Hectic Hectic Hectic

Wow.. If I have to some this week with only one word, I believe it would be hectic. I'm back in Rawang now, but later tonight I'll be back in Cyberjaya again.. C'est la vie.

On Monday I didn't go to Hanna's class since I lost respect for her since she doesn't know what the acronym CEO stands for. Yes folks, really. She said that it stands for Chief Engineering Officer. So if a thing as silly as that pun dia boleh tak tahu, I figure that there's no worth is going for her lecture. Well, nevermind I guess since we did already do the evaluation of our lecturers last week. I wonder if she'll still be here next semester.

Nevertheless, I did went to the tutorial for that course where I was supposed to pass up an assignment called 'The Data Bank' where we need to find resources on our topic (I choose censorship). I believe the whole idea of it is to see if we are capable of finding resources for assignments.. which is ironic since we have been passing up countless papers for 2 semester slready. Nevertheless, I asked for an extension and finished the whole 50 pages assignment on Friday.

Monday is also Journalism day where I met Razlan after 2 weeks of being absent (the hospital thing). I passed up my news writing exercises to him and he told me to fix some of the parts which he deemed inappropriate. Nothing major actually. Nevertheless he then told us of the next big thing, another news article but one that will cost us 20% of the total course points. In this news article, we are supposed to write on an issue that is in our area so I was thinking of the problem with the Rawang main road or as Abah suggested, the abandonned school in front of my house. In this one, we have to interview 3 people as sources, 2 ordinary citizen and 1 person of authority and we need to give the lecturer their phone numbers. How cool is that?

Then on Wednesday I came to Faizal Nafis' class where we discussed on George Orwell's novel, Nineteen Eighty-four and its influence on the society. We also delved into the 1984 Apple Superbowl advertisement which is considered the best ad ever, which is also insiped by Orwell. I actually have the ad on my Mac but fate intervined and I didn't brought my laptop along for the class.. Shoot. Nevertheless, Faizal reminded all that we should all be starting on our second essay on an Information Technology that have a huge impact on the world. We only have two assignments for this class but both are highly technical and intense.. Well, I think so since he did mentioned we are supposed to cite at least 20 sources to get an A. Hurm.. I guess I might be doing on blogging or YouTube as my topic.

Then came Friday with the piéce de résistance: Film and Television class. Last week we were given assignments to do a storyboard and this week we are supposed to see a movie and write a 3000 word article about it. Fairly simple I said to myself. The movie is called 'Mulholland Drive' and it is anything but simple. Have you ever seen a movie that you need to watch it twice with a few visit to the Internet to understand it? Well, that's what happen to me. I went to class on Saturday just to understand the movie. Why is it so hard? Well, mostly because of the weird style of narative David Lynch applied to that movie that it doesn't flow linearly. Instead, the timeline jumps around so you really have to keep an eye on the clues to fully understand it. My lecturer then suggested us to study a lil bit on Carl Jung and Freud's psychological analysis to understand it better. How ironic. Great, now I just need to write 3000 words on a movie I barely understood and I need to learn psychology and understand it first before I could really understand the movie. Cool.

So yup, that's about it. The hectic life of one Mass Comm student in Cyberjaya. Who ever said that it's a lepak-lepak course?

Labels: media, studies