September 30, 2007

superb?

Eating at Ananda Bhavan was good! Food and service was real good. but i forgot to take pixies... haha.. i was eating too much.. and New zealand natural at 30% today is darn niceeee.. making this the wonderful weekend in this semester.

Going out with wondergirlMei was good. And to look for what path of life to go is so difficult. while she is working and having fun at her intern so much, i wonder what will my path of study lead me to. A fun, wonderful life? Living a naive life? i dunno which path to take.. Remember Robert Frost poem we used to study in School, The Road NotTaken.. Two road diverged... bla..bla.. bla.. and he choose the road less taken... should i or should i not take the road which less ppl are taking? i really dunno. There is so much life has to offer and i seriously dunno which kind of life i want. I yearn to backpacked around the world all this while. Doing things which are going to challenge my limitations but then again i have my family to care about and i cant be too selfish, can i.. sigh.. but life is too short to not taking any risk. I would risk anything to travel around the world. and when i was young, i used to have the girly talk with wondergirlMei that we would retire by the time we hit our big 3-0. We would be laughing our ass off doing things others wont do. Opening our own boutique and learing how to sew... we seat in borders, going around books be4 giving up but deep inside us, we still wana learn.. Boutique is still our dreams... after all, girls just wanna have fun!!!

I set my self short and long term goals... but things happen and goals will change as well.. For now, i will conc on exams and review my goals later.

September 29, 2007

Happy and Contented








I had a marvellous day off with glorius food and bought myself one top and bottom. So happy!!!!
I did not go shopping for a long time d.. and on a tight budget i am, i managed to eat and still make myself happi-er.thanks so smartassCL.
Next up is lunch with wondergirlMei who i have not seen for months. Due to my busy-ness and her internship in Intel(busy with her life as an engineer-to-be) we are meeting up for GOOD tomoro. I miss you much!!! =)
After i am happy and done with my sweet sweet weekend, october is going to be sweeter!!! ahaha.
Next week, i am going to start my new resolution. To complete my notes for YKT 211 and 214. Plan out my study time and have lots of fun while i am studying. I am not prolly be like a bookworm studying the whole time.
So, i shall managed my time went and study to the max i could.
I screw up all my assignments as i think what i have done for all my subjects this semester are like a piece of crappy assignments. with things done last minute, aint i going to produce a good piece of GOOD assignments rite? like what Pn Wang said last Thurs in class, "you all are going to receive a preset from me after Hari Raya" of course la this means a not so good grade for the coursework.
So, to make up for my badness in assignments, i need to work hard for my finals. so my mum wont nagged me for being a lazy ass. She view me as a lazy person as i alwiz sleep past over noon and still wouldnt get myself out of the bed while she is till busy doing the daily chores.
Exams starts on 29th Oct till 10th Nov. And then i have ONE month break be4 sem2 starts. I am not going to work for this one month. Me is going to ENJOY! Fr 9dec till 13 Dec, my Holiday is confirm but destination will only be reveal here once i post the holiday trip here. hehe.
I will end my post here and till i write again next week. with post of Monday lecture on YKT 214. Tek Komunikasi dan Pendidikan.
Happy a Nice Weekend! =)

September 26, 2007

Hectic life but still coping well...

The month of september has been filled with many things to do.. mainly assignments, assignments and assignments. Well, last weekend was not.. was on Freedom Film Festival, thought of pulling out as a volunteer at the last minute as i still have other assignment due.. but since i promised them months ago, it;s only right if i kept to my promises. So there goes my 3 days volunteering to help in The Actors Studio GreenHall..
I was to usher ppl to the lil hall to watch the screenings plus i was in charge with F&B for the whole crew and volunteers. That was the hardest job ever. I never did things like that be4. it's prety tough buying food with tight budget and seperating to buy food for those who is on vegetarian, halal and non-halal. and i feel bad i dun even know town that well and thus i could not get good food for them. Felt sorry, maybe i should have got to know penang more. sigh.sigh. but then i din even know they put my name on the F&B area until tat day itself. So, cannot blame me also la. But at least i kept their stomach from hunger.

I cant review the films as i din really get to watch it.. only a few glimpse of here and there.. I missed Fahmi Reza(10 tahun sebelum merdeka), but i got to watch 2 other winners this year.. Ong Boon Keong's (Forgotten) and Indrani Kopal (She's My Son)- Indrani is a sweet girl. You go girl, i love the way she documented her ideas into visuals. SO creative of her.. Ong Boon Keong was on clan jetty in Penang. Sigh.. can we not rescue the jetty... preserved it or give them the right to the land!!!! I will watch Fahmi Reza's documentary soon....

Today's Audio Production went well just a lil glitch here and there but overall is fine. am satisfied on that. 214 lecture was cancelled this week but we still have tutorials and class tomoro. Tutorial this week was on the new media in the repressive state. My group did on Raja Petra's. After reading it, only did i understand what the controversial was about. if not because of the tutor, i would not have read in so details on the issue. So, thanks much! =).. and i bought i copy of Aliran's Monthly and read article written by our lecturer, Zaharom Nain regarding the issue og bloggers.. Add more knowledge to things i didnt know.

Next, one more essay for audio production due this friday and finally i can have a sweet sweet september weekend, at last. weeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!



counting down in 14days for a big day! i cant wait! LOL!!!

September 20, 2007

I have been waiting loooong enuff to write this.. oh wait, did i expect it?

Okay. i did not expect it to come to an end so fast, I online to check the result of manunited this morning. BE4 i actually get to know the result. I saw ONE headline and one important headline it is. Jose quits!
LOL!
This fellow had me gotten to respect him at 1st when he was in Chelsea, but his mouth kept him talking till i dislike him and he never admits that his team was wrong. All the time he will say his team is the right one.
Rumours kept going on for so long and finally-hE Leaves chelsea.
I am going to miss his ramblings though.. i am going to miss him speaking in the press conference, him defending his favourites players and protecting chelsea. But the end of the he has to leave.No one is bigger than the club than the owner himself. or should i say, in the context of david beckham+manunited+ferguson.. Beckham has to go as he bigger than the club itself. ferguson dished him out, you may say so... in jose's case, HE DO NOT enuff power to stay on. THe owner ditch him out.

That is the question of who has the power can control everything. That certainly applies here in the context of Jose Mourinho VS Roman Abramovich!!!! LOL, it's obvious who will win the battle right?

Damm sad to see him leaving so fast as i had not have enuff of him yet. His saga with Arsene Wenger, Alex Ferguson and lots more manager... but he certainly kept to his promise that he will shut his mouth this year. and it's true, now, he is shutting his mouth in EPL forever. wonder what club he will be in charge next.. sigh.. sigh...

How irony, the next match they are playing is against champions man united in Old Trafford.. It shall be an interesting match this weekend. I cant wait for it.. muahahahaha...

Last but not least, i am a red devil fans....

September 19, 2007

liying rant again....

for the "n"th time i will be ranting again.
I bet EK must be mad at us on how we did the 3 questions he gave us in tutor at 9am. I know the answers we gave was sucky. I should have known better.. but i did not give a damm.. i can never work with ppl i cannnot click with and that resulted in a piece of crap shit presented..I am sorry and making your morning worst, EK..

Will there be marks? I hope not. I did crappy and lousy things. Like i said above, i never could work with ppl i am not comfortable with. Wonder how will i face the reality in working life then, but i bet it will not be that worst.Maybe i am a "lot" naive.

I work as a customer relations management junior during the last semester break in a local company. I did a lot of things... mind you my job was interviewing fresh graduates who are looking to secure a job in MNC like Agilent, Avago, and many more to name... i even did interview some seniors in mass com.

I did from the interview process to sending profiles out to the MNC company's manager and arrange them in for the interview. If they were successful and being hired by the company.. i had to prepare the contract and brief to them every single details. It's not easy but i managed to pull through. I managed to hit the target eventhough i only work for 2 months.. mayb that's why my manager put on so much hope on me to perform... and i had my hard earned commission. Working is not easy, i know but working with ppl you can click with makes life a lil easier. I was lucky my colleagues are nice to me... they never bully me and treat me as a person who deserve to be respected just like everyone else. My manager was good to me, just that she gave me too much things to do that i had to stay overtime, mostly everyday.. mine you that i did not get paid for overtime.. but why did i do that for.. experience.. maybe... haha.. BUT i GAIN a lot in my 2 months there.

I know what working life is out there. Some of my colleagues are total biatch but one must be smart enough to handle this kind of situations at work. but in uni.. things are diff..I just dun seems to find a groupie which i can pull through with. I dun see any similarities compared to my colleagues or even my bestest mates in secondary school.. sch mates are *sorry to say this* smarter ppl i have known than ppl i have known here.. sorry, no offence or anything to you ppl who read here...maybe i am being to emo...

but referring back to the questions given..
1) Categories into 3broad themes the things you remember learning in this course..

at that time.. i remembered.. communication technology and gender, occupation and democratization.. reason being is there is still gender inequality around us..ppl tend to treat one another with hierachry and there is a big gap of marginalisation towards women..Occupation-you see how lower class occupation ppl are treated with technology coming into picture.. they will loose their job.. like wat pn wang mention in her class... automation is replacing the labour force.. will this mean more jobs available or more ppl going jobless... or maybe working from home?? exe: with cheap labour in china.. big TNC's are moving there.. leaving workiers in malaysia jobless and struggle to earn a living..there are so many issue to discuss about with regards to technology and the relations with gender and occupation. So, i guess that issue was bout to be taken seriously as well... democratization, will the capitalism and com tech bring to unbalance in society?. if yes, what unbalance is there??? and will the country with com tech able to defend the power... Wil the power the authority has able to bring further develop and importance to the citizens???
My personal view is, democratization in the context of com technology will further give the authority bigger room for exploitation against the weaker ones..eg: the blog issue in malaysia.. why is gov so afraid that this new media will further destruct their ability to do their duty?... do they think this new medium of expression will block them from a better more transparent, accountable and good governance... a question for everyone to ponder upon..

2) list up to 3 things you expected to learnt about but were not discuss throughout the course..

Okay.. maybe i was a bit mixed up.. i was thinking in the context of what were not as in.. what we expected the course to teach us.. i as many of us thought that we are going to learn hands on stuff not on the theory part.. for seconds, minutes , etc.. i didnt think that i am going to give answer like.... oh.. blog issue, gender issue, and development of 3rd world was not fully dicuss in the class.. hahha... see, i am not critical enuff...

3) Have your views/ideas on communication technology..

firstly, one need to ask.. is there any changes with the invention of new technology.. how many ppl lives has changed because of this??? will everyone get access to things easily.. let jus look in the context of malaysia.. how many ppl have access to internet?? 3%??? how is this going to change ppl.... see, status quo is still there.. i remember learning status quo last semester in Pn Wang's class (YKT 111).. what i want to stress here is, from YKT 111.. what we have learnt there can be further adapated to communication technology but sadly no one understand my point in stating this... There is still the "core" and the "periphery".. and things doesnt just exist.. and exist within a context.. a place..

I guess, my rant was a bit over-rated... but i couldnt care less...
BLOG is a place where one can keep their own rant. no one can stop us in doing that, for now.
maybe with technology, will the powerful ones stop us from blogging. time will tell..

September 17, 2007

FREEDOM FILM FESTIVAL@PENANG


Heyya PPL,


FREEDOM FILM FESTIVAL IS COMING TO PENANG ON 21st till 23rd September 2007 at The Actors Studio GreenHall..


Come and join us in watching 32 thought-provoking films over these 3 days!!!!!


Below are some highlights of the feature films...3 of the winners of Freedom Film Fest this year


1. ‘Sepuluh Tahun Sebelum Merdeka’ (Ten Years Before Independence)


by Fahmi Reza – FFF07 Winner 30mins/2007/Malaysia

(Bahasa Malaysia – BM with English subtitles)


Synopsis

Unknown to many, October 20th, 1947 was an important and historical day in the people’s constitutional struggle for independence from British colonialism. This documentary chronicles the events that culminated in the Malaya-wide ‘Hartal’ day of protest (a form of non-violent protest) against the undemocratic Federation of Malaya Constitutional Proposals devised by the British Colonial Government and the UMNO. This was the rise of the people’s democratic movement in Malaya, ten years before Merdeka.

Tanpa disedari ramai, 20hb Oktober 1947 merupakan tarikh keramat yang amat penting dan bersejarah sewaktu perjuangan berperlembagaan rakyat Malaya untuk mencapai kemerdekaan daripada penjajah dari British. Dokumentari ini berkisarkan perjalanan peristiwa kemuncak sewaktu Hari ‘Hatal’ di seluruh Malaya yang memaparkan aksi protes ke atas usul Perlembagaan Persekutuan Malaya yang tidak demokratik, hasil daripada jajahan Kerajaan British dan UMNO. Ini adalah kebangkitan pergerakan demokratik rakyat Malaya, iaitu sepuluh tahun sebelum Merdeka.


2. Forgotten


by Ong Boon Keong- FFF07 Winner 30mins/2007/Malaysia

(Mandarin with English and BM subtitles)


SynopsisThe clan jetties are at the sea front of George Town, Penang. More than 2000 ex-port workers whose contribution towards the establishment of the Penang port and the George Town city has largely been forgotten. They live in an endangered heritage area with their land lease having to be renewed every year. After waiting for more than over a century, the application for World Heritage City status for George Town hold up a hope for getting their right to land recognized.


Suku kaum jeti kini di persisiran pantai George Town, Pulau Pinang. Lebih daripada 2000 pekerja eksport yang telah menyumbang tenaga ke atas pembangunan pengkalan Pulau Pinang serta bandar George Town kian dilupakan. Mereka kini mendiami kawasan yang kian pupus dan terancam nilai warisannya dengan sewa tanah yang diperbahurui setiap tahun. Setelah menanti berabad lamanya, permohonan untuk mencapai status Bandar Warisan Dunia untuk George Town, akhirnya memberi harapan untuk hak tanah mereka disahkan.


3.She’s My Son


by Indrani Kopal – FFF07 Winner 30mins/2007/Malaysia

(Tamil and English with English and BM subtitles)


SynopsisTransgender issue is real, but it is a reality many Malaysian will not admit to. Treated as a sex object and often the butt of lewd jokes and social outcasts, many boys who had the urge of becoming a girl, resisted it. Suganya begs to differ. ‘She’s my son’ tells the story of Suganya from her mother’s point of view. “He”, before the sex change, had the courage to face the reality and today, as “she”, stroll the road confidently with her family and friends accepting the reality as she did.


Isu pertukaran jantina amat nyata kewujudannya, namun realitinya masih ramai rakyat Malaysia yang menafikannya. Dianggap seperti simbol seks dan dijadikan bahan jenaka berunsur berahi di samping dipinggirkan masyarakat, kebanyakan lelaki yang ingin bertukar menjadi perempuan, terpaksa menahan diri mereka. Namun, Sunganya ingin merubah segalanya. ‘Dia Anakku’ menceritakan kisah Sunganya di mata ibunya. Suganya berani untuk berhadapan dengan realiti sebelum menukar jantinanya dan kini setelah menukar jantina, dia melangkah ke hadapan dengan penuh keyakinan dan akhirnya penerimaan positif daripada keluarga dan rakan-rakannya merubah segalanya.


You can find more schedule and synopsis over at http://www.freedomfilmfest.komas.org/

Interested???

Entry is by Invitation only.. if you are interested, email your name, which session you want and how many seats to fff.penang@gmail.com
Hurry!!! it's on a 1st come 1st serve basis....

See you there!!!

September 16, 2007

i may not be critical in thinking

forgive me if i am not critical. I admit, i am not the smart ass student who think and study things crtically. For communication is my 1st option when i choose the courses to enter uni, little did i know i will be learning theory and research communication, communication technology and soon to come next semester komunikasi budaya and komunikasi kuasa dan konflik. Last semester i ever wonder why the uni has to "create" those kind of papers for us to take and not the lame paper like komunikasi malaysia or maybe komunikasi media malaysia or something like the pro gov thingy. Then i realised ever since last semester, i really did a lot of thinkin and wondering why things happened and why did it happenned... When i was in Form six, i knew little but i know how to differentiate between the good and bad things that happenned..i love general paper very much.. that was the love-hate subject i had in form six compared to maths, chemistry and physics.... but coming to uni.. i learnt a lot.. after Pn Wang's YKT 111, i really learnt much. Like things does not just happen.. it happenned in A context. Status quo is there.

I understand what is being taught.. it's just that sometimes i am lazy to speak my mind up. I know what is happening.. i understand notes which is given.. i learnt.. i am not dumb.. i may look dumb but i am not. I have mind to think. and of course i think properly.. but sometimes i am pretty naive on things.

and i do blog long time ago.. ever since i was in form 3.... and of course this blog was created for a paper which i took this semester. I feel i am not myself doing all the rantings here. I do in my other blog... hehe.
and i do read politicians blog in our country..i am following updates from alternative media other than the mainstream media.

all in all, i might not be critical and i'm lazy. So, forgive me if i am not critical as what the objectives of every subject stated : which is to produced more crticially thinking student. haha. LOL.

September 13, 2007

migrant workers?

Last monday during lecture, we had a video on the topic this week.. Tek komunikasi dan pekerjaan. It was a video cdocumentary on the life of migrant workers in Malaysia. I mean how sad it is... the workers being treated like a piece of shit by our country.. i am sometimes ashamed of what we "malaysia" has become.... are we that cruel? Who is the cruel person? US? or the authority?.. i read on one blog which wrote on HOW foreigners who came to Malaysia is treat... it is real sad to hear that. HOw could a tourist be treated this way.. you may visit the blog here.. Sigh.. it happens in a week.. and then newspaper starting with headlines on to change the perception malaysian have on indonesian. I am not stereotyping indonesian.. but i have great respect for my friends who are from there. Not only that, remember a freelance writer.. Nila Tanzil from Indonesia who was being label "...." by our tourism minister... how sad is that??? she is a strong girl. i read her blog. I felt she is a strong person after what she has been through..but she is a tough girl.. you may want to read her blog as well... just try to look at diff perspective on things.

I think we have to have some pity on those migrants workers who wanna work here. They too, are finding and earning to support their family back home but we are exploiting them with MORE HOURS OF WORK BUT LITTLE SALARY. they are human beings as well. they deserved to be treated properly not being an kickass by the authority.. to those who have done that to the workers.. shame on you.. dun you have respect for yourself and being an dumb bell treating ppl like animals. even animlas are not tortured like that.

Take time to reflect on our mistakes and have respect for everybody. BY this, we could be a "respected" country back!

I am truly sorry to those foreigners, workers out there who got sentence of what they didnt deserved. MAy god bless you in other way, and forgive us for being cruel to you..

September 10, 2007

hype on high school musical 2

Yesterday, was the premiere of HSM 2 in disney channel in the asia region. the United States have watched the premiere last month. I watched it few weeks back due to the technology of downloading movie from the internet. to compare it with HSM 1. i would say this is a failure though i like the songs and some of the dance move. The story plot was not that good and i dont see any good acting as well. I dunno why there is so much hype. Maybe the success of HSM 1 lead ppl to cant wait of HSM 2.. the sequel. I would have prefer the sequel on the concert.. the drama show thingy.. then the summer holiday which was boring..
There is just so much hype.. Disney obviously have received free fall of cash from the merchandised sold all over the world and bla bla bla.
See, even in malaysia.. we did the bahasa malaysia version of the dialogue which was way so bad. I heard it for few minutes be4 it sounds even uglier that i switched back to the English version. yucks..
And then there is the MY School ROCK thingy which attracted up to 200 teams participated in it. This is just much hype and up till now they finalise 4 teams.. one of them was my ex secondary school. haha.
See, how much commercial of VALUE HSM has garnered.. i mean vow.. and why not they do a movie premiere instead of just DISNEY CHANNEL premiere.. and why do we have to seperate the premiere in US and in ASIA. if they had done the premiere simultaneously, i am sure private copy circulated in the net would be less as much would have watch it already.
it comes back to the power of the powerful ppl have//DISNEY is THE TOP media corporation in the WORLD. who knows how much they have secured from this 2 films.
Sometimes is the commercial value in it.
OR is it?
and just to premiere of HSM 2.. disney channel had the countdown with many more programs installed in the channel yesterday. and then commercial on HSM and bla bla bla.. Making it the BIg big grandest premiere.. or i should say the MOST GARNERED AND WATCHED mOVIE that disney has produced thus far..

it all then comes to who own the technology and have control on it... those who dont, like us the consumer either choose to watch or choose not to watch it...

I, watch it. and feel that there is just toooo much hype.

September 05, 2007

aftermath of assignments

Due to the hectic one week of not enough sleep, has it toll on me. I am sick. I hate to be sick. I fall sick twice and not hoping for anymore 3rd time sick. it's killing me.
We do not have tutorial for YKT 214 tis week. I wish we had but tutor need to attend something else, so my class tutorial was cancelled.. so next week we shall have the discussion on the topic of BLOGS. i actually cant wait . i love the TOPic.. is one of the BEST in fact THE BEST topic among all questions. HAHA..
more later. =)