Had design management exam last monday. our only exam, i think. didn't have time to study 3 chapters but i think i was pretty lucky 'coz they didn't come up. supposed to be a choose 6 out of 9 questions exam, but when we received the paper, we realized that there were only 6 questions and we didn't have any choice but to answer all. manz! anyway, the exam was 3 hrs long. to the swedish students, 3 hours is considered a short exam, 'coz the average exam timespan is actually 5hrs. (OMG) fortunately, you can leave the exam room when u feel like you're already done with the paper. Exam style is very different from that in Singapore where the atmosphere is dead serious and the hall is so quiet that you can hear ur neighbour scribbling away. Here, one can barely concentrate. Food is allowed. Carolina, who was sitting beside me, was munching away on an apple hahaz. there's a toilet in the exam room itself. i lost count of how many flushings i heard. the exam started at 9am. at approximately 9.30, a teacher danced into the room with a generously loud "Good Morning!" and following that, Christer (our teacher) went from table to table asking if we had questions regarding the paper. well, i would say that it's a really interactive exam experience. which was less stressful, than what we have in Singapore. Definitely.
Had presentation for the ideation phase of ikea kitchen concept 2015 last thursday. i basically presented two concepted. totally different direction from my previous concepts. i think i didn't recap on my previous presentation, which left the ikea guy feeling quite lost. oops. Anyway, presented a UFO induction pot/plate/lunchbox and also a sieving pot. My rendering skills still suck big time. The teachers suggested that i head towards the sieving pot direction, with the development of a range of cookware with ergonomic handles. and guess what, after a trip to ikea on sunday, im totally dead coz the sieve exists in ikea. arghs! back to square one now. *SOBS*Swam on Saturday. The water was pretty cold despite the "heated" water. and the water wasn't that deep actually. it was a small indoor pool, with the length of the pool similar to the width of the toa payoh swimming pool. people swam diligently, rarely stopping. unlike how people laze around at the sides of the pool in singapore. in fact, one end of the pool was practically designed without any supporting resting platform.
Anyway, Sunday was fun. Went to Malmo with steph and deb and we met up with Hanway, a Chinese Swedish, at Varnshem. lots of amusement with how we were waiting at the wrong bustop and wondering why the bus timing was wrong while we saw the right bus zip past at the opposite lane. anyway, went to ikea to get some dimensions and inspirations (and also to doom myself with the reality of the existence of the sieving pot). Deb's from india, and from where he came from, there ain't any IKEA. so he did seem pretty fascinated by it~ haha while exploring, we even came across this electronic coffee/tea stirrer. manz! it felt pretty excessive since a simple spoon would suffice and u'd probably be thinking: who the hell would buy this?! BUT guess what? it was the last piece on the shelf. it's amazing how commercial seemingly useless products can get.
Hanway then brought us around a lil and we had dinner in a nice lil restaurant which had copperish-looking interiors. the huge oven fitted so perfectly with the decor of the restaurant. Hanway deliberated for a pretty long time over having the dinner specials, which was tuna, since tuna is becoming a somewhat endangered species in the seas of this region. In the end he had it afterall 'coz "choice" won out. i had some filet mignon thinggy with paprika salad (i hope i spelt it correctly) while steph had chicken pesto and deb had this beef thing with bearnaise sauce. the food was great =) i liked it a lot. after that i had apple pie for "dessert" while hanway had mcflurry. the apple pie here is packaged in green, which didn't look very appetising actually. but thankfully, the taste was pretty much similar. Mcflurry here has another type of cookie of a lighter colour mixed into it instead of Oreos. Versatile Macs. after that, we walked through a cemetery which was like smack right in the middle of town, pretty oddly, and headed towards a library for the fun of it. the cemetery scene with the twin rows of trees and graves by the sides very much reminded me of our cyvamp manga background on the first page. the library was half new, and half old, with a glass connecting channel which linked the two. we all agreed that the older half of the library looked better afterall. after that was back home to lund.
Gonna complete the voluptuous chair leg for the milan fair by tomorrow. time to sleep soon! may some miracle idea for ikea kitchen come to me in my dreams. lolx
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