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At 8.20, my gal messaged me. As I was supposed to meet her to go to school together at that time, I replied to her to go to school without me, as I just woke up. Soon, went to school with the marker rendering that I did overnight, I scanned it and put it to my powerpoint presentation for Friday's submission. At 11+, met my gal after her lunch with her friends, to accompany her to the CCA drive to get her signed up to this CCA called Changi Youth Ambassadors. My group members came late, but by 12, we get together and adjust our A2 presentation board that is also due this Friday. We had to finish doing it by today since tomorrow is Labor Day and all printing shops are going to be closed. One of my group members did go to the printing shop, while the other did up the packaging, I did up the powerpoint slide as there were some minor touch up that I need to do.Went for GEMS after that. I left my hand phone with my gal when we visit the CCA drive. Since our GEMS are the same, I told her to meet at Foodcourt 1. She was late, so I used some guy's hand phone to call mine. I was very worried when she did not pick up my call. But soon she arrived. During the GEMS class, my gal was studying for her driving test instead of paying attention in the class. I do agree that the class was boring and short, but that was no excuse. Went home with my gal after my General Elective Module (GEMS), I slept. I was way too tired after the sacrifices to do my work. One thing is that, I was happy to see 90% completion of that assignment, as I had other assignments yet to do. Aidie blogged @ 6:23 AM Did not get the chance to blog yesterday, as I was very busy with my work. Basically, class starts in the morning, had a break for two hours, but I used that break to again, do my work. At the same time, I monitor what my group members was doing. This time, it was much much much better, as I gave them things do to, and they did them on the spot. Reached home, had my nap and then get started on doing mood board and rendering for my corporate gift design. It took me hours to do, as I was going for quality. In the end, I came up with this.  Some of you might be wondering what is this, well it is actually silhouettes of the buildings in Singapore Polytechnic. Each building represents a school in SP. When it all get stacked up and assembled, from its front view, it looks like the number one. Why one? This is because Singapore Polytechnic is the 1st Polytechnic in Singapore, as simple as that. Aidie blogged @ 6:11 AM Damn pissed off today. But I can't seem to do anything about it. First things first. I sacrificed my sleeping time to do the Sepak Takraw board. By the time I finished doing it, I had to get ready to school. I decided to burn the midnight oil because my designs have to be of a certain quality, if it is done without a care, it is not my design.  This was how it turned out. My Copic markers almost ran out of ink. And you know right, how expensive is one marker. I think I must ask them some money at least for the ink. Ok, now for school. I was damn hungry, as I did not eat my breakfast and yesterday, there wasn't any dinner. Doing the corporate gift design, my team members are either busy with Viwawa (online gaming) or just don't know what to do. I asked one to do the packaging design, and he showed me a picture of colored pencil. Thanks ah eh! While the other do not quite know how to the the 3D programming for our product, but its ok that she is hardworking and refer to the book for anything she doesn't know. In the end, I helped out and its like I had to do it again.During that time, I was woozy due to fatigue and hunger. During class, I took my own break and went down to food court 1 to eat. Feeling a bit better, I went back to class and decorated my table shelves.  On the left, my magic eight ball followed by my Lime Trexi, then my do it yourself Trexi, then digital stickman, then my smelly belly, then a perfume tester and lastly my glass chess set( not it picture). On top, that is where I place my Sepak Takraw board. Yuni called me to go to our CCA booth and place it there. Wah, I created this nice2 overnight, and now you want me to set it up? Sorry strawberry uh. I told Yuni, if he wants it, he must come to my studio and get it himself, as I got other important works to do. Soon, they came and took it.Seeing other people doing something else, my mood to do work changed. I went to sleep for about 40 minutes or so in the studio. I don't know where my other two group members for the food design went, but we were suppose to do up our ideation board, and they came after I woke up. In the end, we did the board up and at around 4, I went down to the CCA drive and sign my gal up for a CCA that she didn't get a chance to visit its booth.  They gave me the form my gal suppose to fill in and told me that she has to bring it for the mass briefing. So, I went to her block to give to her before I went home and crash. I don't realize what time it was, but what was important is that I had recharge myself and get ready to get angry at my group members the next day, and do the work that they were assigned to do. Sometimes I feel, why bother? But work is work and it has to be done, either I don't do it and fail or do it and faint.Signing out, Aidieation Aidie blogged @ 6:44 AM This is my brother. Brother from another father. Still my bro. Yup, he is the guy from Revalina that joined Live the Dream on channel 5 last year. Yesterday was his birthday, but only today we got to go out together as a family.   Today was an interesting day. Want to know why? I woke up and took a look at the aquarium in the living room. I was in a shock to see this. Here's a closer look. No, it is not dead. It is taking a rest. Yes, taking a rest. I never seen such things in my life before. I sneaked in to take its picture, because if I didn't, it would swim away.Well, went out at 2 with my family without my dad. It has been a while since I stepped in Orchard and went in Wheelock Place. Was waiting for my brother to arrive when I took this picture.  Nice right? When my brother arrived, we went in this shop that sells so many toys, well those collectible ones. I saw a collection of Transformers toys, Trexi, and others. In the end my mom bought my brother a Transformer merchandise that could transform itself into a working mp3 player. Cool huh. Well, I got myself a Trexi toy. It's the do it yourself Trexi the 'cat' type with ears on it.  Next, we go to Pondok Jawa Timur, a Javanese's Authentic Traditional Cuisine to eat our lunch. Took pictures, eat and had fun. My sister bought that new MC perfume.   Since next to the place where we had our lunch was next to Plaza Singapura, we went in and go to Spotlight. The place sells lots of arts and crafts things. There was even costumes. The day was full of laughter when we tried putting on some of the costumes and masks.     At the end of the day, I put on a happy face. Hehe.. Signing out, Aidieation Aidie blogged @ 5:07 AM  "Click!" This is how I look like---> I know, I know.. the previous entries were damn boring. And I agree as well, but those posts were about me, who I was, what I like to do and others. It was to break the ice to those people who don't quite know me.  Lets get started....... I don't quite like waking up too early, but I did this morning.. It was because I had to do a banner for my CCA for the CCA drive. My CCA is sepak takraw, that picture was taken when we won the NUS IVP competition. We were the champions. That's me and Faiz. I had other works to do, but since they need me to do the brochure, the banner and the board, I just do it. So many things, I don't know if the using me or what, but I hope I get something at the end of the day..$$ maybe. Haha..Well, all designs must be paid. Nothing is free. Anyways, started at 12, we did one hour of discussing on how to do the banner. Me, Yuni, Mubarak and Faiz did it all. I don't know where the rest were, but their absence tell me that they could not be bothered. We finished doing the banner at around 5. It looks exceptionally good for a 6 hours work.  We had fun doing the whole thing, but was exhausted. The number one they say looked like eleven, the word sepak takraw they say was slanted and the number two on 2nd May was at first unreadable. To me, its ok uh.. It is suppose to be like that. But the best part of the whole thing I think was the takraw ball. I straight away paint that part, without marking out and it looks damn nice. Got home, did my work, my school work. These days, my designs are needed and it feels that I am hired to do lots of work other than my school work. But that's OK, I like my paw prints to be everywhere. Hehe.. Signing out, Aidieation Aidie blogged @ 3:50 AM "The things you love to do is not by force, but by your own craving." Different people have different perceptions of how their life is suppose to be lived. But everyone would like to enjoy life, have fun and do the things they love to do. Well, there are things that I enjoy doing, and I crave for it most of the time. Here, I would only mention three other things that I love doing. As you guys know that I love and enjoy drawing, so I would not mention that anymore. The next thing that I love to do is playing soccer. I can say that in the field of courts, I let my feet do all the talking. Just like ice-breaking, my feet are able to attract attention and in the end make new friends. The one thing I like about playing soccer is that when I score goals or do a trick that makes a fool out of my opponent, it makes me happy. I got as far as playing for a CC, but when the O'levels about to start, I cut down on it and eventually stop turning up for trainings. The second thing that I love to do is singing. I sing a lot. I need some sort of music wherever I go, so there was this time that I was without my mp3 player, I would sing to myself. Whenever my surrounding seem to be quiet, I would sing. When I feel happy I would sing. In the shower, in my room, and even to someone, I would sing. I entered Anugerah when I was 16. Due to my age and my lack of power to my voice, I couldn't get through the auditions. Though, some would say I sing quite nice, I would just smile because I know I am not that good yet. Its my ecstasy to have a crowd looking and enjoying to my singing, I want more. Just need improvements. The last thing that I love doing is, spending time with my girlfriend. Just looking at her happy face, makes me happy. When she smiles, I just want to pinch her cheeks as she is a very cute gal..hehe. Since we can't see each other often, it makes me miss her and make me feel that I need to see her. When we go out, we just have each other for company, we rely on each other on the activities to do. Most of the time we would go watch movies, have lunch or dinner and just discover Singapore. Doing either of these things would definitely brighten up my day, no matter what the situation is. These are a few of the things that provides me with happiness. If you want to cheer me up, you know what to do..hehe. Aidie blogged @ 9:28 AM  "A good relationship is when your weaknesses are covered by your partner's strengths and your strengths covers your partner's weaknesses." After learning about temperaments and how it affects people's every behavior, I found out why my girlfriend and I tend to get along quite well. Temperaments are inherited from our parents and it would split us to become either an introverted or extroverted person. An introverted person are those who tends to keep quiet most of the time, while an extroverted person are those who are more expressive. Life is a balance, as they say. To succeed in life, one has to capitalize on their strengths and work on their weaknesses. In my case, my gal helped me work on my weaknesses as it was her strength and I helped her weaknesses, as it was my strength. I was an introverted person and she was an extroverted one. Two different people helping each other. Soon, I developed her strength and she developed mine. A balance is achieved. That is why opposites attract. We get together when I decided to have someone to teach me Malay, as that was my weakest subject and I really want to improve on it. Why I wanted a girl to teach me? Hehe..Well at that time I was kind of lonely, so at the same time get myself a partner. My gal was my third choice of the selected three that I had in mind. The other two also had good Malay results and exceptionally good looks, but I find my gal had something more than that, more than mere looks. She had an awesome attitude and always fun to be with. She was the direct opposite to me. We were friends for a long time, and during that time, we fell for each other. Soon, we decided to get attached, be faithful to each other, not to lie to each other and not to forget to aim for a better future for each other. To do that, we had to put education as our number one priority, but with each other's help. Nobody is perfect, similarly to our relationship, we need to work at it to prevent any miscommunication. Aidie blogged @ 4:04 AM "Relationships: It takes both hands to clap." In primary school, being the kid I was, I sat alone in class. Until one day, when this girl came and sat beside me and disturbed my peace. She was transfered to the school that I was in at that time and was crying since day one. I found out that she was transferred to the primary school I was in. Maybe she missed her former primary school friends so much. I do not know. What I knew was that she was irritating and I want my peace back. Since I sat beside her, my teacher told me to try and get along. Well, I tried and soon succeeded not only in keeping her quiet, but making her my first friend. After some time she settled in, and had girl friends soon. I had my guy friends. In primary school, the guys will always have something against the girls and vice versa. So, we grew apart, but remain friends. In class, she let me copy her Malay homework when I didn't do..hehe. I guess that's my Malay was never that good. One day, well everyday, my guy friends would always disturb her group of friends. It was like boys against girls thing. Since, she was my friend, I stood there and pondered why guys are cruel to girls and why can't there be peace? From then onwards, I think I grew a heart that is devoted not to hurt girls' feelings. We actually got together for a few months. One particular day, she told me not to contact her as her family would find out. I respected her decision and did what she told me to. It was too quiet for a relationship, so I called her months later. She told me it was over a long time ago as she is now with another guy. I felt heartbroken, and was stupid of me not contacting her sooner. Well, what has happened, has happened. I didn't hurt her feelings, but she did hurt mine. She clearly didn't play her part. So, who was at fault? I dare not say. I am with another now, and I am happy and thankful that I have her by my side. I'll cherish her. Hopefully, this time both hands would be clapping.. Aidie blogged @ 7:55 AM "Socialize. You will find out life is much more meaningful if you have friends." The crazy, hyper and sociable person that you guys see before your eyes wasn't like that younger. Crazy maybe, but I was just not that hyper or sociable person that I am now. Making friends doesn't seem to be my priority when I was younger. I prefer to be left alone. I can't really remember the rest of my primary school friend's names when I get to secondary school. But I do remember that when I get to secondary school, my target was to concentrate on my studies. I did just that. I was so focused, I prefer to call it too focused, that I ignored socializing totally. I only started to get to know the names in my class when I was in secondary 3. It was hard for me when I was appointed at vice-chairman of my class in secondary 2. Since I did not know my classmates names then, giving back their workbooks took me quite a long time to do. It confused me even more when they change their seating sometimes. In a way, I was forced to memorize their names. To do that, I had to approached them and did something that I didn't do for a whole year, and that is ask for their names. Truthfully, I am a shy guy. Though I did what I did just to know their names, I did not quite know who they truly are. I did that just to get over the whole year as a vice-chairman of my class. It was not something I like doing. I was left with no choice but to get to know about my classmates when in secondary 3, as I was officially nominated as the chairman of my class. Slowly but surely, I break out from my shell and give socializing a try. It was not that bad after all. I found out that some of them are interesting and funny too. What I feel made socializing something essential to me is that, when you have friends and when you are celebrate something, you have them to celebrate it with. Friends also play a huge role and a huge influence on the path of your life. Out of the classmates I have in my secondary school, I only keep a few as close friends. As I find out that the rest are bad companies. Since I want to make something out of my life, I did not let them influence me with all the negative things. But still, there is nothing wrong just being friends with them. Just don't be arrogant and ignore them. It's OK to befriend them but just don't always have a negative thinking about them, as they might be good at heart(you would never know) . So, choose your close friends wisely. Remember, good friendship lasts forever. So, that was my tale. I turn out to be the kind of guy I am now, with help of my friends and the courage to break out from my shell. Friendship lasts forever, but could a boy girl relationship? Which is stronger? If you were given a choice to choose between them, which one would you choose? Well, friendship is usually the beginning when you meet someone, but what happens when it turns into something more, something that you would regard special? That, is another story.. Aidie blogged @ 3:17 AM "If you are good at your hobby, make it your future occupation. Remember, don't let anything get in your way." When people smile, praise and congratulate you on the things you do, it brings you happiness. This occurs quite a lot in my life and I hope to get more.Hehe.. Well, people like to be noticed and appreciated, right? So, through designing, I am more noticeable and appreciated. It all started when I was in secondary school, a subject called Design and Technology really changed me. The subject is not boring like the rest that I took. Not much study, the paper is easy,it requires drawing skills(I like!!) and hands-on work. I quickly realize that making things with my hands are my specialty. I am blessed that I got these genes from my father, a creative and hands-on person. But something else is needed in Design, and that is creativity. I do appreciate good design stuff, but at that time, I do not know how to be as creative as designers. Soon, I made a comparison of design stuff and non-design stuff. There is a huge distinction of class and uniqueness. All designed stuff are creating a new statement. I tried experimenting on this, though it is difficult, I think slowly I'll make my own statement. Making my own statement is what I did. In secondary school, I observed that everybody have to follow a certain rule on dressing, by wearing uniform and stuff. What I did is to be different by not breaking the rules. And I think I did when I started wearing plain white specs to school. Though it is very eye catching, nothing in the rule book says I can't wear white specs. In a way, I set the trend that lasted till end of my secondary school life, because by then the principal set new rules..Hahax! Too bad.. I somehow became a trend setter for once. With that, I tried to put it in my designs. Once, we had to do a presentation board on social studies, we were given a plain cardboard to paste our studies on it. I thought it through, and put the element of design to it and make people who view it, feel and experience they never did. I simply change the cardboard to acrylic and put sliding mechanism on it to make it interactive. It turned out to be great. Though, it still takes time to master, I believe I can do it, someday. Feeling good, by making people feel good is my way of life. In order to do that, designing has helped me in many ways than one. And that is how I landed in design. If it ever become my occupation, I would be one step closer to being the happiest guy on earth. Other things make me feel good too. There is always a woman behind every successful man. Thats what they say. I don't know about being successful, but to me I believe, what pushes a man to do the things he do and not give up easily, is having a girl by his side. Thus, he has someone to motivate him further. Another aspect of my life, that I believe fuels me. Until then, that's it for now. Aidie blogged @ 7:11 AM "Doing your best and giving it your all will get you somewhere. All you need to do is believe in yourself and knowing what you want." Growing up with such an awesome family who supports all the things that I do, makes me appreciate the things I have in life. Sometimes I stop and look back at what my family have done for me to become the guy I am now. They sacrificed a lot for me. As a good son and a brother, it's only right that someday, somehow, I repay them. At the age of 7 when I first entered primary school, I wasn't quite really a studious boy. At that time, all I wanted to do is have fun and play with the toys I have( I like Batman toys then) and of course do some doodles. During classes, especially in mother tongue classes, I would just copy other people's homework and pass it up at my own. I can't quite recall what happened in other classes, but all I know is that when I got my PSLE results, I flunked. All I can do is to get into a secondary school under the normal academic stream. Looking at my PSLE results and looking at the stream that I went to, I realize that the time to wake up is now. As I know that I can do better, I paid attention in every class just to prove myself that I am better. At the end of the year, I was blessed with good results and edusave awards. It made not only myself happy, but my family too. From than onwards, I bagged edusave awards for every year untill the end of my secondary education. Though my O'level results were not that fantastic, I am proud of myself for giving my best to every subject that I took. Though I still do not enjoy the subjects in school, it has taught me that studies are studies, and one should always give their best to whatever that he or she is studying, even though its not what they like to do. After going through the forest of primary and secondary school education, I now find myself a step closer to paradise. My dream job, my paradise and all the things I enjoy doing is within reach. To get to there, that is when the foundation of primary and secondary school comes in handy. When I reach there, I will never forget to repay my family for their support that they have given to me. During primary and secondary school, did I have a life? Did I even went out and mingle or did I just sat down alone and make studying my life? People say life is a balance. I would tell you how I tried to balance out between having fun and being serious, next time... Aidie blogged @ 3:07 AM "Creating wonder is like being a magician, it makes people laugh with happiness with the tricks you can do." In the midst of my 'Aidieation' sketches for the corporate gift design, I went blank. My 'Aideas' came to a stop. I can't recall the last time this happened to me. Well, as a child, I enjoy taking a piece of paper and pencil and start drawing. At that time, I was soo into Dinosaurs. So, most of the time I tried drawing all kinds of Dinosaurs. T-Rex was my fav one to draw. Slowly but surely, I manage to draw out, what I would call, an acceptable piece. Just looking at it after good comments from my family, filled me with happiness. I guess, all of this started happening when I was in kindergarten. What happened was, during arts and craft period, we get to dip our hands in paint and create hand prints no a piece of paper. The 1st time I experienced joy through my creation was by my kindergarten teacher. She commented that I was gifted. Feeling overjoyed, I showed it to my parents. They liked it, and I liked it that they liked it. Hahax! After a few years of practice, I got the hang of basically draw from what I see. I put myself to the test by getting a detailed shaded Spider-man picture and try to make a copy of it. With me being the photocopy machine, I managed to do the job. Extremely excited of what I could do, I showed it to my parents. They were so proud of the things I could do at a young age. I know that it was a joke when my dad said to do a colored version, but again during my free time I did it. It looks as though I put color to the 'photocopy machine' when it was done. My primary school teacher saw it the next day, and told me that she was going to put it on display somewhere i school, but until now that drawing is still missing. School was always boring when I was in my primary school, as I did little drawing due to the school work I was caught up with. Once, I was drawing out something in class and got caught. It was confiscated and I had to see the teacher after class. After class, the teacher gave me a lecture, but I was crying when she said she had never seen such excellent drawing at my age and admitted that she herself could not do such things. One thing is that I never thought my drawing was that good, and I somehow pity her for not having the ability to draw. Now, that I am in a diploma course in design, I can draw all I want in class. Hahax! Yes! But now, good 'Aidieas' are hard to give birth to. Sitting here with only a few 'Aidieation" sketches, I am wondering how to produce the wonder I could when I was younger. How I end up doing design? How I end up moving towards a creative mind? That, is another story.. Aidie blogged @ 12:21 AM |
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