COMM 201: Foundations for Communication Professional Research Report

HOOOOOORRAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We got A plus for our Comms Final Report! All the hardwork is not in vain!!

Comments from our prof, Mark Chong:

In terms of sheer depth, your ZMET study beats many of the others hands down. I found your deconstruction of your consensus map into the thematic categories (pp.20-26) refreshing and illuminating- it is qualitative analysis at its best. Congratulations to you for ending your semester on a very high note!

A+

Hugs to my wonderful team mates; Kristl & Deen!

And of course to all the participants: Nor Aishah, Cheryl, Fiza, Millicent, Kirti, Abidah and all other friends! Muacks!

Such a relief and extremely pleasant thing the result esp thru these stressful times: IPR tmrw BP & Social Psychology on Wed.

Fuzz

motivation

im tired and sleepy from studying but i gotta do this: this entry will be about what i want or hope to do in the hols!

(1)Internship with the creative dept of an Ad agency
okay this is so hard to get especially that my hols is only a mth!! like hello who would want to take me?? Haha.. i'll try to try and get one nevertheless at Gosh Advertising and the other agencies which i briefly liaised during my internship stint as Marketing Comms Exec in FACT Software. So if i dun get one there's loads of other stuff to do like the following;

(2)Ad Hoc
One off super exciting events which will take place irregardless of whether i get an internship or not and the myriad of activities includes; Emix Dance Camp, Twist of Fate, Rent, Hope Street Reconstructed, Kirti's Birthday party at some club, etc!

(3) get in SHAPE!
When i look down (duh at my belly lah!) its bitterwseet cause its both funny yet depressing to see my tummy. I feel like im pregnant. Haha. I SWEAR i will get some semblance of a six-pec (even those that u have to look constipated just too make it appear) . the goal has been procrastinated too long. Oh yeah and a nice chest to go along? :p hehe so run swim and gym i shall go to.

(4) New Year at KL?
I wanna dance some more. Heard that at Bangsar, KL the roads are blocked just before midnite so that everyone will come out fromthe clubs to the street and gather together to revel in diesta if there's such a word! lol. :) Prob go with Deen ad Abby? hmmm Lyn? or maybe a date! haha or a buddy.. then i prob meet everyone else there.. hopefully got enuff cash. i think i need $250 at least! :p

(5) More dance classes!!
At Jitterbugs? Hip Hop 1 again? or Maybe traumatize myself again at Funk Jazz? haha Or try Intro to Jazz at LA? hmm which path shall i go? Salsa is always in. Hip Hop is COOL but i love expressive dance like Jazz and Modern/Contemporary... im wishing i could do my pirouttes with the NUS DAnce Ensemble some day.. theyre my idols now.. hehe no no Jay Chou is still my IDOL NUS Dance Ensemble is like my fav! woah i still can vividly rem their dance for Bjork's Human Behavior and State of Emergency- breathtaking!!!

(6) Go on a date with a Girl?
Hmm... hanvent done this for centuries.. haha... Technically i can count with my 'lil bro' how many time(s) i officially go on a date? 1? haha maybe not.. Anyway yeah la.. i dun really need a gf rite now like HELLO. really. i always am proud to depend on myself be emotianally idependent. My frens and me are enuff: no longing need to feel loved by a sig other.. Esp not if im like broke 47% of the time and alwasy wanting to upgrade my wardrobe 43% of the time. so only 10% of the time ill be like thinking who should i splurge on? LOL.. Seriously im not a selfish person.. i just have needs which i need to settle myself. (sounds weird? dun think dirty) Back to dating. Yeah i have to admit everyone got someone. Lyn, Deen, SYahriel, Yati, Fiza! and dear Julie. Well currently not Azrina..but prob she only treat me as a fren. Well fyi last 3 girls are still in my msn's A List! go figure.

One thing about me though... i dun see the rush. i feel that more often than not people get into relationship because they dun noe how other ways to find out more about the other person.. like i 'chop' u now then we get to know each other kind of thing. then blah blah blah, etc, etc etc.. then they find out not suitable then break up.. i think its a waste of time AND resources. People should get to know each other as frens... then only after long while.. date? hehe.. but then again TO EACH HIS/HER OWN. :)

I have yet to really date a guy either... or have i? LOL hmmm.. sometimes i wish i was a cat..dun have to date just hump around and be independent and happy.. or maybe i am a cat! :p But then again i dun make those public baby noises which is scary and irritating esp at nite! boo!

oh yeah

(7) Join Liyana an co. for DanceWorks!
Hmmmm... i didnt audtion for EMix cause i got sth on that day, anyway only 8 girls i think got in.. i swear i wouldnt get past the first round of audtions if i tried for emix's audition for the competition. But anyway, ill be 25 next year which means it will be my first and last shot at Dance works.. so im gonna give it a go.. of course if Zallie or more guys join me.. (too paiseh to be only one of two guys esp with Lionel as the Judge) I think its a great opportunity to improve myself and show others io can groove and hip my hop! or Hop my hip! :p

(8) all things fail.. i have my first passion which is the FLUTE!
im not sure still contemplating whether i can or i want to commit to Symphonia's rehearsal. maybe i should move on to dance for real? esp that its my last year! just put my flute aside.. Morevoer the fact that i had to repay the Sakyo flute which i lost that cost a bomb is prob a sign i should retire musically for real? haha.. sigh... but MUSIC is cool!

DANCE is somehow cooler cause its MUSIC plus dance!! :p

okie... im excited..

study study now...


Muacks,
My crappiest entry ever! (hey but it sounds so like me! FUN!)

Fuzzie Wuzzie
(the cat growing a pathetic bellie)

studying for the exams

i always thought that the study week is the most trying for me cause it a period where i am highly distracted. Distracted with all sort of things. It is of course primarily my fault for lettin myself to be distracted by the myriad of things. From watching tv, to hanging out, to being idle, mere procrastination and of course my greatest bane of all- one of the 7 deadly sins.

even in times of project deadlines and presentation i can stay more focused. Although it is definitely more stressful to be rushing to complete that report or rushing to perfect that presentation with the little time one has, i like it it cause its definitely more efficient. And i feel motivated to complete it- lest you wll get downgraded for late submission.

On the other hand, exams? Well, i always thought they're just the closing of each term. ANd for this term especially i had like more than a week to study but no i only started, at snail's pace i must add, on like wednesday when i planned to start on monday actually.

But THE day is coming. My first exams with the most weightage starts tuesday. I barely started on Intellectual Property Rights but by tonight im supposed to contribute to my project grp the case notes for Patents 1 & 2! Deadlines! cool. I think i work best with deadlines cause at least theyre challenging. Like who would want to study for one whole week for the exams when there's so much to do in life? Like visiting your frens at her house for the raya- all that precious laughter; like watching chinese tv drama that can make u cry and smile and inspired; like feeding your whatever wants u desire. :p

Enough said. I finally completed catching up on my Psychology readings last nite. Im off to school soon to do the IPR cases. I;m feeling good cause i can see myself speeding up in my revision! Yay!

Can't wait till the exams are over! RENT, Twist of Fate, Hope Stree Reconstructed, Emix Dance Camp too look forward to!

Yay!

Muacks

Elated

I'm so glad that Comms report has been handed in.. (btw our presentation was an A plus!), that IPR presentation is OVER and report too!

elated and relieved i am
that for this term an end to my deadlines
of projects and presentation that's
excited yet stressful

of sleepless nights and
pressured times
no more this term no more

to dance to salsa now i shall
too party and bask in festive cheer

cum monday i will all study for social psych, BP and IPR.

Hooray!

Just love the period when the dealines are over. Exams i think are less stressful. Although SOcial Psychology is closed book, IPR is 50 freaking % and BP is a course i skipped more than twice.. ALl will be well! :)

So i Salsa-ed with Kirti, May and Corina at Union Square! :) ANd Zu, Missy and her fren watched. Mukthar came but late. Today went to JB for the usual stuff esp KFC! :)
Will go Starry Night and Social tmrw. Most exciting thing- my Open House this sunday for smu people! :p Its my last Raya as an SMU student! :p

oh what a day...

(haven't been blogging due to impeding deadlines at school: even Hari Raya and by very recent 'hair dyeing' adventure wasnt compelling enough to be blogged down. Life's so busy until i TODAY, i just had to write this event day despite being very occupied with schoolwork!)

i always have to learn lessons the hard way. today's salsa performance was a total disaster. in my opinion, it,s a TOTAL disaster and its very much my fault.

we had a performance for Ns Men function today - an event where NS men who are offered a place in campus come so that they can get to know more about the school and hence be convinced why our uni is the one to vie for. Well so the eventful day starts. let me make it short as it a bit painful to start and rattle too much. i lost concentration from the start: constantly looking at the other pair to see whether i'm right. concentration depleting. Then i forgot the spin after the double turn. then we performed the dreaded 2 pair casino. i banged into the other guy, almost face-on and it made me lose it like totally. so the rest of the dance i'm like following what the other couple's doing and following which resulted to even dire consequences. i prob forgotten more than i can recall. (how apt) anyway i didnt manage to neck drop my partner and the guy's shine ended early so.. etc, etc etc.

bleah bleuk puke yucks!

its really embarassing i tell u. im dissapointed with myself, ashamed that i forgot so much, pissed and upset at the whole situation. DARN!!! Arrgghghhhhhh!!! if i was a smoker or a drinker, i probably be puking my lungs out amongst more than a dozen cigarette butts in some dark alley off Armenian Street.

I also feel sorry for my partner and the other pair for letting them down.. i know i will get over this but my heart just feels heavy..

i think god is great though cause guess what? i was like down the whole day fromlike 317pm all the way til the evening when i read what was in the email... its the result of my Comms 201 Presentation! All of us got an A for our individual presentation!!!! So i hugged Deen!!!!! and jumped for joy!! Then i read the email again.... and scrolled to the bottom.. A FREAKING PLUS + for Overall Presentation!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! technically i dunno how if indv we got a then we can get a plus but i guess prof Mark can see from the slides that we put in LOTS of work!!! Phew!! all that sleepless nights was worth it! Esp the night which me and Deen stayed overnight in our new campus!! :p

SIgh...

well anyway, i must add that i didn't manage to meet up with my dear Yuhua Secondary School friends for the Raya this year cause im too caught up in IPR meetings... i missed them much. Can u believe i still yet to wear my super bright green kurtha/baju kurung which i bought this year!!! (cause i wore sth maroon of previous years on the first day)

At least the day concluded nicely with me and Deen at KFC enjoying yummy crispy chicken and its fats and all.. plus the Ole fish burger!

God, please help me pull through this most difficult few days of my life with the boo boo at the jamboree haunting me, the 25% comms report which i'll be mainly doing and compiling due monday and the IPR report and PRESENTATION due on wed..

InsyaAllah..