Week 8 Battle Royale review !

                    So our task for this tutorial week is to Review a movie called " Battle Royale " . Battle Royale is basically another one of your gory japanese killing massacre involving students that randomly got transported into somewhere that fits a killing ground . ( I read lots of Gory Japanese comic so Japan's goriness is not a new thing to me ) . Basically Battle Royale is just something like The Hunger games , Asian version .
I read the Comic version of the movie too , which is more more gory and icky .  In my opinion , this movie shows people , and how their minds change depending on what kind of community they live in , It also shows how Humans would react , when being pushed into a corner , left with no choice of survival but to kill friends they love .
I Love this movie because it really shows human nature , though it might be twisted in a way , we really never knew what will we react and how we will act if we were in that situation . I would easily say i'll just commit suicide if this situation ever happen to me , but if i am really chosen to be one of those "players"  , i might think differently and choose things that i might or might have not thought of before .
My favorite part of this movie has got to be the killing part ( not to imply that i like killing or looking at something gory ) , because some people are really creative on the ways and plans to kill the players , or survive . Some students will just blindly swing their weapon and some would panic and would go crazy , but my favorite moves was when that Crazy (blonde?) yankee mofo ( the villain character that just kill for fun) decapitates the head , put a bomb in it and throws it into the house to lure out Shuya and Noriko ( the two main characters who genuinely didn't want to kill anybody ). I find it funny in a way , why didn't he just threw the bomb inside and leave the head alone ? i believe its to add the creepiness and the craziness of the character .

Okay so , (Hypothetical)
-Aira ( Aira , Qian Yu  )
Weapon : sickle
Status  :Dead .
Cause : She focuses on surviving , hacking and slashing the one she doesnt trust , and protecting the one who does . Few she protected survived because of clashing opinions and unexpected fights , but managed to protected Qian Yu until the end . Got a huge wound from fighting Jeff at the last fight . And made Qian Yu kill her eventhough Qian Yu didnt want to , easing her pain .



-Bai Su Xuan ( Bai Su Xuan , Run Yi , Yi Ting )
Weapon : Bomb
Status : Dead
Cause : Tried assaulting Kenneths group ( Dave , Kenneth , Jeff , Richard , Charles )with a bomb but Ken's Crossbow killed her first .

-Danial ( Loner )
Weapon : Baseball Bat
 Status :Dead
 Cause : Died from jumping off a cliff , Sofia ( the girl he is in love with ) got killed protecting Fang Fei when they were brieefed about the battle . Depression killed him .

-Li Run Yi (Bai Su Xuan , Run Yi , Yi Ting )
 Weapon : Gun
 Status :Dead
 Cause : Also got caught up in Kenneth and Bai Su Xuan's battle ( she was in Bai Su Xuan's group ) , tried to taser off Charles . She managed to taser Charles but Richard and Dave shot her .


-Richard
 Weapon : Machine Gun
 Status :Dead
 Cause : Shot by Jeff first after Jeff's betrayal.


-Fang Fei  ( Yasmeen's group : Yee Teng , Suby , Rachel , Fang Fei , Yasmeen )
 Weapon : Napkin
 Status :Dead
 Cause : Before Bai's group assault on Kenneth's group , Bai's group sneaked up on Yasmeen's group which were relaxing by the river , Fang Fei was caught off guard and shot in the head .


-Suby
 Weapon : Binocular
 Status :Dead
 Cause : Fell off a cliff while trying to catch up with Yasmeen's group , her weapon is later taken by Qian Yu which spotted it near the cliff she fell on .


-Charles
 Weapon : AK47
 Status : Dead
 Cause : Charles got tasered by Yi Ting's Stun Gun in the chest .

-Dave
 Weapon : Gun
 Status : Dead
 Cause : Tries to help Kenneth killing Jeff who bertrayed them but also shot .

-Kevin ( Kenneth's group)
Weapon :
 Status : Dead
 Cause : Li Feng had a grudge on him and manged to kill him off bby decapitating his head when Kevin is on Guard duty .


-Yee Teng ( Yasmeen's group)
Weapon : Pickaxe
 Status : Dead
 Cause : Went Crazy because of Fang Fei's dead , thought Wimmy and Lycia was Bai Su Xuan and Yi ting , She got shot by Lycia's second attempt of shooting the gun .

-Rachel ( Yasmeen's group)
Weapon : Plastic knife
 Status : Dead
 Cause : Got shot by Bai Su Xuan when they were caught off guard in the riverbank.

-Rhea ( Loner )
Weapon : Headband
 Status : Dead
 Cause :Suicide because she felt like she's not needed .

-Sofia
Weapon : N/A
 Status : Dead
 Cause : tries to protect Fang Fei from the bullet Mr.Ezzam fired when briefed.

-Qian Yu
Weapon : Tracker
 Status : Survive
 Cause : Thought of Suicide , but Aira managed to get that thought of her . Was protected along the journey by Aira . Sole survivor of the game .

-Zhu Yi Ting
Weapon :  Stun Gun
 Status : Dead
 Cause : Got shot by Dave and Richard .

-Lycia ( Wimmy's group , Lycia , Stella )
Weapon : Gun
 Status : Dead
 Cause : Yee teng managed to stood up one last time after being shot and hacked her in the stomach by using her pickaxe .

-Jeff
Weapon : Machine gun
 Status : Dead
 Cause : Betrayed his group , Had a last showdown with Aira , after an intense fight , he lost to Aira , while Aira received a major injury .

-Nuraini
Weapon : N/A
 Status : Dead
 Cause : Died from receiving several shots from Ezzam . Went crazy from Sofia's death .

-Yasmeen
Weapon : Poison.
 Status : Dead
 Cause : Decided to drink her poison , tired of being alone and not knowing who to kill , she comitted suicide .

-Eng Kiat
Weapon :  Kitchen Knife
 Status : Dead
 Cause : Dead while he tried to run away from Jeff .

-Stella
Weapon : Marker
 Status : Dead
 Cause : Tries to Run away when yee teng assaulted Wimmy's group

-Kenneth
Weapon : Crossbow
 Status : Dead
 Cause : Tried to fight off Jeff who betrayed them , but died from several gunshots .

-Wimmy
Weapon : Rope
 Status : Dead
 Cause : Died From lycia's accidental shot . Lycia wanted to shoot Yee Teng who assaulted Wimmy but she was too afraid , and ended up shooting the wrong person .

-Li Feng
Weapon : Machete
 Status :Dead
 Cause : Dead after killing Kevin , earned several shots from Dave and Richard after he was caught killing kevin.


Also this week's a picture a day :

 This is a picture i took on my way home in bus 139 .
The view made me feel nostalgic , as if i am in Bali .
I really miss Bali ! I Hope they wont cancel the plan on going to Bali this december , though i really hate plane flights , They always make me feel nauseous.

Week 9 ! Criticizing

                This week , we had to criticize another people's blog , and gave marks to them based on what we see. Because its a make up class , lots of people ditched the class :/ .
So, we were criticizing the blog based on the groups we got . My Group is group 3 , and we got to judge group 4's blog , which is Jeff , Yee Teng , Run Yi and Li Feng .
         After quickly scanning through the blogs, We quickly found lots of difference between Jeff's and Yee teng's work to Li Feng and Run Yi's work .
Jeff's and Yee Teng's blog are Good , eye catchy with minor mistakes , meanwhile Li Feng and Run Yi's , had lots of mistakes and things to catch up with , especially due to language barrier ( not too sound jerky but how did Run Yi even got accepted with her level of English .(im so rude) )
           Jeff's blog is really eye-catchy and funny in my opinion ,  and it looks really completed and its clear that he puts an effort on doing it , though in my opinion , the font color cant be a bit distracting and looking at it for a long time hurts my eyes , and he didnt compile some of the blogs together ( like , for week 8 , reviews of battle royale , The review on one page , the other on another page   ) so it can be tiring ( or im just lazy) to click another page . (8/10)
          Yee Teng's one is really funny , and very "her" . She puts effort in every posts and the pictures , its also completed . I like how she's creative with some of her pictures .
 The one bad ( not really bad , just need to improve) about her blog that it uses a lot of singlish , us student and teachers , or any singaporeans might understand her but , the other people who doesn't know the singaporean slang might nit understand what she said in certain parts .(7/10)
 
          Li Feng's blog seems really blank in certain ways , but i can tell that he puts effort in some of the posts , like the POTD's , and he really tried to describe the POTD (especially when its directly related to his country ). I don't like how it seems like he just copy-pasted ( and not paraphrasing) some of the words , like DeBono's facts , and some are also not yet completed . Perhaps it is also due to the language barrier , but instead of taking spirals by himself , he took the pictures from the internet . My question to him is , if you have a difficulty in understanding a language , and needs help for it , why dont you ask ? and at least make an effort on studying it more ? I myself could see a huge difference between Kevin and Him , because according to me , Eventhough Kevin had a hard time on understanding english , he still put an effort and tries to understand us, and i did not see such efforts from Li feng , i feel he is too caught up on his phone . ( again , i am being rude) (5/10)

Run Yi's blog is the worst out of all four , she really needs to catch up on her language barrier , because i can barely understand what she typed . It feels like she just google translated all of her words , and didn't even bother to recheck it . But aside from her bad english , i know that she tried .
Her blog feels really blank to me , and she missed a LOT of weekly blogs . The words in POTD are actually more than some of the word counts in The Class review and Homework . And same with Li feng , she had some misunderstandings due to language barrier . (4/10)

Thoughts on reviewing other people's work :
I DO feel awkward at criticizing other people's work , because i know that some of their blogs are more well-written than mine , and especially that moment when you have to choose between the best or the worst .The worst one was when we had to talk about why we chose Run Yi's as the worst , cause everyone just went quiet .  Sometimes it is easier to say who's the best , or sometimes it might be easier to choose the worse  , but in the end we'll always feel bad prioritizing others to each other .
I feel especially bad when criticizing Run yi 's , but the truth had to be spoken  or else they won't know and improve , but still due to the language barrier they had i'm not sure if Run yi understood what i am saying . And if she do understand I am also quite afraid that she'll start grudging against us ?
In this case , its easier for me to choose who's the best , though i also feel bad not choosing Yee Teng's , because her's are actually quite ok too .

Also this week's a picture a day !

 uhm , so like ,
I am finally eating healthy for once !
After eating fattening and ( one can say quite unhealthy ? Kway teow , Roasted chicken Rice , Bee Hoon ) i actually crave for SALAD .
I never crave for healthy foods especially Salad . but this time is an exception.
The Salad tasted heavenly 

BUT IT COSTS LIKE , S$15 , WHAT . S$20 WITH THE SO CALLED HEALTHY DRINK ( its 100% fruit juice )
and the fatty food at the Hawker centre be like , $3-$4 a set .
----
I demand a world where salads are actually cheaper than junk foods and other fatty foods. 
Do tell me if there's any place where you can get good salad below $6 .
 i ranted about this on FB .

Week 7 ! Analogical Thinking !

             Week 7 is all about analogical thinking ! which is of course , is any type of thinking that relies on analogy .
This time though , other than focusing mostly on the Analogical thinking itself , we focuses more on the part of Analogical thinking , which is similes and metaphors .
The differences between Similes and Metaphors are , Metaphors simply state a comparison meanwhile , Simile uses "as " or "like" to compare things .I belive knowing the difference between these words and be creative enough to use it is important as Mr . Ezzam said , as someone who studies Art , we will be using lots of Metaphors and Similes to compare our artwork and describing it .
This week we had a short class , but jam packed with things to do for the week ,
  we are in charge of two assignments , which is taking pictures and a review on the movie Battle Royale .

This is the pictures of Spiral in Nature !! I took several spirals in Gardens By the Bay , where nature dominates .

This was taken at the entrance of the Garden, the spiral in this picture were plants ( branches ) spiralling upwards .There were several other ones that looks like this but i think this is what shows the spiral the most.

In this picture , the spiral could be seen from a part that is sticking out from the tree .This spiral spins upwards and formed a mound in the tree .

This spiral is quite abstract and random .This was taken from

This one was taken near the flowerbeds , it forms a really chaotic spiral ,each entangled to another one .

This spiral is from a plant that is hung down . the spirals shows a downward motion .

This flower has a circular motion/flow of a spiral in .
There were several other flowers with circular motions but i think this picture capture it best .

This plants has lots of spirals that turns and swirls . The spirals in this plant is also really messy and chaotic.

This plant was the same type as the one before , but the spiral shown is different , this one was connected to each other and forms a figure like form.

This cactus is really unique! the spiral is all over the cactus .

Andddd Suby's natural curls!! She sent us a selfie of her with her natural curls .

          And last but not least the spiral we humans are created with . Our fingerprints !
















  Next are several pictures that shows my reflection .

This was taken also at Gardens by the bay . I am not sure of the material but it is reflective enough to show my reflection ( my pink shirt is especially visible here)

 This is reflection taken in a metal surface .

 This one was taken at the lobby of my condominium , the material was a marble-like surface ?
Took this picture because i can see my reflection clearly , and was also hunting for reflective surfaces .

 This one also had a marble-like surface but slightly different and more reflective . This one was taken when im on my way to orchard .

This one was taken near Prinsep Street.

Clear reflection !
Taken at Takashimaya's kitchenware part of the supermarket.

Taken at Kinokuniya !!
its a DIY metal-sculpt thingy.

Also taken at Kinokuniya ! The plastic surface reflected my reflection quite well !
The book was Legend of Zelda

 The surfaceis mirror-ish , but looks pretty grainy ?

This one is wood surface

Pretty Reflective !

Also this week's a picture a day :
It was raining really heavily last week ! at Mr Chng's class 9 we had to attend it because Mr Chng was sick and had to substitute his class) .
We were on the library learning how to draw perspective !!
I love rain , but not when i have to carry a file home , and also when it rains , the buses are usually late , so it sucks .
But i love the rain itself , especially if i'm home , drinking milo and curled up inside my blanket !