Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Changes

Well with me having quite a change after posting my first blog entry, I can just say 1 thing: “it feels damn good be living again” I quit Dota for some of your information in order to pursue a better way of life, I was addicted to that game. Constantly slaving myself to the computer screen just for an hour of pleasure and misery. With Dota gone I am able to concentrate more on watching movies that I downloaded, spent more time at the gym, have more time to sleep, spent more time with my girl friend and more time to learn what I have thrown away (designing of course). I am still trying to change the way I view my assignments though, my assignments still pile up to the very last minute and I still procrastinate.

I ate TGI today, it was my first time and I had a nice meal. The atmosphere was very cheerful and noisy, the food was nice and the service was quite good. Besides that I got Doreen to wear something pretty today. We had the 3 course meal, Mac and cheese for starters, Sirloin Steak for main course, chicken and Friday’s Sundae. It was filling and enjoyable.

I am currently reaching the end of my semester, finished two finals and in fear that I may fail one because of waking up late. I had to forfeit my 50% marks on the final thesis so that my group members would not fail, the job is easy but the pay is painful. Besides that I still have another 3 more subject to go, Batik for Visual communication, Interactive page for Digital Multi Media and Interior Design for Perspective. I’ll be heading back on the 3rd of April hopefully.

I’ve been quite busy and productive for the past few days, having little evening jogs around the neighborhood finding for a new place to stay because my contract with the current holder is about to end in June, and I am fed up with living in a freaking sauna room. I also applied for numerous jobs online to work from home, currently employed as a freelancer under a new company named Palette House. Pay isn’t much compare to my old freelancing days at least my allowance doubles now, hopefully it will provide me with a new place to stay, a better one in fact. Besides that I manage to gain a small project with a fish breeder thanks to a friend of mine, the project was half done by my friend but she ended up having to concentrate on her finals so I was brought in by her. Hopefully I can collect another 1k from this project to cover up my moving expenses. I am also retaking my studies in coding and scripting as my current portfolio is useless without it. everyone is looking for a web designer with knowledge of coding now a days.

Lets not forget competitions, I am going to join in 2 T-shirt design competition held by Tropicana life and graniph, the prize are both very attractive in term of cash and item. I do encourage all of you who have experience to join. click on the pictures for more info



Friday, February 22, 2008

Happy Moments

Happiest moments in my life, this is a scam by me to win some cash =D so bare with me. All this are however very true.


I’ll post about my recent happenings that made me happy

This month happiest moments falls on Valentine’s day, it was special because I was celebrating it with someone that wasn’t my girl friend (until that day was over that is) My plan got a bit screwed up in the middle but all went well after that. The plan was to make her sad the day before valentine day which work out pretty well, who said Drama class was a waste?

Early morning during Valentine’s Day, I was already late for class rushing showered and ran to my usual printing shop to get the letters printed out and with only ten minutes to hide and position each letters at their correct place. The plan was hard, to act as the mysterious guy who surprise her with letters. The first one was located at her main door, the second at her mail box, third during her tutorial class, fourth after her class and fifth during her perspective class. The first 2 clue didn’t work out well but the 3rd clue did make it into her hands accompanied by a box of chocolate. Somehow she sort of guess it was me but still in doubt as I swear I would never do this sort of action. My friends told me she smiled instantly =D that was with a box of chocolates, let’s see the next clue.

you are required to go down to the main entrance of J block to collect it

The third clue required her to give me a miss call, how did she know who to call? My new number was inserted with the 1st clue “I will however give you my contact number which is 012- 833 5252” after receiving the miss call, I called up my florist to deliver the flowers to her which was a bouquet of white lily’s with a dozen champagne roses. If the chocolates made her smile, guess what the flowers did? =D my mystery was somehow destroyed by my florist as I forgot to show her how she look like and my 3 friends wasn’t there to direct the florist to her. The florist gave away my identity by shouting my name rite in front of the crowd… immediately realizing I was the one she gave me a call. At least we manage to finish half of the clue.

After meeting up with her for lunch I gave her the last clue “I’ll be arriving at your door step at 6pm sharp” wasn’t much surprise already so I handed the clue to her myself with her real valentine’s day gift which was tickets to the actors studio Bangsar to watch a musical play “Broadway Musical” she always wanted to attend one of the show. We left our place at 6.30pm by cab to Bangsar, our driver was pretty friendly and I was thankful that I actually called a taxi service rather than catching one on the road. We had our dinner at W.I.P which was a semi fine dining restaurant, our meal came with complimentary red wine which wasn’t half bad, and we also ordered our own cocktail / mocktail and a glass of water. All in all we had 6 glass of beverage on our table, and they even recommend us to take the champagne. The dinner was nice; sirloin
steak was small but filling. Even the long island tea gave me more kick then I expected, was feeling a little dizzy after drinking this normally harmless cocktail. Her mocktail how ever was much friendlier.We join the crowd at 8.15p.m which mostly consist of civilized people and foreigners. The musical was good, my first time to a real musical it consist of 4 sopranos which was 2 male and 2 female. They did a good job and somehow got me hooked on Phantom of the opera (so hook on it that I am doing my final projects based on that) the musical ended after two hours and we were served with fondue and red wine, the wine was better than those we had at dinner but the waiters took their time opening each bottle. We went home happy and tired, her smile alone made my day worthwhile, even if that day alone cost me a bomb it was worth it because that was the happiest moment I had for this year. Her smile is my joy =D


And she said “yes”


Happy - Happy Moments

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Promises


How did Valentine’s Day go for me?
Great!

How did Chinese New year go for me?
Damn Boring

How’s my 3rd term looking?
In the brink of drowning

This isn’t a surprise to many that have known me for long, but I did promise that I will come back once I gather most of my stuff up. A little brief summary for a few new bloggers that are around my site and also a new chapter into my history book.

Blizzard.art
http://s-o-o.blogspot.com isn’t my first blog, actually I started since 2001 together with a friend of mine named Samantha Su amazingly her blog haven’t change since then. Mine on the other hand have gone through numerous facelift and address change to keep up with time, my first blog was http://www.xanga.com/Blizzard1c3l0rD to http://www.xanga.com/FuRiouS_BlizZaRD , I started my third blog with the hope of a shorter url which was http://www.xanga.com/Blizzard89 , this was also the start of my freelance business. My last blog ended up here at http://s-o-o.blogspot.com a more personal and semi professional blog to start of my web portfolio. The reason I chose BlogSpot is easy, they allow you more freedom than any weblog that I have gotten my hands on. My blog however have been quite inconsistent as it goes with my mood swings, lately I decided that life can’t just depend on mood swings so I am trying my best to change and come back to be more serious in matters. Blogging isn’t just a tool to communicate, it’s a tool to socialize and to gain knowledge, but as a designer or any work seeking person, it works as your social identity.

Blizzard.art will be my starting point of an online web portfolio from now on, learning and striving to excel as I did during my freelancing days in Sabah. Expect regular updates for at least twice a week excluding weekends.

s-o-o.blogspot
the reason behind this name is easy; Soo is my family surname what better way to make it famous by promoting it with your identity. Besides that Soo is also a lot shorter than Kelvin or blizzard so it makes and excellent URL for clients and friends to memorize.

Soo
My family can be said as a new generation family because it isn’t a big one; my family consists mostly of me, my sis and my parents. I don’t always get to visit my bigger family which has my aunties, uncles; cousins etc. one of the reason being that my family moved to east Malaysia even before I was born, making me the only Sabahan in my family. My family is closely knitted, believing in traditional and also new age culture of today’s society, we have an open minded thinking about living life. However we believe that keeping a few traditions is important to keep the family happy and united.

Kelvin
Here’s a reason for reading this entry, so that you get to know more about me. I am Kelvin, your typical lazy guy who loves to procrastinate. Amazingly my works are always done on time and I do pride myself in it. Doing my design work during the very last minute can be stressful but it is also damn exciting. The pressure and adrenaline that builds up during the very last minute give me that spark and extra creative juice flowing. It is a bad habit of mine, but it’s a habit that gets me the designs. I am not saying I can’t design without a deadline, I just find it more exciting to have one and actually finishing my design on the deadline itself. Throughout my years of experience I have never let any of my projects go down the drain except for my Dad’s company branding job and school assignments. Overall I finish them all and also without lacking the aesthetic beauty of my work, a work of mine that lacks aesthetic beauty and quality will be rejected by me even without going through the public eyes, I may be ignorant at times but I find standing up for what you believe in is important. Next, I am currently in West Malaysia studying the course which I have aim to take since I was form 3. Quit my freelancing job back in Sabah to pursue my studies in Multi Media Design (take note that Multi and Media are separated) 1st year 3rd term. Dating and unavailable, it’s a bragging rite because I find her to be exactly what I wanted in a partner. I think we would stop here for now as I have so much to tell.

Promise to a new life, promised to an old life
This sentence will make and break me as I continue my journey of change. It is confusing to those who does not read carefully and also will meant a lot of meaning to those that do. I for one will take it as a gentle reminder to break my old promise and to full fill my new one.




-numerous friends have asked me to post this up, mid term project for multi media (vectors for mobile icon)


Portfolio

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About Me

Born in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah unlike the whole Soo family. YES! Unlike my sister and parents who are born in West Malaysia. My dad’s from Melaka, mom from Ipoh and I have no idea where’s my sis born… I am the only person in my whole family that is born in East Malaysia. I am your typical quite kid who can be emo or stupidly crazy at times. besides that I am a very forgetful person. I love design anything that attracts the eye’s of this generation, past and future is loved by me. currently in The One Academy doing my Foundation year.I don’t have a very complicated life as most may think all I do is sleep, eat, and numerous boring activities which I find quite entertaining to my self. Love to start projects, reading real life story, gaming, slow mind boggling stuff like chess and strategic games not to mention I really despise chili! (Keep that in mind)