WEEK 6: Anybody feeling hungry?

As one of my interest is eating and my new hobby is cooking, today I want to share something about the food. Have you ever heard about creative food art? Yes, the art using food plus some creativity. It is not impossible to create such a amazing art with just using the food. See the pictures below and enjoy the food! :P

Frogs on a rice. Anyone?

Goose

The giraffe

Starwars fan out there should try this.

What a beautiful garden! I'll think twice before eat this.


I'm sure Bill Gates had never think about this version of Windows XP.

Credit to toxel.com for all these beautiful pictures. I think that most of these food are from Japan. They manage to think a different way to make the food more interesting. But for me, all the foods looks great to see, but not to eat. It's totally awesome! Maybe one day I should try to create a design like this to my food, but this time by using Malaysian food. Hehehe..

WEEK 6: Logical Mind Map

Stage 1 – Logical Mind Map

We have chosen the home injuries among kids as our topic or problem for Assignment 2. After the brainstorming session among the group members, we have came out with this logical mind map.

WEEK 6: What's Your Problem?? - Part 2

Yeah! We have reached the 6th week of the trimester. The clock was ticking too fast, I think. Huhuu.. OK, forget about it, life must goes on right? So lets talk about today's class. This afternoon, we need to present the idea of a problem that we stuck on last week's class. Finally, we managed to come out with the rational ideas and the lecturers have approved it. Yeay! Thanks to Mr. Radzi and Ms. Helena for their opinions and suggestions. It was really helpful! So, our topic for the Assignment 2 is "Home Injuries Among Kids".

I believe that most of us have little brother or sister at home, right? It is not impossible to them to experience injuries at home. So, we want to do a research on how to prevent this home injuries or home accidents among kids. In addition, we planned to design a device that can avoid kids from getting near to dangerous place. Sound interesting? Want to know more about it? Stay tune to my blog and I'll be update the progress soon.

WEEK 5: Facts! Facts! Facts!

I want to share with you some interesting facts about our "Mr.Brain" up there. Yup! Some facts about human brain that we need to know:

1. Your brain uses 20% of your body's energy, but it makes up only 2% of your body's weight.
2. Your brain is about 1300-1400 cubic centimeters in volume, about the size of a cantaloupe and wrinkled like a walnut.
3. The brain feels like a ripe avocado and looks pink because of the blood flowing through it.
4. Your brain generates 25 watts of power while you're awake; enough to illuminate a light bulb. - Wow! No need to worry when there is a blackout. :P
5. A newborn baby's brain grows almost 3 times in course of first year.
6. Humans have the most complex brain of any animal on earth. - We deserved it!
7. Your brain is divided into two sides. The left side of your brain controls the right side of your body; and, the right side of your brain controls the left side of your body.
8. Toxins in commonplace items such as carpeting and shower curtains may be contributing to memory loss over time. - Huh? Really??
9. Overexposure to aluminum compounds—in foil, cookware, deodorants, antacids, toothpaste—can affect brain function. - Beware of it!
10. Lavender can help you sleep. - But I don't even need a lavender to sleep. :P
11. A cooked potato can jump-start your brain when you're feeling foggy. - Is it like jump-start the car? :P
12. The essential oil of jasmine can quickly restore mental alertness.
13. Eating foods rich in vitamin E, beta-carotene, and vitamin C may help lower your risk of Alzheimer's disease. - Should try this later.
14. Certain prescription and nonprescription drugs may dramatically affect your ability to concentrate.

All the facts I got from mamashealth.com. Hope that we learned something from the facts.

WEEK 5: What's Your Problem??

First of all, don't be too shocked with the title of this post. It's just a gimmic. Hahaa.. On last week's class, we were reminded to bring 1 problem to the next class, to be used in our Group Assignment - Thematic Project. So, this morning, me and my other groupmates (Arif, Liana, & Aina) have gathered and did a brainstorming session to find a suitable problem. After several discussions between us, we have decided to proposed this problem: "How to lose weight by eating high caloried-foods or junk food?".

In the class, we presented it to our lecturers and too bad they have rejected it. :-( Mr. Radzi said that it is quite difficult and involve certain biological research and some other reasons that I can't remember. He asked us to come out with new ideas and we managed to do it in just several minutes later! Haha.. Maybe we were too desperate on that time! :P By the way, these are some of the questions that we proposed:

1. Why are the numbers on a calculator reversed?
2. What does OK actually means?
3. What should one call a male ladybird?
4. What is the speed of dark?
5. Rather than using numbers, why not using symbols or something else on calculator or a phone?
6. And some other questions that I've forgot already. :P

And once again, all of those ideas were rejected because of it's not rational and may need a very complicated research on it. Finally, Mr. Radzi have given us a chance to go back and think again another rational ideas to use as our problem in the 2nd assignment. So, we need to present it again to the lecturer next week. *Sigh* Oh ya, Mr. Radzi also gave his own idea in brief to help and guide us in finding a new problem. Thanks Mr. Radzi! :-)

WEEK 5: Happy Eid Ul-Adha

No class for today since it is a holiday of Eid Ul-Adha or we called it "Aidil Adha" in Malay. This is a the feast of sacrifice celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ismail as an act of obedience to God. However, God provided a ram in place once Ibrahim demonstrated his willingness to follow God's commands.

That is a little bit of history behind the celebration of Eid Ul-Adha which is annually falls on the 10th day of the month of Zulhijjah in Islamic calendar. The festivities last for three days or more depending on the country. Eid Ul-Adha occurs the day after the pilgrims conducting Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Makkah in Saudi Arabia by Muslims worldwide. Besides that, Muslims who can afford to do so offer domestic animals, usually cow or goat, as a symbol of Ibrahim's sacrifice. The meat is distributed for consumption to family, friends, and to the poor and needy.

So, I'm taking this opportunity to wish all Muslims out there, Happy Eid Ul-Adha and may we always have the love and peace. By the way, I've created and designed my Eid Ul-Adha e-card just for all of you guys. In addition, it can increase my skills in using Adobe Photoshop. Hehe.. So, till we meet again. Daa~

(Some information taken from Wikipedia)

WEEK 4: It's All About Creativity!

Hey guys! It's time for sharing some good stuffs with all of you! I've been keeping all this pictures for a long time. I received it from e-mail, if I'm not mistaken. It was something different, unique and yet very creative! Hope you'll like it too!

Quit smoking ads at the back of the bus. It can make smokers feel very bad with their habit.

Different way to promote a new SLR camera. Nice!

Been eaten by shark? Haha! It's a National Geographic Channel ads on a bus.

Nice paper bag!

Ouch! Ads about nail biter habit.

Wo! Beware of this man! He's caring a gun! :P

Child care ads. Good one!

Wow! Nice watch huh?

Transparent cups? Haha! Starbuck's creativity.

How is it? It's unique, right? Just want to said it again, I got all this images from e-mail long time ago. So, I really don't know where is the real source of the image. However, credit to the owner or the creator of the image. :-)