Lucky or unlucky

by - 3:53 pm


Today,
I don't really know whether it's a lucky or unlucky day?


Once I woke up in the morning 10.30 a.m,
prepared to rush to the uni for the conclusion part of the assignment,
the most deadliest is surprisingly I just realized my USB pendrive is lost!
Celaka! I've almost finish the assignment and left the last part for around 300 words,
now everything lost it and I gonna redo?
That stupid pendrive,
I couldn't find it anyway both at home and at the uni,
I went the uni security post and asked for it.
They did collected, but disappointedly it's not mine.
I quickly sent a request of assignment extension to the lecturer;
I told her that my USB lost yesterday and I just realized in this morning, 
so I have to redo everything and request for a couple of days of extension.
Celakaly,
she even replied me
'Hi Clarissa, sorry you cant get the extension because you should have backup copy for your USB.'
Doubtlessly,
I've studied in Australia long lasting one whole year,
and I realised all the lecturers here are so mean;
they giving the same denial excuses and I've undergo their similar torture for every semesters.
Sometimes,
I would complained the racial discrimination or the fussiness of the lecturer in Australia to papa,
papa told me
'Ya, is like that one. In Australia everything very serious ones... because their Education is really qualified than other countries... so they want to make sure you are qualified to study in their country, so they are very serious in everything. Their people also really serious ones.... you see the customs.. you bring foods also they want to check till very details... because their country too serious edi... Cannot play play know or not?'




At that moment,
My inner was really flustered yet seemed cool-headed apparently.
I told myself
'Well, cool down, when facing a problem, the first thing is to solve it immediately and think a way to successfully hand up the assignment today, if I slam the door and grumble like mama or behave like a raining princess, cant solve anything at all.'
But the problem is I don't have any computer backup at home,
so I've to rewrite the 1500 words and bloom out the resources before 5pm today?
That time was 11:30 a.m already, I haven't take my breakfast,
my stomach is whirling inside and my brain is really tiring.
But, I still seemed relaxed,
 because I tell myself
"No foods no energy, no energy cant think and write at all, lagi die! Trust my brain ability and typing speed, I sure can hand up before 5pm today after my breakfast!'
Thereby,
I still had time to bought a sandwich in the uni and walk back home to rewrite the assignment :X




During the introduction part,
I was really anxious and panicked,
because I keep thinking due date hour is approaching, 5pm!
How? Still got so many things to write?
And what I gonna write first?
Everything lost only a blank page of microsoft words for me!
Yet,
I still tell myself
'Cool down is a best way to provide rational answer.'

Thereby,
I don't look at the time and concentrate on the question,
doubtlessly,
I hand up my assignment at 4:33pm,
LOL !
5 hours sharp,
I hand up the 1500 words on time !
Crazy right?
Definitely, ain't kidding!
look at my serious work which made me continuously sat on the chair long lasting 5 hours!





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Communication and cultural studies assignment 1


  Assessment Topic: Semiotics provides useful tools for understanding and analysing the importance of identity and culture in adtexts. Using semiotics, critically compare and contrast the way in which identity is represented in 3 Adtexts.


Nowadays, the advertising messages are everywhere in the media. In our opinions, it is not a good way to criticize the advertisers based on the semiotics; in contrast, semioticians have to because theoretically making an ad or business, it basically needs skills. If semiotic is a role in the whole society dispute on advertising, then it is offering a sort of immunization to utilize a metaphor in terms of medical for the sake of defending the convincing messages that strafe people on a daily need. In semiotics, signifier is something about the physical presence while signified is the conceptual presence of sign. In semiotic analysis, Barthes (n.d), a semotician who focus advertising from the aspect of sign theory, he claimed that a certain kind of meaning which interrelated between signifier and signified creates in social circumstances called signification. Peirce (n.d) discovered a concept of the relationship between signifier and signified to the unpredictable human interpreter and named this sign perspective as ‘interpretant’. However, Peirce (n.d) also proposed that essential kinds of signs human being use as indicate the world as icons, indexes and symbols. In some way, advertisers protect the reputation of product via logo design. Based on an example of hot drink, most people take desserts as high tea to be with close buddies so as the hot drinks are serve immediately. Huxley (1894-1963) claimed:

‘I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literacy form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant is curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.” (Huxley 1894-1963)



In fact, Holbrook (1987) claimed that the main point of this topic is semiological instead of semiotic. The semiotic approach would try to generate the resonance effects on the ad viewer, the semiology approach:

“essentially involves interpretation or hermeneutics rather than statistics or experimentation. It draws upon the researcher’s personal introspection and subjective judgement and finds its major supporting evidence in the body of the text itself.” (Holbrook 1987)



In semiotical research, each of the ads that analyzed by the reader, the resonance operate differently. Thereby a resonance semiotic perspective would concentrate on what impact this kind of formal structure might affect the audience on an ad (Holbrook, pp.102). The three similar ad recipes that will be used in this text will be ‘desserts’.



Firstly, the first ad recipe falls on “Strawberries and cream sponge” from the Megan Gale’s high tea heaven. In the first step, put the flan case on a small plate; rub all over with the juice to smoothen. Subsequently blend the cheese, orange peel, juice and ice sugar altogether in a tiny bowl with an electric blender till smooth; place the strawberries on top of the cream and paste up with jam. Photography of the recipe, Stevens suggested:


“Recreate Megan Gale’s high tea at home and delight friends with sweet and savoury recipes to fill your table with deliciously elegant morsels.” (Stevens, pp.162)



Secondly, the second ad recipe will be “custard fruit flans”. First step, mix the flour, sugar and butter until friable; blend egg with some water by using the blender. Wrap the pastry and put into the fridge for half hour. Next, grease hole on the mini muffin pans and heat the even up to 220 degree Celsius. Bake the case around 15 minutes. After that, put the milk into a saucepan and boil it. Blend the yolks, sugar and corn flour with an electric blender until it smooth. Before serving, put the cream into the custard and put some fruits onto of it. Gale (2013) provided test kitchen tips:


“The pastry cases and Custard Cream can be made and stored separately, two days ahead. Fold the cream into the custard just before using. Assemble and serve flans as close to serving time as possible.” (Gale, pp.159)


Lastly, the third ad recipe is “coconut ice butterfly cakes”. In the first place, heat the oven till 170 degree Celsius then beat the butter, sugar, vanilla and eggs in a tiny bowl with an electric blender till soft. After that, Stir the flours and dry the coconut milk at the meanwhile. Next, bake the cake for roughly half hour then filter the ice sugar into a small heatable bowl, stir the butter and water to make it thick. Eventually, dip the cake top in glace icing. At the moment when icing is entirely form, cut a round whole; fill each hole with cream and place the butterfly on the cakes. The pulpit, Domayne (august 2013) claimed:


“These dainty butterfly cakes are so charming, they will fly off the table.”


In 1851, Fussell (n.d) was serving and selling strawberries and cream sponge from the farm of York City, Pennsylvania. Yet, the dairy products were famous as they were recognized as ‘natural’ and ‘organic’. According to the strawberries and cream sponge popularity in the Iron Clan’s company, doubtlessly it was always the highlighted part of summer event. The most famous culinary festivals were strawberry sponge cake and strawberry ice-cream which has strawberry sauce on top of the cake. Ranhofer (1870), the most well know chef, he was really creative in making different ice-cream favors as well as dishes. Furthermore, Ranhofer was not merely famous in making ice-cream, but also well presented; one of his special innovation was roasted almond ice cream and strawberry ice cream in a tomato. In 1985, The radio commercial even presented:


“There ain’t no Haagen, there ain’t no dazs, there ain’t no Frusen, there ain’t no Gladj, there ain’t nobody named Steve and Steve’s, but there’s two real guys at Ben and Jerry’s.’ (Radio commercial 1985)


In this case, it could be say that local farmers are the addresser and children are the addressee. Local farmers offered the wild strawberries and abundant cream and put it into a freezer then the children hovered from the freezer when it is ready.



Moreover, diversification of desserts products is referred to makeable desserts or its similar products. The company of Australian Co-operative Foods Limited, North Sydney, Australia, they make the invention to be understood when described with recipe to examples which is going to be described. For an instance, take the lemon as the example of the custard fruit flan favor, it can either be produce in process of one or two stages. The manufacturing products are process by methods of custard and sugar is blend at slow speed until they form a cream. When the hot water and gelatin is dissolved, add both of these to the main mix, after that, pour the gelatin into the main mix as well in a blender with slow speed. Before everything is done, the product can be utilized instantaneously to fill up the custard fruits flans. Before presenting, put the products into presentation boxes or stored in the refrigerator until when it is indispensable.




Based on the general foods corporation in New York, coconut product is designed to produce the ‘coconut ice butterfly cakes’ or pack the coconut for the usage of bakery, pastries or even family usage. Kaufman (n.d) claimed that a consumable coconut product contained roughly 10% moisture and less than 5% wetting agent which consist of two types of chemical of glycol group. Basically, present innovation constitutes a little amount of Glycol to the coconut as addition.  In addition, Kaufman discovered that the substances usage is able to market coconut which contains 15% moisture in the same way as the 5% moisture so far. In the aspect of commercial or in terms of products presentation, the high moisture level of ‘coconut ice butterfly cakes’ are retain with good plasticizing and are non-coloring.



In the research between the culture and gender in the relation with desserts cravings, a total up to 91% of American women and 59% of American informed chocolate cravings and this significantly showed a difference when the American culture are being controlled. Conversely, there is more Spanish women are crafting desserts than men nevertheless there is no gender difference influence when their culture is under controlled. Thereby, these results have no denial in the gender role of desserts cravings, but show that American culture incites disproportionately more desserts cravings in females instead of males and the deadliest globalization lead a similar craving features among Spanish despite gender differences in cravings are not really obvious than American. The percentage of dessert consumption was similarly like culture and gender. When mentioned of emotional responses while having desserts, in all aspect of culture and gender had the craving responses while excluded from American females. Accordingly, when comes to a second measure of desserts cravings, Benton et al. (1998) adopted dessert cravings scale, a collective of analysis showed a help from physiological basis is required to deal with dessert cravings or even a cultural basis.


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Gale, M 2013, The Australian Women’s weekly, Pp.159.

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Osman, J. & Sobal, J. 2006. Chocolate cravings in American and Spanish individuals: Biological and cultural influences, Apetite,ed 47(3), pp.290-301.
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