Tuesday, September 27, 2016

F I N A L


This photo was taken at my favourite artist, aMEI's UTOPIA World Tour. I enjoy watching concerts as it allows me to forget about all my works and other personal problems. Whenever I'm in a concert, I feel like I can set all my problems aside and just focus on enjoying the concert as if I'm living in a dimension with no worries. The concert name was Utopia, which is an imagined community that possessed highly desirable qualities. I feel like I am really living in Utopia whenever I'm in a concert, whereby I can set aside all my prejudice and live in harmony with all the person around me even if they are complete stranger to me. 

P.S: This is the final blog entry for this module. I just wanted to say I really enjoyed this module as it really allow me to develop my creative juice. 

EMPATHY

What is Empathy?


It is an ability to understand and share the feelings of another
Connection
Being that person to feel them.
There's nothing to do with feeling sorry
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In this lesson, we've learn that it is important to have empathy towards others. 

Is love a need or a want
In my opinion, I feel that love is a need because love enable us to motivate ourself to be a better person. Love does not only include boy-girl relationship, it also involve caring, empathy and many other factors which help us to develop ourself. Thus, it is not a want as without love, we can't be a better self.

I hate myself so much back in secondary school, people will calling me names when I  brought my Nike handbag to school. I don't know how did I overcome at the point of time. Why can't they just shut their mouth and mind their on business?

To me empthay is so much important than anything. If every single human out there could feel and understand each and everyone, they will be no misunderstanding situation. 

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

FORCE CONNECTION


This week we were tasked to watch "Shark Tank" (It is a show that allows Entrepreneurs to showcase their product and seek for potential investor)  and search for products related to Force Connection.

So this product I had found was on Season 4 Episode 19. 

(Byron Young)

Byron Young was showcasing the CordaRoy's Beanbag and offered the audience to purchase 20% of the company's stake for $200k. Lori, however, offered to purchase 60% of the company's stake for $200k which subsequently reduced to 58%.


This product is related to force connection as it combines the idea of beanbag and a bed. Personally, I always wanted to purchase a beanbag as it is really comfortable. The idea of combining with a bed is fantastic as it now serve more purpose.





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This week task is to use different feeling and types of adjective to form a product!



So I had decide of using "Clock" ! 

Passionate Clock - I want it just to be a normal usual clock

Sad Clock - I decide to let the number flow to represent it's crying

Brave Clock - To me people with brave personality they knows everything

Creative Clock - It's futuristic projector clock

Greedy Clock - I want it to looks with many function as greedy idea as possible

Hardworking Clock - The clock hand is extra long to represent it's way to hardworking


T E N T H


I chance upon this shop at Marina Square last weekend. Unlike those typical retail store, this shop is an interesting shop as it sells a wide range of unique product which includes clothing, artwork as well as innovative electronic devices. In order to stay competitive, many retail store only sell a certain category of product so that people who are looking for a specific product will patronise their store whenever they have a need. This store, however, suits people like me. With no specific needs, I often walk aimlessly around a mall to search for inspiration. Walking into such a store allowed me to discover many interesting product that people have came out with. Furthermore, I've gain many interesting inspiration by browsing around the store. I guess I've found a place for me to generate my creative juice.

CRITICISM


As a human, it's always easy to criticise other's work. However, it is never easy for me to criticise peer's work. This is because we have been doing the same assignment and I know it's not easy for them to do what they had done till date. It is common for people to take criticism in a negative way, especially when you do not agree with the person's critique. Thus, during the process of critiquing other's work, I tend to take into account of the person's feeling as well as the handwork they had put in so far. Having said that, it is important to maintain professionalism too. Criticism is a form of feedback to allow other to learn their mistake and improve on their work. Thus, it is important to maintain the balance between professionalism and considering people's feeling.

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This weeks tasked was to give evaluation on my peers blog they are my favourite girl Athilah, Edward and Xuan Qin. As mention that It is never easy to criticise peers work but I will try my best to stay professional on it!


Athilah :

Good
Athilah have a very adorable background, provide sufficient information, have very interesting post and she have the best blog in her group.

Bad
She should improve her font size, missed out some of the blog post and should enlarge some of the images 

Rate: 7.5
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Edward :

Good -
Edwards have a very bright and pretty background, manage to add some videos to make it less boring and he have very funny and cute images!

Bad -  
Missed out quite a number of blog post, should improve her font size and photo are very messy.

Rate: 5.5
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Xuan Qin :

Good -
I love the types of font she used, background made me feel relaxing and her POTW it's very interesting.

Bad 
Missed out quite a number of blog post, she need to write more and lack of photos.

Rate: 5.5
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N I N E T H


Due to the increasing work assignment, this post came a little later than usual. This photo was taken when I was rushing my assignment at the Starbucks. I always enjoyed doing work alone at Starbucks as I will be more focused in whatever I do. Furthermore, there's great food and beverages (my favourite GREEN tea latte with low fat milk) around! Whenever I look around me, I always see many people in a rush. This led me to ponder the meaning of life if everything that we do is always in a rush. To me, I feel that what's more important in life is to enjoy what you are doing. At times, it's better to slow down what you are doing and enjoy what's around you.

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

ANALOGICAL THINKING

What is Analogical Thinking?

Analogical Thinking is what we do when we use information from one domain (A Source) to help solve a problem in another domain (To a Target). Experts often use analogies during the process of problem solving and analogies have been involved in numerous scientific discoveries.

Similes, metaphors and analogies are thinking strategies that provide new ideas for problem-soling by making associations between objects that seem dissimilar.

Comparison between two things, typically on the basic of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.

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There is 3 types of "Analogical Thinking"

1 - Similes

Uses "likeness" to establish a connection.

Example.  Happy like a UNICORNS !


2 - Metaphors

Metaphors and similes are both ways to compare things. We use metaphors and similes every day, but it can be hard to remember just which is which

Example. "My teacher is an angel" Which means that my teacher is very nice

3 - Analogies  

Analogy is comparable to metaphor and simile in that it shows how two different things are similar, but it is a bit more complex.

There is 4 Types of Analogy

Personal Analogy / Direct Analogy / Symbolic Analogy / Fantasy Analogy

I feel that analogical thinking enable us to put things in to perspective.


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The Bike Desk


By: STORE MUU Design Studio

This product save storage and space. It allow to park in indoors and it's also have a chair function. 





S E V E N T H / E I G T H


I have visited the THAIFANTASTIC at Tanjong Pagar Railway station this weekend. It is a flea market organised by fleawhere and it's my first time visiting this Railway station. I'm very glad that I've came to this event where history, food, culture and people meet together. As the name suggest, this flea market is a combination of flea and thai cuisine. Most of the food and things sold are all thai-oriented and they are FANTASTIC. Even though 
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10 / Spiral in Nature


Top left first and second photo was shoot at the Singapore Zoo, the rest was shoot at Gardens by The Bay. I focus more on plants on the 10 photo except for the first photo it's a snake!

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10 / Reflection of Myself


10 photo of my reflection was shoot almost all different location. They are different reflection from the glass, disco ball, mirror, water paddle and a "Tuk Tuk Toy Car" (Top, Third Photo)


BATTLE ROYALE


This movie is about surviving in a "game" whereby only the winner get to stay alive. Each year, a class of students will be randomly selected and to a deserted island for a game name "Battle Royale". In order to survive, the participants must obey the rules and eliminate other contestants. This game is a result of school violence and rising unemployment rate where the government decided to create the Battle Royale Law.

I feel that what resulted in this situation is poor communication between the older generation and the millennium. The law was made as the new generations show poor attitude and unmotivated to progress. However, it does not resolve any problem. Although it increases the millennium's will to survive in this society, it will not correct the mindset of theirs. Furthermore, those who were killed were not given a chance to correct their mistake. In order to resolve this whole situation, the government should focus on educating the new generation by other means.


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WHO WILL I KILL IF IM IN THIS SITUATION


In the event when I am in this situation, i will hope to gather as many allies as possible and form an opposition team to overcome the people manipulating this game. I'll hope that everyone will be calm  enough and trustworthy enough so that we can gather our forces together to fight the enemy. However, in the event whereby 1 person have to die, I will rather be the one who die as I do not wish to experience the fear and torture of the game. I do not wish to harm anyone in order to survive as it is very cruel and inhumane. That been said, I will try to find a "comfortable" way to die so that I will not experience the slow torture and pain.