finally! more pictures 

I think i have learned something. I know why i am back learning design. why am i not doing photography? or art? why design? i have come to learn that design allows its practitioner to get real close to the subject, learning the ins and outs, all about the subject. with this, i am appreciating things in life. i am beginning to appreciate the complexity that goes behind the process in coming out with a product.  we often use a product but take forgranted the beauty of its design and its intent. with that, i am beginning to appreciate nature, how its being made. how its free for us, or is it? does living with nature come with a price?

Whatever it is i am doing, i think i better consult bruce lee. (bruce is my dentist, for real). i seem to have this stresses that i have been clenching my teeth and grinding it. i can feel it when i wake up. ha.

its 2 weeks to end of semester. crazy time. ernie is just enjoying life going around the region filming his CNA docu, bryan just done shooting SIA A380 in toulouse is having a hell of a time in london. me? what do i do? i join competitions and make it work 2 weeks before the sememester end. ha. what do i get out of it? good thing the trip is coming up.

stay tune for more exciting adventures of mingo domingo. i sure surprise myself at times.

its been 3 days after CYX and since the dream while i was asleep, i am also beginning to day dream. it also helps with the skies being so blue, the trees so green and the things around looking more interesting. i think its good to get away to the countryside once in a while. i did not sneeze a bit while at gardenasia. i have sneeze more than 10 times today. don’t know about you guys but i feel a little sick with the air around here. i can’t imagine mira going back to that smog filled city of hers. its scary. good thing there are heavenly donuts there to compensate.

i dreamt of johnny and kenny.

they had sent me on a competition, a singing competition of sorts.

and i had this little electric guitar i was playing. i asked johnny

“so what happens if the strings break during the performance”

“thats your new challenge, you have to figure it out” he said.

i woke up right after that.

ha.

so what happens now. the competition’s over and life goes back to normal. i will go back to school come tomorrow, back to deadlines, the major project, the thesis. i am happy the program has come to a close with many reluctant to say goodbye. well, the good thing is its open up new friendships, exchanges and ideas.

i am glad i did not change my mind about coming to the competition. with deadlines coming real soon, i actually comtemplated not joining CYX. now that i have gone through the 10 days of grilling and drilling, i’ve decided i should continue what the mentors have left off- the search for the green secret within me. i am honour that Gardenasia has signed us on as their green ambassadors. this will surely be a good thing for all of the participants to continue keeping in touch with each other and with the green secret that has been unleashed.

i have never really like plants. i have recently become a convert on green/environmental matters but still i had no liking for plants up till 11 days ago. so what does it mean to have a plant? i never thought its as tidious as keeping a cat or a dog. my cat is independent and needs little care from me. (well, she goes to the neighbours’ so much, sometimes i forget she is mine) So, keeping a plant alive isn’t an easy task at all. i am beginning to like the idea of keeping one.

apart from the green talks and ideas we have had for the past couple of weeks, i have been doing a bit of thinking and this process that i just went through was catalytic in making my thought processes crystalised. there is no definite conclusion to these thoughts as yet but i know its growing healthily.

i am writing a critical report on sustainability and all these thoughts and processes are really coming in handy. i have had 2 blogs before and they both died a natural death since i have been so busy working for the past 9 years. i have got a good feeling on this one though. i believe it will survive cos i know what i am going to use it for, at least for now.

the program had us designing and thinking of ideas on products. i have never seen myself as a product designer before. my view’s changed now. i am glad i took a break from work to come back to study. i have to say that its the craziest thing i have done to myself this year and i am still coming to understand why i am doing what i am doing. i do know its a good thing i have taken on and it will change my life forever. its not like i have stopped being inspired. i do feel tired of doing the same things i do for the last 9 years. i cant say i am a master at it already but i am confident i’m able to come up with a good set of pictures with a narrative.

what i am so glad i did is that i have been able to let go of all that comfort and a wonderful life as a photographer, and all the perks of being one, to become a learner. first school, now this new ideas of green secrets- i know i will come to find a new identity for myself. i have never really done so much of conscious thinking in my live and i am happy i am. in the process of coming up with ideas and concepts, i have learned to flow with my mind-like ideas will come if you talk it out- to me, that is understanding the subliminal side of my being. i like to continue learning more about this side of me more consciously.

so what’s next?

i need a hair cut.