I was highly impressed and inspired by a designer story that I've heard of tonight, and I think it will be a good sharing experience for all of you, friends and students alike.
There is this top-notch designer from Japan, his achievements are something so colossal that it would take days to talk about his endless passion for his work.
If you are a designer, or is aspiring to be a designer or architect. You would be thinking, you love arts, and you love designing. But how many of you lost track of your passion during the course of schooling or working? Many designers will now have deadlines, and deadlines, and more deadlines to meet, where their love for designs have waned so much over the years, that it has become merely a job to them to do what they do, and less because of their love for it.
This particular designer, even though I have never met him in real life, puts his designing work as an ultimate art piece to him, something he can show his passion, endless talents, pride and enthusiasm to its fullest. To him, the sky isn't even the limit. He is limitless.
When challenges and hurdles are placed in front of him, he takes it in his stride, and carry on his life without as much as a complain. A challenge, to him, is something to be conquered, and not complained.
When he was doing a particular design in one of our local shopping centers, he was placed with so much difficulties and restrictions to his design of a shop, that it would almost seem impossible to utilize that little space, and make it an attraction in the busy mall. Times and again, his designs beat the impossible, and he made a really beautiful piece of artwork, combined with retailing sense, and a wonderful mixture of fashion and attraction that I couldn't help it, but to really be impressed by his love for his job. Maybe to him, it is not even a job, it is his life.
Imagine if your design has been finalized, and you started working on building your prototype. Then someone comes along and said, the core of your design MUST be changed and is not accepted. What would you do?
Frankly speaking, these are sadly what most people do;
- try their best to argue with the management to accept his design
- complain that it isn't fair, and complains endlessly without a thought of how to improve your situation
- give up
What this designer did, was something so simple, and yet so admiring.
He accepted what the management told him about him changing his design, and continue to works on how to amend and change his designs so that it wouldn't affect his art work, but still meet the requirements of the management.
Without complains, he works on. His designs continue to show his unlimited talent. Times and again, such hurdles and difficulties come into his path, but he never utter a word of complain, and yet still show people what he is made of.
To me, I could learn from him as much as you guys could too.
This coming September reservists, I shouldn't be thinking of whether I can be taken out of it or not. Rather, I should be thinking of how to improve my lessons to make you guys learn better and thus prepare you for O levels before I leave.
I was guilty of losing track of what I have set out to do. If you guys are prepared enough, I wouldn't have to be afraid of leaving you guys to be on your own for your big exams. I should self-reflect.
But what the hell, I'll be losing alot of money that way, damn all that reservists thingy. (I'm complaining again)
DDOJ:
There was a flood in a village.
One man said to everyone, "I'll stay! God will save me!"
The flood got higher and a boat came and the man in it said "Come on mate, get in!"
"No" replied the man. God will save me!
The flood got very high now and the man had to stand on the roof of his house.
A helicopter soon came and the man offered him help."
No, God will save me!" he said
Eventually he died by drowning.
He got by the gates of heaven and he said to God "Why didn't you save me?"
God replied, "For goodness sake! I sent a boat and a helicopter. What more do you want!"
Adios!
