Week 6: Lateral Thinking, Edward De Bono, Photo Of The Week

Lateral Thinking

This week is all about lateral thinking. Lateral thinking is sideway thinking and solving a problem through an indirect and creative approach. You have to solve a problem by thinking way out of the box. Lateral thinking is not using the traditional way to solving a problem but you disregard the implies rules to solve a problem. I actually find this class very interesting, I love the puzzles but didn't really used lateral thinking to solve it so hopefully the next few puzzles that I found, I'll be able to solve it through lateral thinking.


5 Lateral Thinking Puzzles

1st puzzle:

My answer:
Flatten the top part of the truck.

2nd puzzle:

My answer: 

Move the second glass on the left and the second last glass on the right.

Correct answer: 

Pour the drink from the second glass on the left into the second glass on the right.

3rd puzzle:

My answer: 

Just remove the + in the middle. Count it as 2 matchsticks instead of 4.

4th puzzle:

What can you hold in your right hand, but not in your left?

My answer: 

A pen, because I'm a right hander.

The correct answer: 

Your left hand, forearm or elbow.

5th puzzle:

Jane gave Jill the following challenge: "If you sit down in that chair, I bet you five pounds I can make you get out of it before I run around the chair three times"

Jill: "That's not fair, you'll just prick me with a pin or do something similar."

"Nope",  Jane said. "I won't touch you, either directly or with an object. If you get out of the chair, it'll be by your own choice."

Jill thought, accepted the challenge, and lo and behold, Jane won the bet. How did she do it?

My answer: 

Because Jane didn't start running at all and said that she'll come back tomorrow.

The correct answer:

Jill sat down in the chair. Jane ran around it twice, then said, "I'll be back in a week to run the third time around!"

Edward De Bono

Edward De Bono is born in Malta on 19 May 1993. He's a physician, psychologist, an inventor and author. He holds a degree in medical, Master of Arts in physician and psychologist and Phd in medicine. In adittion, he has also written 57 books with translations into 34 languages. He created a futuristic documentary film; 2040: Possibilities by Edward de Bono in 1995.

He is the one who came up with Lateral Thinking, and he's a well respected man that has done plenty in the world. He published his first book "The Use of Lateral Thinking" in 1967 and also in 1985, he published "Six Thinking Hats". I think everybody has a lot to learn from Lateral Thinking and from Dr Edward himself. 

Photo Of The Week

Took this photo while I was looking for a place to take my outfit of the day picture. I am always looking for new places to explore and take picture at because I don't want the pictures that I'm posting to be boring. If you look at the building carefully, there's a sculpture thing on the right towards the end of the building and I find it really interesting. Am I the only one who feels happy when I see these type of buildings? This picture don't even feel like it's taken in Singapore.

Week 5: Mind Mapping, Photo Of The Week, SGNightFest & Videos Reviews

Mind Mapping

Mind mapping is a thought process and project planning to organise your ideas. You need to keep adding more ideas and think further about something. I have never really done a mind map ever since secondary school because I didn't know that mind mapping is actually a very useful method of thinking to see the bigger picture in different things. 

We also learned about 10x2, this allows us to think about 10 different words for just one picture and from the 10 words, you can think of 2 questions about the picture. My group actually thought of more than 10 words for each of us because we didn't want any one of us to have the same word on our list.

|  Woman  |  Elegant  |  Conservative  |  Yukata  |  Moon  |  White Face  |  Relationship  |  Expensive  |
|  Cultural  |  Floral  |  Geisha  |  Japanese  |  Hairstyle  |  Pattern  |  Cloudy  |  Small Eyes  |  Windy  |
|  Words  |  Earlobe Painting  |  Reed  |  Tradition  |  Night  |  Ukiyoe  |  Gentlewoman  |  Talking  |
|  Urgent to pee  |  Walking Kimono  |  Hair clasp  |  Chinese  |  Females  |  Blue Sky  |  Peri  |  Gaust  |
|  Shy  |  Flowy  |  Fat foot  |  No eyebrows  |  Colours  |

10 Questions and Answers

1. Why is asian culture always so conservative?

Answer: Because in asian culture, covering up is very sexy and mysterious.

2. Is the woman a geisha?

Answer: Probably, because of her hair, make up and the way she dress too.

3. Is the kimono expensive?

Answer: Yes. Kimonos are ALWAYS expensive because it is man-made.

4. Why is the woman so shy?

Answer: She probably saw a man walking by and wants to cover her face up.

5. What is the relationship between the woman and the little girl?

Answer: Mother and daughter.

6. Are they going somewhere or going home?

Answer: Going home because it looks very late already.

7. Why is the woman covering her mouth?

Answer: She is probably yawning because she's tired.

8. Why she don't have any eyebrow?

Answer: They shaved it off because they think that having no eyebrow is prettier.

9. What are they talking about?

Answer: Food because they are hungry.

10. Why are they not wearing any shoe?

Answer: They either have no money to afford to buy one or they don't have to wear any shoes.

Photo Of The Week

I have always wanted a dog as a pet but I can't... My mom will ALWAYS tell me "You can't even take care of yourself & you wanna take care of a dog?".  So far, I only had hamsters and a kitten as my pet before, but I had to give away my kitten to a friend because I actually sneaked the kitten into the house without my mom knowing(My sister was in on it too!!). Dogs are loyal and clingy(the good kind). They know when you're feeling down and knows how to cheer you up better than most humans do, am I right? No matter what, they'll always be there for you when you're crying in the middle of the night. I would love to adopt/buy a dog in the future when I have a family myself.

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Singapore Night Festival
I actually wanted to go to last year's Singapore Night Festival but I missed it. So this year, I had the opportunity to go. I really liked all the different exhibitions and art work. Other than just doing it for the homework, I really enjoyed it but I personally think that I'll enjoy it more if it wasn't for my homework HAHA, sorry Mr Ezzam! I'll just let the pictures talk because 'picture speaks a thousand words'.

KEYFRAMES by Group Laps

Cirque The Cathay Roving LED Light Twirlers by The Cathay

Journey by NOVAK

Armenian Street

Peranakan Museum

Samara by Max Pagel & Jonathan Hwang

Percussion Rhythms by Rhythm De Pasión

Video Reviews

Seth Godin: How to get your ideas to spread? - Seth Godin talks about how you want your ideas to spread. People who can spread ideas, regardless of what those ideas are, they win. You can spread ideas very easily with TV industrial complex, the mass media. It also informed all of us that all the products succeeded because someone figured out how to get people to buy things by promoting their item over and over again on the TV. Seth Godin is a very humorous speaker, I laughed a lot while watching.

Amy Tan: Where does creativity hide? - Where you can find creativity? Amy Tan talks about where one could find their creativity. Creativity could be a neurological condition and in includes nature and nurture. The way that she presented was really humorous, she is not afraid of embarrassing herself. She talks a lot about her childhood and share her troubles as a child. There is a reason to everything, there was no randomness. Creativity is to imagine and becoming what is imagined.

Week 4: Presentation, Photo of The Week & My Room, Video Comparison

Reflection For The Presentation

This week, every group presented their 50 Ways to "....". I think our group did really well, I'm so sorry if some of our illustrations/ideas made you feel uncomfortable. Emily and Lynn did better than I expected, they were really confident but like what Mr Ezzam said, they have to slowly improve their English. As for Ben, he seem really very nervous which wasn't what I expected at all but he did very well too. Overall, my group was okay. I wanna thank Lynn for doing most of the drawing/illustration. We did really well as a team and explained everything clearly and straight to the point.

As for comparison with other group, I think Galen's group did really well too. Their cockroach drawing is super cute!! The guys in the group were both very loud and clear but for the girls, I know that they're more shy that's why we can't really hear them but they did a very good job on presenting.

For this presentation, the guys obviously did better because they're more outspoken. But the girls are all very shy but I hope all of us will speak up more as the time goes by and when there's more presentation. I was really nervous but I got over it and just said what I wanted to but I have to speak louder a little more. Mr Ezzam said that I'm very quirky so I guess it's the good kind of quirky? Hoping that he won't mind the things that we drew for our mindmap...

Photo of The Week

We went out on a class outing on Saturday and it was really fun because we went bowling. Galen was the one who suggested this class outing in order for us to not be so awkward around one another. Even though only half of the class turned up but it's okay.. There's always a next time. I feel like everyone bonded a little more and got to know each other better. The awkward tension between us is gone, which is really good. I can see that everyone had fun, I definitely enjoyed myself. Everyone was talking to each other, taking lots of selfies and catching some pokemon too! (There are tons of selfies, above is just 2 out of the hundreds that we took HAHA). There'll definitely be a second class outing.

Funny story about the polaroid: 

We asked one of the staff at the bowling place to help us take a polaroid, and Fann wasn't ready at all but just when he was about the press the button, Fann shouted "Wait, I'm not ready!", that is why you can't see her in the first polaroid and Sabrina & Ben was looking at her. See, it's the funny moments like this where we can remember and cherish. Super cheesy but it's the truth.

The Corner of My Room - Creative Corner

I don't think that there is anywhere in my room that will give me some inspiration or spark my creativity but here's a picture of my bedside table which is really messy by the way. This is just level one of my messiness. My vanity table is wayyyy messier than this. I think this is my creative place because it's where I put the make up that I haven't use or want to experiment with. I mean, make up and art is almost the same thing. You have to be creative in order to create a look. And also, the other reason why this is my creative corner because as you can see from that small red colour photo frame, that is a picture of my dad from his wedding shoot with my mom. I feel like my dad always inspires me and makes me feel safe. That is why this is my comfort zone and where most of my creativity are running wild!


Video Comparison
Tony Fadell's style has a flow during his presentation and by engaging with the audience. He was calm and clear throughout his whole speech. The images that were shown in his powerpoint is relevant to what he's saying and trying to explain. He understands his audience and breaks down all the information so that it is easy for them to absorb. As for Isacc Mizrahi, his presentation was abit jumpy so it was confusing. But he engages with the audience by sharing his personal stories and with his humour. The way that he explains where his inspirations come from is really interesting and I love that he is more goofy and relaxed even though his presentation was jumpy.

Week 3: Brainstorming, Photo Of The Week & Video Reviews

Brainstorming

Really enjoyed the brainstorming class because I got to interact more with my group mates and we thought of so many crazy ideas for "50 Ways to Use a Scissors". Even though Emily was not so open about it but she was comfortable enough to go with all the weird ideas. 

Brainstorming is about being spontaneous and seeing-thinking-wondering. I think it is always better to brainstorm in a group and not alone because you can come up with so many different ideas, everybody has a different perspective on different things. But sometimes it can also be bad because not everyone will agree with you or accept your idea. I think that is why there's creative thinking class, to let us learn about letting go of ourselves and accepting different kinds of ideas/people. Once we can accept all ideas, we can build on it and come up with something better!

Photo of the Week

I went to the National Museum the other day to accompany my friend to take her pictures for her creative thinking class! Going into the exhibitions, made me think about the past, life was so easy back then, everybody was so carefree. No mobile phones, no laptop but just old school games. Nowadays, people can't live without electronic devices/gadgets. We don't communicate as much as before. People like our parents or relative, they don't have the luxury like us in the past. For example, if they want to buy clothes, they have to either sew it themselves or work hard for the money and buy something nice. And now, we can just easily buy things online whenever we want. I really appreciate everything that I have now (e.g. AIRCON AND ONLINE SHOPPING OMG), now I'm going to go kiss my mom for being a such a strong and independent woman for raising two brats(aka me and my sister) by herself ever since my father passed away. 

Video Reviews

Selective Attention Test: The part where they asked if we saw the suicidal man, that kinda scared me because of the sound effect, it's the 7th month now... I think nowadays, people tend to give all their attention to unnecessary things that are happening around them and they don't realize that there are people who are actually dealing with suicidal thoughts. Everyone should stop feeding on all the drama/stupid things and pay more attention to the little things. Check in with your friends once in awhile to make sure that they're okay, because it'll really mean a lot to them and who knows, you might even save a life.

Steve Johnson - Where good ideas come from: Steven Johnson talked about the brilliance of ideas. To him, an idea is a single thing and a network. He also talked about incubator that people think out of the box and came out with a great idea by using car parts to fix the $40,000 incubator. We take ideas from people, from people we learn from, from people that we bump into in the coffee shop and stitch them together into new forms and create something new, that is really when innovation happens. A lot of important good ideas also have very long incubation periods, they linger on for decades sometimes in the back of their mind.

Vision - Motivational Video: The video talks about us using our imagination, vision and embrace faith. We need to move on from our mistakes from the past and learn from it. Everybody has the obstacle to overcome, and in order to get to success, you have to get through all the hard times to get there. We cannot give up, but we have to fail forward in order to get better and get one step closer to success. This video really motivated me, the narrator's voice is very strong and the content that they put in the video has a lot of meaning behind it too. At one part of the video really caught my attention, which is what Lindsey Stirling said: "Anytime there's a change to be made, you have to realise that there is somewhere else you want to be and I want to basically be happy."

5 Unexpected Ways To Spark Your Creative Genius: I read on this article about 5 unexpected ways to spark and it's really interesting how our brain can have so many different ways to think creatively. Stay away from the television and let your brain work with books to freshen up your perspective. Also, you can use your pen and paper too, to write down your thoughts wherever you are and whenever you want.