I just finished one deadline for my uni project. I was exploring the nature of Collecting and how it's related to Visual Communication (or Graphic Design). It was a fruitful experience for me because I really reflect back to my momoko collecting.

What I did was interview 6 designers and took photos of their collections. Then my design outcome is re packaging all the information and photos into a set of postcards that will be presented in an exhibition. People who attend my exhibition will receive some empty postcard holder and go around the exhibition and collect the post card themselves. By doing that, the audience taking part as collector themselves. --> This is a very brief decription of my 11 weeks project. :D

I was working so hard for this project. And I really have to say, thank to momoko, I choose "Collecting" as my design project. Of course, momoko is not directly taking part in my design outcome. But she's supporting indirectly me along the way. No, not really :D My husband is the one who supproted me directly and wholeheartly along the way. Thank to him, I'm still alive here and typing this.

Going back to momoko and collecting. I am in the down turn of money at the moment. After I paid for Bloomy and 03ANsp, I have nothing left in my bank account. YES!! Nothing at all. Now I'm living in my husband income. Lucky I still have a job to go to and a hope that I will get paid sometime in the future.

It's been torturing to see Spring Forest. I want her so much!! She's just look so stunning and remind me so much about 04ANlw princess. And her clothes is so cute!!! But I have no money! Because I spent it all!!

I never take money so serious in my life. They are just an abstract ideas to me until...I spent it all!!!

Now I started to realised that I need food, and to actually have money in my pocket. Paypal or credit card is a form of abstracting the value of money. I don't know.
Abstraction is an interesting idea. I may think about it more in my graduated project this August.

Whatever! Now I don't have money to buy any momoko. I am not allow to buy!!!! Arrr torture!!!
The thing is I have to save money for fixing up the house because my parents will come to visit us next year for in my graduation day. So excited!!! I can't wait to the day! The reunion of my family. Mum, Dad, me and my husband. My Dad never met my husband. He still have a hard time accepting my marriage . I don't know. In our culture, my marriage seems to be very hard to accept- an asian young Vietnamese girl with a much older Western man. I live with idea (MY IDEAS)! I don't live for OTHER people IDEAS! That's why I married him - the man whom I LOVE! What so ever!!! Still, I respect my Dad feeling about my marriage. I just hoping one day, he will come to term with it!!! I love my Dad so much!!

Living and dying! In the end of the day, I live for what I love and in the process of dying, I know I had live to the fullest. Life is wonderful!