YouTube

Hey everyone.

I just made my first YouTube clip called 'That's Why Westminster'.



I'm sorry about a high level of the noise and the bad quality. I took an individual video in reasonably good quality but through my edit stage, all the noise appeared and it turned up with a lot of noise and stuff in the end :(

I think if I wanna do it again, I should learn more editing skills and techniques for real. So yeah the video is about why people chose Uni of Westminster. They -people in the video- are all my friends and they are telling you what factors made them wanna study at Westminster.

I hope the video helps you to think of studying at Westminster.

See ya xx

Pictures and Pictures and Pictures Vol. 2

Hey everyone.

I've got another pictures here.

This is my place, SU (Student Union) bar where you can get a cheap drink with your friends (1pint = £2.40). The picture was taken in the afternoon so not many people are in the frame but always after 4 or 5, the place is packed.

As you can see, you can play British pool here which cost you... around 50p? Also you can buy sandwiches and crisps at the bar so you can bring them with a drink.




This is the bar at 3pm. Now you can see it's getting busier right? 1 pint after lectures. hmmmmm. sounds AWESOME.











This is right outside of the SU bar. You can bring your food and drinks with you. It's good in summer :D












These photos below are taken in PR lectures. We had to think our PR ideas which could be used by journalists and were doing presentation after some brainstorming.

























































I hope these pics help you have some ideas what your will be meant to do when you start studying PR at Westminster.

See ya xx

Pictures and Pictures and Pictures

Hey everyone.

I've been working on so many projects and work at the same time so couldn't really find time to upload my blog, but there you go I'm back!!

I think I've talked about my uni and course a lot already, so I'd like to SHOW you how my campus is like.

This is the main entrance (reception) where you get in to the campus from. Do you guys remember me talking about the interview in the previous post? I was waiting for my tutor with many candidates at this reception with being sick lol








This place is called Gallery where you can see some art students' work. There always is an exhibition but not the day I took this photo... Bad luck! lol










This is the shop in the campus. You can buy food, drinks, cigarette and even toiletries!! lol If your from Oriental countries such as Korea, Japan and China then you will find it really fascinating as they sell some of OUR products like noodles, for instance. I come to the shop at least 3times when I'm in uni lol







This is the garden in the uni. Students have their lunch when it's a sunny day, especially in Summer. NB: Smoking is not allowed in the garden! lol










And this is the canteen!! It is a spacious place so you can always find tables to chill out with your mates. Food?.... Erm... It's okay... I wouldn't recommend you food at the canteen... lol If you go downstairs, then you will see my home, Student Union Bar where you can get cheap drinks!! lol I forgot to take a picture of it so next time!!








So yeah these are pretty much describing the campus visually. I am working on some video projects also so hopefully I can upload here soon.

See ya xx

Friends and Lectures and Internship

Hey everyone.

My fresher uni life at University of Westminster is getting over. Only 1 week and my Chinese exam left. I just can't believe that all my PR friends were totally strangers a year ago. I feel like I've known them for AGES.

So today I had lectures for ALL DAY - (I hate Thursday!! lol). What we did was, setting up a PR event as the last assignment for one of modules called Understanding PR. We were divided into some groups and given different topics. We basically have to think how to promote some organisations/people in a PR sense and present it next week. I'm not really good at group work (although PR requires a lot of group work... oh well lol), but my group had some genius ideas - thanks to Ann, Amelia and Ainur for suggesting loads of ideas!! I'm gonna meet up people in my group next week again to do a bit more brainstorming.

Also another PR module called Digital PR, we had a guest lecturer, Sam Conniff from Livity PR. His talk was incredibly fun and enjoyable. Some of coursemates were already thinking of doing internship at his company so they got his contact details and stuff after the lecture. Oh yeah and I'm not sure if I've mentioned before or not, but we had a guest lecturer from one of PR agencies in London, Don't Panic for Digital PR other day and my coursemates, Beatrice and Hana (there is a link to her website on the right side) are now working for them (or doing internship? I'm not sure if they are paid or not). I mean, this is great, isn't it? We have a lot of guest lecturers and PR students can actually get work experience and jobs from them!! CONNECTIONS people. A sociologist said "It is sometimes important 'who' you know more than 'what' you know" (sorry I don't remember who said that but I'm sure I've learned it from A-level Sociology lol) and I strongly believe that is so true!!

So yeah that's basically what happened today in the uni. Oh and 2 more SURPRISING things happened to me.

1. My lecturer/tutor, Simon read my previous post about the interview here!! I shoulda written more about his AWESOMENESS!! LOL
2. My another lecturer, Trish postponed our deadline!! AWESOME!! LOL

So yeah, end of the year is always busy. I still need to work on some essays and stuff. It's quite depressing but uni is getting over and summer is coming soon! So I will try my BEST in 2010 to complete all my work soonish!!

See ya xx

Choice and Interview and Sick

Hey everyone.

It is just so depressing if you think Easter is getting over in 2 days, isn't it? I am waiting for the invention of the time-machine at the moment so that I can repeat it again and do NOT need to go back to my work LOL Oh well. So as I said before, I'm gonna talk about a little bit more about how I chose to study PR at University of Westminster and my interview.

I don't need to explain a lot about my choice actually. I gained lots of interests in seeking for campaigns in the world, like in the UK, the USA and Japan through my A-level Media Studies class. One of examples is Why So Serious? campaign from a film, Dark Knight. It inspired me a lot to study PR/marketing/advertising (although they are different, I thought all of them were same at the time lol). So I decided to study either one of the subjects in LONDON - 'cause I wanted to study in London LOL

Then I had my best mate Kris, he was doing PR at this uni while I was doing A-level at Bellerbys College in Cambridge. One day, he rang me telling about his uni life. My first impression was like, 'Wow!! Seriously?!' He told me that his lectures were really practical; the curriculum was well organised; there was no exam; most of his coursemates were FEMALE and; holidays were really long etc... Yep, when I heard all about it, I instantly decided to study at University of Westminster LOL

However, life was NOT as easy as all that. In order to study PR at this uni, I had to meet criteria which were;

• Meet the requirement - more than 3Bs for A-level
  
• Interview

...yeah... How depressing are they?! Ok, 3Bs. That's ok. But interview?! I was ridiculously nervous when I heard 'the I word' 'cause my English was not really good so I was very worried.

When the morning of the judgement day came, I felt so sick. I was very very very nervous. I got to the uni and had to wait for somebody taking us to a room for the interview. I felt so sick. I was waiting with people for like 15mins-ish, then my current tutor Simon Goldsworthy took us to the room. It was a group interview with 5-6 people. I was the only 1 guy and was also the only international student. I felt sick. He explained us about the course and how he would carry out the interview. I felt so sick. I sat down in front of him, then I realised that was the biggest mistake in my life. When the interview started, he ASKED ME FIRST EVERY SINGLE QUESTION! So I had NO TIME to think of what I was gonna say to the questions. I felt very sick. The questions were like how I think and take PR-wise actions at some situations. When it was over, I reckoned my tutors (Simon Goldsworthy and Trish Evans) were very nice people to talk. Oh and I had very nice sushi in London after the interview hahaha lol

Then I successfully (?) accomplished the missions so now I'm studying PR at University of Westminster. I hope these information would help you to be my junior! :)

See ya xx

Uni and Depatment and Facebook Group

Hey everyone.

Well, AGAIN it has been AGES to update my blog due to some personal reasons (It is not simply I've been lazy to do it ok?). Sorry about that guys :(
So, yeah. I've been just relaxing with my gf and doing uni stuff at the same time since Easter holidays started. However, a friend of mine has started updating his blog so suddenly after his NO-UPDATE-AT-ALL period, so I was like, "oh my gosh! I should do it too!!" LOL

So, yeah. Today I wanna talk just a bit more about my uni, University of Westminster.

The university has a few departments, which are;

• School of Architecture and the Built Environment (Baker Street)
  
• School of Electronics and Computer Science (Cavendish or Harrow)
  
• School of Law (NEAR Oxford Circus)
  
• School of Life Sciences (Cavendish)
  
• School of Media, Arts and Design (Harrow)
  
• School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages (Regent Street)
  
• Westminster Business School (Baker Street)
  

My department is the 5th one, School of Media, Arts and Design. It is located in Harrow, 20-25mins away from central London by tube. The department is really modern and contemporary. All the media studies, music and fashion students mainly study here. If you wanna study other subjects, then obviously you will study at other departments.

I set up a facebook group for Media, Arts and Design School at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=107920179245991&ref=ts It's an open group so anyone can join. if you have any questions then join the page and ask people anything you want!

It's getting really late, so I will stop here. Next time, I'd like to talk about how I chose this course and how I managed the interview.

See ya xx

Friends and Chinese and Waffle

Hey everyone. I'm Tim.

How's your Easter holiday treating you? Hope everything is going well and fun (・∀・)
So yeah it's Saturday. I guess some of my readers here are still drinking at a pub or nightclub LOL I just got back from Chinatown at Leicester Square 'cause my friends from previous college came down to London from Southampton and Kent so I decided to have dinner together.

I had Cantonese food in Chinatown then had desserts (waffles with 2 ice creams and Belgium chocolate sauce!!) afterwards near Leicester Square. I hadn't seen them for AGES so we couldn't have stopped talking LOL Probably I should apologies people at the restaurant and streets as I'm sure it was so LOUD! LOL It is always good to hang out with my friends, but especially from my previous college. They remind me of my life at the college and everything.

I had a lot of fun today, so probably it is the time to think of and start my assignment (ew). Well, I know I'm on a holiday but I have a load of works for uni. 2,500words essay, here I come!

See ya xx

Public Relations?

Hey everyone :) I'm Tim.

What is Public Relations? ( ﾟдﾟ)
My best mate always says to me, 'PR? hmmmm... Advertising right?'　(・ε・)

The answer is - NO!!

Advertising and PR are totally different!!
There are so many differences between them so I'm not gonna explain all here. Basically, when you ADVERTISE something, it is always paid for. A good example is like, you have to pay for the space when you advertise something on magazine or news papers etc. Whereas PR is not paid for. PR doesn't necessarily need any space, like word-of-mouth for instance. That's the most obvious difference between PR and advertising. huh? Wanna know more? GOOGLE IT LOL

So what do we do in uni anyways?

Oh well, we STUDY a lot lol A lot of necessary things for PR career. What I've done in the last semester and this semester are;

1. Press Releases - How to write a good press release which may get good coverage
2. Presentations - How to do a good presentation and deal with questions
3. Press Conference - How to set up press conference and work as a team
4. Essays - How to do research and write academically

Obviously these are just a piece of my work, but you can see what I've been doing roughly right?

We have a guest lecturer almost every week for PR module. Last week, we had a guest from Don't Panic - a unique free publication, for digital PR module. He was talking about Heavy Rain, latest PS3 game and its launch (which I was so excited to hear lol), and his company's current work. It's good to learn from real PR people, 'cause you can clearly see what they are doing and what your gonna be meant to do in the future.

The biggest advantage of having a guest as a lecturer is, we can have a connection. You may get a work experience at some guest lecturer's company. Unfortunately I haven't heard someone got a job in that way yet, but guest lecturers are always helpful so you may get a chance :)

Oh you wanna know more about the course? I''m way too tired so next time LOL

See ya xx

First post :)

Hey everyone. I'm Tim.
Finally I stated blogging here. Woop woop ヽ( ﾟдﾟ )ﾉ

I will be writing anything I'm interested in, but more based on my life in London and uni life. Lemme tell you something. MY LIFE IS A DRAMA! LOL I'm telling you, Japanese don't lie (ﾟωﾟ)

So, my memorable first post on this blog would be about myself as I assume some of you don't really know me.

Everyone calls me Tim, it's not my real name though (easier to remember and call right? lol). I'm 23 years old, although I do NOT look as old as my age lol I'm originally from Osaka, Japan. I've been in the UK for 3 years. I've finished A-level degree at one of international colleges in Cambridge, called Bellerbys College. Now I'm studying PR - Public Relations and Chinese as an extra module at University of Westminster in London.

I like what you like doing - like listening to music, watching films, boozing and partying, playing games etc... I had played rugby for 12 years since I was 7, I stopped playing when I graduated my high school in Japan though.

Erm... I have never set up a blog before, so it's quite hard for me to think of what to write here lol That is pretty much about me. You can just comment anything on the post if you have anything to say :) Also, if you have Twitter account, please follow me. My account is - tatsu_is

So... yeah this probably is the end of my first post. I will try to update the blog frequently so just check it out sometimes :)

See ya xx