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Nice Way to Start My Monday!!

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Hi all!! Miss me? No? Okay, no hard feelings :p This is my first post after the assignment where I had to report my progress on the Game Project is done! Meaning to say: this is my first post that I write because I want to. Well, actually it is greatly influenced by my beloved students :) I temporarily teach at a local university in my city, and this semester I have the chance to teach this great class called CRW. It stands for Critical Reading and Writing. At first, it felt like a nightmare! Why? 'coz it is 4 credits in a row!! Can you imagine teaching for more or less 3,5 straight hours?? I was confused of what to do so that they wouldn't sleep out of boredom. Fortunately, they are great students ^^ They're very cooperative and we're just like friends :) Since they are the subject of my thesis, so I ask them to make a blog each. Looking at their blogs made me think. I should also do the same thing like what I've asked them to do. So, here I am, back to writing so

Game (Not Yet) Over

Hi all!! Turns out that we still have the problems on the game (ouch..). The sprite character that we used is in the form of an octopus. Originally, the octopus is surrounded by a bubble and then a larger white box frame on the outer part. We have edited it using Photo Shop so that the box and the bubble became transparent. So, when we play the game, the sprite should be merely the octopus without its' bubble and frame. But when we try to run it on the phone, suddenly the bubble and the box appeared!! So, I guess we will still have to "fight" with Photo Shop tomorrow :) There is also some problems concerning the format of the documentation. Some of my classmates made it in the form of a tutorial. Some said that it should be in the form of (nearly) a thesis, and I really certainly absolutely hope that this is not right :p I really think it's better if we ask directly to the lecturer to get a clear and true answer, right? I personally hope that the documentation will ta

Four Days Synopsis

Olla ^^ I have to say that the past 4 days were not my best days :p There's so much going on. Some old problems added up with some new troubles, so I couldn't take it anymore, at least my body protested first, forcing me to take some really good rest without any disturbance. I shouldn't tell you ALL my problems 'coz that will make this blog seems pathetic, right ^^ I just can say: dealing with emotions WELL is not one of my characteristics. I'd say it sucks! That's exactly why I prefer dealing with animals rather than people, coz animals, esp dogs, never lie. They're straightforward; everytime they make mistakes, they apologize and try to make it up to us. Needless to say, only a few people do the same thing in the exact same situation. Living on our own in peace is much better than living with other people full of arguments, suspicions and anger. But, hey, that's only my personal opinion :) Now, since I've been absent from blogging for about 4 days,

Tipped Eyes

Hi all!! Straight to the point: game progress? It didn’t work as I’d expected yesterday. My partner and I planned to meet today to work on 2 more images. But thanx to the very hactic schedule we have today, we felt so exhausted when we finished our last classes at around 6 p.m. So, we decided to delay our meeting today, for the sake of our health :p Besides, we still have to make a power point presentation for tomorrow’s class (which we haven’t made of course ><). As a result, there was no images produced today -.- no worries, though. There’s still tomorrow  I’m sure we’ll be able to do better if we’re in a good condition, meaning in the condition where we can fully concentrate in doing what we do. Tomorrow will be Friday. I love Friday! The end of Friday, to be specific. ‘coz it means I’ll be able to rest for the whole day (if not interrupted by anything) on Saturday. Go Friday!!  I’ve been planning to watch some movies, play some games and relax at home. Please God, don’t let

Sleepy Blogging

Dear all, Do you know that I just wake up from my "accidental" sleep after I got home at 7?? Wow, I feel dizzy everytime I sleep accidentaly (except in class :p) My eyes are still blurry, but I've got a blog to write as a part of my college assignments, so.....here I am.....trying so hard to focus on the computer screen >< Well, what can I report for today? Let's see... Game, right? Hmm.. Today my partner and I listed all the images that we still needed for the game. There were about 7 to 8 pictures, but for today we only managed to make 2 because of the tight schedule from teaching-going to the chapel for the mass-studying. But, I guess that's better than nothing, right ^^ So, we'll meet again tomorrow to make another 2 pictures (or more, hopefully), and discuss our presentation this Friday. Amusing things happened to me today. As I've told you, today is the Ash Wednesday. All Catholic people around the world have to attend the Ash Wednesday mass wh

Creative Arrows Error

Olla everyone!!! It's been quite a peaceful day today ^^ I had no class yet to teach, so my agenda for today was solely the Second Language Acquisition class that I had to attend. I was a bit late to come to class, because I'd been working on the game project with my partner since noon. I don't really like being late, mostly because I hate if everybody sees me when I enter the entrance door as if I'm a villain :p Anyway, in today's class we only listened to the lecturer talking about some general issues on SLA that I'd heard before (in my previous study). To be honest, I wasn't really paying attention to what he said because I had a project that had to be submitted by tomorrow. I intend to finish it tonight so that tomorrow I won't be in a rush and I can focus more to prepare my teaching materials for Thursday classes better :) So, I was working on that project, but I also listened to the lecturer, although not entirely :D I tried to be multitask (in a n

Ordinary Monday

Hi all, I'm skyping while writing on my blog now ^^ It's fun!! Today I only had one class to teach, so.. I used the rest of my time to browse for the teaching materials that I'm gonna need tomorrow. Then, after I finished teaching, I coordinated with my partner to meet tomorrow. We're gonna discuss the game project. Hopefully tomorrow will be the last day we talk about and work on our game project. (meaning: Please God, let us finish our mid-term project tomorrow. Once again, FINISH!!) :) IF we do, we can focus on our next project :p There's nothing interesting happened to me today. Just an ordinary day. But I thank God that I can get to the campus before it rains :p I replaced one of my colleagues to teach Pronunciation class today. Gosh, what a class! It was exciting, I've always liked Pronunciation subject. But to teach it, that's a whole lot different. It was very tiring :p The students and I were extremely thirsty after we finished a couple of lines >