Saturday, May 30, 2009

Photo Survei

I think I should posted it earlier, but too many assignment and work made my brain not-so-creative again.

So.. today my friend suggest this plan and here we go:

Recently I'm having an assignment from one of my class. It's a small observation project about people behavior connected with design. My theme is shopping behavior, with a comparison between korean and indonesian customer. The objective is to know the behavior differences in both countries and (maybe) predict which design will suit them.

To observe the customer, I made a photo survei. It is a method where we ask several question and the respondent will answer it with picture/photo, which they take by themselves.

So...if you're Indonesian/Korean and interested to take part, here are the photo survei
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Instruction (Please read it carefully):
• Please answer all questions below with photos that you take by yourself.
• You can take more than 1 photo for each of question (max 5 photos)
• You can take whatever picture you wanted/you think suited the question the most. There’s no right and wrong.
• Rename each file with the question number and small explanation
(i.e.: file 01a-me with my favorite dress).
• Please send the photos to email: sanqyurian@yahoo.com as ZIP/RAR file.
• You can send it all at once or gradually based on your activity.
• The deadline for submiting is Monday, June 1st 2009, 8.00 am (WIB) or 10.00 am (Seoul Time)


We would like you to take picture of:
1. Yourself with your favorite outfit
2. Your closet (with all of your outfit inside it)
3. Your room
4. Your daily belongings (what is inside your bag?)
5. Your wish list for next month
6. Your favorite brand
7. Your favorite fashion style
8. Your favorite item
9. Your favorite partner for shopping
10. Your favorite place to go shopping
11. Your favorite place to share about shopping information
12. Your most trusted shopping information
13. Something desirable
14. Something that will be a trend this year
15. Something boring / old fashioned
16. Shopping means _____(picture)___________for me
17. A nice and comfortable shopping means _____(picture)________for me
18. Your worst enemy in shopping activity
19. A picture which can resemble your favorite shop
20. Your favorite activity while shopping

Thank you for you participation ☺
About the privacy, all your photos will be save in my class documentation :)
For question please contact me at:
Email : sanqyurian@yahoo.com
YM id : sanqyurian

and thanks Ani for giving me this idea.. Lu emang bener2 orang IKLAN ^^

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

break down

warning: mellow
*buat yg males/gak suka cerita2 mellow jangan baca*

Sejak saya datang ke Seoul, saya tidak pernah berpikir akan homesick. Well, homesick mungkin iya, tapi paling kangen sedikit-sedikit, pengen bakmi jawa, atau hal remeh lainnya. Tapi untuk kangen orang tua/teman sampai nangis bombay atau kangen makanan indonesia sampe kurus,..neup, ga pernah kepikir sampe sana. Karena sejak sampai sini hidup rasanya fine-fine saja.

Ternyata home sick itu adanya di bawah sadar, gak disadari, dan kalau gak cepat ditangani, akan terus menjalar kaya balon yang semakin lama semakin besar dan BOOM! bisa meletus kapan aja.

Dalam kasus saya, mungkin saya gak terbiasa sama orang-orang baru. Buat saya, bertemu dan berteman dengan orang baru berarti banyak penyesuaian, banyak kompromi, dan banyak observasi/belajar. Saya sudah lupa bagaimana proses ini berlangsung, karena selama saya di Bandung, proses itu berjalan lambat dan natural selama kurang lebih 5 tahun. Tapi disini, tiba-tiba saya harus beradaptasi dengan orang sekitar dalam waktu kurang dari dua bulan. Belum lagi perasaan ditinggalkan oleh orang-orang di Bandung, yang karena kesibukan masing-masing (wajar) tidak bertegur sapa lagi.

Bagaimana saya harus bersikap, bagaimana saya harus berpendapat, bagaimana saya harus menjaga sikap, rupaya tidak semudah itu menerima orang baru sebagai teman. Misalnya, A punya B, dan C punya D, tapi saya tidak punya siapa-siapa. Rasanya seperti sendirian di tengah kerumunan orang banyak. Dan akhirnya..tadi malam semuanya meledak. Satu bentakan kecil membuat pertahanan saya runtuh dan bertanya " Kenapa saya diperlakukan seperti ini? Apa salah saya?" dan sebagainya.

Atap dorm jadi pelarian. Untung gak kekunci dari dalam..Piuhh.. Tapi untungnya, orang-orang baru yang -kata mereka- "kita ini keluarga" datang.. Saya merasa aneh sebenarnya, orang-orang yang baru dua bulan saya kenal sekarang mau tidak mau menjadi keluarga saya. Tapi memang begitu keadaannya. Mau tidak mau, saya harus menerima mereka, karena disinilah sekarang saya...

Kesimpulannya, homesick itu gak enak! Apalagi kalau sampe nangis bombai di atap dorm tengah malem n ketauan temen.. malu =_=