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I used to really enjoy cooking when I was back home and would try to make a meal atleast once or twice a week. Since coming to London I have only been ordering food or eating out which has negatively impacted my health. I've been missing quite a lot of classes due to being very ill and sometimes it has been due to food poisoning and the change of weather.

Cooking more home meals would be really comforting regarding the fact I am very homesick, fortunately I have my uncle and friends who really enjoy cooking and have given a hand to help me achieve a better healthier lifestyle.

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First meal we cooked

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Feeling homesick and my uncle invited us over to cook some Cambodian food

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Cooking with friends who also wanted to learn how to cook more

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Making bao buns with friends who cooks well

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Making brunch - eating breakfast for the first time in a year

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Friends baking night, we learned how to make cinnamon rolls!

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More homemade homesick meals

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Making smores

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x 5 Key strengths

1. Original research

2. Managing workload

3. Visual communication

4. Managing stress

5. Drawing

x 5 Further development

1. Time management/Organization

2. Wellbeing/Eating healthier

3. Confidence

4. Sewing skills

5. Industry insights + Developing ideas

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Taking the Iresilience test I've seen quite a lot of factors that hinders my resilience, this is very important since there is currently lots of workloads to be completed in a week and managing my level of stress will be needed to be controlled in order to effectively complete tasks

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Simple noodles with friends

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Visiting home for a few days on November 16th to November 19th. During my visit back home I spent most of my time with my family which I missed and went with my grandpa to hospital in Singapore. I felt very grateful to be back home even just for a few days since I've been very homesick and have feel very unmotivated.

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Meeting my favourite cousins!

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Seeing the difference in my moods with the comparison on London and Cambodia it is vastly different. I think its due to not having any family here while I'm quite family orientated and have never lived so independently before which has been very challenging. Though I do have friends from back home at London and we have all been settling in better here at London even tho its been a month or two and have all had more time to spend time with eachother.

Continuing I want to be able to spend time independently without feeling alone since I've been very dependent on my friends here at London.

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During my visit home I went to Singapore and there I visited the Singapore National Museum.

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I had visited Tate Modern Museum for gathering more inspirations and ideas for future developments throughout the course

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Colour is something I rarely incorporate into my works, if there is colour they would usually be very monochromatic. I want to start creating pieces and gathering inspirations for future projects by utilizing many different colours that would compliment eachother.

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Cool styling and photoshoot inspirations through paintings

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Hanging sculptures made of recycled wastes, quite eerie but beautiful!

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Curvilinear lines

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I love photography though I'm not the best at shooting and using a camera, these photographs gave a few inspirations for my white project shoot and editing, using dark exposure to emphasize whiteness and lines.

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Something about this artwork is really cool

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Something about this artwork is really cool

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An area for further development that I wanted to improve on through this PLP task is developing greater ideas. Visiting museums is one of the greatest ways to gain for insights on artists thought processes and work, which is best to learn. I found visually learning a lot more resourceful than literary texts, this museum visit sparked lots of ideas of how I can play with textiles and my own background and interests into my works. Some artworks were quite minimal but creates an emphasis on concepts that were effectively communicated through their use of mediums and ways they were presented.

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I really enjoyed this museum, working on the White project I was quite stuck with creating design developments outside of my comfort zone. Learning about textiles and experimenting with them is something I want to further develop and hone throughout the course. The exhibit showcased how powerful and effective different textiles can be and I would like to integrate this into future projects. This visit has definitely improved my ability to develop much more interesting silhouettes for the white project and ways I can incorporate my three strands of research into a much more concise and effective manner.

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Visiting after completing the White Project

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Visiting after completing the White Project

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Evaluation

Tate Modern is a lovely museum, the artworks were very modern and conceptual which is something I want to embed more into my work. Despite modern art being quite minimal and simplistic it creates lots of interesting ideas for visitors to imagine and understand. Sometimes very little can often spark more thoughts.

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Before coming to Ravensbourne, I took an IB visual arts course which heavily emphasizes gaining inspirations from artists. This has been dismissed in my white project which I believe have kind of set me back and I was quite closed with my ideas. During the course (IB Arts) I felt as if my artworks were a lot more effective and powerful. Therefore, I wanted to bring back this emphasis on art inspiring my work in my next project.

I wanted to visit museums with less fashion incorporated into it, this is because I often find myself only visiting and gaining inspirations from other designers silhouettes but forgetting that my own research and ideas are far more valuable and important. The museum brought me lots of inspirations of textiles, colours and shapes which I want to bring into further projects. Moving on I will further visit more art museums here in London to gain more inspirations from art itself.

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Improving my sewing skills by having my friend tutor me

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Improving my sewing skills by having my friend tutor me

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Evaluation

Studying fashion design so far has been quite challenging for me, my skills are very limited sewing wise. I am quite an inpatient person and this has been shown through pieces in my white project. I felt like my skills pushed me back from creating pieces I wanted to produce.

I learnt a lot in the atelier class although I find it very intimidating to learn with so many talented people surrounding me, I was very behind and would mess up many of the tutorials they taught us. Sometimes I would dread going to the manufacturing classes because of my skill sets. Though being around lots of talented people have made me want to become a lot better and therefore pushed me to start getting tutored outside of class.

I wanted to improve so therefore I asked my friend kindly if she could help tutor me and teach me some sewing skills. She was able to teach me a lot in a pace and environment that was comfortable for me. We made shorts that I design for my white project, I was unable to take photos during the class since my phone died🥲.

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Shorts worn under my white project garment

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Shorts worn under my white project garment

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The class was very insightful, I learnt basic skills that was also taught in the manufacturing classes but on a domestic machine.

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I went to this class since I wanted to better learn how to use a domestic machine, this class achieved just that!

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The tutoring was really beneficial for me, not only did it teach me how to make more sleek garments but I was also able to incorporate it into my final white project piece. The skirt was also a lot more well made than the rest of the garment.

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I had missed the manufacturing invisible zip class although my friend had taught me how to!

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I havent been eating so healthy and it has been affecting me both mentally and physically. I have already been to the hospital several times since being in London and the doctors have kept telling me to eat vegetables!!

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Missing home after coming from home🥲

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I've been learning to cook a lot more from friends who are very talented. Through this I felt like I'm a lot more healthier and energetic and have not been to the hospital in a while or gotten really sick.

I have also learnt how to make more traditional food while visiting home and brought those skills to London. This made me miss home but also brought me a lot of comfort.

I've also drastically reduced my spending and made food equally as good and a lot healthier!

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Taking the iresilience test has made me reflect and how there's so many factors that has hinder me. The test was very accurate and reflects my mindset at the moment. I've been feeling very unconfident and unmotivated the past few weeks and want these to change.

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Learning about Karl Lagerfeld's field of inspiration

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Reflective Learning Evaluation - Museum Visit/Developing ideas

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Reflective Learning Evaluation - Museum Visit/Developing ideas

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Reflective Learning - Rave Late/Sewing skills

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Reflective Learning - Rave Late/Sewing skills