Saturday, 8 October 2016

Week 10 ! Force connection

  Our topic this week is Force connection , which basically means  , forcing two items to connect and form a certain item that is suppose to be multifunctional.
Multifunctionality , is also an innovative way to invent something needed , might not exactly match , but as people adapted , and live with certain items , they just adapted and feel like the item is meant to be in that way .
 One of the multifunctional items is Swiss army knife . Not only does it have a knife , but it also have tweezers and other stuff kept inside . it was a force connection between a pocket knife and several other stuff at once .
Another innovative thing is a spork
its basically a spoon and a fork fused together to create a utensil .



This week , we were assigned to do a review on Two Videos , and A show called Shark tank .
I really like Shark Tank as it resembles this other movie shows that are also about investors choosing on products they want to invest on .
My favorite product is ScrubDaddy . which is a force connection between a scrub and a sponge . The design is cute , and the videos shows that it scrubs really well .
It is a normal scrub+sponge product , but the fact that it cleans so well in the videos amazes me .

The TED talk video proved that our creativity is being affected by the way we went through daily life and how society indirectly affects our creativity by creating rules. The Talker in this video wanted to change how the society works in order to create a better , more creative human as the view of society and how society stereotype and judge things can result to a really monotonous way of thinking , therefore creating a stuck-up way of thinking . Its really wonderful how our brain could react to things differently than the way they did before just by simply changing the procedure we carry throughout each different day , like how doing one good deed could change your mood throughout the day , or maybe the thought of jealousy that occupy one's mind could easily ruin the mood for the whole day .
      The " Health week " mentioned in the talk  is one of the way some institution tried to cope with people not being creative and just a way of relaxing , but truthfully , just like what the talker said , instead of being a " health" week , it is better of called as " sickness " week , as the speech and activities listed on the event doesn't only discusses negative effects , one of the events are actually situated on Friday night .

The other video about Human brains and Insight shows and teach me that there are very many different ways to utilize your brain and train it to be creative . By continuing to solve problems but not restraining our brain , we can train our brain to be creative . There are also several experiments shown in the video , as in the one where people becoming more creative when they explore new things , or the other experiment about which people can easily figure out different ways to use bricks .
I find the fact amusing that if someone has less white-part ( of the brain ) , they tend to be more creative .  The facts about brain that the experiments and analysis show really helps me to understand how our brain works better in terms of being creative . My favorite part was discovering why people tend to look over somewhere else or might sometimes close their eyes when they are being asked a tricky question or are just deep in thoughts , as staring at the other person's face would be too distracting . Turns out our back part ( the part of the brain that has something to do with our ability to visualize things ) are in charge of that process . The back part of the brain then sends the information to our left and right part of the brain ( in which the right part tends to be more dominant when it comes to getting insights) , and the right part of the brain will release this gamma ray that triggers the insight .

Overall , this session has been informative and i am really happy to know how our brain works .
Thank you for reading .



Sunday, 2 October 2016

Week 11 , Empathy

  For me, Empathy is a connection , between two people or maybe even a group of people who wants to share their experience together . Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another to be precise , which in a way is connecting what you felt to what they are currently feeling .
               This week's class has been quite emotional for me . Not only do i heard backgrounds of the people which i didn't know so well , but also Mr.Ezzam's feelings and thoughts about empathy , personally i can confidently say that this class has changed the way i look at people, and the way to treat them . I have been having lots of second thoughts lately , especially when meeting someone who clearly acts unpolite , or maybe someone i knew from the past that left me with a bitter experience . Maybe They had a bad experience that causes them to think, or act that way .
   I Felt really lucky having this class together , with the same people and my fav teacher , Mr.Ezzam . I feel like this is a really good class to end the semester , i feel reluctant to parting with everyone in this class , i feel that everyone actually bonds really well together .

Note to Mr.Ezzam :
I hope your mom gets well soon !!
#weneedyou
hahaha


POTD !
This is a picture of the Grup Hibiki-ya that collaborated with an Indonesian Drum group for the SingaDrumGaya team performance !! The show took place in Esplanade outdoor theatre last Saturday night .
Watching the show makes me remember of the Taiko group performance myold school had .The difference between this show and the show my school had was the passion they show . This one was sensational and really energetic ! Meanwhile my old school performance was really passionate , especially with the place the mood sets in . A Drummer in our school bleeds his hand halfway just because it was going to be his last performance in the school , watching it made me feel really sad but also happy , and i admire that he is really passionate about the performance .
I would love to see this kind of perforances again in the near future !