Sunday, October 26, 2008

Earlier, I was talking about designing for my mom and dad wedding anniversary card. Here it is. The time now is 5:20am so I will make it snappy. Will be another busy day tml =____=''

A letter and a... thing, i made XD

Closer look, you will see all the alphabet is pop-up and there is flower made of cut-out and rolled-paper.

Anywhere, Im reluctant to say what it previously n only saying it as a 'thing' becoz i will show you now what it is.... its a pencil holder ;) haha

Basically, most design is out to solve a problem. Be it Steve Jobs want to sell more mac thus making more beautifully-designed macs... Website designed to give visitor a good impression or... in my case, My home's computer is out of ink. No choice... Just have to use hand-drawn stuff and some handicraft. Didn't know non-computer-designed stuff also can look so cool haha... self praise

So, Ciao. good nite. miss me. cya guys around *yawn*

@ 5:18 AM

Let's see... yah. I just shot tis pic while i was doing framing for my church yearbook picture. Thought some people might be interested in my... my... handsome picture XD (THICK-SKIN SELF PROMO ALERT).

Btw, I was wrong about the church yearbook design deadline. Some of you might have noticed I getting so stress up in school and ignoring most people. Man! I wasn't giving anyone attitude. Im jus too tired. And I never sleep from Sunday to Wednesday(Only a few hours nap from time to time). Today, I reckon that I will not sleep again. Too much things to do. Blog, supper, design my mom n dad's 23th anniversary card and finishing up all my church design!

Talking about design... I really felt that I've once again acquire the passion of design. All thanks to my SIP and my supervisor, Wayne, who kept giving me design stuff to do. I was a bit reluctant at first but after my 3 mths SIP, I realize my design is better =D

And I begin to realize and see into design around me. Every living thing is a work of design of God which I think is beautiful. The design world just suddenly start to fancinate me once again. All the small details and little touches of designer that make simple everyday things interesting. Every design element is there for a reason.

Recently, I was checking out the new MacBook which I think is beautiful. Steve Job's lackey (haha) pointed out that the new Macbook is simple and stylish and they eliminate everything they feel shouldn't be there. Every elements that remains is there for a reason.

I wholehearted agree with this statement. That's good design. You shouldn't plunk everything inside just because you like it. They must be there for a reason. Now I start to appreciate Art, appreciate creation of God, appreciate good Design...

... but... shit happens. Designer is just human. Designer make mistake. Jus look at this Nokia N78 advertisement that was pasted on Chinatown MRT.

So... spot the mistake? Maybe you can't see it well... blame my bad phone camera.... nooo... blame my own camera skill (mus take responsible n not jus solely blame external stuff ;D)

It read there... 0:52s(where the music is at) and 1:58s(total length of the music) so the bar should be in the middle instead of 1/3 way thru it. Did you get it? I think the designer thought that 1 minute has 100 seconds. So, 52s of 158s is about 1/3 of the bar. But remember what you study in primary school? 1 min has only 60 seconds, that mean 1:58s only has 108s!! so the ratio is about 1/2!!!

I just pissed off that the designer missed up this simple details... Even when I was at Convertium, my design go thru a whole series of checking and mistakes that I wasn't able to spot is spotted. Why did nobody spot this before it was printed =(

That's my rant for today. Off to design =D

@ 1:19 AM

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Stressed and shocked all in a day.

Its being the third night I have not sleep well... (first day never sleep at all, 2nd and 3rd sleep at 5 plus) Using coffee and music to numb my tiredness and stressfulness... sometime I suddenly feel im very stressful... which I found out its because my music stop. All the feeling came back when there's no music as distraction =P Yes, Im blasting music now... Fast n Furious: Tokyo Drift... all in Japanese. Mindless n senseless noise =D

That's the stressed part. As for shocked part. Today ... out of curiosity how my totally-automated-and-ignored Internet business and wondered who was it doing. Look what I've found out

Today was a highest record of $124.60! I had time where I have multiple consecutive days of $99 but $124 till now is the highest ever since the time I overcome my obsession of money. The $0 for friday is due to me not paying my Adwords bill and Google totally shut down my operation for a whole day =(

Tuesday-tuesday... 1 week. Let's see. About $370 (0.0)'''

Then again, its made from 1 campaign. Im storing all the $$ into my bank. I seldom draw money from the atm (yes, I still get weekly pocket from dad)... and jus spend what i have on hand. I wan to setup business in the future, so i am storing capitals now, that's how serious I am ^_^)

So anyone who want to do biz next time, you know who to find ;)

@ 9:02 AM

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Busy busy busy... Just installed Adobe CS4 Design Premium (Indesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat 9 pro, etc) Now rushing church design(and did I mention I am in charge of collecting offerings tml =_=''), so I will blog again most probably after this comming Wednesday.

No time to rebuke girl's comment as well. Haiz... *shake head*

maybe say abit ba, and its most probably the same response, how can you know what someone else think... Everyone has their own thinking. I used to believe in the 1 source belief as well... and even to the extreme of some 'evil' belief. Im not going to elaborate on it. Jus a word of advice, go research and dig in further. I can say i believe a rock/mountain has earth spirit or even believe moon got Chang'er. People used to (even now) believe Chang'er on moon but science jus prove it wrong.

You may say God can't be proven by science but dig in more n do research. In the end, alot of scientist n "high-level" ended out not being able(even if dey really want to) to disapprove the existence. Im not saying Im high-level or anything... and im still learning n researching. I dun want to continue or this will end up being a religious blog. Juz go research >_<''

Anyway, Im lagging behind my blog post. I still have not put up

1) Me and Jinnie jie jie movie day,

2) Supervisor treating me dinner day, and...

3)Last Day of Internship

Well, posting pictures in blogger isn't something ez. but in less that an hour, I posted all my "Last Day of Internship" photos in facebook. If you want to see it. Click the below picture.

click the picture to go to facebook photo ablum of 'Last Day of Internship'

@ 8:50 PM

Friday, October 17, 2008

I was just talking with my friend just now and comment about my recent blog post. She say something like... "if you think those feeling is only 2-3% of you, why don't you just show others your 98% of yourself?" I was like... "right but... that would... that would... " i was speechless. I just want to tell others some secrets, some sensitive issue I would nber tok about in reality. But whatever I say on my post won't really much affect the Samuel in real life.

So, now... ban. Ban emo emo post. Ha-ha. Well... anyway, I will change blog soon. After internship n church yearbook design, I will revamp my 5amuelchan.com website =D and add at least 2 new wordpress blog ;)

So watch out....

@ 11:26 AM

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Now, it takes time to clean up the mess I've made. I just want to say, there ARE really taboos in a relationship and one should never cross the line. But for my case, I was... "forced" (situation) to commit one of the taboo and I caused a huge sandstorm.

But no point trying to explain n defend myself... if the other party just don't believe. WWJD? I think he would just stand there n be judge and wrongly accused without defending himself. While I am not as perfect as Him, still I should I never retaliate. Its another mistake.

Will the sandstorm ever clear? Or will the other party be still standing there when it clear? Now I can't see the situation clearly.

And normally, the one who is talking to you now is only the 2% of what Samuel is. Just stating some feelings, tots n tiny bits n chunks of his mind. If one wants to know who I really am. You would just have to interact with me more. I dun like to say I am hw good I am... that's actually boasting n just state my bad point n let other discover the good points demself. That's being humble... oops yes I shldn't have say I am humble... haha... that's boasting liao =P

So well... everything clear off my mind liao... back to reality n let's do some work >=D

@ 12:47 AM

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Is this the kinda thick n thin we just went thru. If it iz, its kinda scary... as it almost jeopardize the relationship. Sometime I just hide alot of things from others... And if you start wondering if this is gonna be another one of those emo post, yes it is. skip tis post if u wan =P

Most of the time, I do things with a purpose. I have a higher level of doing things (sometime I don't) that I don't normally like to tell others about. Don't worry, its never ever evil intention.

I will think of what Jesus would do in a particular situation. Most of the things he did appear weak in front of others, being ostracised to some degree but alot of people jus dun see the "higher level" of his action. Which is far more important then what others see n think of him.

Well... I not saying I am Him. I admit I am not always 100% correct n my action is not always the best one. Im never be like Him and Im never perfect. But I hope if there's only 1 thing i can learn from Him, its Love. His unconditioned Love for us and the ultimate sacrifice He made for us at the cross.

My relationship with girl girl is also not that shallow. I never meant for her misunderstanding but Im glad it all clear up. I will not go into details about tis but I would like to again end this post up with something for the reader to think about...

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without
expecting to get anything back.Then your reward will be great, and you
will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
Luke 6:35

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
Ephesians 4:2

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:8

@ 10:01 AM

Monday, October 06, 2008

Can't believe it only has being 1 month with girl girl. I am sorry, I can't remember when we officially start. Because, to me, time seem to pass so slowly, close to a standstill, when she not around, and the time spent together seem to pass very quickly. I never knew its just 1 mth =P

Happy 1 mth together girl. I... I... oops. This is a public blog =x
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@ 9:17 AM

The time now is 4:08am and I have work tml, so I will make this snappy. I just went in to check my clickbank balance after I check it last Thursday, and another $170 plus over the course of just 3 days! All without me doing anything. I setup this campaign ever since I start internship. Just one! Yes ONE. You never heard me wrong. O-N-E. And there's nothing out there to stop me from making 2, or 3, or 10 every single day. Just from 1 campaign. And look at the figures there. It not 100-200 plus a month. Its for that week only.

And of course, that's not the nett profit. Some overhead cost and charges is only about 10% of wat I am making... so for every $10 i spend, I make $100.

The only thing now that is stopping me from creating more campaign and increase my profit is Time and Not-to-be-Greedy. Time... I have always pioritize God as 1st, followed by relationship (with girl girl, families n friends), followed by studies, then my own interest, then lastly money. So if making money compromise and reduce time I spent to do those in my piority list. I will say no thanks, even though it is easy money.

2nd, not to be greedy... I have a lecturer, Tommy, who once shared with me the danger of greed, and I totally agreed with him. Well, actually I had a time when Im also making $200 plus a day. I was soooo... sucked into and engrossed in it that I never realized I spend almost all the time there and compromising spending quality time with others. And I totally became another person.

After that incident, I reflected and prayed to God. In the end, I never even cashed in those $$ i made during that period which is around $1500(in jus 1 week... now imagine 4 weeks. $5000-$6000). I left it there, untouched. As a reminder that I will never be overwhelmed by greed again. I was tempted by greed, and defeated the temptation and won. Now after learning my lesson, now that if I am blessed and entrusted with more money by God, I will never fall into trap of greed. Even if I had only a dollar or I have a million dollar, will not change my relationship with God, with others.

I will like to end off with 2 bible verses that help me thru... take a minute to ponder what you read...

Matthew 6:19-20

6:19 Stop storing up yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break in and steal

6:20 Rather, store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and wehre thieves do not break in and steal.

Mark 8:36

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

@ 4:07 AM

Sometime I find myself being too narcissistic, and very easily get jealous... Okay, I will change. Don't be narcissist and be more indifferent and trusting.

Ohhhh... monday's coming soon, which mean, another of episode of Heroes is about to show!

2 more weeks to end of work. Finally freedom!!! Not that it is bad or anything, its just that Im not used to sitting there like a block for long hours, looking at screens... I have wat they call, 'sharp backside'. I can't stay on a chair for long without fidgetting =P

Btw, for all those MAC owner out there who love the Photo Booth as much as I do (might not be as narcissistic as me), I have a great little tip for all cam whoring boys and girls out there.

*For the sake of those window user out there who have no idea to even what Photo Booth is. Photo Booth is basically a fun little application built into every Mac for you to take pictures with your webcam. There's alot of effects to choose from and I particularly like the distort and this 'siamese twins' effect (aka mirror effect)*

Do you guys notice I bright light... when you are taking pictures? That's the flash dude... Sometime, flashing might alter your colour. To disable the flash, hold down the 'SHIFT' key while taking photo. Ta-da... no flash. Or are you irritated by the stupid countdown (as you always close your eyes, when it snap)? Fear not... all you have to do is to hold down 'OPTION' key when you take. It will snap immediately! Combine tis 2 keystroke (hold down 'SHIFT' and 'OPTION' together) and you will snap a pic immediately, without flash.

Particularly useful for snapping your friends or co-workers who is jus sitting beside you without them noticing. Start playing with your photobooth...

@ 2:02 AM

Saturday, October 04, 2008

Ok, i feel better already, but Im still tired....

o...ok. After venting it all out. I think I feeling better. I need a few minutes alone...

WTF, dun come n 烦 meeee!!!!

@ 7:45 PM

Im not sure if it was the effect of the caffeine I just taken or something else. Dear guys, you dun wan to read emo emo stuff. Just skip tis post entirely.

I really had a weird feeling. I wanted to believe I am wrong about it. Maybe Im jus too sensitive, maybe. Im tired... My head is spinning, I need rest. I need care. Im super negative now. I need to switch back. I need... sway my attention. I need more coffee. I need to drown the feeling. I need to feel loved. I need attention. I need sweet. I need chocolate. I need something to prove that Im wrong. I need help. I need to be not negative. I need to be positive. I need to release my stress. I need a simple massage. I need... just a simple laugh. Im so... tired...

I am a joker, because i love to see other laugh. I talk to everyone, because i dun wan anyone to feel left out. I work my ass off, because i wan a good future for my family. I stick a smile on everyone face, because... i hope others will stick one on mine too...

that's all for my random rant... i should feel much better now, but im not...

p.s. i need to look happy because i do want to spread the unhappiness to other, what a shitty thing to do. Please don't come and 烦 me~!

@ 7:19 PM

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