Year 2, Semester 2, Week 2 & 3

At last, I have attend all 7 modules' classes for this semester. I was able to attend Stage Management II, Organizational Communication Skills and Business Finance. Truth be told, I have no idea what did I even sign up for. It was as if I took up some business course in some business school. 

Stage Management II

This module is pretty much the same as last semester's Stage Management I module. The difference is that this current module was being taught by a Stage Manager from T.H.E. Dance Company. Also it focuses on how to manage a real dance production. I foresee this class would be very detailed but if I can get an A for the previous module then I don't see why I can't get another A for this module. Insya-Allah.

Organizational Communication Skills

Another business module. Basically, it's a module on how to effectively and efficiently communicate your message to the masses. The lecturer seems alright. I think it's going to be quite a straightforward module. It would be 14 weeks of 1hour of lecture and 1hour of group discussion. We have to come up with a business proposal on how to promote NAFA and also support an organizational charity cause. That counts for 50% of the overall module. Bottomline, I really need to do well for the business proposal.

Business Finance

I feel as if I'm retaking Microeconomics and Principles of Management combined into this module. The lecturer is super boring and within 30 minutes into the lecture, i was on my Instagram, Twitter, Jack'd, Grindr, PlanetRomeo and Tumblr. It is so heavily theory-based that I feel like shooting myself. To top it off, we have to submit a business proposal within 8 weeks.

I was supposed to update my blog last week but I was super busy and swamped with school work that I completely forgot about updating my blog.

Anyway, a summary of how my school work is going to be like.

Contract Law - 5 Credits
10 Tutorial Assignments
Group Written Assignment - 20%
Group Presentation - 10%
Individual Class Test - 20%
Final Written Exam - 50%

Business Finance - 5 Credits
11 Tutorial Assignments
Group Written Assignment / Presentation - 30%
Final Written Exam - 70%

Organisational Communication Skills - 2 Credits
Individual Class Test - 15%
Group Written Assignment / Presentation - 35%
Final Written Exam - 50%

Concert Management - 2 Credits
Individual Assignment 1 - 20%
Individual Assignment 2 - 20%
Group Project 1 - 20%
Group Project 2 - 30%
Attendance / Class Participation - 10%

Stage Management II - 2 Credits
Individual Observation Report 1 - 15%
Individual Observation Report 2 - 15%
Tour Report - 40%
Attendance / Class Participation 30%

Dance Production - 2 Credits
I have no freaking idea because the lecturer is new and didn't give us any breakdowns.

SAS Music - 1 Credit
5 Reports - 20% each


My biggest concern is Contract Law and Business Finance since every week we would have to submit our tutorial even though it's not graded. Every single lesson is really demanding and getting more and more complicated. I don't want to breakdown because I know that I am better than this. Insya-Allah, I can do this.

End of 1st week

I celebrated the New Year by having a "Homeland" marathon. Both Season 1 and 2 of the show. It is by far, one of the best shows in recent years. The plot, the drama and the acting was really good from the cast. I'm just excited for Season 3 of the show. On a side note, i just realized that i'm keeping track of 31 TV series right now. I am seriously addicted to online TV or am i just addicted to my Mac? Anyway, on another topic, I have the whole six seasons of "Sex And The City", all eight seasons of "Charmed" and my all-time favourite, the completed seven seasons of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer". I'm such a happy boy.

Something totally completely random. From London, England to Washington DC, USA to Florence, Italy to Hamburg, Germany and now in San Francisco, USA.

Even though school only starts on the 7th, I'm pretty much have been going to school for this week. On Thursday, I have to give a tour of NAFA for 4 SOTA students who are transferring over to our school. Briefing them on their courses and bringing them around the campuses. It was only for 3 hours but at least, i get paid for doing it. 

The next day, we had training and briefing for the NAFA Ambassadors for NAFA Open House next weekend. As usual, I end up helping OSC with welcoming the students who signed up for it. Even though, there's no official committee for the Ambassadors but I think Faric and me are so-called in-charge of all of them. We had to brief them what to do, tell them which routes to take when touring the students and other stuffs that we feel that they need to do. The weird thing was that this is my first time doing it and I literally had no idea what I was doing. Thankfully, this is Faric's third time doing the NAFA Open House so he is like a pro at it.

On Saturday, some of us came back to help pack the goodie bags. It was fun doing it with them and we did it quite fast since we were pretty much done by 2.30pm. We started around 10.30am and we were done within 4 hours packing over 2300 goodie bags. 

At last, I am contactable. Pimm let me use her iPhone 4S until my contract is up so that I would be able to buy a new phone then. Honestly speaking, it is quite complicated to use it but I'm going to get use to it. 

Lastly, I'm just excited to get back to school tomorrow. I need to be a full time study whore to pull up my GPA in order to get a scholarship to cover my 3rd and final year in NAFA Diploma. Insya-Allah, I can do it.

2013 Resolutions

2013 New Year's Resolution

- Be grateful for everything and anything that comes my way.

- Be more optimistic.

- Be a full-time study whore.

- Be more organised.

- Be more helpful to other people.

- Maintain my weight of 55kg.

- Try to eat at least one fruit a day.

- Learn a new French word everyday.