Visiting Royal Selangor 03102012

Whoo!! thats fast, Week2 for this semester is about to over, and assignments had alrdy started pilling up, theres just so much to do as im graduating in 6 months time.

My group and Sydney went for field trip visiting Royal Selangor for our Jewel Tech class as we need to learn about tech on mass production? hahaha no idea the reason why, but the reason we joined is that we can work with pewter cause they have these workshop called 'The School of Hard Knocks'



This workshop is actually teaching us how to make bowls with pewter by 'knocking' on a flat sheet of pewter, its way easier then doing it with silver like my bowl assignment i did for my previous sem, working with pewter is much softer and we were also looking around in their gallery and factory as they produce many pewter products like bowls, tableware, trophies and etc, the work is beautiful, if u got time and got no place to go? drop by there! the service are friendly and the work is just fantastic :)



and also did i mention they got their own jewelry line as well?, its called Selberan and they have some very nice jewelry there, its worth to have a look and even my senior's work were featured there too, for their Valentine collection. The place is not far from Raffles KL and fyi, Royal Selangor is one of Malaysia's Proudest Brand, so if foreigners are trying to look for a place to explore and see Malaysia made stuff, you should drop by here.

one of Royal Selangor's Pewter Tableware with gold plated dragon

this is the 'DIGI MAN' trophy

hahahaha, now im like promoting Royal Selangor, got this habit that if i loved the place i will be talking about it as like im promoting, is this habit a good thing or bad? LOL

After visiting the Royal Selangor, we went to Levain for lunch, the food and environment there are just lovely, their bakery are good and i love their Japanese Curry Rice, just got to order that whenever im there hahaha.

tasty colourful macaroons bought by Betty

Anyhow, had been spending a lot of times on my rendering for the OE and SJDA design competition, hope im even qualify, i doesnt wanna put that much of high hopes in it because im very afraid of expecting too much and couldnt achieve it later on.



Oh also, i purchased this awesome sunglasses from MERPUNKS recently,
and i will be blogging bout this fb/blogshop soon.

How I spent my lonely sem break your asking?

Wassup people, im currently on the semester break, and few more days left till a new semester begins and so as the war, (fyi i meant assignments) Next classwill be about stone settings, its gonna be complicated with my clumsy eyesight and fingers, gonna be suffocating with stress,

even before the semester start, im alrdy on stress, thinking bout my graduation and major project pieces as what im gonna design and make, everything is depending on this final project, i had drew and design many collection or pieces based on a particular inspiration but it just didnt really suit me i felt.

well, gotta wait, when the time comes, i'll just have to look for advice from lecturers and dad...

havent been productive this whole semester break (only a week), just slacking off, wakes up at 1 evening and have breakfast, then fetch sister from school, then help mom with cooking dinner, then bath, then dinner then start my movie night, fb-ing and coloring my stork pendant. Kinda regret doing all these waking up late cause i now dont have the enough time on finish rendering my jewelleries for SJDA, so i might as well give up on participating in the SJDA competition. So sad, now im just wanting to finish render it and put it into my portfolio for graduation instead. 

this is the stork im talking bout, havent been rendering very good 

cause i nvr been practicing much, will be posting a finished one in the future post.

But i sure did had fun watching 2 movies every night, there were comedy, horror, sci-fi and all but the best were The Change-Up, even though is comedy, it has a moral value in it and i just laugh hard on that entire movie... pffft...  HAHAHAHA,

this are the movies i watched, 'The Change-Up , The Roommate , Apollo 18 , Prometheus , Red Ridding Hood , The Cabin in The Woods and The Horrible Bosses. All accompanied me every night thankyou LOL

 

gotta go back to the real world next week, 

so gotta have fun hahaha

Alter Ego Enamel Eyewear

The Inspiration i used were the 'blue ocean' and 'sea life' because i were very fascinated with the various species of sea creatures that lived in the ocean. Moreover, there are countless species that are swimming in our ocean. This assignment was to design an alter ego eyewear, so my alter ego were 'CONCENTRATION' because im a person who always lack of concentration.

So the image above is my Design Sketch and below is my Alter Ego Enamel Eyewear

Alter Ego Enamel Eyewear

Fine Silver, Sterling Silver, and Enamel

My first Client (complete rendered cufflink)

hello there...!!
i had recently attended the formal event of the NAPBAS and i will be posting bout it soon...

life in Raffles has been a rush, sem break is a week, 4classes a week, tons of assignments assigned to us, and yet so little time. its just so tiring and it just more looking forward to the next sem break :)

well, i had finally completed my first client's work (Karlson) my AutoCad lecturer. This is OFFICIALY my FIRST client custom work, which made me more excited on completing this render perfectly.

and i do say, the outcome looks so great..!!! and both my client and lecturer likes it..!!! im so glad... and here's a picture of it :

loved how it looks :D

this is a Sterling Silver Cufflink

and its a design are based on minimalism, 

straight lines and an anime "Fullmental Alchemist" (Alphonse)

and here's a photo of my happy client (Karlson) before ending this post 

SMILE

Karlson

Pls look forward to my christmas dinner in KL Tower organized by the SME newspaper and also the NAPBAS

Stay tuned