My new obsession

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…is Battlestar Galactica. Seriously I can’t believe I haven’t watched this show sooner!! It’s like…seriously. My fave TV show…I think out of any tv shows I have EVER watched!!! I mean the storyline is so awesome…its got it all - action, hot guys, intelligent storylines I love, love, love it.

Anyways, I finished my exams last thursday. They went ok I guess - I mean I could answer everything pretty well(I hope) but I admittedly did do pretty crappy in my essays *cough*. Oh well. The thing I’m MOST pissed off about though is our digital media project. <start rant - be warned> I met Eileen after our comm lecture and she told us we got 64%…which is fucking disappointing since we all thought we did like 1000% better than our student news project(we got 64 for this one and 67 for our student news one. Doesnt make any sense imo coz our news one srsly sucked). I mean seriously, I was expecting maybe a bit more? Like ok maybe we got some terms wrong….and maybe we mixed up convergence and citizen journalism a bit. And I totally understand why he marked us down for that. But for everything else he was like ‘Oh yeah your editing was really good and the props and stuff’. I dunno. Its just really annoying because we worked hard on it and I definitely think we deserved more when you compare our mark to other peoples who got like 80%(srsly it seems they’re realllly generous when it comes to giving out 75s and 80s to boring videos).

One of my friends did his video and got 79%…and I’m like wtf coz his video kinda sucked. I mean it was boring AS and I skipped through half coz it was so….boring(I couldnt tell him though - Im not that mean XD hopefully he doesnt read this…) He was also part of the group that won the staff prize for our previous project(yes, the lecturer made up a special prize just for their group because their group was outvoted by another in their seminar because ‘they had more friends’. They also incidentally got the highest mark in our unit for that project.) Don’t get me wrong I’m not putting them down here nor am I saying they don’t deserve it(their first project was edited really well) but like, just coz they did good in the first project, it doesn’t mean they HAVE to get a good mark in the second to justify the first!!(if that makes ANY sense). Because I think if anyone saw their two projects, the second one pales in comparison and I just wonder how the hell they got close to a high distinction for it????

I mean they wanted us to make our videos ENTERTAINING AND INNOVATIVE. People did stupid news shows(practically like our student news week format) and boring as black and white tutorials…I mean the effects and editing people used were great but the information was so blah its just like ‘well ok if its boring why would anyone watch it?’  (if you search uwa digital media 2203 you can find a heapload on youtube)’ Some videos were really good though - its just sometimes I don’t really understand how marking at uni works. Maybe I’m just jealous and bitter. Hah. Right. I’m just saying…its disappointing. But as Eileen said, we’re sitting on a solid C so heyyyy if we want to look on the POSITIVE SIDE. UGH. Fuck digital media -_-</end rant>

Well with that off my chest…I saw the Happening on Friday with my friends. If I could sum it up in one sentence it would be….Nice concept but it sounded scripted and the casting sucked ass. I mean Mark Wahlberg is meant to be a schoolteacher?? Lmao. Gimme a break. Most of the movie sound like he’s reading from a freakin script. Watch. it’s so …lol. And then there’s his wife whose name I’ve forgotted(I actually cant remember anyone’s names in the movie ….LOL) but she is the weirdest character in a movie I have ever seen. I mean the actress is completely like..clued out. She kinda stares into the screen and makes these weird expressions. The script and concept of the movie was a nice idea though - maybe it worked well on paper but not acted out?

Anyway we went to Hans later on and talked about the dinner that happened last last week. Oh teh drama.

So now that I’ve got holidays, I don’t know what to do! I might go to IKEA tomorrow because I want one of those ceiling hanger things where you chuck your clothes in XD (yeah…i’m lazy. so what) Umm. And Im going to a post netball catchup on tuesday so that’ll be fun hopefully.
We went to Kings Park today with Jowen (shes an international student from Curtin) and yeah, it was all pretty nice. And I’m going away in a week I think, so yeah!!!

In sitely news, I have added tutorials in my tutorials site. I wrote an article just for Teff bout making your own wordpress theme, and it took ages so go read it Hopefully it helps!! I’ve also added a button rotation so if you want to add your button and link, contact me. Limited spaces available. Aparna’s site is also up - shes my first hostee She has a HP/graphics site but she also has competitions and stuff so go check her site out! Im going to be changing the layout for this soon, mainly coz I prefer reading text on a lighter coloured background (LOL) so yeah. Look out for that.

In a closing note, I got a new external harddrive to backup all my stuff:D Its shiny red!! yeah. It’s awesome. By the way, I also nearly chose to sign up with a new webhost but now I’m not so sure. Seems to be nightmare stories for every webhost -_- Was going to go with Dreamhost…then Hostgator…then AN hosting…but the thing is they sell “unlimited” bandwidth and space when it’s not, really, which is kinda silly. I’m with Jumba at the moment, and I am really happy with them because they have really awesome customer support and forums and help and stuff. I mean I would pay extra to have this support and everything - some sites are cheap but they dont even have a simple knowedgebase…it kinda puts you off. Anyway that’s my experience in searching for a good webhost:)

Oh and I just found my old friend Sam’s email. I haven’t talked to her in over a year(a year outta highschool does that to your relationships with everyone, srsly) and she changed her mobile no. and everyone thinks shes totally snubbed us now but I just found her email and I think I’ll mail her and see what she’s up to. Hopefully she doesn’t think this is weird. lol.

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~ Jakki posted at 6:09 pm

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5 Responses to “My new obsession”

1. Sara Says:
   June 30th, 2008 at 1:12 am

   Digital Media is unusually boring. You think it’s fun,. but then you crack it down and it’s boring as hell.

   I’m currently using NameCheap as my Domain holder and Hosting, maybe give them a look see? They’re definitely honest with their plans when it comes to space and transfer, plus they set up hosting accounts all manually.

2. Teff Says:
   July 1st, 2008 at 12:42 am

   Wow that was quite the rant, but, by the sounds of it you guys deserved better on it! Hmm…and it makes sense what you said about not needing a good mark on the second project to justify the first. Oi. Some peope eh?

   Thanks for the tutorial! It’s been a great help. I’ve been really learning a lot about Wordpress from your tutorials! You actually break it down and everything for me, and basically teach me rather than just “oh so just copy and paste it” - I don’t know how many “tutorial” sites I’ve found that just tell me to copy and paste. Ugh. Ha ha.

   But I’ve been super busy so I’m slowly getting around to making my own! Hope to have them up and going soon! Really appreciate it, thanks again

3. Lin Says:
   July 1st, 2008 at 3:47 am

   love the remix in your background XD!! the comment you made w/ ikea made me remind of the movie fight club, have you seen it? I’m sorry about your dig class, it sounds fun but it also seems like a failed digital media class. I saw one of the vids you made for it & actually enjoyed it, i can’t believe their grading you w/ their crappy standards!

4. Kayla Says:
   July 1st, 2008 at 6:59 am

   Aww. I can’t stand Battlestar. If you want to talk to someone about that, you could talk to Jordon. He loves that show. x.x

   That has me worried about how university is going to grade. I’m going off within two weeks, so we’ll see how that goes.

   Jordon and I watched “The Happening” as well. We had the exact same comments. He loves Shamalan’s films, so he was reluctant to agree with me, but after awhile, he agreed that it did kinda blow.

5. Teff Says:
   July 2nd, 2008 at 5:40 am

   Love the new splash page!

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