Having spend a good couple of years with my FD2R, it’s time to say goodbye as my life now sees me living off somewhere, far away from home. It’s kinda of strange to feel emotionally attach to it, but i have to say, we did spend some good time exploring many many unique places. No doubt i can’t do a grand farewell for it, but Honda gave an ultimate send off by teaming up with MUGEN’s and giving the latest modification of the Type R Civic – named the Type R MUGEN 2.2. With the base specification of a FN2R, Honda’s hatchback engine specs will be expanded upon yet again to include a 2.2 L power-plant. This upgrade results in the engine’s output to 265 hp that goes with 177 lbs-ft of torque at 6000 rpm. Obtaining motorsport components that go along with the Type R viewpoint, the MUGEN 2.2 will carry on exclusive yet stunning technical specs that make it a true gem for keeps.

It’s kind of funny how each of us has our own perceptions of loving someone. Some prefer to keep it all to themselves and some prefer to stand on a rooftop and shout it out to the world. Some might even take extreme measures on demanding love from the very person their heart beats for.

For you my friend,  sometimes gestures of “I hate you” can be easily translated into “I love you.” Behind it all could be easily translated to “I hate myself for loving you”. Because it is in those moments,  just you, and him, and the only thing he choose to see, never realizing how foolish it could really be is to “hate” you the way he knows. But nothing feels more real than having a face to face, tear-filled eyes kinda of talk. It makes things easier.

It’s kind of strange how we all have our kept secrets from the past to present. Like how time pass but doesn’t really pass at all. We still linger on to it at times. Would she look the same? Did I look the same? How much does someone change in 5 years? Even if she did look the same, I would be looking at her with different eyes—she wouldn’t be the same.

At times these thoughts should be buried, but let’s face it. We humans are connected creatures. The need for the connecting with someone keeps us alive and let us know that we are not alone in this world. I bet that sometimes when you are out there in a bar having a drink two, your eyes would be scanning the room to find a familiar face that you once had a connection. But the truth is, it hardly happens. Those that we once were connected to have moved on, no one will stay constant in the same place.

I guess i was looking for an awareness of the years and the lifetimes I was accumulating. But i guess at the end, it was a reconnection which should be best kept as a secret.

Words that we should not speak of.

Well have just finish the final round of judging for Crowbar Awards 2011 and i must say students these days are well informed on advertising trends, too well informed whereby they form an invisible “standard” checklist on what mediums should they use when it comes to the work they create. As part of the jury for the interactive category, the key thing for me is to see work of substance and originality rather than just some similar lofty concept that is presented through mediocre motion graphic videos. But well, students being students, the only source of of knowledge comes from the design education they have.

Sometimes i really wonder what creative education in Singapore has evolved to. Art schools back in my time play an inspirational role when it comes to creativity. However , schools these days are overly concern with software trainings rather than conceptualization and creative thinking process. And students who come out from these programmes merely become design operators for agencies or design firms which indirectly affects the creative output domestically.

So the question is, are the schools fueling the society based on demand or are these school concern with nurturing creative thinkers that potential can shape the future? This discussion could go on for ages but hopefully, one day people will realize that the world could be ideal, if we put the right vision and the right people in it. Or maybe the industry doesn’t need any creatives thinkers, as agencies these day have the magic help from the wheel of concept.

You all must be wondering why I have not been updating my blog. The reason is because I am on a photography trip around Europe and currently am situated in Nice and will be wandering to Geneva soon. So stay tune.