Peh Chak Cha (Pecha Kucha)
Saturday, has been one of the great day to date. Last Saturday I mean. And I think its just fair to share it here.
I started the day early for class in UTAR. To update everyone, I've just started a 2-months "Fundraising and Communication" course organised by the Centre of Extension Education, held in Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), PJ. The classes started since 19th June (Tuesday) and will end on the 11th August. 3 classes a week, that will take my Tuesday and Thursday nights (6.30pm to 9.30pm) and Saturdays (9am-12pm) away from me. But whats really make me smile last class was during the morning tea break, one of the lecturers came up to me and told me that he find my presentation (we had a group discussion and presentation earlier on) was quite exuberant (his words!) and would like it if I be among the 2 chosen for an individual presentation for his session. Thats cool huh?! That shud make future classes more interesting.
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I went back with a good feeling and my sister and bro-in-law came by for lunch so we had like a bigger family lunch than usual. After that, Muid and I rushed to Avenue K for our Pecha Kucha & Design Dayz event.
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Okay, first of all, I have to tell you that I belong to a design collective called DigitalMalayaProject, founded by my brother Muid. For almost 5 years, I've been following him around to contemporary art exhibitions, and some graffiti art bombings (legal ones) and have supported the scene but I neverwas am creative to even begin with. In the collective, we have top people of their respective fields, Muid being one of the top digital artist and web designers in Malaysia, Perez, a great video animator, Shieko, a top Malaysian illustrator and Riz Ainuddin, an upcoming model/actor who have made it in the advertising world. So being amateur at everything I do, including writing, my only creative contribution comes from the supportive energy that I bring to each and every event I went to. Mingling around with all these top top graphic designers have been amazing. And when you're among these creative energies, you can't help but feeling inspired to do something. So, I turn to poetry and photography. With a 4.0megapixel Nikon camera, I shot my pictures,without any technical knowledge, let alone expertise. So, thats the history before we come to this Pecha Kucha.
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Last month, Muid told me that British Council has invited DigitalMalaya to participate for their Design Dayz and Pecha Kucha night at Avenue K. It will be a 6 minutes 40 seconds talk with 20 slides of powerpoint presentation, showing at 20 seconds length each. So, Muid told me to submit 5 of my photography works for the collective. I was a bit surprised but as usual I did a last minute submission and Muid and Perez compiled everyone's job into that 20 slides of powerpoint presentation.
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Anyways, back to 3pm, we rushed to Avenue K and arrived there in time for Muid to check on the presentations and me to listened to some of the afternoon speakers. We listened to Kamil Yunus, a person I've never heard of but apparently one of the old people in the industry. However, I didn't really get his point, I can't say that his work is not that good because some of the shots (in the clip he presented) were fairly good. But his comments on the disappointing quality of new designers and degrading their potential was very irrelevant. His adversity to the new minds made him look a bit too cocky of his own potential. Especially when he went on about him being able to study in Yale, and his accounts with Petronas and whatnot. And I know everyone has their own style, but speaking to an enthusiastic crowd who came all the way to hear you talk while you sit there looking at your Mac, not looking at your audiences and kept on brushing and playing with your hair, shows that you don't respect your audience. Well, good for him that he is well-established, went to Yale, making millions of ringgit, but hell, if you can't be open to accept other people's potential, then, you're a disappointment yourself. Especially to the future generation who needed your support. It was funny when one minute, he said he would pay for people to ask him questions, and the next, he complained on the questions shot to him. Well, his segment was topped off by Chin Weng Keong, who gave a great talk on Marketing Communications with great case studies to support and educate the audience. Weng Keong, the founder and Managing Director of Arachnid, gave an insight on how the business works and this is an added advantage for designers because its not all about being creative, its also about being able to sell your creativity in means of sharing it with the world. Although Weng Keong was bombarded with questions by Kamil Yunus, being a very realistic and open-minded person, he countered every single question with what he had previously mentioned, as to substantiate and inter-relate everything that he had said throughout his segment. Furthermore, the case studies on Stolen A3, Yellowball, Monopoly Live and Pacai's music website gave the audience a complete understanding on the rise of engagement marketing. I didn't really focused on the last speaker of the day because was already busy with dinner plans so that we can be on time for Pecha Kucha that starts at 8pm.
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Long story cut short (yeah right, yang dah story tu pendek sangat ke????), here are my personal 2 slides of 20 seconds each that we presented for Pecha Kucha.
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After Pecha Kucha ended around 10.30pm, we headed down to Pelita and basically lepak there until 3am, talking endlessly about A LOT of stuff and laughing our asses off like crazy. Its been awhile. After rounds of coffees, limau ais, milo ais, teh ais, maggi goreng and lots of ciggies, we walked to the car (from Pelita to AmBank) and the night ended perfectly.
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Last Saturday was great. Even better, I wasn't bugged until 1pm on Sunday. Hehehehe ....... Yeah, I spent the Sunday sleeping my head off. Today is Tuesday and I got class. Can't wait for another great saturday. I'd like to thank the DMP Collective, Muid for pushing me to do this, Perez, Shieko and Riz for the collaboration, Salmi for coming early with Man and Fahmi and practically hangout with me while trashing the bad speakers (as mentioned above, hehehe), Elyna, Ibah, Zatyl, Eka and Tini who came upon my invitation and supported us throughout our 6 minutes 40 seconds presentation. Too bad Riz was out of town, if not, the whole DMP Collective could've had our official hangout session. Not to forget the British Council people, Suneeta and Patrianna (and also Patrianna's sister Sandra who came to help), kudos to Juan from BigBrosWorkshop who did a funny presentation, Mr. Izu who dropped by to support the event and everyone else who participated.
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Next up will be 7th July, organised by galleriiizu and I heard the location might be at CM. I'm not quite sure but DMP will feature a video composition which will be more interesting. I hope! Heh. I'm just psyched to start layout-ting my portfolio!
I started the day early for class in UTAR. To update everyone, I've just started a 2-months "Fundraising and Communication" course organised by the Centre of Extension Education, held in Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), PJ. The classes started since 19th June (Tuesday) and will end on the 11th August. 3 classes a week, that will take my Tuesday and Thursday nights (6.30pm to 9.30pm) and Saturdays (9am-12pm) away from me. But whats really make me smile last class was during the morning tea break, one of the lecturers came up to me and told me that he find my presentation (we had a group discussion and presentation earlier on) was quite exuberant (his words!) and would like it if I be among the 2 chosen for an individual presentation for his session. Thats cool huh?! That shud make future classes more interesting.
----- # ----- # -----
I went back with a good feeling and my sister and bro-in-law came by for lunch so we had like a bigger family lunch than usual. After that, Muid and I rushed to Avenue K for our Pecha Kucha & Design Dayz event.
----- # ----- # -----
Okay, first of all, I have to tell you that I belong to a design collective called DigitalMalayaProject, founded by my brother Muid. For almost 5 years, I've been following him around to contemporary art exhibitions, and some graffiti art bombings (legal ones) and have supported the scene but I never
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Last month, Muid told me that British Council has invited DigitalMalaya to participate for their Design Dayz and Pecha Kucha night at Avenue K. It will be a 6 minutes 40 seconds talk with 20 slides of powerpoint presentation, showing at 20 seconds length each. So, Muid told me to submit 5 of my photography works for the collective. I was a bit surprised but as usual I did a last minute submission and Muid and Perez compiled everyone's job into that 20 slides of powerpoint presentation.
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Anyways, back to 3pm, we rushed to Avenue K and arrived there in time for Muid to check on the presentations and me to listened to some of the afternoon speakers. We listened to Kamil Yunus, a person I've never heard of but apparently one of the old people in the industry. However, I didn't really get his point, I can't say that his work is not that good because some of the shots (in the clip he presented) were fairly good. But his comments on the disappointing quality of new designers and degrading their potential was very irrelevant. His adversity to the new minds made him look a bit too cocky of his own potential. Especially when he went on about him being able to study in Yale, and his accounts with Petronas and whatnot. And I know everyone has their own style, but speaking to an enthusiastic crowd who came all the way to hear you talk while you sit there looking at your Mac, not looking at your audiences and kept on brushing and playing with your hair, shows that you don't respect your audience. Well, good for him that he is well-established, went to Yale, making millions of ringgit, but hell, if you can't be open to accept other people's potential, then, you're a disappointment yourself. Especially to the future generation who needed your support. It was funny when one minute, he said he would pay for people to ask him questions, and the next, he complained on the questions shot to him. Well, his segment was topped off by Chin Weng Keong, who gave a great talk on Marketing Communications with great case studies to support and educate the audience. Weng Keong, the founder and Managing Director of Arachnid, gave an insight on how the business works and this is an added advantage for designers because its not all about being creative, its also about being able to sell your creativity in means of sharing it with the world. Although Weng Keong was bombarded with questions by Kamil Yunus, being a very realistic and open-minded person, he countered every single question with what he had previously mentioned, as to substantiate and inter-relate everything that he had said throughout his segment. Furthermore, the case studies on Stolen A3, Yellowball, Monopoly Live and Pacai's music website gave the audience a complete understanding on the rise of engagement marketing. I didn't really focused on the last speaker of the day because was already busy with dinner plans so that we can be on time for Pecha Kucha that starts at 8pm.
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Long story cut short (yeah right, yang dah story tu pendek sangat ke????), here are my personal 2 slides of 20 seconds each that we presented for Pecha Kucha.
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After Pecha Kucha ended around 10.30pm, we headed down to Pelita and basically lepak there until 3am, talking endlessly about A LOT of stuff and laughing our asses off like crazy. Its been awhile. After rounds of coffees, limau ais, milo ais, teh ais, maggi goreng and lots of ciggies, we walked to the car (from Pelita to AmBank) and the night ended perfectly.
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Last Saturday was great. Even better, I wasn't bugged until 1pm on Sunday. Hehehehe ....... Yeah, I spent the Sunday sleeping my head off. Today is Tuesday and I got class. Can't wait for another great saturday. I'd like to thank the DMP Collective, Muid for pushing me to do this, Perez, Shieko and Riz for the collaboration, Salmi for coming early with Man and Fahmi and practically hangout with me while trashing the bad speakers (as mentioned above, hehehe), Elyna, Ibah, Zatyl, Eka and Tini who came upon my invitation and supported us throughout our 6 minutes 40 seconds presentation. Too bad Riz was out of town, if not, the whole DMP Collective could've had our official hangout session. Not to forget the British Council people, Suneeta and Patrianna (and also Patrianna's sister Sandra who came to help), kudos to Juan from BigBrosWorkshop who did a funny presentation, Mr. Izu who dropped by to support the event and everyone else who participated.
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Next up will be 7th July, organised by galleriiizu and I heard the location might be at CM. I'm not quite sure but DMP will feature a video composition which will be more interesting. I hope! Heh. I'm just psyched to start layout-ting my portfolio!
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