Student : 0501291I WONG HAU YENG, EUNICE
Academic Year : 2005/2006
Course : DIPLOMA IN COMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA MANAGEMENT
Communications and Media Marketing
5 Sep 2005 14:30 - 16:30 BS26-04-11/12 Seat 47
Essential Graphic Software
6 Sep 2005 14:30 - 16:30 BS26-03-18/19 Seat 34
Media & Society
7 Sep 2005 09:30 - 11:30 BS26-03-15 Seat 47
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Feel like shit, and not just because I left my dear lappy Marvin in KBox just now. Skipped lecture and went singing with Suesue and Philphil because I felt like shit, and it didn't make me feel much better. I had something to blog which I typed on notepad in my lappy this morning because I didn't have internet connection and now it's not here to blog. I'll edit this and post it later.
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Haha, I always seem to blog in journalism tutorial. It's just because I have access to the computer and it's so English lesson and nothing to do. Sigh sigh sigh I finished the stupid exercise already and just to prove it, I will post my story here.
Tutorial 9
Five people were killed yesterday when two planes crashed in Chua Chu Kang.
Aerobatics team Blue Knights was practicing its stunts at about 5,000 metres when the flight leader’s Hawk jet was hit by a second jet.
The pilots ejected to safety, but one of the planes crashed into four farm houses and killed the occupants in two of them.
The other plane crashed into the Phua Chu Kang Primary School field.
Some 1,000 children were attending classes in the school at the time, but none were hurt. Mr. Wong Ah Lek, the principal, said: “The PE lessons were scheduled to start just about half an hour after the crash.”
Mr. Tan Chin Min, 45, a resident and orchid farm owner, said in Hokkien: “Planes are always flying over our houses and we used to fear something might happen. And today we suffer. Why must they fly over here, can’t they find some other place?”
The Blue Knights team lost two aircraft since it was formed ten years ago, but there were no fatalities until now.
The team was preparing for next month’s Aerospace 2005 exhibition to be held at the Singapore Expo.
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You're probably gone now, and I'm a bit bummed that you didn't call or anything and I'm wondering if I should even care.
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I think I need someone who can devote his time to me. Not unreasonably, but enough so that I feel like I'm needed and wanted and important.
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It's so easy to feel like giving up because of all the projects that we still have. Well, maybe it's just that one project for marketing - The Marketing Plan. Then we have journalism assignments, EssGraSoftware newsletter, and an individual design assignment. But I can't give up, I can't. I'm still gunning for my As, Kwee Hoon thinks I'm a "good student", and it's all going pretty good I can't give up like that. I used to love myself for my peserverance and never-say-die attitude, but in sec 4 that just totally died and fizzled, especially at the O Levels. And it sucked. And now that it's all new and refreshed and shit like that I need to push on.
And I don't want to let you distract me but I keep thinking about you, you bastard.
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Everyone's playing games after they finished their stuff. I never wanted to be a journalist but I thought what the fuck keep an open mind. I still don't want to be a journalist, and play the games they play. It's scary, and besides, I don't like writing all that much, even if I'm supposed to be good at it. I want to make films, dammit. I never got round to that short film. I want people to help me with it. I also want a new DV cam because mine keeps konking out on me.
I want a lot of things, don't I?
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Kwee Hoon is back, and I'm still rambling. We're being asked to read out our leads now. Let me put mine here, even though you've read it already (like you bothered).
Five people were killed yesterday when two planes crashed in Chua Chu Kang.
She didn't ask me to read mine. I think mine is correct.
Okay fine, it's not exactly it, but I got the point. People died, yo.
It's supposed to be:
Five people were killed yesterday when a jet belonging to aerobatics team, Blue Knights, smashed into a row of farm houses in Chua Chu Kang. A second plane crashed into a school field.
*shrug*
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Next assignment. You will be given information on a fire incident. Write a story based on the information given using a summary lead.
It actually means: write a fucking summary lead about a fucking fire.
(Oh, feel the angst if you haven't by now!)
Firemen forced their way into a two-story terrace house in Clementi last night, after a neighbour reported a blaze in the master bedroom.
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Brief for GWA 5
Pick a recent news story/topic, from any of the national papers, that is of importance or interest to the general public.
You will need to do a follow-up reaction story.
It will be a survey-based article, so you will have to go to a public place and canvass the views of the people on the street. (You must identify yourself to every interviewee as a journalism student doing a class assignment.)
You will need to interview at least 50 people, and get quotes from as many of possible.
Decide on your angle and workout the relevant questions before you start on your reporting.
You will come to class next week with each group member having a full set of reporting notes.
You will write the story in class at the next tutorial after making the presentation as per the following format:
And that was typed exactly as it was given to us, so don't sue me for mistakes.
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An unattended cigerette / a cigerette left smoking on a mattress caused a fire in a house in Clementi yesterday.
That's the model fire lead.
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Exercise Three: Boiling Down A News Story
Fuck lah.
Master teacher Mr. Limat Navles will be holding a modern dance workshop for intermediate and advanced dancers, in conjunction with the Singapore Dance Theatre.
Ms. Ng Eewk Nooh, Artistic Director of Singapore Dance Theatre, said: "This is our first major overseas collaboration this year. We're pleased and excited to have a person of this distinguished calibre to come and work with our dancers."
Mr. Navles began his dance career with Martha Graham in New York City in 1957 and was the only acknowledged teacher for the Graham company for the first eight years of its existance. In 1981, he relocated to Tokyo, Japan, and was the only foreigner to teach at the Tokyo Academy of Performing Arts.
Retiring for performing in 1999, Mr Navles became a choreographer consultant and master teacher at the University of Southern Madagascar, where he continues to teach till today.
The workshop, for intermediate and advanced dancers, will run on weekdays from 7-18 Sept between 9.30am to 4.30pm in the Esplanade Theatres on the Bay Amethyst Room. The fee for all ten classes is $800, or $100 for each individual class. For complete workshop information, please call Nadnerb Gnow at 6788 8888.
Done.
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I feel cool that I'm doing my work on Blogger. I mean, who else does their work on Blogger? I am a news story! W00T!
-_-
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Nah. Give you Colorquiz.
... like you all read like that.
Your Existing Situation
Feels obstructed in her desires and prevented from obtaining the things she regards as essential.
Your Stress Sources
Has an unsatisfied need to ally herself with others whose standards are as high as her own, and to stand out from the herd. This desire for preeminence isolates her and inhibits her readiness to give herself freely. While she wants to surrender and let herself go, she regards this as a weakness which must be resisted. This self-restraint, she feels, will lift her above the rank and file and ensure recognition as a unique and distinctive personality.
Your Restrained Characteristics
Has high emotional demands and is willing to involve herself in a close relationship, but not with any great depth of feeling.
Egocentric and therefore quick to take offense. Sensitive and sentimental, but conceals this from all except those very close to him.
Your Desired Objective
Needs recognition. Ambitious, wants to impress and be looked up to, to be both popular and admired. Seeks to bridge the gap which she feels separates her from others.
Your Actual Problem
Needs to be valued and respected as an exceptional individual, in order to increase her self-esteem and her feeling of personal worth. Resists mediocrity and sets herself high standards.
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Half an hour to the end of school.
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Eighteen minutes to the end of school.
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Fysh And Philip almost rhymes with fish and chips.
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Twelve minutes to the end of school. We can go off soon, we're told, after we study the correct way of writing the dance shit.
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Philip says, "if you keep doing your work on your blog your readership will drop." Is this true? *surveys*
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Class is over at 1650hr. BYE YOU BASTARD MINIONS.