VCD Tasks~DRAWING 1

Hello again everybody!
Today i just wanna share my experience in VCD tasks. Although the processes are tough, but i made quite good results.

Starting from DRAWING 1!
In this subject, of course we have to draw. To know the length of our knowledge in drawing, the lecturer gave us a task to draw a rectangular, a circle and a triangle based objects.

The lecturer always said (in Indonesian), "Picture is consisted of lines. So u have to make good lines with ur hand's control. U mustn't make any nervous lines, lines that are drawn multiple times to get a straight line. U must make ur hands and pencils in control with ur mind. Ur pencils are now UR SOULMATE!!! "

Well, since then, many of my friends change their Facebook status from 'single' to 'In the relationship with-Pencil 2B'...
Nice...(read: Crazy)

*I took the pictures with Laptop camera, so sorry if the lighting aren't too good.

Rectangular based Object
(With B, 2B pencils)

Circle Based Object

Triangle Based Object

All of the objects' rendering weren't done with smooching with hands. Making a shadow or "Rendering (a.k.a Mengarsir)" must not be done with smooching it with fingers or hands (digesek pake tangan klo yg g ngerti). It must be done with only Pencil.

"U must control it with ur hands, how to make thick lines until smooth lines so that it can generates a good rendering" said the lecturer. At first, i can even make good rendering, but with help from my friend, i began to render drawing with good shadow and lighting.

Perspective drawing
The thin lines on the abstract object show how to
multiply a single cube into many cubes and then
making it into an object.
Drawing and rendering with : B, 2B, 4B and 6B pencils

After drawing objects perspectives, we went to room perspectives, which is much more difficult to put the lines together and making it like a real room / space, just like in the real world. In this task, we must used not only pencils, but also pencil colors for the drawings.

Room Perspectives
With Faber Castel Pencil Colors
Place: 1st floor Syahdan Campus near the ATM

Plant Drawing
We're about to move from perspective to human drawing
But before human, we went to plants
Coloring with Faber castel pencil colors
With analogues (Orange to yellow for the plant)
and monochromatic colors
(Red black to red for the pot,
Red to white for the floor and stones
Blue to White for the walls)

I think that's all for DRAWING 1 tasks. I haven't done any tasks for human drawing. I'll update it once i got a good drawing. hehehehe... See you soon!

HELLO N FOLLOW!!!!

HELLO EVERYBODY!!!!!!
Fuh.... after a long... long... long... long... long... hiatus, i finally come back to write some of my experiences in this small blog. Sorry for the long awaited update. Ever since i entered Bina Nusantara Univ. especially after majoring in Visual Communication Design, which has much more project than the other majors (not that i look down on others major, i just said, VCD major has a lil' bit much more tasks)

I don't know what word best describe VCD major, but i do have one word for my experience in it, STRESS!!! My 1st tasks were okay, but it gets more difficult from week to week. I even almost broke down because of the tasks. Seriously, the tasks consumed a lot of mind and physics power. For the first time ever, i don't sleep for a whole day, all because of task. Despite of the stress, i do enjoy this major. Just hope that i can get through for 4 years ahead... Hahahahaha...

Oh yeah, now i'm very active on Twitter, follow me on http://twitter.com/ChiharuMoka

I think that's all i can say for now. I'll update again very soon. Bye everyone!

TKH (Temu Keakraban Himpunan)

Hey everyone! It's been a while since the last post. This time i wanna share about last week TKH at DKV major. The TKH was really fun, yet it was also boring and scary. The scary part is when the security section scolded, yelled and made fun of the newbies, especially when we asked them for signature. But, despite all of that, the security section aren't bad people. In fact, i think they should take acting classes. Their act as bad people, yelling and scolding the newbies, is really great. They can win an Oscar.

This time, the theme for TKH is "The Rise of The Nation". So, the freshman, which is about 300 people, were divided into 4 group, Germany, Rome, Japan and Egypt. Every group had a leader, which was called "God of War". As the theme said, each group competed in some subject such as, drawing and water gun war. Hahahahaha....

The greatest and funniest session in TKH were the camp fire session and morning aerobic session. I had fun in those 2 session. I can't wait for next year TKH. Hope i can be in one of the sections. Well, i'll post the photos in some other time. I haven't got any of the photos. Bye for now....

Synesthesia

Lately, i've been reading some fanfictions of a famous anime. There is one fanfiction that is really interesting, the main role has a condition called Synesthesia. The one who have this condition called Synesthetes. I began to wonder if there are people like that, so i googled it. And it's true, though only small part of people in the world who have this ability.

Synesthesia is a phenomenon where a person's senses cross-wired. When one sensory of a person is stimulated by something, automatically, the second sensory also sense that stimulation. For example, when we hear a sound, we can "see" the sound too. Get it?

There are 5 forms of synesthesia, Grapheme, Sound, Number Form, Personification, and Lexical. The most common form is grapheme--> Colour synesthesia. A person can see individual letter, such as alphabets and numbers that are "shaded" or "tinged" with color. Usually, "A" is most likely shaded with red color. So, when this person is reading words, actually he is reading colours.

Another common form of synesthesia is Sound-->Colour Synesthesia. A sound synesthete can see some shapes and colours, when they heard sound, voice, or even music orchestra. Some synesthete agreed that louder tones are brighter than soft tones or higher notes are smaller in shape and brighter than the lower notes. A sound synesthete can see each different colours from different voices that comes out from each different people.

The number form is a mental map of number when a synesthete think or see numbers. Personification is a form when a synesthete see or hear numbers or alphabets and then, describe / personalized them. For example: 3 is so serious, while 0 is pretty, smart and kind, K is a female, she is quiet but have a big responsible.
The lexical form is a condition where a synesthete hear, say or inner speech, they can immediately taste the words. For example: blue taste inky, love taste like chocolate.

If i've got to meet synesthete, i'll be very happy, because i can ask them about what my voice's colour, or maybe what my name taste like. I think, synesthetes are not weird people. They just have one extra feature for themselves. They also see what we see, taste what we taste, hear what we hear, but they do all of them in a different angle.

Final Day of POM

Every meeting have its own ending. Although, this final POM won't be the last time we saw each other from ABN18 or the mentors too.
There were only 2 session for today. The mentors share some of their knowledge to their mentees. Our class mentors is Nila and William. Nila is from architecture major and William is from DKV major. So, the one who was sharing the knowledge mostly done by William. He shared some important points that we, the freshmen, have to know about the studies, lecturers, and rules at DKV major. He brought some examples from his first year tasks too, it was really great! His drawing is really good...

Before we went to the next session, the head class, George and two other of his friends, bought a strawberry cake with "18" candle on the top. 18 symbolized the class, ABN18. The cake symbolized our big thanks to the mentours, Nila and William. From what i've heard, our mentors are the most fun, laidback, and know how to have some crazy time. I felt like they're not really mentors, they're more like our hang out friends, whom we can chat freely with. I really had many fun times with them and also an outlook for the DKV major.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH NILA AND WILLIAM!!

The last session is the EXPO. Open house for the UKMs. All the freshmen can join their favorite UKM at each UKM stand. This EXPO also continues in every periode of POM. The DKV stand really outstanding and very creative. The HIMDKV's stand had an old fashion of Nusantara theme in it. The freshmen can buy pins, notebook and sketchbook. You can even get face sketches from the senior in HIMDKV. It was like a gallery in DKV stand.

There was this senior from DKV major that is really weird, crazy yet fun... He invited all the freshmen in the stand by saying this (in Indonesian) :

"Semua anak DKV!! Udah pada daftar TKH (Temu Keakraban Himpunan) belom?? Cepetan daftar... Nih liat temanya, "The Rise of The Nation"! Nasi dari segala bangsa!!! Di TKH ini kita akan mengajari kalian semua menanak nasi, memasak nasi goreng, pokokny ok deh!"

Is this suppose to be home economic stand or DKV stand??? That was my first thought when that senior said it. If that's really what TKH is about, i rather learn the cooking from my mom and not spend two hundred thousand ruapiahs for it... HAHAHAHA.... But of course, the DKV TKH is really about learning and having fun. That senior also gave an ultimatum :

"Kalo ga ikutan TKH, kalian semua nanti ga bisa gambar pas lagi pelajaran DKV!!"

WHAT THE H**L!! That was really creeping me out...

Another stands that really great is Paramabira. They had a mini concert at 12 o'clock. So, we could see them at their stand. I tell you, they really good... I hope i have the sample of their voices, but they're not for sale and i don't have any clue where to find it.
And that is it, the one week of POM. It was kinda boring at first, but... I think my class was really unified and fun. We even have the facebook, BINUSIAN 2013.ABN18! Yeah... That's it for now. I'll post some of the pictures later and post the TKH from HIMDKV and the inauguration. See ya!

4th Day of POM

Hi Guyz n Girls!! Sorry again for the delay of the 4th day. Yesterday, i went home so late, i just got back home about 8.30 p.m. So i didn't have time to tell u what happened yesterday.

So yesterday, we went to Anggrek Campus new building, computer laboratory. The first session was about Binusmaya and Binusian Blog. Binusmaya was made for the efficiency of the students. From Binusmaya, students can look at their college schedule, test schedule, test result, subject discussion in forum, and other things that students must know. Binusmaya itself can be opened only by Binusian. Binus also gives 1 email address to each students and that address can be used like yahoo or msn email.
For Binus Blog, students can post some of their exciting, unique, or other experiences in their blog. Binusian Blog is also as good as blogger or wordpress, and the layout can be changed too. So, maybe i'll change my blog from this address to Binusian Blog address... I will definitely tell you when i changed it.

The 2nd session is about religious gathering. So, the students were grouped in religion order such as, muslim, Catholic, Christian and also Buddhist. I don't know if there was a Hinduist... We gathered and played some games, shouted some praises to our Lord, and continued by eating together.

The last session of the day is the UKM Performances. UKM is the acronym for Unit Kegiatan Mahasiswa. It's like clubs or extraculliculer at senior high school. There are about 30 UKMs in Binus. Here are some of the UKM that i liked so much :

1. Klifonara, Klub Seni Fotografi Bina Nusantara. DKV major also have some lessons about Photography, so i think this club will give many advantages for us in the future.

2. Paramabira, Paduan Suara Mahasiswa Bina Nusantara. Binus Choir is really good, already has 4 voices in it, soprano, tenor, bass and alto. They performed really well yesterday, the sopranos can hit really high notes, the Head voice!! Paramabira also ranked in 3rd place when they compete in Spain.

3. B-Voice, the Binus radio station. B-Voice had been working with some famous radio station in the city, one of them is 101.4 Trax fm. You can also learn how to interview people and broadcasting.

4. Stamanara, Seni Tari Mahasiswa Bina Nusantara. The dance club has many genre from break dance to latin dance. Of course, they also have the cheerleading and modern dance.

5. Nippon Club. This is where the Otaku of anime and manga gather. They're not only join this club because of the anime manga, but also the tradition and language classes that can be found in it. Such as, Japan literature class, kendo, matsuri festival, and many more. Any anime and manga fans would LOVE this...

Those are my favorite clubs. Sadly, i can only choose Klifonara for now. I'm afraid DKV major has many tasks to do. If i join too many clubs, i wouldn't have time to come to every lessons. I'm also joining the HIMDKV, so that makes it 2 club that i'll be joining.

That's all for the 4th day... Read the final day of POM too!

3rd Day of POM

Hi everyone!!! Today's POM is already finished... Today, we weren't studying at Syahdan Campus, instead, we studied at Anggrek Campus. The Anggrek Campus is not too far from Syahdan Campus.

Today's subjects were also 2 of the DKV's subjects. They are Audio Visual and Motion Graphic. Basically, the 2 of those subject referred to animation and film. Audio Visual gave some learning about the difference of things that can be touched and the things that can only be seen and heard. As for Motion Graphic, we learned about advertisement and film itself. Advertisements such as, HP laptop, Coca-cola etc. is advertisements that requires motion graphic. Motion graphic itself is not animation or new media, but it's the mix of those two.
See this commercial HP laptop, u'll love it! Jerry Seinfeld and Pharrell

The last session is TOEFL. It's a must for every POM students. I have to tell y'all, Binus TOEFL is so hard... Very different from other listening, reading or structure that we've done at school. It's hard, but i guess i've done mine good enough. Hope i could get 500 above for the TOEFL.

Well, i'll post the 4th day tomorrow, BYE!

2nd Day of POM

Sorry for the delay of this post... I didn't have any time yesterday. Yesterday i went home late.

So, yesterday was the fun part of POM. We got the chance to enter 2 of the Visual Communication Design's subject. It's called Brainstorming and Visual Sequence.
In Brainstorming session, we were pushed to let out all of our ideas in certain time and draw it in 4 pieces of paper. We had to think 1 object, for example; i chose CLOUDS. And then, draw it into different pictures. For the first paper, i drew clouds as the real clouds in the sky. For the second paper, i drew cupcakes with the fresh cream on the top. So, i imagine the clouds is the fresh cream. Do you get it?
For the third paper, i drew trees. The clouds acted as the leafs of the tree. Then, for the fourth paper, i drew a person that wears a party dress with fluffy scarf. The clouds was the fluffy scarf.
That was the brainstorming session. We had to draw all of it in 40 minutes. It's not easy to find an object and then drew it into other objects.

For the Visual Sequence session, we were given 4-6 sentences from a song. There were 4 songs (different title of course). And we chose one song and drew 4 pictures to describe those 4-6 sentences from the song. You can describe it with reality picture or maybe symbols such as shape or any other objects. I chose Ello's song, it's called "Masih Ada". It was similar with making a video clip, but with drawings or symbols. Of course, we drew it in certain time, 40 minutes.

After joining those 2 sessions, i just knew that design major will be very hard for us in the near future. I felt beaten up after those sessions.
Luckily, we have Social Awareness session. Each class was ordered to bring different basic food such as, rice, clustered sugar, tea, noodles and condensed milk, etc. And then, 15 students from each class had to decorate the stands for selling those food to society around university. The decoration time is 30 minutes and the neighborhood around Binus already had coupons to exchange it with the foods. One certain rule, the seller MUST NOT drag the buyer as if it's in traditional market or Mangga Dua. The seller can attract the buyer with the decoration and a mascot from each class. But, in the end, everybody shouting the people that came into Binus, try to persuade them to buy the foods. Hahahaha...

The last session of the day is the Togetherness. Every class was ordered to have cheer (yel-yel) about their class and perform it at the stage. There were some creative cheering and some of them were sucks.... But then, it's really fun. Just to think what cheering they would perform. At the beggining and the end of the session, the students were instructed to make human waves, but only ONCE! The students couldn't stop though... We made the human waves 5 times back and forth... Hahahahaha...

It was a fun day...

1st Day of POM

Fuuhhh..... Finally, 1st day of POM has ended. I gotta tell y'all, it's quite boring. I took Visual Communication Design for my major at the univ. But the first 6 hours of POM (somekind of orientation for Bina Nusantara University students) was about BINUSIAN learning, SMART Goal and culture. It was like a seminary rather than a simple presentation. Some of the students--Including myself--almost slept in the middle of the presentation. But, i tried not to. It would be rude for the presentators.

In every session, there was an online post test. That test was made for the students in order to refresh and summarize all the presentation. This test not only for my class, but for all of 1st periode of POM at Binus and it's a competition between my class-ABN18-and the other. We are aiming for 1st place in those online post test.

The only session that gave energy and big laughter for today's POM was a session from HIMDKV (Himpunan Mahasiswa DKV / DKV's College Students Circle). It's consist of Design students and we can get into this circle by joining their event called TKH (Temu Keakraban Himpunan). Although design major at Binus is known for its many and hard tasks, the design students at this circle seem very carefree and really enjoy their studies. They still can be cool and make many events, such as Plaza design and TKH.
This time, the TKH will be held on 18-20 August at "Pondok Gedeh", Cianjur. The title is "The Rise of The Nation". It was said that students will get many advantages from this event. I'm looking foward to it, can hardly wait for it...

O yeah, HIMDKV also has its cheer (Yel-yel)... It sounds like this (In Indonesian)

Design Grafis Univ Binus
Lantai dua dekat kakus
Bikin tugas sampe kurus
Masih untung belum mampus
Design Grafis Univ Binus....

I like this cheer, hahahaha....

"Eccentric yet Kind" Doctor

Yesterday, i went to doctor for checking my health. I've been sick for almost a week, i have cough n flu non-stop in that one week. As my mom didn't stand the sound of my cough again and again, my mom told me to go Dr.Andreas. I've never been to that doctor, although my dad n my lil' bro had gone there to have some diagnoses and prescription. I heard, this doctor is really good, even my lil' bro who had Dengue Fever symptoms, recovered in about 3 days! And he didn't have to go to hospital...

I finally went there. The place is in the low-middle class neighborhood. It's a private practice and many low-class people went there for prescriptions. The place is really simple, not a doctor-like practice. When i finally got my turn, i entered the doctor's room. There are some points that i made me think this doctor is kinda eccentric :

1. The doc didn't work alone, his wife become a doc's assistant. Kinda like nurse. I think it's romantic since they do this work together for a long time. They are an old couple. They corrected each other mistake in the doc's room.

2. The doc is a very strict teacher. He repeated that the drug must be taken I HOUR after u eat. "If you eat breakfast @ 7a.m, u take the medicine @ 8a.m". He repeated that over and over again.

3. The couple (doc n his wife) didn't open the practice at their home. So this small practice in the middle of low-class neighborhood is actually a rented house. They think it will be troublesome if they open their practice at their home. (It's kinda weird, cause usually all doctors private practice is at their home, so it's more convenient that way, right?)

4. The couple are REALLY HONEST. There are no doctors that will show u their medicine REAL price. Dr.Andreas show the original price of my medicine from the box is Rp.254.000. He gave me half from the box, so it will be about Rp.125.000. And with a bottle syrup for cough, all of them is about Rp.150.000. The doc said, "With this, u know that i'm not lying about the medicine's price. I gave u the real price." Usually, doctors can give the medicine price in any price they want. But this one, he really showed his price. He is so kind...

5. Talking to the doctor and te nurse didn't feel like talking to real doc. The first impression u get is u're looking at ur friend or ur neighbor. So, they checked me while talking about the election. Dr.Andreas also talked about how boring being a doctor.
Dr. Andreas : "U know, being a doctor, i always do this everyday. Everyday, from the time it's open until it closed. Do you want to work like this?"
He asked that question to me. The tone is like he's bored with his work. How unusual.... (Well, if it is me, i will. Why not? u already had a job!)

Those are some points that i can tell u about the doc. U'll be laughing if u met them, it'll be nothing like a doctor. It's like you're chatting with ur grandma and grandpa. But then again, they really did their job excellently. They prescripted and give the medicine, so u don't have to go to drug store (their medicine price even cheaper than buying it at drug store).
I think, they did their job like this because they wanted to help people. They become doctor and nurse to help those who are unable to have prescription from hospital. They already had succesful children and a good life, so i think, they didn't do this job for money. They really are loyal to their job. I hope, this can be a model for you guys out there who want to be a doctor.

Not becoming a doctor so you can only look for money, but to help people with a sincere heart.

King of POP Died

This morning i got a message from my friend Hendra, he told me that MJ has died. Are u kidding me?! That was my first thought. But when i told my little bro, he said he already knew. So it was true that MJ has died. I ran downstairs and turned on the TV, changed the channel to CNN and it was in breaking news. It said on the screen, "Michael Jackson died after taken to cardiac arrest"

OMG!!! No way... And i heard that he was in the middle of prep for his tour next month in London. Wow.... I know i'm not a big fan of MJ, but i do like some of his songs. His songs were really inspiring artists of today. And of course the fans too.
Many of Hollywood artists mourned for MJ's death. JT said "We've lost a music genius". Kim Kardashians said that music will never be the same again without MJ. I think so too. MJ was such a great n an inspiring artists. No one can copy his voice more over his moves.

"If you enter this world knowing you're loved & you leave this world knowing the same,then everything that happens in between can be dealt with"-MJ

Michael Jackson lived from 1958-2009. He died at the age of 50 with an unknown cause although he was taken to cardiac arrest before he died.
Michael Jackson, may you rest in peace....

"Friends" in Alphabetical Order

Friends can be describe in alphabetical order. This is the list...

(A) ccepts you as you are
(B) elieves in "you"
(C) alls you just to say "HI"
(D) oesn't give up on you
(E) nvisions the whole of you
(F) orgives your mistakes
(G) ives unconditionally
(H) elps you
(I) nvites you over
(J) ust "be" with you
(K) eeps you close at heart
(L) oves you for who you are
(M) akes a difference in your life
(N) ever Judges
(O) ffers support
(P) icks you up
(Q) uiets your fears
(R) aises your spirits
(S) ays nice things about you
(T) ells you the truth when you need to hear it
(U) nderstands you
(V) alues you
(W) alks beside you
(X) -plain things you don't understand
(Y) ells when you won't listen and
(Z) aps you back to reality...

*I've got this from my fren posting, see Cha-Cha's ART @ my links

School's Rank and School's science TOP 3

I should say i'm so proud of my Science class. We made a very good progress n changes in this year's rank.

First, our school rank in Kabupaten rank (Jakarta Utara) (Don't know the english, someone tell me). Last year, our school's science class ranked 19th in Jakarta Utara. This year, our school's science class ranked in 7th placed in Jakarta Utara!!!
Yeahhh....

There is also provincial rank (DKI Jakarta). Last year, our science class ranked below 100th, 131th place. This year, we swept all the school and ranked 29th place!!!!
We jump over 102 schools!!! Wohoooo.... We are so good!! Long live science class of '09!

Yesterday, the top 3 ranked students from science class also had been announced. The ranked is based from UAN/UAS exam score. 3rd place is taken by Dewi, my BFF. Hahaha, i always knew she will spot the top 3. 2nd place is taken by Yudith, also my BFF. Wew, she is such a calm girl n kinda rush things when it comes to study. So, i never expected her to be in the top 3. So sorry dith, i underestimated u....

And the 1st place is taken by.... (Drum Roll) ARIEL VICTOR!!! Wow!! He is a genius i must say, he's good in every subject, no wonder he is the champion.
Hahhahaha...

The thing is, i wanted to take picts with those 3 but i forgot!! Kyaaaa..... I didn't have any picts with the top 3 students. But then i realized something. About 2 weeks ago, Me, Yudith and Dewi went to swim in Ariel's apartment. So, the 4 of us went to swim. N we've taken some picts after finished swimming!

Can u believe it? I've actually already took picts with the top 3, and i even didn't know they will be in the top 3!! GREAT!!!
Here are the photos...

1st place Ariel Victor. Yeah, keep on smiling....
(the truth is, this picts was taken for experiment
if the lighting in the pool is good enough for other picts.
He voulenteered for this picts.
I guess he is too narcist...)

2nd Place, Yudith ; Ariel ; 3rd place, Dewi ; n me

All of the photo was taken near the pool and it was already
evening, so it was kinda blurry.

Graduation Release Party

Yesterday, at GRADUATION RELEASE PARTY 17th June 2009, i took so many picts. About 50 of them were in my handphone and now i'll direct it to my blog. But the picts in my blog it's only about 30-40 or so, because some of them are too blurry that i have to delete them. Trust me, u can't see anything from those blurry picts. So, lets get started!!! (Just Click the picture to zoom in n right click to save it)

Class Photo by: Michael HK

!PHOTOS WITH MY BFF!

!PHOTO WITH MY FRIENDS!

PHOTO SESSION WITH Mrs.TAMI!!!
(Homeroom Teach)

PHOTO SESSION WITH THE TEACH!!!

With Sir Dede

With Mrs. Jessica

With Sir Aloy

With Sir Romi