June
28-Jun-2008
Is been ages since I last update so have to write something I guess...
Have been working most of the time and also still waiting for my visa. Just received my medical package and I would need to bring that to the immigration which I would be doing on this coming Monday. Hopefully I can get my visa fast and settle everything.
Finally 1st July is coming soon and now is the end of finacial year. Need to clear some tax thingy and after that I am all clear.
Now is the school holiday and have been travelling since a friend of Jeff is here from New Zealand. Went to a few places with her just to show her around but mostly in on the Coast.
Done some new websites and alsosome prints and will be putting them up soon when I have the time as I am really quite occupied this few weeks as I really have a few things to settle. Just hope that everything can be settled as soon as possible. Still undecided wether I would move out or not but will still look for a new place to stay.
20-Jun-2008
I HATE WAITING...
Just felt really pissed off this morning and don't really wanna blog it down.
Just finish most of my work for today and now having a break. Was looking at optus site as I was thinking of getting the iphone 3G when the iphone come out. But I am not really sure if I would want to get the contract from optus or vodafone. Have to do a bit of research this few days before the selling of the iphone. July 11 is the day anyway and hopefully there is good deals.
Still considering of some issues.
Surprisingly, my medical is ok this morning so can save some money at least. Just hope the visa can be approved soon.
15-Jun-2008
Finally have the change to upload the things that I helped Jenna. Al images can be clicked to enlarge by lightbox.
Australia Visa is stupid.
09-Jun-2008
端午節不知不覺就過了，根本就把這個節日忘得一干二凈。可能是沒人在這個國家會bother to提醒我吧。Anyway過了就算了， 今年比去年好些，今年有粽子吃去年卻沒有。今年姐的同事包了些，姐分了我一個，是港式的喔。去年沒吃到半個，想吃的半死，今年終於吃了。
覺得自己已經和一些華人的習俗脫節了，越來越aussie and 黑人nised。大多數是朋友的關係，覺得自己越來越不華人了。 這裡沒人說中文，更不可能有人會知道幾時過甚麼節。很多時候放假都放得很莫名奇妙，像今天是Queen’s birthday，可是我根本不知道誰是Queen，哪裡的Queen。
現在中文是爛的不像話，可能過不久我連中文都不會講了。
Was being asked by a girl, or my friends always like to say chick, what is the full name of the diffential in racing and I admit I was totally stunned. We went to search the internet and realised that she was referring to LSD (Limited Slip Differerntial). I guessed not a lot of people will ask this kind of questions especially for girls. Even I don't really understand fully what LSD does and also what does it affect but I only know that is something that control the speed of the wheels slipping and prevent over spinning. I must say that I am happy to know girl who can talk about cars and also knows about car tuning. According to her, she wanted to get a Honda Prelude. Hope she can get one soon and being a Honda fan, I really wanna test drive that car.
Should be uploading some work that I helped Jenna soon.
08-Jun-2008
As promised previously, I would upload some of the things that I helped with and now they are up. There are more but decided not to put so much. This is also the first time I inserted images into the index page and have to do some new css. Felt a bit rusty as I am like stuck with some of the padding and margin issue again. Took me some time to figure out or maybe I was just feeling tired.
最近聽到村上隆這個人，所以找了他的資料。覺得他的style非常有趣，很日本。他的“supeflat style”還挺有型。以前不知道他那麼有名，不過現在可以用他的style來做reference。
村上隆強烈意識到：西方的當代藝術與日本的藝術創作是截然不同的，重要的是我們這一代人如何不依靠任何固有的文化體系而創造出最本質的東西。因而村上隆作品既融合了東方傳統與西方文明，高雅藝術與通俗文化之間的對立元素，同時又保留了其作品的娛樂性和觀賞性，是一種結合了日本當代流行卡通藝術與傳統日本繪畫風格特點的產物。
村上隆 作品趣味性十分值得一提。村上隆將米老鼠的變體形象植入自己的作品 mr. Dob，將它視為自己的化身並成為獨特的視覺符號。
村上隆的作品不僅在全世界許多著名博物館展出，而且在商業上他也是個炙手可熱的人物，曾取得了令人驚嘆的業績。
不僅有曾在紐約克裡斯蒂拍賣會上拍出了56.7萬美元天價的金發卡通美女ko2小姐 (玻璃纖維制，高約2米)；讓全世界女性追捧的LV也頻頻與他合作，裝飾有他設計圖案的lv手袋，每只售價高達5000美元。mr. Dob 的形象也曾被印在T恤衫和氣球上大量發售，成為深受年輕人喜愛的潮流品。
村上隆 (Takashi Muradami) | Kaikai Kiki Co.
06-Jun-2008
I have been up for almost 30 hours and I am still not fully recovered. Have been up helping people with their assignments, mainly Jeff and Jenna and now I am really super tired. Just have to wait for Jenna to come back with her printed stuffs and then she would drive me home. Really like Jenna's work as I think that her work is very aussie and is really interesting. Was really glad to have the chance to help her to layout her work in Illustrator so that I could take a look at how she did her work.
Initially, I was helping Jeff with his work. Was helping her to settle the toy box and then since he is still short of some stuffs so I decided to did a letterhead, business card, gift voucher and some others. Actually prior to all these, I had already helped him with quite a few items, mainly some desktop and mobile wallpaper.
Did sleep for 10-15min and now I am feeling better.
Is also been a couple of weeks for esther to tell me that she will be coming to Gold Coast to find me but until now she still never do. What a friend she is. We have not seen each other since I left Cairns and We were all quite surprised that we have not been meeting up with each other for ages. We only talk on the phone every now and then but only talk rubbish.
Finally, Jenna is back and I think I can go home soon.
03-Jun-2008
Has been working on some graphics for Jeff and the graphic is used for the toy box design. What he has was images of his 3d characters and I just combined them into a flat layer and made it into the size he wanted, which was 190x300mm. Almost finish and will post the images online next time maybe in my portfolio page.
Just today I received a call from a shop telling me that the stuff that I ordered will be arriving tomorrow. I have been waiting for 2 weeks and they did not give me any call or other notices. I was wanting to give out and buy another one but was glad that I didn't. Just hope that I could receive the iem tomorrow.
Been quite sick for the past few days and now I am slowly recovering. Still not feeling that well but I guess I just can't sit at home and do nothing and so I have beeen working for Jeff on his assignment but I did allow myself to have a rest day on the last Saturday. Had Taiwanese food on that day as well.
I guess my sickness is due to the weather as is quite cold this few days as it is winter. I must say is not as cold as last year, maybe is not really winter yet. I hoped also to have some time to go for some shopping for more winter clothes.
01-Jun-2008
我是哪裡人？我本來是台灣人，可是我不太會講台語。 我會講中文，可是我卻不會打中文。 不喜歡承認自己是新加坡人，可是卻不定時會流露出一些新加坡人的言語。 我到底該說我是哪裡人？