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Crazy Talk
Monday, November 10th, 2008
I was just googling my name when my term paper assignment turned up. This was actually how I presented my paper in class. I went to the website and started talking. As a presentation prop, it wasn’t the best thing in the world (no one likes to see a wall of text) but I wanted it to be symbolic of exactly what I was talking about: new media, the Internet, hypertext, etc. I didn’t want them to read it lah. Hahah.
Looking back, I can’t believe I used “Heroes” as a reference. Hahahahah. The paper may even have been an excuse to talk about “Heroes”.
I don’t know if any of you are up to reading it since even I find it a bit long-winded. But I think the conclusion can be: new media’s way of controlling us is more subtle and complex than old media, where this is shown through a comparison of the distribution methods of content producers and their audience.
(Warning: Rant ahead)
My Hundred Little Dresses
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
My mom came back from Taiwan and she pretty much went crazy on the summer clearance sales and now I have 7 new dresses to wear. Some of them I wouldn’t have chosen for myself but on the whole I liked it. She said they were going for 100 yuan (S$5) apiece so that’s why she went and got so many. I also have a new t-shirt, 2 new tights and (finally!) new black pantyhose! Yay! The t-shirt has sequins so I’m not very sure I like it. Hahah. I also need new hangers to deal with the increase in my wardrobe. >_<
Dunno when I’m going to have a chance to wear all these, hahha.
On Crushdom
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
I was looking back on my entries and I found that on Oct 12, I wrote an entry about how the crush was “on his way out”. So the feeling of distance didn’t even last 3 weeks. Sigh. Why do you suppose these crush-feelings come and go? Isn’t it awful to have no control about how you feel?
(Note: If you find reading about my inner life concerning my crush uninteresting, you really shouldn’t click the “Read More” below. You have been warned…)
Hmm…
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Advice I got for today: “Do something that interests you or do something that makes gobs and gobs of money.”
JTA Crew of ‘07 Reunion
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Really glad Cassandra and Vryn organized this outing, thanks a lot! Let’s have another one in December!
Meeting up with them invoked a lot of memories of my time in Orlando. And yeah, I miss all that.
I also had my usual baked fish with green herbs at the Manhattan Fish Market. Hadn’t had it for a long time, hah. We were the last table to leave ^^;; I drank too much water.
Okay, I need a lot of sleep. Going for a workshop tomorrow.
I Fucking Hate My Printer
Friday, November 7th, 2008
I just HAVE to rant about this before I go to bed: I Fucking Hate My Printer. It dies on me just when I need it. GAAAH. I need to print a job application form. But the fucking stupid goddamn awful thing said I had “No Cartridges” when I just installed a new one! Gaaah! *Bangs head on wall* This was after it sputtered out a few pages with fuzzy printing. Why why why why why does this happen to me? To top it off, my other printer is also out of ink. DIE you stupid things! *Tears hair*
In other news, a recruitment agency called and is offering temp assignments for me. I just wish the pay for them were higher. Sigh. I miss NUS and their high hourly pay. Hahah. The market rates suck.
Darren also sent a lobang my way. It’s a bus tour for Tampines and we’re supposed to be the guides. Hahah. It’s kinda funny since I didn’t know a lot of the facts and history about Tampines when I live just next to it (in fact, it used to be one of my haunt before Downtown East got popular). Too bad they don’t have Benji’s account of how the engineers fucked up when draining the silt (sand?) out of Tampines to make the land buildable. Hahah.
Sigh. I really feel like throwing the damn printer out of the window. I guess the only thing that saves it is that I live on the 8th floor and I don’t want to kill anyone. I wish I had a sledgehammer and whack the living daylights out of it. Bwahahahah, that would be so satisfying!
I need a hug. Sigh. Especially at night now when thoughts about the crush come invading again. DO NOT WANT! Why did my crush have to do something cute and reignite my feelings? Sigh. He makes me wanna get him for my own! The thing about it is that I realize that my feelings are unrequited because he just doesn’t care all that much about me that way. Sigh. Hopeless ashke.
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I also watched “Talk To Me” today at The Picturehouse. Of course, it’s not surprising it was character-driven (since it was a dramatized account of Petey Greene and Dewey Hughes). I guess I was surprised that I can be so easily moved by the emotions that ran high in the show. But then again, I have often been a crier at movies, hahaha. It’s too easy for me to get involved in the movie (that’s why I hate watching horror movies. I just end up feeling fucking scared for days.)
My New Poison
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Since I was level 69, I thought I’d go over and play some Warsong Gulch before I go over my level bracket. Warsong Gulch is a PvP play where the opposing factions fight to capture the flag. We have the 2 bases at two ends and the first faction to get 3 points from flag captures win. I didn’t really like it because the Horde vastly outnumbered the Alliance (there was one game I was in where there were only 4 Alliance and 10 Horde >_<). So my brother suggested I go for Alterac Valley or Eye of the Storm which are the more popular BGs.
Alterac Valley's main objective is to win by reducing the other faction's reinforcement by zero. Each faction start out with 600 reinforcement. Reinforcement can be thought of as the number of lives each side has. So if Horde's members die 600 times, the Alliance wins. There are several ways to reduce the other side's reinforcements. The most direct way is just to kill enemy players while we can also kill the enemy captain which reduces reinforcements by 100. We can also capture and burn towers which further reduces reinforcements by 75. I also read that we can kill the enemy General for an instant win but none of my games so far has played that strategy.
I was more than a little n00b-y about it (it reminded me when I first started to play DotA ^^;;;) but there's something deeply satisfying to go on a rampage with 39 other people (yes, there are 40 players on each faction). We mostly start off by going after the enemy captain and let's just say that it's total mayhem. Hahahah... I think our side did pretty decently, more wins than losses (kinda weird considering the Horde have a better reputation in PvP -- guess it was my lucky night.) It was also fun getting a few PvP achievements, yay! My guildie said that the achievements were kinda stupid but I think they're fun, especially with the statistics.
Which reminds me, Weebs and Avin said something funny today on guild chat. A Primal Mooncloth Bag with 20 slots costs 430 gold while a Netherweave Bag with 16 slots costs 6 gold. I was just saying that if we expressed the number of slots to the cost of the bags the jump is very steep, at which point Avin said that "that's my cue to go to bed" (probably rolling his eyes at the same time) and Weebs said "that's like porn around here" hurr hurr hurr. (Btw, the reason why the Primal Mooncloth Bag costs so much is because the raw materials for which the bag needs is very time-consuming to collect.)
Okay, I should really go shower now. Very late. >_<
Nuts
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Playing too much today. But got out at the end of the night to have supper with Ben, Kit and Aaron. Hahah, now I’m too full to sleep >_< and my brother is on the WoW account.
I keep missing Weebles but I do see a lot of Glod, Kat and Magibunny (and Avin). Whee! I’m very very close to leveling to 70, will definitely be in time for WotLK. I wonder which character I should delete on Malfurion… probably my brother’s since he doesn’t play on my server.
Today they were saying what “[body part] man” they were (eg. boob man, leg man, etc.) Well, I suppose I would be an arm woman hahah, with special attention to hands. (Refer to example of my TA, etc.) I adore beautiful long fingers, I can look at them all day. Okay that sounds a bit 变态 but still! Hands are wonderful things.
Okay, that’s all, I don’t really have much else to say. Today was just WoW, DotA, WoW DotA. Yes, you’ll think that I need a life. You’re probably right.
