Tags: website

Real vs Virtual Museums

Compare and contrast, with the help of the relevant sources, your experience as viewer in a real museum setting such as NUS’s, and a virtual setting exemplified by a museum’s website of your choice: What are the pros and cons of each setting? What are the differences in the way exhibits are presented? Which of the two settings (the physical or the virtual) is more successful in educating the viewer?
—Mid-term Essay question for an Art History module (I scored an A for this ^_^)

Subjects: School 学校

Tags: history, museum, NUS, website

The decay of my English

It’s been three months since I graduated from the university and nearly four months since my last blog entry. In the process of writing this entry, I uncover the decay of my English writing ability… T_T

So what have I been up to of late? Well, let’s see… Passing my driving basic theory (driving lessons to begin in September), watching tons of anime (Juuni Kokki, Escaflowne etc.) and reading manga. However, the highlight of the past few months since graducation would definitely be the intensive 5-day-a-week Japanese classes that I’ve been attending. Well, I haven’t yet learnt enough grammar and vocabulary to make a decent conversation in Japanese, but I discovered yesterday at Kinokuniya that I could stumble through some simple Japanese manga (e.g. Hikaru no Go). This made me really happy.

On the one hand, I don’t feel like I’ve wasted my time doing nothing these couple of months, on the other, I feel like there’s a lot of things that I need to do that I have yet accomplished. These things include writing my resume and updating my Mythology website (I’ve been so lazy and unmotivated). I also want to get my English back to standard (this is an actual need, for me to write a decent resume), which means I need to read the books that have been lying unread in my bookshelves for months.

Subjects: General

Tags: anime, English, Japanese, website

On turning 21

I’m finally 21! as of October 31st 2002 that is. In my country, that number marks the beginning of ‘adulthood’. I think that’s so weird, ‘cause I really don’t feel like I’ve grown up at all: I still behave *ahem* childishly, or rather childlike-ly 50% of the time. Still, being 21 is a nice feeling. I feel a lot better being 21 than 20, a neither teen nor adult age.

The second thing I want to mention is that I’m done with my projects for this semester, what’s left are the 2 exam papers. It has been a total nightmare, this entire semester, as you can probably already tell from my previous retarded posts (not to say that this post isn’t as retarded). I’ve had barely any time at all to update my websites, no time to read, so my command of English has obviously undergone a degenerative process. I’m getting fat cos I haven’t been exercising with my tightly booked schedules, my thyroid condition doesn’t help either. Life’s been depressing. But NOW I’ve actually time to recenter my my perceptions. As such, my resolutions are to get healthier, exercise, lose some unnecessary weight, recover from my thyroid, do some more reading, re-pursue the hobbies I cast aside because of school.

Subjects: General

Tags: birthday, examination, hyperthyroid, Squaresoft, website

Feeling alive

This is just a short post to say that I’m alive now. I’ve survived the 3 week long torment of sleep deprivation and constant programming. Right now I’m back in the computer lab again after a weekend long break following the submission of my web portal project. This time, I’m starting on my final project of the semester, this film media project. It will be due on October 30th, just before my 21st birthday which really is a good thing, the former I mean.

Anyway, just a declaration of my latest two obsessions. Collecting Hong Kong (or generally Chinese) art house DVDs (think Wong Kar Wai, Stanley Kwan & Chen Kaige) and purchasing Zara clothing.

Subjects: General

Tags: birthday, Chen Kaige, Hong Kong, programming, project, Stanley Kwan, website, Wong Kar Wai, Zara

Grave's Disease

First blog of this month. Actually I’ve got nothing really much to say, except that I’ve been rather busy since school has started. As of last week, I’ve been diagnosed with Grave’s Disease which causes hyper-thyroidism, which explains my weight loss in the month of May (no thanks to CS2103, that is why I will eternally hate that subject). I’m under medication now. Anyway, I’ll back off from the depressing stuff a bit for now. As you can see, my site has been redesigned. Yay. Began renovating a week ago, have been gradually adding bits of graphics to the layout whenever a good idea comes to mind, so the site’s getting quite fleshed out.

So, I guess it’s pretty late now. Going to zzzzzzzzz…

Subjects: General

Tags: Grave's Disease, hyperthyroid, programming, website