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Time flies, this post will be my last post for my eDesign blog. The end of Environmental Design subject is coming soon too. Two blog posts per week, there're 18 posts (include this post) in this blog. I would like to do a conclusion for my eDisgn blog.

This blog is one of my Environmental Design subject's assignments. I have been blogging for 9 weeks. I felt that I had improved some knowledge through blogging. This is because I had to search on the internet during blogging as I need to know and get more data or information of my selected topics. I had learnt and gained a lot of knowledge from those information.

I had shared my childhood's hero, favorite cartoon, novel and history, mobile phone, song, movie and etc. Besides that, I had blogged about the three topics which given by my lecturer, "The Navigation Design", "Murphy's Law in Design" and "Container as Content".

Overall, I like the song sharing's post, "At the beginning" the most. Why? As what I stated in that post, the lyrics of the song is meaningful which talked about the development of our right attitude in our lives. Be brave! Be strong!

Lastly, I would like to say "goodbye" to eDesign Blog. Thank you for giving me a place to share and vent out my feeling!

I have few friends study oversea after both of us graduated from secondary school. Some of them in America, China, Russia or England. It's hard to meet with them because of the far distance. But, I still can see and communicate with them. By using Skype, I can either voice or video call them easily.

Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice calls and chats over the Internet. Skype has become popular for its additional features like instant messaging and video conferencing. It allows users to communicate through both instant messaging and voice chat. Voice chat allows calls between pairs (or above) of users and conference calling, same to video conferencing.

Skype give us a convenience of communication, so that I can contact and communicate with my overseas friends easily. I can know about their latest news eventhough we are not in the same place. Skype is a successful invention of software application.

When I was a child, there was a popular TV game, Mario. He is a fictional character in his eponymous video game series. Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his creation. Currently, Mario appears in varied video game genres such as racing, puzzle, role-playing, fighting, and sports. It is still very popular until nowaday.

Mario is depicted as a short, pudgy, Italian-American plumber who lives in the Mushroom Kingdom. He repeatedly stops the turtle-like villain Bowser's numerous plans to kidnap Princess Peach and subjugate the Mushroom Kingdom. He has other enemies and rivals, including Donkey Kong and Wario.

It is a funny and interesting game. I played this game together with my sister and brother when we were young. Mario was our favorite game and gave us a happy childhood.

I believe that the most popular social networking service is Facebook nowaday. As of January 2011, Facebook has more than 600 million active users. My friends, coursemates and even myself, are Facebook's users. Why Facebook can be so famous? I think this is because we can know the latest news of the friends we had added in Facebook through this social networking service. For me, I met with my old friends in Facebook. We connect and contact with each others through Facebook.

Facebook has a lot of application. Users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests, contact information, and other personal information, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Besides that, users may join common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, and other characteristics.

I like to communicate with friends and other users through private or public messages and a chat features. Also, my another favorite application, Photos application, where I can upload albums and photos. I can upload an unlimited number of photos. Photo albums are the sweet memories between me and my family, and also my friends.

As what I wrote on the previous post, I like Chinese historical novel. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", is one of the most popular historical novels of China. This novel was written by Luo Guanzhong in the 14th century, based on the events in turbulent years near the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history.

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is acclaimed as one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, while the rest are "Water Margin", "Journey to the West" and "Dream of the Red Chamber". Among four of the novels, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is arguably the most widely read historical novel in late imperial and modern China.

The novel has 120 chapters, which can divide the story as the titles below:

1. Yellow Turban Rebellion
2. Dong Zhuo's reign of terror
3. Conflict among the various warlords and nobles
4. Sun Ce builds a dynasty in Jiangdong
5. Liu Bei's ambition
6. Battle of Red Cliffs
7. Liu Bei's takeover of Yi Province
8. Death of Guan Yu
9. Battle of Xiaoting
10. Zhuge Liang's campaigns
11. End of the Three Kingdoms

I finished the novel when I was in form 3. I gained a lot of knowledge from the novel, even learnt a good lesson. I admire those heros in the novel, because they were willing to sacrifice their lives for protecting their own countries and kings.

The author - Pu Songling

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What is Murphy's law? Based on wikipedia.com, Murphy's law is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong". It is a quite funny and special statement. Why I said so? This is because Murphy's laws is:

1. If anything can go wrong, it will.
2. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
3. If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
4. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
5. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
6. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

...and etc. (sources from:http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-laws.html)

Then, what will happen if Murphy's law apply in design?

First, the fonts will default. If you have 2 versions of a photo, you will send the wrong one to the printer. Then, if the text consists of 3 and above words, at least one will be misspelled. If 5 designs are shown to a client, your least favorite will be chosen and the best designs never survive contact with the client. Besides that, your best ideas is already copyrighted. When work with a computer, any given program duting running, is obsolete. If you forget to save your work every 5 minutes, it will break down after you have been at it for an hour.

In a conclusion, if there's a Murphy's law when you are designing, you are having a bad luck!