Mindmap time 2!

This is my second time doing a mind map with my team. With the same members, Dave, Olivia, Sabrina and me :)

This time round, we were assigned "Creativity & Innovation". So we discussed amongst ourselves and came up with 4 main branches: Expression and Imagination which was under creativity, Ideation and creation which was under innovation. This time, we decided to do things more differently, we each decided to take a segment and think about it ourselves, since it was a faster way - or so we thought... 

The splitting of the topics didn't work very well as Dave did not understand what his section meant and didn't ask. I can't blame him for that because it's not his fault. But I felt a little weird because he couldn't explain what he wrote. It was because we weren't communicating as a group, and everyone went to do their own things. It has became some sort of "individual group work" this time round, but I am glad that it's over.

Overall we did good but I think we could have done better. :)

Some blood was shed for the greater good. (Eeerrr hahaha it's just marker) 

Links to my teammates:

Sabrina - www.nursabrinahussain.blogspot.com

Dave - http://mikhdave.blogspot.sg/

Olivia - http://oliviastefanie.tumblr.com/

3 artists/designers who have broken the rules

Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood is and always has been my favourite fashion designer. Known for introducing Modern punk fashion into mainstream fashion. Daring and challenging, she is the kind of designer I want to be.

Punk emerged in London in the 1970s as an anarchaic and aggressive movement. The clothes suited the lifestyle of those with limited cash due to unemployment and generally, low income school leavers or students. Imagine how the public looked at these people, due to their piercings in other places other than acceptable areas, resale clothes which were cut up and redecorated. I would think the impression they left was not very good. I myself went thru a punk phase when it came to fashion, and the reactions I got wasn't very good especially here in Singapore. So I think how Vivienne Westwood managed to make punk fashion mainstream was very admirable as it was not something someone would usually do. 

She has appeared on the cover of "Tatler" magazine dressed as Margaret Thatcher (who was then the president), wearing a suit that was ordered for Thatcher which had not been delivered yet. And this infuriated Thatcher.

Pablo Picasso

Yes, Picasso is mainstream. But he DID break the rules after all. Drawing people in cubism was something he introduced. Afterall before Picasso introduced cubism, the artists in his period drew realistically, unlike Picasso wih dissected and misplaced parts of the human face in his works to a point where it looks almost  grosteque in my opinion.

Hirohiko Araki

Hirohiko Araki is definitely my FAVOURTE comic artist in terms of drawing style and fashion sense. His drawings breaks the "unspoken rules" of mainstream natural beauty - slim body and natural hair. His artworks are full of muscles, colors, patterns and ridiculous yet gorgeous poses, colored lips, exotic hairstyles, regardless of gender. And he draws some very very weird interesting hairstyles too!

As much as the poses are weird and not what's "acceptable", Hirohiko makes it work well and look so good and possible with his characters! Because normally people wouldn't make such exaggerated poses and look good at the same time.

Mindmap time 1!!

Me and 3 of my classmates Dave, Sabrina and Olivia were assigned to make a mind map together. We had to write and brainstorm about 100 ways to do something. Out of the several topics, we chose "Squeezing a lemon", "Crossing the road" and "Killing a cockroach". It was really fun as usual, but the team did not communicate very well because my teammates were more quiet and did not really talk. We still exchanged ideas, however. :) 

This is my part of the paper where I wrote most of the ideas I could think of. And I can assure you that everyone was racking their brains as hard as they could!! 

Group selfie!!

This is me hard at work, writing on how to cross the road.

Overall, it was a fun experience, and I hope we could do something like this again. I mean, sure, it wasn't the easiest thing since everybody didn't communicate much but it's not bad to work in a group. I learnt that many heads are better than just 1. I really can't imagine writing out 100 ways to do something by myself without getting fustrated. I had fun and I hope my teammates did too :)

Links to my teammates:

Sabrina - www.nursabrinahussain.blogspot.com

Dave - http://mikhdave.blogspot.sg/

Olivia - http://oliviastefanie.tumblr.com/

The Journey

Went to pasir ris to have steamboat at a friend's house. It was really fun as the atmosphere was warm and laughter everywhere and the aroma of the chicken soup filled the air. The taste of the food was really awesome and everyone's presence made it even better.

Took a 1 hour 30 minutes bus ride back from Pasir Ris to Woodlands. The bus was cold due to the aircon, and I everything touched and felt was cold. The bus was eerily quiet as it was a little past midnight, but I felt really relaxed and it allowed me to ponder about life.

Walked along Orchard road after school with my classmates, passing by many high end brands. It made me feel so out of place walking there, but oh well!

We finally found a seat after walking for so long, but it wasn't a very pleasant place to rest our feet as there was a smoker beside us, which made it very annoying for us as she was constantly blowing her secondhand smoke towards us. I felt that it smelled really bad so we quickly left after that.

We went into Ion, which was one of my favourite places to walk around, for some reason it feels so fresh and clean...? The floors were smooth and nice to slide on. 

I went to have dinner at Ichiban Sushi with my mother and sister. I was so famished because the atmosphere was really good there and the smell of the food there was just heavenly and the thought of my food which will come anytime just makes me even more hungrier than ever.

The texture of the squid was not bad too :) The soup was nice and hot and tastes sweet like any sukiyaki should and the beef was nicely marbled.

Went to Okada Coffee for a mini baking workshop. The whole shop is full of the aroma of delicious coffee. The shop has a nice calm and quiet ambience too! The instructor was demonstrating to us about how she coats the fruits in gelatin. The smell of the gelatin was not very pleasant, but the nice smooth jellylike texture makes up for it when you eat the glazed fruits :)

After she glazed the fruits, she placed the fruits along the cake with great precision. It smells so sweet!! We ate this freshly prepared on the spot cake afterwards and the cake was extremely soft and spongy, so is the cream!

The coffee smelled so good! And the biscuit that came with it has a rough texture, tastes buttery and crumbles easily in your mouth, unlike the smooth and bitter coffee.

Went to Vivocity with my family on Sunday and we went into the Swarovski shop. I really liked this wall decor which reminds me of molecular structures. the shop made me feel really awestruck with its designs, and the shop had many interesting decor which made it feel really ethereal.