Food Menu

During today's class like always we were divided into groups 4 or 5 and our task for today is really simple just to make menu for a restaurant or cafe but, with a twist. The teacher asked us to take some paper consist of the type of people that will be eating on our restaurant or cafe and the ingredients that we have to use to make a dish. When we picked the paper for the first time we got weight gain people and durian, milk and bread as the ingredients but then the teacher asked us if we want to change the type of people and the ingredients, we changed and finally stuck with dieting people and lemon, tic tac, and pocky for the ingredients.

It was really hard for us to make a dish with all of the ingredients for dieting people since all of them contains sugar and really sweet. We took a good amount of time to brainstorm on what kind of dish that we should make since we need to make it for dieting people. Finally we managed to make 3 kinds of foods:

1. Appetizer: We make a shake consist of chocolate based milkshake with lemon juice and mint
2. Main Dish: Biscuit tart with lemon lemon curd and flamethrowered crushed tic tac for a creme brule finish
3. Dessert: A delicious shaved ice with lemon juice, tic tac and pocky as a topping.

We also made our cafe logo as cute as possible since our dish featured sweet things so we decide that our target consumer are mostly girls at a young age. In the end we thought that we are going to present what we have done today but sadly we ran out of time and will be presenting tomorrow

Monster Dress

On the previous class were told to bring black trash bag, strings, and cellophane paper. After the teacher came in she told us to choose one of our teammates as a model and dress him / her up. Then when we finally decide on our model we were told our activity for the day that is to dress up / camouflage the model as a monster by using the materials we have brought to class and we have 30 minutes to make the dress.


Nadya as the main designer created most of the design while the others help to place the pieces on the model. Ours wasnt as scary as the other team's models but it fit the criteria well so we dont mind though. 

After 30 minutes of endless cutting strings, and placing masking tape all around the model, it's finally done. We were being generous with the design since we didnt cover her entire face so she still have the chance to breath and let air breathe in the plastic bag so she dont have to be baked under the singapore's scorching hot sun.

Then we took our model out for a photo shoot. We choose the fountain so she'll look like a demon descending on top of the fountain. After that we took her outside of campus near the sidewalk so she could stroll around in her dress and also to let her dress flutter around. Since all of the photo shoot are done we returned to class and help our dearest model to get out from her outfit.

Paper Tower

During this week's class after we present our drunk adventure video that we have made last week, we were assigned another group consist of 4 including myself and were asked to make a tower only by using 10 pieces of paper.

After a 30 minutes of making the tower, my team actually finished it and our tower was standing tall yet very fragile. A little touch or even a small blow of wind could topple it down. Since me and i teammates are quite out of idea on how to make a tower using only 10 pieces of paper and more than 1 meter tall. When everybody are done we were asked to  answer questions on our mission sheet.

1. Is there a way you could have gotten more height on your tower?
Yes i think there's a way to get more height maybe by making a thick platform in between the paper stack

2. Was the base of your tower strong enough to support the height?
No.. our tower base wasn't strong enough that's why our tower is really fragile

3. What different ways could you have built your tower?
There are a lot actually. At first we were going to make jenga pieces out of the paper but glad we didnt do that since the other groups did it and it didnt end too well for them.

4. Did you use the materials creatively? What else could you have done?
Actually no.. since my team and i were clueless on how to make it so we just made up and move along with what currently works. We actually could make a support on each of the stacks of paper rolls but we didnt think of that earlier

5. How was your teamwork? What could you have done differently?
Our teamwork is good since we manage to did everything together and help each other connecting the pieces. I think we could cut down the sice of paper so it wasnt too wobbly,

6. What worked well and what didnt?
Our initial plan wasnt working very well since it wouldnt build the height needed so we change plans along the way. The jenga stack also didnt work out so we just stack our long pieces of paper together and somehow made it stand..

W.I.P > Work In Progress

 During the 8th week break we gather at Jocia's place to do our assignments. We already decided before hand to do the giant story book but Jocia thought that the story book is in digital form not physical hence we make animation. Only me, Jocia, Jinnie and Emily come to Jocia's place, Nadya already left Singapore to meet her family. Besides Nadya already completed her task as the main character so even if we do the work without her it will be alright.

When we reach Jocia's place the first thing we do is to prepare the story. Since the story is made of random pictures that we have taken, we made some random story by only connecting the pictures all together to make a seemingly logical story. After me and Jinnie have wrote down what we think would be interesting i ask Jocia to read and fix the bits together. After Jocia fix all of the mistakes we assemble the pictures by transferring it to Jocia's laptop.

It was fun when we do the recording even though we made a lot of mistakes like we had our tongue slipped and mispronounce the words. In the end we need to add more pictures so we asked Emily to pose and we contacted Nadya to make some poses and send it to us. Finally Jocia animate and add in the recordings. It's too bad that i actually could help her edit the project but sadly i left my software at Indonesia. In the end the outcome was very funny and interesting and Jocia deserved a good night rest because she hadn't had a good night sleep.

Photo Hunt

 For the previous 2 weeks class, the teacher showed us some of the previous year projects which i found randomly funny. Even though the sound quality some of the videos weren't great but the story and animation that made me caught interest. Then the teacher gave us the list of photos that we have to take for our own project. The list was quite interesting since the content itself was so random and we have to use our head on how to make our project interesting.

The teacher gave us around 45 minutes of time to hunt and finish the entire list. We ask around and walk around bugis too. The hardest part of hunting the photos were we have to ask some people and all of us are too shy to do it. There were some difficulties on asking a person that we asked to be in the photo since he had a hard time understanding english. Luckily our friend jinnie knew how to speak mandarin and manage to explain everything to him.

After the entire process of randomly taking photos everywhere while some people are looking at us is done, we returned to class and we didnt have 2 photos which are the beautiful cloud and the emergency telephone. We didnt took the cloud because the sky is so clear there's no clouds and we didnt know what an emergency telephone is since we never seen one and in Indonesia we didnt have it. Eventually we managed to take everything and we decided to make a giant animated storybook.