Lost In Beauty-

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Don't know if you still remember the movie recommendations I've made for the year 2008 in an earlier post. They're all english films I realised. This post was meant to be posted after that but somehow I forgotten about it totally. It's all about the Asia Drama and Movies which I thought should not be missed in 2008.

If you always have been a supporter of detective genres or loved the Japanese drama series, Kindaichi, this drama will suit you. It is from the same director of Bump Off Lover by Angela Zhang in 2006. The suspense in the air of the MIT drama is captivating. There is a the main plot of mystery plus the mini cases to be solved in every episode . Though storyline wise, I prefer Bump Off Lover.

Iijimae by Lee Jun Kee is one of the few Korean drama I've watched and loved. The storyline about the famous theft who rob for the poor is well written. The acting skills of the main character Lee Jun Ki and every supporting characters like the female leads, the older actors and actresses and the minor roles were all fantastic. If you're into K-drama, this is a must-not-be-missed in 2008.

Moonlight Resonance, the sequel to Heart of Greed, was mentioned before my cousin in her blog. But I'll like to emphasise the greatness of this drama. This is the one Hongkong drama which made me cry like 3 or 4 times. The story is very well knitted. The acting of the actors and actresses, both old and young, did a marvellous job! You really could feel that they are one family. The sequel definitely precedes the prequel a lot, so it's a MUST (x3) watch! I guarantee plus chop that you'll not regret. Hope there is a third one of series!

Mandarin movie industry is not performing well these years. A good movie like Connected is really rare. It is a remake of a Hollywood thriller movie in 2004 called Cellular and it is argued that this mandarin version overrules the orginal one! I really enjoyed the movie throughout.

So far so good for Korean, Hongkong and Taiwan's products, we can't forget Japanese ones right? Sweet Rain 死神の精度 is one J-movie that you'll not forgive yourself for missing it if you're a J-lover. Putting aside that Takeshi Kaneshiro is damn gorgeous, the movie is brillant and thought provoking. It leaves you pondering about the values of life and death. I thought it was truly wonderful.

I'm looking forth to more wonderful movies and dramas from the mandarin industry for 2009!

PS: I didn't put Ip Man in 'coz it's simply not my type though I heard it was not bad.

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Sunday, February 15, 2009

Yay, 1st and foremost, my dissertation is finally over! All I got to do now is hope for the best results. I feel relieved of a huge burden but mentally it seems that I still can't relaxed totally. Maybe I feel the sudden loss, like I would not have to do dissertation ever again. Anyway, back to the real topic of my entry...

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I always hate fairs, be it travel fair, NUS/NTU fairs, PC/IT fairs or career fairs. Sometimes you've got no choice but to go coz they usually offer the best prices in town if the fairs are about selling products. If it's those about information and I hope to go there to get an idea of anything, I'll exit the exhibition venue with a more confused mind.

That was what happen for the NUS career fair 2009 which I just attended last thursday.

You really need to have something in mind before going to career fairs. The amount of information they slap onto your faces will be so overwhelming that you can feel the information rebouncing back to them. Your brain totally rejects the information when you try to keep your options open.

Then, you can't visit the fair alone because the people at the fairs tend to explain things to those in groups. They ignore the lost sheep. Luckily I've got Zhiming and Weiyang for accompany.

The talks given during the NUS career fairs are quite useless to a large extent and they cheated my feelings using the title. "Media and entertainment industry" sounds like the jobs in Mediacorp but it's all about gaming. Dotz la, they should name it "Gaming Media Industry" or something. Wasted my 15min there though I left halfway.

The fair was quite useless other than the freebies distributed. The above are some of the good freebies. Haha, I'm kidding about the freebies part, the fair did drill in something into me.

A few companies caught my eye a bit. CRA - Casino Regulatory Authority, DSTA - Defence Science and Technology Agency, CAAS - Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, Ministry of Trade and Industry...

I'm still feeling confused with the job I want to do eventually. Can't I be lucky and get the job I enjoy doing in the first try?

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Update on my life for these few weeks.

Projects
Tutorials
Career seminars
Job fair
Sending resume and job applications
and the most important of all, DISSERTATION.

Every school day is terrible. My normal or planned timetable may be 1.30 to 4pm. But I may end up going back home at 6pm. Just like today.

I would call myself lucky in the sense that I only have 3 modules excluding dissertation.

However I would definitely say I’m very SUAY to choose Japanese Studies as my cross faculty breath module. There’re tons of things to commit for a stupid 20% continual assessment.

Then again, I hope this project group will work up well eventually though now it’s "CUI". I haven’t seen one of the group members before. Great huh? There's this gal whom I think really asserts what she wants to do. I just gave in though I did my research on other topic, anyway, it doesn't matter to me much.

PS: I'm SU-ing this if it turns out badly. LOL evilishly.

After all these shit about dissertation, there comes a stupid thing called IP or integrated project. From what I heard from my senior, it’s damn hectic and tough. And what again? It’s 10% for each of the assessment of the two core building modules, which I think it is quite a waste of time.

Must we end the last semester in this way?

This way as in so very breathless and exhausted.

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