Who is he?
I’m Nicholas, also known Dejiki on the internet. I’m currently an undergraduate at the National University of Singapore. Although I’ve trained to be an Interactive Media Designer in the past few years, I’ve decided to take a break with the visual/creative side and broaden my knowledge on communications and media theories.
This blog is created because I have found several new hobbies and interests in my teenage years and I wish to write about them. I have had many blogs before this but it has been fragmented – sometimes I talk too much about myself and sometimes I seem to write about totally irrelevant stuff.
So here I am again, scribbling (or typing) about some things that don’t usually seem on the same page. I might compose an entry about the latest technological innovations (and personal acquisitions), plus another on interesting designer products. Perhaps it will become like MONOCLE, but without the serious sections. I love to write about events I’ve attended or new places I’ve discovered – in great detail. Almost all the time, I would quickly put them all together with nice photos, and publish a field report/trip log/review within hours.
Sometimes there might be posts with a lot of detail or information (particularly reviews). I have specifically typed those entries up to consolidate what I know and help visitors who have chanced upon my blog from search engines.
I did not grow up with the usual sort of traditional toys, say Hot Wheels and Lego. I had an interest in music, but my parents refused to let me learn. In the end, I played with broken electronic gadgets lying around the house. One day, my parents gave me this Meccano set which let me build things and combine some scrap parts with it. My toy box, simply put, was filled with tools, nuts and bolts and bits of metal and plastic. My birthday present when I was 12 was a failing Dell laptop that my Dad got for $200 which I had more fun repairing, than actually using it. Perhaps it was good that I did not learn music in the end, as I discovered my other, far more important talents.
I’ve had many great experiences and met many awesome people over the past few years, who have greatly influenced what I’ve been doing recently. I have to thank Ilyana (of Tea-Noir fame) for annoying me so much encouraging me to get this new blog started.
Areas of Interest
- Art+Culture: The finer things in life that I love to indulge myself in. Art festivals, exhibitions, performing arts, food and designer products.
- Gadgetry: Some of the latest and greatest objects that we wear, consume and sometimes worship.
- Life: The occasional thoughts and experiences about school and personal life.
- Neue: There is always that something new that doesn’t quite belong with the rest, yet.
- Photography: A hobby sparked off recently, photography interest entries will be mainly photo journals/trip logs and possibly some about optical glass.
- Theme parks: This is the wild-card, since having a Universal Studios in the country has made a childhood interest become a full-blown obsession.
- Travel: Whenever I have a chance to get out of Singapore, I will post my trip logs.
