Reinterpret

August 23, 2006

Most listened: Mad Season-Matchbox 20

Current longing: Some more scope

Its been a pretty good week from the last actually. I managed to start and practically finish the bulk of my Physics indepth study and to a good standard to. I’ve handed in my draft and today was told that it was rather good. I’m so pleased. I put in heaps of effort to get the indepth to be really professional and its paid off. Infact I need to dumb it down a bit. I also have got my result for the last Physics practical which was 75% although the teach had misplaced the front page, so I printed off a 2nd one and they are remarking it. So prolly around 80-85% he thinks which is a smidge less than my other practical but I didn’t quite understand it as much.

On Monday we had a Maths Specialist test and it was grueling. Just how I like it. I managed to blitz it hard and put in a real top effort. We have the Maths Studies test on the upcoming Monday which I probably won’t be as good with imo.

On Monday I spent most of the time(as I have 2 study lessons and an IT lesson(we are doing Flash and Chris and I are better than the teacher, despite his somewhat arrogance towards us)) working on my Chinese indepth assignment(english written, Chinese written, Chinese oral). I finished the english component which ended up being 2x the maximum length. This year I chose my topic and decided not to do the default Spring Festival selection. This is because I found a SABSSA marking report for last years exam, in the exam we do an oral component which we have to talk about our indepth study. Now in the report it said that the examiners were sick of hearing people talk about Chinese festivals among some other general faults. So I have decided to do a different topic and focus on improving the common mistakes of last year. I am now ready to start the other components as I have gather all of the vocab I need for them. BTW my topic is Chinese martial arts movies. For the english part I talked about the timeline of the movies, how they started, main changes in the genre and whatnot. In the Chinese component I am going to compare some martial arts films and for the oral I am going to talk about Jackie Chan and his influence on the industry and on western audiences.

Today I have been gathering materials for the Physics oral presentation. I am doing a Flash presentation which should be some of my best Flash work yet. I also just checked out my old Killer 7 project as done in yr10. Damn its good. I can’t believe how pro it looks and feels.

I had a pretty interesting weekend too. On Friday night my best mate(Matt) txt’d me and I went over to his place for a few hrs. We caught up a bit. On Saturday morning I mainly did school work and revision for the test. On Saturday night I went to my friends 18th of which I left early as I wasn’t feeling too good. Too much staying up and designing during the week. On Sunday Chris went to the Unis with Matt and John whom conicidently met up at the train station, they talked about going in separately as it would have been easier and then all met up. I went in later in the day to UniSA to my Visual Communication course. Matt and I went in together after John said that he wanted to go in with me. The lecture was alright I guess. We then went to the gallery and had a look around. Found out stacks more about the courses I was into. Then Matt and I went back to Matt’s house and stayed there for an hour then I left and went home.

Matt told me about this Media of Arts thing that he was at. He spoke of this course similar to Visual Com. But it was focused more on skills of designing with a computer instead of design theories. So I found out some more info and have decided to go for it. In the first year of the course you learn about general media/design theory then in the last 2 years you specialize in certain areas like film or screen play etc. I have chosen to specialize in Digital Design. I’ve also decided that sometime during me doing the course(probably 2nd year) I shall also do an Advanced Diploma in Interpreting…

I left this entry for a while and then checked out the Uni book to see about courses in Chinese interpreting

I’ve found out that I can actually do a course based on the Chinese language. Yay thats great. I am almost finished putting in my applications for my choices so I don’t know if I wanna still do Digital Design or not. Oh such hard decisions…I’ll keep you posted.

-DPrimed

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