Thursday, August 12, 2010

Random word/ image association

From the lecture this week by Mr. Radzi Bedu, I have learned a new topic about Random Association. Random Association is a random word technique, the most basic and creative way to generate new ideas.

In this technique, random word are used to solve a problem. By forcing ourself to create a solution from a random word, we will be able to generate more ideas from different directions.

In conclusion, this technique is a good way to force us generate ideas.


Personal Reflection:

In my opinion, once again, Mr. Radzi Bedu had demonstrated brilliantly in introducing a new topic which is about Random Association. By giving an example of his journey from his home to FCM, we get the principle of this method easily.

The exercises for this topic are also suitable and I really learned a lot and understood on how the random word technique used.

In conclusion, this technique is good to be used by whoever that can't find idea in the moment by forcing themselves to find idea from a random word.

Random Association is an idea generation method which allows students to systematically generate new ideas through a fixed formula. The whole premise of Random Association is to use a Random Word to provoke a reaction from the brain.


How does it work?

The brain is an efficient self-organising system, and very good at making connections. Almost any random word will stimulate ideas on the subject. Follow the associations and functions of the stimulus word, as well as using aspects of the word as a metaphor.




Random Association Exercise


Random Association Exercise by Mr Radzi:


1)Situation/ problem

How to make a person stop smoking in 6 months time?
Random word: Traffic light



2)Situation/ problem

To create “SCARY IMAGES or OBJECT” that will instill fear among people through out the ages.

Random word: Kitten.





Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Analogy exercise :)



Ice cream just like pain.
Ice cream will gives us instantly cold,
but in the other hand,
will gives us a sense of happiness.
Just one word,
don't be inpatient,
or else you will get the pain!



Life is like a cup of coffee,
A very heavy coffee need time to brewed
and a light coffee just need a few minutes to brewed.
Life just like coffee,the longer you brewed the thicker the happiness you got.

Love is just like chili.
You know it's spicy but still want to get a try.
You will either get hurt or happiness.
But when you addicted,
when you wish to run,
love still hold you on,
and get you crazy!

Love is just like a cotton candy.
First bite it will gives you the feeling of happiness,
full with surprise and sweetness.
But,when time passed,
cotton candy will become hard and unpleasant.
Just like love,
if you don't preserve LOVE with love and care,
it will end up like hard cotton candy
and end up you will throw it.


Life is like time.
Hour,Minutes and seconds are running as the time are running.
Just like life,
we dunno what will happen the next second.
So cherish every seconds as we live :)

Women are like diamond.
They are precious and elegant.
They will never be defeat by any difficulties to let them broken.
They are elegant and their price are priceless.

Women are like rose.
Not only red rose,but also rose that going to wilt.
Women are strong,
although they are going to die,
they still will stand still with their elegant and elitist.