Lovely yogurt

Try to buy some healthy food and I was attracted by their illustration. I bet they are not very healthy, but they will make me feel happier and healthier mentally :)

Kongkee

I like Kongkee's works very much because his works recalled me a lot of interesting daily life in Hong Kong. He is so kind and inspired me to make my first DIY book at YMCA... The frequent conversation between us was 'You are busy, right?'...haha. I am happy to know '29s', since the team encouraged many young people to start their own creations and move toward to their dreams :)

Here is the interview (Jul-2012, HIM/CarPlus magazine) shared by him: P.1 / P.2

You are the one

Dearest Peko, do you know that I am desperate every time I draw your hair? So difficult to keep you consistent in each image...I'd only persuade myself that you are the unique and only one to me T^T

MA Illustration Show at Camberwell

http://www.facebook.com/events/436905833019311/

http://www.camberwellillustration.co.uk/Jasmine-Fung

I'd like to invite you all in London, or outside London to visit our graduation show at Camberwell College of Arts, Peckham Road, SE5 8UF and open 10-8 weekdays, 11-7 saturday (closed Sunday). And welcome to visit the links above for more information. See you ^^

Bamboo field in Kew Garden

Peko and Pudo are born in UK, with lots of plants.

Green from Kew

Yesterday, my grandfather gave Mr Penguin a ball of grass and his hand sewn Mexican hat.

Life

It should be spiritual

I will be a graduate at Camberwell

http://www.camberwellillustration.co.uk/Jasmine-Fung

Times flies and I am setting up for the graduation show. It is first my graduate show in my life. I feel sorry to skip my BA one at PolyU because of another design show with my classmates...

Thanks Ruchi, my fellow classmate, kept helping me to improve my display area. I have done many things, but I could not present it rightly in my exhibition area...It looks empty :(

I will futher work it out and hopefully it will be alright. Be confident... :D

Tiny DIY books

I have made a few books for my friends, but all of them are in Chinese at this moment. I will make more with my remaining resources at home :)

Observe

A little universe

Making the dust jacket of the book

Done!

It seems that my MA project has been finished. These are my business card, storybook and a reflective journal on the final show table. I was worrying until I have finished making the dust jacket for the book yesterday...Complicated, relieved, but I have to revise it later...hope it will be better before I presented it  to the publishers. It was a tough process from creating story and characters, selection of art materials, revision of stories and art direction to printing and binding...anyway, I learnt and enjoyed it a lot. Another '自發作' 4 years after my last DIY book :)

I hope the readers will like it...and so do the publishers. Keep fingers crossed~

Lavender field

Somewhere we live

About national education

This only reflects my personal feeling towards National Education. It is a sharing, and you are welcome to have your personal point of view.

One country, two systems…there are a lot of differences between Hong Kong and China. I don’t feel that I am 100% Chinese, or British (I was born before 1997). I prefer to write my nationality ‘Hong Kong’. I am living in a mixture of Eastern and Western cultures from my childhood, a place which has been ruled by Britain and now belongs to China.

It is not difficult to find that most of the people in Hong Kong are against the coming National Education. I found there were a lot of arguments between Mainland Chinese and Hongkongers, towards their cultural values. There are good and bad people in all cities.

I could not agree National Education is completely bad, since the Canadian education is doing well on this subject. The main point is the objective of this subject, and so on the direction of the syllabus. Why did the Government(s) impose this subject to us? What are the backgrounds of those people who write the syllabus and what are the study criteria, and what will be the marking criteria?

In my generation, we studied the famous Chinese articles in secondary school and we have Chinese cultural study in A-level. We had same number of Chinese history and Western history lessons every week. We were encouraged to write essay to analyze what happened in different countries. However, the approach of National Education gave us the impression that it will be a ‘brainwashing’ education. We have to love our so-called motherland.

I am a Chinese (Hong Kong is inevitably part of China geometrically), it came obvious when we compared ourselves with foreigners on our family bonding, diets, medicines, philosophies such as Confucius study and balance of Yin Yang. These are the traditional values from ancient China.

 ‘Culture embraces all the manifestations of social behavior of a community, the reactions of the individual as affected by the habits of the group in which he lives, and the product of human activities as determined by these habits’ (Franz Boas, 1930).

It is good to know more about a nation, but it is more important for us to see what’s happening in the whole world. Even in China, will we be allowed to see the whole picture, in their tradition and history, in different aspects? To learn that paper and printing were invented in China, and realize what totally happened in the Cultural Revolution without information hidden.

We are necessary to know history, and also learn from critical thinking and civil education. It is mandatory and complementary if we hope to improve our city. On the other hand, you’d also say ‘Hong Kong is the best’, but what are the supporting reasons, and in which aspects? Are there any comparison between Hong Kong and other cities?

What you haven’t seen doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist in the world. For both educators and students, we have to be neutral, but not explaining the culture of other cities with our own cultural value. This is applicable to other countries too. I met some people overseas who looked down other countries’ cultures without prior understanding. It only shows their arrogance and narrow mind. Every place has their good and bad things, based on their geometry, history, ethnicity, religion and economy. The culture goes around with these, and much more than these.

Meanwhile, we enquired if the education system nowadays fulfilling the teaching standard. I’ve heard that there is paper examination in Physical Education (sports) in primary school. It is miserable that the students can’t escape from the fate of academic results. They won’t be allocated to their favorite schools if they don’t have excellent results and piles of certificate of ‘leisure education’. The students as well as the teachers are pressured to achieve the outcome by getting high scores in this keen competition. So the ‘solution’ is standard answer, and students provide similar answers according to the marking scheme, while the study schedule is extremely tight in Hong Kong. There is not much chance to criticize and share freely in the courses. Diversity, possibility and flexibility in our studies are being questioned.

So, can we guarantee that the students can be allowed to analyze independently, argue and question what they have learnt from National Education? Or, they will only be allowed to provide the high graded stream answers, which the government hopes to listen? It’d be a struggle in other subjects, but the influence will be more serious in National Education. What happened if the students just simply said ‘there are lots of fake products in China’? And, there are more potential answers, which come up in our mind towards this country. I experienced very low mark when I haven’t supported religious belief on my paper in my secondary school, and it is common without reason. That was just writing about our feeling towards Christianity, liked diary. Religious belief should be personal.

It couldn’t be a short-term decision to put this subject up. If this ‘big country’ subject is coming, there should be ‘big education system’ and ‘strong educator’s instinct’ to support the students to learn and analyze with their maturity and prior knowledge on critical thinking. Can our government be daring to look at what the other countries doing? Or they think this nation is the center and powerful enough?

I believe the educators, students and parents have clear mind.

No no no no no

Never have national education in Hong Kong, please...

In the cave

I think I have entered a cave, where I could not able to watch Olympics opening. So, I decided to leave it by this train :D