Our first assignment for Design Studio 1 is to design a pencil case using either  wood, metal, foam, rubber or wax. We didn’t get to choose the material on our own but we could always exchange it with other people. I initially wanted to do metal but changed my mind to accepting anything I get just for the thrill of not knowing and I got wax. and at that time, I had no idea what I could do with wax. It didn’t even cross my mind that candle is wax. hahah.

So anyways, this is the first stage of design process, to explore the possibilities of the material. We are not supposed to make anything yet, not supposed to make it beautiful, or represent anything at all, but to experiment and stretch the potential of wax.

Experiment 1: Casted in random metal shapes and stuck the abstract pieces together.

Experiment 2: Casted in handmade aluminum foil casing and experimented with water to create voids in the wax.

Actually, I meant to update about this since few days ago but the fact that I needed to install windows refrained me from doing so. The disk failed to partition so I went through the hassles of erasing my hard disk, booting, and formatting my mac. I called Apple Care support and they were very helpful and I somehow managed to partition and install windows 7 without a problem. Wasted a lot of time. Should’ve called ’em in the first place. yeah, silly me. sheeesh.

Well, at least now I know how to format, install, backup and restore on Mac. hahah. *sedapkan hati sendiri*

Anyhoo, I took some pictures while installing. So, lets see them first, shall we?

Oh, I love the fabric! It almost like splashes of paints in a glance, reminds me Jackson Pollock’s contemporary art, except it’s actually a more abstract form of flower print. heheh. As usual, I use Japanese cotton. The usual price is about RM48 (approx US$14.4) per meter, if I’m not mistaken. I saw this fabric a while ago but when I came back to get it, it wasn’t there. Then, I dug piles of remnant fabrics and found it, only RM30 (approx US$9) 2.6m! Am I lucky or what? 😀

For this particular dress, I used Celestina pattern from Burdastyle website. Much thanks to Eddie for making this possible :p Anyways, I modified the sleeves to be a straight sleeve, and made the hem shorter.The belt is supposed to be tied on the back, but I like it much better in front! hoho.

*off topic*

oh yeah, I now also can take a deep breath of relieve and so do you (maybe) since somebody is generous enough to offer a sponsorship for my blog! For some reason, he’s keeping his identity secret and won’t reveal even a name. It was only until I insisted that he told me to link to his website, Sejukz.org. Thanks so much! So, yeay! I’ll keep blogging! hehe :p

Now, moving on.

My exam has ended. It was one-day exam. Technical English and Building Construction only. That’s the thing about Architecture, or most design courses -you don’t have to sit for much exams, just more on the technical or theory stuffs. I should be really happy, yes. Gone are the days of FML moments until next semester. yeay.

But for some reason I’m not really… happy? I don’t know why, I wasn’t even relieved. Okay, maybe a little bit.

That evening, I went home, cooked dinner for my family and right after dinner, I went to sleep, woke up for 3 hours and got back to sleep. After a grand total of 14 hours of sleep (as payback to those sleepless nights), I woke up only to feel dizzy whole day and took 6 tablets of paracetamols. haish. I think I’m a workaholic. I get depressed when I don’t have any work.

*sigh*

I really have no idea how I did this semester. NOT AT ALL. I can’t even tell which subject I’m gonna get an A. I don’t know. I usually can tell, but not this time. Not even IBS.

FML.

First, get some grapes and put it in the blender cup.

Then, add some strawberries.

chuck in some ice.

Blend.

Serve.

Just drink it straight from your blender cup if you are dead lazy like me.

Also, you may add some icing sugar before you blend it if you like it extra sweet. (I like it extra sweet too, only I like them in my chocolates for that extra sugar rush!)

Now that you have your sugar rush, you are ready to study, and you will have less chances of getting bored and move on to facebooking!

Most importantly, the hyper-activeness from the sugar keeps you awake during studying*. yeay!

*theoretically speaking

I have exam tomorrow. English and Building Construction and I’m soooooo worried about English! ZOMGGGGGGG. Bye.