Randomization

Hmm, ever wonder if a kitten is scary? No? Why not? Even if it's cute and furry and cuddly and... well, there's nothing to be scared of, right? No? Oh well. Let's try to scarify a harmless kitten.

Kitten - Furry
-Has sharp teeth and claw
-Big eyes that glow in the dark
-Lets out meows that sounds disturbing at times.

Let's not forget, a kitten embodies innocence. Which usually means we don't like to see the kitten cruelly tortured or killed. Those images can haunt our minds for the rest of our lives. How could I forget a certain video regarding a tall woman with heels cruelly stepping on an innocent kitten and slowly killing it, for a FETISH?

Anyways, before I go on about animal cruelty, I won't forget the purpose of writing this blog post. What if you want to create a scary image from a kitten, to keep people away?



Yea, won't you run away if you saw this sign? Big eyes usually aren't that scary but when they express anger and are looking at you, you might feel a bit of paranoia.

How about an entrance that looks like this? Surely people wouldn't think that entering a door that looks like a mouth of a dragon is a good idea?

Whatever that makes a kitten scary, whether it's the innocence or the traits, it is always a good thing to stay away from doors that look like this, or signs that watches you like a hawk.

Juxta-what?

Hmm, ever wonder if you can compare pure simple love to chili? I know it sounds ridiculous, but hey, if you can compare life to ice-cream, then it's not impossible. Nothing is as long as you're crazy, I mean, creative. Here's my interpretation of love like chili.

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My love for you,
Is like chili to me,
You make feel hot,
And I love to have you every day,
But you also make me cry,
When I have too much of you,
Why do you do so?
But like nasi lemak and tom yam,
You are just too good to pass up.



Yeah, cheesy, isn't it? Anything metaphorical is bound to be hard to swallow by those who do not believe in pure cheesiness of sentimentality. But hey, why don't we just let loose and take whatever that has been given to us?

Or how about credit cards and life? What relation do both of these things have in common? Well, for one thing, credit cards are a pleasure or a luxury to behold. Life too, isn't it? Imagine us, the people and credit cards as souls and life. Souls are the ones who gain memories and experiences and take pleasures from life, just as people would with credit cards. But one thing with credit cards is that they cannot last forever. And so does life. Credit cards have their limits, so does life. One thing in difference however is credit cards have debts and can be paid off, while life does not. We only have one life, and so we must treat it like it's a priceless, irreplaceable treasure, not credit cards.

Hmm, how about coffee with love? Why don't I explain it with a simple poem?

Love,
Like Coffee,
Always a pleasure,
to wake up in the morning,
with it,
Every taste of you,
is a little bit of pleasure and
a little bit of bitterness.

Before I accidentally go into a coma because of all the cheesiness, let me just end this blog post by saying anything is linked as long as you open your mind, right?

Caught Between a Rock and a... rock

Well, what's mortar and pestle? That was the question I was frustratingly trying to answer before class until I got the answer: 'batu lesung' as we say it in Malay. Duh. Used to crush food, herbs and other organic crushable stuff into powdery form to be used in cooking, medicine making and well... drug-making, I suppose, for those of you 'creative' enough.


But oh no, no, no, mortar and pestle that exists in the future (or Crazy Psychotic Insane Era, as I'd like to call it) does not have that function whatsoever. In fact, this is what I imagine what I want to do with mortar and pestle if I live in the future and mortar and pestle (or M&P, to make it easier and less tiring to type). Yes, I do not care for the well being of others when I have M&P, I'll just go nuts with them for my own personal satisfaction.


First, M&P can be used as weapons. The pestle will be tied to an unbreakable, strong wire that connects with a glove that you can wear on your right hand (sorry, lefties). Thus, the pestle can now be swung and controlled its speed, force and distance from the target.

The mortar can be used as a body shield. However, the mortar has to be custom-made so that it can cover the whole upper body (technically, putting a mortar in front of your upper body only covers, like, 25% of your body and will most likely not protect you from harm). It is strapped on with strong leather straps that you can wear around your body and adjust the tightness, you know, like a bag pack or something.





Or if you're seriously a bored/crazy/brave but stupid person, you can try playing 'Balance the Mortar on the Pestle' game. Forget physics law, forget rationality, forget being smart! For once, do something no one else in their right mind would. Try to balance the technically heavier mortar on the limb pestle and see how long you can go. Play this with your other idiotic friends (or jackasses, as it has been officially claimed) and see who can go the longest.
Play with this caution as the possibility of the mortar falling on your toes or head is 99.9% and you might end up with a broken foot, concussion or dead. Have fun!




And thirdly, with a grim face I put on, it has been reported that some disciplinary teachers actually used mortar and pestle as a punishment for some problematic students. The method? Ordering the students to place their hands on the upside down mortar and hitting them with the pestle. The humanity! Though there have been some justifying claims that the disciplinary teachers only did this as a threat, some 'victims' (students, mind you) complained and reported to the police that there have been some poor kids who got their hands broken. When asked, the disciplinary teachers can only comment, "No comment".

Hey, they make great torture items, don't they?

IT-novation

I recently just watched the Social Network movie. It's more than just a history of Facebook. Very cleverly, the writers of the movie inserted some subtle messages like how greed and corruption can consume one person to backstab a trusted partner who was also his best friend, how originality can be debated and how intellectual, Harvard-educated people can get caught in irritations such as lawsuits to who had the actual rights to a popular social networking website.

I wonder if Bill Gates had any problems like these when he CO-founded Microsoft.

All I know about Bill Gates is that he founded the company Microsoft. Which is a huge contribution to entire computing system, don't get me wrong. I am grateful, because I'm using Microsoft products as well.

Here's a lovely picture of the man:


At 55, he's not looking too bad.

Anyway, that's all I know about him. Seriously, it's the only thing. I don't know much about his history, his background and his family (he has a wife named Melinda, right?).

I'm not going to discuss the trivias of Bill Gates.

Though I have to wonder, how did he envisioned a computing company that would revolutionized the IT world?

Okay, first of all, Bill Gates is not an inventor. He didn't make something new. Macintosh beat him to it.

Invention is the process of creating something that has never been thought of by anyone. You could say that the inventor is a creative person for thinking about something new. For example, Thomas Edison who was famously known for inventing the light bulb.

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Bill Gates to me, is more of an innovator. He improved on something that has been invented. The computing system has been revolutionized because of his contributions. So you could say that Bill Gates is a great innovator. But is he creative?

As explained before, creativity is the ability to think about something that's different and not been thought of before. So in my opinion, Bill Gates is not so creative as he is an innovation genius.

CRe@T1v3 Mind5eT

People always talk about creativity, whether or not they have it inside their minds and thoughts. The general public always associate creativity with artists like painters, musicians, composers, filmmakers and so on. Truth be told, creativity does exist in each and every one of us. It sounds cliched, but somehow it's true. It is just the matter of opening up your mind to the endless possibilities of creation and innovation. First, let's define creativity.Oxford Dictionary defines it as the use of imagination and or original ideas to create something or in short, invent. What about the views of some famous figures?

Albert Einstein saw creativity being more important than knowledge. So what does this mean? That the ability to create something different and new is more significant than the common facts?
Hayao Miyazaki, the great animator from Japan who works with Studio Ghibli to create movies such as the critically-acclaimed Spirited Away, said that creativity cannot be bought with money. This is true in the case of our modern world where most films and movies now have degrade in creativity and instead relies on the box-office numbers and blockbuster ranking to achieve 'success'.
This is the short article he writes about it: Money Can't Buy Creativity

To me, creativity is the sort of thinking where few people or none actually possess. Thinking that allows one to create something new and different or find creative ways to old problems.




Here's an ad on toothpaste. The ad indicates that the toothpaste has the ability to whiten teeth. The person that came up with this advertisement certainly knows how to play with the place and location of the ad to indicate the specialty of the toothpaste.


Or how about this T-shirt for tourists? It certainly is helpful for those foreigners that can't speak the country's language they are visiting. All they have to do is point at a sign and the helpful and friendly citizens can certainly show the way.

Whatever the case, creativity is not something that can be found easily. First, people must think outside of the box. What is the box? The less I elaborate on that, the better. Let's just say the box is the limited, everyday thinking that close you up and doesn't allow you to explore many solutions and outcomes because of our need to fully grasp on logic. Can creativity and logic work together? Of course. But creativity must come first. And when an idea has been created, then logic can come into play.

Intro

Hey everyone, lecturers and fellow classmates alike!

So this is my Creative Studies blog. Here's my info:
Name: Sharafina binti Teh Sharifuddin

ID No: 1102700634

Nicknames: Shara, Fina, Peanut Butter

Nationality: Malaysia

I don't know what to write anymore so I'll update later. ^_^