Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - [Learning stufff ]
So Im finally back to typing on a macbook yay (: thank god for Time Machine, my life has been.. revived onto a brand new mac which actually cost 3.2k my goodness by at least I Got it at 2.8k because I didn't manage to get my old one repaired..
Well can't really feel a difference yet. Except no protective case.. maybe I'll just get a decal instead since my macbook stays at home almost forever.. keyboard feels abit different and the palm rests and trackpad all feel different because I don't have the grips anymore )): they came free at the IT fair with my old Mac T_____T I miss it so .. also the case .. really want one but I want to save money so badly after this big blow .. So if anyone can't think of a birthday present or friendship present or christmas or EASTER PRESENT, please buy me a Speck case thanks ! It's a 15inch macbook pro!!
Mm.. think I'll take awhile to get used to this keyboard shape and size, don't know why it feels different, but defs defs defs a million times better than Zac's one D: very happy that even my firefox tabs and wallpapers and bookmarks are all restored. The Time Machine is truly truly amazing. I could cry.
Okay the reason why the keyboard has changed is because there's no more Eject button !!! Oh dear god, my Koizora DVD is stuck in the old one forever T_______T !
Moving on from the Mac ...
Got a grade back for Copywriting class which is the lowest grade I've had in a long while. No it's not about copyright and legal stuff and stealing people's intellectual property. Its actually copy writing which means writing ads. Researching the market and target audience and product benefits and why the consumer will want it. Then coming up with creative strategies and ultimately ads.
Now I'd like to think of myself as a creative person but my grade disagrees... This semester I have two very similar modules, one is this and the other is Media Planning where similarly you research the audience and market and product and decide what kind of media platforms to use. Thankfully you don't need to design ads in that one...
Thinking about grades made me think about how much effort I put in and what I actually deserved for it, I think abit more because to be honest the assignment was not very clearly explained and though that can be solved by asking the tutor, apparently the entire class didn't do the assignment properly and many people missed out a couple sections. Well well I think the tutors and course coordinators should have been more specific with the instructions.
Anyways I thought back about pre-school and how when people ask me when I was happiest, I would always answer in P2 when I was 8. I remember being happy almost the entire year. I never questioned it, but tonight on the bus home I suddenly realized how .. shallow and elitist I was back then and how much I hate it now.
In p1, I had a great variety of classmates, 35 of us, some chinese, some malay, some indian, some really smart, some really .. dumb, some very playful, some very shy. I was ranked 8th in the mid-year exams and I was very disappointed.. I think I was 27th in the entire level of about 600 p1 (7 year old) kids. At the end of the year I was 3rd in class and 15th in the level. I remember someone coming into class during the final weeks of school saying the top 3 students needed their photo taken.
The girl who was 1st was incidentally one my first friends, NOT the first but one of and she was really timid and liked to read, and was far from being top in class in the mid-year but sprang out of no where. She taunted me for being less smart than her. I remember wanting to beat the shit out of her face.
The girl in 2nd was a really sweet and nice girl. She was extremely quiet and was the class monitress and she never had any bad things to say, she always smiled and was a very happy child. Unlike me, who got beaten to death daily at home by my parents, her parents never yelled at her or laid a finger on her and she just loved studying naturally. Aww (':
Because I couldn't do anything about my results anymore, the year was over, I challenged the 1st and 2nd girl to a race and I beat them with great ease because I was crazy as a kid, running everywhere, I hated to sit or even stand, I just ran around sooooo much. I never ate during recess, I was just running and running .. oh god was I crazy.
Then I got to P2 and I was with all the smart people ! I went into the top class, and I realize now.. that maybe I was happy then because I was considered one of the best and everyone around me was smart and I could communicate with them better than the other classmates I had in P1. Yeah I guess I was mean and biased against people back then.
All of this disappeared in River Valley especially in Sec 3 where the school very sneakily put the top students into the A, C and E classes. Would you look at that? I started hating school for many personal reasons, though til today I don't hate studying, I'm just lazy and less motivated because honestly.. everything's online and available everywhere, do you really need to study that hard? Can you even remember stuff, because I can't. I can barely remember anything from previous semesters of uni.. ahhhh ..
Something else I've started to learn is Pole Dancing! (:
Boy is it the hardest thing ever... especially since I can't really practice it without an actual pole at home .. so another present if for me if you're generous, buy me a Pole ! It's really fun but definitely tiring and I need to train my arm thigh and core strengths alot to do it well. So many ladies there are already so good at it, I feel very clumsy and ungraceful but hopefully .. I will progress and be able to Air-Walk !~!~
Well can't really feel a difference yet. Except no protective case.. maybe I'll just get a decal instead since my macbook stays at home almost forever.. keyboard feels abit different and the palm rests and trackpad all feel different because I don't have the grips anymore )): they came free at the IT fair with my old Mac T_____T I miss it so .. also the case .. really want one but I want to save money so badly after this big blow .. So if anyone can't think of a birthday present or friendship present or christmas or EASTER PRESENT, please buy me a Speck case thanks ! It's a 15inch macbook pro!!
Mm.. think I'll take awhile to get used to this keyboard shape and size, don't know why it feels different, but defs defs defs a million times better than Zac's one D: very happy that even my firefox tabs and wallpapers and bookmarks are all restored. The Time Machine is truly truly amazing. I could cry.
Okay the reason why the keyboard has changed is because there's no more Eject button !!! Oh dear god, my Koizora DVD is stuck in the old one forever T_______T !
Moving on from the Mac ...
Got a grade back for Copywriting class which is the lowest grade I've had in a long while. No it's not about copyright and legal stuff and stealing people's intellectual property. Its actually copy writing which means writing ads. Researching the market and target audience and product benefits and why the consumer will want it. Then coming up with creative strategies and ultimately ads.
Now I'd like to think of myself as a creative person but my grade disagrees... This semester I have two very similar modules, one is this and the other is Media Planning where similarly you research the audience and market and product and decide what kind of media platforms to use. Thankfully you don't need to design ads in that one...
Thinking about grades made me think about how much effort I put in and what I actually deserved for it, I think abit more because to be honest the assignment was not very clearly explained and though that can be solved by asking the tutor, apparently the entire class didn't do the assignment properly and many people missed out a couple sections. Well well I think the tutors and course coordinators should have been more specific with the instructions.
Anyways I thought back about pre-school and how when people ask me when I was happiest, I would always answer in P2 when I was 8. I remember being happy almost the entire year. I never questioned it, but tonight on the bus home I suddenly realized how .. shallow and elitist I was back then and how much I hate it now.
In p1, I had a great variety of classmates, 35 of us, some chinese, some malay, some indian, some really smart, some really .. dumb, some very playful, some very shy. I was ranked 8th in the mid-year exams and I was very disappointed.. I think I was 27th in the entire level of about 600 p1 (7 year old) kids. At the end of the year I was 3rd in class and 15th in the level. I remember someone coming into class during the final weeks of school saying the top 3 students needed their photo taken.
The girl who was 1st was incidentally one my first friends, NOT the first but one of and she was really timid and liked to read, and was far from being top in class in the mid-year but sprang out of no where. She taunted me for being less smart than her. I remember wanting to beat the shit out of her face.
The girl in 2nd was a really sweet and nice girl. She was extremely quiet and was the class monitress and she never had any bad things to say, she always smiled and was a very happy child. Unlike me, who got beaten to death daily at home by my parents, her parents never yelled at her or laid a finger on her and she just loved studying naturally. Aww (':
Because I couldn't do anything about my results anymore, the year was over, I challenged the 1st and 2nd girl to a race and I beat them with great ease because I was crazy as a kid, running everywhere, I hated to sit or even stand, I just ran around sooooo much. I never ate during recess, I was just running and running .. oh god was I crazy.
Then I got to P2 and I was with all the smart people ! I went into the top class, and I realize now.. that maybe I was happy then because I was considered one of the best and everyone around me was smart and I could communicate with them better than the other classmates I had in P1. Yeah I guess I was mean and biased against people back then.
All of this disappeared in River Valley especially in Sec 3 where the school very sneakily put the top students into the A, C and E classes. Would you look at that? I started hating school for many personal reasons, though til today I don't hate studying, I'm just lazy and less motivated because honestly.. everything's online and available everywhere, do you really need to study that hard? Can you even remember stuff, because I can't. I can barely remember anything from previous semesters of uni.. ahhhh ..
Something else I've started to learn is Pole Dancing! (:
Boy is it the hardest thing ever... especially since I can't really practice it without an actual pole at home .. so another present if for me if you're generous, buy me a Pole ! It's really fun but definitely tiring and I need to train my arm thigh and core strengths alot to do it well. So many ladies there are already so good at it, I feel very clumsy and ungraceful but hopefully .. I will progress and be able to Air-Walk !~!~
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