Everyday is a sunny day!

2nd week of school...

Days has been very peaceful... so peaceful till it's so bland... quite sianz...

Anyway... im still quite pissed at the sch's com... freaking formatted away my assignment...
Did the assignment 1st week den when i got to claz, i found tt i was formatted. So after claz i did it again... next day i went. some idiots plugged out the network cable and now i can log in the com... SHIT LAH...

and when i thot all was fine since i remembered to back up into my thumbdrive... i lost my thumbdrve-_-" and to think of it... i might have left it on the com when i saving it-_- arghz....

wanted to buy crumpler bag... since mine is really spoil liao... i thot it'll be around 120... but my friend say nopez, it's around $200... double the sianzness...

arghz. and i haven got the time to go through all my school material this week... so Fed up!

...it's autumn time, 12:28 AM

Today is a very random day, but im quite happy as this week ended as a wonderful 1.

Today, we're released 1 hour earlier since this is the 1st lecture, no tutorial, me and daniel spontaneously went to join Bouldermania again this year! With last year's experience, this year climbing was easier=p had fun stretching my arms, flexing myself to go to the top, challenging, guess next year i would still be joining again=p

Even more glad is that today morning i went for a small exercise regime. Went jogging, abit of stretching, abit of push up... juz to kick start my hope of keeping fitter for this year, and for my IPPT=p

This whole week has been wonderful, with glad news. Though i got sucky timing for my timetable at first, miraculously i got 1 module (mastering communications, which will clear my communication prescribe elective) during add drop! A pleasant surprise. What's even better is that im overloading, 7 modules but only 2 exams=p wahahha...

but 1 thing duno shd be sad or not... ive totally cleared my studio elective by this sem!!!! -_-" the power of advance placement... but in which im unhappy about as well... im asking them to change my credits to my UE instead of PE, if not, void it... coz there's so many interesting and useful modules i could take in PE!!! dun wana waste my time and $$ by taking lesser modules. especially when they're so useful and interesting.

Went for INSTEP talk, for overseas studies... i doubt i can go...coz 1) my GPA doesnt meet the basic requirement, 2) it's quite ex actually...=p haha... coz u gotta spend 1 sem over there.... they wana see the $$ in ur bank 1st and make sure u can afford to stay over there b4 they'll even consider giving u the place... looking at only $500 in my bank now... hahhaa... i think this is so far far far far away kind of matters.

But even so... my free time in school is now occupied by work study, $8/hr... im still editing/shooting for vocare, hopefully this income would be good and provides me the $$ to enjoy this may holiday. Possible planning is going to France for Cannes film fest and diving trip. If things goes well, i would be able to return 70% of my debts as well.

Everything is going well on the 1st week of school. assignments all completed. now on the pace to edit a film for FYP. stressed. I seriously hope i dun screw up their film=p it's their FINAL YEAR FILM!

Hope this sem will go the way i planned and wanted... i wana pull up my GPA... to 3.75. All those As... better come=p

All those materialistic stuffs... hope u can juz come as well=p lol

And hope... that i will have some good surprises this sem as well...=)

Oh yah... this is the 1000th post... something nice=)

...it's autumn time, 9:09 PM

im itching all over right now!!! and i thot i nvr get sunburnt... which clearly means im wrong...

Without any much warning, the sch is going to reopen in 2 more days time...
very sianz... my bday seems like spent in a very low low way. i nvr receive any presents this year!=( so sad...
sometimes i wonder... without such thing called facebook... will anyone still remember when is my bday?

Anyway... went sentosa today... tried wavehouse... damn shiok!!! muz try again next time i go=p

...it's autumn time, 12:47 AM

Ive seen and shot quite alot of weddings now... seen quite afew types... wun say lots of variety...but most of them are traditional. Traditional as in follows the culture, the tradition, the same procedures, especially during the games.

The usual sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, the usual waxing game, the keys in ice blocks, singing love songs or the popular song at date, the usual questioning for the groom to know how well is the bride.

Occasionally you'll see something different, the friends tried to make SUPER BIG ang bao, tried to make 'deal or no deal', tried to make quest like amazing race, tried to make the groom's face on notes etc... but usually, it ended up looking more cheesy den real.

During guochuan's wedding, being the brother, i tried to make things abit higher level. photoshopped his face and merge it wif yusoff ishak's face, changing the colours to match, having the same expression, making sure tt the security features and lines are there as well... and oso the touch of the paper to be as close too, not forgetting the weight. This pulls off real well in the end. Looks really alike. Im sure the sisters had lots of fun with it too and discussing how real it looks.

That makes me wonder... how will the wedding of an ADMer look? imagine those keys inside icecube are no longer juz clear blocks but some rainbow colour blocks. Imagine the groom's quest is no longer written in normal arial font but nicely layout and sealed in a perforated envelope. Imagine when you have to sing becomes a truly interactive media performance? Imagine those double happiness cuttings are juz one of the many designs that the friends had made. All your angbaos are custom designed. OMG...

HAHAH!!!! well... i think im going nonsensical... but after afew of the parties that admers organised b4 (such as xmas partys, 21st bday partys) looking at the way they decorated the place... i really felt it's nicely done up... haha... i want my wedding to be like tt next time=p anyone's wedding care to let me have a try in planning such things???=p

anyway... to have a small feel as an admer decorater....

With kahboon's blinking lights=)

...it's autumn time, 10:11 PM

new year has begun without delays. new modules. new sem is going to begin soon...

now, a short look back on the stuffs ive did in last sem...

Design:
The sem for designing started with a small exercise on saying that 'Im a Designer' in 3 different ways,
1) Exuberant

2) Mischievous

3) Mysterious

Then, i have to present a well known designer and make a souvenir for people to remember him.
Ive made a energy drink as a souvenir.
As he mentioned before during an interview:
"If, like me you live in a community of reasonably humane, culturally well-grounded freethinkers, in a city which has manifested its mercantile spirit from the sixteenth century by systematically plundering the world and accumulating an enormous wealth, a city which offers a tremendous amount of energy, so I try to give Amsterdam some of my energy back."

And thus i created a bottle of energy drink as a souvenir for him, Anergy, for Anthon Beeke, for channeling his energy to the city vibe and hope that we could bring about the same energy for designing as well.

After commemorating someone of the past/present. We went into the future, 50 years later, in 2059, what will happen on earth? How will the communication change and the signs we use to provide the correct information?

In my imagined world, the world met with apocalypse, but human kinds was not wiped out. Instead, they lived underground, surviving with the danger of nature around as the earth surface remains dangerous for humans to live.

Danger! Loose floor/roof ahead!

Radioactive above this level

Danger! Lava ahead!

Water Reservation ahead

Caution, quake zone

Returning back from future, we find things from everyday life, sourcing inspiration from our daily life, making every subject a source of idea, an idea to make designs work.

Then we create our manifesto, a manifesto to spread your believe, one that others to believe in you as well.

"It is us who paints our own life, but others to add the details"

It is my first try on illustrating and also my first time using illustrator. A bold move would say.

With the manifesto as a poster, it evolves bigger and we had to design our locker according to it.

I started out painting a landscape on the locker. One that is plain, one that represents me. It is left empty, and inside the locker were stuffs that others can add on to the painting.

And you see details can be added by others.

Slowly you'll see that your life is different.

Vibrant or not, it is created by the people you've met, or not met.

But every painting is of coz, different and unique

So after all about oneself, it's not the time to care about the world.

We went to sungei buloh, a nature reserve, and translate the experience you felt there into visual printed stuffs.
Of coz, this assignment is not about saving the world. It is just one that requires you to translate feelings to actual.

For me, i felt that urbanization has ripped off many parts of the green and left this small sanctuary in the corner of the island. Just like any other part of the world, sanctuaries like this is getting lesser and lesser. Thus, i made a napkin holder to act as a reminder, we're always taking away from nature, so let us not destroy and preserve.

With illustrating in my head for this whole sem, i made another attempt to portray this feeling using vectors again. Another bold move i would say as this is my 2nd try on illustration and this is my final project.

Front print of Napkin that says 'Every piece you use is their home taken away'

Placed in a Napkin Holder in the shape of the forest with a habitant in front.

When you use a piece of napkin, it reveals the back print on the 2nd piece of napkin, telling you 'Plant back their home, be environmental conscious'

Placed in a Napkin Holder with the image of 'deforested' habitat

Hope you've enjoyed the works presented in the last sem for design. Video works for last sem will come soon.

...it's autumn time, 6:43 PM

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