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Monday, September 30, 2002
Since some ppl have asked me about the pic of the beach front of La Jolla
I'll have it as a live pic on the top of my page from now on...
YES.. I LOVE SURFING...
besides designing and my guitar...
It's really the most amazing experience in the world...
when U're on top of a board riding on a wave, and the sunset is glistering with sparkling orange highlights on top of the ocean horizon...
it's a beautiful feeling...
oh yeah by the way..
surfing is actually an extremely dangerous sport too..
that's probably one of the reason why it's so exciting...
unlike snowboarding, or skateboarding..
surfing a wave will always be dynamic and always different everytime..
Thie height of the wave, wave current rotaton, wave current velocity, and impact power is always on every wave that U decide to ride on..
It's totally unpredictable.. that's why it's so amazing.. 'cause U're kinda riding on a beast that can not be tamed...
That is why most ppl are so addicted to it in Cali... including myself...
9/30/2002 12:21:00 AM
Sunday, September 29, 2002
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9/29/2002 12:10:00 AM
Saturday, September 28, 2002
This is what I purchased today...
I had tears in my eyes when I got it... happy tears that is =.)…
As I have shown some of the concept sketches earlier last blog...
Well, this is THE BOOK!!!
Of all you Star Wars Fans out there...
This book is what all is about... George Lucas’s vision, being carried out by this book...
The Movie Star Wars… is the final product of 3 years of a long journey by Lucas and his immensely talented team... but the ‘raw’ essence of the creation of this motion picture was conceived through the spectacular work that’s been shown by this book.
This is a very special book to me to say the least…
Neways, I was in a pretty interesting meeting tonight with my mom…
[I’m writing this pretty late.. 2 something AM in the morning]
We were in a meeting with a man named Mr. Sum… known as one of the first pioneer in the ‘Model Prototyping’ industry in all Asia…
He is now among the top of this industry…
In the Prototyping industry, it’s basically building a ‘mock-up’ or ‘demo’ of the actual product, so that it can be visually presented to clients and buyers.
And products such as the flat screen TVs to Appliances, a prototype has to be created before even the first ‘real thing’ is made. This model then could be presented to buyers where they would order by the millions… A Tooling template would then be made by a manufacturing facility so that ‘Mass Production’ could commence…
Our initial agenda was to discuss on 2 projects we’re working on, and coming up with some problem solving issues on some technical concerns involving the nature of the projects…
But we always ended up running off tangent and diversify our topics into issues of world politics, global economy trends, politics within our industry, and yes.. the latest gosips and street trends of China and HK…
As I reflect on all of the high profile ppl (such as Mr. Sum) I’ve met in my life time, I’ve come to recognize a lot more traits and characteristics that they all seem to possess… And it’s kind of a good thing that I share them too… although I can’t say I’ll be as high caliber as they are…
A person with a particular strong ethics and beliefs shapes how a person chooses his path… and that’s probably a key tool in how they got to where they are…
Temptations and Short Cuts are always lurking around in this profession… the ‘forbidden fruit’ as I call it.. is everywhere…
I mean… there may be less temptations if U were staying in one spot like in Canada or something… graduate and get a job… work from 9 till 5… if U’re lucky, the most temptation U’ll get is maybe a office affair of some sorts… maybe a few back stabbing to move up the corporate ladder…
But in a ‘global’ profession like Industrial design, the level of temptation is is crazy… Money, drug, materialistic bribes, and women… Women I tell U… Every single CEOs or high management that carries an affair ends up in a ditch…
Many I have heard of in the industry… many I’ve seen too…
Neways, going off tangent there… back to the meeting… He came by to see the work I’ve done and did a live demo to demonstrate my abilities. He was pleased enough to offer an internship to his firm… I graciously accepted the great offer…
Note: In addition to the conceptual designing, MODEL PROTOTYPE making is also a vital tool to an industrial designer…
It was a long night, and I have again.. Learned so much from an amazing individual like Mr. Sum… I always cherish great encounters with great people such as this one, meetings which expands and broaden my global perspectives, critical ethical thinking and understanding ‘how’ and ‘why’ people live the way they do … the last one sounds lame, but when U travel around the world and seen so many ppl, you’ll start analyzing a lot of things…
BUT I’m truly blessed by all the places I’ve been and people I’m meeting… hopefully, there’ll be many more to experience…
There’s actually some real funny stories to tell about tonight.. some R rated.. some not as R rated..
But it’s late, and I’m actually tired for once…
ZzzzZZzz….
9/28/2002 03:12:00 AM
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
yes yes... I haven't been blogging...
So here is a little bit for blogging all of you that have bugged me about it..
My reason for not having an update lately...is of course.. my portfolio...
To go further in depth... I had another 'session' with my mom... a lesson from Master Momma to the ‘young Jedi’ sorta speak..
It’s becoming more and more like a Jedi training area over here anyways…
Basically, every now and then…she'll periodically look at my wall of shame [as I call it now]…
It’s basically a wall filled with my design work… and she’ll blast at me with criticisms and questions in my styling technique, and design mind-set… all constructive of course…
By the way, first thing about Designing is that U always put your work on the wall
And it's not for like "ahhhh...Ooooooo that look it's so beautiful.." that was for Grade school... not here...
Purpose in putting work on the wall give the designer a perspectives in analyzing the design and then providing a better solution to ‘re-inventing’ the design…
Therefore, more ‘generations’ of the design will metamorphic though time…
Every design of cars and products are done this way…
Design Concept sketches… they look simple, but in fact, it takes someone a lot of years to master a rendering that looks visual expressive and able to convey effectively on a 3 dimensional imagery… As I have said B4… EVERY.. literally every pen, marker, paint stroke has to have value…meaning.. they have to have meaning... whether it is to convey a contour of an object, depression, serration, symmetry, and many other 3 dimensional concepts I won’t bothering elaborating...
Among many question this week and last week to me… One question was asked a couple times..
People have asked me: “So what you’re doing is like Fine Art, eh?”
.. and I tell them.. NO!! HELL NO!!
I’ve had my years in Fine arts…
and Fine art is like… taking your @$$ long time and molding your artwork into perfection while enjoying a cup of Mocha Capichino... mmmm…
Whereas with ID conceptual sketches (as what they’re called),
You are allowed about 3 minute per sketch, and maybe afford to do 4 eye blinks and 1 ‘itch’ scratch… = )
So…NO!!.. IT AIN’T FINE ART!!
Reason why: Fine Art stresses it importance in the drawing part…
--.. most often, a fine artist would do a small ‘inch thumb-nail’.. a miniature representation of the art work on a 2” by 1” size… and then whether it’s oil, pastel, acrylic, digital, or whatever media the artist choose, he/she proceed with ‘real thing’ on a larger and appropriate size… takes from a few hours to couple days…
--In Industrial Design Concept Sketches, the time that should be spent the longest is the thinking and ‘mental designing’ part… Time spent thinking rather then drawing produces great design… the longer the time spent in drawing, is time wasted on designing…
So a Fine Art Artist can ponder about the meaning of life, while doing the art-work..
An Industrial Designer is often thinking $#!T up and then rethink more $#!T to make sure the design is not flawed, but creatively and aesthetically beautiful, ‘Functionable’ and brilliant!!
I hope there’s a “ohhhh… I get it..” kinda feeling for you readers with that question…
In addition, these sketches has got to be professional… so that a investor or merchandizing buyer will look at the design and agree to fork-out 10 millions to invest in it's potential to be a great market product seller, and a Tooling design Engineer can understand it and make a tooling casting injection mold that will mass product that design...
In fact, when done right.. it’s an artwork that’s as prestigeous as any other form of art-work. Audi TT was beautifully sketched from a napkin… and I mean gorgeous…
I saw it in NY.. and dang, I’ve never seem something more amazing than that!!!..
Neways, here’s a sample done by the Grand Jedi master himself..Doug Chiang , Chief Art Director for Star Wars 1 & 2.. and 3 (coming next). He’s in charge of conceptualizing everything from the movie’s fancy light-sabers, character concept, architectural designs, and basically everything U see in that 3 hour movie…
He has a team behind him of course…
This is the Star Wars Anakin’s Podracer and a droideka (destroyer droid)
This probably took Doug couple minutes to render.. but probably hours of research and thinking till he came up with a solid idea like this one..
So there it is!!...
That’s the difference between ID conceptual Renderings from Fine Art work…
As For me?...
I am improving literally everyday with visible differences, but still this young Jedi have much to learn… My technique is on the right track, but I need more and more practice… as usual… everyday, I wake up at 9am and drill myself till 2am in the morning… I get easily lost in time these days… so Mon to Sat seems all the same to me…
For all those who are bugging me so much to see those renderings, I’ll try to do a few and scan them to show them on my web-site.. so stay tune
9/25/2002 03:18:00 PM
Thursday, September 19, 2002
the above pic is a case study on one of many aspect of furiture design
this is an excercise on a chair concept.. I decided to throw in a coffee table... and a cup to give it life
enjoy = )
9/19/2002 11:27:00 PM
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
For once on a serious note... I have found my calling...
here's a blur of things that's been on my mind this night...
I usually don’t write anything in English this long…
But this is really the first… If U care.. then read…
All those who knows me knows why I'm back in Toronto... purely and solely on creating a portfolio worthy of applying to a good school in Industrial Design...
I've loved art and design from the minute I drew my first line on a piece of paper... Now… with mom being one of the leading industrial designer whom have been apart of the up-rising and R&D development of the electronic product industry in Hong Kong, and my dad, being one of HK's top fashion and commercial photographer and art director... I was naturally soaked into the art and design field all through my life... Mind you though... I wouldn't call my self an artsy fart-sy person... but I like to think I have an eye for it... ; ) I also wouldn’t dare tosay I'm going to succeed as an amazing designer in the near future... that’s too much for me to even dream about, plus being a designer is a long LONG journey [believe me]... and those who get praises and world recognitions in the design community are often too old to give a damn anyways…
I do have a lot of pressure on my shoulder though, and my parents knows that I put in upon myself.. and always tells me to ease up... But for me.. when I love something... I go full out towards it... whether sports or guitar... but…there are good and bad in that kinda mentality...
But Design have always been my passion, I started drawing before I could talk and walk... some would say I should of stuck to that instead = P
I have been even offered to go into DC comics when I was 16... but my mother was against that.. so I never picked up my pencil since then...
And now that I picked it up again, it’s all natural to me again… but doing hand-rendering while my mom is watching me at the same time, is kinda awkward to me... U see… I always drew in secret… behind my parents back… because they know I go for hours and hours on a drawing pad without doing my homework first…[usually that stupid Kumon math bull crap] My mom had always wanted me to go to university and get an education first… ahem ahem like all parents to right… well, I ended up pursuing into university varsity basketball, swimming and volleyball instead…
Neways, When it dawned on me to realize what I should be doing to carry out a career in which I was to live out for the next chapter in my life… I exploded to a ‘career-search frenzy’… from ‘banking’ [don’t ask me why on that one… I quit after a month and got so agitated at all the banking transaction protocols], to ‘modeling’ [some of you know that], ‘acting’ [I have connections if I wanted to… but decided not to last minute on a audition..], ‘physiotherapy’ [naturally with kinesiology background], sport therapy [I had an opening with the Leafs… no lies], ‘EM Paramedic’ [I had a group of friends that was signing up for it], to even the ‘ Toronto police force’ [same… though I would be such a corrupted cop I think]
It was then when I started to think about the design field… I started out as Graphic Design, and worked for a bit in varies studios doing from packaging to international tradeshows & conventions… I like it but thought it was too easy, and not productive… Money was good, but I know it would only satisfy that part…
When it came to the thought of the possibility in Industrial design… it was then I caught myself holding back from that train of thought… I vowed myself when I was younger that I wouldn’t do it… perhaps it was from all the hardship that I saw in my mom that I developed a swarm of thorns around the prospective of seeing myself in that field.
I ended up praying and thought about the idea many countless nights though, about what it would be like 10 years down the road if I was to venture into that field... instead of Industrial design, would I be ended up in a career that would only satisfy me in order to pay off the mortgage on the house, the lease on the car, a 2 week cruise vacation, like the typical stuff ppl go thru… my family didn’t live that kind of life, nor would I start…
I made the decision in pursuing ID [industrial design] on the terms that I know it would be something in which that will keep me on the edge of my creativity, and also something that is absolutely challenging to me… and boy did I ask for it…
So these were the basis for my decision in pursuing ID… until tonight…
Most of my life, I always had a concern or a soft spot if U will… for people living with disabilities, especially with the areas of physical handicapped… I have done many volunteer works in occupational therapy type environment and came across with many patients in which their lives are greatly troubled from physical disabilities such as birth defect implications, to accidental occurrences in life…
I’ve always been fascinated in ways to improve their way of living by putting together a few tools that would provide an improvement and tackle the everyday life struggles that I take for granted… Some worked so well I wish I had the money to patent it…
Well tonight on CBS Newsworld at 10:00pmET on a documentary program called “The Passionate Eye” I had given me a new calling as to why I should pursue into the world of Industrial Design…
This documentary tells an inspiring story of Alison Lapper. Born without arms and a short body, Alison is a willful and charismatic woman whose resolve to make the most of her life is indeed inspiring. Alison is no victim. Her career as a mouth-painter, photographer and sculptress in England drives her to succeed, to prove herself.
Now she is a single mother about to have a baby. The news of her pregnancy, often a moment of joy and fulfillment raised a barrage of issues. Would the baby be normal or have physical abnormalities like its mother? How far into pregnancy could her small body cope with the expanding foetus? How does a single woman with no arms and truncated body look after a helpless baby?
The documentary follows Alison's unfolding life before, during, and after the birth of her son Parys, who is born a perfectly normal, healthy and strong baby. Shortly after his birth, Alison realizes that she cannot cope without a live-in nanny—to help place Parys on her chest when she breast feeds, and to assist when she bathes and changes him. Being totally dependent on outside help, places her in a vulnerable position.
If the welfare committee of care professionals don't think she can cope as a mother, they can take Parys from her at anytime.
As for the future, Alison doesn't know what it holds and whether she will need more or less help as Parys grows. "I am person who lives for the day and sees what happens," she shrugs. I am self-employed, so I can give Parys my time. I don't have arms to hold him, but I have all my love to give him - and that is the most important thing."
I had not only cried throughout the documentary [since the director showed all the everyday obstacles and difficulties she goes thru and faces as a single handicapped mother], but I was so inspired as to how she struggles everyday and lives on for tomorrow on such simple things that I will start realizing and treasuring it more dearly…
Towards the end of that program was when a thought hit me…
It is nice to work as a senior designer in a large design firm with big financial back-up to produce the most advance and best aesthetic looking product in the world… receive great acknowledgements from the design community… and even make a few products that would go down in design history books… But now… I have ‘freshly’ acquired a new perspective in wanting to gain satisfaction from able to design products that would enhance the livelihood of a disabled person… this gave me a fresh mind-set in what I NOW perceive as ‘achieving the ultimate fulfillment in being the top of my design profession’… but yes I still would like to work in a good design firm to finance such ventures…
Because the reasons why there aren’t that many of these ‘beneficial’ occupation design products is in part due to the limited market population in product purchasing and simply…popularity. On the Aug 2002 issue of The international Design Magazine, the 2 top product that won the consumer product category was a unisex ‘Brani belt’ buckle and the Apple Titanium Powerbook G4.
I have mentioned earlier, a product would be cheap so as long as the mass production is great… i.e. By the millions!! And since these occupational products aren’t manufactured in that scale, so they are costly, and the people who are suffering with disabilities are RARELY on the comfortable position of the middle income bracket group… being accessible to these products is strenuous to someone who’s being paid minimum wage in a employment position they may not enjoy or living off what little welfare provide… and that’s if the country in which they live in provides such social services…
Another thing… Design fees COST… if U haven’t a invoice of a typical design firm… then U don’t know what it cost for a product like a Sony MD player… or a Mercedes SL500… Some of the world’s top design firms adopt a strategy in which one product, (whether a BMW Z4 or the next Palm Pilot PDA), would be brain stormed and conceptualized by 3 to 8 teams composed of several high salary industrial designers and mechanical engineers… that’s why these products cost at the VERY LEAST… over 300% more than it’s manufacturing cost… this sum gives the kinda living a typical designer dreams... a nice semi-detach flat overlooking the Pacific ocean on a California Bay coast area… anywhere from San Diego, to La Jolla, Santa Monica, Cupertino, to San Francisco Bay Front… and of course… drives a Porsche to work…. Seen too many while I was in Cali…
Neways… so begins my goal in finding ways in which... maybe... I could design products that the general consumer market would purchase and provide an additive benefit to their lives, BUT!! Would GREATLY enhance someone with disabilities… therefore lowering the manufacturing cost of the retail price… 2 birds with one stone sorta speak…
Whatever though.. I’m just dreaming this as a scenario… but hey!! I gotta start somewhere.. right?
My family knows a family with a beautiful girl named Emily, who was born into this world with a rare muscle degenerative/atrophy disease… she was told my many case reviewing doctors that she would only have 6 months to a year left to live at the time… Well… my dad took a sweet photograph of her chomping down on her 2 year old birthday cake 2 weeks ago… And all she had wrote many letters to the ‘Make-A-WISH’ foundation for things she wanted to have so that her mom and dad could have a easier time in taking care of her… among the list is a electric wheel chair that is equipped with a ‘life-support system’ so that she may travel with her parents to places in the world…
I have been blessed in traveling to all sorts of places in the world in 30+ plane rides… NOW!!…If they could design a Ferrari F1 car with state of the art Carbon Fiber and honeycomb composite structures and other titanium and aluminum alloy to create the lightest but strongest engines in the world… I’m sure they could make a wheel chair that weights less than 650LBS… ‘cause I remember when the battery died on the wheel chair, I could even budge the dang thing, let alone move it…
So.. WHEW!!! That’s my 2 cent for today… though I think only a few would read to all the way down here anyways…
9/17/2002 02:00:00 AM
Friday, September 13, 2002
man does it feel weird having no hair again....
a buzz cut is certainly nice to wake up to... I look like 'Go Kou' in Dragon ball every morning...
so much better now...
but I dunno.. I still like long hair for some reason... whatever... it's cut... another 3 months for it to grow back..
going off to Sibbald Point Provincial Park tomorrow...
I needed to get away anyways... so much things have been going on in my head... I'm getting kinda wacked...
and that's not usually good.. it's not even to the point of stress anymore...
everyday has been repetitive and routine... I barely step out of the house...
although this Tuesday was nice... got to see a nice film.. with good company too...
other than that.. me head is about to explode...
follow-up from [STORY OF THE DAY]
the ahem ahem... '69' girl... I encountered earlier..
well.. she was at the gym again... but I left when she just got there...
I was feeling confident that she would not have recognize me.. and if she did.. I look pretty stupid with the new hair-cut, she wouldn't try anything..
well.. she did recognized me.. and asked if I was working out... stupid question I thought.. I was walking out towards the exit with sweat stains on me...
I smiled and took off... so.. it's sall good... maybe next time ; )
9/13/2002 12:47:00 AM
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
First off.. the lovely picture of my flashy guitar playing was shot by the talented Erica
it was the pic during Justis's concert back in Aug...
and the Car pics are the pcs I got from a test drive at Parkway Honda... 2002 Honda Hatchback Si
well.. [STORY OOF THE DAY] time...
this one is rated PG.. so.. yeh.... come all ye children...
Neways... It starts off early this morning...
and happens only a couple times in a year...
As some of U know... I have long hair... and most think I like to be be some fricken HK star... since I get comments like that non-stop...
truth is.. I have this thing with hair cuts... I just don't like my hair being cut... It's a weird thing of me...
Neways.. so usually 3 times a year.. generally... I would have it cut... not by choice U see...
My mother have been threatening me with scissors and knives for the past couple weeks..
So this morning.. I was... asked.. 'nicely' to come out of the deck outside of my house... to.. ahem ahem.. do something...
we're recently doing some landscaping around the house.. so I thought it was something like that...
BUT INSTEAD.... I was a dummie to walk out into deck and found a stool and a buch of clippers, scissors and other 'weapons'!!
Yup.. I was lead to have my hair cut... I had a dumb look when my mom smiled at me and says "take a seat..."...
It began as a trim... like maybe an inch... but I would be like "It's not balanced one the right side!'" BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...
"what!?!?" I said... "now the left side is higher!?!?" BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...
then "AIYA?!?! LO MO!! I said 1 inch off for the trim.. NOT BEING LEFT WITH ONE INCH!!!"
~AIYA~... so after 2 HOURS of verbal warfare... My hair is practically Buzzed... forget one inch.. I was left with like half an inch of hair..
=.(... what a freaking day.. I woke up half awake... because my mom knows I'm most gullble in the morning...
so my mom took advantage of me right in the morning and led my hair to a slaughter...
So guy!! please be gentle to what U say when U see me... IF U SEE ME.. I'll probably go into hidding... at least till the Soya milk kicks in and pump out more hair..
YES Soya milk does work!!!
But seriously speaking... the hair cutting time that me and mom have are quite special..
It's the time where we talk about everything... deep talks and sharing of views and knowing each other more...
so that's why I find it most special too.. just wish it was over a coffee or something...
9/11/2002 09:33:00 PM
Monday, September 09, 2002
oh yes and by the way..
I was NOT exceptionally please nor bragging about the story in the gym..
but the stories are just funny and thought I would share them for a laugh...
U can believe them or not..
but for those who know me better...
U would know that weird things happens to weird ppl like me
and I'm too much of a goof to credit myself with these kinda stuff... namely setting myself up with the girl inthe gym...
and by the way... I'm still freaking embarassed to work out in that gym...
9/09/2002 01:18:00 AM
alright...
due to the response I got from my 'story of the day'...
I was surprised to get responses from close to home and overseas...
I always though G and Jon would be the only monkeys that read my crappy english...
more stories to come as a brand new week unfolds... just hope it's more PG rated this time..
9/09/2002 12:27:00 AM
Friday, September 06, 2002
It's Friday already... crazy...The week has flew by so fast...
I've been designing and conceptualizing so much… it’s been draining me to the max…
My head feels like it’s been engaged to Warp 10, my warp core is going to explode… ahhaaaaaahah!!!
Thinking up new design concepts and ideas is absolutely brain zapping…
Any idea I come up with have to be researched just to see that it’s as original as possible…
And then doing sketches and sketches on it till I saturate the concept…
When I’m done... move on to the new concept…cycle repeats from 9am to night...
I find myself doing sketches of cars though… hey... I have to have a little fun… right…
I have also been picking up my guitar and coming up with some mad rifts…
I swear… I've improved in guitar skillz whenever I’m in stressed situations…
So in this case, I’m picking up on fingering speed [just when I thought my solos can’t get any faster], and coming up with a few mad guitar chord rifts… I still have to put on some lyrics to them though…
WELL!! “STORY OF THE DAY" TIME!!!
I was on my way to work out… and those of U that knew me before… it used to be a routine of mine… but now... I go like… once a week…
I used to bench like 400LBS.. now I’m struggling with 210lbs.. so sad… if my boyz back in University saw me, they would have laughed…
So anyways, I was not doing bench press, but just some power drills on legs and a kinda heavy arm workout…
I always go around 4pm or so, ‘cause I hate to work-out when it’s crowded…
So neways!! There is this girl who came in… a FOB chick… I’m not too proud of this, but I seem to attract FOB chicks… She was ‘eyeing’ me the whole time I was walking about the gym… As usuaI, I had my MD player in my ears and pumping some mad vibes to stay focused!!! Remember guys, if U want to have a good work-out and not feel the pain while doing your heavy sets.. put on music that hypes U up.. for me? Hendrix and Metallica… = )
So this FOB chick decided to *ahem ahem*.. do bench press… and of all the fricken 5 benches in the whole gym, she has to choose the one that was closest to me…and I must reak of bad B.O. since I was there for at least an hour already..
First off, she ain’t ugly, in fact pretty gorgeous for *ahem ahem* a FOB!!! She might of look more decent if she wasn’t wearing a pink skimpy T-shirt that says “MONKEY STAR”… I actually couldn’t help myself from laughing, cause all I have in my head was an image of Gerrome and Nevin pointing and shaking their heads….
Yeah well she decided to bench the bar!! Yes Yes… just the bar… and the rediculous part was that she came over to ask for A SPOT!!!!
I gave her one of my bewildered ‘raising-eyebrow’ look… she gave me this smile and says ‘please’…
“aiya” I said … So I walked over and did one of my typical spoting position… until it occurred to me that it’s only a bar! And not the typical 200+ lbs kinda weight that I'm used to … SO!!!! 2 hands on the bar, each hand at opposite direction [ahem ahem.. correct spotting technique] I proceeded in spotting… a bar…
First I lifted the bar off her… and then she brought it down slowly…
*cough cough*!! That’s when I noticed it was going right down to her chest!!.. and for an oriental girl.. she has quite the size… [Lorraine, ->if U’re reading this… sorry... today’s 'story of the day' is RATED R] I realized it when my hand came in contact with the object of immense size *haha jokes*… Not that I was turned on to the max about it, but I felt kinda awkward since I was in the zone in my workout.. I was kinda taken away for a bit… SO I did what’s normal for most ppl… I yanked my hand away…. And she squealed and the bar rolled off her chest and down to her stomach… upon delayed reaction, I realized she was being rolled by the bar like a stick of toothpaste… so I quickly leaned over to grab the bar off her… but because it was so far off angle, I had to lean alot further to get it off her… by this time.. the dummie had the bar on her pelvic area… well I think I reacted too fast and leaned too far, I was out of balanced…. I fell right on her… so fricken embarrassing cause it was like a 69 position… and I couldn't get off because my legs were caught with no support due to the stupid structural design on the bench press support beams...
Conclusion.. I took off right out of the gym… so fricken embarrassing… I’ve never been this embarrassing … I hope I don’t see her again… might have to switch my workout time to 6 o’clock now…
9/06/2002 02:40:00 AM
Wednesday, September 04, 2002
funny thing happened today.. as it does all the time for some reason...
As a break during lunch today, I went out shoppong for a new portable vacume..
why 'cause I have been generating alot of mess from drawing so much so..
anyways... this one was pretty nifty portable vacume unit...
neways.. some salesman came over and started dishing out his sales tactics and sales pitch
I was concerned with the maintence process and how easy it is to detach and clean out the collecting chamber of the vacume..
it had a reverse mode that could 'blow out' the stuff in it's collecting chamber...
it was so powerful in could pick up a litre of water... and so he showed us..
So he says this and that about the 'amazing' vacume....
...another thing... I hate when he says 'amazing'.. He says it like A like so draumatically... so annoying
N.E.WAY, I was kinda fooling around with the vacume's power variance level when I accidentally.. ahem ahem..
SUCKED!! his hair piece off... which was pretty marvelously made since I had no idea he wore one.., man the advancement in 'fake-hair'...
Neways... I then remembered what he said about how the vacume can reverse and blow back out it's content..
so I did that... except during his demonstration earlier.. it had sucked in a litre of water..
so when the hair piece went in the vacume.. it kinda got soaked to like a wet 'fur-ball'...
ahem.. ahem.. so I launched this 'fur-ball' flying across the mall towards a bunch of ppl lining up to cash in their purchase...
This was one massive nasty looking 'fur-ball' I tell U.. it look like 'the thing' from the swamp.. but much worst I ensure...
Neways, U can kinda guess what .. COULD happen..
It was a bunch of middle aged woman standing in line..
and U can kinda imagine what would happen when a large wet piece of hair and gunk flew towards a bunch of women....
...as this wet projectile hit smack hard at one of the woman's buttocks, this large mob of 'over-excited' women began stomping on what they thought was a large rat.. and screaming on the top of their lungs...
Meanwhile, my poor salesman ran over and tried to retrieve his 'wet-rug' while getting a few kicks inthe process...
The story may seem unbelivable to some, but to those who know me and knows the kinda life I live... then U know it happened..
but upon many.. errrrrrrrr... encouragements I've been receiving...
I'll try to share once a week at least if possible.. and if U think it's lame and chezzy.. then I'm sorry for living a chesszy life....
by the way.. I did not end up buying the vacume.. I realized I forgot my wallet, nor was the price acceptable...
...poor guy though..
9/04/2002 02:21:00 AM
Sunday, September 01, 2002
alright guys..
I haven't been blogging.. I know...
for those who bugged me... sorry...
This portfolio has been my biggest challenge EVER in my life..
Alot of self reflection on myself surfaced during the course of these time...
Because in going thru the process in 'constructing' my portfolio,
I'm essentially in my own world, in my own time, and in my own space...
It's a very isolating environment... and thought of my past, present, and future runs thru my head all this time...
The portfolio itself is extremely hard on me, since the pressure of this school that I'm applying into... possesses 'world class' recognition within the Industrial Design field...
This portfolio is basically a collection of sketches and renderings... but these has to be professional sketches and renderings that convey information on a product concept of original design..
But the actual extent to which these sketches and renderings has to achieve, is to convey a design idea that is not only visually constructive, but able to be view and understand the entire concept to which the product functions ,it's form & shape, and however producable in a mass production scale...
All in All, I'm having the 'fricken' time of my life...
9/01/2002 02:33:00 AM
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