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  • Share The Love Concert At Taylor’s University


    #1: Nice Taylor’s University at night.

    Share The Love Concert At Taylor’s University – I went to school last Saturday night to camp in school to do assignment. I wore simple clothing, a t-shirt and a pair of shorts, with slippers on, feeling free and easy and arrived in school happily. Then I heard loud voices of people singing, and the school’s lights were turn on brightly. There’s a concert going on in the campus – Share The Love.


    #2: The Julie’s balloon. Julie’s is a brand of biscuit.

    I almost forgot about it until I reached school that Saturday night. Share The Love is actually a charity concert which promotes friendship and solidarity through music. The concert is actually a singing contest which the winner wins RM5000 cash prize for themselves as well as another RM5000 which to be donated to the Taylor’s World Food Day on behalf of them. Cool right?


    #3: The bunting.


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    The crowds were not really big, about 200 or more people can be see, sitting on the checkered floor, some lying and enjoying the concert. It was quite relaxing and nice to see a concert stage was set up in the school.


    #5: The stage and people on the floor.

    I imagined what if some other famous artist has their mini concert here, it will be really very awesome, given a good view of the campus. I would like to see Taiwan’s artist here, but I don’t think it’s possible because it’s an English speaking school. HAHA.


    #6: From the side of the stage.

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    #7: The people.

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    #8: Camera man.

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    #9: The host is talking on the ramp.

    Share The Love. I spend less than 30 minutes then and off I went to do assignment with my group mates. I didn’t really enjoy those Indie band because I don’t know the music and songs they were singing. But one cool thing was, they were giving out free little food like cup cakes to the people by answering a few question.

  • A Week In Taylor’s University #1

    A Week In Taylor's University #1
    #1: On the other side of the man-made lake.

    A Week In Taylor’s University #1 – Hello people, it’s another new week again, how are you guys? I am starting something new called “A Week In Taylor’s University #” which is actually blog post full of photos that I’ve captured over the week. I compiled them up and I blog it up in a shot. One long post of all the photos of the week. It would be easier and you won’t be seeing similar thing everyday. =D


    #2: Lazy dog lying at staff’s carpark.

    Of course it’s not my first week in Taylor’s University, it’d been I-don’t-know-how-many-weeks. Well, if you ask me about the experience in this campus, it would be good and bad, I love the beautiful campus, however, I kinda dislike the way they administrate the school. It’s a little big too money-centric which I certainly hates.

    Another thing is the syllabus for Diploma In Interior Design isn’t that great after all. OMG. I did learn something, but I also did learn something not really interesting, or related to design, it could be said as not practical with future work.


    #3: Hate to see the Autopay sign where it reminds you to pay.


    #4: Cloud overcasting the sky.

    Blablabla. If I were to rants about it, it would be a bloody long post but I don’t want to. Haha. It’d been raining quite a lot last week. The sky was scattered with clouds all the time, and I kept afraid of raining down because I have to walk to the carpark to fetch my car. There’s no covered walkway. It’s just so stupid. Haha.


    #5: iPhone games are just everywhere in school.


    #6: Kevin To in the background.

    Studies was OK, just a little bit stress and worried on assignments. Because all in the mind was getting a good result, which results in a pushing myself too much. Sometimes, I told myself to take a break, sometimes, I told myself to push. What a funny me.


    #7: Wanyi’s drinking water.


    #8: A dark and cloudy day.

    Well, do you like it when a lecturer tell you that the class is canceled, or no class for the day? It sure sounds good and fun, however at the same time felt pain in the ass, because every lesson is money. $$ You might be thinking I am being money face, yes money is very important, yet tuition fees is expensive. Haha. How wish the tuition fee could be lower, even if it’s lower, I need to be convinced that the fee worth it, but till now, I am not convinced yet. Hmm. What do you think?

    Truth is, I think I’ve picked the wrong school? Perhaps, but thing has been done, decision has been made, so I have to go with the flows. Hoping that I will be convinced one day.


    #9: Lecturer was playing a video for us to see.

     


    #10: Had Moral Education mid-term exam which was pretty fun and easy.


    #11: The Kebab Stall.


    #12: Working on the kebab, smells delicious, priced expensive at RM8 per kebab sandwich.

    Spent quite a lot of time recently in campus because of group work for the assignments and projects. The thing that I like about the school is having a good facilities where we can work out on projects during free time.


    #13: Workers painting the outdoor table. Good job,


    #14: Wesley’s acting cute and Jia Hui was concentrating with the music on the iPhone.


    #15: Some Sony Walkman event in the campus.


    #16: Delicious mamak-style fried rice at Star Teh Tarik for only RM4.

     

    And there’s many food and beverage outlets which are pretty cool. I like Star Teh Tarik, a mamak store in the campus which is my favourite dining place because of the low price. HAHAHA. Not forget to mention, the food is good in taste too.


    #17: In a classroom overlooking the mad-made lake. Looking ugly at the end where the open air rocky road carpark is.


    #18: Some entertainment in class.


    #19: iPad gaming in class.


    #20: More iPad user in action.


    #21: 1:1 sculpture by the architecture students.


    #22: Farah’s smilling to Wesley.


    #23: Security guard looking at the lake, relaxing.


    #24: The 3 beautiful academic blocks. Too bad, there’s only 3 of them. The word “UNI” at the roof looks weird.


    #25: The lake with an ugly end.


    #26: Fire hydrant by the lake. Was playing with my Sigma f1.4 30mm lens.


    #27: Another unfavorable sign.

     


    #28: FREE parking is always uber far away.

     

    Well, let’s see how this week will be to me. Super duper looking forward to the Apple event tomorrow and also the Nine Emperors God Festival on Wednesday. =) Do you like your college?

  • Last Night In The Dorm Room

    Last Night In The Dorm Room

    Last Night In The Dorm Room – Life at night is pretty fun in my dorm room where the lights are dimmed, soft music is turned on and later lying on the bed to enjoy a couple of drama show. I have tried to create a relax environment in my dorm room for me because I think life must be fun, and money saving too. It’s not all about party all night long, clubbing everyday which make up an enjoyable life, life can be fun in the room too.

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    Another thing is that being an interior design student, I would like to decorate my room to a cool, fun and nice room. I don’t want it to be a typical dorm room, so don’t be surprise to see many Ikea stuff in my room. I just love Ikea so much. Haha.

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    You know, moreover Internet speed gets faster at night when there’s less people using it at home. Haha. You can do more thing on the Internet. If I have a bigger room, I would like to have a Xbox 360 + Kinect, sounds so awesome! Too bad, I live in a small room.

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    What’s your entertainment in your room?

  • Wet Week and Funny Head

     

    Wet Week and Funny Head – Last week was a wet week, wet as in rainy week because it rains almost everyday in Klang Valley. I wonder what happened to the weather nowadays. Rain is fun because is chilly and make the temperature cold, I like. Also, it makes me feel sleepy too!

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    Beautiful model making.

     

    School is getting busier and busier, getting more and more stressful in Taylor’s University. Lots of drawing which I don’t really like, I like realistic 3D rendering; lots of hands on work to do like making model, thinking lots of concept which I like. =D

    I foresee sleepless night is coming to me due to assignment. Sometimes I wonder, aren’t college life suppose to be fun? Haha. Fun in a sense of not sleeping, but at the same time, doing bad to our body. =X Anyway, I’ll try to enjoy life to the fullest everyday, look for fun in between the stress and tiredness.

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    Recently, I have been blogging a lot, I am back into this blogging hobby and I am liking it much, so how do you find my new blog design? =)

  • General Printing Centre – The Hidden Print Shop In Taylor’s University

    General Printing Centre – The Hidden Print Shop In Taylor’s University – I am not promoting the print shop in Taylor’s but just to share with you all Taylorian who might not know there’s a hidden print shop hidden behind the lorong (alley) of the Administration Office. I’ve met Taylorian who doesn’t knows the exist of this shop. Haha.

    This place is somewhat cheaper and not cheaper than the school’s Follow-You-Print machine, you will know what I mean by cheaper and not cheaper.

    In Taylor’s University, students get RM30 printing allowance per year which is used for printing notes and other document through the Follow-You-Print photocopy-scan-printing machines that are located in the library and computer lab. Price for Follow-You-Print is:

    • RM0.10 for Black&White A4
    • RM1.50 for Color A4
    • RM0.20 for Black&White A3
    • RM3.00 for Color A3

    Printing at Taylor’s machine usually takes time when there’s many student using it and you need to climb the stairs to the computer lab or library. But when you are in a rush, you can go to General Printing Centre with the price of:

    • RM0.10 for Black&White A4
    • RM1.00 for Color A4
    • RM1.00 for Black&White A3
    • RM2.00 for Color A3

    Can you see the difference there? RM1.00 for Black&White A3 which is freaking expensive and freaked me out once when I went to print. I thought it was RM0.20 just like the school’s.

    Both places have their pros and cons. For normal print, color prints, I will go to General Printing Centre but for black & white prints, I will go to the school’s machine.

     

  • Make Site Model For Design Studio’s Site Analysis

    Make Site Model For Design Studio Site Analysis – Ignore the title, I guess you don’t know what is it all about. Design Studio is one of my subject and recently we made a site model for site analysis. =D

    Making model is fun but sometimes I feel lazy on making it but the feeling of completing it is really nice and satisfying as you can see what you have just built, however it’s just a waste of space after submitting it also. HAHA. Afterall, making model is not my favourite part of design process, I prefer rendering a realistic design of it through the power of computer software and hardware.

    Back to the site model, we bought materials, and we make according to our own methods as there’s no class on how to make one.

    My team, Wesley, Jia Hui, Steve and me are not architectural student but are just students of interior design trying our best to make the model. Some times, I wonder why an interior design student needs to make the site model, isn’t it’s architect’s work? Maybe it’s just parts of the syllabus.

    There’s actually material call the model board, architectural model paper, which are used especially for making architectural model. Spent a whole day in the studio and we did have something out of the materials.

    Cute right? Let’s see the final one.

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    Cool right? It’s just like art class instead of interior design. LOL.

  • Blue Sky Day In Taylor’s University

    Blue Sky Day In Taylor's University

    Blue Sky Day In Taylor’s University – Another post of Taylor’s University, guess I’ll let the photo speaks instead. Took my Panasonic LX5 to school last week instead of my Canon DSLR and here are my shots that I have taken. It was a nice morning with big blue sky.

    I really love blue sky as it gives more color to the day and life. I knew that when it’s near to year end, the sky is getting bluer. It makes taking photos fun and nice too!

    Everyday I park at a far place – the free parking zone and take a nice morning walk to school. It’s nice to walk when it’s not raining and sunny, it’s nice to walk on the tar road, but not the rocky road.

    That morning, I aw the playful goose walking around the carpark. Why I said they are playful because they don’t want to stay in the water and intrude human’s territory in the campus. Haha. They really make the whole Taylor’s University home, enjoying every part of the school which is comfortable to them.


    Reading about Taoism in class and I still don’t really understand the religion.


    Steve Pang acting emo. =D


    Loving every part of my MacBook Pro but one cons is that it’s making my back ache as it’s heavy! And its not really good for interior design studio because of software limitation.


    See the traffic jam at 6pm! The whole school is stuck with traffic.

    Campus life so far so good for me, just I kinda miss home at the moment and lots of assignment. Haha.

     

     

  • Mini Flashmob In Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus

    Mini Flashmob In Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus – I was chilling under the tree in my campus last week and suddenly I saw a group of people in black t-shirt, wearing a white mask walking around the lakeside area. Suddenly, a sharp whistle sound was heard in the air.

    In light speed, the group of mysterious people stopped their action, as if the time was frozen and a living statue was form. It’s a flashmob thingy. I believe it’s one of their class activity in school as their lecturer was around taking photos.

    It wasn’t really very sunny, I took my camera, and went to take photos with them.

    A little while, whistle sound can be heard again, they started moving to another area and preparing for another act, and whistle blew again, they stopped again, and we took photos with them again. It was pretty fun, but sooner it’s get sunny and I went back to my comfy zone under the shade.

    I wonder what’s their reaction and thinking when saw me and Wesley fooling around them.

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  • Colourless Thursday In Taylor’s University

    Happy Malaysia Day my fellow friends! Woohoo! Finally, after so many years that this day get recognized.

    Thursday was no good to me. I got emotional, there’s many thought went through my mind, I just kept thinking that I was doing not so well in studies and I tell myself I must try my best and work hard. I am really bad in hand or manual drawing, give me a computer and a mouse, I rather use the computer then use the hand.

    Haha, you might be thinking why I choose interior design despite not good at drawing. I wonder is it necessary? It’s a creative subject, it uses the mind more than hand in my opinion.

    I realised that there’s many good “drawer” or artist in the class which makes me feel lousy. Though, I feel good now, I told myself, I must work hard to be better and the best. I feel better now after taking photos in black and white. Woohoo.

    Thursday is always a tiring day for me because class is from 8am to 7pm with only just an hour of break at noon for lunch. The study hour is even longer than a working person. Haha, I seriously think that they should reedit the timetable again. Computer Aided Design, Moral Eduation, Design Studio and lastly Building Construction.

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    Hmm… Not really a good afternoon in uni and I did feel stress and tired.

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    Afterall, let’s forget about the down-ness and check out Malaysia’s Day today. Where you guys going? Going to check out the parade at Dataran Merdeka? I wish I could, but I just couldn’t. Have some other plans today. =D

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  • A Visit To HELP University And HELP Residence

    Klang Valley I am back! Luckily I did not stuck in the Raya jam last weekend when everyone was just going back to their work town or home town from other place. I came back last Saturday, early in the morning to get rid from the super long jam. My first destination upon arrival was HELP University College at Pusat Bandar Damasara because that my friend, Chien Chern who fetched me and Tee Jin back wanted to check in to the hostel of his new school.

    This was my first time visiting the campus and I never really knew the exact location. Friends keep telling me it’s near to Mid Valley, near to Bangsar, it’s at Damansara. But I have no idea where it was, when I heard about Damansara, I only know about Damasara Utama, where the shopping mall 1 Utama is. Haha.

    But now, I know where it is located, and it’s located undergroumd. Haha. Not exactly underground, the building itself is on a hill slope which the upper part is office building and lower part to the slope is the campus itself.

    It was already close when we visited the place. It’s quiet, it’s so much different from Taylor’s University that I am studying in, it look, different. HAHA.

    Next was to visit the HELP Residence, the hostel for the school. It’s just accompanying my friend to check-in and check out the hostel.

    RM550 without utilities fee on a twin-sharing room with bathroom, without kitchen. What do you think? Looking at the photo, they look a bit dirty on the wall, but the HELP University has responded with a comment below, quite good:

    Nick, Thank you for sharing your photos with us. I wished we had the chance to show you around HELP Damansara campus and the Residence. For your information, we have identified the room and immediately went in to repair and repainted the place. This is certainly an isolated case. The previous student had just moved out in the previous week and due to the long Raya holidays, the maintenance staff had not cleaned up the room in time for your friend’s check in. By the way, here is a link to show you the rest of the facilities in HELP. http://www.help.edu.my/sites/h…

    Nervertheless, HELP Residence do have a good view out of the window.

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