Almost.

Yes. I am almost done!

ISP Project 24, I've conquered it.

I am very glad that I have two good teachers assessing my class. I really want to thank all my friends and lecturers that helped me. As promised, I would finish asap and help you guys!

I could thank anyone in the world but most of all, I thank God for giving me the strength to pull through this month!

I don't mean to exaggerate, but I have lost weight and my health is getting worst. Not enough sleep, stressed out, headaches here and there.

My face is so pale to the point that my friend thought I put on makeup!

Okay, that might be a little too exaggerated. But seriously, I didn't felt like myself for the past 2 weeks.

I am woried for all my friends, their project, their family and themselves. I am worried about my own project. I am worried about the cellgroup. I am worried about my friends.

Sometimes I just wished that I could dump myself into Photoshop and duplicate myself as many times as possible so that I can reach out to someone out there that needs help. So that I can help all my friends. So that I can do as many things as possible to make someone's life different.

Alright, hoorrayy~ ISP is ending soon but assessment is coming. :S

Fatigue

Alright, enough of Red Bull. I've enough of messed up thoughts up my brain. Time to have a quick rest and chiong.

Nearly 50% done.

Finalised background image, text color, box layout.

ISP Week 3.

Yup. Time flies!

It's 3rd week already and I've completed 35%. Can't wait for holidays.

So far so good! 

I'm relying on Red Bull to keep my brain running and there's a side effect, IT MAKES YOU THINK TOO MUCH.

ｶﾞ━━Σ(ﾟДﾟ|||)━━ﾝ!!

No, seriously, for the past few days my mind is just going round and round and round thinking. About what?

I DON'T KNOW (some sort of super mixed feelings x 10^infinity, see what I mean?)

Too much things are going in and out of my mind. I can't sleep well neither think properly.

Warning: Drink Red Bull during emergency only.

Nostalgia

These few months has been great. Yup, there were ups and downs but in the end, it was a happy ending.

These months had been very fufuling for me. Why? There are two things that I really feel weird about and also happy about.

Firstly, NAFA D&M Year 1.

The second semester was even better than the first. This sem I got to know my classmates even more and got closer with them. I even knew a whole new bunch of great pals! They are all very crazy and funny people. They make me laugh!

I am very happy to see that I could find great friends in NAFA. But now, Sem2 is ending. Everyone is going their seperate ways to their majoring courses. Time flies.

Secondly, W212.

Yeah, multiplication time!

Mixed feelings here and there but overall, I feel that it is good that we are seperating for a good reason! Our cellgroup has grown which is why we are multiplying. It feels great to multiply but also, some mixed feelings about friends going to another cellgroup. Oh well! Its not that we are not going to meet ever again. We are still contactable though. Time flies.

Time is really annoying sometimes. When you want it, it brushes off fast. When you don't want it, its slower than snails moving 1cm. But well, time determines our future, our progress, our lives. Time is really annoying yet enjoyable. Sometimes I really love to stop the time/pause/rewind to re-live the past. But I have to move on. I have to let go of the past and put it aside and move on.

Oh well! I'm just having a time of mixed feelings so, it might sound nonsensical here. :P

Bye peeps!

It's a BIG ad!

Something quirky to lighten up the mood.

ISP, 2 weeks left!

So far so good. I've got my Anaglyph image effect done and it's working! I've showed one of my lecturer and she was amazed by it. Heh.

Oh man, I really love my work this time round. It makes me happy. XD

To Do:

1) Pen tool + Color + Anaglyph all 24 illustrations.

2) Make box.

3) Make 3D-Glasses.

4) Print Illustrations.

5) Create a Ad. Poster for the final product. 

(Have to think of taglines, illustration ideas, copywriting ideas.)

6) Prepare presentation speech.

Jia You NAFA year 1 students! It's ending soon. Work hard!

F5 - Refresh.

I have to live life each day like it's the last.

(wow, actually my first time blogging in one sentence. oh, its two now.)

Michael Jackson Visionary Singles

Oh my.. This is the ultimate Michael Jackson collection! In this box, it has all the Singles in it!

Man, I love to have it and I really like the packaging. I hope I can make a box like that for my project. Yes, I know you might say yet again - "OMG YOU MJ SIAO". Haha! WHATEVER!

What I thought of is that I want to make a box like that to put my cards that I'm doing for my Project 24. Hopefully, I would somehow make it. Wooooo~

Anyway people, good luck to everyone that is having their final 2/3/4 weeks before holidays!

Just can't wait for holidays.

hmm.. $200 to buy clothes, $200 to buy books, save $100 for next year's materials expenses..

ISP Week 1

Week 1.

So far it's been quite relaxing. From Monday till today, I've already had 3 possible and approved ideas!

1) The 24 stages of the Paperbag Boy's birth.

It would be based on illustrations, leading to maybe an Ad. campaign about using paperbags instead of plastic bags. 24 Zocards in a paperbag designed box.

2) The final 24 hours before birth.

Illustrations of baby inside the womb. It would not be realistic. It would even mean that the baby can talk, listen, move, able to make decisions, have thoughts, etc. It would be quirky, funny, humorous. 24 Zocards in a box with a poster to advertise it. This product would be made for pregnant women, or those that had just started a family or considering to. It's to tell that babies are cute, funny, interesting? Nah, haven't really come up with the objective.

3) The 24 Infamous & Famous.

Photomanipulations, Threshold edits, vectored graphics into a poster. All 24 Infamous & Famous people that I know about will be put into a extremely large poster (A2). 23 others, and the 24th would be me in the middle.

Objective? Don't know!

So far, my 2nd idea was the most popular among 3.

I've already started on sketching on it.

Heres a sneak peak to the Ad. Poster

The text says, "Here comes the latex glove".

This is only an rough idea for the poster. I hope I would be able to come up with something more amazing!

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My first and third idea was rejected!

All of my 3 lecturers told me that I should do on the baby and try to expand on it.

Thank God for answering my prayers, I've da creativity groove flowin' into my brains! My idea, concept, medium, target audience, etc has already been finalised and all 3 of my lecturers were very happy with it.

Compared to the previous ISP (integrated studio project), I started on the third week while this time round, I can already start even before the first week ends.

Aw, I got my results for my InDesign brochure assignment. I got B for it. Well, it's okay, at least I tried my best!

Easter

This Easter was kinda relaxing for me! After months in crazy workaholic mode, finally had 4 days full of rest. It was the only time for me to relax my mind for awhile for it to breathe before Monday.

Monday is the start of my Integrated Studio Project (ISP) already!

 AHHH (ﾟДﾟ≡ﾟДﾟ)

Easter was really really great. Many friends, new faces and familair ones came. People like Eunice, Amanda, Adeline, Raven, Haresh, Rodney, Sabrina and Isaac.

I was really happy to see Isaac. It's been awhile I last talked to him. I think everyone really had a great weekend. Regardless of whatever background we came from, whatever culture, religion, believes, we all must have enjoyed it. Especially the Drama! 

(￣▽￣)ノ

I'm so glad to see many people came for this Easter, it was amazing! The drama was way superb level. To know that the actors aren't professionals, I'd give them a personal handshake if I had the chance to. They are simply great.

The Drama was very very interesting and creative. The last part was the same as all Easter drama. Eventhough I've watched that last part many many times, I still feel something inside me. I can't tell if it's fear, scared or heart wrenching. It just simply gives me the chill down my spine.

I'm happy to see people like Wee Zhun, Chia Seng, Dion and Haresh came. Though it was their first time in CHC, they are very funny and crazy people. Had a great time chatting with them.

Eventhough disappointments may come, I'd still be happy. Because I know that disappointments would never last but happiness will! I'm really really happy this Easter. Oh yeah, booking seats was amazingly easy this time round.

This weekend was relaxing too because all of us, Kenneth, Shaun, Hong Xiang, Peter came to Darwin's place to chill. Watch TV, eat, drink, sleep whatever. We just had a relaxing weekend, away from stress, away from work, away from anything that bothers us.

Anyway, it's time for my brains to crack, to be squeezed, to be knocked for Project 2wenty 4our. I just hope that this time I'll make a great impact for the lecturers. I hope I'll get that A! 

Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ 

Okie dokie, I'll try to do some updates too during the next month. Good luck to every NAFA D&M Students! Hope to see those that came for this Easter service back too.

Rant.

WARNING, RANT AHEAD.
(it's not neccessay to read my rants, it's my way of relieveing stress)

It's unlike me to rant about things that disappoints me.

The first thing that seriously disappointed me are my parents.

My Dad, always think that I am the one spending a lot of money, not saving money. He says that I am spendrift and I don't have any idea how hard is it to earn money.

Yes, I spend quite a lot due to my school. I have to buy materials weekly to complete my assignments. I need to eat. The area around my school is considered city/town area already, food is not THAT cheap to the extend that everything is $2.50. That is what my Dad think.

I even have to pay for my own MRT fare. Sometimes to an extent, I have to skip meals in order to make up for materials and so on. I don't even need to take tithe into the picture to show that I am living on tight money. Yes, of course I do hope and believe I can have more.

I just don't get it, he complains that materials are expensive and I am spending too much. He kept telling me he wants to decrease my allowance. So I was thinking, if I don't spend on my materials, how on earth am I going to complete my assignment? And why on earth he let me go into NAFA? It's not that I am not working as hard as I can and wasting all the money spent on materials.

I just feel cheated. He bought wide-screen TV, a laptop, a new bed and a car. Yet he is saying I am spending TOO much? He even compares me to my brother, saying he don't spend a lot. I mean, like DUH? Of course my brother won't spend as much as I do, he's only sec 1!

When I told him I need a good laptop for my work, because our computer is being used by everyone and it's not really convenient. I can't bring my work around to do, sometimes I have to re-do the whole thing because my computer just can't support the programs. So, he told me to use his laptop. I told him, there is too much things in his laptop, it is too lag for doing my work. Then he says that why should he spend so much money.

This morning was worst. I asked my brother to help me look for my ear piece sponge. Then he scolded me and told me, next time if I want to look/search for my own stuff, do it myself.

Isn't this disappointing? My Dad telling me this? Not like when he wants to find his wallet/phone/etc and I tell him to look for it himself. I just don't get it.

He will always say that I play too much, I go out too much, I am lazy. Why? Because I don't do the housework. I just think it's dumb. I always thought, why the heck am I working so hard for? Not like I am failing, I am getting above average results. Instead of encouraging me or being contented with me, he slams me with negative comments JUST because I don't do housework.

My Mum. I really don't get it. She is not working, not a housewife, takes A LOT of money every month from my Dad, spends a lot. Yet she says that I have no self-discipline, I play most of the time, don't do housework, I am VERY lazy. I just just just don't get it.

Isn't she suppose to be the one doing housework? She always say that I don't even touch a single household chore. The thing is, I will definitely do it IF I HAVE THE TIME. But too bad, I just don't have it for the past month! I don't think by doing my homework to the point that I have to skip my sleep has time for me to do housework at all.

My parents just don't put themselves in my shoes. Instead, they always say that I don't put myself into their shoes! I mean, c'mon! I don't show them disrespect, I show them results that are not that bad, I don't drink, I don't hang out with bad companies, I don't club, I don't smoke, I don't even speak vulgarities! What more do they want from me?

I save as much money as I can to the extend of skipping meals, I am working very hard for the whole of this semester and even have to take care of household chores and tutoring my brother. I just don't feel that this is right at all.

Someone, please tell me, what should I do.

But, having to face all these crap, I've decided. I'll need to work even HARDER than ever. I'll definitely show them what have I been doing for the past 4 months. I'll show a clean and neat house. I'll do things that are VERY OBVIOUS to show that I am doing my best.

I'll face this crap and grow. Ugh.

Well, on the lighter side, I am enjoyed the Easter drama. I am glad that Dion came. I am happy to see so many new friends that came this evening. But too bad there are a few of my friends that didn't want to/can't come.

ALRIGHT. Rant's over, time to be happy again!

Week 13, final submission week.

Yup. Finally, its week 13! Time just past so fast. I felt that I've become kinda a little too much of a workaholic recently. I'm starting to take up weird habits when I have spare time. What I do is to search for tutorials to learn from. I do things like playing with Photoshop and Illustrator.

Mad! I've really gone insane over work lol. But I think it's kinda good too. And I also hope that I would also try to relax sometime.

Heres a few of my work that I did.

This is a book cover design done for my Design & Colour module. Simple colours expressing itself! The language of colours. Took only around an hour to execute the idea. But the process took me quite some time to get to this idea.

A brochure design of my character (OC), Muratsuki Kabuza. This is my InDesign assignment. And I hope I get an A for this too! Then I would have 3 As straight in a row for my Digital Imagery! This brochure took 10 hours to complete and took more than 1 week to finalize the idea.

So what's after Week 13? Integrated Studio Practice from week 14 to week 16.

Which means, the start of 'Project 24'.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...!

24

Finally, I got my project title for this month's ISP (Integrated Studio Project).

What on Earth can I do about 24?

Number 24, Twenty-Four.

- Can be divided by 1,2,3,4,6,8,12,24

- Atomic number of chromium

- Number of books in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)

- Channel 24?

- 24 Hours a day.

- No. of carats to represent 100% pure gold.

- 24 Bit colour

- "Two-Four", a 24 pack of beer.

- 24 Game, a mathematical game. (firstinmath.com)

- "24", a song by Welsh musician Jem

- "24", unlucky number for Cantonese culture. Which means "Easy to die"

- 24th Alphabet is X

- 1st Century, year 24, a leap year. What happened in the first 24th year AD?

- Year 2024 (MMXXIV)

- 24 Ribs in a human body

- Septillion has 24 zeroes

- Hen only requires 24 hrs to produce an egg.

- Squareroot 24

- 24th moon of Jupiter is Pasiphae

- 24 is the number of cycles in the Chinese Solar year

- 24 Major and Minor keys (music?)

- 24th last letter of the Greek Alphabet is Omega, the end.

- 24 Human Chromosome = fatal illness

What I'm thinking of:

- 24 Superheroes posters, based on their very own logo, made into a Poster. Put into a box.

- 24 Real life super heroes. Name, Picture, Bio, made into a Poster. Put into a box.

- 24, World's most unlucky News. 24 deaths, 24 plane crash, 24 etc. (something bad) Made into a Newspaper and put into a (insert idea here).

- 24 AD, What happened? Poster? 3D? Illustration? Put into a box?

What most people might do:

- 24 hours

- 24 minutes

- 24 seconds

- 24 days

- 24 months

- 24 years

- 2024

- What would I do if I am 24 years old?

- 24 ways of (dadadadadada)

- 24 minute short film

- 24 seconds of 24 short film/animation

- 24 posters/illustration/items

- 24 cm

- 24 metres

- 24 (inch/tonns/dollars/dadadadada)

WHAT CAN I DO TO AMAZE, SHOCK, SURPRISE EVERYONE?

I hope this semester I can get as many As as possible..

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooo.