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010 // Taiwanese high school films worth watching

Again, with Taiwanese tear-jerking, bittersweet and time skip ending, these Taiwanese high school films filled with nostalgia and stories about youth are some of the most famous films from Taiwan along with their beautiful soundtracks. I will be introducing some of these Taiwanese high school films you should definitely check out because they’re great!

1.     Our Times (2015)

Rating: 8.5/10

Sypnosis: Office worker Lin Zhen Xin goes on a journey through her memories. Flashing back 20 years to her time in high school, she reminisces about teaming up with a friend to take down their rivals.

One of my favourite Taiwanese high school films with amazing soundtrack, follow Lin Zhen Xin through her highschool days fangirling on her favourite idol and chasing her crush. Along the way, she met Tai Yu, the school’s gangster. Follow along their journey of trying to help each other chase their crushes and dreaming about who they want to become in the future in this movie.

2.     You are the apple of my eyes (2011)

Rating: 7.5/10

Sypnosis: Adolescence is like a heavy rain. Even though you catch a cold from it, you still look forward to experiencing it once again. Ko-Teng has several close friends who had a crush on Shen Chia-Yi. Those friends of Ko's thus moved in unison from Ching Chengs junior high school straight into the senior high school division in pursuit of her. Naughty in nature, Ko was ordered by their homeroom teacher to sit in front of honor student Shen for her to keep close tabs on him. The two hadn't hit it off at first but Ko gradually fell for Shen, who was always pressuring him to study hard. On the other hand, Shen became impressed by the contrasting values Ko represented. Ko started pursuing Shen but Shen remained hesitant. (Source: AsianWiki)

Watch it. Listen to the soundtrack. Okay, you are good to go. This is a must-watch Taiwanese high school movie classic. In this movie, you will get the ‘feels’ of Taiwanese humour and high school students’ life. With its bittersweet ending, this movie will make you happy, sad and cry. An emotional film and so is Our Times (2015) and I highly recommend you to watch both of them!

3.     Someday or One Day (2019)

Rating: 8/10

Episodes: 13

Sypnosis: Huang Yu-Xuan is depressed after her boyfriend dies from a plane incident. One day, she receives a parcel with tape, and she goes back to the past while listening to the tape and meets her boyfriend once again.

This is a short drama unlike the other two which are movies. This drama is more than what the sypnosis implies so watch it! Trust me, it is really good with plot twist ending, time traveling, two different people with same face etc etc. It will be a confusing journey filled with questions like. “Why is this happening?” “Who is the real killer?” “Are they still alive?” but trust me, it will be worth it. PLUS THE SOUNDTRACK IS SO GOODDDD!! GO LISTEN TO IT!

[themoviejunkie]

REVIEW: Netflix’s Arcane League of Legends (Episode 1-3)

poster downloaded from https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/15358/arcane-riot-netflix-secret-cinema

IT’S FINALLY HERE! THE LONG AWAITED SERIES BASED ON ONE OF THE LORE FROM LEAGUE OF LEGENDS!!!! Every league players has demanded  FOR A LONG TIME for the company behind this game should make a movie or series since their animation trailers they have released for the game is amazing and now even I can’t believe it that they finally made one and it is a series! So far they've only releases three episodes while the others will be released later on another date. Man I’m really excited after watching show so here are my thoughts below!

[fishiousdev]

A Dive into Inspiration : Game Feel

One of the most valuable things that is often overlooked in game development is "Game Feel". To put it simply, it is the feeling of the interaction between the player and the game. When they press a button and the character performs an action; that is an example of game feel. When the screen shakes when something in the game world makes an impact; that is an example of game feel. The post will focus on various examples of game feel in videogames, a few of my favorites as well as my own incorporation of it into my own project.

Gameplay of Super Mario Bros. (1983)

It's obvious that Mario games are the easiest to look to when it comes to game feel. Even in the original widely-known Super Mario Bros., there is a satisfaction in controlling Mario, you can 'feel' the friction in the way Mario moves when you go left and right, and you, as the player, are able to understand the movement system in the game and adjust accordingly to make sure you make every jump as accurately as possible, be it to stomp on a Goomba, to cut through a section of a level or to reach the top of the flag at the end of every area to get the highest score possible. The player actively feels more powerful when they get a powerup when they get a grow-up mushroom or a fire flower through the animation that plays that also freezes the world as it plays. There's an inherent satisfaction that a player gets when they takedown an enemy as well. When Mario jumps on a Goomba, there is visual and audio feedback, the goomba is visually squished, there is a sound that represents the Goomba being squished and Mario is visibly sent flying up as he bounces off the enemy. All this creates a satisfying feedback loop that is retained throughout the entire game with other situations.

Gameplay of Monster Hunter World (2018)

One of my favorite game series, Monster Hunter, is a prime example of top-notch game feel in the industry. As its name implies, it is a series of games where you control a hunter character and hunt down and fight large monsters of various different kinds. The player character is extremely responsive to player inputs and there is heavy emphasis on the feedback from the world, environment and the entities within it. When you run up a slope, your character changes their running animation, and when they run down one, they slowly enter a state where they slide down and slowly build up speed, to which they are able to use the momentum to jump distances or do a unique leaping attack; for example, when using a hammer when sliding down, the player is able to perform a spinning attack when leaping into the air from the momentum they get from a sliding jump and perform multiple powerful attacks in quick succession.

Every hit landed by the player causes multiple visual and audio feedback, with the impact of a hammer creating large hit sparks flying from the point of contact along with other visual effects, the screen shaking from the sheer force of this attack, the game freezing for mere milliseconds just to emphasize how powerful the hit is, along with diegetic sounds that deliver the satisfying sound of the blow and the monster reacting to the attacks, reeling back from shock, parts of them breaking off and becoming visually telling of the player's progress on the fight between them.

There is more to Monster Hunter's game feel as well aside from the attacking. The player rolling through attacks, jumping over ledges, grappling onto vines and maneuvering across the land and even collecting materials such as plants or carving the defeated monster all created an extremely well-rounded feedback loop through use of masterful animation and sound effects. The Monster Hunter series is one of the most impactful games to me when it comes to game feel design.

As I delve into game design, it's apparent that creating good game feel is harder than it looks. From creating powerful hit effects to even the movement system requires a bit more depth than the expected solution.

From the early beginnings of Fish Sword, it can be seen that the idea for game feel was there, however it was missing a lot of notable things. For instance, the player character in the .gif above moves left and right at an instantaneous pace, there is no friction to their movement whatsoever, creating difficulty in accurate movement and all around ends up not very satisfying to control. The impact of the attack hitting is also notable here, as during the time, I merely wrote for the game to slow down during the moment of impact with a few hit sparks and slight screen shake. The base of all the needed ideas are there, but it wasn't quite up to snuff yet.

Fast forward to a year later, I've rewritten the movement code, screen shake, written a system for handling the individual slow down for each entity and overall, got better at animating. The result can be seen, as Jun, the player character, now moves with visible friction, and the new slow down system creates a more visible hit lag for the enemy getting hit and the player landing the hit, while keeping the rest of the in-game world moving at normal pace. The new visual hit effects now create more impactful feelings when landing attacks, with more flashy sparks and creating craters in the ground. The game feel now is more satisfying than before and emphasizes the power of the player character even better.

From understanding the examples of other games and trying to imitate and reverse engineer their various function, I've been able to improve the quality of Fish Sword to a greater degree with the changes of a few features, which goes to show how important these features were.

[recifee]

IT ALIVE! Its Baked Feta Pasta!

Hello everyone, this is Recifee. Today food recreation topic is about the trendy pasta in Tiktok called Baked Feta Pasta. This trend gone viral by this Tiktok video made by Liemessa. The word "feta" mean Greek white cheese which we all known as cream cheese.

The basic ingredients for the pasta sauce are cherry tomatoes, garlics and cream cheese. I do not fully followed from the Tiktok recipe because there is no further instructions on its quantities or how much. So I made the recipe by knowing the basic. The serving size for this recipe are for 3 to 4 people.

Here are the ingredients:

Any kind of pasta noddle 250-300 grams

1 block (250g) cream cheese

2 box of cherry tomatoes

4 garlic pips (Clove)

A dash of olive oil

Optional: BMC Chicken meatloaf

Seasoning or Spices( I used Salt, black pepper, Walker Bay garlic & herbs and cayenne)

From that ingredients list, we can already notice the mistake. But do not worry! Recifee is here to save the day and we will take about the mistake later in this blog.

An important cooking tip for cooking pasta noodle, make sure to season the boiling water with salt, making it taste like the salty sea and after cooking to al-dente (which just mean firm when bitten), save a cup of the pasta water before draining.

Start preheating the oven between 180C-200C. Using a glass casserole dish or an oven-proved dish, dazzled some olive oli, put in your cherry tomatoes, garlic pips and the cream cheese in the middle. Add your seasonings and baked for 20 - 25 mins or until some of the tomato skins start peeling it self.

While waiting, grilled the chicken meatloaf with olive oil until crispy. This is just optional but I do recommend doing grilled chicken breast. Maybe just simple seasoning like salt, pepper and some chilly powder just for that kick of spice.

Take off your dish from the oven and smash the feta tomato until it looks creamy. Now the mistake, I tasted to make sure the seasoning is right and all I can taste is cheese. Its just to much! and this coming from cheese lover.

So I Improvise, I was lucky to have a can of chopped tomatoes stored in the cabinet, I added about half of the canned tomatoes which is about 205.5g, you can also just estimate by adding and tasting along the way until you can taste the tomatoes. My recommendation If you guys are trying this recipe, make sure the cream cheese is only a half a block or increases the amount of tomatoes.

I also added about quarter cup of pasta water. This is the reason why its important to save the pasta water because it can enhance flavor; its salty without needing to add more salt on your pasta. In addition, the starch will also act as a thickening agent and added silly richness to your sauce.

Finally, remember about the crispy chickens meatloaf; I chopped it into small pieces, then sprinkle it on top of the Feta pasta and adding garnish with some fresh parsley for that pop of color. I give this pasta a solid 8/10 , I will definitely cooked this again knowing my mistake. So here are the picture of finishing product! Hope you guys enjoy. Tag me if you guys wanted to try this Recifee recipe. Stay save everyone!

[17b0097]

A great guitarist that has influenced so many talents and youngsters to become great like him. He is the lead guitarist from a hard rock band called Avenged Sevenfold from California. To be honest, I am one of the young people that have been influenced by him and made me grab my first guitar back in 2010 and shared so many sessions with my friends during my secondary school as a guitarist. In 2011 I’ve had been invited to a band to become their rhythm guitarist and the next year in 2012 I became a lead guitarist in another band and  I have won talent shows on those two years with different band.

Digital portrait wise, this does look new in my feed, isn’t it?

The first thing I love is the monochromic color. I just referred back to my work on Keanu reeves because I wanted to make another just like that, and it became like this. The strong exposure on one side and dark on the other. It is just the picture I referred to is not overexposed as one with Keanu Reeves has.

i have no reason in choosing the brown color as the main, it just has a certain feel while I was applying the colors so i stopped and decided on this one. Same as Keane Reeves, this portrait has no lower eyelid and one thing that I should have done on Keanu is not making the black outline between the lips like this portrait does and it would have been better!

One more thing that I did not sure on deciding is whether make highlight in the eyes or not to. Keanu Reeves has and now here I decided not to. If doing it is making the portrait become lively then not doing it must be making it flat, so I decided not to on this one.

The highlight on his hair now is the same shade with the exposed part of the face and that is enough highlight because the hair is dark that already make strong contrast on the hair.

Mentioning contrast, this portrait has the strongest contrast compared to the other portraits I have done before, do you agree?

[plannerrah]

Bujo Experience

In continuation of the last bujo experience, in the starting year of 2018, I decided to try changing my style of making spreads of the month as I have finished A Levels and starting my new journey of adulting. Hence, I was thinking of something more artistic and aesthetic sense of style. Whereas, I tried to focus more on my spreads rather than my flatlays to create more vibrant and possibly create a masterpiece.

Photo from @lifeofeema on Instagram.

I have gotten the love for scrapbooking from my mother and I naturally used my skills for my bullet journal to enhance more of my artistic aspect. The process of making the spreads was very calming to me and I can end up doing my spreads almost all day without noticing. Throughout the process, I was trying so hard not to be perfect with my spread and to just go with the flow.

Photo from @lifeofeema on Instagram.

The difference of the style from last year’s spread was the style and the spreads are more vibrant. This spread has more purpose other than keeping track of the daily to-do list but also the water tracker of the day.

Photo from @lifeofeema on Instagram. 

The stationery used and showcased on the picture are:

Washi tapes from MT masking tape, Best eastern and Daiso.

Pens from Tombow Dual Brush Pens, Muji Gel Pens, Pilot G-1 Grip,  STAEDTLER triplus fineliner, Zebra Mildliner Pens and Pentel Touch Brush.

Clips and Board from Kaison.

Pictures and tags are from the actual store or Pinterest pictures on the internet.

Polaroid picture taken by Eema @lifeofeema on Instagram.

Notebook from Slim Note (Grid) Thread Sew Binding GoodKraft Notebook, 21x12cm in dotted layout.

Keyboard from Logitech K380 in white.

I am not sure if I have mentioned this before but making these spreads possible was the most absolute fun and it allows me to enhance my calligraphy skills. Apart from that, it allows me to use colours that I would rarely use on the daily basis and be outside of my comfort zone when it comes to planning the bullet journal. I hope you love the video and the bullet journal as much as I do because I enjoyed it too much to forget.

[ohaizi]

THE BILLIONTH BARREL

The Billionth Barrel landmark turned into a hotspot in Kuala Belait. I just had outstanding amongst other end of the week in Brunei! Had the superb occasion to be a piece of the Billionth Barrel Landmark Live Art Event on 11th until 13th October 2019 close by 30 different artists as a component of BSP's 90th Commemoration as the artist worked day and night, on its windbreakers, transforming the landmark into an outside art exhibition. The specialists, the two veterans and youth were welcomed by BSP with the help from the branch of Culture and Expressions under the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports. The artists formally revealed their manifestations to the Visitor of Honor, Yang Berhormat Significant General (R) Dato Paduka Seri Haji Aminuddin Ihsan receptacle Pehin Orang Kaya Saiful Mulok Dato Seri Paduka Haji Abidin, Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports. Every one of us got a reference photograph from BSP's over a wide span of time and we had two days to decipher them onto the wall. Individuals from the general population, including individual, families and BSP staffs watched the event beginning to end.

I was given a task by BSP to draw a digital drawing of Rasau onshore field, with this reference from Shell BSP. Historically, Rasau was one of the first stops at Kuala Belait River upstream toward the former administrative capital of Kuala Balai. It's further established inland from the mouth of the Belait River and the Kuala Belait for pirate protection. The first discovery of commercial hydrocarbons in Rasau in 1979 and production started in 1983.

Here’s my initial digital illustrator of Rasau Onshore Field. However, this digital drawing got rejected because the authorities did not satisfy with my initial ideas and another reason is because the choice of colour is too dark.

Here’s my accepted drawing of Rasam Onshore Field on the wall, which took me two days to finished it using aerosol.

I got the occasion to work close by brilliant and extraordinarily capable individuals, made incredible companions and associates with them. A tremendous ardent and true congrats to all the artists who buckled down and with genuine enthusiasm and devotion and to the coordinators and allies of this enormous event. I'd never thought I'd get the opportunity to accomplish something so stunning and even be a part of historic moment. I'm always inconceivably thankful for this experience, something I will always remember. A few of us even got met by our local news. The whole art installation is long lasting and is available to the public to see, both local and international. On the off chance that you actually want to look at some slick work while having a decent walk, this is the spot to go, recommended list of things to visit!.

[spottlightt]

#07 Utopia

What is Utopia?

Utopia is a paradise. An ideal society where everything works and everybody is glad – or if nothing else should be. Utopias are normal in fiction, particularly in sci-fi, where creators use them to investigate what an ideal society would resemble and what the issues may be in such an impeccable society. Nonetheless, not many anecdotal utopias are genuine utopias. Practically every one of them is uncovered to be something contrary to the perfect world oppressed world throughout the story. Idealistic writing is commonly about investigating genuine issues confronting our reality and making political, philosophical, or moral focuses through narrating. 

Examples for Utopia

-The focal universes of 'The Federation' in Star Trek are regularly portrayed as utopias – they are lavish with greenery and wonderful design, and there is no proof of any appetite, destitution, or war. Obviously, the planets at the edges of Federation space are far less idealistic.

-In The Republic, Plato depicts his ideal society. Nonetheless, it might appear to be a long way from amazing to us–for instance, Plato's general public prohibited music! Indeed, researchers actually banter whether Plato truly implied it to be a genuine ideal world or whether he implied is as an analysis of idealistic beliefs, as most such stories.

The importance of Utopia?

Idealistic stories are commonly composed to investigate thoughts regarding how society ought to or could be. For instance, an eco-ideal world would be a story investigating the idea of a general public dependent on ideal amicability with nature. Then again, a libertarian ideal world would be a general public dependent on wonderful opportunity and independence. These accounts can be an incredible method to try out such ways of thinking by perceiving how they would really influence individuals by and by.

At the point when you go over an idealistic story or picture, attempt to work out what sort of good, political, or logical ideal is being investigated.

A dystopia is the opposite of a utopia. 

What is Dystopia?

It's a society where everything has turned out badly and unfairness or tumult holds influence. This may be a dystopian culture where all administrations have fallen and people need to battle to endure, or it very well may be an extremist society in which incredible position figures control each part of residents' lives. Oppressed worlds are, normally, more reasonable and applicable to the vast majority than utopias in light of the fact that our social orders have numerous issues, and we stress over what's to come. Indeed, tragic stories are quite often about issues that we as of now have in this world. Tragic fiction is definitely more normal than idealistic fiction!

In writing, apparently idealistic social orders regularly end up being tragic, as on account of The Giver by Lois Lowry. In this book, the general public from the outset has all the earmarks of being awesome and efficient. In any case, gradually we discover that individuals have picked up their security and request by surrendering their opportunity and innovativeness, and at last, we come to see this "great" society as tragic.

Real question is...

what is the production about?

Maya(played by Nadia Sam) is a reclusive art thief, estranged from her family, who steals paintings to create her ideal, utopian world. When one day, she is confronted by a family member, Maya descends into a panic attack and finds herself trapped in an oddly familiar place-- the utopia she has years building.

In navigating her innermost desires, Maya realizes that her Utopia isn’t as perfect as it seems and escapism is only the surface of what really wants; Maya needs to confront the trauma of her past and learn to set herself free.

Utopia explores the complexity of family relationships, self-love and freedom.

This was my first ever production in Ubd. It was very different from the past production I did during Mary Poppins. This were more friendly and student base of production yet it is more or less similar to professional show of a company out there. 

I did not expect to perform again after years of missing in action. The feelings, the vibe, the hardworking, the excitement is finally coming back.