World of Creativity

"A, B, C, D...."26 alphabets can generate million of words; "do, re , mi, fa, so, la, ti, do" just eight notes of that can created other musics and songs that impress everyone. Red, yellow, and blue three main colours can mixed to another another colours and painted the a colourful world. A simple thing can become creative and interesting when you join them together. Throughout these 14 weeks of attending the class of Creative Thinking and Idea Generation, I have realised this. Creativity is not something that come appear suddenly. It is something that you have seen, you have observed, you have feel. When you mixed them together, it become yours, your creativity. It is a process, a never-ending process. I have claimed myself in those days that I am not a creative person. As I cannot come out something different with other people. I gave up easily and dint go to generate and dig out the things that lies within my mind. But now, I have a different perception of creativity. As long as you tried, nothing is impossible. Observed more, anything can be your inspiration and creativity. I glad that I have attended this class. I appreciate that. Thanks Sir.

Oppa Gangnam Style

Korean popular song is getting more fans around the world. Korean beautiful and handsome stars are always make people irresistible to fall in love with. However, there is a 34 years old rapper has become a common topic to discuss among the society. Neither because of his handsome face nor his beautiful voice, but his music video. When I first listen to the song, it is just a typical Korean popular song to me. My perception changed after I watched his music video. I started to understand why people get addicted to this song. He is not as handsome as others Korean stars, do not have six packs on his body but another way round. Then what so attractive about him? Is his funny dancing movement and the dancers! His dance become perfectly match when cope with the song. It is like a horse riding dance and he danced all over the place includes the horse stables, on the boat, on the street, in public transport area and so forth. I believe nowadays all the people will start to learn his funny yet stylish dancing movement after watch his music video. This song entitled "Oppa Gangnam Style" become the most popular words among the words of people mouth. By just learning the horse riding dancing movement can get so popular, this shows that creativity is really anywhere. Just depends on how you explore it. And don't be surprise when you become famous in the future because anything can happen! Undeniable that many movements are inspire by the animal, like cat walk, "dog swimming style", peacock dance and so forth. Should train myself to become more observable to make my like more interesting and who knows I can become like him too?

Picture adapted from http://hallyuguru.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/gangnam.jpg

Fake silicon bellies

When you taking bus and found a nice place seated. You stand up when you see a pregnant woman all the way up to the bus. You invite her to take your seat, she said thanks to you politely. You feel satisfied and you are proud of yourself of doing a good deed. What if you found out that she is actually wearing a "fake belly" to pretend that she is pregnant? Currently saw a news reported that there are silicon fake silicon bellies selling online. There can be categorized into few groups: 2-4 months, 5-7 months, and 8-9 months. The size of having the twins baby belly also available. I feel surprise when i read this news. What is the purpose of pretending to be pregnant? I wondering. What i found out from the news is some people using that to increase the comedy effect(for acting), for baby adoption, find people for surrogacy (maybe they cannot deliver baby so pretend to be pregnant), avoid from being fired by boss. Some even merely for the benefits of being a pregnant woman such as avoiding long queue and seat for the public transportation. I was like: What? How can the pregnancy be fake? How can they spoiling the image of a pregnant mummy? This is just like lying. For the comedy effect can be understandable, but for others, is really cheating. However, it still depends on the situation. Can this be classified as white lies? I do not know how if the people find out the truth. No matter how I think still one day the people around them will dig out the truth. Despite of my comments, this fake silicon bellies is very popular now. It is worth RM196-RM588. Some buyers stated that they enjoy of being a pregnant woman when the people around her will take good care of her. But still, I feel uncomfortable of knowing this. However no people can predict the future. Who knows in the future I might need them? Cannot deny that this is very creative, and really satisfy some customers needs. But in the future we have to know to identify the "real" or "fake" pregnant in case we getting cheated. But still this is better than you having a real beer belly. At least this can be take off.

Picture adapted from http://www.moonbump.com/belly-make-productmale.html

Technology vs Traditional

Uncle asked me to give tuition for his son as his exam is coming very soon. He is only standard 3, which is 12 years younger than me. When looking at his syllabus, the syllabus really change a lot.Science and Maths is divided into two languages, which are Mandarin and English. Last time we only have mandarin. Others I think is more or less the same. Before give him tuition, I guide him to finish his Chinese word writing. When i looking at his writing, i asked myself: Will he still write by using his own hand in the future? Since nowadays we all just use the "pin yin" to type our words out. Why dont the school just teaching them to "type" rather than "write"? I think it is more practical in this sense. To be frankly, after graduated form secondary school, I really lack of writing the Chinese word by using own hand. I believe other people also the same. Therefore, when really need we use our own hand to write out the word, it really difficult for us to recall back, or I will just use my hp to check. It's a pity for us and is a disadvantage of the technology advanced. Handwritten words actually have more emotion compare to the typed word. We can roughly know how is the person after seeing the handwritten word. The typed word just emotionless. No matter how, typed word is aiding us with more efficiency, just feel reluctant to replace the handwritten word. Probably I should learn from my little cousin when I am teaching him, as a reminder of the Chinese word. He learn form me, I learn from him. It's fair :)

Natural is beauty

This advertisement is creative and can fully utilize the beauty of the environment.

This is a hair dye advertisement. To show the hair color changing, it dint use a nice model that shows how nice is the hair, instead, the advertiser hang the billboard high in front of the sea. We can look through the hair to the sky. Therefore, when the sky color change, the hair color change also. Morning: Gold color; Evening: orange color; Night: Dark color. The hair color change according to the weather! They dint use any technology by investing a vast amount of money to alter the hair color, , but using the power of the natural. Smart enough! Using this method not only can save cost, also manage to show the powerful message of the advertisement: the hair dye is containing a range of color! The advertisers also smart because they know the natural is always prettier than the thing which purposely done. This advertisement also inspired me that the natural power is the most beautiful thing in the earth. What if they use the human made color to paint the hair color? The color exactly do not have those effect. No matter how many technology you own, how many buildings you build, you still cannot compete with the beauty of the natural. Just like there are many nice scenery that human being cannot paint them easily, but the natural scene can do that. So is make up make a person prettier? Or the natural face nicer? Of course I prefer the later. :)

Lost and Gain

Wake up in the early morning, left leg is in pain. I barely to move. Do not know what I have done yesterday night. Perhaps sleepwalking and fell down? I do not know. Left leg hurt, have to depend on my right leg to support my massive body. Here come an idea to me: You lost something, you will only aware of you actually had it before. When your leg sprained, you became more noticed on the pain leg. You realized that you have never appreciated when the legs are in good condition, hoping that the legs recover so much; When you lost one of your teeth, your tongue will keep licking between the hole, hoping the teeth were there; When your closest family not around, only you started to miss them, when they are gone. This is because human used to be the condition they used to be. Thus, when the condition changed, they are not familiar and started to cherish the pass. They will magnify the mistakes and forgot what they having around. Perhaps the lost and pain function as reminder for us to appreciate them. However, somehow rather human are good in adapting in new environments. They can start to get use to the new situation. When the new situation changed again, they will get to use in the new situation again and again. Until the last breathe of their live. All of these stick to one condition: Let the pass go. We cannot predict what will happen next. But if we cannot let the "used to be condition" go slowly, we will remain and stand still in the same point. We might just blame ourselves again and again and depression happened. Just like if I unwillingly to move on with my hurt leg and keep blaming myself, then I will never step out from my room. Left leg hurt, I am glad that I still have my right leg, at the moment I try my best to heal my left leg. Because he is part of me. There is something gone that you cannot do compensation anymore. Death it is. At the moment you lost something, you know to let the lost go, then you gain something. However, do not constantly depend on the pain and lost to remind you to appreciate. Before it lost, learn to appreciate!

Snooker

The idea generation class that day really opened our mind. One of our idea is about snooker. Suddenly an idea jumped inside my mind. Not about how the snooker inspire and helps in our children storybook, but some life philosophy. I just ever play the snooker pool, which is a smaller one. I am not very expert in playing that, also not really clear about the rules and regulation, just understand need to use the white balls to push all the color balls down to the hole. So whenever I play, I will just aim to the hole and concentrate on pushing the color balls down to the hole. However, no matter how I aim, how i pose, sometime rally hard to push a ball down. However, in the mean time, another ball that accidentally being pushed by the ball that I aim can get into the hole. Sometime even I just simply push without aiming can also success. For this children story book idea generation, the "snooker theory" comes in too. The idea that we think the tutor will accept usually are not the good idea, while we think the idea that have lower chance one usually got the marks. Just like playing snooker. Life is also like playing snooker. When you purposely want to do something, sometime you feel it is hard, and no matter how many efforts you put also fail. Your journey to the goal might be hard, nevertheless there will be some surprise happen in your life. This can boost your confidence again to move forward. Of course, to decrease the failure rate,the skills are very important. Just like playing snooker, if I have learned some skills to play the snooker, the failure rate wont be so high. Therefore we have to check on our mistakes, or find other skills to make it succeed. The color balls just like our dreams and goals, in snooker pool, once we get one ball into the hole, we move closer to the glory. And our goals are the 7 color balls and a black balls. In real life, even we only have one dream or goal are hard to achieve. But hard does not mean impossible. We can be symbolize as the white ball, as long as the white ball still there, then chances are there. Just do not get the white ball into the hole then others will not have chance to take advantage on you. Perhaps I should always play snooker pool to remind me this theory of life.

Picture adapted from http://www.3dm3.com/forum/f48/8-ball-snooker-10266/