Final two weeks of the IDO project
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Working, working, working…
Basically, during the last two weeks of the IDO project, we all worked our asses off. We had to finish the final prototypes, report and commercial for the final presentation, so we really made long hours and saw little daylight. We survived on McDonald’s food and cup noodles. For the last few days, I barely left the building… The last two nights I worked all night long at the PolyU and lay down on the floor for an hour or so. After the first night I did go back to the hotel to sleep a few hours in the morning… when everyone was getting up to go to the PolyU I came back to sleep…
But the last day was really exhausting. Again, I worked all night long (and wasn’t even the only one!) to finish the damn commercial for the final presentation on Thursday afternoon. As always, it was last minute work to get it finished, so I really needed that last night’s work.
Even though we worked most of the time, there were some moments where our work could be pleasantly interrupted:
I saw Jackie Chan!
Week 5. We were working in the studio, it was lunch time. Suddenly someone walks into the room and says: “Hey, you wanna see Jackie Chan? He’s upstairs now!”
I didn’t really understand what she meant, but being curious, I walked out to see what was going on. It was the ‘Grad Show’ of the PolyU School of Design; a happening where the graduating students are … And apparently, Jackie Chan was a guest! At first, I walked straight passed him. Then suddenly I recognized him; it was the guy with all the cameras flashing at him. So cool! Normally I wouldn’t act like this when seeing a celebrity, but with so many people already there taking pictures of him, I didn’t need to feel embarrassed joining the crowd of ‘papparazzi’. I took a lot of pictures and videos of him; there’s a selection at the link below. Also check out the video compilation I made.
More photos of Jackie Chan HERE.
Birthdays
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At the end of week 5, on Friday, Peter Dean (one of the HK tutors) had organized a really nice get-together at Shek O beach. We all went there around 6 pm to have a BBQ at one of the barbecues sites at the beach and do some ‘midnight swimming’ in the dark. The BBQ was so great. I learned from Yoyo that HK people grill more than just hot dogs, like I did the last time. So together with her I bought some great HK BBQ food at a shop at the beach: chicken wings, beef steaks, fish balls, pork, marshmellows… delicious! (too bad some cats stole one of my steaks… that was my favorite meat!) We had so much... when the rest was already long finished grilling there sausages, we were still going strong, barbecuing like real HK people do. In between preparing the food I went swimming in the sea. It was almost pitch dark, just the light of the stars. The water was still quite warm… such a special experience to be in the water in such a beautiful place, I won’t forget that easily.
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The IDO project has been a great experience… not just design-wise. I’m also lucky to have met Yoyo, one of the HK students. Boy meets girl… boy likes girl, girl likes boy… you can imagine what happens… as I said before, I’m crazy… about Yoyo.
In the weekend between week 5 and 6, we went to
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My room
Just so you can see where I lived for the past 6 weeks, here are two photos of me and Alex’s messy room.
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The final presentation
On Thursday afternoon, each group had 30 minutes to show their work, in front of a small audience. All the students and tutors of course, plus some invited guests from the PolyU. There were some unexpected Dutch guests as well. Apparently Pieter Desmet (associate professor at my faculty at TU Delft) and Jeroen van Erp (co-founder of well-known Dutch design agency Fabrique) were in HK and Mathieu (Dutch tutor) invited them to come. All went well. Everyone worked really hard and that paid off: all the results were very nice, beyond expectations even. We can all be proud of ourselves. So now the IDO workshop has really ended. It has gone by so quickly, it’s incredible. I’d like to thank all the students and tutors for a great and very
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Boat trip
As a celebration of the ending of the IDO project, the tutors organized a really nice boat trip for the whole group. On the last Friday, we went to Sai Kung, where we boarded a rented boat and went out on the sea for the whole day. After less than an hour, the boat anchored near a very nice and empty beach. We had this place completely for ourselves. We jumped off the boat, swam to the beach and around the boat, relaxed in the sun… in short, we had a lof of fun in the sun. The weather couldn’t have been better and I couldn’t have imagined a nicer concluding trip to the IDO workshop.
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In the evening we went to the Irish pub to see the Germany-Argentina soccer match with our German friends. Very exciting match! Congrats to the Germans.
And now my real vacation starts!
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