It’s the wrong kind of work done. Yesterday was pretty eventful for a Sunday actually, with a reception in the afternoon and chilling out at the International Pavilion in the evening.
I planned to get some work done yesterday, namely:
1. Presentation slides for tomorrow’s presentation on Singapore & NTU.
2. Presentation slides for Thursday’s presentation on calcium for chemistry class. Don’t ask me why I have to do it. I’m learning new things everyday, and i’m enjoying it immensely.
3. Finish up my case studies for media ethics that was due last Wednesday.
4. Study Start studying for media law exam on Wednesday. I’m about five chapters, which is about 120 pages, behind my reading.
5. Think about my radio advertisement spot, due Thursday.
Instead, I headed out in the morning to church, had lunch with the church peeps; headed back to room and lazed for an hour; head to the international office for a little reception for ‘Local Friends’ (which I swear I have not met ever before) who had apparently done a lot for the international community at Elon; edited the NTU corporate video for tomorrow’s presentation; went to the International Pavilion (essentially a hall) with Weishan to join Kimberly, David & Christian for an evening of tea, ice-cream and soup.
Oh oh first I have to talk about the editing suites. For those who have been to the ADM editing suites rooms and thought those were cool enough, you haven’t been to Elon. The editing suites, well hidden in the basement, were as comfortable as anything you could imagine. Every suite was equipped with two regular large-screens (i think 17″) monitors, with an additional widescreen LCD panel stretching across the length two regular screens, right above the monitors. Quality speakers accompany those darned displays. Not to mention nice swivel chairs, and a few of the larger editing suites, one of which we used, had sofas in them. SOFAS!! And we’re not talking about a 2-man couch. It’s a full length sofas that can easier fit 6 or 7 people. The rooms were soundproofed methinks, and each room had a large glass sliding door. In the middle of all the suites in the common area was a sofa with another huge LCD TV, apparently for playback or reviewing.
The entire set of suites were dimly lit, and any communication student could just walk in and use the suites. No nonsense as drawing of keys, etc etc etc. And most important of all? They are available 24-hour everyday, including sundays. HOW COOL IS THAT?
Seriously. Now we know why Elon students pay 30 grand US bucks each year.
And I was commenting, the entire communication building alone probably has more macs than the whole of NTU. We counted approximately 7-8 classrooms fully equipped with about 20-25 macs each, you do the math yourself.
Enough gripping about school facilities. The equipment loan system here is something that I consider inferior to CS, though, but that warrants another post by itself.
On a lighter note, I cooked my first kimchee fried rice last night! We didn’t intend to have dinner last night, because they served a full buffet dinner at the reception, so we were pretty full by 4pm. Having planned a ice-cream, tea and soup evening instead, one of the guys who was living at the IP was saying that he was hungry. So given the stuffs they had in the fridge, we decided to make some kimchee fried rice. It was a pity, that they didn’t had leftover rice, and we had to cook rice from scratch. Cooking rice was scratch is not the best way to make fried rice, as the rice wouldn’t be dry enough to fry. Indeed, the rice was a little too moist, and it became lumps of the rice instead. The kimchee and the korean pepper paste greatly added to the taste, and together with some eggs and garlic, it made a fantastic meal!
And that was my first time frying rice. =p Don’t tell anyone else about that.
The five of us downed about 2 tubs of ice-cream while watching the last bits of Star Wars, and we left the tea and soup untouched. So that’s about the whole day. And now you see, how effective i am exactly, in this land where I’m supposed to have all the time in the world.
