Second Soliloquy
A journey into the mindscape...
It's Been A Long, Long Day
Well... the periodical exams are over. Plus the Econ magazine is finished as well. That, at least, is good.Our Econ group (Group 3) had 2 overnights at Arlou's house this week just to finish the magazine. As one of the three editors in the group, I had to go over the articles after everyone had them encoded into the computer. So I went and checked the text for grammatical, semantical, or whatever other errors that were there, sometimes checking my mail or going online on YM. It was a good thing I wrote my article in advance, since some other people only started then. After that, I really didn't have anything left to do, so I ended up listening to soundtracks of Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera musicals, listening to a compilation of random MP3's, doing some experimental Java programming, watching CSI or X-Men 2, watching someone's acolyte/priest (couldn't tell which) get beaten up at GH, watching someone else do some Java programming, and finally watching the other people work their asses off on their jobs.
Lesson learned: bored overnights plus CD player equals drained AA batteries. In just those two days I used up one and a half sets of batteries (the half one being a full set used up halfway). So the next time, I'll bring along the AC/DC adapter.
And then there were printing problems. We went over to UP to get it printed, but no matter how hard they tried (half the group, me inluded, stayed in the van), the document wouldn't load. So we gave up and went to Philcoa. After two other groups and a linked versus embedded issue (I'm too lazy to explain right now), we finally finished printing. Total duration? about 4 or so hours...
The magazine turned out nicely. Especially the ads. We scanned advertisements from magazines, then edited the stuff in Photoshop. So basically, almost all the ads in there are just spoofs. Darned hilarious ones, if I might add. The Seiko brand watch turned into Singko ("It's your grade that tells most about who you are"). Red Bull's Barako iced coffee drink turned into Ded Bull's Barado iced coffee drink. And then there's the one and only (I think) non-spoof ad: it reads on top, "what we linke the most about sir vlad:" with a large red X filling the rest of the page... almost. at the bottom, it reads "factor" in small print, as in X-factor. We also have a subscription coupon (or whatever you call it) spoof. We edited Vogue to be read as Vogie (doesn't make for much humor outside pisay, though). You should see the last ad, though.
Okay, so we got all that done. Just clearance now, right? Nope... I still have to do our Results and Discussion part of the STR final paper, my Pinoy book report, and our group's AdEl circuit. We're not out of the woods yet...
