Showing posts with label frustration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frustration. Show all posts

Of the torture of waiting

Man, i'm freaking out. I dont feel that well anymore ( not the "well" in health). I dont feel at ease but surprisingly i still can eat and sleep well.

Internship, internship, internship

I cant get this word out of my head!!! Argh!!!!

I thought about it when i'm eating, when i'm doing my assignments, when i'm showering even when i'm playing dota!

Seriously, I dont want utar send me to places i dont like.

I hope i get a good reply soon. After all as they said, good things are worth the wait right? Let just hope that it's true.

Or else i mati la.

A Simple Lesson

  1. Lack of equipment
  2. Not enough time
  3. Unbalance group members
  4. Utar has no choice

Seriously all these made me wonder, is this what we are paying for?

First there's a problem with lack of equipment. Isn't that another way of saying there are too many of us? We are also told that those who are taking broadcast journalism are going to use the equipments as well. Okay, that is a conflict but shouldn't we be given the priority first seeing that it is our major?

Noooooooo. The tutor and lecturer just have to force us to shoot on week 3 which is the CNY week simply because there arent many equipment+ not enough time + not enough editting machines.

I dont know about you. You will probably think that there is no other choice but to do this. I disagree. Can you imagine that we are paying so much but in the end they just said there's not enough equipment?

Not only that, even our short film project which initially was 14 members a group is forced to form at least 18/19 per group. We were told that we only have six cameras available not 8. 18/19 people in a group...how much can everyone learn when there's only one camera for each group?

It all comes to one final answer :

Utar has no choice after all.

Yeah right.

CNY : feels like any other days?

If no one mentioned anything about CNY, i still be thinking of going for lectures next week. Is it just me or it seems like the cny mood is really really low this year? There are not much decoration in shopping malls but they frequently play the music la. Save cost perhaps? Aiya...the decorations also use the previous year wan...i think.

I only managed to get 3 new clothes and 1 pair of new jeans for CNY. It doesnt seem like it's enough. But it's not like i'm going to change a new pair every hour of the day right? So i guess, it's better i saved the money for something else. *hint* *hint*

I dont know why, i dont really seems too eager to celebrate the festival this year. Maybe because we receive disturbing news about our assignments (until now still haven gao tim about the grouping thing, how are we going to start leh?), piles of work that never seemed to lessen, and the constant pressure of date lines.

Haiyo...why this year like that wan?

MIA to NIA

I noticed i have not been *cough* blogging *cough* for like how many days? I didn't forget about this blog honest! I visited it every 2 or 3 days but the urge to post something faded?

Okay another reason was probably because i was busy, you know with variety of stuff. This is only the 2nd week of my semesters, i felt as if i was already in the middle of the semester. 6 subjects. It's all about do it properly or die.

And...the lectures this time are all pretty stoned. I couldn't find a anymore proper word to describe it. It was quite disappointing, seeing there's screenplay ( currently my favourite subject), tv production, so it should be pretty interesting right?

Nooooooooo

It wasnt at all. Why? because the lecturers sort of spoil all the fun. First there's not many equipment, then lack of time, grouping problems this that, this that, this that. They even told us we might be shooting next week, which is cny week. Can you imagine?

And to think that this happens to us when we are students...if employees...no offense i can understand why the company needs to get going even if it's after a festivals. Lack of equipment is not really our fault. The way they put it as though there is lack of equipment because there are simply too many students. At the end of the day, none is confirm. Not even the basic requirement for the assignment which is forming a group

Sigh...

Grrrrr

I.Hate.This.Semester's.Timetable.

This gotta be one of the worst timetable utar can ever offer. Half of the time we are spend switching between blocks for classes. In fact, i think most of our time will contribute between walking to pg from pc and from pg to pc.

The timing is not so bad this time. The only troublesome thing is that i have class on Saturday on midday at 12-2. Exactly midday. *Sigh* can we just move the sat class to Friday? After all we only have on class on that day?

The only thing that troubles me the most is the place. And it's like switching class after one another. If it's very very very near like the building next door i probably wouldn't mind. But it's a lil distance away.

Have you noticed that utar's timetable ALWAYS have flaws? be it exam's or normal classes? It's like it HAS to have something that is not right.

*sigh*

I hope we can change it soon....

"M" and "I". The purrrfect pair.

After a relaxing outing and some pestering by the unshakable "I" bout two days ago, thinking i can finally enjoyed the full purpose of an weekend, "M" decided to drop a large meaningless bomb on us by destroying our "after submitting report" happiness through the usage of one word "problems".

This is the actual sentence by the way.

"T1,2 and 5 please take back your reports. Got some problems."

You must be thinking what problems right? Well, apparently the problems carried such weight that all of us are willing to drop a kick or two right into his face.

Here are a list of problems detected by him :

  1. Main hard cover template (where we wrote our names) has the wrong subject code.
  2. Cover pages titles are not centred.
  3. Times New Roman fonts are unacceptable.
  4. Mock screens are too small and the labels are too big.
  5. Flow chart - the lines are not really connected.

Notes:

(1) The code that he gave was initially wrong. But managed to correct it except for the shadowy effect. Ask him bout that and he reply "tak apa, tak apa." And here he was circling it with a apa apa pen.

(2) It must be directly in the middle where you can strike a bull's eye with a dart. Even a little up like 0.5mm is not acceptable.

(3) This i can explain. We didnt use times new roman! We used Imprint MT shadow! And he accused us of using TNR. Isnt he an expert in fonts? I can even prove to him using soft copy!

(4) Okay. Maybe it was a little too small. But then again, you can just provide some guidelines or something. However you didnt. So we might as well do our own thing. And here you are complaining it was too small or too big when you didnt say anything in the first place!

(5) Frankie's flow chart was circled with a red pen for a stupidly tiny weeny mistake. The lines are only 0.1 or 0.2 mm from connecting the boxes. Must you be so calculative? It's not like if you're showing it to a minister or something.

So to summarize everything, if you have any of those suspicious red marks in your report, you have to reprint and rebind again. And that's another several dollars for it.

And didnt he say before once he rejects our project and that's it? There's no correction you can do? Then why is he asking us to take back and correct it?

It's simple. He's contradicting himself. Nope, i think i should use he is hypo-contradicting himself. There. It sounds better isnt it?

Just a random note, i think "I" and "M" will make a good pair. You see, both have some similarities which i think are very rare. Both are muka tembok and lived in a some kind of "tak tahu malu" fantasy.

"I" is more into the annoying side by repeating asking for your work no matter how busy or how late it is. On the other hand, "m" is more on the authoritive side by taking your work in his hands and modify till it was degraded.

And people, i'm proud to say, i found another two people who are qualified for the title of "hypo-contradicting." Yeap. You have probably guessed it. Congratulations to "I" and "M" for earning the titles with lotsa lotsa hard work effort in which us, the viewers can even detect in our skin.

The reason for this is because, we recently found out that our seniors got relatively low marks with the highest is at 25/30. The second highest is only at 23/30. And both are modify 100% by "M". And yet he give such low marks. (=_=)

As for "I", the just reference technique is proven to be undefeatable. Just by using that phrase, an agreement can be achieved in a most forceful way. However, this cannot be beaten by the ultimate usage of copy, modify, combine and paste. And this "i" claims that it was under the just reference technique. Impressive right people?

That is why, here am i, blogging away this award than giving to them personally.

And so ladies and gentlemen, i present to you the golden pair of the semester :

"I" and "M"

Thanks for all the trouble and incovenience that you caused. Just to let you know. I dont appreciate it one bit.

Byebye~

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P/S : This particular post is not directed at anyone. If you are offended, i wont apologize. I have the freedom of speech after all. Thank you very much.

Macky and xp not "gam key"

Now I'm seriously suspecting Macky is a defect machine. Know why? It restarted by itself once in a while when it's too heaty.

After restarted, a message box appear saying that mac OS x quit unexpectedly. Brought it back to apple shop and one of the workers told me it's the heating problem.

Like hello?

Mac OS quit unexpectedly is a heating problem?

I surf the net and found out it was actually kernel panic, a state where the computer doesn't recognize a new program being installed in it. I don't care. I think i'll go ask for a new one. This macky is not even 6 months old.

Isnt Mac suppose to be quite reliable? Some chaplang computer also can tahan the heat but why it cant?!

Cis!

****

Don't say bout macky already. Even my windows xp side is giving me a hell of problem. It has the blue screen of death. Okay i know it sounds weird. But that's what they said on the net. You try to google and see then you know lah.

Anyway why this have to happen? Especially in my busiest moment.

Sheesh, lucky macky got compatible program for word and powerpoint if not then i have to use the troublesome way of transfering my files into another computer and do it there.

*Sigh*

A series of mistakes?

Bah, just came back from a stress free trip from genting today. More will be elaborate on the trip once i got hold of the piccies.

=)

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Damn rain.

Well, actually i do like rain. It's just that the timing is not right. It always rain when we about to do something ( remember our shooting?) or after a particular event ( especially when we finished our class for the day)

And it happened today. Again. It started to rain when we about to get ready for class. Just when we thought we might be able to go to uni by bus, even if we were to be drench a lil, we wouldnt mind. Unfortunately, Mr. Rain decides not to go easy on us. It rained heavier as time goes by.

(=_=)

Luckily in the end, chicken's housemate agreed to give us a lift. We managed to squeeze in 6 ppl in a kelisa. ^^v

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You know, i really regretted coming to class today. I should have gone home, eat and sleep. You know why?

That's because it is a horrible lecture. Our subject was initially multimedia broadcasting then it changed to multimedia design and application. And the lecturer started off with an annoying slang. It's like she's trying to get into a american/british slang but somehow she didnt grasp it skillfully enough. It's quite hard listening to her too. And the most interesting part is when we asked her bout our assignment and she answered,

"I'm not sure bout your assignment. You have to consult your tutor."

Hello, arent lecturer suppose to know?

Hell, they just pushed everything aside as they wish.

That's not the only horror.

We discovered that the tutorial we had on monday was actually a mistake. Apparently the "geniuses" in the office made a mistake with the class and subject arrangement. Therefore, the class on monday was for nothing. No wonder the same tutor ffk us on wednesday.

Seriously, this sem's time arrangement had been so poorly managed.

First the timetable on the net is incorrect. Then they give us another timetable in which we suppose to have a class on wed. Next they rearrange the time on friday and tuesday making both days with only 2 hour of lecture. After that they messed up the course and subject arrangement.

Damn chadou lor.

If this was a series, i bet it can emerge as the top of stupidities.

@!@!$#$#$#%$#$%#%

My impression of utar changed slightly (in a good way) after discovering that they had posted the timetable online.

Please note that they NEVER post it online before. Usually, you have to go and take it yourself. So something like posted online is a very very very good improvement.

My thoughts were, " Eh they posted online wor, so efficient wan. Not bad le. Got improvement".

Alas, i should have expected it was not the case. As always, Utar will remain as utar. Now, i'm pretty convinced that they wont improve to be better. Even if they do, i bet it wont make a difference also. They just had the potential to make BAD choices at the RIGHT time. I gotta say, they make me so proud by proving me right.

First, they posted the inaccurate timetable on the net. And the most wonderful thing is both lecture classes on monday and friday ends at 7. Malaysians should be very familiar with the timing as we all know the jam is very heavy at that time. I'm pretty sure, utar management are staffs who arent foreigners. Surely they realise this right? Then again, i may be wrong.

Another thing is, we have a 3 hour tutorial on saturday. Not that i mind considering we had escaped having classes on saturday for a while now whereas other courses arent so lucky.

And so, utar dropped the bom on us again by stating that we are having a class on wed from 2-4. But the tutor corrected us by saying it was 3-5. Okay, nevermind. That's not the main thing here. I would greatly appreciate it if they had the class earlier in the morning but NOT later in the evening. What a waste of time! Having to come in the late afternoon only for a class. You think we VERY FREE is it? Petrol VERY CHEAP is it?

*breath in breath out*

Luckily that our tutor on monday quite cincai. She said we could extend the tutorial on monday thus cancelling the wed class. At least we have our wednesdays off then.

Oh ya, speaking of our tutor. First impression of her can be describe by one word : nice. Today ah, she treat us sooooooo good. Told us on monday that we'll be having a class today. But guess what? She didnt turn up. FFK us! Make us come to see air only. Sheesh, i thought she was late or what but we waited for one hour also she didnt turn up. Worst of all, her hp was switched off. Hello auntie, even if you got anything on, can at least sms the class rep and tell us that there's no class. Honestly, i didnt know she can just do that. It is always the other way round, not meh?

Anyway,

Guess what?

We had another good news from utar. You just cant expect less of them, they definitely lived up to our accusations and exceed our expectations. We just had another new timetable!!! Highlight of the timetable : fridays class suppose to be from 3-7. Now it split up on two days which are tues and fri. Both are 2 hours of lecture (5-7)

Which means :

Monday ( if the plan worked out ) 12-7
Tues 5-7
Fri 5-7
Sat 11-2

Woooohooooooooo!!!!!

Fantastic la, i tell you.

Truly, the work of a genius.

Not in the mood

Dunno why i suddenly feel so jahaman celaka stupid not in mood today. My eyes soooo bengkak today and i feel so pek chek for half a day already. I seriously dont know what the hell is wrong with me. Thinking of start studying today then got this type of mood pulak. Feeling so blur and confused now. I dont think i know what i'm writing either.

Is this the so called exam panic breakdown?

I hope my "luan luan" thoughts will cleared off by itself soon. Seriously cannot delay studying anymore. Hope i can finish reading mmt by tonite. haiz

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Dear chicken,

Happy birthday!!!

sorry that i wish u late...

xp

diu

Diu

Had a bad sleep last nite.

Woke up in the middle of the night to puke.

(=_=)

So random.

Diu

C n R presentation today was okay overall.

Only my part. Seems like my tougue was very disobedient today. It doesnt seem to wanna pronounce the words i had in mind.

Basically my part was screwed.

Hopefully next monday it'll be better.

Diu

Waited for bus for about 30 mins today and it was verrrrry pack from the beginning to the end.

The bus actually cannot fit anymore ppl la...but the bus driver ah..keep on picking up passengers.

I became a human sandwich in the end.

Diu

Reached 1u at about 6.30 pm.

The queue for taxi is damn long.

So waited for mummy to fetch.

Waited for about 1 n half hour coz the stupidbabi ldp jam.

Diu

Been having stomachache since this morning.

Until now even after i ate something it still wont go away!

Diu

Me today damn fed up

Mana tu narrow minded chinese ppl?

Wanna vent my frustration!