The Inkblot Test

LOOL. My very first post here. Oh, wow.
I finally found out what my login ID was and so forth.... *cough* Skip that.
=) For those who have READ my latest post in my LJ (or have been keeping intact with my LJ. Grrr XD), you know what's coming at you.
Especially Daddy Scott, since he was the first person I saw online which I ranted to about. Hahaha.

But I'll have you know this.
This test is freaking scary but true.
It has been rather accurate for me... especially the entire report I got (and saved in my computer).
Just a wake-up call to everyone who haven't DISCOVERED their subconscious mind.
I'm not sure how accurate it will be for you guys... but it turned out really accurate for me.
For your further understanding, the Inkblot Test has been used over and over again for many years to understand and comprehend the subconscious mind of humans. It is rather used to make inferences about human personalities. Different methods and different analogies of how they are answered has all linked themselves to interpret the real minds of each person. Like analyzing handwriting.
Only that this time you answer what you make out of the images.
Special thanks to my cousin, Charlie, who gave me the link to the test.
So people, knock yourselves out with Hermann Rorschach's work.
And believe me when I say how freakily accurate it is.
Because this would be your subconscious mind answering every single answer for you.
And you can't run away from subconscious mind, can you now? =P

The Inkblot Test

Enjoy yourselves.
And be prepared to understand a little more about you.

With loads of Love from the Banana Republic,
Rinana Banana

Anti-Branding

Alright Diedethians, listen up. What I am about to show you and tell you is something that may shock you. You may even want to know why something as radical and somehow silly like this exist, but let me assure you...it is very real. I was introduced to this organization by the gf and after some research of my own, I have adopted their cause and support them. For those of you who are majoring in AD, this is a heads up for you. I know this may not affect Malaysia in the next century but it will be beneficial for you in the future to know that such a cause/movement exist. You lose nothing and have everything to gain by learning about them and how they operate. More importantly, how they may eventually affect or even influence the industry that you are working in. I must admit that one of my personal goals is to be able to collaborate and possibly work with this organization in the future. I cannot link this with the class blog because this is nothing but bad news and headache for AD students. On the other hand, they may also be able help you become better at what you do by keeping your ethics straight.

Pay the Adbusters a visit and go through some of their work. They have an army of creative individuals comprising from all different walks of life behind them, supporting their work and cause. Their spoof ads are creative, at least the ones I've seen printed in their magazines. They are upfront, they are provocative and edgy but they do it for a just cause(at least to me personally, whether it is right or wrong really depends on you). I agree that our daily lives are being saturated by mindless marketing and endless buying chants. I need a break from that. It is my right to be free of mind spams. Now you know why Chris is a little anti-advertising. I am all for Design and Advertising for a the right cause.

Now that you know, you can find out more if you choose to. Read either this (which I am going to by as soon as I find it) or this.(which I have) I'm making my own blackspot shoes. Anyone else interested?

cheers,
Chris.

Confessions of the Opinionated-Diedethian...(yet again)

Hello, children of the revolution. Once again I come in peace, am making it a habit to start on neutral grounds with every single new post. I am here once again to remind my fellow TOAians and lecturers (who have now developed a habit to stalk this page), this is a BLOG! Whatever the mods say here are purely for the self-expression and to get one's opinion heard across the digital borders. We have a right to have our opinions and voices heard, if you choose not to listen to us in person well we're posting it for the ever prying eyes of the world wide web. If you notice your name mentioned here, don't be alarmed. It does not mean that we are all at war with you. You have your ground, we have ours and we're standing pretty damn firm where we are. If you feel offended by what is being written about you, we're sorry but that's just the way we feel 'at the moment'. It doesn't mean that we disrespect your or plan to do something terrible, we are civilized after all. There are always solutions to resolving matters, just don't make it any more worse by putting up a fuss. Let's just face it. You can't get everyone to like you, well similarly, I can't blog to keep everyone happy. Some will fall, others may throw tantrums but mostly we are all having a laugh. I am straight-forward and I know a number of us Diedethians are too. So we apologize (yet again) in advance for having opinions and voicing them out, the opinions remain ours and will NOT be pulled back. What's been said and done is now gone with the wind. Deal with it, as we live with the consequences of having to take responsibility of what we've said and wrote.

Now that we've got our matters resolved...who's planning to do 'anything' this week? I have had several Diedethians calling me up to tell me how boring life is. Oh well, can't have everything now can we? If you are planning something, let me know. I shall ensure the rest are notified. Till then, remember your options to progress and your figures. 8 pieces regardless of size! Good luck!

cheers,
Chris.

Oh yeah!

So I guess everyone's all geared up or already in a party mode. Well...hold your horses for a wee while, below are the list of people who need to get their letters from SRA. Yes that's right...the dreaded option to progress!

Bryan, Hailam and Zafri. - (Design 2)

I think a number of you got calls from zhou yu about Figure Studies 2. The full list will only be out on Thursday. I need volunteers to go to SRA and check for the rest of us, Diedethians. If you are going, please let me know and tell me the results so I can post them here for everyone's benefit. Thank you in advance!

For those of you who think this war thingy with Hooi Chiat is over...well THINK AGAIN! (Laughs like a madman!) Rin and myself is declaring cold war on all lecturers of TOA (except the Tans in DesignII and Pinky). Oh alright maybe it's just me! But still, I will declare war for the entire holiday and then resume student mode after that. After having a roar with one of the TOA staffs whose name I do not know but I will mention that she is one impatient bitch. Be civilized, will you? Bloody blowing the horns out loud for too long is actually quite annoying! I am standing right in front of you, yet you have to fucking jam the horns till the bleeding walls of Jericho come down! Patience is the virtue. I will apologize for double parking but you were just being absolutely rude!

Anyway...anyone up for bowling/skating tomorrow?

cheers,
Chris.

War you want...war you shall have...

It's Here! It is here at last!! The last remaining day of TOA(for this term at least). All the sleepless nights and forgotten CSI episodes and the PS2 games...they missed me and I've missed them! I can now rest and relax with them and spend time with them! I do sound like a raving lunatic,don't I? Maybe not loony enough. Nevertheless, I know everyone's been busy with their assignments and projects and figures and (shite)...so there was no update on the blog. Oh alright...so maybe it was my fault that there was no update. Well I was busy! (Sits in a corner and sulks).

Still, I was browsing through everyone's blog and discovered that Chen a.k.a Mother Superior has updated her blog. In it says that Debbie is disappointed with our class performance. Well, well...let me put it this way. I am not saying that it was not our fault but in my humble opinion, we are not all to blame for this. Yes, we had great ideas, fantastic ones that would excite the eye and blind the mind. Who plans to dissappoint anyway? It's not like we pre-planned it fail, shite just happens. Plus, it's not like we've never spoken to Debbie or Yuan Yuan about it. Honest to gawd, we've been shot at by a fucking shotgun at point blank range, and GAWD it bleeding hurts! I don't want to compare attributes of individual lecturers as each has their own uniqueness, but let me make this clear; it is more difficult to find good teachers than good designers..mainly because teaching is a selfless and self-sacrificing job. I don't have to be teaching to know it is a difficult job. It's hard enough to manage your own creativity but to manage a group of messy and unpolished diamonds each with their own individual qualities, not even all the power of Sparta can help one do that! I will admit that I personally feel that my work has degraded, not that it was of high standard anyway. It was not because I didn't want to do it, I really wanted to do well and I tried my best to do so. I'm sorry if it turned out to be shite and it didn't meet your standards but am only human. Just not good with my hands regardless of how hard I try. At least, I tried and I did the assignment! Better than to have dodged it completely and run like a coward. It's just that I know you(you know who you are) follow rules to the T; for that I respect you. Then again, is it really that difficult to bend it a bit and cut us some slack? Drill us if you need to, but be reminded that we may choke. I think it would help a lot more if you pay attention to us, students instead of the work we give you.(like I said previously) Assignments are dead, but we are alive. If you judge us only by the work we give you, then you're not seeing the other half of what makes us unique. It may not have been easy for you; you know what, it wasn't easy for us either but we perform despite the pressure and the drilling. We'll still be here and I hope in the future, we would be able to have a mutual understanding because I know it will be beneficial to you as a lecturer and to us as your students.

Before I forget anything else, Monday night pls be at TOA as we are having 'din din' with Irene and Helena. No we are not having 'lun lun' with them although some Diedethians have been planning to watch a movie in the afternoon after handing up our HAD 'Myself'. I do hope that you remembered to 'do' yourself in a painting. I seriously doubt we'll be having another exhibition next term but with Hooi Chiat, you'll never know. If you have my MSN address, you may have glanced my nick and see me declare war on her? Opps...did I just say that out loud? (laughs) Oh well...yes, it's true. I do not regret that I did, not that there'd be any real fight, only cold war at best. She is going to mark my work afterall so I guess it'll be cold war until I see her again on Monday. My marks for HAD exam should've been higher. As Rin would also be at this with me, would it really 'kill' to give us the remaining '0.5' out of '3'? I've earn more ticks in one answer than a bleeding survey form, only fair to get full marks! Yes, I am a self-righteous narcissist and (with posh brit accent) a bit of a 'bastard'.
It does piss me off a little to not get A for History (of anything) as I've always fancied History as much as History fancied me. If you're wondering what that means, well...let's just say History always finds a way to deal with my rather non-conformist and rebellious nature. So who wants to play History trivia with me?

Anyway, before I forget...gummyboy has requested that I put up a video entitled 'Ipohmali' by a local rapper called Point Blanc to which I declined. However, I am allowing it to be posted to the chatbox on the right. Reasons for declining it, (ah beng accent) 'wa kay el mali, ipoh pigi matii!'. *Coughs* (regaining composure) As I was saying, I find the video poorly done and it is obvious to me that it tries very hard to mimick MTV/[V] style videos. To be brutally honest, it looks 'cheap'. Plus the phrase itself 'Ipohmali' is a complete turnoff. This has nothing to do with racism/bias, I just prefer good quality videos done with either fine acting or directing or stand-up. Just like the one below, another dose of Eddie Izzard who now teaches us the difference of US/British films.



cheers,
Chris.

Breakfast ,anyone?

Alright, Diedethians...since we're not sleeping tonight, anyone fancy breakfast later? David was thinking of 7am but I'm thinking more of 8am really. So don't hesitate, do give me a buzz or text if you guys arrive early. Sohpia and I plan to have breakfast at 8am, everyone is invited of course! Text us yeah...

Best of luck! I hope we screw the 'Mistress' tomorrow and steal her whip!!

Cheers,
Chris.

Fortune teller ?

Firstly, you know all these fortune telling shits have been in our internets for ages and most of them are just a big pile of bullshit.

But for once i'm quite suprised at this shit myself.
Okay, well maybe not really fortune telling but more onto like this site will more or less tell you, your personality.
And it's quite/very/damn/etc accurate.
Give this thingy a try and you'll be suprised too. lol.

Click here !

For the rest of you diedethians, good luck and have fun with our 2nd last week of hell.
Once we get through this, it'll soon be over.

Any plans to do for our term break yet ?
Discuss ! Or i shall conceal myself in my room for C&C3 and GE. D:

Beings we love to be honest about!!

Firstly, I would like to roll out the red carpet and introduce to you all, Sir Fucktard. Everybody knows who I'm talking about.

Dear Fucktard, you are a poor excuse for a human being. I do not know what you do or what you've been doing for the past two decades of your life. I'm sure the memories and fun you've had were great but then again, they just made you into the poor sod that you are. I'm really glad that the term is ending in two weeks time and for the next month or so we will all be free of your stupidity and self-righteous remarks. It may not last but I sure as hell am hoping it will stay that way. I do not wish to judge you in any way (lord knows I've tried!) but unfortunately for us; you've made it so fucking easy for us to pass a judgement on you. The more I hear of about you, I almost feel guilty for pitying you. It seems rather clear to me that you've established yourself by posing as nothing more but a lowlife; making excuses and insulting other people's intelligence as you go. If you have time, please feel free to stare at yourself in the mirror. No, no it will not crack. As you admire yourself (which I know you do), think about this(if you even know what thinking requires)...your face is an icon for all the sad excuses (like yourself) out there. I'm sure you'll feel proud, please do...because only a fool would do so.

Dear Wanker, you are even worse than the one you aspire to be. If he poses, you just want to be. Somehow I think you two deserve each other. Can't have rain without clouds now, can we? Just for you, I will make it very brief. Why don't you use that piece of muscle between your ears for once and realize what or whom you are aspiring to be? Seems to me that you will always be following, tagging along really, behind like a sad little lost pup, with no ability to think for yourself. Wannabe, wannabe...how much more shall the rest of us suffer your cowardice.

cheers,
Chris.

Ode to TOAians...

This post is dedicated to all the beloved lecturers of TOA especially the ones were (and are still very much) involved in molding us, 'Diedethians'. We want you all to know that what you read here are nothing but pure honesty and sincerity from us to you. What you read, is what you get. We have a voice and we are putting it to very,very good use. Should you find it rather inappropriate or offensive in any way, we are very sorry to say that 'we are NOT sorry for what has been mentioned' (unless stated). Quite frankly(yet again...honesty at work!), we are all just having a laugh really; by the sound of our laughter (or mockery, if you still insist) you may already know that we need laughter in order to stay mentally sound. So (as I have promised to Scott earlier) I will now list down the lecturers we are about to be completely honest with! (In no particular order...)

(1) U. Sankar - I do not take his class personally so I guess it would be unfair for me to be honest with him. But I have been told that the constant repetition of secondary school syllables is unnecessary and a misuse of time really. Well...only repeating what I've been told.

(2) I-Ching - Totally rocks our socks *COUGHS*... minds !! (smirks) No seriously... she is the only lecturer who made us truffles! Chocolate truffles! Oh how we love you, I-Ching! Rin says that your shrine is in working progress (or so I've been told)! We miss you.

(3) Gary - You have taught us more about laughing and crying than anybody else. Comm. Skills had been fun and Drama was stressful, but in a good way. You forced us to experience using our emotions and think out of our little conventional boxes (otherwise known as the mind). I will speak for the rest of us...'Diedethians' existed because of your classes. We are now fucking stuck to each other for the next two years, possibly even the next half of our lives. For that, we are eternally grateful.

(4) Debbie - We respect you. We honestly do! We know that you have gone through much trouble to have to deal with us, trust me, I know we are a difficult lot! I as monitor, will say this... I personally enjoy your classes. I blabber more than I should, but am only being honest. You would have inspired us much more if you paid a little more attention to us, instead of the assignment. Please don't judge us by our assignments, they are nothing but mere moments of our confusion.

(5) Pinky - We cannot help but participate in your lessons. You incite and inspire us with your thoughts and experience. I get a lot of 'Aha!' s whenever I attend your classes. All in all, very thought-provoking and challenging, yet awe inspiring with a dash of nostalgia.

(6) Hooi Chiat - Thank you so much for enduring our endless questions/doubts/toutures and David's 'ideas'!*Rolls eyes* We know,we know...we are trying our best to keep him at bay. Nevertheless, you give History a whole new meaning. Your carefree and down to earth methods of teaching stir our minds more than any artwork ever would;for that we express our love. We will always be grateful for your patience and how you handle our often messy and undeveloped creativity.

(7) Irene - This will be brief because quite frankly, there are no better words to describe how fortunate we are to have spent Design II with you. For a jolly good lecturer whom we will miss as you go, we wish you a relaxed and groovy journey ahead. May you lead a fruitful and incredible life as you excel further regardless of where your journey takes you!


Any other takers? (laughs) We've spoken. We're here and we're staying for the next two years. We will continue to be as we've been and hopefully mature with even more grace and creativity, always with a dash of wit and a shot of cheekiness!

cheers,
Chris.

youTube, iTube....everyone tubes!

I guess we're all very fond of youTube now, not that I mind really. I must admit I am a bit of a youTube addict. I've watched countless indie films (banned ones usually) and the entire fucking season four of 'The L Word' on youTube (in bits and pieces of course...the rest is imagination, have been told I have a rather vivid one as well!) All it takes is a little searching and whole LOT of patience! Quite recently, I may have even tried to convert my gf into becoming one, fortunately she didn't. (Guess you now know that Chris isn't always the smart one!! The gf is ... *grins like a fool* ) Anyway, I may post other Eddie Izzard clips (if you haven't already loaded them onto your 'tube'...you dirty, dirty gurls...*snickers* ) some time in the future.

As for now, I want you guys to check out this clip by one of my favourite bands, Sigur Rós. You will not understand what they are singing because its Icelandic, however I will include a link below that has done us all a favour by translating everything into good ol' plain English for our benefit. If you really fancy Surrealism, this is the 'band' to be stalking and obsessing about. All of their MVs are surreal, even the song and music itself is surreal with half a shot of expressionism and a dash of abstraction. I know David and Bryan knows these lads, but I guess most of us are into music and this one is not classifiable into one single genre. It seems to be whatever you think it is...new age, indie, rock, soft rock, fucking weird, ballad...whatever turns your wheels, I guess. If you do have the time, check out their other MVs on their website or youTube. I get inspired and moved every time I listen to them or watch their videos. I hope you would be too.



Sigur Rós - Hoppípola

Translation

Cheers,
Chris.

Hiatus

Will not be in TOA on monday and tuesday. Am down with food poisoning, given two days on m/c by my doctor. Will try to be better on Wednesday. Sorry to hear about your mobile, Michelle.L. I hope the bastard who stole it dies.

cheers,
Chris.

Untitled.

On the way back from Malacca, we're bored so we recorded this random thingy.
By Ting Wei lol.

DeathStar

Due to popular demand and various requests, here is the much talked about 'Deathstar via Eddie Izzard!' Enjoy!



cheers,
Chris.

p.s - for all everyone who was with me during the Malacca trip, I send my eternal gratitude and love. Thanks for being there for me...I heart you all!