Media?

Talking about media, people often thing about music and movies the most. I don’t really see TV and watch movies nowadays because of my new interest in cars. Well maybe I haven’t watch TV for years now, I really don’t know how people get any entertainment from those ugly boxes. All the things there are all boring. Ok, back to the topic. Recently, I bought some magazines and newspapers to find a cheap 2^nd car. A printed media sure is a big problem, compared to the electric media such as internet articles and journals, where we can just press Ctrl+F to find things. In this entry I would talk a lot about magazines that I have bought, some of them are Otomotif, Modifikasi and Motor. On those magazines, I find that buying expensive cars is not always good. A person who buys cheap cars can make their car as good as or better than the one that buys expensive cars. From those magazines, we are told on how to modify a car from every aspect such as exterior, interior, audio and many more. Personally, I prefer to modify the car from its exterior, since it would make me to be the center of attention on the streets (hehe).

From my researches through a lot of Medias, I found out that I find electronic media much easier to read and see, but printed media usually contains a lot more information in it. I know more information through the magazines I bought rather than the internet articles. From the magazines, I also see many advertisements; the advertisements there have a lot of elements in it. I guess learning the media chapter is also beneficial to me haha. It does make me to see things differently though, good in a way, bad in a way. Oh well, I guess everything in this world have its pro and cons.

-fred

WoW - Thompson 16

In the last few terms in the IB program, my grades is in constant acceleration of 1 mark per quarter, but sadly I think its gonna end really, soon. I just hope that this though is not a "self-fulfilling prophecy" type.

In the first term of IB I got the total of 29 out of 42, the second term is 30 out of 42, and the third one, just recently is 31 out of 42. So my total grade is somewhat stably increasing, which is good. All of those time, studying, I also played a game called "DotA" (Defense of the Ancient) a warcraft III custom map, made by IceFrog. But i have played that game since 8th grade, so I'm not really affected it's temptation to play because I already frequently playing it for the last 3 years. Meaning that "DotA" have little affect my study at today's state.

But now, a new breed of game have just come up, available to my hands. My brother, Bram wanted to play a game that he used to play with his friend. Now he is gonna do it again. A game named "WoW" (World of Warcraft). The reason for me not to play this game before (this already been out just few years ago) is because you have to pay it, also with credit card via internet probably. The paying stuff is just troublesome for me, so I can't play it. But now my brother pay everything for the game and now I could play "WoW" when he is not at home.

This new game might heavily affect my current grade to go downward due to the time spent on playing instead of studying. I tried my best for my grade not to fall because of it. My brother Ryan also played "WoW" giving me incentive to play with it even more.

Afraid that this might affect my grade or not, I have made a pack with my brother, Bram that if my grade gonna fall below 30 out of 42, he will change the password and I may not play until I get good grades again. That means one quarter without WoW, I could not afford that. So I just hope that in this term I could study well, with this new game that is available in my hands. Hopefully this does not give very huge impact on my grades.

Sadly after publishing this post, I will play "WoW" once again, since my brother is not at home.

"Resist the corruption within"