we're going way too fast, it's all too sweet to last
It's pouring outside yet the room is way too hot my head goes into a haze.
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The internship finished, there's a few things I brought back with myself, some I left behind. The people I worked with were nice but that's all to it, it's done and I'm gone. Sentiment aside, I do learn a few good things, user-experience is such a tricky thing when corporate it to the aesthetic, the design principal in the studio focuses on how to create a user-centric product/service, make it intuitively comprehensible sans the pain point and frustration. To achieve this very ideally friendlier outcome, the process needs a careful consideration of information structure and strategy in how to approach the audience, that includes building up all the necessary transitional steps that naturally ease in the experience; and that where things tends to get really complicated in the process of trying to make other things easier. It's fun seeing the whole team pulling hair, skipping lunches/dinner date/family dinner, staying late, drowning in caffeine just to create something that actually focus on the sentiment side of the service. Of course the main purpose still boils down to selling the service better, it's an eye-opening experience for a fresh-faced undergrad with little knowledge under her belt like me. Other than that, I do love the sunlit studio and the kitchen full of freshly-baked bread and organic snack always ready for afternoon tea break.
Sunlit studio, my desk is the second on on the right row. They also grow some herbs by the window.
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The last day, everyone waved me off as I left and with a stuffed backpack I ran to the bus stop heading straight to Canberra for the weekend. This impromptu weekend getaway seems to be my thing lately, it's exciting and sort of fit into my now tight-schedule life. Last semester of the very last academic year, I'm having mixed feeling about the whole leaving student life and joining the workforce but anyway, upon arrival in Canberra, I went for Snowy mountain just to get a few things in my year resolution list crossed out before another year comes, so yeah, NOW I KNOW WHAT SNOW IS :")
It was fun, except for the fact that I was unprepared for the freezing cold so I ended up with a borrowed oversized male bomber jacket which practically makes me look like a giant penguin. But after a few round of running under the blazing sun, that many layers seem to be uncalled for. I do wish I knew how to ski though...
Hours traveling on the coach back to Canberra was tiresome and we have to stay in an old all-guy condo which is typically unbearable for my OCD behavior: rubbish scattered all over the carpet, the trash was always full, there're this musty rising smell, the toilet is a nightmare and hot water isn't enough for 3 extra girls. Despite all that, the guys who kindly offered their beds for us a whole weekend were practically a bundle of joy. They cracked us up so much we had to gasp for oxygen, harmless sex jokes and wife joke is pretty much the regular on the table, they're all married if that explains. They're what I'd say a example of real life nerds and geeks, they stay close to their community and pretty awkward outside the circle but their head is a matrix of information and knowledge, full of wit and wisdom. I do have a knack of getting to knon these types which I think is quite comical in a way, guess somehow I have a geek radar implanted lol
Canberra is like a hidden capital in the forest, time flows much slower than the outside world, winter in this place feels like an elongated autumn, red and grayish-green, a tinge iciness in the wind but only enough to blush the cheeks. It's picturesque and dreamy, sort of like Levitan's famous autumn landscape.
There wasn't much impressive architectural sites to see beside the Parliament house and the War Memorial so I spent most of my time admire the scenery and serenity of the city. It's calm and I feel genuinely content for the first time after a while.
It's a sweet city, as sweet as cupping a hot cappuccino takeaway in a breezy day, breathing out puff of smoke and jumping on dry crunchy leaves.
.
The internship finished, there's a few things I brought back with myself, some I left behind. The people I worked with were nice but that's all to it, it's done and I'm gone. Sentiment aside, I do learn a few good things, user-experience is such a tricky thing when corporate it to the aesthetic, the design principal in the studio focuses on how to create a user-centric product/service, make it intuitively comprehensible sans the pain point and frustration. To achieve this very ideally friendlier outcome, the process needs a careful consideration of information structure and strategy in how to approach the audience, that includes building up all the necessary transitional steps that naturally ease in the experience; and that where things tends to get really complicated in the process of trying to make other things easier. It's fun seeing the whole team pulling hair, skipping lunches/dinner date/family dinner, staying late, drowning in caffeine just to create something that actually focus on the sentiment side of the service. Of course the main purpose still boils down to selling the service better, it's an eye-opening experience for a fresh-faced undergrad with little knowledge under her belt like me. Other than that, I do love the sunlit studio and the kitchen full of freshly-baked bread and organic snack always ready for afternoon tea break.
Sunlit studio, my desk is the second on on the right row. They also grow some herbs by the window.
.
The last day, everyone waved me off as I left and with a stuffed backpack I ran to the bus stop heading straight to Canberra for the weekend. This impromptu weekend getaway seems to be my thing lately, it's exciting and sort of fit into my now tight-schedule life. Last semester of the very last academic year, I'm having mixed feeling about the whole leaving student life and joining the workforce but anyway, upon arrival in Canberra, I went for Snowy mountain just to get a few things in my year resolution list crossed out before another year comes, so yeah, NOW I KNOW WHAT SNOW IS :")
It was fun, except for the fact that I was unprepared for the freezing cold so I ended up with a borrowed oversized male bomber jacket which practically makes me look like a giant penguin. But after a few round of running under the blazing sun, that many layers seem to be uncalled for. I do wish I knew how to ski though...
Hours traveling on the coach back to Canberra was tiresome and we have to stay in an old all-guy condo which is typically unbearable for my OCD behavior: rubbish scattered all over the carpet, the trash was always full, there're this musty rising smell, the toilet is a nightmare and hot water isn't enough for 3 extra girls. Despite all that, the guys who kindly offered their beds for us a whole weekend were practically a bundle of joy. They cracked us up so much we had to gasp for oxygen, harmless sex jokes and wife joke is pretty much the regular on the table, they're all married if that explains. They're what I'd say a example of real life nerds and geeks, they stay close to their community and pretty awkward outside the circle but their head is a matrix of information and knowledge, full of wit and wisdom. I do have a knack of getting to knon these types which I think is quite comical in a way, guess somehow I have a geek radar implanted lol
Canberra is like a hidden capital in the forest, time flows much slower than the outside world, winter in this place feels like an elongated autumn, red and grayish-green, a tinge iciness in the wind but only enough to blush the cheeks. It's picturesque and dreamy, sort of like Levitan's famous autumn landscape.
There wasn't much impressive architectural sites to see beside the Parliament house and the War Memorial so I spent most of my time admire the scenery and serenity of the city. It's calm and I feel genuinely content for the first time after a while.
It's a sweet city, as sweet as cupping a hot cappuccino takeaway in a breezy day, breathing out puff of smoke and jumping on dry crunchy leaves.