Last post + 3 posts nominee

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Welcome to the LAST post of my blog. There's a few things I need to talk about. Firstly, I need to apologize about my crappy English. I just came to Australia 2 years ago and English is my 2nd language. There are some spelling mistakes and bad grammars in each entry. However I went through each post and tried to correct every mistake I could find, just to make my blog better for everyone to read and understand what I try to say.
Secondly I have quite abit of audiences. My audience is anyone who love my style of writing and love to read my story which sometimes doesnt related to media at all. I think this is also one of the ways to increase your blog traffic. Once you write something interesting, then you will have more people who want to read your work. Or it can even be anybody who have the same interests as me. Well I have 5 followers in total. However my blog posts are not that interesting. However next time I would find the way to increase my traffic. What I can think of right now is try to add some videos or music, or maybe write something abit more interesting.
Blogroll is also really useful for me to get updated and see what people are doing. Also we can subscribe to other websites or other blog via RSS or really simple syndication. This will keep you up to date. Monetize can make me some money too but yeah thats not what I want to do at the moment.
In some of my blog posts, I have put some links that relate to the topic or the story I talked about. For example once I talk about google maps I also prvide link for the audiences to access google maps.
I also have a look at those traffic monitor tools which will show you the number of visitors who come to see your blog. That can help you thinking about increasing your audiences.
Finally I want to say having a blog is a good thing. We can share our stories or experiences or anything on this social media site. However I dont think it can be as good as facebook or twitter where everyone could update their stories very fast and seems like everyone can get into it easier. For example Facebook has that live feeds new feeds thing to show you what's happening right now. However we dont know whats going to happen in the future. Blogs could become even more popular than those social networks and they might have more features for users.
Anyway this is my first time having my own blog and I want to say I'm very proud of myself that I could write a post in each week for this assignment. Later if I have a chance to contribute my blog I will try harder to make it more interesting and talk more about good stuffs.

here are the 3 posts which I nominated:

http://gooodromance.blogspot.com/2010/03/gooodromancehyatt.html

http://gooodromance.blogspot.com/2010/03/because-love-doesnt-work-like.html

http://gooodromance.blogspot.com/2010/03/to-michael-honey.html

love u all, have a goodromance <3

The last one

Hey baby

Finally I finished my project B assignment for my networked media class. I spent alot of time doing it and the result turned out really worth my time. The thing I want to mention in my post for this week is our tutorial. As we all know tutorials are all the same and sometimes can be really boring. However our tutorial is unique. We had awesome people in our class, also we had probably the best tutor in town who's really cool and could keeps interest from everyone. I must say I didnt study really hard. Sometime I went on facebook instead of doing the exercise which out tutor provided for us. However I love this networked media class, my friends in there and our tutor. Everything mixes together and become gooodromance <3

xox

Project B Rationale

At first when I needed to choose between doing Data visualization and geo-narrative, it took me a while. I did some research about data visualization and also looked up for some good examples on internet. It seemed pretty interesting and very challenging. However at this stage I had no clue how to make one. Also I didnt have much time for this project so I did not want to risk anything. I moved to geo narrative. 'It's quite simple' was my thought at first. Nevertheless it just seemed like it. It's more complex and challenging than what I first thought. However it's also not too difficult for me to make one up. I just needed to make sure I spend enought time and put alot of effort doing this great piece of work.

At first I discussed with my mate who chosed to do the same thing. We came up with lots of great and interesting ideas. In the unit outline it said that we could do an essay-like argument, a documentary account or historical recreation, or a photographic tour. However I was not keen to do something like that because it sounds boring to me, and I dont want my audiences to get bored of it either. I wanted to do something fun and interesting. So I decided to a fictional story which would have interesting storyline.

I spent alot of time thinking of some ideas for the story. I wanted to make a comedy story so I talked about it with my friends and shared our great and funny live experiences. Also I went on internet to do some researh about stories writing. I went on yahoo to looked up some for great example of stories from people around the world. Pity there were not many of good ones. Most people just come and write complaining about their lives. Anyway google is my real friend. I looked up some funny stories on google. I eventually came up with this great story of one guy who is getting laid for the first time. He doesnt know anything about it so he goes to see the doctor and asks for the advices. At night he goes to his girl's place and turn out the doctor is his girl's daddy. The original story itself is pretty funny. However I added more charactor in it to make it even more interesting and funnier.

After I finished writting the story. I started pinning the map and adding the story in each one. I chosed the location in Canberra because it's where we live. Also I think it would be more interesting since the story happens in our native town. Also I took the pictures by myself with my digital camera. I didnt actually go to take photos on the location on the map. SInce I dont have a car it's really hard for me to go around Canberra. However I set up the scenes in university which looks similar to the place in the map. For example this scene when the charactor is at the pub. I didnt actually go to the pub but I went to the cafe area in university and picked the good spot for taking photos. It turned out look as if the picture was actually taking in the pub (for people who dont go to UC and havent been to the cafe area before it will even look more realistic.) Then when I got all the photos. I also used this Photoshop program which gave me a chance to edit and play around with contrass and colour to make my works look better. Here's the example:



As you can see the picture looks fine. However I decided to edit the colour and contrass abit to make it look even better



Now the image looks more interesting. After I finished editing all of my images. I uploaded them on Flickr. I chosed Flickr because its a very popular and reliable website where we can store and share our images for free. Also in my introduction to media production class we learnt about Flickr aswell so I think its the best to use this website. When I finished uploading my images I added them all to my google map by following the instruction on google website. Also I added some videos which related to the story. At first I had some problems adding them to my map, but after I had a chat with my tutor. She showed me how to do it and then I could do it without any problems. I also added some related links to my map aswell. For example there's a scene where the main charactor is going to meet his girlsfriend's dad. In that section I added the link to the article " what to do when ur meeting her dad". Its basically tell you how you should do & talk to the girls dad when you in the sitcation where you meeting him. haha pretty funny I know :P

Finally I have done all the work. I think my work is pretty good and very unique since I used google maps in the different way; presenting and telling story instead of just looking for the place to go or some academic stuffs. Also the story links itself to the culture that happens in this town Canberra and also what happens in the reality. If I had abit more time to do this project. I would make it even better by firstly I would go to the actual places in the story and take pictures for each scene. Secondly I would spend abit more time on the storyline. Eventhough I think its prety good, however Im pretty sure i could add abit more stuffs in it. The last thing is I would organise and manage to make up my own videos instead of youtube videos.

LINKS

- My Geo Narrative
- My Flickr collection

The end is near

Hey!!
first thing want to mention in this week blog is I JUST TURNED 19 on Wednesday!!!! hahaha happy birthday to myself. I was so happy :D alot of my friends came to see me at uni and at night i went to have dinner with this chick ;) sooo good
Back to our business sigh as I said I choose to do that geo-narrative thing on google. This week I finished like 50% of it? I have my story done and already put it on each destination. It's quite tricky since it's not just stick the point on the map and put random stuffs in. I have to make sure the destination points are in the correct spots. Also the story must be interesting ortherwise people who read it will get bored easily and dont feel like to read it anymore. So I spent alot of time making up this awesome story. It's a comedy story and also comes with the twist at the end so I hope people would enjoy reading it :)
After adding the story into the map, now i need to put some nice pictures, videos and links that related to the story in each destination. I plan to drive around and take the pictures during the weekends so I'm just trying to put videos into my map for now. At first I had abit of problems with puting the videos in. However I spoke to Sharron my tutor and she showed me how to do it so it's all good and I just spent the whole thursday night looking at the videos on youtube and put them into my map. I also added some links that I reckoned they are related to the story and might be useful to the reader in aswell.
Thats pretty much what I did for this week since I had to go party hard! hahaah xox

GooodRomance World Tour

Hey baby!

This week we had no lecture, however there're some good stuff s going on still. Firstly the new Project B assignment is so interesting. In the tutorial we had a look at these website that show the awesome examples of data visualizations. They are really good stuffs honestly, however I HAD no idea how to do one man geez. Anyway thx god the second choice of our project is google map stuffs. At first i read it i was like what's this man why sounds so easy, then my tutor showed us how it exactly is and what do we need to do then i realised thats heaps of work to do. Basically we have to make up a story and use google map as a narrator, also we have to link the place together and put some nice pictures and videos. Thats so much fun for me so I prefer to do that as my assignment. Im thinking to do GooodRomance World tour. Basically its gonna be about how i go pick up different chicks all around the world and i will put some photos and videos on it haha this is gonna be fun!!!
I started to do my assignment straight away after I decided what I want to do. First thing I started to think about the story. It's very hard because I must be really creative thinking about the plot. Since it's like a book and there will be alot of texts and pictures I don't want to make something that too informative and will make the audiences feel boring. So I prefered the story to be about something interesting and fun rather than just telling boring story.
I could'n't really think of anything in my tutorial because there was too much distraction. Well I just went on google map sections and watched the videos about how do we create our own maps. It seemed pretty easy and looked fun. I also signed up for gmail since I need it when I log in to make my map. So when I arrive home I would have everything ready to go without struggling looking where to start :)
Thats pretty much what I did for this week baby, I will update you more next week!!!
xox

It's time to change

Hey baby

I was sick on tuesday so i didnt go to the lecture, I heard it's awesome and everyone was clapping at the end. Thanks Michael Honey I will miss u so much <3

In my tutorial we had to do some research about data visualization. Its something like a whole bunch of information of anything. Instead of showing to audience in all full boring text, how it represent itself is much more interesting. I went to some good websites that show the example of some good data visaulizations. They are pretty interesting and very easy to undestand. I also looked up in the list of 50 great data visualizations . It gave me some ideas about what I should do for my Project B assignment.

At the end of the class, each person had to talk about what they found infront of the class. I came up with this ARC. Basically its a data visualization that stocks the information in Digg.com. (Digg.com is like where people post all the stuffs that their like on the site and share to the world.) Its kinda boring just go in there reading column and there are heaps of text. So some smart guys invented this awesome stuffs to make reading and finding aritcle much easier and more interesting.

After the tutorial i had a little chat with my mates and we realised that we should go through each post of each week in out blogs and add some more information. Its a good idea since i've been writting abt hot asian chicks. Well anyway i will start doing that after i finish my essay..sigh

thats all for tonight see u baby ;)
xox

Pimp ma City!

Sup baby,
I had a really intense week. Studying, working, problems with girls etc. You know...same old stuffs. Cant help it, Im the man here, just like how Uncle Ben is Spider Man said "With great power comes great responsibility" :P
Anyway, back in business. Due to in the lecture we learnt stuffs about multiplicity, how people create ideas that use multiplicity and collective intelligence. So in the tutorial we had to team up and talk about it. My group came up with this "Pimp My city" idea. Basically its all about this website will accept the construction plan which designed by people. When they are submitted in to the database then people can vote for the best ones. Those good ones will make in to the finalists where the architects can come and have a look. Also it will be transformed into 3D version. The benefits of this ideas are people can share the ideas with others and give away the chances to be creative. Also it's easy and useful for people who want to find some great designs of buildings. The problem was it would cost so much money to do it. $$$
Back in to the lecture and I must say. We saw this Ted.com stuff and it was awesome. This guy was presenting this new technology about keeping newspaper/ magazine in one database. With that quality of definetion and number of information, Damn baby he made me amazed!!!
PEACE xox

Put my name and love in google trend and you'll see a big difference.

Holidays over. Now im back to where I belonged, "University Of Canberra". The only uni in Canberra where ppl who know 'how to get ladies' go to. I had so much fun in Sydney. Clubbing in Oxford & Kingscross, and picked up some hot Chinese chicks in China town...
Screw my love life now Im back in business. I spent most of the time on Tuesday studying for Chinese which im going to have test real soon. In the lecture today Michael Honey talked about web2.0. It's the new generation of websites these days. It makes very nice and cooler pattern, something that cute shiny and slidy :P then we learnt about Metcalfes laws which is:
Cost:N
Value:N squared
It's preety much like more people using the service, then it will become more and more popular.
Then we moved to Twistori, where u can see some funny status update out of Twitter. I laughed at all those status update which keeps coming up. Later on he moved to Google Trends. This is the most interesting thing I've ever seen in my life. I could have spent the whole day just to compare things haha. Also we laern about this google filter, it is how when you search something in google and the whole list of the websites come up. The most important and useful website will come up first, this is called page rank.
After that I had this 10 pages of Chinese test in the evening. It's pretty easy or maybe its just me who's pro :P Now all of you can see what's the benefits of getting chinese chicks.
xox

Holiday!!!

Hey baby
After week 7 i have submitted all the assignments and that means no more work!!! ( for a week ) Now I can chill out :D I started my holiday by went to the gym and work out some guns, followed by went to friends party. Also im leaving Canberra tomorrow and head off to Sydney hahaha <3 so many asian chicks there hehe
Anyway I need to be ready for week 9 which there are lots of tests coming up. I need to read a lot and also i hope teachers will like my assignments ( include my website :P ) just need to be prepared and get ready...thats it
and thats pretty mch for this week man..not very productive but cool as always :P
im always ready baby

<3

RATIONAL 4 GOOOD ROMANCE

Hey baby
I just finished my online exhibition! I love it very much :D It's also my first time that I made my website. My tutor said that I could make a website about whatever I want or interested in. So I made my website about hot girls that I met in Canberra and link it together with my blog under the name " Goood Romance".
As I said it’s my first time making the website so it’s very challenging for me. At first I had no idea how to make a website or what topic should I do. However I went on internet and had a look at some good websites for getting ideas. Then when I knew that I want to make a site about ladies. I went to FHM website to have a look for an example. After that I went to w3school website to learn how to use HTML and CSS code. Also I went to websource website to look for more HTML code.
Now I want to talk about my understanding in the technical processes that involved in my production and also want to explain the processes I used and why in different sections:
HTML
To be honest, at first I had no idea what HTML was. Well I had heard of it but I didn’t actually know how it worked. So I learned about HTML in my tutorial and also Michael Honey talked about it in the lecture. Also he gave us some good example which can define HTML and show us how it works in the internet world. Further more I went to some website to learn more HTML code and brought it into my site.
Since I don’t know much about them, the HTML codes that I use were pretty basic. For example I used center tag to get the sentence in the center, I used image tag to get images into my site. Also I know how to link pages together. I linked my HTML file to my CSS file as well
CSS
I found CSS really hard for me. So I just used the basic one such as div tag for my love heart. I changed my page background colour using CSS. Also fonts colour and fonts size. I tried to add more CSS code but it didn’t work and its very complicated. However I’m happy that at least I tried to use it in my site. Eventho it didn’t work but I learned from my mistake and could improve it next time I make another website.
Overall
My website looks simple but it’s a good stuff. The first page said that this website is only for adult just because I want to get more people attention and I believe most of them will click “ yes I understand”. When you come the main page. There are links to different page. There’s a link to my blog on blogspot and there are links to my profile, gallery on my contact info. At last there is a link to go back to main page. The font that I used is not a comic san font. It’s the font that is easy to read for people. Also there are not many texts and I also I tried to put image in the middle of the long article so it wouldn’t look like this website full of text. I use the black background because it makes my site looks better and it goes well with the font colour. I got the images from my Flickr and put them in the gallery. Their size are not too big and not too small. Also I have a video from youtube to give my site more variety.
Finally I think I did a good job making this website. Even tho it’s pretty basic and doesn’t have a lot of cool stuffs like others . However its very interesting how I put things together. Also if I have more time I will study more HTML code and try to use them in my site.

Keep it real bro

Dont you hate it when girls are being silly and keep asking us the same questions? I do. As I said last week I had a fight with this girl and I made her cried blah blah blah. Well now we are cool anyways and thats over...no more arguing. Everything seemed to go well until she came up with a few questions on MSN such as " Are you still angry at me?" or " Do you genuinely still want to talk to me? If you just feel bad because you made me sad then you dont have to pretend like you care about me" and so on. I told her that no I'm not angry anymore and yes I GENUINELY want to talk to her. However she keeps asking me these questions and thats quite annoying. My friends said she just wants to know if I care about her, but damn it for me I feel like she just wants to make me get upset. She probably just wants me around her without making any effort to get me since I've been really nice to her. She is playing me and I think I should move on man.

To Michael Honey

Hello Michael,

at first I want to say I'm sorry that I didnt write my blog last week. I had to do 4 assignments and they all due in the same day. When it got so busy I just totally missed out the chance to add a new entry for last week.
My life got worse today when I heard from my networked media tutor that once u dont add new entry to your blog everyweek, you are failed. In the unit outline it says that I need to have entry for everyweek (week 2-15). Well I thought it mean we need 14 entries altogether because we have 14 weeks to write our blog. So I planned to do it slowly and start adding new entry and tried to make my blog up to date once I miss some entry. Honestly I didnt know that we meant to write like ONE ENTRY EVERYWEEK. Ok well it says one entry per week in unit outline but I thought I can delay it for a few days and catch up later as long as we have 14 entries altogether ( 14 weeks = 14 entries?) and that will make 1 entry each week. oh mann well probs just because my suck english since I'm an international student so I didnt understand the instruction ><" and maybe thats not a good excuse...sigh
I hope u read this Michael and I hope u understand me and give me a chance. By the way if you will fail me ( its most likely ><") just....feel free to do it. I will still come to your lecture and keep writing blog, just to show you my spirit.
Regard,

Jumpol Likitawong

18/03/2010

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Hey baby we have no lecture!

We didnt have a lecture for last week so yeah I just went to the computer labs work on my website. I started to understand how things work in HTML and CSS including Div tags n stuffs. It took me a while though since it looks really complex and I had no idea how to deal with it. However now its all good.

In my networked production tutorial, Each person got to show their project and talk about it in front of the class. A lot of people came up with interesting ideas and their webpages that looked quite good. I did mine about taking photos of Asian chicks under the name GOOODROMANCE. My classemates and my tutor loved it. They gave me many good advice about how to make it even better, what should I add, what they like and what they didnt like. It's really good to share our opinion around the class so people can improve their skill and think outside the square.

Thats pretty much what I did for last week with my HTML project. Also I went to look at my mate's blogs to get some more ideas and see how people think about what we learn just like Michael told us in the lecture.

At night I was on the phone with this girl from ANU. We had a big argument over the phone and she ended up crying. I felt bad becoz its my fault eventho she stared it. However since im so smooth with ladies, I figured it out and now we're good. Now Im trying to keep the 'love momentum' and try to be a better person, also add new entry for blog each week ><"

just for you baby.

GooodRomance@Hyatt

Hey baby,

since I have to do the website for my networked media production. I've decided to do something like photos gallery online. Teacher said it could be about anything I'm interested in. I'm interested in hot chicks so it will be about hot chicks.

I did some research about it. I went to FHM website and looked for some ideas. I planned to get girls to interview and take their photos. However it wont be like super sexy since this is my assignment :P sorry guys.

I opened my facebook page, looked for the decent girls on my friends list. Then my eyes stopped at this Asian chick. She has a really nice body and yeah she's so hot. I called her straight away to make a deal. Ended up me and her planned to meet up the next day at Hyatt.

After hung up from her I started to think of what I should ask her during the interview. I would ask her about herself and her opinion about things that happen in her life. I plugged in my battery charger for the camera, get ready for the big day and I hope it wouldnt rain tomorrow.

I woke up at 10am, The sky was bright and clear. I had breakfast then went to shower. Looking good today Kaka. I had my camera, tripod and interview questions ready.

I arrived Hyatt Hotel at 12.30. She was there already. Her name was Lisa, Lisa Pham. She came in with this beautiful white dress. However she still had that Asian look. She dyed her hair brown and carried Louis Vuitton handbag. We walked to the cafe and ordered hot chocolate for 2.

In the garden we sat down and talked about each other. I told her to be relax. "Its just like your on date" I said. She smiled. Then The Hot chocolate came on the table, the conversation began.

Lisa is Veitnamese but she was born here. She lives in Gungahlin with her family; 1 brother. 3 cousins, mum and dad. Now she is in Yr12, she planned to go to ANU study international relation after she finish.

She's really good at talking and she's also a good listener. I asked her if she had a boyfriend. She said she didnt have and never had one, thats surprised me because she's so pretty. She said all the guys in Canberra are boring and they are all the same to her. Some of them were just too nice. They would do anything to please her. Also some of them were just so bad. They did drugs, fight and skipped school. She said she didnt like guys who dont know how to talk to girls, as in like a guy who doesnt know when he should say this or when he should just shut up. "Oh well I talked to lots of guys." She said. " We talk about everything, girls, school or movies. Some guys talked to me about drugs and some guys talked to me about how he shoot people."

She said that once u broke ur heart, then its really hard to trust someone. Thats why she stays single til now. After that its photos time. Hyatt is the best place for photos. Its really classy and also has really nice scenary. Lisa was a really good model. She posed like what I told her to and the pics turned out so hot.

"You are really good at taking photos kaka :)" Lisa said "nahhh" I replied "you are hot"

We finished about 2 in the afternoon. She said that she really enjoyed today and she had fun. Before we left I asked her whether she prefer jerks or nice guys. Her answer was short but so true.

"A jerk who is nice, baby"

Because Love doesnt work like javascript

Hey baby,

Networked media lecture for this week was kinda boring. I don't know why but I felt so sleepy during the session. Michael Honey talked about Div tag, ID and Javascript. These are useful stuffs but the thing is it's just too complicated when you talk about all of them in hour and a half. Also we have this API (Application Processing Interface) thing, then we looked at this Wolfenflickr3D. Its like a game which it pulls of the images from your Flickr account and put on the wall...sweet.

Time flew so fast, and again I felt exciting about going to Chinese lecture :P Haha not really. I walked into the class, not many people there. I was early.
Last weekend I added her on facebook and we had "a good conversation". I asked her about her degree and what school she came from. We didnt talk much but atleast its a good move to break the ice.

10 minutes later, people started to walk in. Also my friend, Mitch. we sat together as usual " You are early today aye?" He greeted. Well I told him that I had nothing to do so I just came in early. However Actually I did that on purpose, I just wanted to see where she sit so I can sit next to her hahaha.

Sundenly like my life started to go slowmotion. A girl with long black hair and Asian eyes was standing at the door. She walked in and sit at the back. Man I was so cut :P

Today my Chinese class was fun. We got to stand in circle and talk to the person next to you and yeah I was next to Mitchell LOL. I looked her her who was standing far away from me. I could see that she was looking at me before :P nicee

After the class I went to say hi to her. She was really nice and friendly. I went home and started studying about what I learned today; my networked media blog, Chinese and media production. I looked up the unit outline on moodles and organized what to read first. Uni life isnt too bad if you plan it wisely.

At night I lied my back down on the sofa, thinking about her my angel. I have to wait until next Tuesday to see her again lol I don't know what would happen next week. I might ask her to hang out, she might say yes, or no. I have no clue. There's no unit outline for love, there's no script.

Am I right, baby?

HIML How I Meet Ladies

Hey baby,

I went to the Network media lecture on Tuesday. It was pretty awesome as usual (eventhough I saw some people just fall asleep haha). Micheal Honey talked to us about how we make a website. He showed us how HTML and CSS code work together. It seemed pretty complex but very interesting. I enjoyed it and he is a funny guy indeed.

After the class I had my Chinese lecture at 5.30 in the afternoon. My brain had already stopped working since It'd been a long day for me. However Chinese lecture is always not too bad. My teacher has such a unique way of teaching and she can make the whole class stay awake for the whole 2 hours. Anyway I went to the class. My friend, Mitchell Negus was there. I sat next to him then the class began.

My chinese class is very multicultural. People came from so many different countries around the world. While my teacher was talking about how to say hello in chinese I saw this Asian chick walked in to the class. I was pretty sure she was a new student because i didnt see her last time. Her beauty caught my eye. She had a long black hair with tiny little dimple. She was about 170 cm tall.With Asian eyes and that tiny lip, she was cute.

She came and sat infront of my row. She looked at me, I looked back at her. I would have kept looking at her for the whole hour if Mitch didnt slap my face. He knew what I was thinking. "I dont understand this word" he said. "Get a dictionary!" that was my advice.

Chinese class has never been so good, baby.

Baby no worries

Hi everyone this is my frist entry. I joined the blog communities since its the part of my media assessment.