Up & Rising

Copy-right, Copy-left 

Establishment of acro.edu.au is an excellent idea. The website allows everyone to share their video clips, images, etc online. What’s with the commercialised and copyrighted video/images/audio production, it’s always difficult for students or organisation barricaded with money constraint to search for and use quality resources without infringing copyright laws. Additionally, most of the video clips and images in ACRO are in their raw format, allowing users to easily edit and reproduce the clips/images to suit their project(non-commercial) requirements, “Re-edit, remix, and remash in an editing program of your choice to make great new stuff and display it to the world. You can also mix ACRO materials with your own” (ACRO).

On the other end, owners of ACRO material(s) can put their works up for good use, rather than accumlating their good works in their computer, forgeting their good existence.

Last semester,  I was assigned to do a new media project using Windows Movie Maker and If it’s not for resources that are located in ACRO, I would have a really tough time looking for un-copyrighted or materials with flexible copyrights. I would have to form my own band to make my good audio productions (ok, i’m exaggerating abit) that are plentiful in ACRO.

So, I hope ACRO will be enhanced and funded, always. And maybe, maybe, when I have my own stable income, I’ll be one of ACRO many doners! So, let’s hope that I’ll earn BIG monies. **keeping my fingers crossed** 

I have to add that we must give the government commendable effort for at least trying to relieve the financial burden that some Australians are facing. However, I felt that the measurements the government in introducing could not measure up to all the price increment in other areas, such as oil prices, etc.

Personally, I’m happy with the funds injected by the government on the aspects of VSU, even though, for international student, student union fees is still a compulsory payment.
On a pessimistic note, as a strategy to prevent the deficit in government budget , prices on other commodity and services (e.g. GST) might increase in due time. I hope I’m not right and I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish
–Under Interrogative section–
Asking a question in a form of statement.

* You eat already ”’ah”’ ( Have you eaten?)
* You want ”’ah”’ (Would you like to have this?)

–Under Expression section–

*stoned – ”to dazed out”

*scully – ”what if – “scully, we win this game?””

*Eat snake – commonly used in workplace environment. An action directed to a person who is not performing his job duties. “Oh, you eat snake ah? I’m going to tell boss.”

*Don’t fly my kite – a singlish expression which means ‘Please do not go back on your words’

I have also created a new section

===Musical===

*”[[Oi! Sleeping Beauty]]”

note :
What happen when you want to make a bilingual nation? The nation become confused on usage of the two languages. In Singapore case, we come up with a 3rd language; Singlish.

Singlish is ridiculously funny.

To be honest, I’m not a fan of Singlish. I lost a huge portion of my allowance on paying singlish fines in my secondary school (20cents fine on each singlish word uttered).
Thus, my animosity in Singlish.

However, speaking in Singlish helps to relieve tensions. e.g. “Don’t pray pray ah” (which means, do not play around with a tint of humour attached)

Do you support the new Spanish-language version of American’s national anthem?Day 20, 11:30 PM ET (Results are delayed 15 minutes) Total Votes: 14,476

percent votes YES! (489) (3%) NO! (13,987) (97%)

ALL VOTERS

I passed a ‘NO!’ vote for this as I believe that the American anthem is perfectly fine the way it is. Even though, spanish is a widely-spread language in US, still; it’s good to stick to the fundamental.

This debate reminded me of a similar event that happened in my secondary school (St Anthony’s Canossian)

My secondary school has a history of over 100 years. Under the existing students’ constant persistence, my principal decided to re-design the school uniform. When the alumnae got hold of the news, there was a outcry. Because to us (by then I have graduated) changing the school uniform feels like changing the school’s identity and the beliefs we strongly hold. With a history of over 100 years, the tradition is too rich to be ignored, modified or worse, deleted.

Personally, it would be better if the website has an archive tab or an archive page so that readers can refer to past news.

I find the home page of ABC news online rather “wordy”. I felt bombarded by loads of infomation the moment I enter the site, making it difficult to find a particular news story.

It would be good ifABC online video could be stream on the site itself, without users havin to install softwares such as windows media player (some news portal has this function)

Colors can be used to contrast and separate the stories

It would be good if ABC news online uses ‘hotspot’ on the navigation tab to create drop down menu, this way, user can access information easily and the web page would not be as long (users would not need to scroll down as much).