

This year's going to be fun. It's a lot of work, but work is good.

Anyway, nothing much happened this week, except starting to gym with Matin, Pascal, Wai Meng, and probably Elijah. Also had dinner with Wei Jian, Ru Wen, and her two friends. It was pretty awkward, although I guess it didn't need to be. Anyway, Ru Wen got us personalised souvenirs :)

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So the final year has officially started. For the last few days of the holidays, I went ice-skating and shopping for new clothes with Guang Yi and Jasmine. And then for the next few days, it was school.

Monday
The first module we had was Media Law and Ethics. It felt very much like social studies - talking about legislation, parliament, and (insert chim term here). Was late for the first lesson because my mum drove me to school (why does this sentence sound so contradicting?) and I had a stomach ache. But I'd rather be driven to school and be late than squeeze in the MRT in day 1. Had our first lecture in 2 years. It feels so different and fresh.

Haven't seen my classmates in awhile. Ever since the class outing, I think. Every year feels so fresh. It felt even fresher with the freshies. So the whole week had been FC6 because all our breaks are 1-hour breaks.

Also had filmmaking with Chee Teng. It was a lecture kind of lesson about how films developed throughout the years. And those technical details about film types and sizes and such. Pretty boring topic for me, but I'm glad to be in filmmaking! :D

We were released an hour early, so I hung out with Jt (who was waiting for her friends), Stefanie, and Hazel (who were waiting for Avelina and Joey). Slacked the rest of the time away in hilltop before heading to psychology. This semester is about group dynamics and stuff.

Kind of glad to see my classmates again! Had ice-breaking activities. One activity was about drawing a metaphor of ourselves. It was suppose to be interesting, but it felt kind of tedious because we had to go up one by one to explain and discuss the metaphor.

I drew a dustbin. I wanted it to mean that I'm an accepting (just like a dustbin) person. Then there's another meaning, which is that rubbish is my problems, and I like to empty them into a garbage bag. But my explanation ended up being a big contradicting mess :S

Tuesday
Had media law again, followed by Esman's new media lesson. Stella came in to brief us a little on our FYP, and Mary also came in later on to lend us the iPads again for another year. Esman, being nice and relaxed as he is, gave us time for the much-needed lunch. My group discussed roles. It was pretty much expected which roles we fell into (as planned *evil grin* - just joking). I ended up being the director (for once) and co-webmaster. Going to be working quite a lot with Wai Meng since he's the photography director cum webmaster.

So for this new media module, we'll be publishing an iBook. And of course, we have to go through the whole routine of discussing how media developed throughout the years again. We went through this for millions of times already.

Wednesday
Had media entrepreneurship lesson. I guess it was pretty fine. An introduction to how to plan a business. FYP lecture after that.

Thursday
I didn't go to school on Thursday because of the scope appointment. Fortunately/unfortunately, they couldn't see what's wrong with my gastric/stomach, so it's another appointment with the doctor in a months time! Yay! T_T And I guess my FYP group, in the meantime, had reached a consensus of targeting female audiences of 15+ ages. I guess I'm not highly against it anymore.

That's about it for the week. No lesson on Friday (today) because Mary fell sick.

Can't help but feel pretty down this week. Although there's some form of excitement in FYP, it's pretty dull, and things just haven't been looking up. Shall just try to be optimistic :S

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So yesterday marked the end of my dip-plus's second module, Work Relationships. It had been a really great module, and this year in this module had brought my class so much closer. I've got to say it's mostly thanks to our awesome lecturer Ms Tan. She was always trying to get to know everyone through her psychology lessons and theories. And even though lessons are mostly passive, they are somehow fun because everyone is just laughing with one another.

We learned about psychoanalysis, therapy techniques, human nature, families, and heard one another's mini problems. Sometimes I actually do look forward to this class. At first, it felt pretty awkward to be in class because everyone was distinctively split into cliques and my clique wasn't even that close. But then we slowly developed friendship and stuff with the whole class. Everyone respected one another and were pretty open.

And then we had a new classmate, Michelle, this year. Unfortunately, this is her last semester in school, so she would not be continuing with us to the next semester :( But she has already completed that semester actually.

Yesterday was the last lesson as well as a skill-demonstration test a.k.a counselling test. So we were counselling one another and it was pretty intense. Everyone had to take the role of a counsellor and a client at two different turns. As the client, we had to talk about a problem we are facing - a small one.

So, I talked about how it was so difficult for me to keep a conversation going - no surprise there. And my counsellor was pretty good. I was trying to touch at the superficial points, but he was able to dwell deeper and deeper, though he didn't have enough time to explore with me stuffs I never knew.

As a counsellor, I got a client who had this problem which I also have, so I was pretty much stuck and just went round and round the bush D: Shouldn't have focused on finding solutions :/

So, back to talking about this module as a whole, it was a module that made me understand so much more about people and myself. Certainly useful and inspiring. Looking forward to the next one.

Labels: pcap, personality, reflection, things that happened

And, just like that, school reopened on a rather lazy note. I probably spent the last day of my holiday at home or something, and then attended the first day of school on Wednesday. Up till now, there were only two school days. Due to open house and e-learning week, the rest of the days were so-called holidays.

School
Wednesday's class was mostly a recap on stuffs that we learnt in documentary, plus stuff about pitching. Watched a number of short films. Then Thursday's class was once again time to discuss for our assignment. We were mostly stuck with no profile, until today, when we decided to try for some candidate for the Punggol East by-election. Also did a short practice profile piece on Zi Wei for our e-learning assignment.

This Monday, I had my dip-plus lesson as usual. It's one of the only classes I look forward to, the other being Writing for New Interactive Media. This week's lesson was about transactional analysis. We kind of analysed what is going on in our brains when we interact with others. It's so interesting. The uninteresting thing is that there's a test next week, right after this week's submission :/ 

Open House
First off, due to open house, Friday, Monday, and Tuesday's classes were cancelled for my course, since all the students and lecturers from my course are helping out. My duty was only on this Tuesday, which was pretty slack on my part. Basically, just camped in the Writer's Room and listen to Chee Teng repeat the exact same things about our course to people who entered. Our duties revolve around saying welcome and "beware of the low ceiling". People are mostly impressed by the room. There were some enthusiastic ones, but when Chee Teng asked who like writing, only one guy out of all other people raised up his hand. I guess writing is a rather niche passion.

Weird Dreams
I had some pretty weird dreams recently. One of them was about this magical plaster which gives muscle to wherever you paste it. In the dream, one of my friends used it on his face (I have no idea why). But someone should please invent something like this.

Another weird dream I had was about this terrapin my family used to have. It grew big, so the tank became too big for the terrapin. So, my brother decided to tie it up and hang it on the ceiling as decoration. I found the terrapin poor thing and took it down, but I couldn't find a tank big enough for the terrapin. Suddenly, we miraculously had two big fish tanks, but the sad thing was that there was a mini-crocodile in one of the tanks and a mini-shark in another. Unable to find a solution, I woke up.

There were some others weird dreams which I forgot. Me being the obsessed person that I am, I shall be doing some dream analysis.

Outdoors
As it was still "holiday", I kept bugging the mehmehs and asking them out. One of the days, we ate at Yishun's kopitiam foodcourt, and I bought this mixed vegetable rice. Guess how much it costed? Eight freaking dollars. I just can't rant enough. Eight dollars! I could buy half an old game with it. Speaking of which, I got myself a super old game trilogy - Prince of Persia. Only the third game belonging to me, so I must announce.

Some of us also randomly went to Ru Wen's stall to have dessert and help her fold boxes. Miss those days :D Somehow that day was a day of hope because all of us asked my Tarot app a question and got answers which we deem accurate. And my question, "when will I recover from my stomach issue?" got a reply of "completion, success, fulfillment" and such :) I have no idea when that means but it probably means it will happen.

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Not much had been happening these two weeks so far, just the usual school stuffs. There are some bright notes here and there, one of them being that I'm probably recovered from my stomach flu. I shall not take any risk and only start doing energy-intensive things next week or something.

Last Wednesday
Had Writing for New & Interactive Media (WNM) instead of Documentary Making. Ms Mary invited some students from some game development course to come down to the Writers' Room to share their knowledge about game design. Basically, it's consultation with students from another course. Stefanie and I paired up to consult with a guy, who gave us some feedback revolving around gameplay and target audience.

By the way, my idea is about this guy trapped in a slum in a fictional world and trying to get out. It's slightly more complicated than that, but as TV people, we simplify everything we can. I originally had a 21 years old as the main character and there were themes like "breaking the wall", "love conquers", and stuff like that, but Stefanie reminded me about the target audience, which is kids. So I had to change the main character into a 12 years old kid and make the heroine a mother figure instead of a love interest. Feels quite weird.

Back to topic, we had this fake "pasar malam game sale" thing to see whose game is the most popular. After that, we returned to lesson. The lesson about transmedia storytelling (telling one story across different platforms - comics, TV, movie, game, etc) is news to me and kind of opens the door to a more exciting future for me because my problem is that I cannot decide what to write for.

Had lunch at Moberly, before requesting Ms Stella to let us use the Writers' Room to rush our CA. She agreed. Although people say that the room smells of socks (last time), is uncomfortable, and is hard to focus in, I like it. Feels so relaxed inside. Anyway, Ms Gamar came in with a group of Health Promotion Board people halfway through our work. She was telling them about the room, creativity, and our course.

I can't help but got interested in her speech. She said things like how the people in this course are mostly introverts, are a little weird, and stuffs, but because everyone is like that, we belong. So true. I love the HPB people's reactions to the room. Even though they're adults, they enjoyed the slide and seemed to have quite a lot of fun. This fun-loving spirit is what we must not lose as adults.

After that, we went to watch Matin and Pascal play football for CASS, against Business School. They won. It was quite entertaining at first, for someone who doesn't watch football. Joey and Elijah were commentating random stuffs. After awhile, I got bored and left. The rest stayed and watched the whole match.

Last Thursday
Documentary content production. I know I've said this before, but I must say it again. Ms May Lin really knows what to do. My group was basically nowhere in terms of ideas. We had no proper clue as to how our story would flow. After consulting with her, she helped us dig for hope. Now we not only have a proper story, we (or at least I) now finally understand how producing documentary works. Anyway, the class was basically free time for us to do our assignments.

Last Friday
There was Social Innovation Project. This week was about need analysis. After that, headed to Spectrum to have breakfast and rest until Total Journalism. Even though we had 2 assignments to be submitted on this day, we still had to do a test.

It was quite okay, I guess. Basically, the test was a lot of rearranging stuffs and writing radio news. I can't help but feel that writing one script per 15 minutes make each of them seem so unimportant. I guess I'm more used to spending days writing a TV script and then spending hours breaking it down and improving on it. Back to topic, the test was okay, and I'm not nervous this time. It's probably because I've decided not to be too anxious anymore.

Last Saturday
This is so not a proper weekend. Started with tuition with IS again. Fortunately, he's much more focused today, so I didn't have to keep getting his attention back on the tasks. His mother told me that he made some improvement, which I'm glad for because I hate wasted time.

After that, went filming at Serangoon Gardens again with Matin and Yvette. Joey and Hanissah could not make it for various reasons, so the three of us just decided to get it done and over with fast. I just have to mention about how discreet Matin was filming while pretending to be stoning. I actually got tricked once when I thought he was stoning but he was actually filming secretly.

Last Sunday
This is a proper day's rest, finally, after who knows how long.

Monday
WPD was completely design thinking this week, in the Writers' Room. Did the ideation for the website. We were dismissed an hour early after that. Mj and Cx accompanied me to FC6 for dinner before my dip-plus.

Dip-plus was fun. Had a Chirstmas party kind of thing. Last week, we were told to bring food and a gift this week, so we did and gathered them at the back table. It was really tempting. I'm really thankful for how my lecturer (Ms Tan) always tries to liven up everything and even get us into the festive mood. But before the party, we had lesson. Learned about Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy. Splitted into 3 groups and had to counsel Ms Tan, who pretended to have all sorts of disorders. It was really funny at first. She kept emphasizing on how good she is in acting like a patient, but kept laughing halfway.

Then there was the party. Spammed food, and had casual chats with my classmates here and there. Felt like we finally connect. Ms Tan tried to play a Christmas song but ended up getting distracted by random parodies of Indian songs. Did gift exchange after that. Charles receieved my gift, which is a keychain of a guitar from K-On. I'm so glad someone who watched K-On got it! It was actually a last minute gift and I didn't know what else to buy. I got Hui Xian's present. It was this bird-in-a-house structure which serves as a key holder :)

Tuesday
Had WNM and it was more about transmedia storytelling as well as mobile apps. We were released quite early. Headed to Bugis to have Astons. I was really tired, so I went home first after that.

Wednesday
This is today. Documentary Making lesson. More about analysing films. I think I'm beginning to understand how to do it properly. This week, we watched a film about kids in an African warzone and their passion for music. It was about them struggling to win a music competition. There was also background information of 3 kids' lives. Very sad. I almost teared at this touching scene when everybody so passionately prepared to go and win the competition.

Headed to Ghim Moh with Hazel and Wai Meng to pass Ms Wai Wai the videos that we promised her. Returned home after that.

Labels: dtvm, pcap, things that happened

Been feeling rather down recently. Even though I'm aware of it, I just keep thinking pessimistically. Most things are fine, I just keep being afraid that one day I'll lose the things I have, especially my family. I don't know why.

I feel like my parents have done so much for my siblings and I. When I was sick, they just spent the unreasonable amount of money to give me an injection and now when they know I'm not recovered yet, they offered again. And of course there are many other things they do that I take for granted. I shall not do that.

Now I'm not even sure if I'm recovered or not. Just 2 days ago, my stomach discomfort kind of reached its peak. Today, it felt like there's nothing going on. I really don't know. Shall wait and see and continue eating healthy in the meantime.

Saturday
Even though it was a Saturday, I didn't have tuition because I had school. Went to school to edit some Escapade video with Avelin and Zhao Yi. Learnt some new stuffs about editing and filming in the process. It felt quite nice having a room to ourselves and chatting and all that. All in all, it was quite fun.

Ms Gamar was also there, so we were sharing stories about weird and rude people. Quite funny. The staff gave us free lunch and dinner and they were nice to us. Ms Gamar also offered to send us to the station and send Avelin home.

Sunday
We were supposed to go filming at Serangoon Garden. We did went to Serangoon Garden, but it was raining, so we didn't film in the end. Just did a few interviews in some Taekwondoe place and planned some stuff. Quite concerned about our progress.

Monday
Had the whole WPD lesson in the Writers' Room. I missed this room :) Anyway, we did some need analysis on our stakeholders for the insurance website. We were laughing at things we were not suppose to laugh at, but it's funny. Created a persona and finalised our need. We seem to be progressing fine with this CA.

Had psychology after that. Learnt about person-centered therapy. This week we did actually learn about the therapy itself besides the theory. Basically, it works by being a non-judgemental and nice companion to the client. It's a very gentle way to counseling.

There's this part about empathy, in which we have to feel what the other person is feeling. Quite difficult. Had to identify someone's emotions and concerns based on very fact-based information. Also played this game where we had to identify emotions based on simple scenarios. All the chim emotions came out. Couldn't identify words like apprehensive, hysterical, and uplifted because they are just not normal vocabulary -.- The person letting my group guess was like "when the lift go up, what do you feel?" for uplifted.

Tuesday
Had Documentary Making instead of Writing for Interactive Media. It was a lot about analysing documentaries. Watched this film about a mentally retarded guy (Philly) and his family. It's touching how the family remain so united with this condition. Philly's parents seem to love him a lot and he loves them in return. Quite sad when he had to separate from them because he knew they were going to die of old age sooner or later.

Went to Holland Village for lunch with Mj, Cx, and Zi Wei. Ate some very milky pasta and Mj and Zi Wei got so amazed by some things sold in 7-eleven o.o

Headed home after that. Took a nap and then did some work for my website assignment. I'm so satisfied with my layout. It's the best I've done, I dare say, and I spent lots of effort. Now I'm mentally drained. Pardon if some parts of this post doesn't make sense because I can't think properly.

Labels: dtvm, family, pcap

To continue with where I left off, I shall talk about the remaining modules that I have, except for SIP, because my lecturer wasn't here, thus no lesson.

Content Production 2: Documentary Making (CP2):
This module was taken by Ms May Lin. It's also about documentary, but more of the filming aspect. The key thing about this lesson was the CA1 recce. Went to Ghim Moh to look for people to do a short 2-minute documentary clip on. Managed to get this passionate minimart sales assistant cum cashier. Tried to get some wet market people, but they are way too busy to let us film. It's really squeezy anyway. Going to film this Thursday, camp outside the shop at 6am to film it open. Early! o_o But I heard other groups who needed to start filming at 3am? Life of a documentary maker and life of a wet market person.

Total Journalism (TJ):
I have to say that Ms Gamar, the lecturer, did a good job in making journalism sound fun. The whole travel to dangerous places to see things you don't get to see as a non-journalist aspect of it hooked me, but I know I'm not a passionate news person. I hardly read them in the first place. She talked about how journalists are hated because they tend to know too much and how it is a dangerous job and stuff. Heard stories about them getting beaten up innocently as well. Sounds challenging but exciting, but then there's the news writing aspect.

So anyway, we're indeed getting our iPads next Friday~ They let us use it for free until the end of year 3 semester 1. Cool but scary. Have to take good care of it, but seeing how I am the killer of gadgets, I'm quite worried. And she also gave us identification tags. Apparently, going to journalism class will be treated as entering a newsroom.

So those are the stuff that went on last week. Of course, the tuition went on as usual. That kid was more distracted than ever, either that or I was less patient because I was tired. I was slightly rude to him. Now I understand why many primary school teachers are seemingly so impatient.

Then the rest of the weekend was completely rest, before school starts on Monday again. Mr Esman's class was fine. Did this activity in which we looked at the nature or architecture of our surroundings to find alphabets. We were supposed to take pictures of these alphabets to form our names. It was meant to open our minds and stuff. Quite interesting. The rest of the lesson was about Dreamweaver, Photoshop, web-managing, and some web proposal document thing.

Dip-plus was fun. Learnt about Freud's theory again. My lecturer was trying her best to get us guys to say that we look at girls' "parts" o_o We also did a role-playing activity, some competition kind of thing. My group (the losers), got forfeited to do the Gangnam Style dance :/ And some overly-curious people were looking from outside the class :S

Today is almost fine. Ms Mary, being her usual self, made the class fun by letting us play with her kinect as a warm-up, since the lesson was about game. I wish we had the capability to show more enthusiasm, but it was pretty fun. Lecture about the things writers need to take note of when writing for games. We were allowed to play with games that we brought (I brought FF7) for around 5 minutes. The CA1 seems to be going to be quite interesting. Going to write the plot and cutscenes for a short iPad game.

Headed to Old Changi Road with some of my classmates to have lunch. Mine was nice, but I regret for having a small stomach such that I can't finish eating whatever I was eating. A pity Joey had to leave early. After Wai Meng left too, we hung around to chat about random stuff, mostly childhood shows that we liked. I realise my childhood isn't all that complete, never having watched stuff like Barnie, Bananas in Pyjamas, Sesame Street, and shows that I don't even know exist. But they're just shows, so meh.

Not looking forward to the rest of the week :/ Except Friday, which is a holiday.

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