Year of Learning

2014, Time has passed 14 days without waiting for anyone. If you live aimlessly so far, then life had wasted and shorten 14 days already. Lately, I keep finding what to do in 2014, beside working hard, something ought to be done.

My church encourages us to read the whole bible, they come out a motivation plan to challenge us to complete the reading of the whole bible by May 2014, then we journal what we learned in a book which later submit to Pastor for review. Church will reward whoever complete the challenge.

Woo ... that isn't easy because one bible has 66 books, if divided by 5 months, I need to finish 13.2 books averagely per month. If count by chapter, with 1,189 chapters, I need to accomplish 8 chapters per day.

Sound easy, isn't it ? Definite not! To do that, it involves a lot of discipline and persistence to do that. Nevertheless, I will try my best, after all, the more I read, the better I anchor myself in the word of God. Henceforth, I decided to give it a try la ... 

Beside bible reading, I wanted to start off a business to give training or to develop of website design on part time basis, hoping the sideline business can help me a bit financially, who know if God willing, it can be flourished into an online business that give me a steady income. However, I still think my knowledge and skill are limited. So this year, is the year of learning and upgrade myself in these areas, typically in graphic design and webdesign skill.

The best place to learn all these with lesser cost will be in Youtube. I have found many generous people in Youtube that are willing to share their knowledge and skill. Thank to these wonderful people and I started picking up pieces here and there to improve myself.

In fact, I have learned something yesterday from Lesa Snider who is famous in graphic design, she has shared "4 secrets of great design" in graphic design in Youtube. which is 

•  Proximity - Group related items together
•  Alignment - Create Visual Connection
•  Repetition - Repeat element throughout piece
•  Contrast - Make unrelated items different 

 

I was impressed with her simple and easy to understand presentation, she gave me ideas and what went wrong in my design. Unfortunately, she stay the other side of the world, otherwise, I would love to attend her session.

For many people, youtube is a place for fun and gossip place, people spend many hours looking for funny stuff, but I see the serious site of youtube and it is for sure a hidden treasure for many people.