During 13 February 2012, Monday. Me and my course mates attended a talk by Mr. Huang Ean Hwa, an inspiring man in the advertising industry. Honestly I was sleepy and exhausted before Mr. Huang started talking, because I slept really late if I recalled correctly. So, firstly he introduced himself and said that he'd love to share anything he could about his life's journey and also his 20 years of experience in advertising. But unfortunately this talk only lasts about 2-3 hours (as he is a very busy man), so it's impossible for him to give us every detail. He told us briefly about his childhood/ working experience, showed some of his work that were mostly commercials, he also told us jokes and also showed us some meaningful things on screen. While I was listening to him part of me felt ashamed and unworthy, for he wasn't born rich nor was he any different from any of us sitting in the hall. And yet there are those who were born wealthy and healthy but nags bout assignments being too much of a burden. And me, I felt ashamed because I spend too much time on social networks, watching cartoons etc when its the best time to do more research on things I'd like to know more or things I didn't know that could be a benefit to my future. I keep telling myself I have to do my best and not let anyone down especially myself, but truthfully I know I only did maybe like 40% of what I was suppose to do. I'm glad that we get to meet Mr. Huang that day, his words changed some of my perspective of how things work. We shouldn't just see things in front of us, but learn to see things way beyond our expectations and imagination. What I loved most was him being real... towards us, towards his works and towards himself. He had also worked with one of Malaysia's most inspiring woman, Yasmin Ahmad :) advertising is not an easy path, we might need to sacrifice a little or probably a lot... before we can be where we want to be.
I shall post some of the works that I really like.

Proton commercial during Merdeka - He said the story was based on how he used to behaved when he was a kid. Write something based on your own experience to touch people's heart :)


Proton commercial 1 Malaysia, starring local artists: Ho Yuhang, Afdlin Shauki and David Arumugam. Comedy madness yop.
This was being banned by the government when it was just out for 1 or 2 months, and god knows why they even wanna ban such an awesome work :(


Proton commercial for Hari Raya, another funny commercial XD



Some slides he shared with us,







For his words of encouragement, I will fight for my goals and do what I've always wanted to do, Save our world. I hope in the future I will be able to not just be successful.. but have opportunities to help raise awareness for companies like WWF or Peta etc.

Yeah so the government decides to give out RM200 book vouchers for each student, most schools were provided with this privilege including mine. Before I got it there's like tons of things that I wish I could buy but when I really got it, I find myself clueless. I offered my mom whether she would like to get any books she had in mind, but she didn't really gave me an answer. So I spent a hundred on art materials and some other stuff and a few days later some of my course mates suggested to head to a bookstore at KLCC (Kinokuniya) after class, which we did. And after sitting the bus then the monorail and not to mention lots and lots of walking. Was kind of tired and all so we had our brunch later on :/ and finally to our main purpose the Bookstore!!! (haha never thought I'd say this) The place was quite awesome, they provide lots of artsy fartsy books that's mostly a little.... pricey. *sobs* That was quite a headache, having to decide which book is worth the price, which will really be helpful for my course and career etc. So, after having a serious thought (and also based on my budget).. I've decided that I shall not spend my voucher or my money on these books as they also have websites that I can refer from. So I went to the novel section, which is odd for me XD but ended up buying 4 of them, as I have thought clearly that good stories can provide me with more imagination and inspiration of my own. I don't know whether you agree with me or not but oh well. Books I've bought [The Lucifer code, Angels and Demons, and 2 of Percy Jackson's series] I don't know bout you but I can't wait to read them all. And hoping to get more books such as LOTR, The lost symbol etc :D hurray for my new hobby!!!! Just when I thought I would never ever read. After all, the greatest power is knowledge :)

yup yup I pierced......... my eyebrow :D

some thought it was stupid, some thought it was cool, and I thought it was totally worth it :P
I know it's not the best things to do in life but just suddenly have this other perspective bout life. We all wanna live in this world achieving our goals and leave with memories we will never forget. So with that sentence right there, I knew I wanted to pierce it without anyone's concern. We all keep saying things we wanna do but we don't do it in the end. Also... am now already in college, few years later I'll be working, so if I don't do it now I won't get the chance anymore. And so I pierced it felt it loved it :) didn't give a damn about what people think at all. But the stupid thing is... my skin is super sensitive, can't eat seafood, can't wear stainless steel, plastic or metal. So after 2 months having my eyebrow pierced I realize my eye was really swollen, a huge lump. So at the end I had to remove the ring and squeeze out all that shiz plus lots of blood. After a few days I wanted to put the ring back, but mummy dearest was kind enough to help me throw it away before telling me. So, it's gone. But still have a tiny scar on my eyebrow.

yeaaap, finally a real Halloween party to attend.
and since it's an Art school, there are more people having on costumes and cosplaying instead of the usual "I'll just go like that" .............

was excited to go, but one thing's killing me. It's hailed on Friday, me and the "Kolamers" just used up all our energy from Monday to Thursday at Pavilion and Friday morning I have class and then I have to rush home to get ready, then rush to my friend's house to do their make up, then rush to the party (exhausting). We're there the whole night mainly enjoying the performances. I was quite happy cause most of my classmates came so did the "Kolamers" and also few of my high school mates. But no matter how I tried to maintain myself I can't help the fact that I haven't been sleeping properly the whole week, around 9-10 o'clock I started feeling dizzy and sooner it got worse, I couldn't feel my legs touching the ground at all like they're completely numb. I'm just worried that if I really faint, my friends will have to go back earlier because of me so I tried to keep it together as long as I can cause everyone's still enjoying the event. All I did was just sitting down listening to the songs perform by a metal band (They were AWESOME!!!) even though I was completely worn out but yeah they rocked it! lol. Afterwards me and my high school buds(+ Izmeq) head to Mcdonald's somewhere... didn't remember where was I. They were all eating and chatting and I.... just slept there with my costume. The next day morning, my whole body ached like hell and I got high fever. Just when you thought it couldn't get much worse, there's Saturday class =.= WHY LA ??? I went for the class, thought I could hold for a few hours. But ended up sleeping and blowing my nose the whole time (sorry Irwin). After I got home I just slept like a dead person. But still enjoyed the party anyways. ^^v

I went as Zombie school girl / Marilyn Manson's sis


High school peeps (except for the Dracula)
Sheranne

Nina, Kisu and Jan

and Teahuh !


some of the "Kolamers"

Vivian

Raymond
Nicholas, Hunn Mei,Kahyan, Wen Ping, Chrissie and Joshua.


performances by one the bands The Pepper Plane

at Mcd [it's like I'm the shinigami starring at Izmeq "you're next" XD]

Here's my Flipbook Animation assignment, which is one the assignment that I have most interest in. For us AD or MM students we have to do something about promoting a product or something about awareness, IL and DG students have to come out with an interesting storyline. So I know I would never choose to promote a product cause its so boring and so not satisfying, I chose awareness. So I did something about Extinct Animals and advertising for WWF. I had lots and lots of things in mind. But couldn't manage to finish it in time so probably only 20% of what I wanted to portray was in it. I wanted to start it with a person slowly appearing and then we zoom into his/her eyes and then a scene of a tiger cuddling her cubs and then goes out the hunt for food and suddenly runs quickly because it was targeted by hunters and then a scene of blood shed and the cubs were still waiting for their mom to come home and they start to have tears falling and lastly a WWF logo slowly appearing with a few words reminding people to be aware of this issue. BUT even though I had my idea all planned but I didn't realize the date line was getting closer and I started quite late so I couldn't manage to pull that off TwT I regretted like hell. I handed in late but my lecturer refuse to accept my late submission, it was really like a slap in the face. All my own fault for not managing my time, I'm actually not just busy with college stuff I actually needed to do something like help designing a number of pages in a magazine and they'll pay like 300-400 bucks for one stack and certainly wasn't the best time to have both things crash but still, I should have managed my time better. I swear I'm putting my assignments as my number 1 priority. NOTHING ELSE! Even though I didn't get to hand it in, I just wanna share it in my blog since I already did it. :/ evn though it sucks badly. sigh screwed up. Lesson learned.

One of the highlights in this semester is the privilege to work on an Anamorphic Kolam Design in Pavilion for this year's Deepavali. It's actually half of our Final Project that contains 40% of our marks. What's interesting about this is that we are required to design a Kolam and then apply Anamorphic art to create a 3D Illusion (look it up at Wikipedia or Google if you have no clue what's Anamorphic) and since it's a 3D view people can actually interact with the design (you'll understand soon when you see za pictures) and also we must complete this final project as a group of 3-4 people (Me, John,Joseph and Owen) so here are some pictures of my group's sketches X)




and here comes the Final outcome *drum roll*





and all of that right there is only half of it D8 *gasp* so this is only part 1. And before we proceed to part 2, all of our designs will be submitted to our lecturers. And among all the lecturers and department heads, they will choose a few works from us students and then combine it into a new one.. that's because our college was invited to create something stunning at Pavilion shopping mall for this year's Deepavali Festival so that design will be the one to appear in Pavilion. Students can volunteer to help out, so I volunteered and thank goodness I really got to participate. So we head to Pavilion for almost a whole week to do this, it was such a fun time cause I get to meet new people and also have the experience to make a Kolam for real. I always wondered how is it like making one, using rice to create something beautiful and symbolic. Now that's something you don't see or do everyday. We did panic quite a few times during the 2nd and 3rd day we were really busy gluing all the rice in place (neatly) and yeah I lost my cutter, scissors and tweezers during this "mission" TwT and not to mention we're all wearing the same shirt for 5 days (eww), cause we need to be in uniform so no choice :( and our hands were all in purple haha but after looking the final result I realize it was all worth it ♥ alright, I shall let the pictures do the rest of talking.

My classmates that participated ^^ Piek Khie, Sher-Min and Wen Ping

This is how Anamorphic works yop!



Tadaa! (Photo by Liann Foo)

This picture even got into iFeel magazine :) besides iFeel, our kolam is also included in many places in the media like, Star newspaper (but they printed the wrong image wth), Sun newspaper, Msn site, News Straits Time (the best out of all the articles) and also in many blogs etc. we're all so proud of ourselves for all our effort. Loved the experience.


Click for more Kolam Pictures

okay here I shall proceed to
(Photo by Jinshun)

(Photo by John, edited by mua)
Year 1 Semester 2
alright the 2nd semester is when we choose our majoring course, there's Interior Design (ID), Illustration (IL), Digital Animation (DG), Advertising & Graphic Design (AD) and Multimedia Design (MM). And I majored at AD as mentioned earlier, was struggling between IL and AD :( but in the end I chose AD. This semester includes more drama and "adventure" compared to the 1st semester. The 1st semester was more peaceful and quiet. In this class there's only 16 of us, starting of this semester I didn't really get along with my mates that well, I was just being in my comfort zone and I barely hang out with them after class I would straight away head home. Even lecturers said we're too quiet O.O seriously lack of bonding. But sooner or later the relationship between us classmates was slooowly improving. I start watching movies with them and have lunch and stuff. But even though we get together, on a personal level there's still a gap. Like we're just classmates and not "BFF" material. But since we're gonna be in the same class for another 2 more years, I hope things go smoothly :) There's been some drama going on... sometimes, but overall they're alright. Just one thing I hope WILL change, is the attitude of some of my mates, they're too passive at times where it's not really beneficial or mentally healthy, and am certainly not encouraging it because we're all learning about advertising. Most important thing about this course is not just designing a product or a banner, it's how you can use your words to convince your clients and consumers to buy your concept and idea. So being extremely quiet really doesn't help in anyway. I should know because I used to be that passive girl back in primary school, I was so quiet that one of my classmates thought I was a mute. Teachers would get furious at me cause when they want me to read or explain something I can only hear my heart beating louder and louder and I will never open my mouth (sounds really exaggerating right?) but the point is I totally know how glossophobia feels like, you're afraid that people will judge you or tease you when you say something, afraid of humiliation, embarrassments or eye contact. Somehow you feel safe when you don't speak, and another reason is of course you're weak in English, so you prefer not to talk even when the lecturer is so mad they wanna eat you alive you just remain silent anyways. Well it's not easy to overcome this bad habit/fear but it's possible if you're putting in effort to change.
Anyways, the things we learn during this semester is Figure Studies again (but this time more concentrated on portraits), Drawing 2 (Still Life paintings), Visual and Communication instead of Design Fundamentals and Language class. Even though compared the the 1st semester the sujbects are less, but the pressure and date lines are monsters!!!! D8 lol. We have really interesting assignments like Name card designs, Flipbook Animation, Anamorphic Kolam Design, Silkscreen etc

this right there is the Name card design. we have to carve whatever design we want on erasers and using it as if they're chops. I love this assignment the most. It's really fun when you get the hang of it :D try it !





Next post will be blogging about Anamorphic Kolam Design.

Heeeeyyyyyy I'm finally back! Been busy "dating" someone called Assignments lately so I neglected my blog for a few months. There's gonna be lots of new posts soon cause it's my sem break and currently have all the time I want to blog as crazy as ever ^^v AWWYEAHHH

Well honestly I realize 90% of my peeps don't blog anymore :( and yeah probably no one will read my blog again but what the heck who cares about trend, I love my blog! It's like the mozzarella on top of my pizza :D one of the things I treasure, cause it contains memories and silly things that always cheers me up when I look back :')

Alright so here I go...

(got this picture from one of my classmates: Derrick Chia)
Year 1 Semester 1 in The One Academy
This is the beginning of my college life and this semester is considered as my foundation so firstly I'd like to say that I have lovely classmates, they're mostly nice, not too loud and they know how to mind their own business. But I wasn't really close with most of them (cause I was being the unfriendly bitch yea!) I kept quiet most of the time, cause I was trying to avoid hanging out too much and yeah I don't wanna let it effect my work (which ish killing meh!!!) and since I'm already this lazy and easily distracted girl let's not make it worse right? XP Although there were tons of assignments and projects that kept me away from most of the fun stuff I used to do (especially sleeping) it's still exciting and fun cause I learn something new in every lesson, and love that now I'm in an Art school weird is no longer weird anymore haha I love looking at other people's artwork, it lets you know how different everyone is with their own drawing habits, techniques and style. Also, studying here... I've spotted a few lecturers that i really adored especially Zelin, the one who teaches my class Figure Studies and Drawing 1. I think he's awesome because he's so talented and he has received a number of awards and interviews etc but what makes him so awesome is his modesty. He doesn't show off, he just does his job nicely and he's a great lecturer, because of his encouragement I found the drive that I've lost for many years. Thank you so much it really is a pleasure having a lecturer like you. And also Miss Helena who teaches Design Fundamentals, I have to admit at first I thought she really didn't like me because she has this expression glued to her face that always makes us think she's in a bad mood, but after a few lessons I realize she's actually pretty awesome. She may be a little harsh when she critiques on your work but she's not too harsh on the marks... sometimes. After having her as my lecturer I realize the more critiques you get, the better you can be :) The only bad habit in mind is my punctuality (I'm not good with date lines XD) but yeah gotta change that or I'll soon regret it badly. I wish I could upload some of my works here but I haven't scan em. So maybe next time. We learn things like Design Fundamental which is something more to Graphic Design (I find this the only subject that pressures me the most TwT), and also basic drawing like Figure Studies(drawing human figures duh) , Drawing 1 (Still Life drawings with pencil), History of Art (Looove this subject I duno why most of the ppl find it boring when it's so fascinating) and of course Language class and Malaysian Studies which is compulsory. This semester went quite well and thank goodness I didn't fail anything but still mostly B (I hate getting B or B+ it's like you're good but not good enough) geramnya. Mmm not much drama going on in class so I guess there's not much left to talk about either. Ow yeah another great part of this is that I have a fun card to Sunway Lagoon lol so I can actually go in anytime I want and I don't have to pay, but we don't usually go anyways haha so it's a waste :/ One of the tragic things that happened during this period was that, Sheera one my lovely dogs passes away and I wasn't entirely ready to lose her at that moment. I tried my best to get help from the vet but unfortunately it was too late for us. There was blood coming out of her butt non-stop the whole morning. My heart ached terribly for not taking her to a vet constantly, if not this would be prevented. The cause of her death is because she has worms in her stomach called ring worms and they're found in many places like grassy fields and also dog poop (Dog's who have this sickness will have worms like these in their poop). So when other dogs come sniffing it the worms will enter through the nose and stays in the stomach and they grow more and more until the dogs dies. So to everyone who has a pet cat or dog remember to bring them to a vet at least once in 2 months to check up. I'm sorry Sheera. RIP.

I can never be more proud of my country, the Heroes and Heroines during Bersih Rally. At first I didn't want to get too into this issue, but when I watched many videos of protesters being sprayed with chemicals and tear gas, my eyes teared up for their courage and patriotism. The impact of the whole idea was obviously a lot bigger than anyone would expect, I saw many scenes of people helping one another regardless of their race and polices were just day dreaming after the beating... this is what we need all along.. Unity, Love and Respect this is the beauty of being a multiracial country and not some commercialized slogan with no concern, this is by far the best thing that has ever been done in Malaysian history. The name of Bersih WILL live on, I don't understand the orders given by the government.. polices spraying chemicals, hitting people, yelling at people etc... those scenes were truly heartbreaking for anyone to watch, no one is provoking the government. And as a government you should know what you stand for and play your part correctly and not applying childish actions towards your people. Being In denial is never the answer. Indeed the Oppositions are using their great strategy to defeat you, but doesn't mean that you can act like you're unstoppable by abusing your powers, because without us you WILL be nothing... and you'll just make yourself look like a pathetic sore loser. And not just that, whatever actions that has been set by the government represents the image of our country. So stop hurting Malaysians, stop dirty politics, stop embarrassing Malaysia and stop being selfish. This is a freaking DEMOCRATIC country. A lot of things has to change before Malaysia really collapse.

As quoted by Niccolo Machiavelli - It is better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.

BUT... in this case

Malaysians don't have to be tricked or brainwashed by the Oppositions, because we LOVE our country, more than we FEAR you. And we certainly LOVE Opposition Leaders, because they obviously don't FEAR you. true freedom fighters!!!

Malaysians! VOTE for a brighter future!

Malaysia Boleh!