Tuesday, September 28, 2010

My new room

I think the picture is rather self-explainary don't you think so? Yes, it is my room. The bottom picture is the view out of my window.

Unfortunately, no boogie man visited me yet. But my housemates are really nice. Junko is calling me "Kaoru" aka frog because of the frog cup Andrew gave me. She cannot pronounce my name. HAHA! =.= Then again, for some reason which I do not understand, she also wanted to call me "Princess Pudding". (P.S. She calls the Malaysian guy Hachi. Thats a dog name. LOL!)




Saturday, September 25, 2010

Moooo-ved

I am tired. Moved and unpack most of my stuff. Need to get a small shelf or cupboard before unpacking my clothes.

I wonder if there will be a boogie man in my wardrobe this time round.... I am tired.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Doodle Poodle~!

Not that there is a poodle.... Green does not go well with complexion for a certain reason. Just experimental painting for fun. Done on ArtRage.

Been awhile since I drew digitally.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Just another Site Visit

I am drained. I don't know if it is due to the class this morning, where I FINALLY met my group mates and allocated the work to them (No one took initiative to start) or was it due to the site visit where I endless chase down the spokeswoman to record her voice whilst trying to take some pictures. I think it was the latter.

My site visit happens to be at a beer brewery, where we had to write a full report on their operations and how they manage them. I think the most memorable part of the whole trip... was the free food and drinks at the end. Even if we had to pay for the bloody trip and find a way to get there from school. There isn't much to talk about the place. Just know that in the past, a guy could slap one 1,200 labels on bottles in 16 minutes. That includes the time to put glue on. Then machines came and kicked him out.

For those of you who do not know, I am moving out end of this week! Yes! Out of this house into somewhere else. It would be a little further to school (I think... have not tried walking yet), but it is closer to many food places! I don't need survive on subway and chicken rice (or more like chicken and rice) when I dun wanna cook anymore!

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Test

I finally understood why I hated studying in secondary school.

It is 6am. It is 4 degrees. It is Managing Operations module. It is 30% of my grade. It has 36 pages of full text per chapter with a set of complementary powerpoint slides. Need me to elaborate further?

Friday, September 10, 2010

Friends: How to tell if they are real?

FAKE FRIENDS: Never ask for food.

REAL FRIENDS: Are the reason you have no food.

FAKE FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr./Mrs.

REAL FRIENDS: Call your parents DAD/MOM.

FAKE FRIENDS: Bail you out of jail and tell you what you did was wrong.

REAL FRIENDS: Will sit next to you saying “Damn … we really messed up … but that sure was fun!”

FAKE FRIENDS: Never seen you cry.

REAL FRIENDS: Cry with you.

FAKE FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back.

REAL FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it’s yours.

FAKE FRIENDS: Know a few things about you.

REAL FRIENDS: Can write a book about you, with direct quotes from you.

FAKE FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that is what the crowd is doing.

REAL FRIENDS: Will kick the whole crowds ass that left you.

FAKE FRIENDS: Will knock on your front door.

REAL FRIENDS: Walk right in and say “I’M HOME!”

FAKE FRIENDS: Are for awhile.

REAL FRIENDS: Are for life.

FAKE FRIENDS: Say they are too busy to listen to your problems, but when it comes to them they expect you to have all the time in the world.

REAL FRIENDS: Not only kick everything out of their schedule to listen to what’s wrong, but help come up with vindictive plans to make you feel a whole lot better!

FAKE FRIENDS: Make you say sorry when you want to talk to them at odd hours of the night, or even just hang out at odd hours.

REAL FRIENDS: Come right over and hang out with you, until you either fall asleep, or kick them out.

Adapted from somewhere on the internet... XD


Wednesday, September 8, 2010

3D Tv and Counterfeits

This semester, my subjects had included Brand management, Managing Operations, Strategic Marketing and Sustainable Tourism Management. 3 of my units are management units which means reports, presentations, more reports and essays. ...Did i mention reports?

Anyway, in my strategic marketing module, we were required to pick one of these three "things" to market. That was Virgin Galatica, Samsung 3D TV or Amazon E-books. My team was relatively against e-books as we did not see much "improvements" available that would be interesting. However, the was a debate with the leftovers. After a lengthly one hour argument on which we would do. We decided in the silliest way possible. A coin flip. (Well, we tried the "Pick which is the longest pencil lead" but it did not really work. XD.) In the end, we ended with the 3D Tv.

Ok... First let me state something. I have something against these 3D television. I mean these things are definitely discrimination against people with Myopia or people with small noses! Those evil gadgets require these heavy big eyewear that would NEVER fit on top of my glasses! Not only that. Did you know that 5-10% of people have stereo blindness? That means that they would not be able to watch 3D! There was also a reality check issue. If young children are to keep watch these stuff, soon they would not be able to differentiate between a television series and reality. We would then have a number of delusion kids running into cars thinking they were part of show. D:

But then, it was also said that 3D TV without the glasses are coming out by the end of this year. Thats so fast! 3D television have not even been out a year! Sigh... Technology is like moving so fast! There is also research that show hologram TV would be a norm in our houses within 10years. Although I am against the 3D television, ironically, these hologram TV intrigue me. I would really like to see one. It would be like STARWARS (not that I like that show)!

Putting my rants on 3D television aside, another research I was required to do was on brand mimicries (counterfeits). The three type of these, one which the copy each other product confusing customer to buy it and would be harmful to them, other which benefits the customer (not exact copy but look alike) and the last which most of us who study design knows very well. The copy of trends and a bit here and there like the checkered patterns and stuff. It is really an interesting topic to research on too.

I was really surprised that the country that does the best counterfeiting was not China but Korea! The question that arises was if we supported brand mimicries. Well, not all mimicries are illegal. If you think about it, creative creates the MP3, apple copies the concept and become I-pods. In all honesty, I actually support these mimicries. It gives us cheaper alternatives and also, we would never know WHO copied WHO. It is always the big companies that win these copyright law, but we could not deny that they also copy and may be the real copycats.

What do you guys think?