Episode: Sentosa internship interview
Monday, June 23, 2008

After three weeks of "holidays", we were back in school. The first thing that everyone notice when they walk into the studio is there were no more tables and the arrangement of the tables were different.

We sat down, and VC lesson starts. Maniya showed us the slide shows we did for the photo taking journal. Then, we handed in our food photo taking pictures to her. She showed it to the class, but the class seems to be more interested in what their classmates did during the holidays.


At around 10, the people from the University of Chicago came to give us a lecture about the importance of user research in design. They were the same people from the 50+ workshop. They are Bruce and Stephanie Tharp. Yup, they are husband and wife. Actually Stephanie is a few months pregnant as I can see.

They first started off by introducing themselves and the things that they do in the Unversity of Chicago. Then, after a short break, they get into their main lecture. It was very lengthy I could say, but it was meaningful and I can put that application to my studies. Too bad that most of the class decided to doze off on such interesting information.


At times, I do get distracted, especially when we had a class committee discussion a few minutes before. These were more of distraction of 'Aidieas'. What happened was that, Glenn said we need to have some cosy area, as well as a place to keep books for our own library and some furniture for the studio. I thought about it until the lecture starts and mid way into the lecture, I did a sketch of one of my furniture design ideas, but with added features.


I was thinking of making a furniture that can be used in the cosy area and at the same time has a storage for keeping the books in the furniture itself. I thought it was brilliant. This design was one of the unselected few by Edwin(lecturer) that I really feel that there is still something to it. I feel strongly about it, so it would be cool if I were to make one or more for the use in the studio. If after doing it, if it seems unsuitable, then I would gladly put it to my own use.

At around 4, my class ends for the day, Ivan, Rui Hon and myself went to Sentosa for the internship interview. We took the NEL to Harbor Front and then, took a complimentary ride towards Sentosa island. Rui Hon was arranging his portfolio.

I was familiar to the Sentosa office, as I went there with my gal for her interview months ago. The auntie at the reception counter, I think still recognized me. After a few minutes, we went into one of the room for the interview.

I started off 1st. I think, I could do better. My portfolio was not that updated, and it was still filled with year one exploratory works but more to sketches. Rui Hon was next, he did better. But the best was Ivan, he was really trying to convince the employers to choose him. I was not comfortable with the interview, mainly because of one of the interviewer. She is the designer there. Throughout the whole interview, all she did was sit back, observe and folded her arms. With her short hair and clothing, she look like a tomboy. In my opinion, her body language tells me that she is showing that "I-am-better-than-you" face. I mean, come on! Lighten up! Even my lecturers smile, and famous designers make slight humorous speech. She did not smile or hardly even speak at all.


The interview ended at around 6+. All the way home, we were making funny comments on the lady designer. In the end, we felt that either one of us who gets to spend our intern there, needed lots of luck..haha. None of us feel that we wanted it, just because of the attitude that lady designer had.

I made a joke, it seems that us three are like the three guys in the M1 commercial coming up with the four handles mug. We should do the dance that they did as well..haha. That would be comical.


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Aidie blogged @ 9:59 AM

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