Bleah. That day, I was just sitting down on my chair, in my room, alone, staring blankly at my monitor, then at the ceiling, down to the floor, and up again at the monitor. What's running in my thought you may ask: It's something to do with "what's after JC?". Where do I want to go? Where can I go alongside all the circumstances - passion, wish, ability, and most importantly finances. During that moment of blankness, I thought to myself, I would like to do anything to do with design. Be it fashion design, interior design, product design, graphic design, web design..This is partly because I do not like science, except for maths of course. And wanting to be in the design sector just wow me. And so I surfed yahoo for universities in US, Europe that offers design courses. I came by this university: Parsons school of design, in New York. The history mentioned that Donna Karan of DKNY as well as Tom Ford are Parson's graduate. I read the admission procedure: Firstly it provides hope since it mentions that do not despair if we do not have the basics in drawing. But, later on, it mentions as a must-to-do is to hand in a slide of my portfolio and home-exam. At least, this school stated what kind of portfolio do they want, unlike some others who blatanly just put 'portfolio'. In portfolio, they want: include work done from actual observation (life drawing), and not copied from two-dimensional sources such as photographs. And for the home-exam:
1. Draw a self-portrait in pencil. Colored pencil is acceptable. Draw from a mirror. Include the foreground and background.
2. Use cut or torn paper to construct a color collage representing an interior space where you spend most of your time.
3. In six steps, visually represent a personal process you engage in every day (ex: tying your shoes, opening a door, brushing your teeth, etc.). Show the key components of the process. You may include drawings or collage in your solution.
4. Provide a brief (500 word), type-written paragraph to describe and analyze an everyday object found in your home.
And, that's like 'gosh' for me. I do not have talent (at least I think so) for that. I am dumb in life drawing, and yet I have to draw my own face. Haiz, it's also not that I will be able to go beyond Singapore. People may ask why don't I major in design in Singapore. Is there such? Even if there is, it seems to be not promising enough. After all, Singapore is more famous for its medicine course, business course, science course.
I'm also so ficle-minded. In the last last last...last post, I mentioned about the dream of being a musician. Well, yeah I still dream of it. After all conducting an orchestra, or band, or choir, or composing a music are still a design in the making. Basically, I feel like move away from science and explore the arts. All these years, it has seemed that my talents, my thinking lies more towards analysis, towards the art of science. But, I refuse to believe that my talent for arts is just so-so. Well, we shall see how. As in for now, 95% I will be aiming for NUS. Most probably majoring in Applied Mathematics. What can I do with that degree? Teaching? maybe. Maybe not. Just hope, it's useful.
1. Draw a self-portrait in pencil. Colored pencil is acceptable. Draw from a mirror. Include the foreground and background.
2. Use cut or torn paper to construct a color collage representing an interior space where you spend most of your time.
3. In six steps, visually represent a personal process you engage in every day (ex: tying your shoes, opening a door, brushing your teeth, etc.). Show the key components of the process. You may include drawings or collage in your solution.
4. Provide a brief (500 word), type-written paragraph to describe and analyze an everyday object found in your home.
And, that's like 'gosh' for me. I do not have talent (at least I think so) for that. I am dumb in life drawing, and yet I have to draw my own face. Haiz, it's also not that I will be able to go beyond Singapore. People may ask why don't I major in design in Singapore. Is there such? Even if there is, it seems to be not promising enough. After all, Singapore is more famous for its medicine course, business course, science course.
I'm also so ficle-minded. In the last last last...last post, I mentioned about the dream of being a musician. Well, yeah I still dream of it. After all conducting an orchestra, or band, or choir, or composing a music are still a design in the making. Basically, I feel like move away from science and explore the arts. All these years, it has seemed that my talents, my thinking lies more towards analysis, towards the art of science. But, I refuse to believe that my talent for arts is just so-so. Well, we shall see how. As in for now, 95% I will be aiming for NUS. Most probably majoring in Applied Mathematics. What can I do with that degree? Teaching? maybe. Maybe not. Just hope, it's useful.
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