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Hey All!

I need help from all you intellectual readers out there!

As I'll be doing my industrial training for a few months next year and hopefully by the end of 2009 I’ll be graduating!

It sounds like it’s a long time though but it’s not too early to start planning and get a few things done.

This is a few things which I am planning to do

1. Come up with a name which describes me. This would be my brand name.

As you have seen the work that I’ve done and all, I need you all to roughly describe my style and kind of Art. And if possible a name which suits my work.

2. Then use the name to do layout for my portfolio booklet

3. And also set up my own website

I really need to think hard as I was finding it hard to put to words and describe the artist that I am. So hopefully someone can really point me into the right direction and show me some light!

Here are some guidelines that I’ve manage to come out with

Course: Industrial Design aka Product Design

Specialize in: 3D model making, Sculptor

Material used: so far a lot, from paper to wood and plastic and even recyclable items and junk.

Possible future business: 3D model artist and consultation

Categories of my portfolio:

1. College Assignments

2. Model making

3. Craft design specially for kids

4. Computer 3D Modeling – AutoCAD and Inventor

5. DTP (Desk Top Publishing) – Adobe Photoshop and illustrator.

I want to see myself as a versatile artist and always trying to learn and gain experience in many different fields and industries. Therefore hopefully my portfolio will showcase that.

*If u still have not seen my art work. Then folow this link

So after looking at my art work

1. What do you think?

2. What kind of artist am I?

3. Describe my style

4. Describe me in one word

Hope to hear from all of u soon!

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No Future?

It saddens me whenever I get to know that someone's parents are forcing them to do a particular subject which they are not interested in. What on earth are these parents thinking? Do doctors, engineers, lawyers and accountants only be accounted as professions with a future? So those stall venders who have a passion for grilling burgers and are earning tons of money, but is said to have no future?

Scenario 1:

Child wants to take design, parents say no future. So now the child studies business. When the child is being ask why not do what she wants? She says because parents are paying for her college. Her solution plan to get what she wants: graduate from her business course and work till she gets enough money to study what she wants.

So whatever the parents has forced the child to do, the child won’t end up doing it, so what’s the point when close minded parents decide for their child a career with ‘future’ and end up wasting their money because of letting them study what they wouldn’t end up doing?

If you who know nothing of the design field and can say that it has no future, are you the best person to be giving advice to them? Isn’t the thinking that the design field has no future shallow?

Scenario 2: Conversation between A and B

A: I want to change course to fashion design but is it a good industry? I heard that people can’t really get a good job here in Malaysia.

B: I think you should do some research about that industry here in Malaysia. If it is promising then go ahead, if otherwise, then you have to think of other options

A: I think fashion is the only thing I’m interested in.

So what is the solution that best suits A?

It is not the field of study that will determine your success, but it is you that is in control of your success. You are the only driver in your own journey of life. I think that no matter what fields of study you go into, you are responsible to create a future for yourself. Future here means success. Success of course means money. For example if a fashion graduate here in Malaysia is unable to get a decent job, then that person have to find ways with whatever knowledge he has to make ends meet. It could be starting own business or venturing into other related industries. Use the passion and drive in what you have and go ahead and create success of your own. Now that sounds rather not too complicated right? So why afraid to study what your heart really longs for all these while?

So isn’t the thinking of “unconventional professions = no future” simply just shallow? For example some people may look up to doctors and too often many will dream that their offspring will become one, but a painter may be looked at as just someone who does strokes with his brush. If both of them are earning the same amount of money every month, so which of them has chosen a career with a “future”?

Hard work, determination, having the right attitude, time management, etc…………

Needless to say those are the key to a future!

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jeeeezzz.....

you're like a stone
but you are my blood
i will not be disappointed
never will I aspect anything
stones are nothing
i wont need stones.

So you think you can 'rojak'?

Anyone wants some rojak?

Because Pat, one of the judges from so you think you can dance Malaysia is mixing up some 'rojak' every Thursday night!

I don’t understand what’s wrong with him, but he just has to speak with 2 languages, which is English and BM. It’s so annoying la! Come on! People only do that when they have difficulty while speaking in one language. Where else, you who speak well in both of these languages don’t have to mix up your languages while speaking.

Yes, I know it’s showing the Malaysianess. That’s what the host does, which is to speak sentences in Malay and English alternately. That’s tolerable, but what you are doing is just so annoying!

Don’t you ever watch back the tapes and see yourself acting like a fool? Example of Pat's speech:

“ uhmm, I rasa kan you, awak tak ada passion, you don’t have the passion, awak punya style out sikit la, tapi its boleh tahan, not bad…”

If you are trying so hard to make rojak with your words, why not put that effort into speaking proper English or Malay sentences which will be a good example to Malaysians! This is unfortunately what most Malaysian Bands lack!

Whenever a band appears on 8tv quickie, they are hardly able to speak, even in their mother tougue.

Hello? You guys are on tv for free to promote yourselves.... Let’s hope you let your music make people forget the awkwardness they go through while starring at you waiting for a reply after being questioned by the host.

And Have you all notice the bad camera positioning and angles for ‘so you think you can dance Malaysia’? Someone once said “How can Malaysians still come up with these kind of poor quality stuff, haven’t they seen what others(Hollywood) are doing?” Haven’t they watch and learn from the American version? Why can’t they?

After watching the first episode last week, I scraped off the idea of going to see the show life at Ruums with my friends. I’d rather watched it from home while catching up on my newspaper reading!

Blah blah blah blah blah! Someone stop me!

dream or future?

Had a scary dream last night that it was the end of the world! I remembered that everyone including me was afraid and were running or hiding from something. The thought kept coming to my mind that the end of the world is just around the corner. Thank goodness I woke up from it. hehe.. Well, the dream was probably because of the change of weather because as I slept till like noon.

I missed my computer class today because of commitment. Had to go teach my 3d model class at night which was the same time as my computer class. I somehow can’t help feeling a little guilty and left out for not attending my computer class but well, had to.. And my computer class shouldn’t be at night! Hello?! U know how dangerous it is to travel at night?!

While I was at the art centre, my boss told me that her husband had went to pump petrol because of the rise of petrol price again tmr. He's been caught in the jam because people are actually getting their vehicles filled by tonight at midnight. Later on, my boss told me again that her husband is waiting at the petrol station because the petrol has run out and many are waiting there for the next tank of petrol to arrive. At last he came back but not being able to get any petrol.

Wow.. the craziness that happened really struck me!!! I could feel my goose bumps all over. It really reminded me of my dream, if not I wouldn't have thought about it. This is a reminder to me personally that the end of the world may be coming anytime. God maybe coming to take us all to heaven anytime.

Its sad that all these are happening now. The increasing of petrol and food price, natural disaster and diseases. And have you all notice the change of weather? Well, its getting hotter by the minute! and ice are melting people! help! ok.. lets not get too dramatic...

Does anyone know who John Titor is?

He's the guy from the future! yes, correct, from the future. He set up a blog(or something like that) to start warning people of the thing ahead of us before going back to the future again.

He predicts that Olympics 2004 will the last one. He's trying to say that this year's Olympics won’t happen. Just wait and see, that will definitely confirm his story whether it’s true or fake.

Go check him up. You can google his name. I read about him once at Wikipedia, it’s all summarized there.

One more thing I heard from my bro about what John Titor said which is isn’t hard to believe is that in (don’t know which year la but not long from now), we’ll all be riding horses and bicycle. Going back to basics! (Anyone heard Christina Aguilera’s back to basics album?)

In an article which was publish in Australia about Malaysia’s government wasting money on taking a taxi ride up to space on a Russian Space shuttle, it mentioned instead of wasting millions of tax payers money to send that fella on that taxi ride up to space to do nothing, the Malaysian government should spent money on solving their future problem which involves its own petrol.

The article also mentioned that in 2011, Malaysia’s oil will run out! Can you believe that?! So what is the government planning to do when the time comes? Hmm… Inventors, think fast!

Friendship

a year ago,
a bunch of people,

forced to live together,
forced to go through difficult times together

friendship were forged,
clicks were forged,

its time to leave,
its time to say good bye,

some never forget the friendship,
some know its hard to hold on to it,

some wonder if they really cared,
some felt they were forced into the friendship,

some accepts the reality,
some still tries to hold on to it,

but as it is like a plant not watered and maintained,
the plant will soon be dead,

as time goes by,
lets see if it really stands the test of time.

Disappointments

Disappointments.............

Aren't life just full of them?

we are too often faced with disappointments again and again....
how do we handle it?
how do we overcome it?
how do we avoid it?

do we aspect it to come from a certain person?
do we avoid the person in order to avoid it?
or do we just sigh at the face of it?

one thing for sure is that i'm used to it!