And so it comes to this.


I dun mean to say anything wrong. I'll just skip to the important part.

Chii Terng has insecurity issues about working in a pair. He feels like he won't be able to commit much when animation comes next block. And he doesn't feel good abt letting me do the workload. Also. he thought our ideas were quite, ambitious, even i think so. So i think in the end, ehwhatzerodegrees will go solo.

I have nothing to say about it except that i have predicted this and i am disappointed with the arrangement.







For my individual report, i feel like revising it again. I think i missed out on a whole lot of things so probably i'll do a second better job.

It's time, ubin.

AND Yea,

we have finally finished our presentation of the Council for Third Age exercise.  And its a tiny weight of our shoulders. 

Our ideas were such that

Proposal 1: AMAZING RACE. 10 stations were set up either at different CCs, or different spot of a CC. The stations were such as Sewing, Cooking, Baking, Drawing, Calligraphy, Congkak, Mahjong, Chess, Game consoles, Photo taking etc. It was to allow the old and young generation to bond and also learn skills from each other.

Proposal 2: CARNIVAL. Bazaar set up by teams of a elderly and youngster to sell stuffs such as 2nd hand goods/handicraft/drinks/food etc. There is also a performance by both elderly and youngsters. In the sense of a band that consist of both elderly and youngster with modern and traditional instruments. There will also be dance performed. This is to allow the old and young generation to have fun together and also learn from each other.

We were pretty freaked out as our slides were pretty short and thus panicked before we presented. But, guess we still managed to explain our ideas out to the class. Phew.

Couldn't believe that there is already so much stress or rather work in just an exercise. 

Now we have to start with our final and that is our individual work first. JIAYOU

-AMANDA!

I wanna apologise to Chii Terng and Amanda for taking the assignment into my own hands and shaping it into a failure.

I guess part of me really wanted Chii Terng to get his DesHnC done first because it can really be a bi***. And i didn't want to pressure Amanda either because she does her work well and it won't be fair to dump an extra load on her.

I took the proposal into my own hands and i regretted doing so. The moment i see the others' proposals boasting 20 pages or more, i knew we were in big big trouble.

The thing is, i borrowed a proposal writing guide from the library, and i followed pretty much blindly. So i missed out on the survey questions, detailed research and citations and also breaking down the events into further points like location and timeline.

I had this idea that we didn't need to present super-detailed research and analysis because i felt that the Council for Third Age should have found out about this stuff before they even set the council up. BUT i didn't take into account that this being a school exercise, we probably have to present to a client that has zero knowledge about the whole thing.

I don't think the pre-proposal had any effect either.

i only knew that what my group wanted to put forth is that we wanted the grandparents and grandchildren to be learning from each other about each other and about their culture and origins.

EPIC F**L


I talked to Chii Terng about doing a revised proposal for the exercise. Hopefully it'll save our butts from the half past six bs we presented on Wednesday.


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We went to the LT for our revised design brief handouts. I didn't read Haowei's post about the previous brief but knowing him, he must have had stirred some problems to even initited this revision in the first place.

I understand the the final FORMAT of our project is a VIDEO. So an animatic is still a video if you arranged it to be moving. I think my group will be doing a mix of animation and video. But 1 months and a week is a little rushed in my opinion. Hope we get started soon.

I still haven't done my ideas. i have some in my brain. I'll pluck em' out soon.


Ubin 18

today, i think i am disappointed with myself.

unable to research anything about the proposal..

however, thanks to classmates and siew cheng,

we finally knew something about writing a proposal.

we found a problem when we discussing about the survey question today,

we realised our survey question is actually not as effective as we think because there is nothing much to analyse and it is quite useless in helping us to shortlist all the solution we came out.

this actually make us a lot behind time, i think tonight is a sleepless night again.

i will need to come out with proposal for second ideas and let ubin compile tomorrow,

to be able to finish in time.

i think we all put in efforts for this assignment..

i hope bad things will turn right soon...

i need to go do the proposal already...

Ciao

Chii Terng

Konichiwa lolololololol.

I didn't know what to blog about yesterday so i did it today.

Anyways, i'd like to talk about surveying.

It's really very very important to design your questions in order for you to get the answers that you are looking for.

Your questions have to cater for the target audience, and if you're gonna go more into detailed analysis of the subject, you have to have to have to have to have prior knowledge of the topic at hand. For example, in skateboarding, you have to know the anatomy of a skateboard and the different brands of the parts in order for you to understand why certain skateboarders prefer this over that and you have to study their playing grounds (street or skatepark).

For our tasks, i found that the questions we prepared for the elderly were too.. generic? Or maybe the answers we get may not be satisfying.

Okay i'll show you. A regular teenage dude or dudette will have 4 grandparents.
BUT if the dad married another woman, he would have 4 grandparents and two step-grandparents. Which is 6 grandgrands.
And those who are already 6 feet deep in the earth? Do they still count as grandparents? Praying for them beside their grave is spending time with them too, no?

So when i ask a dude what he likes to do when he spends time with his grandparents, what should his answer be?
Is it the normal,"Play mahjong coz i can own them any day."
Or should he ask," Err.. Which ones?"

The same goes for grandparents right?
If i ask an elderly if she communicates well with her grandchildren, shouldn't she reply with," Which ones?"
Coz in normal cases i'll like to think grandparents have at least 6 grandchildren.

AND because they can pick from a pool of subjects to relate the questions too, they'll probably associate the questions to the ones they are most close with.
Like my grandmother choosing my female cousin over me(favouritism). And she has 30+ grandchildren. I know, what a workout right?

I feel that the surveys need to cater to those who are not that close to the grandparents or vice versa as well as those who are close, because we may never know their environment. My cousin stays with my grandmother so they see each other everyday. And i see my grandma like.. uh.. hmm.. this is tricky..

ANYWAYS! TO YOUR FUTURE SURVEYS, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO A LITTLE RESEARCH AND CONSIDER THE ABOVE FACTORS (though here are a few others) BEFORE PROCEEDING. Should i do the survey again? Like no time like that ah. The

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