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DETA – Dulux Emerging Talent Award @ KBU College

DETA – Dulux Emerging Talent Award 2012 @ KBU College – Only 4 person from my class, another 6 from the degree’s class and 5 of my senior went to the Dulux Emerging Talent Award on last Saturday. It was supposed to be more than that, in fact my lecturer invited everyone to go but all of them were lazy and has no passion of it. I told myself, since it’s my final year in Taylor’s University, so why not? Just go for fun, get some inspiration, experience, foster friendship and play.

Funny that the lecturer actually booked 2 bus but ended only 10 boarded the bus. Haha. So sad for them.

It was a competition for interior design student held at KBU College and 3 winners get to go to Amsterdam and some other part of Europe for free! Cool right? But it’s not for me as I am not that good, yet. HAHA. There’s more than 10 school participated in this little competition and it’s pretty happenings at there.

So basically, the competition was about designing a space concept for different type of space – Restaurant, Office, Gallery. Each of us were divided into 3 different team and each team get their own type of space. I’ve got office design. We were given a paper box and some paint colour as well as some recycling material, then we have to produce a conceptual design through all the material.

Well, I kinda suck at it, blur at first then came up with a childish stuff in the end. Admit that I was blur and stucked. Haha. However, looking at other’s creative work, it gives me an energy to search for creativity and study on creativity. Yeah! My school has a few person got into final, but then didn’t make it for the grand prize.

The college has notice board for Club and Society. It feels so ‘high school’ to me! =D

Me, Henry, Connie and Wei Shi.

Hanan, Aida, Rasyid and Me! =D

Anyway, it was a fun day, realised that I am not creative, got free food, know my friend from other class more and I told myself to strive hard to look for creativity.

September 14, 2012
Fun Time At Taylor’s University Photo Studio

Fun Time At Taylor’s University Photo Studio – I’ve taken an elective course in school for this semester – Digital Imaging. It’s more about learning some editing via Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. There’s a few elective that we can choose, other than Digital Imaging, there’s Creative Thinking and Visual Culture. Most useful of all, of course is Digital Imaging.

Recent class, I get a chance to use the school’s photo studio, seems very well-equipped with various backdrop and studio lighting, tripod too. Despite having a good studio, my photography skill is not that good. Nevertheless it was a fun time pressing the shutter button in the studio. I have some problem focusing and getting the best lighting setting sometimes. My camera was on Shutter priority mode all the time, is it correct?

Anyway, the photos taken are actually for us to learn how to mask on Photoshop. Quite fun. Took a lot of photos, and check out some shots below.

Me…

Wesley Low, Seremban boy.

Dancer Arvin Tang, Medan boy who likes Malaysia so much.

Steve of Pahang!

Jia Hui, the Ipoh girl.

Gino and Moh.

Azhar as subject.

A group photo.

August 31, 2012
Do Project Until Party In Taylor’s University Studio

Do Project Until Party In Taylor’s University Studio – As the title said, we was working on a design project in the school’s studio, then it turned up to be a mini pizza party. Haha. It was 3 weeks ago where I was working on a Architecture History project with my teammate – Steve, Wesley, Jia Hui and Arvin from early morning until night.

You know, when you are working on the same thing for a long period of time, your mind will tend to become slow or stunned. It’s at some point that work productivity rate is so low that you can think of anything or proceed.

That time was dinner time and we ordered Pizza Hut Delivery as we were lazy to go out to buy food. It’s weekend and there’s not much food choices in the campus. It took me quite some times to successfully ordered my delivery online as now only I know that Pizza Hut Delivery is the new thing, it’s different from the old 1300-88-2525. The menu is different from dine-in too.

As we went to collect the pizza, we saw unwanted balloon from an event that has just ended. Instead of disposing, we just took it back to studio to add in some party feel for us to S.S. (Shiok Sendiri).

4 regular pizzas, 25 slices, 5 people, we finished it in less than 20 minutes. We were just too hungry. It was crazy, fun, but we completed our work after that.

Arvin, Jia Hui, me, Wesley, Steve.

One more week of holiday to go! It’s so short and not enough for me. Arghh.

July 27, 2012
20th Birthday Eat Cake & Lovely Coffee @ Starbucks Coffee

20th Birthday Eat Cake & Lovely Coffee @ Starbucks Coffee – Do you know last last Monday was my birthday? Hohoho. I didn’t get any chance to post the photos up about my birthday because my blog was hacked by some stupid Russian. They just did it for fun, inject some malicious code into my server, the redirect all my visitor to some other side. It was a hard time for me to restore and clear everything. Now, Google has finally un-blacklist me so I can post anything I like.

OK, back to birthday. The night before 16th July, I went to Starbucks Coffee for a sit, dear Hueisean treated me a slice of Marble Cheese Cake, as she said birthday must has at least a piece of cake as tradition. That’s cool.

Surprisingly, she ordered another cup of hot chocolate with a heart-shape drawn on top. Awhhh, that’s so sweet of her. Thank you my dear.

Well, as year grows older, birthday is not so fancy as before. I don’t really like big birthday party, I just treat it as a simple and happy day for me, perhaps some awesome meal, and present for myself. =D I am 2o years, young now.

July 26, 2012
Sunday Morning @ Muntri Street

Sunday Morning @ Muntri Street – Last, last Sunday, I went to Muntri Street in Penang with my classmate and a group of pro sketchers to sketch the place, for leaning and sharing and fun. Muntri Street is really a nice place in Penang full of beautiful eclectic colonial style shophouses. It has history, it has story and arts. There’s many guesthouses at there too!

Interior design students from Taylor’s University was having a trip to Penang, the most beautiful city in Malaysia and one of the activity was ‘Sketch Muntri Street’, also an activity conducted by pro sketcher Ch’ng Kiah Kiean. I feel sad that my hand is not as pro as them, I don’t really sketch stuff, in fact, I kinda suck at it. I did some sketch, a bit, but then I went photo shooting around the place instead.

Teuku =)

It’s a nice sunny Sunday morning and the weather was pretty clear, but then it’s hot too! I sweat quite a lot. Back to sketch, looking at other’s people sketches, I told myself I really have to sketch more. It doesn’t have to be uber pretty or detailed, as long as it has feeling, has visual, has proportion than it’s good, according to one of the pro sketches. Sketching is for fun and to express one’s feel to a visual.

Guess what I have found on Muntri Street? It’s another super big mural done by Ernest Zacharevic who did the Armenian Street’s mural. This one is really huge on a big piece of wall. It looks a bit scary but what the story is that it’s about a little girl learning kung-fu.

Look brilliant isn’t it?

Aida. =)

Met Hua Kian, my high school mate at there. Penang is so small!

Penang is awesome isn’t it? Spot my sketch, it’s the smallest piece. HAHA. Happy weekend ahead. =)

June 1, 2012
Goose Lays Egg At Taylor’s University & Tortoise By The Lake

Goose Lays Egg At Taylor’s University & Tortoise By The Lake – Found some cool animal at the school’s lake today, I see many big size tortoise, swimming by the shore. This reminds me about rearing a tortoise when I was small. I wonder who put in the tortoise into the lake of Taylor’s. I bet they swim and eat LIKE A BOSS at there since people often throw food into the lake.

It’s gonna grow even bigger soon!

Another super cool and funny thing I found today is that the goose at the lake laid an egg! I wonder who it mate with. HAHA. OK, that’s not the point. We saw the goose sitting on her egg, waiting it to be hatched. So cool right? But the thing is…. the goose was not sitting on her egg, she’s sitting on a tennis ball!

Instead, we found the real egg at the other bushes. I was thinking, was the goose forgotten about her egg’s location, or someone was trying to trick the goose. Really special and funny. She had been sitting there for a few days, according to my friend. Hmmm.

May 29, 2012
Food Kiosk Project Presentation Day!

Arvin, Jia Hui, Wesley and Me! My group member all the time.

Food Kiosk Project Presentation Day! – Finally, I can get a very short break now after working for so many weeks for the Food Kiosk design project for my Interior Design Studio subject. Just had my presentation yesterday, not perfect, but satisfied with what I’ve done. Although there’s critics from the lecturers, I take them as advice for improvement in future project and assignments.

Arvin, Jia Hui, Steve, Wesley and Rasyid.

Fana, Nita, Hanan, Mellysa.

The main thing that I’ve learned recently is 3D rendering. I love Google Sketchup + Vray, they are awesome. But then rendering 3D with Vray is a very hard thing because the setting is very hard to understand. It’s just like C++ programming and stuff. A lot of trial and error and trying and testing to make a perfect one. I am still learning and need to learn from the pro, perhaps take an external course (any idea where?). =D By the way, 3Dsmax sucks. Haha.

Moh and Ken.

The presentation was fun. Spent quite a lot for printing, but love what I’ve printed. I was nervous before my turn but it went fun during my turn to explain and present. Yay!

Ana, Zetty, Fahdran and Zhi Sheng.

MJ and Zhen.

Well, happy short 1-week holiday to my classmate, I am going to the most awesome place in Malaysia – Penang tomorrow, my home! And after the break, gonna get busy again with another project. Busy college life, and it’s fun.

One more thing, here’s… me! =D

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May 18, 2012
Blue Sky Morning @ Taylor’s University

Blue Sky Morning @ Taylor’s University – The sky was pretty blue today in the morning, I took out my little camera (Panasonic Lumix LX5) and snap a few shots. Ahh, I love blue sky day so much, but I hate the heat and sun during noon. School life has been a bit boring because I am doing the same thing over and over again. So wish that the presentation for current project can be get over as soon as possible so I can proceed with the next design project.

The road that I walk everyday.

How’s life to you lately? =)

May 15, 2012
Design Assignments, Projects = NO LIFE?

Design Assignments, Projects = NO LIFE? – I have been doing a lot of assignments lately, almost everyday that I am working on my school’s assignments which is related to Interior Design. Some people started saying me ‘NO LIFE’ that I everyday do, do and do, lacking entertainment and going out to relax. Hahaha, I also started to think that am I having a ‘NO LIFE’?

I guess many design school student, e.g. interior design, graphic design, or multimedia design, even architecture student have the same ‘assignments/projects all-the-time’ life as me, right? I think it’s only us, the creative student is the most busy one, I see business school’s students are so free.

But then, I kinda enjoy this kind of busy-ness (WEIRD). I just keep thinking that I have to finish the assignments fast so that I can enjoy to the fullest, I wonder is it correct or not? I am trying to find a balance point between work and play, but haven’t found it yet as I think that right now, my responsible, my task is to study well; only when I am working in the future, work and play must be balance.

Well, I’ve got to say, working on projects non-stop is my life right now, I just wanted to finish them fast and end it quickly. Mom is also getting frustrated that every time I tell her that I am doing project. Do you have a busy working, assignments life like me, and enjoying it?

Assignments, Projects = NO LIFE? By the way, I am back to Nick Chan Dot Net. So long no write, so much to write, so many thing to share. =D

May 13, 2012
Pasar Malam-Style In Taylor’s University

Pasar Malam-Style In Taylor’s University – University was pretty happenings last week for two days. As early as 9am, the Char Koay Teow uncle has already started his job frying koay teow. I don’t know it’s nice or not, I also don’t really have much confidence in him, but I did see many people queuing up for it.

What’s happening was the Borneo Jazz Festival brought in a few hawker-style food stall to Taylor’s for 2 days to promote the Borneo Jazz Festival which is happenings now. I have no idea, the event is this weekend but they promote it few days before, how can people here have time to buy air tickets to fly there? Anyway, it’s nice to see the food stalls here, it feel lively, awesome, fun, shiok, and shuang, although I didn’t buy anything. Hahaha. I was too lazy to queue is another reason.

May 13, 2012

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