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Hello guys!

Alot of people have been asking me what is it exactly that I’m studying now. They keep hearing Mass Communication, Mass Communications but have no exact idea on what it really is. Basically, on literal translation to simple language it really is just communication at a mass. Meaning, on conveying messages or agendas to a large public. It’s all about communicating with the public – be it the media, general publics or other organizations for your own firm that you are representing.

Especially now that I have chosen Public Relations, the more I have to focus on people managing and wrapping up my messages to these targets nicely before I say anything for any organisation that I may represent in future. So for this semester, we’ve been put into a full course assignment of organising a project for a real client.

A little different from the previous semesters, this time we are assigned to this project together with Propassion of Sem 6 which makes the whole event alot more exciting than it ever was. Previously it was only Media Carnival for this course, but this time with Propassion we will have Mas Colympics as well! MasColympics is an athletic event where us youths participate in all the different varieties of games and such so it will be such a sweaty and exciting place to be at. Imagine all the youthfulness on the day of the event!

COMMFEST has now been drawn up for the 29th of October and it will consist of Mass Colympics, Media Carnival (food and shopping bazaar!) and not forgetting FEELosophy – the main highlight of our Media Carnival!

So much has been put up into schedule but we have so little time to coordinate everything and make sure nothing goes wrong so now I’m putting up a long shout-out here for your participance in our event since it will be a real project and nothing short of a real major public event!

I’ll update you more on the whole event but for now I will need to dig your attention for two things!

As credited

1)We are calling in for blogshops to participate in our bazaar.

There are only 15 slots available so if you’d like to reserve a slot at only RM 100 from 9AM to 2PM over at the brand new Taylors Lakeside campus!

There are about 10,000 students in the Taylors Lakeside Campus so you need not worry about getting underexposed! It’s the perfect chance to promote your shops in within this youths on this day. There will be external crowds coming in for the event below so you should grab the spots while they last!!

Please email lifemediacarnival@yahoo.com for more details or to apply!

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Credits : Google Images

Also alerting all enthusiastic dancers to come audition for FEELosophy with RM 1800 cash prizes up for grabs!

Audition

Dates : 18th and 24th of September 2010

Time : 11AM

Venue : Experimental Theater, Taylors Lakeside Campus

Registration fees : RM 30 per team.

To inquire or to locate a slot for the auditions, please email feelosophylife@yahoo.com

Main Event(Finals)

10 teams will proceed to the FEELosophy finals, judged by special guest judges – to be revealed.

Date: 29th October 2010

Time : 11AM-2.30PM

Venue : Amphitheater, Taylors Lakeside Campus

Remember the friend with from the motorcyclist confusion!

Here are some photos from our meeting last week. I met Shin Ichiro in Seoul but it’s so funny to realise that our communication language is only Korean when none of us are natives. He came to KL alone, finally after his fascination of Malaysia even since back then when we met him.

He would ask us about the Twin Towers and even say a Malay phrase or two. So passionate about this country so he was really looking forward to come to KL! Sam and I had a great time spending some hours off with him but it was too bad that we couldn’t accomodate to him throughout his whole trip because he came on such a short note

Brought him to Stevens Corner (Pandan Indah Branch).

He loved Roti Canai soo much and was hoping not to leave forevah just because of it pfft.

Sam, Shinichiro, Nat

This was at Madam Kwan’s over at Pavillion. He loved Nasi Lemak.

Sam forced him to try the cili padi. He was sooooo terrified at first so he put the cili padi straight into his throat and swallowed it teehee. Then he thought it was not too bad so he tried more and more and was finally said “Woah, so it wasn’t anything big!” until the spiciness kicked in and he suddenly shouted “AHHH SPICY!!!”

Chillax over at La Bodega with Sam’s family before he took off to Masjid Jamek and Chinatown..ALL BY HIMSELF with public transportation.

Believe it or not, this Japanese actually said “Your public transportation is so convenient”. Now that’s something we don’t get to hear much. We all complain about how inconvenient it is all the time and how Singapore or Japan is better. In the face!

This time with only Sam.

That’s a Bonamana poster for Vivien from the album I tolong her buy when I was in Seoul. That was like 2.5 months ago! Actually I packed evyerhting and when I was leaving for the airport it was raining so I hastily left it on the rack while trying to tie my shoes PFFT. When I realised I wasn’t holding it on the bus on the way to the airport, I knew Sam is going to kill me because she will have to carry it all the way back for me. Boo! Sorry Sam but thanks for taking it back for me Teehee.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Looking for

1. Interested booth vendors (blogshops, food chains etc) for a Media Carnival at Taylors Uni Lakeside Campus.
2. DANCERS who are interested in an upcoming dance competition with cash prizes to be won.
   
3. Please email me at feelosophylife@yahoo.com

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On another note,

Here’s an interesting piece of photo to share.
Spot Vivien and I! (2003)

This was way before we knew each other, we actually just walked into the same area to take this photo pfft. Some people don’t like to see bad photos of themselves from the past, but I actually like them as they remind me of things I should remember.

Hello guys!

Just a quickie update. Tom Yam Claypot Yee Mee may be my favorite lunch but here’s what I will never get bored of having for dinner(or at any time of the day!)

ABC Soup + Rice

I can live with this and TYCYM everyday

I met Shin Ichiro today after a few months. I met him lastly in Seoul when I was there for my vacation. This time he’s paying Malaysia a visit after a 3 week exchange program in Singapore before heading back to Seoul. We were asking him about his opinions of the country and he asked

“Hmmm, there’s something I’m really curious about. I don’t know what it is but there is something really weird about Malaysia”

(나 진짜 궁금한게 있는데…좀 이상하는게 있긴있더라…”)

I was shocked, of course – upon hearing his serious introduction. Then he continued

“Why do all motorcyclists in Malaysia wear their shirts the other way round?”

(오토바이 타는사람들이…왜 옷을 반대로 입어? O.O)

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA.

Get it? Alot of motorcyclist always just sleeve in their jacket instead of wearing it.

Poor Shin Ichiro. All confused and thought something was wrong with his imagination.

There are certain hardships in life that comes as a disguised blessing

We won’t know when the final second comes, and it’d be too fast to realise.

Should emotions really by riding your life, or lessons and targets?

If you were only given a chance to blossom one thing, would it be love or character?

Calm water is dangerous

Photos taken by my S90 (Original copies)

Can you haz big lollay like meh?

During the trip to Seoul last May, Dawn and I met up with our first Korean language teacher. We all met in Ampang and I guess that’s where a couple of long lasting friendships came by. I really like Gloria because I believe she has given me so much faith in myself, and she was also an amazing guide along my way to learning Korean. Although classes in Seoul were fun, I can truly stand up and say that a whole chunk of my Korean knowledge now came from her classes. She’s a Korean herself but she has done so much to adapt herself to the Malaysian culture, in order to teach and convey her messages better to local students.

It’s such a shame she doesn’t teach anymore. I’ve always wanted to introduce my friends to her when they decide to pick up the Korean language.

So anyways, Dawn and I met Gloria when she came to Seoul to visit her family. It was such a conincidence, everything fell in place. Would never have guessed we’d all meet in Seoul. The amazing thing was, we had to take her around the Myung Dong because she had no idea where to go and was so amazed by everything, just like a tourist!

Street promoters were speaking to her in Chinese and Korean to me pfft. Everything gone wrong! We had such a good laugh about it.

That’s the jjimdalg  (찜닭) we’re eating. One of the nice Korean menus too!  Yeap, that’s the one and only dish. If only they had this here in KL. I found a good dalggalbi (닭갈비) restaurant, now I need to find a good Jjimdalg restaurant.

Jjimdalgs are a big plate of marinated chicken in special black sauce, mixed with big flat glass noodles, cooked cucumbers, carrots, and big large chunks of potatoes. All marinated with a sweet scent of honey. It’s also one of the dishes that seem really normal but you’ll keep wanting more after some time. A friend once ate it every single day consecutively for about 1 week.  It’s crazy. It was the first thing I ate upon landing teehee.

She brought us some home cooked japchae (mixed vegetable noodle) which was fergalicious!

Here’s a backdated photo from the Malacca Trip I with Imbalanced Community. We had wantan noodles for dinner.

The main highlight of the picture is…..

that this was taken AFTER the meal and everybody was dying from being too filled up.

Portion was crazy. Only 1/8 of us managed to dunk in the whole bowl.