Wednesday, October 29, 2008
10:35 pm
WOOTS! My blog is one in the
long list of things that make Pauline-dearest happy.
Yes, darling, I ♥ you too~
(It's the 25th September entry, since the link directs you to her blog's September archive which I can't update until she puts in permanent links for her posts. *Hint hint!*)
Self-importance much?
Hmm... Nope, not feeling the least bit shameful about it.
=)
And~ I'm off to my assignments again.
Less than 4 weeks away from the end of the trimester!
A long break is definitely welcomed.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
8:35 pm
OMG.
I cried over a sci-fi series.
Never thought that it will ever happen, considering all the spoilers I've read about the episode but-
OMG I'VE JUST CRIED OVER
DOCTOR WHO.
When cyber-converted Yvonne Hartman turned on the rest of the Cybermen, with a single tear from her eye as she defended the Torchwood Institute ("I did my duty, for Queen and country."), I wibbled.
I honestly wibbled.
And at the end of the episode when The Doctor said to Rose Tyler that he was "burning up a sun to say goodbye", I knew there was only one way the episode could end for me.
What finally did it was when The Doctor couldn't say whatever it was he wanted to before the connection got cut off and he was alone again in his TARDIS- with tears running down his face.
=(
Yeah, well. Granted, there were funny parts in the two-part episode too.
Never let it be said that Doctor Who lacks humour.
I absolutely loved the part where the Cybermen and the Daleks were insulting each other.
Let's take over the world! But first, I shall have an argument with the competition!
So amusing.
Russell T Davies is just pure LOVE.
Labels: TV shows
Saturday, October 18, 2008
11:41 am
I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Join PETA! And PETA2!
Yeah, well, granted you'd have to be in the US to be able to donate, and that it'll snow in Singapore before I ever turn vegetarian, there are many other animal cruelty acts are just plain disgusting, which you can simply send pre-completed petitions to show that you're not remotely amused (pardon the Doctor Who quote. I have started on series2 of the 2005 relaunch and- can I just say- I am SO loving UK television shows).
Actually, I do have many other things to blog about- but assignment deadlines are ruthlessly demanding my attention and I'm just this close to being dead from flu-and-sore-throat-and-cough (fever is gone overnight, thank goodness), which means that proper blogging will have to be postponed till an indeterminable time.
Labels: PETA, TV shows
Monday, October 06, 2008
8:35 pm
OF WRITING ESSAY ASSIGNMENTS...
Cons:
Completing everything alone.
Brainstorming, analysis, explanations, everything.
Spending near to two days in front of the laptop all by myself, rushing to submit a 2000 words essay amidst other individual assignments demanding my attention?
Not fun.
Pros:
Not to sound full of myself, but there had been no "staying up till 4am just to edit the assignment" involved.
I trust my language capabilities, and therefore I can correct myself before the words are being typed out.
Meaning?
Editing is on the spot, no need to lose temper over other people's horrible grasp of the English language while stretching my mad-editing skills to its maximum and trying to stay conscious at 3am with half-asleep eyes (also being stretched to full awake-size but is ultimately a futile attempt), and I get more than four hours of sleep before waking up for another day of school.
Oh well. You lose some, you win some.
Anyway.
The darn minor essay (for CMNS1110 Introduction to Communication Studies) has been completed and submitted.
1954 words.
Just under the word limit. Phew.
Next, website proposal for CMNS1000 Introduction to Digital Communication.
Yayness. Woots.
(Note the sarcasm.)
Sunday, October 05, 2008
10:18 am
McQuail (1994:49-55) identifies four concepts of communication in contemporary Western culture:
1. sending and receiving messages (transmission);
2. forming and maintaining communities (ritual);
3. showing off oneself and one's wares (display); and
4. making sense of the world around us (reception).
Select either a locally-produced radio or television station, a newspaper, an Internet website and analyze the extent to which it manifests each of McQuail's four concepts, providing examples from your chosen media text.
From your analysis of the media text, assess how useful McQuail's theory of communication is to the media of non-Western cultures such as Singapore.
LENGTH: 1500 - 2000 words
Due date: 10-07-08, 2:00 AM EST (Australia time)
Minor Essay Assignment
CMNS1110 Introduction to Communication Studies
Ironic, isn't it, that I am completely robbed of time to churn out a few hundred words for a decent fanfiction and yet here I am, rushing to submit an essay of similar length to a proper chapter of Aki Kitsune.
After which, I still have (no thanks to CMNS1000 Introduction to Digital Communication) a website proposal to redo and a full website interface of at least 6 pages to create (excluding the splash page), complete with original graphics (ie. me slaving away on Photoshop), literary content and the whole HTML coding (ie. more slaving away in front of my laptop). Which is also entirely ironic, when I have no time for with regards to my own website.
And that's not all.
Courtesy of CMNS1090 Introduction to Professional Writing, there's a character profile to do, meaning interviewing someone I hardly know (which I do have an idea of who to look for but am SO not free to plan for right now) plus a review to do on, which has been oh-so-kindly restricted to exclude movie, music album and book reviews.
Darn. And here I was, cackling away (inwardly) at all the sarcasm I can use to "review" Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series.
*Scowls*
Enough escapism. I should get back to writing that damn essay.
Ugh. Am not happy.
Labels: Aki Kitsune, Book recs