The other mid term task that was assigned is a Pecha Kucha presentation. Pecha Kucha is a presentation format with 20 slides timed at 20 seconds each and the presenter needs to talk along the content of the slides within the duration (PechaKucha 20x20, 2018). The topic of the Pecha Kucha is about the student's life both professional and personal. This is the very first time that the writer have done a Pecha Kucha. This Pecha Kucha was done in a chronological order.
Pecha Kucha Presentation
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王柔心 is the student's name in Mandarin. The meaning behind the student's name in Mandarin is "pure heart" which was given by her late mother as her mother hopes that whenever she go, whoever she will be, she will always be a kind hearted person.
The student was born and raised in Kajang, Selangor, a small town which is 40 minutes away from the city center. She graduated from kindergarden to high school in Kajang and eventually further her studies at Raffles College of Higher Education located in Kuala Lumpur. Kajang is famous for a local food called Satay. The town wasn't as peaceful and quiet like 10 years ago as University Tunku Abdul Rahman have been re-allocated to Kajang and is now filled with university students.
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Since she was exposed to the internet 10 years ago, she discovered plenty of online barbie dress up games that were available to be played for free. That is when she discovered she loves styling clothes. Since she is not from a wealthy family, she could only wish for a new barbie each time she scored the top 3 in her class. A new barbie, was her only motivation to study hard. She currently still keeps all her barbie dolls with her as worked hard for it and currently own 8 of them.
Who doesn't wish to have a pet of their own. Not much of a cat person, she is in love with dogs with short legs - Corgi, Dachshund etc. Unfortunately, her parents are not a fan of having fur around the house. Therefore, she is hoping to get a pet of her own one day and for now, she can only travel to pet cafes, pet shops to admire the dogs.
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She graduated high school in 2014 with a total of 12 subjects registered which was the only student with maximum subjects registered. At the age of 15, she decided to work in the fashion industry for her future career. Therefore, she wanted to join the art stream classes at Form 4 (Grade 12 in US) as she was very sure that she would not be using any of her knowledge on Science classes in University or on her future career. However, as a teacher's daughter, she was somehow pressured into taking the Science stream classes with registered subjects like Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Additional Mathematics and Agricultural Science.
With an amount of 12 subjects in total, managing time and stress are really important in order to achieve her goals. She spent 4 hours on tutor classes everyday after school was trained to manage her time well in order to complete her school work as well. Throughout her education journey, she have failed twice and eventually got to know herself better. She discovered study and working methods that would work and wouldn't work for her. Till this day, she did not regret taking 12 subjects as it really helps her in managing her workload in university.
As she was surrounded by tons of really smart and hardworking students in class, she felt left out in the beginning as she wasn't able to catch up and understand as fast as the other students could. This is where she begin competitive as a person, in a good way, to improve herself. She started to raise more questions in class she it saves up her time in trying to understand a certain matter. She participated in extra classes and joined study groups on the weekend. All the efforts are paid off as she manage to score 11A's in the final examination before she graduate. Till now, her work ethics developed from her high school have brought forward to college.
She is very uch a "night owl" as she realize she is more productive working alone in midnight when everyone is sound asleep. This is also one of the ways she got to finish her school work quicker, by sacrificing her sleeping time. However, she have started to developed migraine frequently due to the lack of sleep and the amount of stress.
As mentioned the above, you might be able to guess that she might not be the most extroverted person you will imagine as she rarely spends time with her friends outdoor, partying or so on. She, however plays piano to release her stress.
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Born as a more artistic child, she loves to draw and make crafts. As seen in the pictures are 2 dolls that she have hand crafted with clay. The second doll (middle) was inspired by Victoria Secret's Wing and the ancient Greek goddess, Athena. As seen on the right is a doodle of Lion that she randomly saw on Pinterest and decided to take out her pens to draw.
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The first fashion related movie that she saw was Project Runway. This movie inspired her to become a Fashion Designer for 10 years. She was once enrolled to study Fashion Design but stopped as she realized she do not enjoy the process of drafting and sewing but rather the marketing side of fashion. Watching short dramas like The Big Bang Theory which is 20 minutes per episode is perfect for her break time. She loves to catch on an episode when she feels burnt out and return to work after an episode feeling much better and fresh.
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Gossip Girl and The Great Gastby are two of the many films that she love watching just because of the styling and clothes in the movie. As a fashion student, she pays attention to the clothes used on set and how it reflects the character. These movies also inspired her to become a stylist.
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When she started to enroll her Degree course in Raffles, she was often required to do a photos hoot for most of her assignments. This is when she realize the amount of work and cost needed to put for a shoot to achieve a good result. As seen on the left is one of her first photo shoot image that she have done for her Fashion Journalism class. As seen on the right is her first every editorial photo shoot.
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Right after she graduated from Diploma, she volunteered / freelanced as a styling assistant for brands to gain experience. As seen above is the photo shoot for Louis Vuitton x Fragment 2017. It was a fun experience.
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During her Diploma days, she make use of her semester breaks and sign up for contracted jobs a brands she wish to work with in future. As seen both, she was working for the PR and communications department in Chanel as an intern. She learned and got a brief idea of what a PR & Communications do in a brand and what are they jobs life. During this period, she was in charge with press gifts, reporting monthly press coverage and so on.
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After graduating from her Diploma, she applied for an internship in FJ Benjamin for multiple brands such as Marc Jacobs, Celine, Loewe, Guess, La Senza and Superdry. She was a marketing intern responsible for monthly press report, organizing and managing events, creating social media content, answer customer's queries and so on.
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As seen on the left is the Marc Jacobs after party event. This was the first event that she helped out. As seen on the right is the Instagam page for La Senza. During her internship period, she created 2 months worth of content and schedule the postings liaising with the promotion period.
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Before she started her Degree again, she wanted to take a break and work in a local ice cream shop called Inside Scoop. This was one of her best decisions she made as she got to be around with such a loving group of people at the place she work. She continued her work even though her Degree life started as the really enjoys the positivity in her working space and works to release her stress from school work. Besides, she have built team work and critical thinking skills while working as a barista as she faces a lot of unexpected situations at work.
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After she completed her Degree, she is interested in looking for jobs to be a fashion stylist, marker or buyer as she have developed some interest of the jobs from her Degree course.
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Lastly, to end this Pecha Kucha. She wish to travel more in future as she loves to explore and experience a different lifestyle in different countries. She promised to her late mother that one day she will bring her to Paris with her hard earned money as her mother has not have the opportunity to travel oversea for once in her lifetime. Unfortunately, she can't be fulfilling her promise anymore, however, this doesn't discourage her to travel more. As seen above, London is one of her favourite city at this moment and she wishes to revisit again.
Thank You,
Renee Wong
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