In which M.Y. pimps Moo.

State of mind: pleased
Current soundtrack: Playlist name - series - song title (artist)

While things are getting a little sticky with Hatevetica and PSFour (but we've only just started!!), I got a nice diversion in the mail today.


...Ohoho, what is this?

A few weeks back, before the LJ Strikethrough of 2007 (which I greatly look forward to seeing soon in a Consumer Behaviour textbook near you), the UK-based printing company Moo teamed up with Livejournal and offered little widdy 10-packs of MiniCards to a few thousand people. Free!

I'm human. I'm Malaysian. I'm a kiamsiap Hokkien, darn it. I signed up.

About two weeks later, the envelope from Moo arrived. With much squeeage of joy, I took it up to my secret bat-lair room to open. Within was this nice little holder...


...Is that supposed to be upside down?

...which contained the awaited cards. (Just some text-on-a-background. I mean, it is free. There are limits. :D)


Behold my precious card booteh!

The back of the MiniCards are nice and simple with some space to elaborate on yourself. Bolding and LJ logo optional.


See?

...Of course, I ordered these before Strikethrough happened, which made me somewhat determined to cut losses and set up permanent base on Blogger, and the inclusion of my LJ URL is now a tad redundant.

As the picture above shows, five of the cards read 'cmayyin.blogspot.com'; the others read as follows:

• INSANITY: see cmayyin.blogspot.com
• Ultraman: My anti-drug (among other things)
• WARNING: FALLING MEMES
• (Ranting was in the job description) (done in the girliest text available. Unfortunately it was a bit thin. :P)
• 0 to insanity in 20 seconds

The cards themselves are about half the size of a normal business card, and printed on good thick stuff. Great feel, with a smooth matt finish. *rub rub*


*boing boing* (I need to cut my nails.)

The verdict? Oo, I like. Also, I adore a site with good copy. When I actually start drawing my own income, part of it is going towards getting more uh, properly printed Moo cards. Let's see, £9.99 for 100 cards, plus the flat shipping rate of £2.99...um, RM 90? (o_o) That's it, putting money aside now, and praying the ringgit strengthens...or the pound falls...or there's another Moo offer coming soon...

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Last term ago while talking to the fresh meat new students, we pulled out this one shy girl with big specs and made her present something in front. It was a bit worrying, as this seemed to be a super-quiet batch (actually, most of them kind of ARE...). I needn't have worried. Nearer the end of term, I saw her again, she recognised me coming out of class and bounced up to hail me with a big 'Hi!' There was hope for this group yet.

We've been crossing paths again and again for the past few months, and today at the local KFC we finally decided that hey, we finally needed to know each other's names. ;) Finally, the bombshell drops.

"You know the Motion Graphics tutor?"

"What, um, Ando?"

"He's my brother! :)"

"HA-WHAT!? Σ(˚Д˚)"

I must concede there was a certain resemblance, particularly in the shape of the face...So, if all goes well, I might end up tutoring the sister of my tutor? o_o;; Well, it looks like we get along, at least...

Life is complicated, but I think we all know that. >_<

Aaaand we're back in business!

State of mind: constipated
Current soundtrack: A Mweeble Kind of Love Playlist - Itsumo Soba Ni (Kirii Daisuke)

Classes have started again for all us old TOA-ites (I'm a senior now. HOMAIGOD.) and the fresh meat newbies are starting classes this week. Good luck to all! May your pencils stay sharp, may your markers never dry, and may the gods of Macromedia and Adobe bless us all!

I have classes five days a week this term, which is a bit of a relief. So far, we've started learning Javascript and dabbling in Adobe After Effects. Also, the Dean of Studies has handed over(?) three of the college group's clients/sub-companies to we, the Batch 51 MMD majors, and we are to give them a multimedialicious makeover. My group (along with two others) has decided to handle Da Vinci, which is a place where kids can expand their creative horizons (read: we'll teach your kid how to draw like a 1337 thing. :3) Got the job brief on Friday and now all the groups need to bang heads a bit and put some Qs together. We know a lot of the lecturers from before, except Adeline our Cons. Behaviour lecturer (acerbic wit, high English proficiency (praise the GODS!) and nice handouts--all the same, I predict a certain amount of hate) and Fiona Poh, who's working for NetInfinium. MM Production and Online Media have combined projects, so will be seeing our old friend *cough* EU quite a bit this term.

Motion Graphics is being tutored by a senior whose 'Insomnia' video was one of those I saw during MY orientation. It was fairly Artsy and Confusing, and I swore right there and then I'd make stirring videos with perhaps more colours. Even if art is supposed to portray all emotions, I prefer the happy ones. The happy ones are going extinct, and I am a conservationist! ;)

Last Thursday also saw me going to acclimatise the fresh meat of TOA. It seems we have a fairly small intake this term, as they managed to fit the whole bunch into one orientation session instead of two. With the exception of some hapless few, they were so QUIET. I fear for these younglings. The force is not strong within them. *cough*

So what am I supposed to be doing now? Writing a schedule, actually. And getting together a product brief, a bunch of thumbs and a shitload of research for two/three subjects. Resolutions, M.Y.! Post-it notes! Typed schedules! HANDPHONE REMINDERS, DAMNXOR JOO!

I've also...started driving lessons. *BUMBUMBUMMMM* After four hours behind the wheel, we've established that I can't steer for peanuts. Just on Saturday I killed a cone and a metal rod while performing a three-point turn. I strongly maintain that my driver's ed teacher went grey-haired by the age of 15 because it ANTICIPATED the coming of students like me, and decided to just save itself some trouble. Other than that, I suppose Amin is a fairly nice guy, even if his vocab when he's teaching me tends to limit itself to things like "Where are you going?! You must decide where you want to go...Watch your steering...turn slowly...go straight...step on the gas...that's the brake, not the gas...press some more...now release the handbrake...don't press the clutch." *car rolls backwards*

At least my handling is improving, albeit incredibly slowly, my pedal work is pretty smooth and for someone who's not attempted a proper hill-climb before I appear to have done pretty well for myself. Even if I did kill an innocent traffic cone and metal rod, and rolled down one silly hill about three times. The public is going to love me when I hit the madness that is called 'Malaysia's roads'.

Oh, and the familial house is now a fetching shade of mint green (mostly).

Note to self:

State of mind: fascinated
Current soundtrack: SAMURAI 7 playlist

...Read foodie blogs before I go to bed more often. Came back from classes* last night and checked the Blogs of Note to find Passionate Eater and, through there, Chocablog. The result was rather a lot of time wasted, but some very nice dreams about Samurai 7 and Saiyuki. Katsu and Gojyo, in particular. I haven't had Saiyuki dreams for three years.

A quick note here - I am a huge sucker for the ancient East and its legends. Feudal Japan, Monkey/Journey To The West, element cycles, the four/five guardian beasts...mention them or pay tribute, and I'm hooked. The only exception is Fushigi Yuugi/Curious Play. You can only hear Miaka and Tamahome ping-pong each other's names back and forth so often, and without being too spoilerish...healing!sex?!

It seems a fair bit of my time is getting pimped out for my beloved college recently. Spent last weekend at the Star Education Fair giving out pamphlets and promoting the courses. Highlights of those two days included:

• The two lovebirds who took a pamphlet without letting go of each other's hands.
• Super Motivated Lassie who wanted to know about certification as an interior designer in Malaysia ("Um...tell you what, come down to campus, call this number and see if you can meet the ID head..."). It got me so curious I had to phone my buddy Lammy after the whole thing just to see if there WAS such an organisation that certified interior designers. (We now both think it's PAM.)
• The lovely spunky couple who wanted to come in with their kids, too. I say heck, you're never too old for art. :D
• The stern-looking gentleman who came asking about facilities catering for the deaf. He lives in Subang, just near our campus, but we couldn't really help him. LKW has lecturers who know ASL, but would you like to drive to Cyberjaya and back every day? I kind of felt for him.
• The dude who came to enquire about Multimedia Design with the T-shirt that said HTML stood for How To Meet Ladies. (This was a fun session, I managed to joke all the way through it with his group.)

Thursday sees me talking to the fresh meat—I mean, new students, coming in for orientation. I've been a bit hesitant about doing this the past few terms, since the juniors one term below us have a really good kit and presentation going. We were kind of just there to shake the new students up and be class clowns, which is only tolerable up to a point. This time they say they want to bring in the 'stars', so that would be me, Chrys and Steph. T.

...Stars, srsly? I don't feel that starrish. There are lots of people in class who are more kengchow (skilled) than I am, although I do fairly well for myself. I guess now it just means that my kengchowness has to spread from my presentation skills into my design sense, as well!

*Which brings me to another point. I'm looking for Consumer Behaviour. 10th edition (Blackwell R.D., Engel, J.F., Miniard P.W. 2006, Thomson South-Western). Does anyone know where I can get a copy in the P.J. area?