我是一隻辛勤的小螞蟻～Vietnam 的 always上班ing

從越南最高樓Bitexco Financial tower拍第一郡～

跟著歐巴馬來越南已經一個禮拜了, 每天其實自由活動的時間很少, 因為這裡的工時.....超級長！
每天的行程如下：
7 : 00 AM 上班兒
11 : 00 AM 午餐休息時間
12 : 00 PM 開始下半天的工作
4 : 00 PM 吃晚餐 + 半小時休息！
4 : 30 PM 繼續晚上的加班
8 : 00 PM 打鐘！終於要下班！

...................一天有12個小時都在上班捏！XD
而且這裡沒有"周休二日"！！！(周休二日是啥？可以吃嗎？)
沒有"周休二日"！！！
沒有"周休二日"！！！  
沒有"周休二日"！！！


別說週休二日了, 一日都沒有喔！大家在這都是辛勤的蜜蜂跟螞蟻兒阿阿阿～～～
哭哭！

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加上越南的國定假日真是少的可憐
所以剛好前兩天的4/30解放日 ＋ 5/1勞動節 的連放兩天還真的是跟放過年一樣開薰咧～
連放兩天去了胡志明市的第一郡（算是downtown來的）改天再來介紹一下第一郡有啥好逛~~

不過工時這麼長, 路上的車子還是爆炸多阿, 這裡的時速平均只能達到30 ~ 40公里
因為路上都是滿滿的摩托車, 基本上就是坐在車裡, 四周都會被摩托車包圍的意思
而且越南字典裡應該也沒有安全距離這件事吧～ 
大家都靠的超近, 瘋狂往前衝, 然後拼命案喇叭
這裡的喇叭使用率應該是全球第一吧！都可以領貴賓卡了阿！！！
（我知道沒圖沒真相, 但是這邊車子都沒在貼隔熱紙, 等我臉皮厚點在偷拍一下）
所以早上五六點就可以被不用錢的喇叭聲叫醒～
而且隨著上班時間逼近,  喇叭只會更多更大聲！ 
（反正每天都要上班, 就是要逼我不能賴床的意思是吧！）

雖然廢話很多,現在還是上班時間,但是快要吃午餐了喔！
不知道宿舍的阿姨要煮什麼了？（期待）

我現在要放空等吃飯了～揪咪！

Rice?

Madame de Pompadour's ribbon

As I start the project of rice jewellery, people keep asking me "why rice?"
It all start from the summer project before my MA course in School of Jewellery in Birmingham.
I was asked to use any kinds of materials, to make 10 objects. All I had was nothing. I just left my home country to a brand new place and my tool box was on its way to Birmingham.
Than my mother send me a pack of rice.
It was so precious that I would not even eat them.
Rice was my treasure at the moment.

Embroidery of the sea

"Value" is my main topic of my works.
What make things valuable? and what is so called "valuable" things?
I test my works from different view of social standard.

Madame de Pompadour




French Balloon



Purple China




Rococo frame

Blue Embroidery

Pink Embroidery

If you would like to see them and feel them, my works are now exhibited at Brilliantly Birmingham-FLUX Exhibition!

Brilliantly Birmingham-FLUX Exhibition

My work will be exhibit at MAC! Please check this out!!!

Brilliantly Birmingham was born out of Birmingham’s historic Jewellery Quarter, which employs around 400 people and is home to more than 80 contemporary designer-makers; in addition to hundreds of historic firms. Now an international contemporary festival, Brilliantly Birmingham returns on 27^th November for its eleventh year to celebrate the city’s rich heritage and renowned reputation for jewellery design and production. Running until 9^th January 2011, the festival will see an array of jewellery talent exhibited across the city including the newly reopened mac at Cannon Hill Park and venues in the Jewellery Quarter.

Growing from an informal group of local designer-makers to a prestigious festival regularly attracting esteemed international designers, this year’s event focuses on the journey of designer-makers and the festival audience. Through a range of exhibitions, seminars and workshops, audiences will be taken on a journey of jewellery-making, from initial concept to finished product.

Just a begining

I've been doing my final project of MA degree recently. I try to use rice and other combinations to explore the potential of this material. Here is one of them:

Making Treasure

My work will be exhibited in this show!!!

Making Treasure
School of Jewellery
Vittoria Street
Birmingham
B1 3PA

Open: Mon 13th-Wed 22nd September 2010
9-5pm (Closed Saturday & Sundays)

http://makingtreasure.wordpress.com/
makingtreasure@googlemail.com

'Fantastical edible creations, modern re-interpretations of historical decorative arts, rubber glove garments and wearable drawings, a selection of what will be show cased at Making Treasure, MA Jewellery, Silversmithing and Related Products graduate exhibition opening on September 13th.

new works for latest assessment

For this assessment, I put new material and technique into my work. For fixing the fragility, I addes resin with rice, for the replacement of frabic and rice sheets I made previously. I want to keep the delicate detail and the smooth texture of rice.

Garlic....

i quite like blue recently, i can see more blue in my closet, ha.
i also bought a blue silk for doing my work, it's like the chic colour for the comming season---China blue, the latest VOGUE issue has a series photos about it, i like them very much!
Well, i just made an object, an the idea comes from a photo i took in Antwrep, Belgium.



Casting will be the key word for my form research, i think i should pay attention on the feature of rice and develop it in proper way. Also i want to add a little embroidery into my work, or add some pattern on it.
Recently, i keep thinking about the idea of "corner", which is where a connection usually happen between people, and i also thinking about "scene" of some movies, there are always an important scene for the girl and boy in the movie. Maybe i can put the "corner" into the consideration.

I should draw something, but i just can not move the pencil, not in the mood of doing that.......