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....
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.
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.
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) :
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!
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!
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!
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...
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)
Lantai dua dekat kakus
Bikin tugas sampe kurus
Masih untung belum mampus
Design Grafis Univ Binus....
I like this cheer, hahahaha....
