*several bones snap one after the other*
So off I have returned to school, marginally more well-rested than when I left. Which doesn't quite explain why I now drag myself home after classes feeling SHUGGED OUT. Feels like first term all over again! x_x Well, still alive at least, and characteristic of first week people are sitting around explaining why this and that must be learnt and done, and I'm scurrying around trying to finish homework so this lovely feeling of half-freedom STAYS. Must source a ref for Marker Visuals fast, though.
Woke up a bit late on Monday but it didn't put much of a dent in the schedule as my first class was at 2 pm. And it would have made even less of a dent had I known that the 'briefing' about orientation would basically have been me receiving the basic schedule for that day and then telling them I could only make it for one session. Kau tim! ^^;;; I yakked with some seniors for a while and checked my results:
Time-Based Media - B. Phew.
Interface Design - B. This didn't come as a surprise.
Visual Fundamentals - B+. The same as last term, and the term before, and the term before that...I'm getting a bit miffed at myself here.
Typography Fundamentals - A-. YES! Booyah!
Print Production - B. That doesn't mean I want to not kill Tay and Agnes yet. (And who was that I saw on Monday, Tay or Irwin? Yeeps, I can't tell. @_@)
Malaysian Culture Studies - A- Muahahahaha! Viva snark and articulateness.
All in all not too bad, but I must work harder. Yush. This term, I will try and get at least 4As!
Went off for lunch at LJS (o chunks of fried fish and potatoes how I have missed thee) and saw Joanne and I-Ching there -- and also on the way back. Stopped at the art shop for the first time that day to buy a 08 artline pen (FINALLY! My set is completexor!!! I can sleep at night!) and a double-nibbed brushpen, whee brushpens. By the time I got to class and sat down, I was suddenly aware that Long John Silver himself seemed to have possessed my stomach and was shivering all my digestive timbers. |||OTL
Onlie Media 1 was...fun! And frightfully simple. It's basically webpage design and taught by Thomas Tay and Eugene on tutor duty, and Thomas said to expect to see him for the next 12 months or so. It starts aaaaall the way from basics. I do mean basics: The first tags we tackled were html, body, title, h1, font, b, i, u...YES that basic shurrup. On the bright side, I'll finally be able to say I know how to to knock together a page in delicious, 100% natural hand-coded HTML. First assignment was to use that to create a little personal profile, and I'm not sure if I want to go all typography geek on it yet. Hmm.
Marker Visuals...does not require the use of markers for another, oh, 5-6 weeks? It's good to have Sio Yuen teaching us again too, he's quite clear with what he wants, ready smile. Sadly over the past three weeks all my visual fundamental skills went down the loo and I drew like the most crooked glass of ice water in the class. Class ended a bit early today, so I went to have lunch and later tanlammy joined me. OMG forget the fact that new stall dishes out instant noodles, the BEEF that came with it! I felt like I should be feeding it to Tsuji from Angel's Frypan just to see him overreact at the tastiness. XD Lucky Lamster, her group's work from last term is being exhibited in the gallery. On its side at an angle, though, so it looks like nothing on Earth really. ^^; (It's a chair. That can be a box.) I got the 401 design meditations book from the library too! Accio scanner!
Today is Teacher's Day, so it's time for teacher stories. Let's all take a pause to remember Puan Zuraini, my Standard One class teacher, whose watch was the sole reason I wanted to learn how to tell time on a clock (One day I'll be so good with numbers, I'll have a watch with just the twelve marked and I can be able to tell time anyway!; Ms. Menon, who was the sweetest damn teacher in the history of ever (I'm sorry I turned from the enthusiastic kid who could tell 'segar' from 'segera' into the cynic ten years later who wondered if her volunteer service was going to garner a certificate); Cik ZAS because, well, because she was Cik ZAS and the coolest cikgu in the whole of SK Assunta (I daresay she still is); Mrs. Rose Wong for putting up with all our shenanigans (and remembering all these tidbits about mini-Mweeble she never recalls); Pn. Norehan who will never forget my miserable sugarless jelly; Pn Betty Lim, the KH teacher on whom I unleashed the flooded onde-onde; Ms. Christina for all her evangelistic monkeyshines (truly she has the patience of a saint)...and Gary Wong and Su Weii, for proving all things are possible.
Selamat Hari Guru!
Woke up a bit late on Monday but it didn't put much of a dent in the schedule as my first class was at 2 pm. And it would have made even less of a dent had I known that the 'briefing' about orientation would basically have been me receiving the basic schedule for that day and then telling them I could only make it for one session. Kau tim! ^^;;; I yakked with some seniors for a while and checked my results:
Time-Based Media - B. Phew.
Interface Design - B. This didn't come as a surprise.
Visual Fundamentals - B+. The same as last term, and the term before, and the term before that...I'm getting a bit miffed at myself here.
Typography Fundamentals - A-. YES! Booyah!
Print Production - B. That doesn't mean I want to not kill Tay and Agnes yet. (And who was that I saw on Monday, Tay or Irwin? Yeeps, I can't tell. @_@)
Malaysian Culture Studies - A- Muahahahaha! Viva snark and articulateness.
All in all not too bad, but I must work harder. Yush. This term, I will try and get at least 4As!
Went off for lunch at LJS (o chunks of fried fish and potatoes how I have missed thee) and saw Joanne and I-Ching there -- and also on the way back. Stopped at the art shop for the first time that day to buy a 08 artline pen (FINALLY! My set is completexor!!! I can sleep at night!) and a double-nibbed brushpen, whee brushpens. By the time I got to class and sat down, I was suddenly aware that Long John Silver himself seemed to have possessed my stomach and was shivering all my digestive timbers. |||OTL
Onlie Media 1 was...fun! And frightfully simple. It's basically webpage design and taught by Thomas Tay and Eugene on tutor duty, and Thomas said to expect to see him for the next 12 months or so. It starts aaaaall the way from basics. I do mean basics: The first tags we tackled were html, body, title, h1, font, b, i, u...YES that basic shurrup. On the bright side, I'll finally be able to say I know how to to knock together a page in delicious, 100% natural hand-coded HTML. First assignment was to use that to create a little personal profile, and I'm not sure if I want to go all typography geek on it yet. Hmm.
Marker Visuals...does not require the use of markers for another, oh, 5-6 weeks? It's good to have Sio Yuen teaching us again too, he's quite clear with what he wants, ready smile. Sadly over the past three weeks all my visual fundamental skills went down the loo and I drew like the most crooked glass of ice water in the class. Class ended a bit early today, so I went to have lunch and later tanlammy joined me. OMG forget the fact that new stall dishes out instant noodles, the BEEF that came with it! I felt like I should be feeding it to Tsuji from Angel's Frypan just to see him overreact at the tastiness. XD Lucky Lamster, her group's work from last term is being exhibited in the gallery. On its side at an angle, though, so it looks like nothing on Earth really. ^^; (It's a chair. That can be a box.) I got the 401 design meditations book from the library too! Accio scanner!
Today is Teacher's Day, so it's time for teacher stories. Let's all take a pause to remember Puan Zuraini, my Standard One class teacher, whose watch was the sole reason I wanted to learn how to tell time on a clock (One day I'll be so good with numbers, I'll have a watch with just the twelve marked and I can be able to tell time anyway!; Ms. Menon, who was the sweetest damn teacher in the history of ever (I'm sorry I turned from the enthusiastic kid who could tell 'segar' from 'segera' into the cynic ten years later who wondered if her volunteer service was going to garner a certificate); Cik ZAS because, well, because she was Cik ZAS and the coolest cikgu in the whole of SK Assunta (I daresay she still is); Mrs. Rose Wong for putting up with all our shenanigans (and remembering all these tidbits about mini-Mweeble she never recalls); Pn. Norehan who will never forget my miserable sugarless jelly; Pn Betty Lim, the KH teacher on whom I unleashed the flooded onde-onde; Ms. Christina for all her evangelistic monkeyshines (truly she has the patience of a saint)...and Gary Wong and Su Weii, for proving all things are possible.
Selamat Hari Guru!