Posted by Goh Shea on Monday, October 19, 2009,
Kursus Pimpin Siswa, a camp which is compulsory for all the 2009 first year APEX students. During the usm orientation week, I have received an offer letter from usm authority to go for kursus pimpin siswa at Cinta Alam Kelimat on August 2009.
This camp is 3 days program. The objective of pimpin siswa is to produce a sustainable student. Just before a day for the camp, usm authorities were giving us a briefing about the camp and distributed the t-shirt and bag for us.
1st day (7th Augus...
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Posted by Goh Shea on Sunday, October 18, 2009,
Site: Bukit Jenaton
Task #1
Each individual shall design a pair of plant identification tags (size: 6 ½” X 4 ¾” ). The tag will display plant’s vernacular / botanic names,
Task #2
The group work shall improvise and set up a regulated water sprinkler system suspended at 10-25 feet in height. The aim is to propagate growth of herbaceous species on the jungle floor and shrub level.
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Posted by Goh Shea on Sunday, October 18, 2009,
Posted by Goh Shea on Sunday, October 18, 2009,
2 tasks are given to us, which are:
1) Bamboo Box-One cube (1mx1mx1m)
2) Bamboo Gift-One small object made of bamboo as a gift item, creatively wrapped.
I chopped the bamboo using parang
I tied up the bamboo
Me and my bamboo cube
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Posted by Goh Shea on Sunday, October 18, 2009,
Posted by Goh Shea on Sunday, October 18, 2009,
This lecture taught us about accretion and subtraction. Accretion is an increase in size of a design plate by addition of material along a convergent boundary, whereas subtraction is the cutting out of shapes and design.
We also learned about:
- Ambiguous images: Optical illusion images which are crafted to exploit graphical similarities and other properties.
- Repetitive design
- Symmetry and asymmetry
A project was given to us on that day for making 2 cubes...
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Posted by Goh Shea on Sunday, October 18, 2009,
Posted by Goh Shea on Sunday, October 18, 2009,
Posted by Goh Shea on Sunday, October 18, 2009,
Our lecturer was issued the project 2C The Mask to us. In this task, we were required to make a mask that is exactly same with our face.
In the making of the mask, I have prepared some materials.
1. Tepung ubi kayu
2. Newspaper
3. Scissor
4. Poster colours
First of all, I make the glue by mixing tepung ubi kayu with hot water. I found that the mixture cannot mix well and it was not as sticky as glue. Then I realized that the problem is that hot water was not hot enough. Then...
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Posted by Goh Shea on Sunday, October 18, 2009,
Posted by Goh Shea on Sunday, October 18, 2009,
For this project,we are asked to sketch a natural structure which can find it in usm compound. This natural structure can be any stucture such as tree,stone,leaf and etc.I had choose a tree near the Indah Kembara hostel. I am using different grades of pencils to sketch the tree. Lecturer has told us that the structure is very important and we have to present it using dot, line, shape, form, space and media. I tried to emphasis the trunk and branches of the tree because these are the main s...
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