Thursday, December 25, 2008

bad news in Christmas

Today is Christmas day and i had a very bad news from my dad in Malaysia. My grandma that suffered from Kidney sickness had passed away this morning 10am. I felt sad that i cant go back to attend her funeral. I hope that she will understand my situation.

8 months before i come to Perth she only having a minor kidney problem and need to go treatment for her kidney. She looks healthy but who knows she was suffering from a serious inffection and went into a coma for few days. I followed the news from my dad for almost 1 week hoping she would fight for the sickness and recovered from that. Yet still Buddha loves her more than us do and thats why Buddha took her away from us.

I now just hope that she will live with Buddha happily and forget all the sorrows in her live as a human. Amithabha to her and hope she will be happy. Grandma, i will live strong here don't worry too much. I miss you, Love you, bye... Merry Christmas

X-mas Eve House Party

Hey Hey :) Its Christmas day today. Its the 1st time i celebrate my Christmas in Perth and it is an unforgettable memory and experience for me. Yesterday was Christmas Eve and once after i reached my working place, i was been invited to a Christmas House party by my friend Eunice that works in Sarpino's Pizza. Sarpino's Pizza is just next two counters from ours. We are quite close to them as they will always order their lunch from us too.

After a hard day working, it time that we finished working, so after we clean up the shop, we were prepared to go buy presents. Me and my cousin shared bought a Skyy Vodka and my cousin custom made 2 party pack sushi as well.

8pm plus we reached her house and the party started an hour ago so we just join the second round hehehe. The party was fun as there are alot of friends from Sarpino's Pizza come over. There are few of them drunk and the party ended around 1am. I didn't join the crowd much so i just stay beside and take some pics. The party ended up every1 happy~~

Although the party was not tat grand but its a new experience for me that celebrate Christmas in overseas. I will remember this experience in my life.

Merry Christmas to you~

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Work Hard Bro!

Now is holiday for me so my uncle arranged me to work more in the restaurant. From now on i will be working Monday to Wednesday in Mikazuki (Cockburn Gateway) and Thursday to Friday in Edo Teppan (Garden City). Working in Mikazuki is still not bad although there are alot of work to do but i at least still have people to chat with me but working in Edo Teppan is quite suffering to me although the working load is a little bit easy. The working style in Edo Teppan is about teamwork but there still alot of things i not very sure. I just started working there so is abit hard but anyways starting from next week i wont be working there anymore hehehe.

Today is a hard work day as there are many work need to be done. Although they are quite teamwork but since i knew quite alot of things so they will "make used" of me to help them in the restaurant. I need to do from frying food to serving food, from serving food to food preparation, from food preparation to cleaning. There are too much things that waiting for me and i really feel tired about that. Working in the restaurant really not an easy job and the pay is not that high too. But what can do? Life still need to keep on going as in Australia, you don't have money if you don't work. So i will just take it as an experience that i learn while staying in Australia. At least i learnt something new for me.

As for the economic down turn, there are alot of people jobless and a lot of companies recession. So i should be glad that i still have a part time job that can keep me survive hehehe. So in this long summer holiday i will try my very best to work as much as i can so that i can save enough money to go visit and hopefully can save some to go back home. Just now my friend just told me that there is a company that want a designer and ask me to call them up to have a try. I just hope that i can faster finish up my portfolio and be prepared to go for interview. Anyway, life still need to keep on going as there is no easy way out. Everything need to pay for the price. So...work hard bro~

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Holiday+ing

Whoow~ feel that just come Australia and now studied was over. It's holiday again haha and this summer holiday will last for around 3 months until the next year. Ever since i come here i don't have much time to go visit around so this is the best time for me to visit all the place that nearby. I just looked back on those travel brochures that i have and i found that there are few place that gain my interest to go such as the Swan Bells, The Army Museum of Western Australia, Yanchep National Park, Fremantle Prison, Whiteman Park, Swan Valley, Rottnest Island, Penguin Islan..etc etc. Some places are entry free and some need to pay but is a small amount so i still can afford. I plan to go do photography while having vacation. This is the time for me as i am here now.

In Perth, Australia there are alot of nice places that are worth to visit especially in down South. Place such as Margerat River is a example that you can see alot of greenery and natural scene. Margerat River also a place where they have grape yard and they produce nice wine there. It is good for those people that have been living in a busy city for long time so that they can relax their mind and get some fresh air.I think it will be a different experience.

Planning is still a planning. Without enough cash, i also cant have a fun and happy trip so for 1st i will try to work for more hours so that i can get to save more for my trip fund hahaha. Vacation in Australia is not cheap too but need to think of a cheapest way to go travel. I got some informations from my classmate that been there before and they said that in order to go in a cheap way is to go backpack. There will be alot of backpackers hotel to stay in and it don't cost that much. For me i think that that doesn't bother me as long i got a place to sleep haha. Hmm.. I think also time to get more information and get those things ready so that the trip will be fulfill. I still start my holiday trip from the nearest place. See you all in the next blog then. Cheers~

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Grad Exhibition Nite

Welcome back~ So in this blog i will show u all how is the Grad Exhibition night on 13 Nov 08. The function will start at 6.30pm for industrial people and 7.30 for friends and family members. Liquor will be provide on that night too so people can get drunk there haha. These are some of the pictures that i took on that night. So basically i will just show a bit of the pictures as i am busy talking with friends and tutors that night and some of the pictures that i took are blur too (without tripod XD). I also took some pictures with my classmates and friends but i still havent get it from them. If i get to get them in these few days then i will upload it to share with you all. So i hope you all will enjoy it.












Grad Exhibition

This Grad Exhibition was held in 13 Nov 08 and this Grad Exhibition was for the 3rd year graduates from design departments. The title was named as "Creative Juices 08" and it was a function to let graduates have a chance to meet the industrial people and hope the industrial people can get some fresh meat in this function. The Uni will invite as many industrial people as they can so that hope that the graduates have the chance to get a job after they graduate.

In this Grad Exhibition, we will need to come out a promotional banner, a business card design and a portfolio design. This will come out as a set of promotion items and the guests can look on the works of the graduate. The Uni also designed a publication for industrial people and graduates to take away. The publication is named "Assorted Volume II". This publication is about promotion as well. Each graduate will get 2 pages to put in their artworks to advertise themselves . This is also a way to show what skills that they can do.

So, in the nex blog i will bring you all to the nite of the Grad Exhibition Creative Juices 08.



Creative Juices 08 invitation card




Assorted Volume II

Finding Curtin Pt.1

Curtin Print & Design


Kiribili Cafe


Architecture and Planning Building
(Sculpture: The Cyclops by Howard Taylor)


Faculty of Built Enviroment, Art & Design (Inside)


Beautiful Flora


Architecture and Planning Building (Outside)


Beautiful Landscape

T.L Robertson Library (Inside)


T.L Robertson Library (Level 6)


Bookmark Cafe (Outside)


Bookmark Cafe (Outside)


Atkinson Forum


The Vege Patch (Outside)


Lecture Theater


Davis Theater


Infront Davis Theater


Teaching and Research Centre


These are some of the pictures that i took around the university and these pictures are used in my Graphic Design brief5. The assignment is about promoting Curtin University by using pictures to get the interest of the reader and i will use my character design (Billy Wonder) as a sub element to bring the fun feel so that the readers wont feel boring after looking on those pictures. Hope you all will like my pictures. Cheers~

Finally everything is over

After few months of rushing assignments, finally i can rest now. Time passed very fast and is already 8 months i stay in Australia. After all these busy times and hard work and now is the time for me to clean up all my stuffs and upload all those pictures that had been stored in my computer for quite a long time. So hope you all will enjoy the photos. Have fun~

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

WHAT A LUCKY DAY

I was so happy today and today can consider as my very lucky day. Today just in time i get to finish my assignment that due at 12.30pm and i get to be in class to have group discussion and get feedback. Although i might not done it very good but i had tried my very best. After the 2 hours class then i went to library to continue doing my another assignment for visual communication practice. We suppose to show semi final concept to get feedback in the 4pm class but i only get to finish up rough sketches and some concept ideas. Anyway i just hope that luck will side on me and let me pass. In that class not much classmate attend and not much of them have much work to show haha so i think i can considered as lucky because there still have more people that accompany me. The tutor cant do anything but just asked us to make sure have more work to show on the next class and if not she will double deduct our marks. Lucky~ Lucky~ So lucky i stayed until the class end and so lucky my classmate Bim send me back home. While walking to her car we have a chit chat about our assignments and what we should do. My luck is not tat bad today. While walking and chit-chatting, i saw a 5bucks note on the floor. Immediately i pick it up and told my friend Bim. This is a lucky day for me.

I reached home around 5.45pm. As usual i will change my shirts and later on sit infront the laptop and start MSN. As i had said today is a lucky day for me. I heard a good news from my primary friend Lim Teck. I bet this good news is also a good news to all my primary classmate. The good news is he said he had found our another classmate>>Vong Poh Chin which lost contact with us after graduate. We have been looking for her for quite a long time but nobody knows where she go or what she is doing. This was pity because our relationship with her during primary time was not that good. As you all know that small kids will always have their own favorite gang to mix around with so i think we all should be forgiven, heehee. Ya, so this is the most happiest thing for me and yet it is really a very good news for me today. Lucky~

I really hope that there will be another primary friend>>Yu Ting will go and confirm that she is the girl that we looking for as Lim Teck don't dare to approach to her hahaha. Anyway he had already done a very good job for the class union. I decided to make hima trophy and present to him in the next gathering and i bet that will be the ceremony for him haha. Really hope to look forward on it and hope we all really have the fate to meet again. Gambate my fellow classmates. Lucky~

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Serious Disease for designers

Laziness! Laziness always the 1st killer for designers. Laziness is just like a disease and it will slowly spread and easily effect others. Laziness is always around us no matter who we are and what we do. In creative line, i will say that laziness is a serious disease because once you get this so call disease, u will lost your motivation in doing things and will just always slack around.

To my fellow design line friends, we all know that in design line we always need to do a lot of researches and read a lot of articles in order to understand what is going around us and this will be easy for us to overcome our design brief. Sometimes we even need to work over time to finish up those projects. We can never skip this process no matter how busy we are. We always need more time in doing research and time/deadline always the obstacle for us to do more. So, in order to get the maximum solutions in minimum time, we need to manage and make use our time well. Every single minute is money and we cannot just lost it without doing anything. I remembered that when i was in my college time, my tutor asked us a question before. The question is "how do you love graphic design?". I was not sure about the answer that time but now i can tell that i love graphic design very much and i will sacrifice most of my time for graphic design. So, how do you love graphic design?

I hope that there will be no this kind of disease in your body and wish that you will be a successful designer. Do remember that do more is for your own benefits.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Self Promotional Banner

Wow~ finally done for my self promotional banner that will be place during the group graduate exhibition on November. It took me few days to trace those drawings and few weeks to get feedback from the tutor. This promotional banner is to describe myself and the style that i like to use. So in my banner i just put all my drawings in. Enjoy the banner~

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Young Scooter Playa~

WOW! that is cool isn't it? I am doing my assignment for a skateboard deck design so for the promotional poster design i need to take some pictures from the skate park. From the place i stay i took 30mins bus and reached Southlands skate park. I was there around 4pm and there were full of youngsters and small kids that playing scooter and bike. I just walk around and took some pictures. I was suprised that there is a guy that can do extream stunt on his bike. His name is Phil and currently working. He told me that he had been biking for like few years so now just take biking as a hobby. After had a chat with him then i continue to take the photos for my assignments. The sky is almost raining but there still have a group of very young scooter players. There were around age 6-12. I was impressed that even they were young but as you know play stunt games will always fall and get hurt. They don't even cry when they fall from their scooter. Ouch~~ i felt pain for them (hee.hee). The know i was taking photos there so they also excited and ask me to take some of their photo when they doing stunt. Haha that was so fun. After play with them like around 1 hour, i finally finished my photo shooting. So is time to go back for dinner then. After said goodbye to them, i headed to the bus stop and waiting to go back. In my mind just flashed back how was their spirit toward stunt game. I fully wish that they will become a good player in the future. Cheers~





Sunday, July 13, 2008

1 day trip at Perth city

Wow~already 9am in the morning...i need to wash my cloths and hang it so that i can go city as i had planned. After finished all those works then i have my breakfast and prepare to to go out. Time pass really fast. Awhile already 12pm. After have my gadgets on then i faster go out and take the bus to Murdoch Station and meet my friends ( Michael and Angela ). This is the second time i take the train haha. Although don't know which station will need to stop but luckily i have friends accompany me so everything will be fine. Along the journey we chit chatted and after 15 or 20 minutes we finally reached city. Is Sunday today and as usu
al city will be crowded with people. I had planned to get a new nice jacket but ended up loitering at Boarders bookstore and spend me 65dollar to get some magazines. Although its expensive but still worth it because those are really nice magazines...Oppssss already 3pm now. We took the blue cat ( free bus in city ) to Swan River and for sure i wont miss a minute to take pictures ;P. Time pass really fast and its almost 6pm already. So we faster go and have our dinner. We have our dinner at a shop call Joy Cafe and its a Hong Kong cafe style. So we made our order and start chit chat until our food were served. The food were not bad. After having our dinner and the long chat, we were ready to go back home because tomorrow is another working day. I very enjoy the 1 day trip and its very fun. We had already planned. The coming Sunday will be Fremantle~Yahoo


Swan Bell Tower

I think it is having sunbathing.... >_<

Swan River View





Me at Joy Cafe





Saturday, July 12, 2008

Another Rainbow day

Another working day, another rainbow day. This time the rainbow just behind my house and i can c it from my room. Without hesitate no more, i faster change my working uniform and grab my camera then rush to behind the house and start photo shooting. Although just 5 to 10 minutes but is happy for me to took some nice shot~









Saturday, July 5, 2008

Wow...Nice~~

Today is my working day again, so early in the morning around 7.15am i had already woke up. After changed to my working uniform then I'm ready to go out. After waited for 15minutes, my friend had come to pick us (me and aunty) up. Today the weather seems not that bad and sunny while the weather forecast said it will be thunderstorm. Seems like the weather forecast was wrong. Hahaha. Anyway, while on the ride to my working place there is sunny all the way but when almost reach, i saw there is a rainbow in the sky. I was not that shock when saw it and aunty ask me to take picture. That time i don't take it serious because i think it was just a normal rainbow but when I get off the car, i saw the rainbow was very beautiful and there is a double rainbow. It is hardly seen in Malaysia. So before i go in the shopping center and work i took some of the pictures as memories.



(outside Gateway Cockburn Shopping Center)


(outside Gateway Cockburn Shopping Center)

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Ouch. Pain!

So hurt... i cut my right thumb and its bleeding terribly. But what can i do? there are still a lot of work need to be done. Luckily its almost time to go back from work and i am off for Thursday so i can get 1 day to rest at home (Wahahaha....). Its pain when my thumb stuck in the blade of the sushi cutter. I get the cut while i was washing it. I'm so careless that i didn't notice the direction of the blade (my bad, my bad).

I was wondering like those Thai people said if u wear those amulets u can have the kongkrapan (body protection from any weapon). While i was thinking of that then i think maybe mine is already not enough power and need to recharge by visit a Thai monk and ask him to bless it. Last few days i was watching Youtube sent by my friend and its talking about this kongkrapan thing. I don't believe with my eyes with what i saw. In that clip there show a few scene of the tattoo and there are a lot of people looking for this Ajahn Noo to get the SakYant ( Thai tattoo). Then the amazing things happen here. Got a scene Ajahn Noo use a blade and shave a guys leg and confirm that the blade is not blunt and then he start to use the blade and cut the man's hand then amazingly it has no blood and cant cut through. I really don't understand why it will like that. I think that is the power of that SakYant. There are many things that cant explain with science.

Anyway, Its late now, so i better stop writing and go to bed. If have chance then go to have a look on this website. Its quite amazing. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rniTYLje4iE ). Hope you all enjoy it and get to learn more about Thai Buddhism. Good night~

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Why some people wont understand

Human are strange. Some are smart and some are stupid. Those who are smart try to be stupid and those stupid wanna pretend to be smart. In a Chinese saying, there is a phrase that says you can be smart but don't pretend smart. I found that this is very true because there are a lot of people try to pretend to be smart. It happens everyday and has become a routine in life. A lot of jokes will start from here. Non of any human beings is perfect and human will make mistakes but if we are sincere in learning things and share our knowledge with others, we will learn better and will become more mature.

Today, i found that still have a lot of people that you need to tell them what they should do in details only they can start things. If not they will blame you because of not telling them what they should know. They need a step by step guide book so that it will be easier for them. We are too rely on spoon feeding thats why compare to overseas students we are much more leave behind than them. I bet that there are still a lot of them out there. This shows an attitude that they cant take responsible. You can learn from books that what you need to know but when come to work in society, you will need to explore by yourselves. Sometimes is not that you don't understand but is that you want to understand or don't. You can easily ask but most of the people choose to shut up and when things gone wrong they will say you are they one who didn't say it clearly. Now, that is the time to push away the responsible and start blaming on others and giving excuses to themselves. When will these people learn? I remembered that when i was in primary school, my teachers always will ask us to ask if you have any questions but most of the people will keep on shut up and wait for the answer. They wont take the initiative to learn by themselves.

We had a mighty brain which can think and explore things but many of them choose to let other people think and assumed that is natural for others to tell them what they should know. This is not a positive way of learning. We cant blame them of being like that. Its because they was not taught during their education period and yet it had become a habit for them. We need to make use of our brain so that we will not become lazy and too rely on others. There is a difference between creative and not creative people. In order to become a creative person, you need to read more, observe more, explore more, listen more, and fully make use of your brain. Giving excuses to yourselves will lower down your personality. It's the time to think carefully in which category you wan to involve in and start to make some changes now.

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Human Behavior?

Since hundred thousand years ago, our ancestor had already told us that you need to be careful people around you. I 'm wondering how true is it even to the closest people and those that stay together with you. Human are believed to be selfish and they will only care for themselves and might harm others for their profit. Now i know what my ancestor meant by that. They are telling you to be more self protected and don't easily trust people because you will never know how other people will treat you.

So, in order to be self protected, people start to wear "mask" and hide their sincerity,kindness and lots of nature behavior. They can be nice to you in front and back stab you behind. You will never know what had they done to you while you still treat them as the person that you can trust. Now i understand what they mean by a Chinese saying "姜jiang是shi老lao的de辣la". The meaning is in order to get a hot ginger u need to get the old one. The metaphor is old people will always have more experience than you. But I'm so disappointed that they didn't use that to educate the young generation but use that for their own profit.

I hate posers and two headed snake and i admit that. Since a very long time I already don't like people that like to "pose". I very hate that when i found it and yet the acting is lousy. People will act one kind in front of you and act another kind in front of others. I'm the center person that is why i can see it clearly. Is this the so call skills to survive in working place? I don't think so. If you really have the qualification you no need to do those kind of things. Only those villain will do that (if i can, i will slap them hardly). But i do learn one thing which is if you stay humble beside an old cunning fox for some time, you will get to know all their weakness. People will start to be ego and like to show off themselves when there are people praising them or raise them high above. That is the best time where they will forget and show their true faces. Laugh now, but one day we will in charge. Yea, that is a word from my favorite graffiti artist- Banksy. Remember, one day we will in charge! Don't do anything to them because they are poor little creature. They need to play with dirty tricks to take your attention. Only those who think themselves are smart will do that. Let them think they are the smartest in the world.

When talk about poser and two headed snake, i will meet them everyday. I have already immune with that and i believe that with the sincerity that you have, evil will cant easily beat you. Gambate

Monday, June 9, 2008

Congratulations~Finally done it

This is the 4th month I come to Australia for my further study and because of rushing and busy in my assignments, I finally end my 1st semester and get my holidays now. Today I'm not working (part-time job for my uncle-sushi shop) so I get to sleep until quite late. But when I woke up, I can feel that there is a strong momentum asking myself to start create my blog.

I have been desired for a blog quite a long time and because of those excuses (busy, don't have time, tired...) thats why until now only I start to work on it. It's been like around 1 year I talked about it. What a shame when talk about it :P

Today also a birthday of 1 of my best friend's (can call as brother) birthday. His name is Kenny Tay. I knew him since secondary school and always "lepak" and "yamcha" together. I do miss those days because now everyone is having their own life and things to do. Anyway I'm also here to take this opportunity to wish him have a very happy birthday and hope he have a very wonderful day.

Alright~ so now i will declare my blog opening. Welcome to view and leave comment.