Forced Connection

It was believed that 2 objects that are from different element could never be mixed.

Like how Sky and Sea are separated. 

Like how Sun and Moon would never meet each other.

However this topic had put this old theory to challenge.

We are required to mixed two different element into an object.

NATURAL VS MAN-MADE

Firstly we had a flamingo as a bench.

HOW?

Easy, we had flamingo's back supported with a wooden plank, comfortable for us to sit.

What's this weirdly-shaped cap?

It's actually a combination of a mouth plus a helmet.

The lips of helmet is cushioned so that the wearer would feel comfortable but still has the purpose of a helmet that is covering the skull.

Both fashionable and quirky at the same time ;)

Thirdly we have a volcano-shaped flute.

How can something so scary blow out something so gentle?

That's why we are here to challenge this!

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SOFT VS HARD

Water could be frozen to Ice.

And we have Nitrogen ice-cream.

What's that cute looking little ghost doing.

Don't be fooled.

It is actually an arrow!

Say goodbye to your traditional wooden arrow!

We present the newest creation!

The Cloudrick!

It is actually a cloud-shape brink, adding some softness to your handy denty brick red Brick.

With it stack up, you could create the most dreamy house ever.

Feels like you are living in the cloud, doesn't it?

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A lot of different elements could be mixed into something fun and wonderful.

If we are fearless enough to try and experiment, the outcome could surprise you to no end.

We wait for the moment when Sky and Sea meets.

A Pencil of Everything

This is Mr Passion.

His eyes sparkle with enthusiasm and his mind burns with passion.

He helped his owner by transiting his idea into a beautiful piece of essay. His passion to help and convey had gave his owner high marks and praise for the well-written essay.

This is Mr Sad.

"Why so sad, Mr Sad? Why do you have a missing part on your head?"

"Whenever I made a mistake, I will be punished by using my head as an eraser. I tried to avoid mistake but it is inevitable. I made so much mistake that I had a missing part off my head."

This is Mr Brave.

Why do he has a scar you may wonder.

It is because he is not afraid of mistake. He had countless mistake that made him has a missing part on his head, like Mr Sad. The only different between them is Mr Brave is not afraid to face his mistake. He corrects them! 

This is Mr Le Creative. 

He's France, in case you didn't notice his beret and his moustache.

He likes to use his creative brain to create breath-taking art pieces. He has endless creativity. So envious! 

This is Mr Greedy. What is he up to?

Because he likes his owner's presence,  he kept on making mistakes, mind you, the same mistakes, so the owner would take tens and hundred times to amend it. Weirdly, Mr Greedy likes that a lot.

And we have Mr Hardworking. Why do he have Mr Brave's scars and missing part and Mr Le Creative's Beret? Also if you haven't notice, he's exceptionally short! Because he is Mr Hardworking. He's not afraid to make mistakes, he could amend his mistakes countless times till he arrive to the correct one. He's not afraid to show people's his scar because that is what got him to be what he is today. He would keep on trying till his lead got short and needs to be sharpen, which explains why he is short.

He is creative because why not? Everyone needs a little art to survive. 

Faces, faces everywhere

Human eye is quite a funny thing.

We are able to see things out of ordinary.

We are able to create faces with everything.

We created animals with clouds,

We created face with objects around us.

And have you ever wandered why?

I did a research on to why so and I came across this article on the net which explains why.

(read it here)

We are primed to see faces in every corner of the visual world.  — Kang Lee, University of Toronto

While it might be easy to conveniently spot a face, it's definitely 100 times harder when you are told to do so.

What a big O surprise face.

Seems sneaky.

What a kawaii face!

You can actually see 2 faces here. 

Looks like a bear.

Haha cheat code but yumz.

"That, in turn, seems to have triggered a region called the right fusiform face area – the part of the brain that responds to actual faces, which may reflect the uncanny feeling that we are looking at a real thinking and feeling being. “If that’s activated, we know they really are ‘seeing’ a face,” says Lee."

A Better Arm

Everyone hopes to improve ourselves in one way or another.

The evolution of man has proofed that we had advanced to a totally different being from what we was before (a monkey? But nuff say we share more DNA with banana.)

Though the evolution, we human being are greedy creatures that craves for more.

The advancement we have now is remarkable, but 10 years, 100 years down the road, we might advance into something else.

Maybe we will be impaired with X ray eyes that can see through 100 layers,

or a pair of legs that can be transformed into wheels to transport everywhere we want.

But today, we will discuss about arm, a better arm.

After planning, I had finally came out with the (near) perfect arm that all beings desire.

Meet John, the Better Arm.

Although the arms looked normal here, but don't get deceived! The fun is still not here yet.

The arm is able to inflate itself to become a comfortable pillow that's ideal for sleepy students who don't get enough sleep!

It can also be a FOLDABLE and PORTABLE chair. Ideal for those lazy people who gets tired easily after standing for prolonged hours.

This is how it look like from side way.

The only down part is that it's a tad bit short.

It can also be switched to the TURBO mood, which enable you to escape difficult situation in just WHOOSP.

Great for runner too :)

All you need to do is just to continuously swing your arm.

To attract attention! In a good way of course.

For example, you could wave your Hot pink arm in the crowd so that your friend can spot you.

Fluorescent yellow to stop an incoming car from approaching you.

Wave to notify someone that you're drowning in Electric blue.

It's also available in Stunning green and Orange orange!

It has a control panel to control all the functions.

Yes! Extension!

An arm that allows you to hook up to 5 bags!

Say "NO" to 2 trips of grocery carry!

What were you thinking, Tom?!?

One thing for sure, Tom either have a very bad eye sight, OR, he's not observant to his surrounding.

Well, I couldn't blame Tom for being attracted to the painting of lovely flowers. 

I mean, it's in his face, it's attractive, it's beautiful.

But however, Tom could have flew around the room a little longer before settling for the painting.

Because of that, he missed the REAL flower, which caused him to not me able to carry out the transferring of pollen.

Which will lead to him not about to carry the pollen to other flower.

Which then again might cause the extinction of that specific flower.

WHICH THEN AGAIN caused him not to be able to make honey.

WHICH THEN AGAIN AGAIN place the bee kingdom in some kind of danger because there's no honey.

Okay, someone will have to correct me up there.

But because of muddle-headed Tom, the consequence is huge and unbearable.

This could be applied to our life. 

TADAAA

You see, humans are visual animal, meaning, we are easily attractive to things that perceived beautiful to us.

I don't disagree with that, beautiful thing attracts to me more easily than things that are, if I shall say, normal, or plain.

However, what we often neglect is that the fact that physical attribute are not everything we are looking for.

In Tom's case, a painting of beautiful flower with no real value (to carry out pollination), is a painting that's useless to Tom.

Because Tom could only admire the flower, and that's all he could do.

But instead, the real flower, though took longer time to notice, was what Tom looked for.

  

 Beauty may define one's popularity, but it's the personality that defines yourself.

I'm ending this post with a song which I find very relatable to Tom, it's titled "Fading flower" by Yuna, a Malaysia Indie Singer.

Break the rules

He is a person who uses vulgar word like it's a greeting.

He is a person who has thoughts like imaginative 5 year old.

People who reads would have know him.

Well, people who reads Chinese.

He has written dozens of book, he directed 2 movies.

He is none other than Giddens Ko，九把刀.

It is actually kind of uncomfortable to type in English since he is a Chinese author, however, for the seek for my grade, I will try my best to type in English.

I came across this author from his latest hit movie, "You're the apple of my eye".

It's actually his own love story when he was still a hot-blooded teenager. 

It could have ended up like those typical love novel that you could pick on shelf, read a few pages, and guessed it ending. 

But no.

Gidden is no joke.

It's true that love story has only two endings, it's either they are together, or they are not.

But what makes a good love story is none other than the journey.

Gidden's journey of Love maybe a bit plain in layman's term, however he has captivated the reader with his playful use of words, mind dialogues, and kuso characters. 

But this is not my favourite book from him 

My favourite book(s) is this pathetic love story.

A story between a lover who aren't fated to be together, ending up with them separated by death.

If you think that this is your typical "It's the end" story, you're terribly wrong.

The story doesn't end when the male lead dies, instead, that's when the story starts.

I shall not spoil the story line by telling you the content, but this is the story that brought me to tears.

NO JOKE, TO TEARS.

Gidden is not a man who's full of jokes and vulgarities, there's this sensitive and emotional side of him too.

He carefully written out the internal struggles of the ill-fated lovers.

He could make you notice the little things in life that you could not notice.

Before I entered NAFA, I was in MI studying H2 Chinese.

It's a subject that almost everyone dreaded, but I loved it.

I loved that Chinese, with just a few words, could express a way deeper message.

I was aspired to be a writer, a writer like Gidden, one who's quirky,  break the rules of traditional writing. 

Even though I'm no longer studying Chinese, however this will not stop my passion for Chinese. 

I will (try to) continue write posts that everyone can relate to ;)

“什么是恋爱？就是相恋的两人都有相同的美好回忆。回忆存在于两人不必言传的老地方， 琅琅上口的电影对白，一首老歌，一份收悉的菜单。

站在老地方，你会被发黄的空气包围，你的胸口沉闷，透不过气。

听到电影对白，你会回到那个初次约会的电影院，你不会记得电影好不好看，但你永远记得身边女孩的发香。

逛街时听到曾经的老歌，你会在试衣间里，抹去不知道从哪里生出来的眼泪。

一份看过百次的菜单，会带领你看见年轻的自己，正搂着年轻时的老伴，一年又一年，她陪你度过每一个纪念日，度过每一条皱纹。”

-九把刀 “红线”

Finally crossed the road

We finally had our presentations!

Hurry to closure of 100 ways to: Cross Road.

It's great to be working with such fun-loving and responsible group mates :)

 Heated discussions was held as groups go up to present their own "100 ways to".

Some ideas was deemed as irrational, unrealistic, creative and what not. But hey, however in the end of the day what matter most is that we enjoyed what we came out with.

But it's also good to see that class mates are paying attentions to the presentation and give a piece of their mind.

Constructive feedbacks rocks \m/

The above two are drawn by Yours Truly :)

However if I have to choose the most practical one, it would definitely be to roll yourself across the road.

Floating maybe in the near future? 

To roll does not require as much energy as walking does, all you need to do it to curve your body up, and roll.

There's no need for hand-leg coordination.

No need to worry if you look good when walking.

No need to worry if hair is blowing your direction.

You just need to, roll, and roll, and roooooooollllll.

And the next moment you know, you're there at your destination. 

Till the next post!