Digital Imagery

Photoshop assignment - Graded A.

Illustrator assignment - Graded A.

ITS HERE ITS HERE. I CAN SMELL IT. A!

This is one of the module that I'm taking which is called Digital Imagery. Adobe programs like Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign are being taught in this module for this semester. So far, Photoshop and Illustrator lessons are completed and had my assignments handed up and got the both of them As!

I'm praying hard that I can get my InDesign brochure design A too! Yay!

All thanks to prayers and God really answers prayers ya know. ;)

Groove in.

Check this parrot out! He is Frostie the dancing parrot.

I just love music so much. Who says music is only for human!

Alright, lets groove in this week and believe that everything is gonna be fine! Do your best and leave the rest to God.

Have a great week!

Mountainous Homework

Week after week, everyone's homework is stacking.
Even after we finished this week's homework, we'll get the next week's.
Homework comes faster than you say the word "Fast"! (Just an expression!)

I've finally cleared ONE subject.
And I'm left with..

1. Digital Imagery
(Final Work, I have to create a 4 page brochure using Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign.)

2. Design Colour
(Have to complete incomplete practices.)

3. Letterform
(Final work, Typography about your ownself.)

4. Design Drawing
(Final work, An Illustration/Painting of a Song. And I'm doing on Noisy and Silent songs)

5. Video Production
(I don't know what is it)

6. Interactive Media
(Final work, Paper prototype of our website. Including 3 major tasks.)

7. Print Making
(A tedious plastic cutting/shaving/shoving/whatever you call that)

When all these 7 work are done, comes Integrated Studio Project which would last all the way to 1st of May. But after knowing that Fashion school's homework is WAY BEYOND mountainous, I decided to just CHIONG!

After seeing how much Pastor Kong, Sun and Jared is doing, I feel that what I'm doing is nothing compared! So, I hope that I can finish as much work as possible. Do my best. Strive for the As! Get GPA 2.8 (AT LEAST)!

CHIONG CHIONG CHIONG-ONLY!

Jumpy week.

It's been a rough week for me.

This week is the worst week ever in this semester! I've got tons and tons of homework to complete. I never experienced this before. To work to the point that I've finally reached my limits. My body can't take it anymore and that is why I'm having all the flu, cough, backache, stomach ache, headache, leg cramps, jumpy reactions, standby modes, etc.

Two days ago (I think), I was working on the bookmark for this coming Easter for the whole ET Zone. I was already almost half-dead (just an expression), and comes a GIGANTIC COCKROACH in front of me. I was petrified!

After awhile (it looked at me! I swear!), it just moved away. When I thought it was all over, I saw it RUNNING towards my mouse!!!!!!

 ｶﾞ━━Σ(ﾟДﾟ|||)━━ﾝ!!

I jumped and quickly screamed for my brother to save me.

He then came with the spray and sprayed at the roach directly and somehow I don't know why my Mum got so worked up about it and started screaming at my brother.

The GIGANTIC COCKROACH  FLEW.

Its the size of my palm! Maybe around the same size as a normal regular mouse.

It went away. I was glad. I was happy. But still a little jumpy.

When you thought everything is OVER..( ・_・ ) 
I felt something cold and leggy on my toes. I JUMPED. And I saw it running towards my pillow! I quickly grabbed my pillow and rushed to the living room.

Finally. It's over. But there was an after effect.

I was bathing after that, while doing that, I suddenly felt something on the back of my ankle. I jumped. I turned back and found out it was just my shampoo bottle.

The next day in class, I was beside my classmate and I jumped because I saw a piece of black paper flew pass me and I thought it was a cockroach.

Yesterday (Actually its today for me because I was having cellgroup just awhile ago, around 2 hours ago before I left.), during cellgroup, that Stupid Shaun kept scaring me with false roach alarms.

I really jumped when he suddenly shouted cockroach!

I don't know if it is because of the cockroach that made me so jumpy or it is because of the flu. I just don't feel right. Ah, but anyway, I had a great time during cell group today!

I just "can't" wait for next week to come. (*・_・)ノ

Vacation Week

Ya right, "vacation".

I had 4 make up lessons during my vacation week which is this week!

Out of 5 days, I have 4 official make up lesson and 1 day for project meeting.

Phew. This week is sure tiring for me!

But thank God that I had my time multiplied. On Friday, I have Interactive Media presentation. My group was already done since Thursday. So we decided to e-mail our powerpoint to our lecturer to check it out. To our surprise, at late evening he replied. Saying that we are not doing enough! We have to do more.

On Friday, our class stars at 4pm. But we decided to meet up at 9am in the morning to start doing everything! I know, it is 7 hours. Should be enough.

But as the time goes by, we suddenly felt that we have too little time to prepare. We really overdid our presentation.

To our surprise, when it was our turn to present, the lecturer was kinda impressed I think. Because normally he would have things to critic right after a group finish presenting their powerpoint. But to my surprise, he didn't critic ours!

After the presentation, my group was glad that everything was over. The stress! over!

But here comes the 'bad news'.

The next project is to make a paper layout of 3 major categories of our site. Which covers 60% of the marks! I am definitely hoping for an A for my interactive media.

Yeah, another A please!

So far I have confidence in getting A for my Digital Imagery which covers Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. I'm hoping that I can 'A' my Interactive Media. Hopefully I can 'A' my Letterform too. The rest 'B' is enough already!

My target: 9 subjects, 2 or 3 'A's plus 6 or 7 'B's! I hope I don't get any 'D's or 'C's. And never a 'E'!

I'm hoping for GPA 2.8 this semester. I heard that if a student gets at least 2.8 for his/her GPA, they have higher chance or a gurantee to the major course we have chosen.

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Anyway, I suddenly remembered, years ago, I learnt that 80% of the worries are useless.

I think it's very very true.

Worry -> Chiong (rush) -> Kan Chiong (rush like mad, thinking that there is no time left.) -> Clumsy -> Miss out important stuff -> Mistakes -> not up to standard work.

Yep. I guess worrying too much would cause you to make more mistakes huh.

wookie dookie. After only having 4 hours of sleep for the past 3 days, I'm going to have my sleep from now, to Saturday afternoon/evening.

Ciao!

Thoughts.

Yay. This is my 200th post in this blog!

Yeah, I just want to share some of my thoughts with you guys. Something that had been in my mind for quite some time.

Sometimes as Christians, we became robots. Agree? We do things that became a routine for us. We became so superficial (regarding the surface). We became so unaware that we are not connected with God anymore. We serve, we do things as we are told, we go for service and cellgroup. Then leading to not praying, not having our own quiet time, doing things for the sake of doing. Becoming a Christian Christian.

Tian Wen usually talked to me about his Aunt, trying to push his grandma to become a Christian. Some how like forcing her or telling her if she does not turn to Christ she will go to hell and so on. Yeah, that is one example of Christian Christian.

Yes, it is good to serve, to help out, to help our fellow brothers and sisters, to go for service and cellgroup regularly. But what really matters, the basic of the basic, is to have a connection with God himself. It is to have a relationship with him, like a father. He is not a judge but a father. I doubt sons and daughters would treat their fathers like as though they are their judge right?

What God wanted in the first place is like why our parents would want a child for. To love.

God himself is love. He wants to give out his unconditional love. Which is why humans are created.

This year, I hope I would really begin to draw closer to God. Begin to really be more prayerful. Leading a life of sacrifice. Helping people. My motto is always the same, it is WHO are we here for and not WHY!

The other thing is that, there was a question unanswered in my heart. Quite long ago, I kept asking myself, am I in church and cellgroup for friends? for fufilling what I need to do? for killing time?

During the period when Shaun and Darwin took a break from both cellgroup and church really woke me up. The question suddenly came into my heart again. To ask me am I here because of God or Friends?

Finally, I got my answer. I am here for both.

I want God and friends together, as a family. Like the song goes, "Even when the thousand fall, I will stand with you". We should look God as our loving father, our peace, our light, our refuge. And never take him as our emergency exit route.

Okay, the next one.

Sometimes I feel that humans love to complicate things, hm?

But I guess this is part of human nature which makes us human, which makes us grow.

But sometimes it's hard to accept changes, accept complications and so on. I love things simple.

I guess it's part of me to be simple minded. And of course, I hope I won't be a gong tao lah.

I need to be sharp. I need to think quick. I have to.

I need to be more patient. I need to be more loving. I need to be more open.

Sometimes human needs to experience near death situations to not take things for granted. Like in "The day the Earth stood still" movie, everyone had to experience near death situations in order to change. I hope I'm not like that. I want to do things consistently and consistently improving.

Today, during cellgroup, Jared shared with us about showing kindness.

Suddenly, I thought to myself, am I showing kindness?

I know, people always say I'm kind. Yes, I am. But I find it difficult to show it. Both my IQ and EQ is not that high afterall. I guess I'll just have to pray about it then lol. So, I think this year, I aim to be more (insert word here) - show kindness, increase EQ, learn a few social skills.

Cellgroup today was superb. Its been quite some time to see our cellgroup come to near full attendance. The praise was great! Way to go Xiao Shi!

And yeah, Xiao Shi also talked about giving praise to God even the little things. Things like having a good week in school could be enough to be a testimony. Sometimes, we should not just focus on the BIG things that God had done in our lives, right?

I remember theres a saying that we should not look for God in the supernatural but begin to see it even in the natural. Very true indeed. Little things are the things that God didn't forget and we should be thankful! 

I'm thankful this week because actually this week should be my busiest week this term. Since its end of term, we are to submit loads of work and we would be rushing work during this week. Surprisingly, I've finished MOST of the work LAST week! So this week was a breeze compared to any other weeks.

I didn't plan on giving my building fund and tithe this week actually, because I find that I don't really have enough for the week since I have to print and buy stuffs this week. But miraculously, this week was kinda great for me. Money was not a big problem this week afterall! Thanks to the offering message last week and thank JASON for paying almost half of my lunch on Sunday!

I guess this week should be counted as the best week ever in 2009 so far!

I'm seeing my As already. My Photoshop assignment got an A! I hope my Illustrator assignment would get an A too as so does my Indesign assignment.

Now I'm loving Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator even more! The Pen Tool! It's really crazy to tell you that when I'm free, I don't play games. I play Photoshop and Illustrator.

Now things are really going fine! I can say, it is because I put God first.

In the first place, if I were to take a long break to finish my assignments and presentations, I would not have had a good time on Fridays and Sundays. I wouldn't have my questions answered. I wouldn't have paid my building fund and tithe. I wouldn't have had the energy, the strength, the enthusiasm to do my assignments!

Now I'm closer with my connect group. And I'm glad that Joel had settled his problem after much persuasion. I'm glad that Brandon is doing well. I'm glad that Pierson is doing great in school.

Also, this week I've spent more time with my brother because I've been doing my work at home.

I think the both of us had drifted apart a little after school started.

Yeah, above all, I really thank God for all the answers and the answered prayers. I will be looking forward to my 1st year's final results! I believe! As! Bs! GPA 3, here I come!

Michael Jackson - 2009

This is it.

What does he mean by "This is it" ?

This time, the King of Pop is coming out to have his very last show.

It will be held at London, The O2 Arena, 8th of July 2009.

It would be phenomenal! The King of Pop! His last performance in the public!

I wonder if he could still jump, kick, moonwalk like before. Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait for the disc/vids to be out to watch the performance! Only if I had a time machine.. hmm. Nah, just kidding.

I watched the Live Telecast of his Press Conference just awhile ago.

He seemed very enegetic for a 51 year old. He is in good health. But was quite disappointed when he didn't reveal much about his comeback. He just said "This is it, this is my last public performance".

Hoping to see him live and dancing even at his current age! But couldn't expect much though.