I wrote the following at 2.30am, and realise I'm not the "night" kinda person.
(I actually tried to send this as an email to charlene sivalingam....)
I promise this is the last email of the night, and I shall end this with a pat on my back. *pats own back*.
Yes, as you can see I'm a little woozy. Probably because I was having a group project meeting that was kinda going everywhere, but somehow end up nowhere. (But it's okay, I'm gonna pull it off).
Where was I?
Okay, this is the journal article I found. It's from Harvard Business Review, which is listed in the list of good journals in the tutorial notes.
If I only have 20seconds to tell you what this article is,
Well this article is divided into 2. 1) About a fictional company which have been experiencing some problems, eg. product differentiation, branding... 2) A few experts' take on the situation of the company and suggested operatives.
What's good about this article is that it has a very important element of HUMOUR. really quite funny. Then the experts apply the fake scenarios into real life, and they talk about market strategies to counter and avoid such issues, by using real life examples and phenomenons. (We can critique the article by saying hard to verify the viability of their suggestions blah blah blah)
Just read the first two pages and you'll find it quite interesting... really interesting
Then scroll to the pages behind, where the experts put forth their theories.
Ya, that's all for now. I need my sleep. now. serious.
Okay,Bye and see you tml.
Love, Deanna
(...but gmail had some glitches and I didn't get to send it in the end)
"I don't wanna survive, I want to live!" - Taken from the movie Wall E
With ambiguity, comes meaning. Weird, absurb meanings that converge together to form a certain kind of truth. And I think that truth won't fail me...
well, maybe not too much.
Oh I love my busy, busy life right now. I really do.
2:19 AM
Saturday, September 20, 2008
The scriptwriters' sickness.
There was a little bit of foreshadowing on thursday, where 2 of my friends, Joyce and Colleen, declared that they only had 2 hours of sleep the previous night, and so their eyelids have somehow dropped to their assess. And they had presentations the next day. Joyce had 1 and Colleen had 2, but thankfully they survived without any accidents, and with just 1 comment of "is it me, or is the sun very, very bright today?"
(perhaps this is the reason why uni grads deserve to earn more .)
After their almost sleepless night, it was the bulk of Scriptwriting coursemates who had our turn at it. We had to hand in our 15 page scripts to our tutor on friday.
Melissa, Wendy and I slept at around 4plus am, while Xue Mei didn't sleep a wink but showed up for the 9am class. At 2am in the evening, Bee Hwee msn-ed me, saying she was "f***-ed" because the scriptwriting software she downloaded said "there would be 3 watermarks of the programme on your paper when it is printed."
Maybe the next batch of people to have sleepless nights would be the Comm Research people.
It was an amazing feat, considering I had my Korean test the very next day as well. Thankfully I've already written my script, just that I haven't formatted it right until Thursday night. So I spent the rest of the evening in my world of Hangul Chapter 11 to 15. Melissa wrote her entire script in that one night, with her reason being "must have pressure than will work one, if not will keep getting stuck".
But all's well, ends well, because I ended up sleeping for 20 hours the night after. Without a word, I plonked myself on my bed at 6pm, and didn't regain consciousness till 2am, when my sister bellowed, "eh, you don't want to bathe ah?" Even then, I continued to sleep until this very morning at 9am, where I finally decided that I had enough.
No matter what, it was still a good week, both for me and my NTU teammates. We defeated SMU 60-40 in midweek, and the best part was that every single one of us played a part in the win. SMU drew first blood with a layup in the first few seconds, and within the first five minutes, had led 8-4. What made me happy was that the coach decided to put me in when we were losing, and when I was subsituted out early in the 2nd quarter, we were leading by ten. I had short appearances in the game after that, perhaps only going in for 1 or 2 minutes per quarter, but it was enough.
And that was the end of week 7, Sem 1, Year 3. A week to remember.
2:25 PM
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Leanne Wong Heard birthday gongs And had so much fun Cos she just turned 21
"I turned 21 and all I got was this lousy poem"...
...must be what Leanne Wong is thinking right now.
Nevertheless, happy 21st birthday! Here's to many many more crazy adventures, like driving without the stupid triangle, watching R(A) shows, getting into clubs without being checked, meeting in Liang Seah when the next leap year comes, and many many many more!
Love you loads and hope you have an enjoyable day!
2 (half) days of shooting, 2 nights of editing, and hey presto, we've got ourselves a film!
Melissa's favourite production still.
On Melissa's hand is the baby High Defination camera. Was our first time using HD, and we spent a lot of time trying to focus the shots, because the other groups warned us to.
Editing in this room that never sleeps for 2 conscecutive nights. Just behind our "cubicle" is Xuemei's group, who thinks me and Melissa went crazy editing because...
... we started naming our files according to how we're feeling. This file is entitled "waituntildieliao"...
..and we tried playing Pictionary while waiting for our files to be rendered/ exported. The topic for this was "Nursury Rhyme" and Melissa drew this for me to guess.
I really had no clue what the hell it was. Chicken Little, I thought.
You know what the correct answer was? Rock-a-bye-baby. Seriously, that "chicken-look-a-like" creature is an actual human baby. Oh gosh.
But we did had a lot of fun during this intensive session. And somehow, that girl never grew bored of the song, no matter how many times we played it.
Gotta thank Hwee Teng and Kenny, for being our actors. Great job guys! And Denis for the house. I'm really exploiting his house a good deal man. Hurhur.
Next production is coming up pretty soon, can't wait!
12:26 AM
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Oh sweet sleep.
Yes. Melissa and I have finally (and successfully) finished our short 2 minute montage assignment and presentation, all in the span of 5 whirlwind days and nights.
For a while we thought we had to camp overnight in the editing suite, but thankfully we left the place at 2am the latest.
The rest of the groups who were in the suite, also panicking over their projects, said that for our next assignment, we should just have a night time steamboat-and-mahjong session. And it's really a good idea, because waiting for all the rendering, exporting etc. takes up such long hours.
Mel and I even resorted to playing Pictionary on the whiteboard for fun. We attempted to draw CS people and make each other guess who we drew. However, her drawing was too horrible so I lost.
Now, a huge rock has been lifted off my shoulders, and frankly, I feel that this film is an improvement from my last one. The acting is very real, thanks to Mel who's in drama, and the actors really gave it all.
However, there is still a need to work harder to catch up with the guys. Their films are really really good!
Shall upload the production pictures soon, and search for some lost sleep. I'm getting tired and cranky, and the temporary braces are kinda getting on my nerves.
I'm just a walking zombie la.
Hope my team will win later. Woohoo!
4:52 PM
Sunday, September 07, 2008
fighting tooth and nail for something has taken a whole new HORRIFYING meaning.
2:34 AM
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Inspired by De Sica's "Bicycle Thieves", boosting superb cinematography and succeeded in making me not fall asleep in class.
Very beautiful.
12:20 AM
Monday, September 01, 2008
Cough becomes her.
The medicine lied.
It is supposed to be non-drowsy, but right now, I feel like I'm in the land of marshmellows. Oh look, there's a rainbow and a bunny that goes hippoty-hop.
After a long string of coughing fits yesterday and the day before while working at Comex 2008, my mama commanded me to stay home and rest today.
"Don't go to school ah!"She bellowed, after yet another coughing session. I tried to protest, meekly, before my coughs took over.
Wow, and I didn't know I loved school THAT much.
I do know though, that these coughs I have been having has mutated from small, squeaky, barely-there "ahem"-like coughs to full-blown, can-build-stomach-muscles, heavy duty coughing fits.
Just yesterday, I was waiting for the bus at the bus stop when my throat started tickling uncontrollably. The next time I knew, my head was jolting back and forth, back and forth and the auntie who sat beside me was giving me such a dirty stare.
I think she shifted 5cm to her left.
After sleeping almost the whole day (I woke up just now to catch Ink in Superband revival round), I feel even sicker. You know that lazy feeling you get, when you wake up after a nap, you just wanna snuggle right back?
That's what I feel right now, and I see that bunny again. I also have been hearing phantom ring tones, for nobody called. But that mystery has been half solved, since the auntie who comes to clean my house has the exact same ring tone as me.
It does mean I have to change my ring tone though, or be the laughing stock of my sisters, who are begining to mock my choice of ringtone and its association to the cleaning auntie.
School resumes tomorrow, yay. Then I'll be sane enough to stop seeing the stupid bunny and not become Donnie Darko.
8:55 PM
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This is Deanna.
My head is bloodied, but unbowed
Life is a mad, red Rush nowadays
Have moments of randomness
Steps away from the working society and dreading it.
Loves the money, hates the work.br>
Tries to be funny.
Sometimes am.
Loves adventure. Craves for adventure.
Will whistle for cash.
Hopes the fairy tales on tv can apply in real life.
Lives in a state of false consciousness called television.
