Some 2012 Stuff - March

One of my renditions of the next D-Max. Sadly Isuzu has already came out with one.

B210/120y/Sunny Cockpit or in simpler terms - interior

Didn't turn out well, but inspired by the new design cue on the 3 series. Other drawing by the 500

One of the first sketches done by hand on my iPad lol

Victory! Peugeot Design Competition 2011

   It's time that I actually share with you about the progress on the Peugeot Design Competition 2011's result that we've been eagerly and patiently awaited for. Either ways, you would have probably found out about it  ages ago, thus resulting this post to be rather pointless. Aside from that, it would still be certainly useful to keep the victory moment documented and well remembered. Not to mention, to my avid readers (where I doubt I have any readers..)

     Anyways, to kick start it with some bubbly joy of enthusiasm. I have indeed claimed Victory over the secondary school category for first place over the number of other school entries. And with the declaration that's been made even before it happening, all credit and praise goes to the one and only who deserves it. You know who that is... Lol

     Now one of the few things that I would certainly highlight throughout the entire competition was how these few elements played such an important role, that without it, it couldn't have been any better. It's Grace, Favor and that special extraordinary spark that sets us apart glowing from the rest. One of them was when the judges themselves initially thought my entry was actually one of the college entries, but after referring to my application form they were pretty surprised or if not doubtful about my artwork, as they had wanted to consider calling me up to prove myself. In all other words, this is certainly more than what I could have imagined, that's definitely Grace and His hand working.

      So it was on Thursday morning that my parents and I left for NST in Bangsar for the prize giving ceremony. It was a wet morning, the day after KL had flash floods. The result was imminent. Rush hour and Jams. Eventually we still got there in time. The strange thing was, that my extroverted side of me had simply decided to activate on it's own. For some reason I was pretty excited to meet the other top 5 winners. No matter that I had won, but i had wanted to build and make connections with them. And it wasn't a matter of pride or being a show off at all. It was just honest, excitement of networking.

Far right, Jonathan Yip and the guy that won Fifth place, can't remember his name argh!

   Right back to the point. So while networking, second place went to this guy named Jonathan Yip. I was actually pretty impressed with his work. Along with the renderings he did. Which I later found out that he's studying mass comm, currently into photography, and a pretty well known blogger. I also made another friend which I got along better with was this guy that got 5th place and had came all the way from East Malaysia. I got along with him especially well partly because of my pity for him since his dad was busy with a meeting and had no one to hang out with.

The Golden shot! The minister checks out the artwork while the press surrounds him. lol

    Right! Anyways, there was a speech given by the minister, Peugeot's South East Asia director and one of Naza's representative. And yeah, pretty much a prize giving ceremony. Now to move on, as the prize giving ceremony had ended with interviews by the press, photography session and sorts, my parents and I had a really good discussion with one of the judges who was a professor. It was an interesting conversation especially understanding his own perspective of automotive design in Malaysia which is in its infants right now. Having discussed with him about the opportunities, growth and interest in Malaysia. He shared about his own experiences having studied in the UK and about his regret of returning to the country with extremely little job opportunities resulting him to become a lecturer in one of the local universities.

1st place - Secondary category. Ipad 2 and Peugeot goodies

    To get down to the real jizz of the story, in the past few months I've been searching for the right path to take in my tertiary education which I had posted about, Raffles college. It all seemed well during that time but the moment I received an email regarding the fee's, the amount was greater than my capabilities to make the decision. My decision was then left dangling again, requiring me to look for other open doors instead. And being unsure of what to do, I had seek for an answer, which the Professor in turn, had in view of what I was looking for. In the conversation we had, I reviewed through his words that it all made sense to take his advice to study industrial or Product design here. Not to mention take my degree elsewhere to who knows where. (some of the best places around.) Turin? Pasadena? Conventry? Well since then, I've been looking for a college. Sadly one of the ideal colleges I was planning to go had stopped offering the course in their list of programmes offered. Sad isn't it? Overall, the event was a great one, and I couldn't have done it without the one and only almighty friend. lol

To get the full details of the whole event, check it out here :-
http://www.cbt.com.my/2012/03/08/winners-of-inaugural-nst-peugeot-design-competition/

Stay tuned

Some 2012 Stuff - February

Some 2012 stuff - January

Bmw Inspired sketch

Random doodles. A concept of Fuction > Form

The Next Big Thing

     Before I really get into the details, I was reminded of this blog of two things. First, my friend Ivan and the next, some automotive design blog that followed me on twitter. And another particular reason that urged me to do something about the blog was that, while having breakfast yesterday with my friend, he highlighted some issues regarding my self expression. In other words, this post represents another step into overcoming my rather un-enthusiastic side of myself. Committing myself to my own creation and blog will probably still be a good investment in terms of confidence and new doors of opportunities. To be frank, there are many other good reasons why I could be blogging, just that I have plenty other more excuses not to.

Anyways, one of the next big things are on its way. That is, finally being able to go for the course that I have long awaited. If you still didn't get it, it means going to College. And if you need a more fancy way of describing it, it's something called Tertiary education. So anyways, how do I start off....

Now position ourselves like Spongebob. Think, Imagination!
*Note that it works, therefore I encourage you to use your imagination.

Let's go way back to 2 months ago in 2011. The month was November. It was almost like a Life and Death situation. Maybe not, probably just an exaggeration. But you get it. It was SPM.

Let's get down to the point. Like any other students, they've probably started thinking to themselves what they'll be doing in roughly about a few months time with their lives. In fact, I'm pretty much confident since I had already known what I've always wanted to do. Straight forward in that sense. Now there's a hiccup here. Living in Malaysia means that opportunities to enter an automotive design or transportation design course spells in-existence. And the nearest door is way up north in Japan. Thinking about it, I had two options. To either take up Industrial design or go abroad and study. Even if I did, Japan is not even on the top list for automotive design courses. Say the US or Europe (it means selling a kidney).

Okay, so during SPM, it was safe to say that it was still way too early to think about it And yeah I had plenty of time left to make my decision since I didn't kena NS. But anyways, it was then that I was talking to a friend of mine about how she got her prayer answered from God. Of how her course she wanted, suddenly got offered in a college right after her STPM. Well, 2011's theme was all about Living In Kingdom Miracles, so there wasn't any harm trying to pray and ask for a transportation design course. It's a pretty big thing to ask from God. I mean, I really did thought to myself whats there to lose anyway? Obviously, there were doubts. What are the chances some random college is going to decide to go, hey! Let's start a transportation design course. Seriously. What are the chances?

So the new year came and pass. It was the first week of 2012. Despite it just being the first week of 2012, somehow I did had that sense, God telling me to wait it out for a week more. Just one more week. Okay.. so there's nothing to lose again on that right? Strange enough, the Star had an education fair at the end of the weekend. So I decided to go for it. Having been to several education fair's before, you'd already know what to expect, with basically not much and nothing new to expect.

Apparently I was wrong. I was walking around the convention hall, knowing what to expect and I went over to the Raffles booth. Actually knowing that Raffles doesn't offer the course I want, I took the chance to ask more about their product design course instead.

Funny thing though, my conversation with the education consultant later went..

" Actually, I'm more interested in Transportation Design."

"Transportation design.. transportation design.. I've heard of that somewhere.." *he searches for something.
" Oh yes, we just started offering Transportation design in our Singapore's Raffles college" *flips through booklet.

And I was like, " Oh!? Really??? From what I know of there are no college's or institution's offering the course. I'm quite surprised! Really unexpected, I didn't know that I'd find the course here"
*In actual fact, I was more than surprised. In fact, I was more like no way... you can't be serious, holding back the excitement and seriously in deep awe of what just happened.

To add to the even surprising fact, was that I asked him when did the course started, he replied not long ago, around 2 months back, which was roughly the time I started praying. So for all miracles? This is one, I won't forget. Cause God is friggin awesome! It's too real to be a coincidence and it's something you got to be experiencing for yourself.

And so, the next step is probably to enroll into the degree programme which consist of a two years advanced diploma in Singapore. Yup indeed, it's actually pretty exciting. Cause it's Just the beginning. :)