March 2012
1 post
Work in Progress
I know it still looks raw and incomprehensible without me explaining the significance of the lines. I guess I still have a lot of work to do to better explain this without me talking.
February 2012
12 posts
How To Know What You Want To Do In Life →
What Do You REALLY Want? | PickTheBrain |... →
“You aren’t getting anywhere because you don’t know where you want to go.”
33 days to final presentation: Monologue
I can’t sleep.
It’s either to do with the kueh I had before I decided to turn in because I was hungry OR the too many things that’s going on in my head right now. Can’t believe I can’t sleep even though I slogged through 3 hours of sleep yesterday. 3 hours ain’t nothing to boast about. Just that I haven’t stayed up to slog for some time already.
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Want vs Need →
The Art of Living
The project serves to explore aspects of living in a visual language that represents emotions, experiences, thoughts faced in this project year as a creative. Housed in two themes, journey and balance, each theme contains visual meditations that correlate happiness, reflections and day to day musings in a visual form. The journey depicts a voyage of becoming whilst balance takes on pairs of...
On Learning
“Let the tutor not merely require a verbal account of what the boy has been taught but the meaning and the substance of it: let him judge how the child has profited from it not from the evidence of his memory but from that of his life. Let him take what the boy has just learned and make him show him dozens of different aspects of it and then apply it to just as many different subjects, in order...
“Montaigne ‘On Experience’ & defecation” an essay... →
Montaigne disregards the entire study of philosophy up until his own time and replaces it with his own idea of philosophy. He uses the word “me” to both express the idea of ownership of the philosophy but also to emphasize his philosophy is based on examination of the self. It is obvious that Montaigne studied many others, in addition to himself, and clearly understood their importance because...
On Experience
When the mind is satisfied, that is a sign of diminished faculties or weariness. No powerful mind stops within itself: it is always stretching out and exceeding its capacities. It makes sorties which go beyond what it can achieve: it is only half-alive if it is not advancing, pressing forward, getting driven into a corner and coming to blows; its inquiries are shapeless and without limits; its...
On solitude
If you do not first lighten yourself and your soul of the weight of your burdens, moving about will only increase their pressure on you, as a ship’s cargo is less troublesome when lashed in place. You do more harm than good to a patient by moving him about: you shake his illness down into the sack, just as you drive stakes in by pulling and waggling them about. That is why it is not enough...
What can designers learn from exposure to... →
January 2012
19 posts
Montaigne, philosopher of life, part 1: How to... →
(Note to self: might be useful for my research paper)
The Happiness Project: Quiz: Are you a Moderator... →
I’m a moderator. I need sleep and will sleep (at least a few hours?) even with crushing deadlines because I will aim to finish them as on time as possible. I still watch dramas but with an allocated time slot and once a week. Yep, I’m a moderator. Think I can add this idea to my balance umbrella.
The Happiness Project: Self-Acceptance: Are You An... →
I think I’m 75% a leopard, 25% an alchemist?
fluxhibition #3 - Boxes, cases, kits, containers -... →
Fluxus kits
From Designing Design
Today’s designers are beginning to realize that endless possibilities for design lie dormant not just in the new situations brought on by technology, but also in the common circumstances of our daily lives. Creation of novel things is not the only creativity. The sensibility that allows one to rediscover the unknown in the familiar is equally creative. We hold a great accumulation of...
Week 3- presentation afterthoughts
There’s still so much to do. So much to read. Right now my project has taken an abstract turn, it’s kind of like art now, but a part of me wants it to be clear and more of “design” than art. What I like don’t quite tally with the visuals I’m producing. I can’t waste time thinking so much again. But whatever visual I have now, I’m still not quite...
To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion - Oliver... →
Not sure if I agree with this but this is quite a different pov
UPDATED Description
Version 1
The project translates a series of self-imposed challenges into a system of visual language that represents a journey. The journey being a symbolic representation of the feelings, experiences and thoughts faced at the point of facing graduation. The challenges being experiments that I put myself go through metaphorically, of the questions that I ask myself for example: How will I...
Semester 2 Week 1
It’s been a while. So let me update in words what I have been doing and how I’m feeling a little stuck now. I created 3 themes before the semester ended: Journey, Balance and Time and a manifesto related to these three themes to anchor whatever experiments that I’ve done into these “3 separate files” so that it would be easier for me. These 3 words were recurring...
Updated Project Description
How do I get to where I want to be when I don’t know where that is
The project title is a question that I often ask myself and even more often recently at this point facing graduation. To answer the first part of the question there’s a quote from Aristotle “Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life. The whole aim and end of human existence.” If happiness is the general destination that we as...
WatchDaniel van der Velden - Metahaven | Symposium I Don’t Know Where I’m Going But I Want To Be There (by MOTI)
Todd Kashdan: The Problem with Happiness →
What they found is that as people place more importance on being happy, they become more unhappy and depressed. The pressure to be happy makes people less happy. Organizing your life around trying to become happier, making happiness the primary objective of life, gets in the way of actually becoming happy.
What happens when we try to walk in a straight... →
December 2011
8 posts
Balance #1- Standing Egg
Experiment Standing Egg. I’ve seen photos of balancing stones and rocks, and also of eggs. So I thought why not I give it a try too? The purpose was to literally experience the difficulty of balancing. I didn’t think it would be very hard when I see lots of standing egg pictures online. So I decided to give it a try. Unexpectedly, it was very hard. After a while of futile attempts,...
Balance between reality and dream/fantasy ~ Sans... →
The truth is most of us are bored with the current state of our lives. That’s the reason why we are so into social sites like FB, Twitter…That’s the reason why we watch reality TV shows or gossip TV channels and readership for gossip magazines never seems to be on the decline. We constantly need a break from the reality. So we assume that by reading or watching other people’s lives we are going...
Closing the gap between dream and reality |... →
Here is a short visualization to help you close the gap: Close your eyes. Imagine your life 6 months from now. Think big. Have no limitations. See where you are, what you do, what is different in your life. Notice all the details. Be open to accept whatever comes up. Observe yourself, 6 months from now, in different areas of your life: work, friends, health, spirituality and fun. Take your...
Time - #3 Conjunctivitis Report
Conjunctivitis (a.k.a sore eyes) This’s not to scare anyone off. It’s just me and my sore eye today. The red’s not photoshopped, I reckon it’d take at least another week to be fully recovered. But at least it’s not as painful as the past few days were. I could barely open my eyes to watch TV then.
To make use of every moment and not to put my sick week to...
Time - #2 To be Idle
After spending most of my time lying on bed for the past 5 days, I came to the conclusion that it’s very hard to stay idle. To be idle is not even resting. Laying on my bed with my eyes closed and because I’ve already slept so much I couldn’t fall asleep is a horrible feeling. Even if I am procrastinating, I am at least doing something either watching videos online, surfing news,...
The Happiness Project: Your Happiness Project: Do... →
Hmm I’m writing and drawing something everyday.
Time - #1 Lunar Eclipse
I was browsing my fb feed as usual and then I saw lots of people posting photos of the lunar eclipse from their location. Curious I went to my windows and tried to see the moon too but I couldn’t. Thinking it’s a rare event I went downstairs armed with my cameras and tried to find the moon again. Alas it was above my block, no wonder I couldn’t see it. So I took a photo, using...
November 2011
16 posts
The Internet Classics Archive | Nicomachean Ethics... →
Happiness, then, is something final and self-sufficient, and is the end of action. But we must add ‘in a complete life.’ For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
三隻怪獸的故事~ - 彎彎～出門記得帶外套 - 無名小站 →
Day Zero Project →
101 things to do list in 1001 days.
荒島，蘋果樹，與木筏 @ 再度參見，九把刀 :: 痞客邦 PIXNET :: →
有一艘船遇上暴風，船翻了，有一百個人漂流到一百座小荒島。
每一座小荒島上都只有一棵蘋果樹，有的蘋果樹粗些，有的蘋果樹瘦點，
相同的是每天這些樹都會結一顆小蘋果，只要摘下吃掉，就不怕餓死。
於是日出日落，所有人每天吃著蘋果，眼巴巴地看著海平面出現奇蹟。
日復一日，無人前來搜救。
終於有一個人火大了，
他憤怒地砍掉了自己荒島上的蘋果樹，做成了一艘木筏，航向了大海彼端。
出發前，他怒吼：「他媽的誰想一輩子困在這裡！」此後頭也不回。
其餘九十九個人在各自的小荒島上，將一切看在眼裡。
有人說：「太帥了，我也要跟他一樣！」
有人說：「太愚蠢了，看那木筏的樣子就知道必沉無疑。」
有人說：「希望他成功，帶人來救我們！」
有人說：「別學他，他只是想耍帥，他只是想跟我們不一樣。」
有人說：「根據我的分析，他肯定是崩潰了，自我毀滅型的人格。」
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Abstract
Living; A Creative Process This is a project that documents this project year of living as a creative process. At this current point of time facing graduation, what lies ahead is much uncertainty and curiosity. To quote from Aristotle, “Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life. The whole aim and end of human existence.” One always seeks inner peace and look forward for a happy future, but how...
Wk 14: Recipe for inner bliss
to be able to juggle with dreams and reality
until dreams become reality.
; balance —-
to be able to withstand and embrace the
uncertainty monster till it is subdued peacefully.
; journey
—- have my time on earth spent meaningfully,
earnestly with people and the environment.
; time
