I was not a coffee drinker before I went to Perth, WA. The bitter taste in my mouth is something I will never forget, from my initial attempt at Crank Recording. “Coffee was not hot, but I will drink it,” Lee said. That is the first time I used the ROK espresso machine to make a cup of Long Black for Lee. First to give it a try, a little like it; Additive to it, and become a coffee drinker. Within the time that flies, the coffee cup will build up stains. What are the stains? It is actually the bacteria and germs. It is a little tricky to clean coffee stains. In terms of coffee stains, it showed up at the bottom of the cup after thirty cups. First, I have tried using toothpaste to clean up the mess. Second, use a certain ratio of white vinegar plus baking soda to eliminate the stains. Initially, I found that the toothpaste would make a mess around the cleaning area, which is not good for the time and takes me thousands of seconds to finish the job. Thus, I turn to a new way to clean, which is the ratio of white vinegar and baking soda. It took me one second to do the work and it is easy and efficient. But however, the stains are at the bottom of the cup, which is hard to wipe off using the ratio method. Inside stains on a coffee cup are easy, but stains at the bottom of the cup are tough jobs. Finally, I found that the toothpaste could easily take away the black spots. Now my long black mug turns back to its original form from IKEA. I love long black, mate.

Synopsis/Proposal/Abstract: "Hello, I am XXX and from a rural area in China..." That was a bloody hot summer, when I towed a blue luggage from the airport to the homestay in Morley. That was a cloudy Sunday afternoon. I took the bus, trying to go back home, while finishing a mixing track from CR3 in the meantime. Getting off the bus and passing a KFC when I felt hungry. Walking straight away to the KFC shop and coming up to the counter. "Hey, sir, what can I get for you?" "Can I please grab a chicken leg?" At the same time, my finger points to my lower leg… Creative Writing/Exegesis: Until now, I still could not believe that it was true, and I did not understand how I had done those crazy study things. It was like a magic dream. I am from a non-English-speaking country. But I achieved the final goal. The image was still clear over time. It was about fifteen years ago and that was a Sunday afternoon after doing the mixing at CR2. I was so hungry on my way home and passed a KFC shop. I was thinking of getting some “chicken legs” to fill the energy. I walked straight up to the cashier and said,” Can I please grab a chicken leg?” The cashier girl could not understand what I was requesting. After a few seconds, I pointed to my leg to indicate the meaning. She laughed at what I was saying and finally knew my order. She also repeated my order and it was a “drumstick”. My English ability was quite limited back then. This is the reason I used a quotation mark at the beginning as an informal “drumstick” name. The report I wrote at the beginning of my music technology degree did not reach the standard academic level. The first year was a bad academic performance, and I failed Mimi’s unit. The second year was an unforgettable experience; I did five units in one semester timeframe, and an overseas student usually took four units as the standard level. I cannot speak a full sentence in English while presenting for the media culture unit. But however, I remember Mimi’s lecture contents: connotation, denotation and ideology; the meaning behind the screen; the definition inside the image.