User:Esther widjaja

Bio
Hi everyone, My name is Esther, I am from Indonesia and I am currently attending culinary arts program at AI.

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic : I always wanted to become an expert in culinary arts


 * Research Component


 * week 1


 * week 2


 * week 3

- Knowing what are the exact reasons of me wanting to do this? + i see people who are happy with what they eat (lunch, dinner, breakfast), they will positively all feel good about themselves and the environment around them. think about it! if you just had some crappy $20 lunch, you won't feel happy about it aren't you? and you are most likely won't have a very good day to yourself, and that affects the whole day. + there's nothing else more happier for me than seeing people turned happy as they go through the food i cook

- what is cooking to you?

+ it's an art, it's the time where you can go create something that you can surprised people with

+ it's an endless experiment, there are tons of ingredients out there you can mix and match, and you'll never know how it'll turned out to be.

- why you think this is what you always wanted to do? + i've always loved to cook since i was in elementary, i was horrible before, since i had no experience before and i mostly just do all by my self, and learn a lot from traveling with my dad while he was on business trip.

+ i've seen some friends actually enjoyed my cooking and how thrilled i am whenever i saw them go home with full stomach and happy face, and that's why i think that if I can make those people happy, why can't i do that to the others?


 * week 4

- practice the methodology, improves cutting and cooking skills - take notes from what you've learned before in or out the class, and do better than you did before.


 * week 5

- do some sort of group cooking work so that you can do some comparison to yours.


 * week 6

- be proactive in class, don't wait until the chef ask you, make a move. it's better to make mistakes at the beginning than ruin it in the very last minute.


 * week 7

- attend cooking seminars where they have experienced chef's showing up there. you'll learn a lot from the seminars based from these people's experienced.


 * week 8

- review all the recipes and methodology you've learned in class, putting all the notes together in one folder neatly is recomended.


 * Week 9

- I have finally completed all the steps required

Why Do I Like What I Like?
Eagle, 1971 - painted steel, by Alexander Calder. At a glance, this steel sculpture looks like an llama, but then, it started to looks like a person posing in a ballet position. However, among the other sculptures, this one attracts me the most with its own kind of characteristic. It grabbed my attention quite a while, but then I started to dislike it. I am personally don't like any object with no edges. like this sculpture, it has round edges. I don't know why but it's bothering me. I read some article about the designer. Alexander Calder was a quite enormous artist and I saw some of his creation and they were all pretty interesting, especially his wire sculpture works. those are creatively better than his painted steel at the park. Although most of his works were all put in together abstractly.

How Am I Manipulated?
This Durex advertisement is really smart. It was trying to tell the audience that this product is almost 101% safe, but I found this somehow misleading. More inexperienced people will trapped in free sex and involved in bigger problem like let's say, unexpected pregnancy? And still I was somehow attached and quite impressed of this commercial. and i think this is can be categorized as Negative-proof fallacy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bizJWtJ0xXo

For the fallacy, I can;t believe I actually heard this from my dad sometime last year when I met this family for holiday. I know this family are one of those family who dedicated too much of their life to church, they're just too much, then my dad was like trying to make a joke and said to me, "hang out as much as possible with the church community, other than that, you're considered as the weirdo'". I was like shocked and actually he got a point there, sucks but true though.

Self-Assessment
05/18 - I went to the sculpture park and actually had hard time choosing which sculpture I should dislike there. I had difficulties in not liking things, because they're art, and most arts are supposed to be look weird and unique.

06/01 - I still have problems contacting Stevens. I did found the information about his links sometimes ago and I couldn;t find it anymore now.

06/06 - now I'm confused about the presentation. I have no idea at all about what am I going to do with the "what i'd like to be" presentation.