posters for 2 of the group design projects this semester

taking a step out of the usual foot steps, i realised that there are really a lot of information all around me. everything seems interesting enough for me to think about investing a little bit of time exploring it, yet there are only 16 working hours every day.

the campus papers, the international tribunals, CNA news, fiction books, a new interesting film, an old interesting film, that website that teaches Korean language, the newly discovered Scandinavian indie bands, the website that collects some awe-inspiring product designs, the one-day lomography shoot that i’ve always wanted to embark on…

Bookmarks one too many, and I don’t know when I’ll be able to get back onto them.

Oh, december it seems? When dreaded exams are done, the streets are decorative and all is rosy.

Oh, but there’s still FYP. fuck.

We should really start thinking about how life starts and how it ends, and think about how to fill the spaces in between with a multitude of emotions that is gratifying enough not to be forgottten. – November 6, 2009

From today’s lecture. Some lectures can be genuinely interesting too.

just thoughts..

if you don’t even have faith in what you have done, who are you to convince?

if a little more sensitivity is exercised, you would have considered the amount of work the poor chap spent in getting the mechanism to make it even work and not blatantly dismiss it as being too simple

if two wheels is suffice in getting the bicycle to move, do you need six wheels just to appear more sophisticated?

oh well

an excerpt from one of the readings for my FYP

Everything human do is tinged with emotions. Emotion changes the way we think and guide us to towards the good. Affect and emotions are crucial in everyday decision making according to neuroscientist Antonio Damasio who studied people with impaired emotion systems. These people are unable to function effectively in the world because they were unable to make decisions. They could describe how they should have functioned in a logical and rational way but still couldn’t determine where to live, what to eat or what products to buy. The people in Damasio’s study were often unable to choose between alternatives, especially those that appears equally valid. This is where the people with intact emotions would choose something because ‘they just feel like it’. Such feelings are expressions of emotion and are crucial to human behavioral.