The 3rd week of school has passed and again, time goes so fast… and I’m trying to really direct my energy toward keeping things under control because I’m starting to realize that maybe I’m taking on a bit too many things to handle for my no-so-good ability to multitask. It’s not very surprising though given my over-achiever-ish inclination that I’m putting myself in such a situation. ugh… it’s seriously needed that I become a super pro with time management. But a good thing is that I’m feeling refreshed thanks to the things around me that constantly poke me to be awake!

Look at those cute little koala and kangaroo watching the monitor trying to learn the stuff. They are too cute.

randomly came across and screen captured from a adobe flash tutorial http://tv.adobe.com/watch/flash-downunder/3d-inside-of-flash/

wrappin’up my internship

I have half an hour left for my summer internship at this moment…
The first thought that comes to me is that it’s good to be back to school again. Just like the last summer’s one, this internship hasn’t given me a chance to produce some sort of visible outcome… well, unfortunately. But I guess it may be the reality of many of the internships out there. I’m still thankful for having this opportunity though since it wasn’t all that bad, yea, of course not. I’d like to think that there isn’t no such thing as bad experience. I tasted a little bit of what it’s like to work for a not-so-big design agency in seoul and met some nice people and most importantly, realized that I can actually be a qualified person for working at companies like this. Well, having spent 2.5 months in a team whose main projects involves GUI for the most part, another important thing I realized is that I would definitely not want to be juat a GUI designer, but rather a interaction designer in a sense that it’s a job which I think involves a broader range of things as opposed to designing the very front of an interface. So the only regret would be that I haven’t yet had a chance to experience the whole, or even a part of, process including researching, concepting, ia-ing, and wireframing, etc. Only if had I done so, I could be more certain by now about what it is that I want to really pursue for my career in the near future. But I might as well be happy with my summer since I actually did something and learned something which helps me prepare my senior year that’s just around the corner!

sidetracked thoughts

새삼스러울 것도 없는 생각이지만, 언제나 ‘…해야지’ 하는 일들의 절반이라도 하고 산다면 참 좋을텐데. 6 to 9 출퇴근을 매일매일 한다는게 어떻게 보면 얼마나 사람을 단순하게 만드는지… 두달 남짓이 지난 인턴 생활을 하며 학교와 사회는 참 너무 다르다는 걸 느끼게 된다. 회사의 일을 평가절하하는 것은 절대로 아니지만, ‘주어진’ 일, ‘시키니까’ 하는 일들이 때로는 사람의 ‘이상’을 잊고 살게 만들 수도 있다는 것. 그래서 뭔가 self-directed 하는 일들을 ‘…해야지’ 하는 마음을 갖더라도, 이내 퇴근 후의 피곤함에 티비 앞에 절로 눕게 된다. 세상에는 배울게 이렇게나 많은데, 즐길 수 있는 것들이 이렇게나 많은데… 나의 일분 일분을 분명 좀더 보람있고 생산적으로 달리 살 수도 있는 건데 말이다… 항상 생각만 하고, 마음만 있고, 행동으로 옮기지 않는 수많은 것들. 그리고 당장 ‘해야만 하는’ 일들 사이에서 엉거주춤 서있는 중이다. 이래서 사람이 정말 하고 싶은 일을 하며 살 수 있다는게 얼마나 축복받은 일인지 새삼 느낀다… + 그래서 지금 학생의 신분으로 하고 싶은 공부를 하고 있는 내가 누구보다 lucky한 사람이라는 것도.

writing, writing, writing

originally written on March 17, 2009

I never knew how important it would be to be able to verbally communicate my thoughts before coming to CMU. With my fear of dealing with ‘words’ at all and english being my second language, I used to be terrified whenever I had to ’say’ something or ‘write’ something instead of ‘drawing’ or ‘visualizing’ it. Thankfully though, as a design major, I can rely on visuals to get across my ideas, but at times I’m asked to write, even jot down what I think, or to actually create some contents myself for some of the typography projects. Especially the idea that communication designer is not merely a person who ‘beautify’ the content that’s given to him/her, but rather a person who has his/her own voice to really change the way the content is conveyed makes it even more important to be able to ‘write’ and ‘edit’ properly. So this is why I’m trying to post stuff on my blog regardless of its crappiness. And hopefully I will keep myself up for blogging and get closer to becoming a more capable designer.

murmurin’

originally written on March 3, 2009

I always find myself losing motivation to study as an exam approaches closely. And it’s happening again this morning; I can’t help getting distracted after a few hours of looking at the lecture slides in the library. Never meant to write random stuff like this on my blog, but just feeling like to do so now. Can’t wait for a spring break, when I’m actually planning to blog about something more meaningful…

resuming blogging

originally written on January 21, 2009

I almost abandoned my blog for quite a long time after putting up only a few postings. I somehow got motivated again to keep this blog running with whatever thoughts I have in mind. And it is going to be mostly for a personal purpose to leave trails behind my today. I think it’d be worth being able to look back on what happened in the past and to remember any of my thoughts and ideas that I hope to get deepened as I try to put them down in ‘good’ words. I find it highly intellectual and thus difficult to be good at, which is part of the reasons I decided to give a life back to my blog!