To be honest, I have been hesitating to compose an entry, because I feel like once I started I will be writing for at least an hour.
It's been a while I have never write for myself and communicate with the inner me. Yup, have been busying writing social media posts and some works that people think that I am wasting my time.
So let's see what have happened since my last entry eh. Well the actual post about myself was published on October 30th, 2013, which is like around 2 years ago, I wrote a sentence, I have been getting a lot of butterflies in stomach these days, just saying." and few days after that kabaam, yours truly is in a relationship, maybe should find a day to write a post about the process and nitty gritty.
2014 was an amazing one, well I had to look back to my Facebook photo albums to find out what I did this year, I can't remember a lot but IC2014 in Taiwan.
Let's start with Winter semester 2014 shall we? So I went to Montreal and Quebec trip with the ISS group, it was fucking freezing but I enjoyed quite a bit despite that was my 3rd time in Montreal. And then Orlando and I single-handedly pulled the first ever (probably the last) multicultural gala in University of Windsor. Working with a diverse group could be frustrating but if you manage the time well and have a lot of patience, you will do just fine. The event was a blast, university staff loved it obviously, they are the one who always brag about UWindsor diversity at the same time keep cutting the budget of ISC. Uhmm and what else? Oh, I ended my term as VISA coordinator, to be honest it was quite a relieve, knowing that I do not have to organize event for EVERY fucking FRIDAY anymore just feel so, ah, awesome. Don't take it wrong, I love my team, well most of them, except one or two people that did not willing to cooperate and keep getting the club into trouble, for example got into a fight with the Indian Student Association, yup, thank you. Well I cried at the end too, not because of sentiment or shit like that. It was because of another team member and some stupid ass recognition, okay at this point I do not know if I should continue writing without names or just make the blog private already. Okay back to the point, your granny - me, I did so much for the school and did I expect to get anything? No, well secretly yes, but I will not go to the extend that I have to force someone to give me that certificate! Yup, someone did that to me and I broke down at the Korean restaurant, no big deal. Overall, I do love my team, and am still connecting with some of them.
Hmm, is that it? I do not remember too much about school because after year 3, my priority has been co-curricular > classes, yup. Wait I do remember that I took couple photography classes that costed me a fortune.
And then summer happened, went to my second NLDC in Guelph, to be frank besides being the Home Group Leader, I did not actually learn a lot of things (sucks being old in AIESEC), but I did get to meet a lot of people that are rising stars today. But it is an AIESEC, crazy shits happens, yup throughout the conference I never sleep in my bed lmao. Someone was being clingy because after the conference I will only get to see him after 4 months, and his roommate is this year Western's LCP, the awkwardness, but I bet he was drunk as fuck, he won't recognize me LOL.
Okay I think that's good enough for today, because the next part should totally get its own entry.
Till then,
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Saturday, September 19, 2015
Friday, July 12, 2013
Just Because I am a Communications Student
What is communications?
Communication as an academic field relates to all that ways we communicate, so it embraces a knowledge. The information relates both to verbal and nonverbal messages.
Communication teachers and scholars have developed a definition of the field of communication to clarify it as a discipline for the public:
"the field of communication focuses on how people use messages to generate meanings within and cross various context, cultures, channels and media. The field promotes the effective and ethical practice of human communication."
Did you know...
it is estimated that 75% of a person's day is spent communicating in some way. As a college student, 69% of your communication time in spent on speaking and listening. You spend 17% of your communication time on reading and 14% writing. To put it in another perspective; we listen a book a day, speak a book a week, read the equivalent book a month, and write the equivalent book a year.
Career options:
there are many career paths that a person with Communication major can choose. Here are some job titles that former graduates with Communication majors hold. Use this as an ideas list, remember that is represents some, but certainly not all of the careers you might consider. Some careers may take additional schooling.
Business:
Management
Personnel recruiter
Trainer
Admissions counselor
Sales representative
Public information officer
Negotiator
Newsletter editor
Mediator
Manager
Vice-president human resources
Director of training and development
Benefits administrator
Executive manager
Industrial and labor relations
Customer service representative
Human resources manager
Buyer
Advertising:
Advertising specialist
Copywriter
Media planner
Creative director
Public researcher
Marketing specialist
Account executive manager
Media buyer
Media sales representative
Communication education:
Language arts coordinator
Drama director
School counselor
Audiovisual specialist
Director of college news
Educational fund-raiser
High school speech forensics/debate coach
Speech communication department chairperson
Education researcher
Educational administrator
Educational tester
Alumni officer
Electronic/Media/Radio/Television/Broadcasting:
Broadcasting station manager
Film/tape librarian
Unit manager
Transmitter engineer
Advertising sales coordinator
Actor/actress
Disc jockey
Comedy writer
Producer
Floor manager
Director of broadcasting
Community relation director
News writer
Technical director
Market researcher
Announcer
News and relation manager
Casting manager
Business manager
Talk show host
Journalism:
Reporter
Newscaster
Copywriter
News service researcher
Acquisitions editor
Editor
Author
Script writer
Technical writer
Media interviewer
Public Relations:
Publicity manager
Marketing specialist
Corporate public affairs
Account executive
Sales manager
Media planner
News writer
Adverting manager
Lobbyist
Specialist
Development officer
Media analyst
Creative director
Public opinion researcher
Theatre/Performing arts:
Performing artist
Arts administrator
Costume design
Lighting theatre critic
Stage manager
Theatre professor
Script writer
Performing arts educator
Scenic designer
Makeup artist
Model
Casting director
Government/Politics:
Public information officer writer
Campaign director
Program coordinator
Legislative assistant
Research specialist
Elected official
High Technology Industries:
Trainer for communication tech.
System analyst
Language specialist
Circuit television producer/director
Technical copywriter
Cognition researcher
Audio & visual computer display specialist
Communication and Health Care:
Health educator
Medical grants writer
Clinic public relations director
Research analyst
Health personnel educator
Hospice manager
Activities director
School health care administrator
Hospital director of communication
Health communication analyst
Medical training supervisor
Medical center publications editor
Health care counselor
Marketing director
International Relations and Negotiations:
On-Air international broadcasting
Translator
Diplomat
Corporate representative
Student tour coordinator
Foreign correspondent
Law:
Public defender
District attorney
Legal researcher
Legal secretary
Legal educator
Corporate lawyer
Private practice lawyer
Mediation & negotiation specialist
Legal reporter
Social and Human Services:
Public administrator
Recreation supervisor
Community affairs liaison
Religious leader
Social worker
Human rights officer
Park service public relations specialist
Mental counselor
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Fall Term 2012 Report
Oh my godness, I cannot believe that I did not update this blog properly since September, and now is November already, which means this semester is going to end in a month, dafuq. LOL When I say blog properly, those personality quizzes does not count, haha.
So I guess I will use back the old format to tell my story for this semester, it is easier for me to organize and read, haha.
Academic
Taking 5 courses this semester, 2 visual arts, Image and Time Based, 2 communications, Message Design and Theories of Communication and Media, and 1 art history, Modern Art.
I going to start with Time Based first because Image is a bitch to talk about LOL. So I have Ken Giles again this time, same evening class, same boring as hell. Time Based here is a medium that has a durational dimension, in short, VIDEO lah. The ultimate reason why I put myself into visual arts this dumbshit is because of Time Based okay, because I do not want to go into production in communications which is so bitchy that you have to count budget, decide angles, find casts, scripting yada yada stupid materialistic stuff. Time Based has more meaning (I think), which you can be subjective with it, and people wont judge it as a consumer item but ART.Which means, you can make it without meaning, even randomly, but your peers will sense meanings from it somehow from their perspective. The course itself is interesting, we learned Photoshop and made a triptych for the first assignment, which is easy pissy for me, however choosing a subject is difficult, it is also the core of this course. We also learned how to cut Final Cut Pro, a video editing software, super easy super cool, love it right now. Just submitted assignment 3 on Wednesday, it is about montage technique, how we can condense a 3 hours experience into a 3 minute video. I chose the stupidest idea ever. In that video, I was frustrated with my uselessness at the beginning, then another me from another dimension of the world appeared and offer some drink (milk) for me, said that it will help me life better, then 'she' disappeared with a snap. After I finished the drink (milk), I got super powers like teleport, walk through walls and stuff. I am thrilled, teleport here and there, and finally I hit on a door then I want to pass through it. Later find out the drink (milk) is a trial version, only valid for 3 hours. I basically do all these by myself, without a tripod. And I found out, I CANNOT TALK TO A CAMERA. Dafuq, the whole process and the final product are just plain awkward. And we need to show our assignment in class, I was the second one to go, Ken started with the last last name, madafaka -_- I told the class the reason I chose to do is because we (students) were so frustrated these days with midterms and papers, we will do anything to get more time to deal with studies, thus this video represents the wish, also act as a temporally escape from reality. The GA, Eric loves it, but Ken, meh, I will take it as he was in a bad mood that day, he criticized everyone's. LOL. So yea, for most of the time I feel so blank because this course is so abstract, define time? what the fuck is this.jpg Topic for final project is "what is your favourite vegetable," how can you use time to tell us what is your favourite vegetable? Damn vague right? I have no idea how to do, and I cannot even decide which vegetable to use, corn, broccoli or potato? Help maybe?
And oh if you want to watch the stupid super power video just write a post about it to my Facebook wall, LOL.
Move on, Image class! Have Nadja Pelkey, fresh MFA from University of Guelph. I hope you did not died from reading my Time Based story if not you totally going to die in this. LOL. So, Image is ten thousand times more vague than Time Based. First assignment is to make a colour chart, very easy, but assignments get weirder as time passes. Second one is we have to paint ten panels with portrait or object. Paint, not draw! Many people confused with this too at the beginning, we even being taught how to hold the paintbrush properly in class. The only rule for this assignment is, you cannot paint it NICELY. Da heck? For the whole life we have been asked to be good, the best, flawless, bla bla bla and now you want me to do mistakes, to do it not properly? Maybe you will not feel the difficulty when you are reading this, try to do it! It is like the most painful feeling for me ever! I broke down because of this assignment, lol. Basically what she is looking for in this assignment is the gestures and expressions of how we execute a painting, mainly wants us to step out from our comfort zone, try with other styles of painting, for not being too precise in details (pfft modern art). I got A- for this mostly because she could see how pressured I was when in studio. I would say this is the toughest assignment ever, especially for a perfectionist like me. Wanna hear about the third assignment? Way creepier. Choose and locate a place within a space. Yes, this is the ONLY instruction for this assignment. The heck, the heck, the heck. My original idea was playground, which it is a heaven for children while another dimension for grownups, like they treat society as their playground now. Does not make sense right? I had no idea too. I dropped it because the nearest playground is like 30 minutes of walking distance, I really do not want to spend that much of time walking back and forth to take photos of it. LOL.I ended up use the space under the chair of my room, and Nadja actually likes this idea more, whut. However the final project of this course is to make an artist book. An artist book is an artwork that is presented in the form of book. That means we, artists twist the feature of a book to make it into an artbook. Like what Nadja did was she find quotes which contain the word "hope" and substitute it with "Nadja," which what her name stands for. Then compile the quotes together and published it into a book. Taa-daa, this is art deska. wtf. Right now I have no idea what to do for this project yet, kinda want to do a collection of indexical marks from human body, footprints maybe?
The last art history (maybe not if I am doing art history as minor) is Modern Art, it is offered as online course. I got a lot of people saying "oh, so you get to cut some slack because you do not have to go to class for this." NO! I rather go to class for this course, because the readings is madafaka many as shits.We have 5 chapters to read averagely every week, and 1 research paper, 1 online discussion and 1 online quiz every month. I used to hate this course at the beginning because the texts does not make sense to me, why psychologist like Sigmund Freud will be included in the text?! The moment I started to love it is when I got back my mark for first assignment, omg I love Jeanne (the prof)! From this course I now know why artists started to paint nude and going abstract (stupid/crazy). But if I really doing a minor for art history, Modern Art is definitely not my concentration, I will go back to Renaissance. Hahaha.
For communication courses, I am taking the second last required course which is Theories of Communication and Media by Michael Darroch. To be honest, I did not really concentrate in this class, mostly because I do not do the freaking long and complicated readings and I have Thao, Lei Gao and Charlie (will introduce later) beside me all the time in class. Haha. Contents of this course actually has a lot of similarities with Modern Art and Image, I always see terms from those 2 classes in here. Holy, it confuses me sometimes. But what I really learn in this class is, human are really "lebih" creatures.Its like someone made something and present it to the society then other people (so called critiques) appeared and give contexts that has nothing to do with the person who made that thing. For example we studied about map last week. GA in the lab threw us a question: why people create digital map today? Apparently he does not want "navigation" as answer. No one in the class answered, then he said is because the developer wants to make it as a guide to what they want their user to be, especially things, for instance shopping place, that they want to promote. If you are in the class you might go like "ohhhhh, why I never think this way." I got this reaction hell a lot in this course, lol. Another thing is we need to give a small presentation about the topic we talked about in lecture, my topic is "media screens," will be presenting at the last week of school, wtf, and I am the only Asian in that lab, stupid Thao dumped me lol. Oh and I did pretty good for the photography analysis heh, I am comparing with the three person I mentioned above O_O I have a 8 to 10 pages of research paper to write for this and a take home final paper. What is take home final? I do not really know, will figure it out eventually. And this is the only course that I have to write a final, yay?
The last communication class I am taking is Message Design by Dr. Richard Lewis. The reason I am taking it now is because of my mentor's suggestion. She was like "take Lewis' course no matter whatever course he teaches," LOL.So this "legendary" Richard Lewis is a Canadian with Pakistan ethnicity. Message Design initially is like to learn how to make people convinced by the message you create, means persuasion lah. In this class, we do not have assignment, do not have to write papers, and lastly, no final. All we have is presentations, 1 mid term and 1 final projects. Sounds kind of laid back right? He wanted us to get into group of 4 to 5 people, Thao is definitely with me, another 2 group members are Adam and Sam. This is the first time (I think) of me teaming up with local students, I mean for a class that requires groups for the whole semester. Honestly I did not really learn anything from this class, perhaps is because I did not take it seriously. LOL. We only concentrate on chapters we need to present, other than that most of the time we just space out in class while others giving their presentations. Lewis is a weird guy, he hates formal presentation, he wants us to present things we studied from textbook to the class in creative way. So ended up most of the groups do game show, jeopardy and stuff. While for final project we can do anything as long as it has something to do with persuasion. My group decided to do university promotion, targeting at international students, also how to make them stay here longer, instead of drop out or transfer to somewhere else. Do not ask me what does this has to to with persuasion, I have no idea. And we actually took 2 weeks to decide this topic :|
Overall, this semester considered not bad academically, I did not see any course that will end up getting C (finally). No, actually this semester is kind of fucked up because contents of Modern Art, Image and Theories of Communication and Media are very similar to each other, gahhhhh. Okay, it is not that bad, I just want to highlight this only, LOL.
Clubs/Social
Omg this shit is epic. Right now I am in
1. AIESEC - vice president of communications
2. V.I.S.A - associate publications
3. UNICEF - webmaster/vice president of internal relations
4. Connecting for Success - Mentor
Before becoming the vice president of communication in AIESEC, I was the director of public relations, wait did I mentioned this during the summer? Yea I guess so, lol, so skip. To be honest, I feel like I am already the vice president in COMM since the real VP does not really do things, or I should say she makes me feels like she does not even want to be in AIESEC, for example recently, I have to ask her 3 times in a week to set our portfolio meeting time. Oh god. So right now I am in transition, still doing the same thing, spam Facebook, design posters, bla bla bla. And oh I held a portfolio meeting last week, first time in my life!
While for V.I.S.A, it was like magnificent at the beginning of the semester, we had bowling event, trip to Pelee Island, bla bla bla. But since last month we have NOTHING, not even executive meetings. And I feel like the current coordinator kind of drift V.I.S.A off what it used to be, sigh, I think he is not even in this group before this. My unofficial main job in this group is the photographer and part time designer, my boss (executive publications) loves to design so much so I will just let her do all the flyers posters she wants. Most likely I will leave this group soon because everything is too Indianized, not even kidding. In Windsor, when you say international, like events or groups, Indian is the represent of "international." One of the events we did for V.I.S.A was samosa sales, it turned out pretty good. Then the executive team says want to do Diwali stuff, and another Indian festival. People, please, why don't you guys just go have an Indian society or whatever?
UNICEF is another headache for me. I cannot get it why people applied for an executive position but not willing to work, or even fucking reply my texts or emails? The one and only event of this club was the Halloween bake sale which we had it on October 31st, and until now I still do not know how many money we made. B-R-I-L-L-A-N-T.
All these clubs above I tried so fucking hard to push all things to happen but people are just so fucking do not respond or irresponsible. Where is the excitement of university student supposed to have? DARN.
The only one that I do not have to put too much focus is the mentor-mentee program. But the funny thing is that my mentee is not exactly in the same majors as me, we only share the visual arts part, and the more hilarious thing is that we are in the same Image class. AWKWARD TO THE MAX. However, she is a good girl, does not give too much trouble to me, what I have to do is just meet with her monthly and write report to send it to the program coordinator.
Work
So, I work in the International Student Centre as front desk, but will be the soft landing coordinator for this coming winter, which main job is to help new students with transition. Bad thing about this job is, I only get 1 week of break during Christmas week. However working in the ISC is not bad, learned a lot, especially talking to people, I am less nervous when talking to strangers now.
Friends
Made a lot of new friends this semester, mostly known by people recognize me as the Chinese who works in the International Student Centre. And mostly Indians......I do not want to talk about this anymore, urgh. I am trying my VERY best not to be racist okay but can you guys just freaking leave me alone, do not spam my Facebook message, do not randomly ask me what's up, do not say 你好 to me, stop trying to impress me by saying you are in engineering, arts is easy those stupid shit, just fucking stop these and be normal please. (Holy crap, I just realized I am writing all these in a terribly bad mood, lol). And for Chinese, please stop asking me why I speak Mandarin, please, please, please. I AM A CHINESE JUST LIKE YOU GUYS! I am getting frustrated each time when people question my identity. Please, leave me alone, or study more about other people country, do not simply make assumptions. (LOL shit, off topic already) Okay, right now in my communication class I have one more person to hang out with, she is Charlie transferred from Hong Kong, same stream in communication with me, wheee. And have Adam in Message Design, a Japanese and Scottish mix, punk style of kid, not bad to work together with. Also I met Sonin, from Mongolia, Master of Management student, looks like Small S of Taiwan, fun to hang out with too. People like Sheylen (Malaysian), Eric, Missy, Vincent, Ada, sometimes too. Occasionally Heidi, Ivy and Linda.
Housing
Living with Fantine, everything is good so far if the another housemate would find a room to do her stuff with her boyfriend or keep the volume down. Cooking by myself while studying and dealing with club stuffs is not fun, most of the time I do not have the time to sit down and eat properly. However, moved to here is probably one of the wisest choices I made, it is so convenience in terms of going to LeBel building. Most likely I am going to live here until I finish university. $300 per month is totally a good deal.
Le Crush
LOL I know I never have this section in previous report. Ahahahahah shy.Like I expected, we did not hang out as much like during summer because both of us are super duper busy people. However one of the things that is worth to mention here is that we went to the library together on the first day of school. Awesomeness feeling. The second thing would be the trip to Point Pelee. In case you want to know, the current cover photo on Facebook is shot by him. Haha. The most recent one would be last week? We went for Fuji Sushi, where we used to go during the summer and have their awesome salmon, and watched Iron Fist. We planned to watch Silent Hill but found out Iron Fist is on the cinema already which both of us thought it will not be released until next week. So we sneaked out from Silent Hill and went for Iron Fist. I honestly have no idea what is going to happen to us, and I like the current situation, it would be nice if something good happen, lets just hope the worst will not come.
I wrote a lot at the beginning but the length dropped down a lot when comes to the end, probably because the writing mojo is gone. I will stop here for now.
So I guess I will use back the old format to tell my story for this semester, it is easier for me to organize and read, haha.
Academic
Taking 5 courses this semester, 2 visual arts, Image and Time Based, 2 communications, Message Design and Theories of Communication and Media, and 1 art history, Modern Art.
I going to start with Time Based first because Image is a bitch to talk about LOL. So I have Ken Giles again this time, same evening class, same boring as hell. Time Based here is a medium that has a durational dimension, in short, VIDEO lah. The ultimate reason why I put myself into visual arts this dumbshit is because of Time Based okay, because I do not want to go into production in communications which is so bitchy that you have to count budget, decide angles, find casts, scripting yada yada stupid materialistic stuff. Time Based has more meaning (I think), which you can be subjective with it, and people wont judge it as a consumer item but ART.Which means, you can make it without meaning, even randomly, but your peers will sense meanings from it somehow from their perspective. The course itself is interesting, we learned Photoshop and made a triptych for the first assignment, which is easy pissy for me, however choosing a subject is difficult, it is also the core of this course. We also learned how to cut Final Cut Pro, a video editing software, super easy super cool, love it right now. Just submitted assignment 3 on Wednesday, it is about montage technique, how we can condense a 3 hours experience into a 3 minute video. I chose the stupidest idea ever. In that video, I was frustrated with my uselessness at the beginning, then another me from another dimension of the world appeared and offer some drink (milk) for me, said that it will help me life better, then 'she' disappeared with a snap. After I finished the drink (milk), I got super powers like teleport, walk through walls and stuff. I am thrilled, teleport here and there, and finally I hit on a door then I want to pass through it. Later find out the drink (milk) is a trial version, only valid for 3 hours. I basically do all these by myself, without a tripod. And I found out, I CANNOT TALK TO A CAMERA. Dafuq, the whole process and the final product are just plain awkward. And we need to show our assignment in class, I was the second one to go, Ken started with the last last name, madafaka -_- I told the class the reason I chose to do is because we (students) were so frustrated these days with midterms and papers, we will do anything to get more time to deal with studies, thus this video represents the wish, also act as a temporally escape from reality. The GA, Eric loves it, but Ken, meh, I will take it as he was in a bad mood that day, he criticized everyone's. LOL. So yea, for most of the time I feel so blank because this course is so abstract, define time? what the fuck is this.jpg Topic for final project is "what is your favourite vegetable," how can you use time to tell us what is your favourite vegetable? Damn vague right? I have no idea how to do, and I cannot even decide which vegetable to use, corn, broccoli or potato? Help maybe?
And oh if you want to watch the stupid super power video just write a post about it to my Facebook wall, LOL.
Move on, Image class! Have Nadja Pelkey, fresh MFA from University of Guelph. I hope you did not died from reading my Time Based story if not you totally going to die in this. LOL. So, Image is ten thousand times more vague than Time Based. First assignment is to make a colour chart, very easy, but assignments get weirder as time passes. Second one is we have to paint ten panels with portrait or object. Paint, not draw! Many people confused with this too at the beginning, we even being taught how to hold the paintbrush properly in class. The only rule for this assignment is, you cannot paint it NICELY. Da heck? For the whole life we have been asked to be good, the best, flawless, bla bla bla and now you want me to do mistakes, to do it not properly? Maybe you will not feel the difficulty when you are reading this, try to do it! It is like the most painful feeling for me ever! I broke down because of this assignment, lol. Basically what she is looking for in this assignment is the gestures and expressions of how we execute a painting, mainly wants us to step out from our comfort zone, try with other styles of painting, for not being too precise in details (pfft modern art). I got A- for this mostly because she could see how pressured I was when in studio. I would say this is the toughest assignment ever, especially for a perfectionist like me. Wanna hear about the third assignment? Way creepier. Choose and locate a place within a space. Yes, this is the ONLY instruction for this assignment. The heck, the heck, the heck. My original idea was playground, which it is a heaven for children while another dimension for grownups, like they treat society as their playground now. Does not make sense right? I had no idea too. I dropped it because the nearest playground is like 30 minutes of walking distance, I really do not want to spend that much of time walking back and forth to take photos of it. LOL.I ended up use the space under the chair of my room, and Nadja actually likes this idea more, whut. However the final project of this course is to make an artist book. An artist book is an artwork that is presented in the form of book. That means we, artists twist the feature of a book to make it into an artbook. Like what Nadja did was she find quotes which contain the word "hope" and substitute it with "Nadja," which what her name stands for. Then compile the quotes together and published it into a book. Taa-daa, this is art deska. wtf. Right now I have no idea what to do for this project yet, kinda want to do a collection of indexical marks from human body, footprints maybe?
The last art history (maybe not if I am doing art history as minor) is Modern Art, it is offered as online course. I got a lot of people saying "oh, so you get to cut some slack because you do not have to go to class for this." NO! I rather go to class for this course, because the readings is madafaka many as shits.We have 5 chapters to read averagely every week, and 1 research paper, 1 online discussion and 1 online quiz every month. I used to hate this course at the beginning because the texts does not make sense to me, why psychologist like Sigmund Freud will be included in the text?! The moment I started to love it is when I got back my mark for first assignment, omg I love Jeanne (the prof)! From this course I now know why artists started to paint nude and going abstract (stupid/crazy). But if I really doing a minor for art history, Modern Art is definitely not my concentration, I will go back to Renaissance. Hahaha.
For communication courses, I am taking the second last required course which is Theories of Communication and Media by Michael Darroch. To be honest, I did not really concentrate in this class, mostly because I do not do the freaking long and complicated readings and I have Thao, Lei Gao and Charlie (will introduce later) beside me all the time in class. Haha. Contents of this course actually has a lot of similarities with Modern Art and Image, I always see terms from those 2 classes in here. Holy, it confuses me sometimes. But what I really learn in this class is, human are really "lebih" creatures.Its like someone made something and present it to the society then other people (so called critiques) appeared and give contexts that has nothing to do with the person who made that thing. For example we studied about map last week. GA in the lab threw us a question: why people create digital map today? Apparently he does not want "navigation" as answer. No one in the class answered, then he said is because the developer wants to make it as a guide to what they want their user to be, especially things, for instance shopping place, that they want to promote. If you are in the class you might go like "ohhhhh, why I never think this way." I got this reaction hell a lot in this course, lol. Another thing is we need to give a small presentation about the topic we talked about in lecture, my topic is "media screens," will be presenting at the last week of school, wtf, and I am the only Asian in that lab, stupid Thao dumped me lol. Oh and I did pretty good for the photography analysis heh, I am comparing with the three person I mentioned above O_O I have a 8 to 10 pages of research paper to write for this and a take home final paper. What is take home final? I do not really know, will figure it out eventually. And this is the only course that I have to write a final, yay?
The last communication class I am taking is Message Design by Dr. Richard Lewis. The reason I am taking it now is because of my mentor's suggestion. She was like "take Lewis' course no matter whatever course he teaches," LOL.So this "legendary" Richard Lewis is a Canadian with Pakistan ethnicity. Message Design initially is like to learn how to make people convinced by the message you create, means persuasion lah. In this class, we do not have assignment, do not have to write papers, and lastly, no final. All we have is presentations, 1 mid term and 1 final projects. Sounds kind of laid back right? He wanted us to get into group of 4 to 5 people, Thao is definitely with me, another 2 group members are Adam and Sam. This is the first time (I think) of me teaming up with local students, I mean for a class that requires groups for the whole semester. Honestly I did not really learn anything from this class, perhaps is because I did not take it seriously. LOL. We only concentrate on chapters we need to present, other than that most of the time we just space out in class while others giving their presentations. Lewis is a weird guy, he hates formal presentation, he wants us to present things we studied from textbook to the class in creative way. So ended up most of the groups do game show, jeopardy and stuff. While for final project we can do anything as long as it has something to do with persuasion. My group decided to do university promotion, targeting at international students, also how to make them stay here longer, instead of drop out or transfer to somewhere else. Do not ask me what does this has to to with persuasion, I have no idea. And we actually took 2 weeks to decide this topic :|
Overall, this semester considered not bad academically, I did not see any course that will end up getting C (finally). No, actually this semester is kind of fucked up because contents of Modern Art, Image and Theories of Communication and Media are very similar to each other, gahhhhh. Okay, it is not that bad, I just want to highlight this only, LOL.
Clubs/Social
Omg this shit is epic. Right now I am in
1. AIESEC - vice president of communications
2. V.I.S.A - associate publications
3. UNICEF - webmaster/vice president of internal relations
4. Connecting for Success - Mentor
Before becoming the vice president of communication in AIESEC, I was the director of public relations, wait did I mentioned this during the summer? Yea I guess so, lol, so skip. To be honest, I feel like I am already the vice president in COMM since the real VP does not really do things, or I should say she makes me feels like she does not even want to be in AIESEC, for example recently, I have to ask her 3 times in a week to set our portfolio meeting time. Oh god. So right now I am in transition, still doing the same thing, spam Facebook, design posters, bla bla bla. And oh I held a portfolio meeting last week, first time in my life!
While for V.I.S.A, it was like magnificent at the beginning of the semester, we had bowling event, trip to Pelee Island, bla bla bla. But since last month we have NOTHING, not even executive meetings. And I feel like the current coordinator kind of drift V.I.S.A off what it used to be, sigh, I think he is not even in this group before this. My unofficial main job in this group is the photographer and part time designer, my boss (executive publications) loves to design so much so I will just let her do all the flyers posters she wants. Most likely I will leave this group soon because everything is too Indianized, not even kidding. In Windsor, when you say international, like events or groups, Indian is the represent of "international." One of the events we did for V.I.S.A was samosa sales, it turned out pretty good. Then the executive team says want to do Diwali stuff, and another Indian festival. People, please, why don't you guys just go have an Indian society or whatever?
UNICEF is another headache for me. I cannot get it why people applied for an executive position but not willing to work, or even fucking reply my texts or emails? The one and only event of this club was the Halloween bake sale which we had it on October 31st, and until now I still do not know how many money we made. B-R-I-L-L-A-N-T.
All these clubs above I tried so fucking hard to push all things to happen but people are just so fucking do not respond or irresponsible. Where is the excitement of university student supposed to have? DARN.
The only one that I do not have to put too much focus is the mentor-mentee program. But the funny thing is that my mentee is not exactly in the same majors as me, we only share the visual arts part, and the more hilarious thing is that we are in the same Image class. AWKWARD TO THE MAX. However, she is a good girl, does not give too much trouble to me, what I have to do is just meet with her monthly and write report to send it to the program coordinator.
Work
So, I work in the International Student Centre as front desk, but will be the soft landing coordinator for this coming winter, which main job is to help new students with transition. Bad thing about this job is, I only get 1 week of break during Christmas week. However working in the ISC is not bad, learned a lot, especially talking to people, I am less nervous when talking to strangers now.
Friends
Made a lot of new friends this semester, mostly known by people recognize me as the Chinese who works in the International Student Centre. And mostly Indians......I do not want to talk about this anymore, urgh. I am trying my VERY best not to be racist okay but can you guys just freaking leave me alone, do not spam my Facebook message, do not randomly ask me what's up, do not say 你好 to me, stop trying to impress me by saying you are in engineering, arts is easy those stupid shit, just fucking stop these and be normal please. (Holy crap, I just realized I am writing all these in a terribly bad mood, lol). And for Chinese, please stop asking me why I speak Mandarin, please, please, please. I AM A CHINESE JUST LIKE YOU GUYS! I am getting frustrated each time when people question my identity. Please, leave me alone, or study more about other people country, do not simply make assumptions. (LOL shit, off topic already) Okay, right now in my communication class I have one more person to hang out with, she is Charlie transferred from Hong Kong, same stream in communication with me, wheee. And have Adam in Message Design, a Japanese and Scottish mix, punk style of kid, not bad to work together with. Also I met Sonin, from Mongolia, Master of Management student, looks like Small S of Taiwan, fun to hang out with too. People like Sheylen (Malaysian), Eric, Missy, Vincent, Ada, sometimes too. Occasionally Heidi, Ivy and Linda.
Housing
Living with Fantine, everything is good so far if the another housemate would find a room to do her stuff with her boyfriend or keep the volume down. Cooking by myself while studying and dealing with club stuffs is not fun, most of the time I do not have the time to sit down and eat properly. However, moved to here is probably one of the wisest choices I made, it is so convenience in terms of going to LeBel building. Most likely I am going to live here until I finish university. $300 per month is totally a good deal.
Le Crush
LOL I know I never have this section in previous report. Ahahahahah shy.Like I expected, we did not hang out as much like during summer because both of us are super duper busy people. However one of the things that is worth to mention here is that we went to the library together on the first day of school. Awesomeness feeling. The second thing would be the trip to Point Pelee. In case you want to know, the current cover photo on Facebook is shot by him. Haha. The most recent one would be last week? We went for Fuji Sushi, where we used to go during the summer and have their awesome salmon, and watched Iron Fist. We planned to watch Silent Hill but found out Iron Fist is on the cinema already which both of us thought it will not be released until next week. So we sneaked out from Silent Hill and went for Iron Fist. I honestly have no idea what is going to happen to us, and I like the current situation, it would be nice if something good happen, lets just hope the worst will not come.
I wrote a lot at the beginning but the length dropped down a lot when comes to the end, probably because the writing mojo is gone. I will stop here for now.
Monday, September 24, 2012
“自从你从4M下来后你变得好胜，爱比较…”-思恩
对，4M的确是我人生多个转折点中的其中一个。我曾经不闻不问，不世俗，万事都随便，走一步算一步的态度快让老妈子抓狂。那个时候的我，可以说是精神上的邋遢，在加上金牛座的固执性格，没人说得动我，改得了我。 M班是当时小学的精英班，很多那班的学生现在都在接受着政府的奖学金在国外深造。可想而知，以一个普通学生的身份加入精英班是多么的有意思。压力和紧张是每天环绕在4M里的元素，学生在一角落狂背课文，学生在另一角演算数学题…没有一刻轻松空闲的时候。
久而久之，我知道我的随性在这里是生存不了的。所以慢慢的我也学会了一些M班生活法则。拿到测验后的比较在M班似乎是不可避免的，几乎每个人在班上都有他们认定的考场上的“对手。”虽然之后我在班上的排名一直垫底，在M班培养的习惯也已经摆脱不了了，也造成我现在这种个性-他妈的要强。
4M不是唯一造就我这种性格的因素，另外一个是我爸，背后原因是我家。黄家虽然大，可是真正成大事的没有一个。感觉上老爸对我的期望很高，可能是我的成绩是他三个孩子中最好的一个吧。但是老实说，我的成绩一点都不好，真的不好，我不想被归类成那种假惺惺的人，上学期CGPA 8.79 (2.5)，如何？不知道为什么别人总以为我是那种很会读书的人。若我没常常去图书馆，我现在应该已经被退学回去马来西亚了。我是唯一也是第一个在国外上正式的政府大学的人，毫无前例。上大学一直是老爸的梦想，所以在各种情况下我警告我自己，不可以他妈的倒下。
老爸也说加入社团，在学校找个工作。现在我两个都有了，而且都做的很好。但是我很累，真的很累。但是我不能随便退出，不想被人说不负责任。而且在工作和社团里都得到了非常大的成就感，慢慢地学业就落后了，second year真的是他妈的一点都不容易，他妈的多readings，他妈的image课老师以为我们只上一堂课总是要我们用两天完成他妈的多东西。老娘是完全没有时间啊fuck。
不知道这个是我的limit了，还是我还可以有进步的空间，还可以做比这个更多的。我希望是二者吧，至少在未来生活不会跌个狗吃屎。
对，4M的确是我人生多个转折点中的其中一个。我曾经不闻不问，不世俗，万事都随便，走一步算一步的态度快让老妈子抓狂。那个时候的我，可以说是精神上的邋遢，在加上金牛座的固执性格，没人说得动我，改得了我。 M班是当时小学的精英班，很多那班的学生现在都在接受着政府的奖学金在国外深造。可想而知，以一个普通学生的身份加入精英班是多么的有意思。压力和紧张是每天环绕在4M里的元素，学生在一角落狂背课文，学生在另一角演算数学题…没有一刻轻松空闲的时候。
久而久之，我知道我的随性在这里是生存不了的。所以慢慢的我也学会了一些M班生活法则。拿到测验后的比较在M班似乎是不可避免的，几乎每个人在班上都有他们认定的考场上的“对手。”虽然之后我在班上的排名一直垫底，在M班培养的习惯也已经摆脱不了了，也造成我现在这种个性-他妈的要强。
4M不是唯一造就我这种性格的因素，另外一个是我爸，背后原因是我家。黄家虽然大，可是真正成大事的没有一个。感觉上老爸对我的期望很高，可能是我的成绩是他三个孩子中最好的一个吧。但是老实说，我的成绩一点都不好，真的不好，我不想被归类成那种假惺惺的人，上学期CGPA 8.79 (2.5)，如何？不知道为什么别人总以为我是那种很会读书的人。若我没常常去图书馆，我现在应该已经被退学回去马来西亚了。我是唯一也是第一个在国外上正式的政府大学的人，毫无前例。上大学一直是老爸的梦想，所以在各种情况下我警告我自己，不可以他妈的倒下。
老爸也说加入社团，在学校找个工作。现在我两个都有了，而且都做的很好。但是我很累，真的很累。但是我不能随便退出，不想被人说不负责任。而且在工作和社团里都得到了非常大的成就感，慢慢地学业就落后了，second year真的是他妈的一点都不容易，他妈的多readings，他妈的image课老师以为我们只上一堂课总是要我们用两天完成他妈的多东西。老娘是完全没有时间啊fuck。
不知道这个是我的limit了，还是我还可以有进步的空间，还可以做比这个更多的。我希望是二者吧，至少在未来生活不会跌个狗吃屎。
Thursday, July 5, 2012
49 Things to do Before You Leave University
Squirrels
2. Have an epic karaoke night at your house using just YouTube, booze, and your natural star quality
Planning to do this after I move out from this house, LOL.
I did, and I won't do it again.
4. Hand in an essay early
Will try this semester, LOL.
5. Busk on campus for a charity (even if you have zero talent)
Uhh, this is quite challenging.
Language? Malay, Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese, bla bla bla.
7. Read a book that isn't study-related
Half way.
8. Hire a bike for a week and see how it works out for you
Planning to buy a bike
University of Windsor only has 2 libraries, so yea.
But I am not the driver.
11. Make your own booze
Ahhh, if financial available, LOL.
Kinda did it when school starts.
13. Have an incredibly elaborate picnic on a uni green space one lunch time
Something that I always want to do, even just lie on the grass and do nothing.
14. Sit in on a lecture that's completely out of your field, but that you've always been fascinated by
Philosophy or computer science.
Already fully occupied by societies.
Working in International Student Centre right now.
17. Turn up at a 9 am lecture along with all the other students dressed in your PJs and dressing gowns
Maybe..?
18. Go to the careers office and speak to them completely honestly - whatever your thoughts and fears, loves and hates...
What's the point? LOL
19. Go on a weekend country jaunt with friends - get as remote as possible
Pelee Island!
20. Start a conga at a big union night. See how long you can get it, before leading it as far from the music as possible (if you can get it to a house party or another club night, you can officially retire from doing stuff. Your work here is done)
Nay, this is stupid.
Visual arts student speaking here. End of year shows are mind-blowing!
22. Go to a play put on by the drama department or a uni society
Miss one last year, will try again this year.
23. Get involved in a play or some kind of performance (e.g. fashion show, etc.)
Someone actually asked me, I rejected LOL Will think about it again next time.
24. Visit all historical building and monuments in your town (including churches)
If I have a car LOL
Sober all the time
26. Swim in a fountain (campus if possible, town will do)
How about river?
27. Go paddling on a hot day
Would love to!
28. Hold your own Come Dine With Me with other student houses
Planning.
29. Take part in a protest
Missed one last semester LOL
30. Write in to the uni radio station or newspaper
No one really listens to CJAM though
31. Dress up! As a fictional character, an animal - anything
Halloween?
32. If you think a lecture was particularly good, try and instigate a standing ovation
Oh my, this need a lot of courage.
33. Do something – anything! – silly, for charity
Shinerama is the best start.
34. Give your parents a in depth tour of all the great stuff you do and love at University (It'll make for an amazing trip for them, and make them feel happy whenever they think of you at uni)
Yes, they are coming soon!
At Fantine's
36. Play an elaborate prank on a housemate
Poor Fantine LOL
Won a t-shirt
38. Make a kite and fly it
Okayyyy
39. Have an 80s montage house cleaning session, with appropriate outfits and music blaring
LOL WTF challenged accepted
40. Go on a blind date
Uh, through?
I am good at names.
42. Dye your hair
Thought of highlight them.
43. Sleep out under the stars
If weather allows
44. Make a movie starring your friends and your favourite places
Might be a project for one of the courses :P
45. Celebrate something by doing the classic shake up a bottle of champagne and spraying it all over yourself and everywhere (or at least do it with sparkling wine..!)
Ons!
India? Pakistan? Dubai? And the list goes on.
Bitch please, my uni is so small.
Applied and got accepted to be a mentor, will be having a mentee this coming fall :)
49. Learn a new sport or instrument or activity that you never thought you would
Would love to.
So I got 16/49, not that bad right so far? :)
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Summer
Finally got the chance to experience a foreign country's summer. Bright sunlight and heat are definitely something that I missed. However, summer in Canada is totally different with what we have in Malaysia. Why? Because is so friggin dry here! Imagine the warm wind, imagine the sunlight can actually hurt your skin. Therefore I would say summer in the North America is not friendly, however I am glad that I am able to stand it, some people just could not. Haha.
I think I did not mention it before, I just done with my summer term, took an art history class for intersession during the first month of summer. Intersession is like short sem in Malaysia, which is to finish 4 months study materials in 1 month. Very very intense, especially when you are taking course like art history. I need to memorize 70 paintings and architecture for final exam, as well as it's artist, period, culture, locations and 3 facts. But, I had fun!
Got Cameron Macdonell as my Renaissance to Modern art history professor. He is like a walking art history encyclopedia, he can answer almost every student's question, just way too awesome. After this course, I am finally can say that, I HATE MODERN ART. LOL. Before modern art, paintings are created upon request or for sale, right now, paintings are more like an expression of the artist itself, only the artist himself/herself understand what he/she is trying to convey. Which is, they do not give a fuck of the audience, and most importantly they are not aesthetically enjoyable. To be honest, I almost puke when I was reading Claude Monet's and Pablo Piccasso. *Great fans of art please don't kill me*
What art history changed me is that, I can now recognize paintings and some parts of architecture! Like while I was watching Monte Carlo yesterday night, when Selena Gomez and her friends visiting The Louvre, I almost shout out the name of the paintings I saw, like Raft of Medusa and Liberty Leading the People, omg. Insane. But, I love this feeling, haha.
However, I am glad that I am done, and I will not take Modern Art in the coming semester instead, Early Medieval or Northern Renaissance, yay.
On the other hand, I got an on-campus job, finally! Applied it through WISE, the job list for international students. LOL. Submitted the resume and went for the interview, the employers were quite impressed with the number of languages I am able to speak, yay for being Malaysian. So yea, right now I am working at the front desk of the International Student Centre. Answer questions to whoever comes in, assign them to see the right person for specific questions.
Besides that, I have been quite busy with AIESEC Windsor as well. Since the vice president of my portfolio, communications is in Toronto, another guy Kevin and me has been assigned as directors to look over the portfolio during the summer.
Therefore my title now is the Director of Public Awareness of AIESEC Windsor. LOL. But I am still doing the old stuff like social media and IT since I am not that leader-ish in anyway. LOL. And after the BoA meeting, I am started to think should I apply to be the vice president of communications or not. Because I have serious stage fright, nothing to do with language, just pure stage fright, I cannot talk to public, especially I know there are some high position people there.
I thought I got rid of this problem when I was in INTI because I do talked a lot, asked questions when having meetings or classes. Just weird though. However, back to the topic. I do not see anyone in communications will apply to be the vice president though except Kevin and me, or maybe Chantelle. Well, I still need to figure out which to go, either VP COM or go to an exchange in Italy to Turkey.
And right now we are doing a video project, it is going to be a general knowledge about AIESEC, for training purpose. Sometimes I just wish we have more serious members in AIESEC though. It feel sucks when you know you are working alone. It's like a solo cheerleader, cheer alone like a sohai. LOL.
So, what's up for the rest of summer? I don't really have plans yet. Will be going to Texas for 1 week though, few days trip and 3 days Tzu Chi Conference. Then parents are coming at the end of August, which I will be busy working and moving out from this room at that time. WHAT A GREAT TIMING. Hopefully everything will be fine at that time. :/
Especially the housing, it has been a fucking pain in the ass since January. Oh God, please help me this time, I just want to end this suffer.
Until now, I still not sure whether if staying in Windsor for the summer is a right decision or not. Yes I took a course, I got a job, and most importantly, I met you. But home is home, where people who truly loves me belong, where only good food exist! LOL.
I am still in the swirl pool, save me.
I think I did not mention it before, I just done with my summer term, took an art history class for intersession during the first month of summer. Intersession is like short sem in Malaysia, which is to finish 4 months study materials in 1 month. Very very intense, especially when you are taking course like art history. I need to memorize 70 paintings and architecture for final exam, as well as it's artist, period, culture, locations and 3 facts. But, I had fun!
Got Cameron Macdonell as my Renaissance to Modern art history professor. He is like a walking art history encyclopedia, he can answer almost every student's question, just way too awesome. After this course, I am finally can say that, I HATE MODERN ART. LOL. Before modern art, paintings are created upon request or for sale, right now, paintings are more like an expression of the artist itself, only the artist himself/herself understand what he/she is trying to convey. Which is, they do not give a fuck of the audience, and most importantly they are not aesthetically enjoyable. To be honest, I almost puke when I was reading Claude Monet's and Pablo Piccasso. *Great fans of art please don't kill me*
What art history changed me is that, I can now recognize paintings and some parts of architecture! Like while I was watching Monte Carlo yesterday night, when Selena Gomez and her friends visiting The Louvre, I almost shout out the name of the paintings I saw, like Raft of Medusa and Liberty Leading the People, omg. Insane. But, I love this feeling, haha.
However, I am glad that I am done, and I will not take Modern Art in the coming semester instead, Early Medieval or Northern Renaissance, yay.
On the other hand, I got an on-campus job, finally! Applied it through WISE, the job list for international students. LOL. Submitted the resume and went for the interview, the employers were quite impressed with the number of languages I am able to speak, yay for being Malaysian. So yea, right now I am working at the front desk of the International Student Centre. Answer questions to whoever comes in, assign them to see the right person for specific questions.
Besides that, I have been quite busy with AIESEC Windsor as well. Since the vice president of my portfolio, communications is in Toronto, another guy Kevin and me has been assigned as directors to look over the portfolio during the summer.
Therefore my title now is the Director of Public Awareness of AIESEC Windsor. LOL. But I am still doing the old stuff like social media and IT since I am not that leader-ish in anyway. LOL. And after the BoA meeting, I am started to think should I apply to be the vice president of communications or not. Because I have serious stage fright, nothing to do with language, just pure stage fright, I cannot talk to public, especially I know there are some high position people there.
I thought I got rid of this problem when I was in INTI because I do talked a lot, asked questions when having meetings or classes. Just weird though. However, back to the topic. I do not see anyone in communications will apply to be the vice president though except Kevin and me, or maybe Chantelle. Well, I still need to figure out which to go, either VP COM or go to an exchange in Italy to Turkey.
And right now we are doing a video project, it is going to be a general knowledge about AIESEC, for training purpose. Sometimes I just wish we have more serious members in AIESEC though. It feel sucks when you know you are working alone. It's like a solo cheerleader, cheer alone like a sohai. LOL.
So, what's up for the rest of summer? I don't really have plans yet. Will be going to Texas for 1 week though, few days trip and 3 days Tzu Chi Conference. Then parents are coming at the end of August, which I will be busy working and moving out from this room at that time. WHAT A GREAT TIMING. Hopefully everything will be fine at that time. :/
Especially the housing, it has been a fucking pain in the ass since January. Oh God, please help me this time, I just want to end this suffer.
Until now, I still not sure whether if staying in Windsor for the summer is a right decision or not. Yes I took a course, I got a job, and most importantly, I met you. But home is home, where people who truly loves me belong, where only good food exist! LOL.
I am still in the swirl pool, save me.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
一个人
一个人很好，不需要迁就，不需要忍受，不需要报告，不需要交代。从来就不喜欢有人24小时跟着我，不管是生活上还是在网上。
Monday, May 14, 2012
Winter Term 2012
I wanted to blog this once I got all my marks, apparently McCabe is as usual, SLOW. So, this post will be conclusion only as I covered most of the parts in HERE.
Academic
Finally got rid of FAW, although I did not get a decent grade but it's okay. I don't have to deal with English again. LOL What I am talking about, I have tons of research papers to write after this okay. WTF.
As for Introduction to Media and Society, I don't know is the professor problem or what, I got 50/50 for my finals. Therefore, I think I got A+ for this course but she haven't posted the marks yet so, WTF. However, to be honest I don't think I learned anything from this course, probably is the professor's problem. She is always not in situation and not prepared. Urgh. But thankfully I had her this term because I heard professor last semester is tough. So, good and bad? LOL
Media Literacy is still my favourite subject in Winter term, therefore I got an A- for this! Woohoo! I really hope there is an advanced class for it though because I think it is crucial to be media literate. People nowadays believe whatever they see. Like Facebook is an example, a picture of an incident happened few years ago can be told happened just second ago although is a totally different case happened in a very different location.
Not to forget studio classes! Got B+ for drawing but C for sculpture, WTF. I thought will be another way round since I don't do drawings :X I guess Zeke don't satisfied with my last metal project though. Hahahaha, so, this is my metal "dragon" with mustache, I know, should be whiskers, not mustache, I forgot why I told him mustache. FAIL. lol.
Academic
Finally got rid of FAW, although I did not get a decent grade but it's okay. I don't have to deal with English again. LOL What I am talking about, I have tons of research papers to write after this okay. WTF.
As for Introduction to Media and Society, I don't know is the professor problem or what, I got 50/50 for my finals. Therefore, I think I got A+ for this course but she haven't posted the marks yet so, WTF. However, to be honest I don't think I learned anything from this course, probably is the professor's problem. She is always not in situation and not prepared. Urgh. But thankfully I had her this term because I heard professor last semester is tough. So, good and bad? LOL
Media Literacy is still my favourite subject in Winter term, therefore I got an A- for this! Woohoo! I really hope there is an advanced class for it though because I think it is crucial to be media literate. People nowadays believe whatever they see. Like Facebook is an example, a picture of an incident happened few years ago can be told happened just second ago although is a totally different case happened in a very different location.
Not to forget studio classes! Got B+ for drawing but C for sculpture, WTF. I thought will be another way round since I don't do drawings :X I guess Zeke don't satisfied with my last metal project though. Hahahaha, so, this is my metal "dragon" with mustache, I know, should be whiskers, not mustache, I forgot why I told him mustache. FAIL. lol.
On the good side, he loved my cardbox camera though, everyone in the class loves it :P It is the only project in the class that can be moved. LOL. So proud :P
However, marks like these made me think of maybe I should really take drawing instead of sculpture again since I got marks like this. But but but drawing is so hard :( Or I should just drop Visual Arts instead. I don't know :|
Classmates
In communication classes like Intro to Media and Society and Media Literacy most of the time I just stick with Thao. Haha. Uhmm, got to know Sarah as well. While in studio classes, I met Yi Ru and Shallen in drawing, but still closer with Yi Ru. In sculpture, although most of the time I am solo but the 3 Chinese will automatically come close to me. And one of them happened to be one of my housemates, a total coincidence, no joke. And most importantly he speak Hokkien too! Haha.
Club/Activities
I am officially the IT Director of AIESEC Windsor and Associate Publication of V.I.S.A. Potentially graphic designer/webmaster for UNICEF, not sure yet. Might wanna sign up for Advice Guru as well, still thinking. LOL Sounds like I wanna kill myself with busy stuffs next semester huh. Did quite a lot stuff in AIESEC though, create posters, flyers, maintain websites, Facebook, Twitter, and just came back from a 5 days conference in Toronto. Will write a separate post about it :)
Friends
Didn't get to know many angmohs though in this semester. But got some long lasting friendships instead :) Like Fantine, YiRu, WeiHaoTian and his engineering gang, AIESEC people and etc :)
Food
Didn't complain as much as before already, got used to it already perhaps, But definitely still miss Malaysian food!
Friday, April 27, 2012
梦一场
不得不承认，来到了加拿大已经有234天了，我还是有那种在梦境的感觉。回想这里所发生的一切让我一直感觉好奇妙，有飘在空中的感觉。
我已经习惯这里的生活了吗？我心情稳定下来了吗？会不会有一天我会失去这个漂浮的感觉？
好梦幻，好梦幻。上着白人教授的课，和四周的人说英文，认识世界各地的人，真的是他-妈-的-好-不-真-实！DIU。
大学一（二）年级搞定了，从宿舍搬了出来，开始自己做饭，再也没有机会讲马来西亚华语，niama 这是什么感觉。一直都找不到适当的形容词来形容我现在的心境。
醒来啊醒来，黄颖诗，不要再做梦了。
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Pre-Final Syndrome
So, 2 research papers are down, 3 big drawings are done, left 1 metal assignment and 2 FAW II tasks. Oh yea, come one motivation, I still need you!
Both of my papers are like shit, hope both lecturers won't puke blood when reading them :D
Monday, March 19, 2012
Bring It On
Kinda lucky lately.
But more shits coming.
Research paper 1 down 1 more to go.
Finals: 27 days to go.
And Spring/Summer is here already!
Shorts mode; ON
But more shits coming.
Finals: 27 days to go.
And Spring/Summer is here already!
Shorts mode; ON
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Due dates!
1. FAW II due on 15th.
2. Media literacy paper due on 22nd.
3. Media and Society paper due on 26th.
4. Drawing Independent Project II on 26th as well.
5. Sculpture 4th assignment due on 2nd.
Another little things.
1. 2 meetings to attend tomorrow.
2. AIESEC Michigan St. Patty's Party on the 17th.
3. AIESEC Windsor GA on the 18th.
4. V.I.S.A volunteer recognition reception on 23rd.
5. Relay for life on 23rd as well.
2. Media literacy paper due on 22nd.
3. Media and Society paper due on 26th.
4. Drawing Independent Project II on 26th as well.
5. Sculpture 4th assignment due on 2nd.
Another little things.
1. 2 meetings to attend tomorrow.
2. AIESEC Michigan St. Patty's Party on the 17th.
3. AIESEC Windsor GA on the 18th.
4. V.I.S.A volunteer recognition reception on 23rd.
5. Relay for life on 23rd as well.
I AM GONNA DIE SOON.
p/s: Sorta deactivating my Facebook again, it's exactly 1 month before finals. I will only announce here because only readers here really care. LOL. Will be back to Facebook on the 17th of April.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Breakaway
Finally, one week of break is here. This week was really hectic, FAW II, drawings, sculpture, media and society, AIESEC, planning for Atlanta trip, and so many others which I can't remember right now. Thank God, most of them are done, and are supposed to be done in this week. Hopefully one week of my absence in Windsor will make things go better. People always screw things up, I tried my best not to, and yet, I failed. When I first came here I told myself, make it perfect, this is your dream after all, make sure no thing can let you down. Screwed housing, screwed friendship, I got what I deserve. Or maybe this is the sign that I have slacked too much? Because I feel very productive in this few weeks, stop spending cash, spent more time on studies, moved freely, in short, loner works perfect for me, just like back in INTI. I don't have to tell anyone where I am going to, what am I doing, what am I going to do, it is just, feeling awesome. I always consider myself as antisocial, I just feel uncomfortable to mix with people, especially with people that are not my kind. I can be very nice when you first met me, some people choose to ignore me when I am not their kind, or I am the one who will ignore them. Speaking of friendship, fate really matters, that's why I really appreciate the friendship between kamfa and DJDD group, they are people who know me well, tolerate me, understand me, support me all, the time. CRAPPPPP.
LOL I am running off from the topic, again.
So! This Atlanta trip is so gonna be awesome! Largest aquarium is the world! Museums! Georgia Tech! Emory! Coca-cola world! Will be visiting a lot of art centers, thanks to Ancient to Medieval and Dr. Giles, you have turned me to an art freak. LOL.
And yet, the annoying FAW II still as annoying as it supposed to be. Peer Review 2 is due on the Monday after the cam back! FML. Who ever invent FAW please go die, you are making people's life miserable! #babble #rant #lifeofanuwindsorstudent
LOL I am running off from the topic, again.
So! This Atlanta trip is so gonna be awesome! Largest aquarium is the world! Museums! Georgia Tech! Emory! Coca-cola world! Will be visiting a lot of art centers, thanks to Ancient to Medieval and Dr. Giles, you have turned me to an art freak. LOL.
And yet, the annoying FAW II still as annoying as it supposed to be. Peer Review 2 is due on the Monday after the cam back! FML. Who ever invent FAW please go die, you are making people's life miserable! #babble #rant #lifeofanuwindsorstudent
A reminder for myself to make sure I will do it when I come back, because I know I will definitely slack. LOL
Have a pleasant break, people!
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Just Because Artists Rock
Just the enlarged size of my camera button, imagine the full size :)
Valentine's Day doodles
Mushroom-accident from hot glue gun
Drawing in the room
What can you see? Complication or simplicity?
4 days to Atlanta, gonna finish these ASAP.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
GTFO FOBs
As predicted, sadly, I lost the house. Before this, everything was smooth, the house was awesome, the landlord was friendly, housemates were fine, everything seems just so good, like a dream. Yea now it really became a dream, a nightmare. Ever since we paid for the deposit, problems starts to hit on MY FACE. Yes, just mine, why? Because I am what they called leader of them, as known as their fucking translator. My future housemates are all from China, all of them still studying in English Language Improvement Program of the university. Our lease for the house is from May 2012 to May 2013 because I am staying here for summer, so does they. And then one of the guys decided not to rent the house anymore because his mum demanded him to go back for summer, while another guy, the friend of his does not want to stay too because his buddy is not staying. So I am asked to find another two person to replace them, the fuck, why me again. They give me the stupid reason that most of their friends, in ELIP are going back. You fucking kidding me? Does it mean you girls are going back as well? They replied me very ambiguously, and yesterday, one of them just called me and tell me that she cannot stay over here for summer because her dad might want her to go back to Shanghai. WHAT THE FUCK. I even paid for my last month rental already, bitch! I have no intention to tease these China people but they are really retarded. They think they are still in their country, things there does not work here you pathetic people. Even the landlord asked me why they hesitated to pay their last month rental, I told him directly because they think you are a cheater, he laughed, at their idiocy, so do I. In their eyes, lease agreement is nothing but receipt is more important, no matter how many times I told them, they just don't care at all. They didn't even read the lease! o0o
Another bitcher thing is, the stupid landlord doesn't care what shit hole I am in now, he asked me to find another 4 person myself no matter what, couldn't take back my last month rental as well. Fuck this shit. Posted ad on Kijiji hopefully people will reply, with who I am staying with, I have no choice anymore. But if I am given the chance, I DO NOT WANT TO STAYING WITH CHINA STUDENT. Not a chance. My mum also said that China people have personalities problem, because her so-called China sister is one of them, problematic, screwed her own marriage, stole my mum products and sell, brilliant huh.
Their mind set is so fucked up. With this kind of English level still dare to study abroad, oh no wait, they don't even wanna study, they come here to fucking spend their time and parents' money. You thought I got IELTS for 7.0 is easy? I am a born Chinese speaker like you guys as well, and to be honest I did not expect I will get a 7, I was expecting a 5 or something. And I even told myself if I failed IELTS I will to give up my dream to go to Canada, but here I am now, people saying my English is good, which I think I still need to improve, overcome the fear of speaking, I know some of them even don't to go class anymore. Please, you guys, if you have to many money to spend please give it to me, if you don't wanna study please get the fuck out from my eye sight. Also, don't ever call me a Malay again, I am a Malaysian Chinese, you bitches. Please go back your biggest population country and read more about this world. You guys are really ignorant, and pathetic.
Everyone know China is big, so what? Big country with mindless people? I can't see the future of it. People back in Malaysia who study in international school don't even act like you guys, although their too spend money like nobody business, but at least they study! They are not lifeless like you people.
From now on, I am not your translator, nanny anymore, don't care if you got fucked in the pub or cheated by kijiji sellers, these are non of my business anymore. You guys never appreciate my existence, just wanna get advantage from me, even I asked to accompany me to Dollarama you guys didnt give a fuck of it. It's done.
So readers, thanks for tolerate with my vulgar words, because I am really pissed. And I would like to ask you guys for a favor, please pray for me that I can settle this shit ASAP. Thank you.
死中国人，再叫我马来人你就等着被我剁吧 MCB.
Another bitcher thing is, the stupid landlord doesn't care what shit hole I am in now, he asked me to find another 4 person myself no matter what, couldn't take back my last month rental as well. Fuck this shit. Posted ad on Kijiji hopefully people will reply, with who I am staying with, I have no choice anymore. But if I am given the chance, I DO NOT WANT TO STAYING WITH CHINA STUDENT. Not a chance. My mum also said that China people have personalities problem, because her so-called China sister is one of them, problematic, screwed her own marriage, stole my mum products and sell, brilliant huh.
Their mind set is so fucked up. With this kind of English level still dare to study abroad, oh no wait, they don't even wanna study, they come here to fucking spend their time and parents' money. You thought I got IELTS for 7.0 is easy? I am a born Chinese speaker like you guys as well, and to be honest I did not expect I will get a 7, I was expecting a 5 or something. And I even told myself if I failed IELTS I will to give up my dream to go to Canada, but here I am now, people saying my English is good, which I think I still need to improve, overcome the fear of speaking, I know some of them even don't to go class anymore. Please, you guys, if you have to many money to spend please give it to me, if you don't wanna study please get the fuck out from my eye sight. Also, don't ever call me a Malay again, I am a Malaysian Chinese, you bitches. Please go back your biggest population country and read more about this world. You guys are really ignorant, and pathetic.
Everyone know China is big, so what? Big country with mindless people? I can't see the future of it. People back in Malaysia who study in international school don't even act like you guys, although their too spend money like nobody business, but at least they study! They are not lifeless like you people.
From now on, I am not your translator, nanny anymore, don't care if you got fucked in the pub or cheated by kijiji sellers, these are non of my business anymore. You guys never appreciate my existence, just wanna get advantage from me, even I asked to accompany me to Dollarama you guys didnt give a fuck of it. It's done.
So readers, thanks for tolerate with my vulgar words, because I am really pissed. And I would like to ask you guys for a favor, please pray for me that I can settle this shit ASAP. Thank you.
死中国人，再叫我马来人你就等着被我剁吧 MCB.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Winter Semester Week 4 Report
Have not been blogging for about 2 weeks already after the Thirsty Scholar's post, and I am still with a thing with Ryan! :P
So yea, I am taking 5 courses this semester, which is 15 credits in total. They are FAW II, Intro to Media and Society, Media Literacy, Studio Practice and Ideas/Space, and Studio Practice and Ideas/Drawing.
Foundations of Academic Writing II is just annoying as FAW I last semester, although it is online but the workload is crazy. Damn. Luckily this time is all about writing, less focus on grammar.
For Intro to Media and Society, to be honest, class have not really started yet. First class was the introduction, class expectation, bla bla stuff then second class supposed to have a presentation by someone from the library and then that person couldn't make it then the class was cancelled. This week in class talked something about media and stuffs. I think the professor is an American tho, the way she speaks is different with my other professors. And she looked too young to have a PhD! *salute* And she is darn skinny and fashionable! Wooooooo~ However, the bad news is, I need to write a research paper for this course #fml But the good thing is, I have so many companion in this class! Thao, Jakob, my RA-A Heidi, the China guy in my sculpture class, Sarah whom I just met today and the list goes on. LOL. So yea, hopefully this course will be easy :X
As for Media Literacy, I have to say. THIS IS MY FAVOURITE CLASS IN CANADA SO FAR! I have the same feeling towards Media Literacy like how I feel towards Computer Science in CPU and Philosophy in AUP! The professor is not the major reason, but the content, it is more like World Issues because we talked about Noam Chomsky, environmental issues, stuffs like that. The main thing about this course is to study those lies that media tell us. And most importantly, we will be going to have a chapter about DISNEY'S! Although is going to reveal the evil side of it but I am looking forward for it! Haha! And I have Thao again with me in this class! Wheeee~
Studio classes are pain in the ass, and purse at well! T.T Which makes me think of am I really suitable to Visual Arts. Studio Practice and Ideas/Space is sculpture class tho, most of us have no idea why is it called 'space'. LOL. Sculpture class is quite fun tho, the lecturer is indeed an artist, as in his characteristic-weird, haha! I kind of enjoyed the first assignment, except for walked 45mins just to get a light bulb. Why light bulb? Because our first assignment is to create an ugly lamp out of a lamp. Got a free lamp from Bethany because I have no idea where to get a lamp, couldn't afford to buy a new one because all of them are damn expensive and those secondhand stores are so far away :/ Don't feel like show you guys my sketch of the original lamp, instead I show the parts of it :P
And, I NEED MONEY! Went to Eros, BimbimToGo, Seoul Windsor, HingLung, etc to ask if they need people or not. Apparently only HingLung called back, but my schedule doesn't allow, gahhhh gonna put all the hope on BimbimToGo as the lady said she need people on February! :D Not that I have no money in account, just that I feel bad to withdraw them :/
FINALLY! I AM GOING TO ATLANTA FOR READING WEEK! Jealous? :P I am going with Fantine, a girl I met in AIESEC, migrated to Canada from China since she is 8, wheeeee~
SO YEAAAA, THAT'S ALL FOR THE FIRST MONTH OF WINTER SEMESTER!
A 'good' start!
AcademicSo yea, I am taking 5 courses this semester, which is 15 credits in total. They are FAW II, Intro to Media and Society, Media Literacy, Studio Practice and Ideas/Space, and Studio Practice and Ideas/Drawing.
Foundations of Academic Writing II is just annoying as FAW I last semester, although it is online but the workload is crazy. Damn. Luckily this time is all about writing, less focus on grammar.
For Intro to Media and Society, to be honest, class have not really started yet. First class was the introduction, class expectation, bla bla stuff then second class supposed to have a presentation by someone from the library and then that person couldn't make it then the class was cancelled. This week in class talked something about media and stuffs. I think the professor is an American tho, the way she speaks is different with my other professors. And she looked too young to have a PhD! *salute* And she is darn skinny and fashionable! Wooooooo~ However, the bad news is, I need to write a research paper for this course #fml But the good thing is, I have so many companion in this class! Thao, Jakob, my RA-A Heidi, the China guy in my sculpture class, Sarah whom I just met today and the list goes on. LOL. So yea, hopefully this course will be easy :X
As for Media Literacy, I have to say. THIS IS MY FAVOURITE CLASS IN CANADA SO FAR! I have the same feeling towards Media Literacy like how I feel towards Computer Science in CPU and Philosophy in AUP! The professor is not the major reason, but the content, it is more like World Issues because we talked about Noam Chomsky, environmental issues, stuffs like that. The main thing about this course is to study those lies that media tell us. And most importantly, we will be going to have a chapter about DISNEY'S! Although is going to reveal the evil side of it but I am looking forward for it! Haha! And I have Thao again with me in this class! Wheeee~
Studio classes are pain in the ass, and purse at well! T.T Which makes me think of am I really suitable to Visual Arts. Studio Practice and Ideas/Space is sculpture class tho, most of us have no idea why is it called 'space'. LOL. Sculpture class is quite fun tho, the lecturer is indeed an artist, as in his characteristic-weird, haha! I kind of enjoyed the first assignment, except for walked 45mins just to get a light bulb. Why light bulb? Because our first assignment is to create an ugly lamp out of a lamp. Got a free lamp from Bethany because I have no idea where to get a lamp, couldn't afford to buy a new one because all of them are damn expensive and those secondhand stores are so far away :/ Don't feel like show you guys my sketch of the original lamp, instead I show the parts of it :P
Parts of the lamp
Sketch for idea.
Outcome.
The light bulb for the lamp is not typical one though, which caused me a lot of trouble. It is a biax, then I blasted it because I removed the ballast from the original, I know shit about those voltage and power stuff. Then paid visit to Zeller and Canadian Tire, zero result for a biax light bulb because Canadian normally use incandescent light bulb, part of the reason is Canadian Tire sell it for friggin $15 just for one. Emo-ed for few days then found a hardware store that sells biax light bulb, and cheaper too!But the place is located at 45mins of walking distance from my residence. Why I decided to walk but take public transportation or cab? First, I am uncertain with the bus route, and bus ticket for back and forth is friggin expensive :/ But still, I took a cab back to school because it is really far! Plus snows on the ground make it unpleasant to walk on it :/ In the end, the light bulb still dies off 1 day after the installation in SoVa Gallery! LOL. Not sure what grade I will get for this, hopefully is not a C because I saw a C on the lecturer's notebook O.o
One of the lamps, epic right?
Working on the lamp.
Lastly, DRAWING! It is exactly what I expected! Lots of drawing pros in the class and I am the worst! T.T And the first day was suck, I have to carry all these back to my room, and spent $100 for all these shits!
SHITS.
The cardboard height is until my armpit, and the 2 mill boards is darn heavy, I had hard time carrying them from LeBel Building back to the residence. I was like walked for few steps, stopped to adjust the position of the cardboard because it kept slipping down, and also wind that day was damn strong! It blown the cardboard fold into half, which saved my work because I need to fold it into half and tape the edges to make it a folder. DAMN. For the first month, alll we do is just draw lines, consist of squares, cubes, spheres, bla bla bla, by using pencil, she likes to call it graphite, charcoal and sharpie marker. On Wednesday class, she introduced the first independent project, which is to draw the psychological self. DAMN. I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT TO DRAW. I KNOW SHIT ABOUT MYSELF. AND I AM SO GONNA FAIL THIS FREAKING STUDIO. o0o
Forced to sketch a lot.
Don't expect me to post my sketches online, I don't want my readers die because of this! Haha! No la, in fact I feel inferior =.= When you have people like Debra, Chantel, Elliot, XiaoYing on Facebook posting their so called 'simply' sketches, you will go 'why in the hell you can't draw?!' then stabbing yourself in mind for a million time. Okay la, I just don't want to embarrass myself =________= I am a pro in digital arts not fine arts okay? #mukatebal
Clubs/Social
Finally got a position in AIESEC! As a web manager! Hohohohoho!
First task of the position-flyer!
And they have a Business and Technology conference in Toronto soon, not sure if I want to go or not, cost is the thing in mind, secondly, I-don't-know, just feel awkward to step in Toronto again :X But I am looking forward for National Congress tho, but don't know when yet! :P
Attended the residence Winter Formal. Reason why I want to go because I want to experience the high school prom feel, as what they describe it on their posters. LOL.
Rome theme.
I was wearing Kira's dress, don't even bother to buy dress.
The event was BORING! No entertainment, no performances, NOTHING! But terrific food tho, especially the dessert!
Wearing like this in the weather of -5 degree Celsius. Couldn't feel my toes at all that time, haha!
Also, don't know why I missed all the VISA meeting, LOL, but I am joining their tubing trip at London! LOOKING FORWARD FOR IT! Besides, I applied to become a committee of UNICEF in Windsor, don't know if I should go to the interview or not because I foresee that AIESEC and those studio stuffs gonna kill me soon.
Random/Others
Kinda settled the housing for next semester? Still dealing with the housemates problems and the possibility of might get cheated because the landlord did not pick up his fucking phone since the day he collected our $100 each for deposit. Promised to meet up this Saturday for pay for last month and discuss the remaining problems, hopefully he is not a jerk. #prayhard
346 Askin
The location is perfect! 3 mins away from university, close to shops! But longer time to reach Lebel, sad art student's life. And everything is included, except internet. The best part is, no one has to live in the basement! COOLEST!
PLEASE, I REALLY WANT TO STAY IN THIS HOUSE, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! BAD THINGS PLEASE DON'T HAPPEN.
Windsor finally snowed! FINALLY!
Unknown sock and shirt in my laundry bag, creepy.
FINALLY! I AM GOING TO ATLANTA FOR READING WEEK! Jealous? :P I am going with Fantine, a girl I met in AIESEC, migrated to Canada from China since she is 8, wheeeee~
SO YEAAAA, THAT'S ALL FOR THE FIRST MONTH OF WINTER SEMESTER!
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