Indigenous : Day 3

 Chilli Rush sucked. I mean, RM 17.90 for a set with soup of the day, salad and drinks and you can refill as much as you want until you're sick of it. Should have went to Mojo Cafe instead.

 And then there was Advertising Design journal to deal with. Mr. Jackson wants to know our thoughts and lessons that we took from Advertising Design.

Some mindmapping shit.

So here's my personal opinion about the subject.

Advertising Design has got to be the most troublesome reason to come for classes on a Thursday morning, and spend 3 hours learning ALMOST the same shit we did back in 3rd semester, which DGD students happened to have taken this subject called, Marketing Management.

Until today as I type this post, the only interesting thing about advertising design is that us graphic design students get to apply our Illustrator and Photoshop skills into the assignment. 

Mr. Jackson, your slides didn't help much at all. It was just down to our common sense to finish off the assignment. I have completely no memory about whatever slides you've shown us, and whatever shit that you've explained to us.

I personally felt that you asked us to do this journal, which you have required us to crap out 10 pages of total bullshit to show your upper management that you've done something.

Thank goodness you've decided to retire. You've done fucking with us now..

But nah, I didn't typed that out in my report. I just mentioned that the subject was merely like a refresh course about the basics about marketing and advertising that we have learnt back in the 1st and 2nd semester.

Indigenous : Day 2

Day 2, split into 2 shifts. Morning 10 a.m till 2 p.m, afternoon 1 p.m till 6 p.m. I overslept and took the afternoon shift instead. Nothing much to do, so here's a picture of a green tea ice cream from Marufuku and some grape flavored cigarettes 

Indigenous : Day 1

On the first day of the Indigenous Graduate Showcase....

This is my booth, 2 A2 size posters printed on foamboards just to fill up the space. I'll explain later about my final project. 

On the left panel, 1 A2 size poster and 4 printed photos from my photography subject. And the right one is 3 of my best 3D works posted for visitors to see.

Its been 5 months since I last wore these Gucci Dunks. I'm so sorry my babies, daddy's been on Converses since internship. I didn't want to get you all dirty.

Honestly I thought it was gonna be a busy day for us but instead, I found myself lying on a beanbag and begging for people to come. So after 2 months on stressing about this exhibition, on the first day of the event it was pretty much chilling and relaxed than expected.

Special shoutout to Zoe Lim for being the first to arrive before the official opening. She's been busy with her Dementia video production, with so much editing to do she actually took the time to drop by. Thanks Zoe :) 

Jane, Joelle and YunXuan also dropped by. Joelle was the mc for the night and did a pretty good job at it, even though she only got the script at the very last minute.

The new CEO Jason Lim was there to officiate the opening ceremony of the exhibition.

While waiting for the special guests to visit my booth, derpy Jessica and I decided to derp around. So nice to have her as my booth neighbor. 

To be honest, I personally felt everything was kinda in a mess. Like the whole theme was about Indigenous, something tribe related. But I see my classmates doing their final projects that are not related to it in the first place.

The reason why is because we have this one lecturer, and another asshole that interfered with our progress for almost 2 months. One shoots down our idea, the other kisses his ass about it too. The one that guides the DGD students insisted on us following his idea instead of ours. Thank God that I've insisted on doing my own final project.

2 months ago I was asked to do a concept superhero cafe. Like DC and Marvel come together and come up with this cafe for comic book fans to chill and hang out. I didn't really like the idea of using a curent brand and using it to come up with a new one. There wasn't much challenge to begin with, and I don't want DC and Marvel to come looking for me if things turned out shitty.

There wasn't much feedback from the special guests. One of them was Art Mansion's owner, a national bank museum rep, a designer and a prof. from University of Canberra.

The one main criticism for us was about work related to the them. 26 students, take any random 4 works, and see whether will it still connect to the Indigenous theme? The answer is no. 

If only we had the proper guidance. The college decided to give us a lecturer who we later found out has ZERO experience in dealing with exhibition work.

Everything ended at 11 p.m. And this was just the first day. 

Zoe's Birthday

 Oh gosh this is nasty... 

 Jane's birthday cake to Zoe. Troll faced rainbow cake.

No words to describe how crazy that night went. Until the pictures came in, tagged on my wall. Had loads of questions. I'll let y'all come to your own conclusions la. So sick of answering questions already, let you guys decide. Fuck it. 

Indigenous : Setting Up

Jeremy had the balls to stick Lap Soon's promotional flyer on my MacBook Pro. Now this picture makes me look like some kid getting sponsored by them with a laptop. Free advertising, how bout that. Anyway, I should have went and did my printing at Lap Soon instead of Title Design at Damansara. Its cheaper and the quality's better.

 "Why don't you use ALL of the cubes and triangular shapes to decorate your booth?" 

 Saturday evening, setting up my booth. Brought all of my previous printed out assignments from the past 5 semesters. Packaging design, my photobook, publication design and the A2 sized 3D works.

 For my final portfolio, I'm doing character design. 

 And I swear this semester cost me close to RM 500 to spend on food, parking and printing my assignments.

 The official shirt for Indigenous IACT College Graduate Showcase T-Shirt. 

My parents was away for a reunion dinner at Teluk Intan, Perak. They left RM 200 for me to spend for Friday till Sunday. And I spent most of them on printing alone.

 And there you have it, all the booths done setting up.

 And to end this post, here's a picture of Penny taking a picture of me taking a picture of her.

Picture-ception :D

Updates : Dementia Shooting

Oh gosh, I've finally had the time to update my blog after so long. Last time I checked, the last post was about my first MacBook Pro that dad bought for me for my assignments and overseas studies.

So here's the thing, before the whole Indigenous Graduate Exhibition, every department was busy. The print, the outdoor, the video department. Basically just everyone.

And what a great time to fall sick though. I kinda had this swollen gum due to infection (that's according to what the doctor said) and I thought it was because of wisdom tooth, but the doc said otherwise. And then fever and what not decided to kick in. I remember Wednesday I came home after a long day in college finalizing the flyer designs.

Lied on the bed, shivering and the next thing I know I struggled to even stand on my feet and walk to the bathroom to bath.

I only had 2 days or resting, including one just to settle down and everything. And then its back to dealing with the flyers. I even had to bring my medicines to college. The antibiotics, the painkillers and the fever pills.

 Yung Tyng and I went to college to finalize the flyer design and everything else, and sat through 3 hours to print 600 flyers. It was damn tiring. 

I was involved in a short film for Banana Studios. Special mention to Jane for having me being part of the film. I've never driven to Klang before, and I never knew it'll be an almost one hour drive from my place. But the fun part was the long highway stretch to Glenmarie Cove.

Yeap.... and Kyle's involved too, with Siang Er playing the lead role. If any of you followed my Instagram, you'll know what roles Kyle and I be playing.

14th July, the party scenes. 

 MK just messing around with the Marilyn Monroe costume.

 Before the shoot.

 So this scene is about this Halloween party at this fancy house, with around 30 guests as extras. The crew had a lil trouble getting 50 people, but 30 including some of their own was good enough, easier to control.

 As usual, it was only after a few hours only shooting started. Everything was done around 3 a.m for Siang Er. So I decided to stay over instead, too damn tired to drive back and no one was able to fetch Siang Er back to her place.

 Woke up the next day feeling quite tired. Maybe I slept too much, I woke up around 11 plus for breakfast, then back to sleep. And then slept again in the afternoon. 

 Glenmarie Cove was a good place to chill, if only you don't mind the mosquitoes and the fact that there's not much to do around the neighborhood. It was probably the first time in a long time that I didn't think much about my college final portfolio works, with the exhibition a week away.

This young girl, Zoe's relative plays the younger version of the main lead character. As much as she has the spoilt brat persona, can't help it that she's adorable tho ;) 

 Ashraf as a butler

And getting his ass kicked in a pillow fight. 

 Special shoutout to Banana Studios. Zoe, Jane, Joelle, Yun Xuan, Immy, Zhou, Jason. Such a wonderful crew to work with. I have to admit, squeezing almost all of the scenes in 4 days to shoot is just something that's worth mentioning. 

12: 30 a.m, Monday morning. A long way back to Cheras, but it was all worth it. 

MacBook Pro

6 semesters without a laptop to do my assignment. And I finally own a MacBook Pro. Thanks dad, you have no idea how much this means to me a lot. 

Thank God

first of all, I would like to thank God that I'm alive today.

I stayed back late in college today with a few of my friends for dinner and to catch up. Around 10 p.m we decided to leave since it was getting late. I decided to accompany my friend to her car since we both parked at the same basement floor at Jaya one. She drove ahead first. 

Just a second before heading towards the cross junction, a driver made a last minute turn and almost crashed towards my friend on our lane. I was quite shocked and immediately stopped and went to check on my friend. She was so shaken that she didn't know what to do.

I wanna thank God that had I drove ahead first, I would have gotten into an accident, knowing my driving habits and what not. And had that stupid driver gone a lil faster, my friend would have been the victim. And praise God none of the scenarios happened.

Its amazing how timing plays an important role in our life and anything can happened to us no matter how safe we think we are. I'm still quite shaken due to the fact that I've been thinking so many 'what ifs'. 

Its been awhile since I last prayed for a safe journey to wherever I intend to drive to and from. And I would like to start that habit from tomorrow onwards =)

Fat Boys The Burger Bar

So last week Thursday, Passion Alive youth members decided to head down to Publika to try out Fat Boys The Burger Bar for of course, the burgers. 

From Fat Boys' menu, its really simple. One side is presented with their speciality burgers, and the other allows you to customize your own burger. From what type of patty to the buns and sauces and extra toppings. In my own opinion, its best to just order the ready made ones. You'll end up paying more for your own burgers.

First of all the burgers were great. Didn't really liked the fries. They were too dry. As for the portion size, Skewers' were bigger.

Right after Fat Boys, we decided to head to The Bee to chill.

Me and James

Chermaine and Erica

The Last Polka's Guinness Flavoured Ice Cream. Me gusta.

Overall it was a great night. Its been a long time since we got together for dinner.