For the Troubled Travellers

Suffer no more in your solemn soliloquy.
For no one entity is alone an entity.
If you shall find your mind in a state of delirium,
Let the rhythm of your beating heart be your equilibrium.

Should you come face to face against failure?
Make for certain its lessons turn to tenure.
Should you want to forfeit in exasperation,
Weave that fury into burning determination.

Cry in regret if its appeasement it brings,
But dry your tears before the spring birds sing.

Stride with pride and dignity,
Tread with strength and buoyancy,
The path laid before is arduous and long,
But announce the epilogue with a triumphant song!

How Many

Hints, does a person have to give to the other, in order to make that other person KNOW, or at least FEEL that he or she is NOT WELCOME? How many more? are needed before that despised person can at least have a sense or an inklink that some personality changes are required in order to be welcomed once more?

Recently, it seems that a whole day of non communication, and half a day more of phone silence, ignored phone calls, ignored msn msgs and physical exclusion is NOT ENOUGH to send the message across?

Maybe I should tell him in the face. But that makes ME the evil person right?

Holla!

Back from Melbourne, classes resumed. Once again - Purpose! Instead of just stoning around, trying to look as much as i can being an inanimate Rock. Melbourne was great fun! Hop over to www.minicoops.blogspot.com for pictures! (because im lazy to upload the same set of photos here)

aaanyway, this being the last semester before i get that piece of paper that makes me eligible to print money, i really really want it to be as smooth as possible. However, at the same time i know this is perhaps the last chance i get at honing my "working skillz" so i want to challenge myself by stepping out of my academic comfort zone.

Which means enrolling into subjects that are not "comfortable", as in "hard". But theres a twist to that... Like aforementioned, this is my last semester, failing any subjects now = faildegree = wtf.

Anyhoo, i did infact enroll into some hardsauce subjects. one of them is Convergent Journalism, which is really what all journalism, especially in the news reporting business is about.

News of ages past means a bloc of text in some textual medium, ie. newspapers. With the advent of sub-recent technology, we now have television, radio and internet news (by all means not exhaustive). So, Convergent Journalism is really the "converging" of all these news mediums into one.

Present day news, almost all of them now feature videos, or some sort of electronic, technology assisted material. This subject aims at training students like myself to utilize all these different tools when presenting a news story. like, 1st writing an article (perhaps one of the most archaic form of news media), then flowering it up with videos. These videos can be interviews, featurettes or presentations. Other forms of technology medium can also be used, such as radio, or as already said above- the intohnut.

I mean, all these things are pretty easy to work with id imagine. The hardest part is, in my opinion, the news story itself.

Ask yourself this, whenever you read a paper in the morning, or at any time of day really, how often do you ask yourself when reading any given article this question :-

"Is this news worthy?"

Sure you want to know about the earthquake that hit New Zealand yesterday, or when Michael Jackson passed away, but do you really want to know how many calories are there in your caesar salad? or maybe some vehicular accident that took place several states away from where youre staying , or would possibly go? Or maybe that rapist who finally got convicted of his/her crimes after 10 years of crown litigation?

That is the question.