Today I went for my second orientation for my current academic year. Why second, you may ask; well today's orientation is unlike the first on Monday. The orientation on Monday was focused on introducing us to the institute and it's academic structure, whereas today's one is mainly an ice-breaking session to let us familiarise with one another.
For today's orientation, we had been asked prehand to bring a number of items, including sketching and drawing materials, digital cameras and our sketchbook. There was also a nother requirement, and that is we were to come in black top. It was like kind of strange, because we had to walk around under the hot blazing sun, and wearing dark-coloured clothes seemed to be a contradiction. Perhaps the management wanted us to dress up to look like our institute?
After we were all gathered in school, we were then split up into groups of five. However, due to some reasons, many groups actually have 6 or more members. I believe ours was the most exaggerating one for having 8 members in total! The project was as such: all the various groups of each class would go explore a sector around our campus while paying attention to whatever we see, hear and smell. After gathering all our data, we would then return to campus, get together with other groups of the same class, and then translate our data into a single piece of artwork. Of course, the second part of the project was only disclosed to us after we returned from our research. As everyone of us was unfamilar one another, especially members of other groups, there were hiccups along the way. But nevertheless we managed to finish our artwork on time, just as as compared to other classes, ours seemed a bit too plain and uninteresting.
Though not really very pleased with our final artwork, I still feel this is quite a good attempt, as we did put our fullest effort into the project. As a consolation, I told one of my groupmates that if we were able to do something very artistic and professional at our level, then we wouldn't be in Foundation year already! Hopefully our class spirit will remain for the remaining year...
My group members roaming Kelantan Street
Along the way, we kept hearing something like Hindi music trailing us; in turned out that one of our members, Veronica, was listening to some indie music on her handphone!
Counting money spent at a coffeeshop near Kelantan Lane where we took a short break. Notice the colourful sketchbook on the table? Almost every other student in Foundation year is using this! (Damned, maybe I should change the "skin" of my sketchbook...)
Our artwork. Notice the "Citroen" signboard on the top left-hand side? We found it on the streets in Desker Road. It generated quite a bit of curiosity among our tutors; they thought we'd ripped them off some cars!
For today's orientation, we had been asked prehand to bring a number of items, including sketching and drawing materials, digital cameras and our sketchbook. There was also a nother requirement, and that is we were to come in black top. It was like kind of strange, because we had to walk around under the hot blazing sun, and wearing dark-coloured clothes seemed to be a contradiction. Perhaps the management wanted us to dress up to look like our institute?
After we were all gathered in school, we were then split up into groups of five. However, due to some reasons, many groups actually have 6 or more members. I believe ours was the most exaggerating one for having 8 members in total! The project was as such: all the various groups of each class would go explore a sector around our campus while paying attention to whatever we see, hear and smell. After gathering all our data, we would then return to campus, get together with other groups of the same class, and then translate our data into a single piece of artwork. Of course, the second part of the project was only disclosed to us after we returned from our research. As everyone of us was unfamilar one another, especially members of other groups, there were hiccups along the way. But nevertheless we managed to finish our artwork on time, just as as compared to other classes, ours seemed a bit too plain and uninteresting.
Though not really very pleased with our final artwork, I still feel this is quite a good attempt, as we did put our fullest effort into the project. As a consolation, I told one of my groupmates that if we were able to do something very artistic and professional at our level, then we wouldn't be in Foundation year already! Hopefully our class spirit will remain for the remaining year...
My group members roaming Kelantan Street
Along the way, we kept hearing something like Hindi music trailing us; in turned out that one of our members, Veronica, was listening to some indie music on her handphone!
Counting money spent at a coffeeshop near Kelantan Lane where we took a short break. Notice the colourful sketchbook on the table? Almost every other student in Foundation year is using this! (Damned, maybe I should change the "skin" of my sketchbook...)
Our artwork. Notice the "Citroen" signboard on the top left-hand side? We found it on the streets in Desker Road. It generated quite a bit of curiosity among our tutors; they thought we'd ripped them off some cars!
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