It has been a pretty tight month after all from February to March this year, and more depressing news on the economy downturn keeps churning out from our favorite news vendor daily. But of course there’s several interesting event that I stumbled across during these period of time.
The pianist cat!
And the inner part of my…macbook.
It might have been a while since I made any sharing that is particularly useful on my blog. However I felt that there is a strong urge to share this for those who wants to work in Singapore as a designer, particularly web design but had no idea how it feels and lives at here. Although some other designers might have more exciting lifestyles than mine.
Waking up in the typical room that you can normally find in Singapore’s HDB. For this size of room where the MRT stations are like 3-4 away from town, you will need to pay around 700 to 800 SGD per month on average. Not sure if the price has gone down, but during last year, the prices has been climbing up like a mad man.
Received this one through forwarded email chain. Should be a useful reminder to people with expensive cars.
It’s supposed to be the first post of the year, however, due to the previous one, this is the second for this year! Anyway, happy new year that all is well, good is good and bad is bad (What the hell I’m trying to say). 2008 certainly does sounds an auspicious year for Chinese, the word eight(8) symbolizes luck in their native language, however reality differs so much from the fantasy world.
There is so much, and too much to be recalled of the indicents that is happened throughout this year, not only to ourselves, but also to people around us, around the world, terrorism, toxified milk, earthquake…and more. For me, 2008 has been tripled of what a rollercoaster ride can give me, or maybe even more. I guess learnt from experience on how difference people is at different places, especially country and culture. While most of my life were spent back then in my home country, this year somehow is different where I’ll have to embrace myself with a lot more of new thing, new people, new colleague, new housemates and so on. I can of course first say it’s a blessing to have such a chance to travel to this place for work, but on the other hand, everyone also understand this comes with a price, of letting go things back to what we are used to in our lives.Foods, friends, cars, entertainments…
Though I’m not yet really prepared for this brand new year, I’ll keep on stand strong and wait for upcoming challenges. Though at this point of time, there’s a usual saying back in Malaysia, that the first 5 year of a designer is almost like learning to swim, either after that period, we’ll get drown, or give up or we swim further down deep into the beautiful and mysterious sea. Good luck and all the best to you. Cherish the people around you. I mean it. And as people gets busier, we neglect all the small little things that builds up to something that we can never imagine, bond between friend that breaks, trust between family members that’s gets worse. If you see me at the street, do say hi! I’ll shout HOI! 
And not to forget, my portfolio has been refreshed with new works throughout this year, though there’s still some more work I would like to put in, yet to collect enough material at this point.
Kuala Lumpur Design Week
It’s been like since you-know-when that a design conference is held in this region. Or probably…never. Oh yes there is. But it’s refreshing to see this to be a good start at the year by promoting art & design in the country through this kind of event which I felt strongly it should be annually held across the country and funded by a lot of organisation in this to accellerate the growth of this country in terms of quality mindset and actions. We’ve been always bitching on how unfortunate to always have conference outside of the country that costs a bomb for us to travel and then to stay there. And now it’s like a dream come through, just tad bit late, though not by a lot, we’re still in the 2009. I’m truly happy to see this happening and wondering what is to come!
Do drop by Malaysia and say hi, I’ll be more than happy to bring you guys around if you are from abroad during these days.
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