This week, my team (Sabrina, Dave, me and Akshay) and I did forced connection again. We had to use a few of the food items given to create a new dish/ food item. Our team had many interesting ideas, and we chose "Masala chicken Twisties", something thats new and exotic.
We chose this because it might remind some people of home cooked food, but in the form of a bag of chips. And because masala is so yummy, we made it so that those just craving for a taste of masala chicken but are not actually hungry, we have this more convenient, less filling and greasy way to satisfy the craving for masala chicken.
Links to my teammate's blogs:
Sabrina - www.nursabrinahussain.blogspot.com
Dave - www.mikhdave.blogspot.com
Akshay - www.rakshay19.blogspot.com
Wednesday 15 October 2014
Monday 13 October 2014
Reflection on my creative thinking class.
This creative thinking class is something new for me, as I have never attended anything like it. The modules really challenges us to think out of the box and creatively with NO boundaries, and I have to say that this is my favorite class each week, albeit short. This is the class that takes my mind away from the stress of my other modules because I have never once thought that the class was boring, and this is definitely good! I have learnt how to work with different types of people, and work as a team. Initially most of the teamwork started out more one sided, like, we would separate work and do all each with little discussion. As time went by, me and my usual were getting more and more active in discussions. Without my awesome teammates and lecturer, I wouldn't be having so much fun in lessons and group work! This will be a module that I will never forget, because of all the teamwork, fun challenges and lessons, and I will cherish everything I learnt and experienced from it.
Monday 29 September 2014
Oxygen in a bottle
The class were assigned with group work this week. My team members are Sabrina, Akshay, Dave and me. We were all tasked with creating "Oxygen in a bottle". The description written on the board was about the Coca-cola company coming up with a new product, with oxygen as the product. From my team's point of view, we didn't see it as a Coca-cola related product, since its just the company that's manufacturing this product.
When we think of "Oxygen", we thought of light, fresh, cool, energizing and refreshing.
The colours green and blue comes into mind immediately.
So with these penned down, we proceeded to the brainstorm about the design of the product. Since it's air, once the can is opened, its a given that the oxygen will leak out into the atmosphere. So, we put a disposable miniature mask connected to a straw, so the oxyen will only come out through suction. The container will be made of plastic so that it's see through. The product is targeted at the general public, so the product will be widely available chilled in vending machines everywhere, as long as they need something to cool or refresh them because, what's better than inhaling cool air on a hot day after feeling hot and out of breath after your exercise?
Links to my teammates:
Sabrina - www.nursabrinahussain.blogspot.com
Dave - http://mikhdave.blogspot.sg/
Akshay - http://rakshay19.blogspot.sg/
Forced connection: Emotions and objects
The class was were given six words to make a forced connection with: Greedy, hardworking, brave, sad, creative and passionate. I chose the object "candle" and had to make a connection with the words given.
A sad candle has it's flames nearly extinguished and it's melting quickly sideways, showing that it's about to fall.
A passionate candle, in a shape of a heart representing the passion of love with it's flames burning brightly.
A greedy candle is big and spread out that seems to engulf everything in it's path, with an evil grin in it's flames.
A brave candle stands tall, upright and shines gallantly alone in the dark with it's big bright flame that will never be extinguished.
A creative candle's wax drips around it in a swirling manner, and makes the candle look as though as it is stylish.
A hardworking candle is a big and thick candle that is durable and does it's job well untill it's last breath.
Monday 22 September 2014
Objects/items that relates to me
Here, I have drawn items that relates to me.
A big bow and lace: Represents my love for cute and girly things.
Flowers, feathers and a seashell: My love for nature, birds and the sea.
Zigzag and swirly patterns: I like bohemian and Aztec patterns/prints.
Lotuses, a rabbit and the moon: It represents how much I love mythology and my Chinese roots.
Wednesday 17 September 2014
4 Lessons in creativity - Julie Burstein
I watched Julie Burstein's video: 4 Lessons in creativity. The video teaches us about how to create during the challenge of self doubt and losses by embracing them, and here are what I learnt and my views on what I learnt.
The first lesson refers to us and the Japanese art of making a clay pots, "Raku". After moulding and choosing the glaze, it has to be fired in the oven. After being fired in the kiln, cracks and imperfections appear on the pot and the pots were admired and treasured for their imperfections like the crackle pattern, which is stressful on the pots. Although it is difficult to let go of something you have painstakingly moulded, painted and baked, those are clay pots after all, and might shatter upon impact. I feel that this can be applied to a few aspects of life, like ourselves and the people around us.
Just like the art of Raku, we mould and paint our own personalities, life and futures. Imperfections in ourselves might appear after going through hardships and challenges in life, just like the imperfections appearing on the pot after going into the kiln, which is the first thing we will experience. After that, we might "shatter" any minute when met with hardships, like any clay pot would shatter upon impact - but sometimes it doesn't. But then is where you have to learn to let go and move on, even if we might really be "broken" Julie said "Creativity also grows from broken places.", and we have to embrace and accept our flaws and the things that has happened. You have to pick yourself up after some time of mourning and get on with life as a stronger and more experienced person that will be able to think deeper, wiser and more openly, that's when you will be all pieced back together, although different, but more beautiful than you were before with the new weathering and paint that explains your experiences to people.
The second lesson is about being open. Being open and doing what you love will lead you to more opportunities in the future, and you might eventually end up doing something that you love instead, which is living for the sake of working instead of working for the sake of living.
The third lesson is embracing experiences, challenges and limitations. You need to be able to embrace them in order to do what you have in mind, do not let these challenges barrier you, as there are wider horizons outside of the tiny well you are inside of. The first step is to bring forth the determination, courage and strength to step out of your comfort zone and take small steps in learng from your limitations. Very soon, we'll be climbing out of our little "well" out into the big world.
The final lesson is about embracing loss. However, I did not fully comprehend what Julie was talking about.
The message in the video was very deep, although I may not be able to explain much in words and may not be able to fully comprehend some areas, I have definitely learnt a lot. Creativity is essential to everyone, even if you are not an artist and we can draw creativity from any kind of situations, like the cycle of creation and destruction, control and letting go, picking up and patching up.
The first lesson refers to us and the Japanese art of making a clay pots, "Raku". After moulding and choosing the glaze, it has to be fired in the oven. After being fired in the kiln, cracks and imperfections appear on the pot and the pots were admired and treasured for their imperfections like the crackle pattern, which is stressful on the pots. Although it is difficult to let go of something you have painstakingly moulded, painted and baked, those are clay pots after all, and might shatter upon impact. I feel that this can be applied to a few aspects of life, like ourselves and the people around us.
Just like the art of Raku, we mould and paint our own personalities, life and futures. Imperfections in ourselves might appear after going through hardships and challenges in life, just like the imperfections appearing on the pot after going into the kiln, which is the first thing we will experience. After that, we might "shatter" any minute when met with hardships, like any clay pot would shatter upon impact - but sometimes it doesn't. But then is where you have to learn to let go and move on, even if we might really be "broken" Julie said "Creativity also grows from broken places.", and we have to embrace and accept our flaws and the things that has happened. You have to pick yourself up after some time of mourning and get on with life as a stronger and more experienced person that will be able to think deeper, wiser and more openly, that's when you will be all pieced back together, although different, but more beautiful than you were before with the new weathering and paint that explains your experiences to people.
The second lesson is about being open. Being open and doing what you love will lead you to more opportunities in the future, and you might eventually end up doing something that you love instead, which is living for the sake of working instead of working for the sake of living.
The third lesson is embracing experiences, challenges and limitations. You need to be able to embrace them in order to do what you have in mind, do not let these challenges barrier you, as there are wider horizons outside of the tiny well you are inside of. The first step is to bring forth the determination, courage and strength to step out of your comfort zone and take small steps in learng from your limitations. Very soon, we'll be climbing out of our little "well" out into the big world.
The final lesson is about embracing loss. However, I did not fully comprehend what Julie was talking about.
The message in the video was very deep, although I may not be able to explain much in words and may not be able to fully comprehend some areas, I have definitely learnt a lot. Creativity is essential to everyone, even if you are not an artist and we can draw creativity from any kind of situations, like the cycle of creation and destruction, control and letting go, picking up and patching up.
Monday 15 September 2014
The marshmallow challenge and 200 reasons.
Each group was provided a few sticks of uncooked spaghetti, tape, a roll of string and a piece of marshmallow. My group for the week consists of Akshay, Sabrina, Dave and me. We were given around 20 minutes and we made a marshmallow fort.
Links to my teammate's blogs:
Sabrina - www.nursabrinahussain.blogspot.com
Dave - www.mikhdave.blogspot.com
Akshay - www.rakshay19.blogspot.com
We were also asked to write 100 reasons "why" something happened based on scenarios the teacher gave us
Sabrina - www.nursabrinahussain.blogspot.com
Dave - www.mikhdave.blogspot.com
Akshay - www.rakshay19.blogspot.com
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