Wow. I feel like I’ve partly been mind-blown because I’ve heard or read something like this before and this time around I’m being reminded of it. I agree that happiness doesn’t mean you must be rich, have a successful career and good looking; all we really need is our family and friends.

Sometimes we get caught up with what the society and our culture believe is right or wrong, beautiful or ugly, and good or bad, that we forget about what we believe and lose ourselves.

One of the interesting things in the article is the part talking about the muscle near the eyebrow. The small muscle movements are something we don’t really notice, but we feel them as having a genuine smile, laugh or cry. That’s something that we can read unconsciously and it is very powerful.

Sometimes I wonder why the schools don’t teach us important life skills such as how to file your taxes, or how to make friends, and keeping a healthy relationship, and etc. These are really important things in our lives and we don’t learn them in school where we receive our “education”.

I like the last quote, ” After all, the conscious mind chooses what we buy, but the unconscious mind chooses what we like” because it makes me think about the times when I want something, but I don’t really need them.

Overall the article was really fun to read because I read out loud. There were a lot of words I didn’t know how to pronounce or understand, but I searched them up and I learned something.

Jay Soo

I liked the article…I suppose it was a bit like a lot of the articles on beginnings of Apple and silicon valley in general. The information on Xerox was of interest, mostly because I guess I generally knew at one point a long time ago they started going down – but I didn’t know the entire story. And it was interesting – the gentleman that created the newer printer model – I feel like this happens…a lot (‘this’ being companies not being okay with innovation or new ways of doing things, etc). The bureaucracies of any business take over all the time unfortunately.

Jay Soo

10/3/13

I actually read this before and it’s pretty intense in my opinion. Since I’m still in school and almost graduating, I can’t help but worry about my future. I already have plans to go to grad school to get my masters and become a professor. Why? because I respect a lot of my professors and I’m always inspired by them. I always hear stories about graduates from well known colleges and universities that have no jobs when they enter the society. This scares me a little because I’m about to graduate soon and I might become one of them. I guess I could get more degrees after I get my bachelor’s; I always wanted to be called Dr. Soo, so I guess getting my PhD is a priority on my list of goals.

Jay Soo

10/3/13

After reading the article and discussing it in class, I realized how important it is to be aware of everything around you. Xerox had the technology but didn’t know how to use it and do something with it, and Steve Jobs had the vision to see and create what became revolutionary. This gave me a thought about my role as a designer, of how important it can be to work in a team. For example in a team someone could see something the others can, or could think of ideas others can. This stresses how important each person could be and how everyone must take part in order to make something extraordinary happen.

The talk about what a genius is in class also motivated me a little. I always knew that being a genius is not easy. I have always been told that I have talent, and I know I do, but I also know that I’m very lazy. I understand that if I am able to overcome this weakness and work hard, I could become something more, and I might see my true potential then. But as of right now I am still procrastinating a lot, and I plan to change that.

Jay Soo

10/09/13

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I arrived at work today earlier than my clock-in time, as always. My first thought was to finish the project given to me last time, which was to redesign a layout of the City Tech logo on a background filled with pictures. Before I could even reconnect to where I left off last week, my supervisor called me over to his office. I went quickly and was given a new task: to redesign a gift certificate. I could tell the design was bad from first glance; there was no grid, the lines were extended without reason, and the visual was unnecessary dominant. Overall it was just bad.

I figured I should prioritize on my new task over my last one, I didn’t know why, but I just felt it was right. So I did a quick edit, did some research on the web and showed my supervisor. He gave me some feedback about the color and visual graphics, so I continued to edit.

Yue Chan and his intern did their own project and I went to watch because I was interested. They were doing something called “Banana Republican”; I thought it was really witty. Yue sprayed some bananas with red paint and did a photo shoot of a red banana with “Republican” letters attached to it. It was hilarious.

Anyways I finished the gift certificate and showed it to a beautiful lady called Jessica, who introduced me to her daughter. She looked very young, I would not have thought she was a mother.

Jay Soo

10/02/13

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I finally finished the masking project; it was not difficult, but it was time consuming. I was given another task, to recreate an 11 by 8.5 design of the City Tech logo on top of a background filled with pictures. The Logo should have some opacity to allow the pictures in the background to be visible. Being a rather linear person I immediately organized my working process. First I had to start with the background; I must align the pictures given to me randomly, and then duplicate them to fill the whole background.

To be honest I was working slowly today. I guess I was spending more time on researching how to do it and then got lost while browsing the web. Nothing much happened for the rest of the day since I had to leave early. The other intern didn’t show up, so I felt alone and sad.

I forgot to mention that my supervisor suggested I should bring my laptop to work because the computers in the office are old and slow. I didn’t tell him that my laptop is also old and slow. I did browse the web a little to check out the new Apple laptops, I text messaged my dad to let him know that I might need him to sponsor me a little, he agreed immediately. And this is it for this week’s journal entry; I rambled the last half of this in order to fill 250 words, I’m sorry.