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Everyday is lalala...: June 2006
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Saturday, June 17, 2006. I'm leaving Stockholm in 7 hours time. It's 6.30am now. I can't sleep, so here's a flashback of the wonderful times I've had during my exchange here. First trip: Kiruna (almost missed the flight! Second stop: Latvia (Riga - I was stranded in a bus stop for at least 10 minutes) and Lithuania (Vilnius). Third stop: Germany (Berlin and Munich). Fourth stop: Norway (Oslo - an aboslute let down). Final stop: France (Paris and Nice) and Italy (Milan, Florence, Pisa, Venice, Rome).
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Everyday is lalala...: May 2006
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006. Jolene and Weiwen are finally coming! I'll be picking them up tonight. *brr* It's gonna be really cold. I've packed and cleaned my room, awaiting for their arrival. We're gonna have lotsa fun babes! I won't forget my poor baby who is terribly sick right now. Take care dearie, promise to make it up to you when I'm home. Now back to lunch! Sung by lalala @ 7:48 PM. Monday, May 29, 2006. Here's to my baby Twinkle. She's sucha darling. I miss her. Sung by lalala @ 3:08 AM. It's damn ...
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Everyday is lalala...: September 2006
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006. RE: Exercise 5: Beyond hypertext. 1 I think that hypertext is seemingly different from IF because in the former, the user just clicks from text to text (or lexia to lexia) to. The narrative. The narrative, I would say, is designed by the author beforehand and there is only passive participation from the user (perhaps like type 1 aided creation? Whereas in IF, the interactor is said to be involved in. I still don't understand what a cybertext is, but I shall ATTEMPT to clarify.
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Everyday is lalala...: August 2006
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Sunday, August 27, 2006. RE: Finally, we get to narrative. (revised after today's lecture! 1 To set the record straight, I somewhat agree with Manovich's idea that anything represented in a computer CAN BE MADE interactive, but I consider Crawford's definition of interactivity more useful; a medium is interactive when it is able to evolve immediately and over time in response to the user's inputs. Hence, I would consider games interactive, but not a novel or a movie. Given the above, I would say the stru...