Another day getting heaps of things done.
Yes. Finished that massive amount of readings for a course but I get to start another course's readings tomorrow when I come back from Chatswood =3=
Yes to taking notes from next lecture and fully preparing for the tut. Also done some extra research for some media terms. Don't ask me to explain what they are now though~
And thank god, I don't need to be waking up early tomorrow as all the materials including the homework for that kid is all done by this afternoon.
The only thing I can't get it done by tonight is that discussion post for my online course. Reading some of my online group member's posts have given me so much stress, mind you this is only the first week to start posting our opinions towards the questions from the lecture...=3=
Oh and happy birthday to fatty....I am sorry that I forgot about it til you called us tonight. But I wish you to have a good health, and stay happy and safe throughout this year...I mish you!!!
Saturday, 15 March 2014
Friday, 14 March 2014
Busy brothers (14th of March)
I swear I wasn't late for this orientation day since it says it would be starting at sharp 9am. I finally got to see the busy Thai brothers at AIT this time lol I meant it was Game who greeted me on FB first saying that he saw me when we were all lining up to go into a computer room. Since the room is too small to accommodate all of us. We had to wait for another one hour there. Hence Game, Kael and I were all sitting outside to talk for a bit. Game, the one that loves games, wanted to drag me into games so he showed me how to play this game called hmmmm cookie something. Later he left his phone for me to play that game for a few times. I knew that Kael was bored checking out posters hanging on the wall. I have no idea since when he has gone this quiet. Most of the time Game and I were having fun teasing each other, even in the beginning it was him who asked me to go for AIT and drop out uni lol ok...it was just a joke. It's my third year man, I have to do it. But yeah, guess I have became really tanned. Even Kael was wondering if I have gone to the beach these days =3= Kael is such a nocturnal one. There is this fact that he doesn't really go to sleep. He still looks the same even though he only slept for 2 hours per day. He does love to use this quote 'sleeping is only for the weak' to laugh at me whenever I say something such as I am tired, I need to sleep at the minimum of 5 or 6 hours etc. I mean, come on man...how can you not feel sleepy after you only have taken 2 hours to sleep every night. He then said 'I am just too used to this lifestyle for so many years as I am god damn busy.'
Anyways, Game and I were having a good time talking at the office when we were signing for the confirmation sheets. The fun part was just that discussion about how to balance time and money. After we came back, there was this big guy introduced us to the new products called Cintiq and something else that I can't recall the name...I don't think I'd ever need it for my filmmaking courses, but Kael and Game, on the other hand, they need to train themselves as good artists. And Kael was thinking of getting one of those medium sized one. After we finally got into that computer room at 11-ish. we tried to create our new password for our account and were taught how to go on our AIT official website to check the materials, timetable or any other resources we would need for the courses. Once three of us saw our timetables, we tried to look for any matching classes or breaks together. Unfortunately quite a few classes of mine are clashed with my uni classes, and I wasn't really complaining about the amount of time I have to spend at AIT but it was such a frustration to manage two timetables at the same time. Kael mistakenly thought I was complaining, he then *pats pats* 'stop complaining, just do it'....=3=
Anyways...His brother left us afterwards, as he had to go somewhere to meet up with his friend. Kael asked me what I wanted to eat, I was joking about I wanted to eat Thai food, but he took it seriously, and led me to a Thai restaurant in Capitol. >.> I asked him to order one of their famous thai dishes for me. Tom yum soup was the one I had. Even though I have asked him to tell them not to add too much spices, my forehead was gone all sweaty and my cheeks were reddened. I assumed there is no such thing as mildly spicy for Thai dishes=.= He seems like he does know so much in creative industries as he could name most of the roles and accurately told me what each of them does. Definitely he has done so much research and preparation for his future career. Unlike me, I am not even sure what particular field I want to get in because he has recommended me to look for my own resources for graphic design etc from the way I described what I really want to do. He doesn't smile much most of the time, it was just me who has been trying to make our conversation less awkward as it was getting too overwhelmingly serious at times. We headed to paddy's market and looked around for only 10 minutes or less because he understands me too well...I said I didn't really mind walking around there yet I did mean I didn't want to spend much time. The next minute, he didn't say anything but asked me to go upstairs and said 'lool I know you too well, I know you mind each and everytime when you say you don't' Anyways, he led me to some anime shops and asked me to guess the prices of some anime figures. After knowing he'd be opening his own shop online soon by investing a large amount of money to import some anime figure from overseas, I didn't say much. As strong as I know he is, he doesn't need any luck nor fun to do one thing, he said to me 'This is just a part of life, an experience to do something that you think you need to.' I seriously feel so trivial compare to someone like him who sees everything as nothing, and nothing as everything, to the point that he doesn't mind the fact that having lack of sleep will shorten his life expectancy, resulting in death in early age. Yet he isn't showing a negative attitude here, his comeback was too articulated to be judged when I questioned him why he has never thought about living with his family longer. He said 'If you have been treating them nice enough and been always happy with them all these 23 years. The length of life doesn't really mean much, they either die before or after you at the end anyway'
Ahhh and as he knows, I've been picky towards so many things. Though partially I was trying to make fun of him and keeping our conversation more relaxed, he did know I meant it when I asked him to go to a more quiet place to talk. And sitting on the couch in the cafe will make me fall asleep; studying with someone won't get me any productivity because he said he wanted to come back to that cafe during breaks; also when he said designing apps will earn so much, and asked me to think about change my specialisation to app instead of film, I then said to him 'I want to be rich but I don't want to be that rich because it will only give me an insecure feeling'. He goes....=3= Asking if he was sleepy from how often he yawned, he kept saying no. 'See see see I told you, you are sleepy :3' He said 'My body is sleepy but my mind is not lol' But he's also mean to laugh at me stealing his drink. 'Last chance...You sure you don't want it? lassstttttttt chanceeeee...' Saying that while shaking his drink in front of me=.= So I took it from him, had a sip and gave it back to him>.>
I guess it was too late for me to do some work after I came back. Oh and panpan does need more rest. It's better for him to stay home in these two days...
Anyways, Game and I were having a good time talking at the office when we were signing for the confirmation sheets. The fun part was just that discussion about how to balance time and money. After we came back, there was this big guy introduced us to the new products called Cintiq and something else that I can't recall the name...I don't think I'd ever need it for my filmmaking courses, but Kael and Game, on the other hand, they need to train themselves as good artists. And Kael was thinking of getting one of those medium sized one. After we finally got into that computer room at 11-ish. we tried to create our new password for our account and were taught how to go on our AIT official website to check the materials, timetable or any other resources we would need for the courses. Once three of us saw our timetables, we tried to look for any matching classes or breaks together. Unfortunately quite a few classes of mine are clashed with my uni classes, and I wasn't really complaining about the amount of time I have to spend at AIT but it was such a frustration to manage two timetables at the same time. Kael mistakenly thought I was complaining, he then *pats pats* 'stop complaining, just do it'....=3=
Anyways...His brother left us afterwards, as he had to go somewhere to meet up with his friend. Kael asked me what I wanted to eat, I was joking about I wanted to eat Thai food, but he took it seriously, and led me to a Thai restaurant in Capitol. >.> I asked him to order one of their famous thai dishes for me. Tom yum soup was the one I had. Even though I have asked him to tell them not to add too much spices, my forehead was gone all sweaty and my cheeks were reddened. I assumed there is no such thing as mildly spicy for Thai dishes=.= He seems like he does know so much in creative industries as he could name most of the roles and accurately told me what each of them does. Definitely he has done so much research and preparation for his future career. Unlike me, I am not even sure what particular field I want to get in because he has recommended me to look for my own resources for graphic design etc from the way I described what I really want to do. He doesn't smile much most of the time, it was just me who has been trying to make our conversation less awkward as it was getting too overwhelmingly serious at times. We headed to paddy's market and looked around for only 10 minutes or less because he understands me too well...I said I didn't really mind walking around there yet I did mean I didn't want to spend much time. The next minute, he didn't say anything but asked me to go upstairs and said 'lool I know you too well, I know you mind each and everytime when you say you don't' Anyways, he led me to some anime shops and asked me to guess the prices of some anime figures. After knowing he'd be opening his own shop online soon by investing a large amount of money to import some anime figure from overseas, I didn't say much. As strong as I know he is, he doesn't need any luck nor fun to do one thing, he said to me 'This is just a part of life, an experience to do something that you think you need to.' I seriously feel so trivial compare to someone like him who sees everything as nothing, and nothing as everything, to the point that he doesn't mind the fact that having lack of sleep will shorten his life expectancy, resulting in death in early age. Yet he isn't showing a negative attitude here, his comeback was too articulated to be judged when I questioned him why he has never thought about living with his family longer. He said 'If you have been treating them nice enough and been always happy with them all these 23 years. The length of life doesn't really mean much, they either die before or after you at the end anyway'
Ahhh and as he knows, I've been picky towards so many things. Though partially I was trying to make fun of him and keeping our conversation more relaxed, he did know I meant it when I asked him to go to a more quiet place to talk. And sitting on the couch in the cafe will make me fall asleep; studying with someone won't get me any productivity because he said he wanted to come back to that cafe during breaks; also when he said designing apps will earn so much, and asked me to think about change my specialisation to app instead of film, I then said to him 'I want to be rich but I don't want to be that rich because it will only give me an insecure feeling'. He goes....=3= Asking if he was sleepy from how often he yawned, he kept saying no. 'See see see I told you, you are sleepy :3' He said 'My body is sleepy but my mind is not lol' But he's also mean to laugh at me stealing his drink. 'Last chance...You sure you don't want it? lassstttttttt chanceeeee...' Saying that while shaking his drink in front of me=.= So I took it from him, had a sip and gave it back to him>.>
I guess it was too late for me to do some work after I came back. Oh and panpan does need more rest. It's better for him to stay home in these two days...
Thursday, 13 March 2014
Productivity (13th of March)
A lot of things are done in just one day. I got to finish my Jap homework for next week so that I can spare much more time to study for my other courses. Also I have went through everything that I needed to read for my online course, the lectures and links offered by the lecturer are all quite useful. I didn't get to finish my tutorial discussion post though. After I have read everyone's post, I decided to start my own opinion there, not a comment that is to disagree with somebody else's post, but just my own opinion according to the question provided. And I finally got to finish some blog posts here....lol
LOL...the fatty from oversea said that he couldn't call my phone for some reason. I seriously have no idea what happens to my new phone. At the same time, the problem occurs on mum's iPhone in which she still can't get connected to our wifi. It keeps on saying I have typed the wrong password. Technologies are troublesome :/
Btw somebody is still really sick yet he can't cancel his shift tomorrow. He should get more rest... You have to get well soon or else you can't work and study well!!!!
Lastly, looking forward to going AIT tomorrow for my photo ID and my timetable...night...
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Tut and Seminarssssssssss(12th of March)
Long story short :)
My first tut was awesome. I was observing who could be my best partner before I went into that class. Then a brownish girl (nationality unknown) who came and sat next to me before the classes started. Yup...My first friend ever in this semester lool Her name is Kiah. She told me that she has learnt French before, and she's also the third year here. Our tut was quite lively. Fukui Sensei is as funny as the lecturer who knows how to get the whole class to participate. Our small table was one of the noisiest because there was this filo girl acting so funny all the time. Her friend Daniel, and another Daniel who seems quite active to answer the all the questions given. I saw this big guy who was sitting next to me in the lecture the day before and now, he's also in my tut. The tutor was trying to correct his pronounciation when he said shitsureshimasu because the way he said was so cute. haha
My media seminar was not bad. Our lecturer, is also our tutor who seems quite nice. I remember I complained quite a bit of his outline which consists 60+ pages. But as I have experienced the way he taught us today, I think he's right, this course does require for a super long outline for a reason. The speed dating thing was meant to make friend with some new people and explore the terms/ concepts etc the readings and lectures have mentioned. However, most of the people ended up having a random conversation knowing each other first when both of them had no idea what the concept is about. There was this guy told me that he skipped lecture for a beach party on Monday; another guy who is doing his journalism degree asked me to transfer to something else as media, is a boring course to study. He sees every lecture is the same. My friend Casey (to be precise, my friend Shabrina's friend) who was in the same tut with me last year is also in this tut. As we sort of know each other, we had a good time talking to each other during speed dating. The mind mapping thing was the last thing we were assigned to do in this tut. Andrew, the tutor asked us to illustrate how we, each individual think about how media has changed the social and cultural patterns nowadays in relation to the theories we have learned so far. Then we needed to compare the similarities between these two mind maps, and to conclude what you have found from there. I was asked to explain because he saw my mind map goes quite complicated on the paper I have written. That moment when you thought that you wouldn't be picked to give a response, but he just approached you, his eyes were looking at you to expect a response from you. I felt perplexed for a second as he asked me if I am Yisha. Like what? You know who I am by only taking the roll once? Are you a form of surveillance at the back channel or something? Yes he is, he told us that he could see who has visited the media course at Moodle the most. Maybe I was one of the people that frequently go for a visit to check my outline, assessments and all that. Anyways, I had a glance at my paper, and gave him a response based on what I thought about 'media', this term means to me in a way that it totally has changed the way I connect with people both physically and technologically.
The last seminar I went was the 4pm one. I was at the same table with this beautiful ABC Jessie, this white guy Kai and a cute girl Natalie. Kai was partnered with me to practice our dialogs in Jap. We've learned how to bow when we greeted each other in different contexts. Speaking fluently in Jap is our goal in seminar so the tutor and the supporters who are also Japanese kept encouraging us to speak Jap as much as we can in the class. The ones who were late to the class had to say okuretesumimasen (sorry, I am late) before they came in. Same as to goodbye when we had to leave the class. It has given us every opportunity to improve which we enjoyed the most out of it in that 2 hours so we couldn't even feel that we had for that long.
So yeah...good time good time...except that I spent 2 hours to get home today after uni...I got on my bus at 6:30-ish but couldn't get home til 8:10-ish because traffic jam was happening in the city in that one hour. All the passengers were stuck on the bus blabbering how long it took us to get back to Central while I had my 40 minutes of nap nap time there lool
My first tut was awesome. I was observing who could be my best partner before I went into that class. Then a brownish girl (nationality unknown) who came and sat next to me before the classes started. Yup...My first friend ever in this semester lool Her name is Kiah. She told me that she has learnt French before, and she's also the third year here. Our tut was quite lively. Fukui Sensei is as funny as the lecturer who knows how to get the whole class to participate. Our small table was one of the noisiest because there was this filo girl acting so funny all the time. Her friend Daniel, and another Daniel who seems quite active to answer the all the questions given. I saw this big guy who was sitting next to me in the lecture the day before and now, he's also in my tut. The tutor was trying to correct his pronounciation when he said shitsureshimasu because the way he said was so cute. haha
My media seminar was not bad. Our lecturer, is also our tutor who seems quite nice. I remember I complained quite a bit of his outline which consists 60+ pages. But as I have experienced the way he taught us today, I think he's right, this course does require for a super long outline for a reason. The speed dating thing was meant to make friend with some new people and explore the terms/ concepts etc the readings and lectures have mentioned. However, most of the people ended up having a random conversation knowing each other first when both of them had no idea what the concept is about. There was this guy told me that he skipped lecture for a beach party on Monday; another guy who is doing his journalism degree asked me to transfer to something else as media, is a boring course to study. He sees every lecture is the same. My friend Casey (to be precise, my friend Shabrina's friend) who was in the same tut with me last year is also in this tut. As we sort of know each other, we had a good time talking to each other during speed dating. The mind mapping thing was the last thing we were assigned to do in this tut. Andrew, the tutor asked us to illustrate how we, each individual think about how media has changed the social and cultural patterns nowadays in relation to the theories we have learned so far. Then we needed to compare the similarities between these two mind maps, and to conclude what you have found from there. I was asked to explain because he saw my mind map goes quite complicated on the paper I have written. That moment when you thought that you wouldn't be picked to give a response, but he just approached you, his eyes were looking at you to expect a response from you. I felt perplexed for a second as he asked me if I am Yisha. Like what? You know who I am by only taking the roll once? Are you a form of surveillance at the back channel or something? Yes he is, he told us that he could see who has visited the media course at Moodle the most. Maybe I was one of the people that frequently go for a visit to check my outline, assessments and all that. Anyways, I had a glance at my paper, and gave him a response based on what I thought about 'media', this term means to me in a way that it totally has changed the way I connect with people both physically and technologically.
The last seminar I went was the 4pm one. I was at the same table with this beautiful ABC Jessie, this white guy Kai and a cute girl Natalie. Kai was partnered with me to practice our dialogs in Jap. We've learned how to bow when we greeted each other in different contexts. Speaking fluently in Jap is our goal in seminar so the tutor and the supporters who are also Japanese kept encouraging us to speak Jap as much as we can in the class. The ones who were late to the class had to say okuretesumimasen (sorry, I am late) before they came in. Same as to goodbye when we had to leave the class. It has given us every opportunity to improve which we enjoyed the most out of it in that 2 hours so we couldn't even feel that we had for that long.
So yeah...good time good time...except that I spent 2 hours to get home today after uni...I got on my bus at 6:30-ish but couldn't get home til 8:10-ish because traffic jam was happening in the city in that one hour. All the passengers were stuck on the bus blabbering how long it took us to get back to Central while I had my 40 minutes of nap nap time there lool
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
Time. Lost. (11th of March)
I went all confused after I got 4 different medicines for both her and I. And no, we are not that sick. It's just that we need to be even healthier although some are seemed to be small problems, but they might turn into big issues if you do nothing right? Who knows.
My day has been good :3 I feel really happy seeing this girl has grown up like his father who passed away 8 years ago. She's just as bright as his dad who loved to have his adventurous life with the animals. Even though by now she's 15 years old, unlike other rebellious teenagers, she's a really caring one, sounds quite intelligent from the way she talks, and has an attractive big smile just like her dad. I love when she said she should be continue on her father's passion and be happy each day, because she might not wake up the next morning, and that she will be gone forever. Nobody knows what will happen to a person...Something she said was so moved as well, 'Losing somebody can never be easier as time goes by, because everytime I open my eyes, I still miss my dad so much, he's always been there in my heart and my soul' She really does resonate with me, my thought, and my experience. But to everybody else who can read this post, who has never lost anyone important in his life?
This is just what life is. It's cruelty that makes you realise how much a person means to you...
Monday, 10 March 2014
Shocking news of the missing jet (10th of March)
When I was watching the video reflecting the earthquake that happened in Japan in 2011 during my first lecture, I was with a somber expression seeing how badly a city has destroyed by this natural disaster. Everyone was quiet when the lecturer showed us a slide she made, and hoping us to pray for the survivors and their relatives who are now still experiencing a tough time brought by the previous disaster. She has established this fundraising Bento stall this Wednesday, and asking us to be voluntarily helping her out to sell more Bento, hence to send the funds back to Japan. Not to mention that I found out there was another accident happened on Saturday, 2 days ago, the flight was supposed to reach its destination Beijing, but mysteriously lost contact with the ground control after 2pm. It is not found for more than 50 hours by now. There are 200+ passengers on board. FBI was involved to investigate where the flight went too. Reading the forum of this desperate search for this missing jet, I absolutely feel how worried their families and friends are because I can relate to that. I can't imagine how I'd feel if there is anyone I know is also on board and he/she is being missing for 50+ hours, I only hope that there will be some good signs showing some people are still survived from the updated news...Please pray for them...
Sunday, 9 March 2014
Le 2 hours (9th of March)
I was late for 5 minutes due to the trackwork today. As soon as I saw him getting down to open the door for me, I apologized for being late. He was like mehhhh...don't worry man, I was hoping if you could come a bit later since I haven't had my breakfast yet...>.> So I was waiting for him to finish his breakfast after I got into his house....He was OK-ish today except that he was distracted for a few times when his friend buzzed him down there, he then got shouted at by his mum because of that. Interruption, yes, really...He just asked me to wait a sec, and walked out of the room. I didn't know how long he'd take to talk to his friend if his mum didn't stop him. It was really a bad idea to know that his friend was waiting for him down there to play handball after the tutoring only started 15 minutes ago=.= I did realise how hard to get back his attention for this lesson immediately, so I didn't even give a shit for anything he said. Instead, I acted damn serious, asking him to do the most difficult exercise first to torture him. Normally I will start with some simple questions and slowly move to the hard ones, but I was being so harsh today in order to teach him a lesson of how to respect me, a tutor at the very least. He had his frustrating moment to the max thinking about how to get everything correct because I tried to annoy the shit out of him by fixing his recurring mistakes and testing him again and again until he got everything right. He kept saying he hates me so much. I thanked his hatred like a boss, replied with I hate him more. I was happy that he was tamed like a little lamb being so obedient throughout the second hour. He didn't talk much but follow what I asked him to do. Although there were several times when he seemed like he wanted to give up doing them, I used my own example to inspire him. And I guess that I have done a right thing. Nobody can truly feel how something is unless you have experienced it, and I have. Letting a kid know how he has to confront a problem is hard, really hard. The hardest part is, you say something that you think he'd understand what you mean by that, his lack of experience won't take your words seriously. So I had to use a simple example of my own to make that connection of what he called himself as 'dumbass not being able to do this and that, not good at anything in English'. His silent nod nod made me smile a bit because most of the time, he will either look elsewhere or tell me something else. I also think that his mum has just worried too much, but I am not saying it's not right. Having high expectation is necessary for every parent, but wanting a naughty kid to understand the importance of education is a tiring task. Even I feel so tired for his mum everytime when I tutor her son lol
PS: Ahhh....Can anyone tell me how to get rid of fatigue? I seriously do not want to be tired and shleepy easily=.= I need my time to do early workout and jog...I need more time to do a lot of things....and I don't want to be underestimated by her....
PS: Ahhh....Can anyone tell me how to get rid of fatigue? I seriously do not want to be tired and shleepy easily=.= I need my time to do early workout and jog...I need more time to do a lot of things....and I don't want to be underestimated by her....
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