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The Golf Experience

"Focus on how you hit the ball than the result"

There I was in the Pakuwon Driving Range. The first lesson was to pick the right stick for a beginner as me. My Instructor let me choose any stick in the bag, but he recommends that I use the number seven or eight. As far as I can remember, he told me that the smaller the number the longer the stick would be and the harder it gets to use. So I picked number eight as recommended.

Since the beginning, he told me that I have to use my left hand to hit the ball while the right is just for assisting. When I use my right hand to hit the ball (I have been a righty as long as I live), I always end up hitting the golf stick to the mat and missed the ball. If I focus on controlling my left hand and let my right hand out of my attention, I will, most of the time, hit the ball and made the beautiful 'woot' sound as the stick lightly touched the mat.

My job is not done. In order to deliver the ball curvely, I have to pay my attention to hit the ball. Focus on the ball and not on the result. More than twenty times in a 150 balls game, he kept on reminding me to keep looking at the ball even when I have done a half way swing(When the iron staff almost touched the ball).

If there is a beginning and a middle, it has to have an end. Before a swing, we have to choose the right stick. In the process of a swing, left hand and focus are the main thing and to close a good swing, we have to make a 'big' swing. I tend to close my swing quickly. This means that right after I hit the ball, I eagerly search for where the ball had landed and forget about the swing. This will make my swing smaller than it should. A small swing will not hit the ball straight and far.
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I realized that all these golf's 'golden rules' speak in my other things too. Sometimes in work/school/any other social places, we have to use our left hand. Meaning that we work together with people we don't really know/comfortable with might leads to better outcome than we worked with people we always work with.

Focus on the process, even tough it seems so sure. Focus till the end of the process/forcus till the job is done. I tend to look for the 'glory' behind the job, and that tends to drag the results down. Same goes with the closing of the swing. Seemed nothing could go wrong, and I overlooked it. Well, that cause my ball to go out of line, hit the fence and roll to the ground.

And when the swing is done, relax, we still have enough time to look where the ball will land because we have done a good full swing.

This is my golf experience.



Ivo Christa
July-August Summer '09
Picture of Tiger wood its not mine, taken from google image and it belong to its owner

Similarity between 1982 and 2009

"There are innumerable tax loopholes that help the rich but are without relevance for the poor and bail-outs for corporations and protection for industries when the workers' wages are far above the average for American industry.
~ Mancur Olson on Inequality, Discrimination, and Development pg. 174 of The Rise and Decline of nations (1982)

And yet this resembles 2009 bail-outs and current situation.

Who Benefit From Recession?

This Video was uploaded on April 03, 2008
Listen at 1.24 duration



This marketing person was trying to publicize Burgatti's new car type 'Hermes'which costs more than $1.7 M.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/08/economics

Poster - Soldiers of Conscience

A Poster I designed for Seattle Central Community College's film series events. Since there are a lot of text needed to be put up, I cramped all on the right side, occupying most of the poster.
Date: 1 October 2007

Tools: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Mac


A great documentary film by Question of Conscience LLC.
http://www.socfilm.com/

*Picture taken is from the website, and belong to their respective owner
*The College activities Board logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership Division

Poster - The Trials of Darryl Hunt

A Poster I designed for Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership Event. There are a lot of text that have to be put on the poster thats why text occupies the poster more than the picture. The background is a sample form for convicts, i cleaned it and put the text on it.
Date: 1 October 2007

Tools: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Mac











*Picture(s) taken is from the search engine, and belong to their respective owner(s)
*Logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership

Poster - Basketball League

A Poster I designed for Seattle Central Community College Charles H. Mitchell Activity Center. The first basketball league in the college held by the activity center. I purposely made the image stands out more than the text to catch people's attention.
Date: January 2008

Tools: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Mac










*Picture(s) taken is from the search engine, and belong to their respective owner(s)
*The College activities Board logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership Division

Poster - Commitees

A Poster I designed for Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership's Committees. The purpose of the poster is to inform the student body that there are openings for getting involve in the campus.
Date: Unknown (I could not remember the exact date)

Tools: Illustrator CS2, PC










*Logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership

Poster - Film Series Committee

A Poster I designed for Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership Film Series Committee. To catch people attention, I emphasis on the word 'Everyone is welcome'. The picture on top of the words is a camera lens cartoonized to create an interesting image.
Date: Unknown (I could not remember the exact date)

Tools: Illustrator CS2, PC








*The College activities Board logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership

Poster - Teaser for Unity fair

A Teaser Poster I designed for Seattle Central Community College College Activities Board events. I put the date and time as well as the location in the center of the poster to catch reader's attention to the events.
Date: 5 May 2007

Tools: Illustrator CS2, Mac







*College Activities Board Logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership

Brochure - Apparel Drive

Brochure I designed for Seattle Central Community College Indonesian Club. As a way to say thanks for people who donate to the Indonesian Club's Winter clothing drive.

Date: 20 January 2008

Tools: Illustrator CS2, Mac



*Logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership

Bookmark - Indonesian Club

Bookmarks I designed for Seattle Central Community College Indonesian Club. As a way to say thanks for people who donate to the Indonesian Club's Winter clothing drive.

Date: 20 March 2008

Tools: Illustrator CS2, Mac

Poster - Lunar New Year

A Poster I designed for Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership events. I put the date and time as well as the location in the center of the poster to catch reader's attention to both events.
Date: 25 january 2008

Tools: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Mac










*Picture(s) taken is from the search engine, and belong to their respective owner(s)
*Logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership

Poster - ASC Associate

A Poster designed for Seattle Central Community College Associate Student Council together with my colleague Duong Tran. He was a newly trained graphic designer at that time, and I was told to train him for his first task. Everything was his design (with some adjustments) other than the shadow with 'wanted' sign was mine.
Date: 27 October 2007 (approx.)

Tools: Illustrator CS2, PC





*Picture(s) taken is from the search engine, and belong to their respective owner(s)
*The Associate Student Council logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership

Poster - Hoop Dreams II

A Poster I designed for Seattle Central Community College Student Activity Center (Charles H. Mitchell Activity Center). The purpose of this poster is to ask students to come and watch the game. I put the date and time as well as the location in the center of the poster to catch reader's attention, not to forget the FREE sign.
Date: 29 November 2007

Tools: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Mac









*Picture(s) taken is from the search engine, and belong to their respective owner(s)
*The College activities Board logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership Division

Poster - My Seattle Central Blog

A Poster I designed for Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership's blog. I made the layout looks like the web browser with the Central Blog opened in the middle. Green used to be the main theme of the blog as well. Bullets points indicate the benefits taken by visiting the blog.

Date: 7 March 2008

Tools: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Mac


*The address of the blog: www.myseattlecentral.com
*Picture taken is from the website, and belong to their respective owner
*The College activities Board Central Blog logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership Division

Brochure - Valentine's Day

A brochure I designed for Seattle Central Community College's Student Leadership Event. My targeted student group were female students in the college that is why the brochure's theme is pink. Since there are a lot of international students in the college, I decided to draw Japanese comic style to attract that population.
Date: 11 February 2008

Tools: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Mac


*The Student Leadership logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership Division

Poster - Hoop Dreams I

A Poster I designed for Seattle Central Community College Student Activity Center (Charles H. Mitchell Activity Center). Since the title of the event is Hoop Dreams, Itried to make the poster looked dreamy by doing gradient for the background. I purposely made the image stands out more than the text.
Date: 26 November 2007

Tools: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Mac









*Picture(s) taken is from the search engine, and belong to their respective owner(s)
*The College activities Board logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership Division

Poster - China Blue

A Poster I designed for Seattle Central Community College's film series events. I kept the information part simple, so that the reader can focus on the title, date, time, and location itself.
Date: 7 March 2008

Tools: Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Mac












A great documentary film by Teddybearfilm
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chinablue/

*Picture taken is from the website, and belong to their respective owner
*The College activities Board logo belong to Seattle Central Community College Student Leadership Division