AA 2006
Well it was kinda neutral experience for me. It is quite saddening as all I thought at the back of my mind is that all these technologies comes from the western world. Where is Islam in the field of aviation?
Well there is a Middle East section promoting its airlines with air stewardesses. Not even Islamic I would say.
The airshow was okay but the lapse between one flight to another was a little slow. The commentary was not audible. That is the down point of the whole experience. If anyone of you want to watch airshows in the future, try to bring sunglasses, umbrella, binoculars and a good set of camera that can really zoom in. That would have been great. Bring along a bottle of water as well.
I went with Rahman, a NS friend who is taking aerospace engineering. He enjoyed it but made me suffer in a way coz he's always staying at one place a little too long. For his schoolwork he says. But it's okay..
Here are more complaints: The food and drinks there are rip offs. And going back is a long walk to the bus station.
How I would rate the whole experience : Thank god I didn't pay for the tickets.
just a glimpse...
Hell Week
This is my first week of Studio Project and I am way behind. I am so weak. I got distracted by a number of things. Winning the aerospace contest thing. Collecting the prize on Monday and cashing in the cheque on Tuesday. Preparing and going for a part time illustrator interview with Andalus on Wednesday. Also found out that Remy teaches there. Getting pestered by my brothers (who apparently have way too much time at the time being) to play DOTA. I am weak. I succumbed to the game.
And by the freakiest of freak chance, my older brother won a chalet stay on Wednesday. And I got dragged into it as I felt obligated to make it a full family event, the whole 6 siblings, mom, dad and grandma. Of course, I never want to compromise my religious studies on Thursday nights. I want to go for the aerospace event tomorrow. And there's PERGAS on Sunday.
And yet there are many people i know who have more things going on in their lives. How do they cope?
Studio Project
Studio project officially begins today. I am psyched up as to how the end product(pun intended) ends up. Or maybe its the coffee talking. For this project I have to animate a jumping rice sack in an original story of a 30 seconds length. I am going to have fun doing this. I am going to lose sleep over this. I am going to lose money on this (Alhamdulilah for the $100 i won and the $400 that i should be getting as an NsMan). For 3 weeks, live will be a challenge.
Apart from the animation, I would need to design its packaging and prepare my portfolio.
Also, I collected my prize this afternoon at Starhub centre. The ticket is for this Saturday's show. I shall work hard then play hard this Saturday. Still don't know who to bring though...
Congratulations! You have won $100 and 2 pairs of tickets to Asian Aerospace 2006
I was pleasantly surprised when I opened an email yesterday. I almost deleted the email without reading it. I decided to open it when I read it came from .... @ stengg.com, guessing that it was from Singapore Technologies Engineering. I won the Tangram Game Contest organised in promoting the Asian Aerospace 2006.
I was ecstatic, to say the least. I finally made money through designing. Well, actually my first paid design was a drawing of a helicopter. A classmate of mine bought it for 20 cents back in primary school.
I stumbled upon the contest from my school email spread by one of the lecturers. So I decided to give it a try. It was an easy 'game'. You are to create a logo of sorts from given basic shapes of triangles, squares and parallelograms. While doing it, I got engrossed with it and spent a little more time than I expected. At the back of my mind, I was thinking, " I am wasting my time here. There's lots of things that I could be doing instead. It was worth every second of it.
Now..... Who should I bring along??
Kelas Harfiyah
Just came back from my weekly my Harfiyah class which is an Al-Quran translation class. We just crossed the 100th ayat of Al-Baqarah. It took us more than a year to get where we are. I started this class in January 2005. Alhamdulilah I made it this far. I hope to put in more effort in this class and learning Al-Quran and arabic. Apart from this, I am a second year student in Pergas. "Masuk lambat sikit, tapi insyaallah bermanfaat."
Yet, I know I have a very long way to go fortify my spiritual self. For those interested to join this Harfiyah class, it's free. You pay if you want, ikhlas. It is being conducted in a number of places. I am taking the one at Muhammadiyah near Kembangan MRT station, conducted weekly on Thursday at 9pm till 10.15ish pm. Those interested can just drop me a
message. Feel free to ask me about it also.
Hiking @ McRitchie
I took time off from a busy week to do some hiking with NYPMS. It was a great experience. The organisers did splendid with this event. I came expecting a typical hike, just walking together. I was pleasantly surprised that we were to hike, amazing race style.
We were divided into 5 groups with around 4 paticipants per team. It was a nice to be at the outdoors. 4hrs +++ of walking passed by relatively fast. The rain is like an icing to a cake.
