Paris-London Europe Trip. Subject: Minor Experiencing Culture 1

Day 1&2 - 11-12/9/14

This is the day I'm going to travel to Europe country for the first time but I only started to pack my luggage on the day before depart to KLIA because I'm still rushing to complete my viscom assignment in the morning!
Here are some tips when packing luggage:
i. do only bring necessary and important to minimize the weight of your luggage
ii. do not full your luggage as you are going to bring back more things from your vacation
iii. keep yr clothes by rolling it instead of fold it
iv. bring a bigger hand carry bag in case yr luggage do not have enough space

We suppose to gather at KLIA at 4pm but I during 3pm I already reached because I expect the journey would took me an hour.....

Exterior of KLIA

After that we get our boarding pass and check-in our luggage. Since there are time for us to have a meal before take the flight, we had Burger King as our dinner. I started to feel cost of food is high at KL airport and wondering how am I going to survive 10 days in Europe country which their cost of living is much more hight than in Msia.

Burger King as our last meal before departing 

We took 7;30pm flight and it's Emirates airline. We made a transition at Dubai international airport before we reached at Paris airport. We reached Dubai airport at around 10;30pm local time.

Interior of Dubai International airport

Columns that support from roof top to the ground

Stainless steel lift which expose to the interior mechanism

The architecture of Dubai International airport is so amazing! (maybe because of their country is rich??) I believe everyone do have a same feeling as mine. After the 5 hours 50 minutes waiting at here, we going to take the second flight which is from Dubai to Paris at 4;10am local time.
We finally reached Paris airport after a 7 hours of long flight.

Exterior of Paris airport

 There are a lot of people queue at the custom counter! (Frankly speaking, their working efficiency is a bit slow since we had waited for almost an hour....) Why dont they think to operate more custom counters since there are so many people here?!

Long queue at custom counter

To reach our first attraction in Paris, we  took the Roissy Shuttle bus (les car in france) from Charle de Gaulle Airport to the City Centre. 

Sign of les cars in Paris

One of the most unforgettable experience for this whole trip is how I rush all the way from airport to Eiffel tower by carrying 9kg luggage and a backpack. We took metro after get down from bus to Bir-Hakeim Station. After a long walking distance together with all the heavy luggage and backpack, we finally reached Eiffel Tower around 1pm!

View of Effiel tower captured underneath of it

Even though it's weekdays during our visiting but still there were crowded as I thought it's weekends or public holiday!
We took the lift in the Eiffel tower to get up to the second tower platform.
              
 
Hydraulics and lift that get us to second platform of tower

 

Panorama view captured on the second platform of tower

Standing binocle provided to maximize the scenery view

Group photo on the second platform (credit to Vijay)

Group photo with Eiffel tower

We finally managed to get our meal (lunch perhaps?) on the way we were getting to our hotel.

Omelette with cheese and ham

Menu of the restaurant

We took metro to Leo Lagrange station and finally reached our accommodation which named Park & Suites Appart Hotel.

Facade of the hotel

I did not actually join others for a mini walk at that night after unpack my luggage because I was totally exhausted! Good night! =)

3D Relief Model

Difficulty level of this assignment is 9 out of 10! I feel this way because all the way when I'm doing this I feel my workmanship is very horrible.... I must improve it with my patience TT ...

So, as the title mentioned above, we need to produce a 3D relief model of any building we prefer in size of A3. The building that I chose is a row of British colonial building that located at Jalan Tun HS Lee. We need to capture a nice perspective view of that building and make it become a 3D model.

British Colonial Building @ Jalan Tun HS Lee

3D Relief Model

Assignment 8

This is another subject of rapid visualization. This time, I choose to visualize technology 3. Lecture that I visualize including electricity supply and air conditioning system.

Technology 3 RV

Comment given: Good job! =D

Assignment 7

This is our Hari Raya holiday task which is produce a rapid visualization drawing of our favorite movie. 'The Lion King' is my favorite movie all the time, I can watch it for few times without feeling boring. =D The reason why I love this Disney cartoon so much is because I feel its storyline is very touching no matter in term of how they present the relationship of family, friends or beloved.

The Lion King RV

Comment given: Improve stroke of doing sketches, should apply various line weight, include 7 elements

Assignment 6

In this task, we have to choose one of the subject that we enroll and do a rapid visualization for it. Hence, the subject I choose is Design studio 3 and the assignment that I wan to visualize is our first project which is produce a conceptual art piece of an animal.

Conceptual art piece of tiger

Comment given: Improve on sketched technique.

Presentation Drawing II

Followed by the last lecture of presentation drawing, this lecture we are also need to produce another piece of presentation drawing. However, this time we are not going to design the composition but is just follow exactly a presentation board that each of us admired that search from online. We have to include all the necessary drawing into to presentation drawing although the one that we admired did not include.
For more information about my case study building:
http://miss-alicelee.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/golden-village-school-signature-project.html

Theme for this second presentation drawing is Green, which means we have to choose a eco-friendly building project and come out a presentation board for it.

So, here is the outcome. =)

The board that I have chosen for case study

The board that I composed

PRESENTATION DRAWING

Uncompleted

Completed

Today our in class assignment is to come out with a presentation board with the theme of futuristic style.
The main purpose for today lecturer is to let us explore and improve more on our Photoshop skills.
The building that I have chosen is the futuristic building at Ghana.
A basic presentation board must including: title, site analysis, plan, section, concept,sketches and perspective view (interior&exterior of building)