Ethwyn

09 May 09… Here I am sitting in front of the computer in JB… First night back to JB since my Finals have finished… It seems that I really learnt a lot this semester compared to the previous one. The most probable reason is that the first semester I wasn’t really accustomed to staying outside on my own… seems that this freedom has gone over my head and I couldn’t really focus on anything… Life wasn’t organized, so was I…

Well, glad to say that it’s been quite a different life this time… Everything’s settled down this year, with no more problems with the house renting… everyone’s settled down… Though I must admit that there are still certain problems with certain housemates… but well, guess I’ll just have to live on my life…

One thing worth noting though, I had five subjects this sem… namely Mass Media and Society, Malaysia:Cultural and Religious Studies, Radio Broadcasting, Introduction to Advertising, and English for Mass Communications… I could say that the only two subjects that interested me were Radio BC and Advertising.

Haha… for Radio BC, I scored the highest marks for the coursework marks in the whole class XD… damn, I’m so happy…!!! haha… It’s been such a long time since this kind of thing happened to me… I got highest for the individual DJ live show and also our group Radio Production assignment. Hell, I even scored highest for the mid-term exams haha…

Anyway, what I’d like to say is that I was really impressed with our radio production. For those of you who don’t know. We comprise of a four-member group and we produce five productions for radio:Drama, Commercial, News, Sound Bite (live reporting for news) and Public Affairs Interview… We record the voices and sounds ourselves, edit the stuff, add in the sound effects… voila! we got 29 out of 30 for this group thingy!

Wait for it… I’ll upload the stuff for to the net…>.<

Anyway, here’s the comments by our lecturer…

Your group did excellent!  I was surprised that you guys handle audio well, and do understand the effect of sound and manipulate the effects well.

 

1. The drama script is well written, it is unique and it is very creative work.  The actor and actoress are well done.  Especailly “Barbie”, sounded very convincing to me
2. the sound effect and the editing are quite nice, very natural.
3. However, your group has a strong Hollywood feel
4. the drama is a bit long, if you guys has edit to 20 minutes will be better
5. The commercial is clear and is smart, good job
6. However, your group is more weak on news production
7. the announcer does not really suitable for news.  It is Hemen?  I think the voice is too “young” and it is more suitable for entertainment voice
8. The UTAR news is ok…not great, but ok
9. The last interview, I don’t think it suit my request, because I am expecting something more serious that just talking about the personal and living experience of Dr.Carmen.  This track is not so well done
10. So, I have deducted one mark, your final group project is 29/30
11. overall, is great.  Keep on the good works!

Haha… btw… It wasn’t Heman’s voice for the news… It was mine… and I’m still wondering why on earth she said that my voice was too young… Guess most of you who know me wouldn’t find my voice “young”…

Heman, KimBahLee, Kelvin and me… We form the executioners… That’s what we call ourselves haha… though we always call each other “boss” when we want to ask on the choices and don’t want to decide ourselves… Hereby I’d like to applaud and give a big thank you to my dear JB “same kampung” friend Kimberly@A.M…. guess we were the two who contributed the most to this radio thing… heh… hope we just continue this streak for the next few semesters ba… and no, I don’t blame you for not renting the room… heh…XD

And for my Radio DeeJay… I guess I did pretty well impress June (our Radio BC tutor)… she said that she felt very comfortable when she was listening to my show… although my sister said that she felt sleepy when she listened… haha>.< Anyway, soothing is the correct term…

Guess that’s all for tonight… Thought of writing about the Intro to Advertising… but it’s kinda late… Next time maybe…

Sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite…

一切尽在不言中。。。

生日到了咯。。。

还好你是跟我同年的。。。想到就开心。。。因为周围的大家不是大我一岁就是更大。。。很显的嘞。。。

很久没联络了咯。。。听说你写袋袋给好多人也。。。我都没有份的。。。=。=

看我五月的假期有没有空去新加坡吧。。。到时才去找你咯。。。

答应过你要写几面的。。。

不过嘞。。。呵呵呵。。。排写鞡。。。我最近也是很忙鞡。。。没看我多久没写布罗格勒。。。

Happy birthday once more… 好朋友。。。

Today, one of my housemate(gay) tried to pinch another housemate’s(guy) bare nipple… How GAY is that?!

话说有一天，在KL住了一段日子过后，我假期回到了新山。。。习惯了在KL吃东西的时候就叫“雪茶”（sheet cha)。。。

在新山，我往常地在杂饭店叫“雪茶”，结果那个人应该是听成“绿茶”（leet cha)。。。拿了一罐绿茶给我。。。

唉。。。算了。。。无言以对。。。

某月某日，某某好朋友跟我说：

‘你的msn每次都放“ Yes, and I’ve updated my blog… blah blah blah”，害我每次去查都看到一样的东西。。。’

所以为了她，我特别写了这个布罗格。。。

让你知道，我已经换了msn的Private Message…下次真的有更新才会写出来。。。

喂！好朋友啊？不要有了波利的朋友就忘了波鼓的朋友啊！我是记得上一次你告诉我，我们都是你最好的朋友的哦…(除了你的最特别的朋友)

Haha… one would think when they see the topic that i took a luxurious bus back home to JB for Chinese New Year… apparently not…>.<

A few weeks ago, worried of not getting tickets to go back to my hometown for the festive seasons, I bought two train tickets for me and Gladys dated 22nd January 2009 21:19 hours. Due to a few reasons, of which I play a big part, we didn’t make it in time for the train! I even called up the station master of KL Sentral asking him to give me one more minute as I was only an LRT stop away from KL Sentral… He told me no, they had to be strictly on schedule!

So, there we were, at KL Sentral, with the people there telling us that the train had just left the station around 10 seconds ago… My only hope was that we could take the KTM Komuter and hop on to the train in Seremban… So the Komuter cost another RM6…

Reaching Seremban after an hour and a half long journey, I guess most of you would know what happened… Yeap, we didn’t manage to reach there in time for the train…

So there we were, stuck in Seremban at 11.30 in the night…

We asked a girl who had just came down from the Komuter with us for directions to Seremban Terminal 1 (which is a bus station)… after telling us the directions, her boyfriend offered to send us there in their car as it was quite near… Luckily they were good people and we didn’t end up in some rubber estate in near-death situations.

There is still some good in the world… which is quite a nice thought…=)

Seremban is quite unlike KL or PJ or JB or any other town with two initials whatsoever… No nightlife there… Yes! You heard me right… It was such a quiet night in the middle of the town…

Luckily yet again, Gladys had a relative staying at Seremban and he came over to pick us up to his house…

Long story cut short, we left Seremban the next day by the 12.30 bus back to JB…

Total costs:

• Train ticket: RM29
• Komuter ticket*2: RM12
• Bus ticket*2: RM60

=RM101

That’s how much it took for me to come back to JB for CNY haha…

(prices are multiplied by 2 as I paid for her tickets, you wouldn’t want her to pay for the tickets if you were the one who caused her to miss the train in the first place, would’ya?)

On another note, for those of you who don’t know… I was actually born in Seremban and stayed there until I was 7. So there was kinda a special feeling when I was there a few days ago… It was a pity I didn’t have the time to take a look at my old house… haiz…

You know I really meet so many interesting ppl in the process of my house rental…

So it happened that our house lacked a fridge and someone had a fridge from his house and he brought it over, just that he wanted us to share the transportation costs… which was RM150… dividing into seven people using the fridge will be around RM21 per person…

So… here comes the interesting part…

Mrs. Wife and Mr. Husband who were staying in the same room… I collected RM36 from them as a discount for being in the same room… So then, Mrs. Wife said to me after I told her the costs…

Mrs. Wife: “Hey Lim, how come you charge us for two person using a? I’m using it only but my husband never use!”

(speechless)

Ok… so tell me how am I supposed to reply to this question… Yeah right, and why not I just charge them single person charges for the electric and water bills? She could have said that she uses the light but her husband doesn’t… >.<

2008这年。。。16号这天。。。我感到好惭愧。。。

这个时候才问东问西：你有他的电话号码吗？

原本想用骗话带过去为自己掩饰犯下的错误。。。想了想。。。没这种虚伪的必要。。。

所以，我，林晖信，在此承认。。。我忘了一位好朋友的生日。。。

没准备到什么。。。只希望能像高二那次和大家一起煮上美味的早餐给你吃。。。特别是我那份让你跑到厕所吐的那个！哈。。。

我还是相信，你还是会原谅我。。。

生日快乐！

About two months back, I had an interesting experience in my Uni… How it happened was really fascinating…

So I was hanging around the school, minding my own business, when my friend(Shawn) called me over… So then here i was in front of our broadcasting lab at school, wondering what on earth was happening… There were a few BC seniors there and they asked me to try reading out a passage from  a chinese script…

That was the first time I went into the BC lab of UTAR… It was  quite interesting, but it lacked the WOW factor… It was quite small, had a shabby kind of feel, but overall, if you just needed the basic requirements for sound recording, it would suit quite well…

So I went in there, and read from the script “夕阳无限好,只是近黄昏”… They seemed satisfied and I went back to my own business… I thought that they needed me to do voiceover for a part in their documentary…

Appears I was wrong!>.<

So not long afterwards, that senior gal came up to me and said:” We like your voice, so can you help us do the narration for our Documentary?”

?!!

OKie… So the final concept is that I was actually in an audition? For a narrator role? and I actually got it?… That’s cool…

So they scheduled me up for some recordings in the following week…

The process was quite interesting… You could record once, then listen to where the problem is, and do a cover over it… and you had to try to talk out the feelings and emotions that should be presented in the documentary… It was quite fun! but after a few hours of continuous recording, I can say that my throat was really tired out…

One funny thing worth noting: The seniors who were in the recording room were telling me this… They asked me to record some of my talkings for them to listen to when they want to sleep… Cos they said it’s so soothing…!!! Haha… okie… No wonder Lu Ling likes to listen to bed-time stories so much… haha…

Well actually, after the final DVD came out… I listened to it and found myself feeling sleepy too!!! lol…  not in a bad way though…

Overall it was quite an experience, got to know some new friends, got to try out the BC lab, first time doing narration  for a documentary, and the first time getting to know that my voice was actually “marketable”… haha…

I’ll downsize the documentary and post it for you guys to see ba!

Hang on!…