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Thursday, 31 July 2008

Despite all my whining yesterday, I realised that the theme is not set in stone. By 'TOGOE', the lecturer actually meant that the protagonist eventually manages to 'defeat' the antagonist. Furthermore, the antagonist does not have to be human. Using examples given in class, the antagonist could be- an emotion, an organization, a situation, etc (Which sort of 'fades' up the 'limiter') But, I would guess it still has to be a 'happy end', so... there's still a 'limiter'.
In all, I'm rather glad the problem has cleared but I'd rather there be not any 'limiter' at all and we're allowed to put in 'bad end's. But! Like people say, beggars can't be choosers so... I'd have to settle at that.

[[ L-vin Tay ]]
at 16:40

Wednesday, 30 July 2008

No CreatSt today! The Lecturer got a sudden MC and noticed us yesterday via TP mail. I spent the whole day infront of the laptop, watching anime. Which reminds me... we were asked to watch more TV so that we can get more 'inspiration' and we'd know what's 'out there' (so that we don't copy else's idea). For CreatSt... we're supposed to come up with three story ideas and hand the ideas in by 8 August (Olympics).
We're supposed to have:
1. Sypnopsis of each story idea.
2. Make-up of story's main char.
3. Goal(s) of char., what motivates it/him/her.
4. Objective of storyteller.
Then by 21st August, we must have 1 story from the 3 choices redesigned to fit 'triumph of good over evil'(TOGOE). So far, I only have 1 story idea, but it's not 'TOGOE' material... I mean... shows nowadays rarely have that, right?Since, 'TOGOE' doesn't necessarily apply to real-life. >.> (I may be wrong, but that's how I feel) And... the only 'TOGOE' I can think of are those cliche and 'completely copied' kind of story(eg. Power Rangers). The stories have to be TV-worthy as well, since we're writing for the masses, not for O-Levels composition writing. I like writing stories, that's why I want to do well for this subject. *sigh* But I know... it won't be an easy feat.

[[ L-vin Tay ]]
at 19:29

Monday, 28 July 2008

Today's the start of a new block and I hope that the lesson would not be as tough (or even tougher) than the last few we had, namely FunDigPho.
Speaking of tough, it reminds me of DrawEss. Why's that? I think I've mentioned before, but my class has quite a number of 'talents'. They're drawing skills are very very good, it's almost depressing to look at their work pieces. Specially one person whose skills are 'godly', maybe at a professional level. With such people in the class, nobody would have the drive to do well because they know they'll never be first. Though it's possible some people aim to be like the 'talented' and work hard towards the top.
I know that there'll be genius storytellers as well. *sigh* It's as if we're at a different starting point...

[[ L-vin Tay ]]
at 07:41

Saturday, 26 July 2008

God! I've been spending the past 1 1/2 hours or so trying to undo a windows update. I'm not sure whether it's the update problem or not but... straight after the update on the laptop, the Internet Explorer stopped responding and I am unable to connect to the Internet (even though Msn still works). So, I've been trying many ways to find our what the problem is and solving it. After a loooonnnng time 'exploring', I found something like a 'roll-back' and managed to reset the Laptop's version to before the update and solve all the problems. >.>
I'm seriously wondering whether it's the update or not... but I'm rather convinced. Ah well, goes to show not all updates are reliable, specially when you're not a genius at things concerning the computer.
Well I'm just glad to get my Internet Explorer back, if not... my sisters would probably put the blame on me. ^ ^;;

[[ L-vin Tay ]]
at 09:47

Exactly why do we dream the stuff we dream? I've heard that dreams are like recollections of things that happened before, though some dreams are very similar to the things that actually happened before but... there are those that aren't. I had a dream the previous night, about rabbits.
(In the dream) While going to my Grandma's house for a visit, there were lots of rabbits on the ground floor and they were huge. Probably up to my knees when they're at ease, then the biggest rabbit of all was at the lift lobby, probably a head taller than me (at ease). Then (mother) rabbit suddenly became aggressive and chased us (my dad, my elder sister and me), then my dad got into the lift in time and went upstairs. I was locked on by the mum-rabbit. Then I ran to the road and weaved in and out of cars, when I suddenly was pinned down by the mum-rabbit, I hit 'her' in the head and (somehow...) managed to lift her up and throw her.
The dream does continue on, but it'll be too long-winded so I'll just end there. Odd dream... I've had similar dreams of being chased before, either by a psycho-killer or by dinosaurs. Dreams probably have meanings to them, though I doubt nobody can be certain what the actually mean, literally or not.

[[ L-vin Tay ]]
at 07:33

Friday, 25 July 2008

New drawing up! Though the drawing is simple, it looked rather nice. Drawing Essentials and Fundamentals of Digital Photography officially over! Next week onwards would be CreaSt- Creative Storytelling. I've heard from several people that the lesson is slack, but I took it with a pinch of salt. Not everyone's idea of 'slack' is exact, and different lecturers would also lead to different teaching style.
Earlier today, I went to organize the all the Anime that I've watched. The overall number was pretty shocking- 150+ different anime inclusive of sequels and prequels. Compressing all sequels and preguels into 1... It'd still be at least 80. Never realised that I've watched that many anime in the past few years.
I hope that I'd still have spare time in the coming future so I can watch all the anime I want.

[[ L-vin Tay ]]
at 20:31

Friday, 18 July 2008

Been busy the past few days due to FunDigPho- the photo-taking, the final project, etc. But FunDigPho's finally over! Final project done and presented today, so... not more FunDigPho! There has been many nice movies that came out, makes me feel... bad that I could've done something like them instead of choosing to do on my dad. Not that my dad's a bad subject but I just am too lazy to brainstorm and so... I chose my dad as the subject to do the project on.
Now that FunDigPho's over, I'd have to do my sketches for my DrawEss. I'm seriously lagging behind and so I plan to do at most 10 drawings per day starting from tomorrow onwards. Though I doubt I'd be able to do 10 drawings a day but I'll do my best.
I feel like getting a new background up using my 'improved' drawing skills from DrawEs, but now that the schedule's packed I doubt I'd have time to do it.

[[ L-vin Tay ]]
at 16:35

Monday, 14 July 2008

Long time no blog since I've been busy the past few days, mostly rushing on FunDigPho stuff. The final for FunDigPho was bad, but most of the trouble is gone now and I'm about done with the assignment (3/4 done according to the lecturer). The assignment is due Friday, by which we will be showing our 'movie' to the whole class and we'll probably be presenting some things as well. Not forgetting that we must 'dress up' for the occasion though I don't see the point, since the presentation would probably be less than 5 minutes. I guess it's so far so good for FunDigPho, I just hope I can get all my photos up and ready.
DrawEss has be rather 'slack' if I could say so myself, ignoring the fact that I'm almost 10 drawings behind time. DrawEss is a lot nicer compared to FunDigPho though I've got a feeling that it'll be easier to score in FunDigPho than DrawEss (I have no idea why).

[[ L-vin Tay ]]
at 17:50