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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
MSID 5Belas Interior Design Student Saturday at Taylor’s University

Yo people, this is kinda belated post where this happened last month. I have been lazy, sleepy and blablabla reason, but guess you guys don’t wanna hear my crap. Haha. So I’ll talk about MSID 5Belas Interior Design Student’s Saturday OK? =0

So as you know I am a Interior Design student right now at Taylor’s University, just done one semester there and I am so grateful that I got a chance to join the MSID 5Belas ID Student’s Saturday, this is actually an annual event by MSID (Malaysia Society of Interior Designers) for the college and university to get-together, join competition, have fun and interact, and also make friends. This year, the host and organizing school is my school, Taylor’s University.

I am not part of any worker, some asked me to be the photographer, but I rather to be free and easy, I joined a competition at there and that’s Amazing Race.

It’s a Saturday and the whole thing starts as early as 9am until closing and prize giving ceremony at 12.30am. Yeah, it’s a long more than 12 hours event. Really tiring that day, but still a good experience for me. Many, many, many people were there and there were 15 participating institution. Got UCSI, UiTM Perak, UiTM Shah Alam, Saito College, Limkokwing, KBU, Alfa and I don’t remind already. Haha. I wonder why Penang’s Equator Academy of Art was not there and also the famous One Academy, why?

Morning was like opening ceremony, then some random workshop and afternoon was like competitions and at night also competition plus performance. Almost everything was competition.

Initially I wanted to join the short film and the theme was “BIOSPHERE”, but then I’ve lost my inspiration so I quit. OMG. Some ask me to join again this year. I’ll see. Hehe. What I like about that day was not participating in Amazing Race, I tell you the game sucks, but the fun thing was it’s ALL FREE. Haha. Free food, lousy a bit but I finally had a moneyless day in Kuala Lumpur.

I’ll list some competition here: Montage Design, Short Film, Sony Videologue, Banting Design, Residential Design, Commercial Design, Fashion Design, Amazing Race, Graffiti Art, Furniture Design, Lighting Design, Installation. Yeah, it’s all about design, sometimes I wonder what’s fashion design have to do with Interior Design, but afterall we are design student, we design almost everything. =D

Well, Amazing Race is something that you think it’s fun but it’s not! You actually turned out panting, gasping for extra air and want to rest more because it’s about running all the time. Marathon from place to place. It started with running here and there to look for a key to unlock the padlock for the next clue. After running to and flo for many times, the next stop was to the library to look for A book.

The book-looking was a easy task and after that we have to run off campus to a temple which is like 15-20 minutes walk away under the super hot sun to get the next clue. We should have drove there. Then we need to go to Sunway Pyramid which is not in a walking distance, so we took 2 cab as we have 8 members in our team. One thing, we were given RM50 per team for the game which is the fun part.

At Sunway Pyramid, we searched for the pickled cucumber, bought it and eat all of it. It tasted good at first but it got disgusting later. Though successfully finish it up.

Last task was to play the archery. Not easy as holding the bow with left hand because I am a righty. Need a lot of strength but still manage to aim and shoot. This was fun and should go and play some other time. Steady hand and sharp eyes are needed. Well, taxi back campus and pitstop. Started last, but ended team 10. Not bad already.

The fu
nny part of the day was the Fashion Design competition. The day’s theme was BIOSPHERE, I have no idea what that mean until now. It’s something environment, recycle and green stuff. Looking at the model’s make up and the creativity of their designer, I felt halloween. Haha.

But I did see some simplicity and minimalist nice. However, since people more like into complicated stuff, an underwater zombie won that day.

Other highlights for the rest of the days was just taking look at some lighting design and enjoy the Talent Time performance at night. Each institution came up with their performing team and perform. Simple as that and we enjoy the show. Woo.

I don’t know why my school didn’t really get many prizes that day, was it because that we were the organizer or ? Hmm. We’ll see on the next MSID 16 this year. =D

December 26, 2010
Site Visit to KLCC

I don’t know should I categorize my school life as college life or university life because my school, recently upgraded their status from Taylor’s University College to Taylor’s University. Though, I am only taking Diploma courses in this private university. Haha. Pretending to be a real university student.

Hi, by the way. I am back again. Stupid Taylor’s Residence promised Internet will be ready by September but it’s already October and it’s still not ready. Really bad service I tell you guys.

One of my subject is Introduction to Design. I don’t know want how to tell you about what is it about but then part or classes will be outside and we called it site visit, something like a field trip, going to the places to take some photograph, do some sketches, look around and play. =D

Our first site visit was to KLCC or also known as the Petronas Twin Towers. Part of the photos here you see will also be seen in my Journal for the subject. =D

Everyone was like so excited.

Everyone knows about this places but wondering why we still need to go to check out KLCC right? Actually we were researching about the architect behind the towers and the park and now I know, Ceasar Pelli designed the towers and Roberto Burle Marx designed the KLCC park. Haha.

MJ from Iran. Our class rep giving instruction.

Hello everyone.

Arvin from Medan, Indonesia.

Wanyi, friend from the same hometown, Penang.

Connie from Sandakan, Sabah.

Aseel from Palestine, resides in Saudi Arabia, so basically she’s from Saudi Arabia but born in Palestine.

We were given only an hour time to take as many photos about the building and the area as much as we can. I was thinking about buying Rotiboy this and that but the time for taking photograph was like so not sufficient. The weather was so hot and I sweated a lot although it’s not sunny. The atmosphere was just, warm.

Anastasia from Belarus, and Nita from Indonesia. Many international students in my class. Rocks.

In and out. Unfortunately there’s no blue sky and it’s pretty difficult to look for blue sky to take photos with the KLCC in the middle of a concrete city in a tropical hot country.

Beautiful, wonderful, bombastic. Good morning. Haha.

October 6, 2010
At Taylor’s Library Before Going to KLCC Site Visit

It was two weeks ago, on a Wednesday where the Sem 1 July 2010 intake student of Diploma in Interior Design went on a site visit to KLCC. It’s part of the module, Introduction To Design where we get to go on site visit and then take photos and talk about the place eg. architecture, the landscape, the interior design and stuff. Fun.

So before going to KLCC, we spent time in the library after lunch. There’s like 2 hours and we didn’t know what to do and go. Library in Taylor’s University is so nice so we went there. Everyone was like playing with cameras because we were required to photograph stuff at the site visit and later put into a journal.

Zhi Sheng the magician guy in class trying to con Connie with some tricks. =D

Cher Huey.

I am starting to hate my Canon 400D. It’s so freaking ugly because I am a very hardcore user and I guess I have reach the limit already. I need a new camera badly, 60D, 3D? Hehe. My feel to photograph stuff has lessen already and I think it will only come back when I get a new camera. Saving and saving!

Anastasia and Nita hiding from the camera. Hehe.

I was pretty excited for my first visit because I haven’t been downtown for like two weeks after I came here. I am living somewhere outside town, it’s not as hectic as busy as colourful as town and I love downtown Kuala Lumpur a lot, where there’s many nice shopping malls and shops.

Wanyii, my classmate from Penang. Penang rocks! I miss Penang a lot.

Rasyid looked so tired.

That day was also first day of Ramadhan Month, the fasting month. So happy fasting to all the Muslim people.

August 23, 2010
Walk Walk At Empire Shopping Gallery, Subang Jaya

After coming to Petaling Jaya/Kuala Lumpur here, I didn’t really have time to move around the city or around where I live to check out the places. I have been like not at here for the past weekends and it’s pretty hard to move around without a car. KTM and LRT station is far, the problem is going there. I haven’t tried taking the public bus, Rapid KL yet, wonder is it the same like my Penang’s Rapid Penang or not. I like to take the public bus in Penang because the bus stand was just right in front of my house and the buses come like very frequently, I am not sure about here.

So last week, after class, my lovely housemate, Ju Siong from Ipoh drove us around to buy stuff. We wanted to go to Sunway Pyramid and to the laundry but without any reason, we went to Empire Shopping Gallery which is somewhere new to walk and check it out.

The shopping mall is pretty new and there’s still many shop haven’t open yet. Located near to Subang Parade and I don’t know want how to describe the location, it’s small but it’s cool. There’s many nice shops selling not very low price stuffs. Although I hardly afford stuffs at there but I feel like walking at there because of the new-ness and not very crowded. I like malls that are not super crowded like Mid Valley Megamall or Sunway Pyramid in the weekend. It’s an ocean of people during weekend at there. Big city, WOW.

Went to check out the toilet of course. Haha. A good toilet is not all about the design, it’s about the cleaniness and the available of tissue at the WC area. =D LOL. Do you realise that Malaysian’s toilet doesn’t like to give people tissue paper? Sucks right.

I found Material, a Muji-copycat at there too. This store is so much smaller compare to the one in Queenbay Mall, Penang though.

Walked around the whole mall, nothing much to see, no cinema and we went into pet shop to see dogs. Haha. I realised that in Penang, there’s no pet shop in the shopping mall but they do have here. Cool. Can see dogs and puppys, but no pet snake.

After seeing dogs, taking photos of the cute little dog, we waited Han Tek, housemate from Penang, to do his haircut at those RM13 quickcut shop and I want to tell you something, the quickcut was so not quick. Luckily I had my haircut in Penang. Woo.

Small mall but cool place. Hopefully there’s a cinema!

August 17, 2010
Went To Watch Germany VS Spain Semi-Final

2 more match, the third and fourth placing and the final game then world cup will be own, by don’t know who. Wonder when the Octopus Paul will do the talking. The little 8 legged creature is my idol! After the semi-final, Germany and Spain which it predicted Spain will win, I really very impressed with its performance. Really 100% correct for all the matches it predicted who-will-win.

Germany is out and I am so happy. 2 days ago, I went out to watch the semi-final at midnight. First time going out and join so many people and watch together and it’s pretty fun. Though, the match started at 2.30am midnight here in Malaysia and felt sleepy some times. Mom didn’t want me to go out late so she asked me out early. I went to meet up my friends, and they brought me to Inti College at Bukit Jambul at around 12am.

It’s kinda crazy right, going to college at that time, for what? Study as they said but what I saw was, Facebooking, sleep, but one was really studying, working out on math.

Because of it’s still early, we spent time at the college 4th floor which is a study area that opens for 24 hours. I am not a student there, they are. There were Zheng Feng, Boo Teik and Chien Chern.

Boring and cold night and I didn’t know what to do too. Just online a little bit, talk a lot, and watched YouTube a little bit. The place was quiet. After thinking for where to watch, we wen to McDonald’s at Sungai Dua, near to university there.

It’s super freaking crowded when we reached there. Outside is totally full and it’s only 1.30am. An hour before the match started and it’s full already.

The whole McDonald’s was like so messy because people moved the tables around to get close to the only one HD TV. Best thing of McDonald’s is the broadcast is in HD and there’s free refill for Coca-Cola. Rocks, and also free WiFi too. Just suck is there’s not enough of power point for my laptop.

Boo Teik was really sleepy at Inti but after having a Double Spicy Chicken McDeluxe, he was energized again. LOL. Now McDonald’s have a lot of double stuff, double big mac, double double cheese burger. Woo, really rocks.

Zheng Feng was really hardworking, working on math all night long! Non-stop! OMG.

Some ang mo came in after half time and was like “Fuck Germany, Germany Busted and blablabla” Kinda annoying. I think 70percent of the people at McDonald’s were Germany fans and Spain rocks! Haha, I was with Spain. I was thinking of overnight at friend’s place but given that I was still awake and not sleepy, I decided to drive home and sleep on my comfy bed. Yeah.

July 9, 2010
Video: Midnight at Inti College

It was just now that I was at Inti College. Was bored and took video of myelf.

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July 8, 2010
Live: Sitting at Inti’s 4th Floor Study Boxes

Hello people. I am sleepy but no choice to wait for the World Cup Semi Final match at 2.30am which is the match of Spain vs Germany. This will be a very exciting match as both are strong and the psychic octopus went to Spain this time. To know whether the octopus is really that powerful or not, we have to watch this match. If Germany wins, kill the octopus, if Spain wins, then the octopus own!

I support Spain by the way because I dislike Germany. Sorry Germany fans. =D

Right now, I am sitting at Inti’s College 4th floor study boxes at the hostel area with my college friends waiting for the match. They are studying and I am onlining, waiting the time to pass.

Happy World Cup!

July 8, 2010
Away to PLKN (Day 27): I Am Going To Taylor’s University College

I’ve no idea how to tell you how’s my life in NS, still good I assume. ^^

In this coming July 2010, I will be going to Kuala Lumpur, the capital to pursue my study. Oh yeah, it’s something sad and exciting, going away from home to go study. For sure, I will homesick, and also friend-sick. LOL. I will miss everything back home, my comfy bed, my lovely big screen TV, my big room, my daddy, my mommy and everything at home. I will also miss all my friends and the magnificent six (include me), Arron, Chien Chern, Yiphing, Chaiwei and Chen Yuen, and also not in the magnificent Alvin, Ammerlynn, Zez Chien, and also many more. Haha.

Shit, I am talking like I am going to leave soon. Actually not, I will be still in Penang for like 3 months because my school only starts on the 26 of July 2010.

I’ll be studying Interior Design course at Taylor’s University College, hopefully I will meet you KL people at there. Hehe.

The Taylor’s Residence a.k.a. Hostel, was still in the middle of construction, hopefully it’s done when I arrive in campus.

So why Taylor’s and not Penang? I want to go explore out-of-Penang, I want a campus life, I want to meet new people, I want to learn more, I like the school, it’s new and so on so on.

Nice lecture theater facing the lake.

Food court.

We’ve visited the school 2 months ago and it’s really pretty. There’s a lake in the middle of the campus, everything is new, the classroom, the chairs, the tables and me. It’s newly built and open in January lately only. So it’s cool.

Penang has no pretty school, interior design at Penang’s The One Academy is new, Equator Academy is ugly, I must move on. =) I’ll talk more about it when I get into the college in July, oh yeah! Gonna enjoy most of my time with my family and friends here to the fullest first, and also NS.

April 23, 2010

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