'tis the season to be jolly... fa la la la la.

5 years of my academic life is seriously over. i'm currently in a twilight zone. post graduation isn't really exciting as i imagine it would be. another phase of my life has just ended, and now its time to just move along. can't hold up on the queue. there are a few things i've told my self to do just before the finals. a number of them are actually reading up the architectural books (non-graphical ones) i've purchased months ago. other agendas would be ofcourse job searching. in the meantime... me chill in KK till icy cold.

i've been thinking about relationships between engineers and architects. its a bitter rivalry. i always thought that when i become an architect, i will try my best to respect them engineers in there area of expertise. sadly to say i cant say the same for them. so far their obviously out to back stab us and trying to prove to us that we're dispensable. we're just a bunch of stupid profesionals who didn't do/ sucked in science and math. this has been a good warning for me before i start work, to learn not to give face to these engineers. its either because they hold some sort of a grudge on us or they just think they are far way too superior. whatever the reason is, all i need to know is to stay as far away from them and to treat them like shit whenever i've got the chance to do so. they are indeed a real "busy" bunch. never sleep and always on the move.

im going down town today... boxing day sales?!?!
i seriously need to update more...

do you prefer digging your... ear or nose?

been busy touching up and re-organising my portfolio. yup, this is it. here i come "real world"... i've still yet gotten the hang of post-uni life. somehow i still feel like theres another semester to go. 5 years of uni is really no joke. preparing to enter into a new chapter of my life is so troublesome. its back to the drawing board figuring out where and what the heck i should do next. every option sounds so tempting yet so worrying. its like picking A and regretting not picking B. hmmm... if deciding between A and B is so complicated... maybe i should pick C. but then, theres D... and E, F, G... etc.

anyway, cherries are back in season. i have not eaten bananas in months. wonder if my parents would be interested in cherry picking. for me, i prefer to just pick them from the market. yummylicious. i should try this new duck confit recipe. but the bad part is that it requires a heap load of olive oil.

tonight on tv... HowIMetYourMother/ MyNameIsEarl/ Bones/ JamieOliverAustralianDiary/ FamilyGuy. seriously i ain't addicted to tv.

glad Grant Hill is back and playing. he's not been playing a full season for almost 3 years. so far he's been starting all 10 games. please don't sprain anything. maybe the orlando magic has a shot for the championships... let alone the playoffs.

And, its almost a month before christmas.

new obsession...

someone has not been flushing the toilet downstairs after shishi. i wonder who could it be? its definitely a guy. i shall do a profile check on the unsub...
the juice was probably excreted through a phallus... as the seat was last seen lifted. (did you know that the word penis originally meant "tail" in latin. however, some say that it originates from the indo-european word pesos... then the spanish decided to name their currency... minusing the S. okay the 3rd part isn't true. or is it?!)

since australia has not yet begun screening season 3 of HOUSE (although i am getting a bit tired of the fella for now). i have discovered a new show... CRIMINAL MINDS! i just love profilers... don't you? this reminds me of my research paper on Criminology back in college. i think criminals are an interesting subject. but this doesnt mean that i'm actually brave enough to look at one in the eye. i know squat about them besides the fact that majority of killers have cave man features. another show that i wouldnt mind watching would be THE UNIT. love the action part hate the family housewife etc parts. we don't want to know life away from the killing fields. we wanna see bangbang... kaboom action!

i've begun to respect supermodels ever since i found out that the geek a.k.a Dr. Spencer Reid a.k.a MatthewGrayGubler(weird surname) in Criminal minds was formerly one. i've always thought that models were just 2 dimensional humans with exaggerated features. he's also a sketch artist and directed short films. he even has a webpage. interesting. although i suspect that his geeky character in the show is actually pretty similar to who he is in person. borderline paranoid schizophrenic. i always wanted to be a supermodel sometimes... so i could take home the nice looking clothes. sigh...

Little Miss Sunshine is a must see. funny sad funny.

oh ya. one paper down... one more to go!

now that design is over my life feels so empty... not!

che... chec... check it out!! Gradex2006. and remember to click on the RF link situated at the bottom under 'Studio Quick Links'. yea man...

dooms day is next week...

Zakaria... sigh... double sigh...

Opinion by LEE KIM CHUAN
Friday November 3, 2006

Turn Zakaria’s mansion into public library

EVER since Datuk Zakaria Md Deros' controversial “Istana Idaman” in Klang was highlighted in the media, there have been many calls by the people to demolish the mansion which reportedly costs over RM8mil.

By law, any structure that is illegally built has to be demolished. Many small temples on government land and squatter homes have been levelled to the ground for the same reason.

Both the Prime Minister and Selangor Mentri Besar have said that no one is above the law. Thus, it is obvious that the mansion has to be demolished.

But, as a Klang resident, I do not agree. It is a complete waste of money and resources to demolish the mansion.

It serves no real purpose to tear down the beautiful building.

Many visitors to Klang have complained that this royal town of the only developed state in Malaysia is dirty and dusty with uneven and dark roads, noisy and ugly crows, and poorly maintained public facilities.

One example is the Klang public library in Jalan Tengku Kelana. It is very small and the reading materials are pathetically outdated.

The library is supposed to serve more than 500,000 Klang residents, but how many people actually go there?

I suggest that the government turn Zakaria's mansion into a new public library complex.

And I am sure Zakaria, who is known for his contributions to charity, will not mind.



i don't quite agree on the mansions aesthetics. although, the proposal for a library isn't half bad.

enveloped in... dark skies

pretty bum-out on the model making. still trying to figure out how to actually built the gallery in a non-messy way. tough it is. i guess the columns are really structurally important... even in the model. but im trying to avoid putting the columns (oh i sound so much like an architect). when i say putting columns, i meant poking sticks all the way through the slabs. this might cause messiness and waste of materials due to trial and errors. dang! but another problem might occur if i do the other option which is putting columns individually at every floor... thats troublesome. plus. it has to be real accurate and aligned in a perfect linear fashion.
should i drape the whole contour now? or after placing all the mullions? dang!

anyway. other things to worry about aside from submission on the 9th. umm... Archi Prac on the 13th november, and PBL on the 16th. not forgetting the HWIDC... thats if i'm still motivated to do it then. haha. dang! jobs jobs jobs... decisions decisions decisions... chill chill chill... dang!

har... har... har??

and you thought... the durians were everything.

singapores moving real fast. and we all thought that there isnt any space left for huge developments. behold! Vivo City... supposed to be the largest shopping centre in singapore (maybe SEA as well) by Toyo Ito. makes Berjaya Times Square look really pathetic.
vivo city has a similar look to the EPLF centre by SANAA. its the in thing to design undulating platforms...

check out the Vivo City video!!




then there is the ever so awaited Marina Bay Sands. Moshe Safdie's newest masterpiece. Jayjun tried to discribe the building to me but i couldnt really process the image in my head. i guess seeing is believing.

bolehland is really losing out on this design escapade. Please no more lame-o Danga Bay like designs. our type of tropical design style is getting us nowhere.

it ends in 2 weeks time...

decisions... decisions... which one? A or B?

do you recognize this fella... ?

of course you do! he looks pretty familiar... oh gosh! its one of the back up singers at the church back in KK. Anthony is his name. man... winning the astro talent show bladibla (never heard of the show until today). wonder if james would upgrade him being worship leader. heck, maybe he already has.
yea... he's the guy who sang some duet 2 christmas ago. his voice to me is somewhat similar to Aaron Neville's. didn't know he was actually that good. haha. amazing.


here's the link: making astro richer...

there isn't enough love to give... for all the ladies

Women over 30 prefer to marry younger men

KUALA LUMPUR: Educated women above 30 prefer to marry younger men even though they are financially unsound and are less educated, a Universiti Malaya associate professor revealed in her working paper.

National Family Development and Population Board acting director-general Aminah Abdul Rahman said this was happening because women of this age found it hard to find men of the same education level, economic status or age. Most who fit this criterion were already married anyway.

She said this was based on a working paper by associate professor Tey Nai Peng from the Economic and Administration Faculty of Universiti Malaya titled “Marriage and Family Development in Malaysia” presented at a national seminar, Building the Future Generation, recently.

According to the working paper about 13% of women above the age of 30 and well educated in this country were still not married. Based on a racial breakdown, about 29% were Chinese followed by Indians (26%) and Malays (16%).

“But it is a different story altogether for bachelor professionals, and one of the major reasons for not getting hitched was that getting married was expensive.

“Of bachelors, 34.5% of those above 30 said it was economically not viable to get married because of the cost of marriages,” Aminah added

She said if this trend was not checked, it would certainly contribute to a fall in the fertility rate and this was expected to have a big implication on the plans for Vision 2020 in the next 15 years.

Another used to be...

ahhh... we've finally more or less completed our third assignment. its been a real blessing working with LA4 (ChangHan, SiewWoon and XiaoYi). teamwork is pretty evident i think. we compromise, cover each others back, sacrificed, forgived, took nothing personal. who knows, we might actually start up our LA4 for real.
shouldn't speak too soon, who knows i might be wrong.

i'm back to my R&B mood again. its R&B music or no music at all. Joe's the man, along with A.Keys, BEP, J.Legend, babyface, M.Jordan, etc. And with a little bit of Timberlake. he's a mix of pop and r&b, and i dig the latter genre. love those jiwa-ful drum beats.

Anyway! three more weeks before design submissions and four more weeks before d-day. slightly worried about my exam timetable how everything is all squeezed in 3 days. just can't wait to be finish. then i'll have to concentrate on the HWIDC.

heading for lunch then straight to uni. wonder if i should cycle there?? heck i'm starving...

LA4... a proposition to the world.

took advantage of the cheap monday movie tickets to watch THEDEVILWEARSPRADA. it was funny. and i loved the whole life in the city going zoom zoom (notice that i only said "zoom" twice, mazda would have sued me if i had said it 3 times).

anyway... earlier in the evening i attended a forum organised by lab.3000 which was part of this STATEOFDESIGN week thingy. the title of the forum was 'THE CHINA CONNECTION'. pretty interesting, but it was a pity that only 3 out the 5 invited guests speakers were able to attend. nevertheless it was a good chance to hear Peter Davidson speak of his design intentions for the SOHO Shangdu project in China. he seemed like a terribly misunderstood person especially by critiques and academics. i guess that's that' s the sort of respect you get by doing arbituary designs that uses the same technique all the time. but in his own right he is pretty well read and has his own oppinions and perspective on things that are worth listening to. i personally dislike his design for the SOHO shangdu. the idea was good, but the design for me was not very convincing. using a computer to develop the whole concept is pretty interesting. however i still prefer the classic way of the conventional SKETCH. its just more meaningful and soulful.

LA4 has been selected to present our design proposal for the former power station site along spencer street. and as the director of the company, i have to present our work in front of more than a 150 students. scary. at first i figured that our chances of being selected to present our design in the finals was pretty high. but then i thought maybe being not selected would prove to be a better alternative. true enough we were selected. now all we're hoping is to come out as winners.

safari is lagging. i better end here.

LOWIE... !!!!!!!!!

courtesy of CKY

puppy poo...

im currently in the law faculty's 'legal resource centre'. its tiny in comparison with the Architecture's. the reason i'm here is to use their computers to do my PBL workbook. however, all the comp labs are full except ofcourse the public ones which does not have the workbook installed. why is everyone so desperate in using them. they should go out more... enjoy the sunshine and drink coffee or something. then i wouldnt have to be waiting around with no guarantee that i'd be able to get hold of a pc. *which reminds me, i need to post a letter at the post office.

whats coming up?
1. PBL test on Friday... another 60 cases to hafal.
2. Design Position statement due next monday... i need my inspirasi back, it was stolen from me.

anyway. i better get out of here.

love being overated...

people can be just so weird. emotions are given away too easily.

as a cell member... i have an equal right to say that i don't want to go for CG activities. I have the choice of just being happy to have cell groups only on friday nights. furthermore i am not obligated to entertain any of my cell mates, and i can leave just so when i want.

It pisses me off when people try to blackmail and take advantage of me being a christian.using these so called christian standards and expectations to get what they want. i am not a standard nor do i have/ must comply to an organization's standard by force. i have a free will too. i'm not being paid to love and give a damn about my ocf/ cell members anyway.

heck i can just walk off anytime i want. everyone's doing it and so can i.

back to the... futurama

Question: why does the moon taste better than planet earth?

Answer: because it's a little meteor.

Respond: hahahaha....

in search of cardboards...

the phoenix suns has decided to improve on their players footwork. hence they have acquired Ronaldinho to enhance their teams quickness on the floor. fast breaks can't be as fast as this. it's a pity that they have traded Carlos Arroyo to the Orlando Magic. it would have been a dynamic brazillian duo.

just for laughs...

So true among many architects and students... hahaha. im not one of them. hmmm... occasionally.

10,000...

It's set. i'm officially a participant for the HWIDC. wish me luck. now im double loaded. k'ching!
okay, i should still keep the MoMA as my first priority.

hmmm... what sort of style should i go for?? maybe something wild and totally out of my conventional style. tsk tsk...

FLUSH...

at this very moment, i am itching to hit some balls with my racquet. no kaki. i didnt know channel 9 screens usopen matches. i guess federer will be taking this trophy home as well this year. man, i wish i could play with such finesse. can't believe nowadays im playing tennis with 1st and 2nd years, gosh! out of 3 of them 2 are archi students.

hmmm. what i'm intending to do this weekend.

1. complete my plans and sections.
2. supermarketing on saturday morning.
3. Picasso exhibition on sunday.
4. church on sunday.
5. start on HWIDC

feel so relieve that the 2nd practice assignment is over. it was such a pain and burden. then, i've got 4 weeks to study for PBL test.

i think i need to use the bathroom...

study... study... study...

i've been waking up at around 9-930am pretty regularly. trying to establish a habit of waking up earlier, so by next year i would hopefully be routinely waking up at 7am (yes, stop rolling your eyes you people who have no luxury in deciding when you wanna wake up). the weather is getting warmer, which is a good thing and as well a bad thing. good because i wouldnt have to be shivering and bad because i'd be sweating more other than my weekly tennis activity.
hmmm... maybe i should increase the number of days i play tennis since its so sunny.

anyway, PBL test tomorrow at 9am. dearie me.

wonder where clients go...

budak milo...

minum milo anda jadi sihat dan kuat!!

Practice... perfect.

was flipping through a korean architectural journal. the issue was mainly on the entries and winners of the SPACE PRIZE competition. pretty interesting ideas; some of the ideas/ proposals were pretty cliche, yet it was re-evaluated through a totally different perspective. i must say, the korean journals have better graphics than the Malaysian Architecture and Singapore Architect Journals. koreans have pretty hi-tech funky architecture. although it is pretty obvious where they receive the inpirations and resources from, thanks to globalization. now i'm begining to wonder about the substance of these built designs.

nevertheless, the issue on SPACE PRIZE has Architectural thought and substance. one particular project that caught my attention was a proposal of a new way of experiencing a lift/elevator. the idea was base on human's self concious. how people react different or behave in a manner that does not reflect on their true identity. they behavior becomes somewhat droning and colorless. there isn't any excitement as well as enjoyment when entering a lift. in-fact it supposed creates anxiety and uncomfort. most people would just stare at the floor level indicator, impatiently waiting to get out.
so this student proposes an idea of a dark lift where one can only see a silhouette of a person with tiny infrared dots that follows and detects the persons movement. by doing this, this would allow a person to feel that he is able to act freely and at ease. because noone would be able to identify him. i wonder what happends when they exit the lift. and they probably can see you digging your nose even if its just a silhouette.

totally unfeasible.

years and... years ago

guess who did the collage. don't think it would be hard to guess who it was. this was from years ago when i think it was 1 year after secondary school. such a bias compilation.
were you all dressed up for prom? haha. man i feel so extra in the collage. gotta love that beach!

kids... are just kids.

haha. the kids from my vbs class. one is already alot to handle.
let me introduce them to you all...

bottom l-r: Matthew, Phillip, KitMun, Joshua, Simon
Top l-r : Timothy, Rebecca, Elinna (i think), Jocelyn, Eleanor

21st Century... the Century of Cities

man... PS2 freaks in the house. can't believe people would actually lug their PS2 around uni to play. real addicts. the world is becoming so small that carrying these sort of gadgets aren't a problem. its the size of my text book, 3-4 inches thick. amazing.

borrowed a DVD regarding the great Portugese architect- Alvaro Siza. hehehe... so exciting!! wonder what's it about. during the holidays i stumbled upon a documentary on google videos about the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto by Alvaro Siza. interesting idea behind such simple buildings. i had always love architecture around the spanish, italian, and portugese region.

okay. 2 minutes to tutorials.

hmmm. i think i'll pop by the Faculty to check out the Superstudio Exhibition. would have gone earlier if i had known.

Ohh... SANAA!!

-quote-

SANAA
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa
Zollverein School
Essen, Germany






“Our aim was to achieve transparency in the concrete structure.”
SANAA

The Zollverein School of Management & Design, inaugurated on July 31, 2006, is the first new building on the historical coal-mining Zollverein site; declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2001.

“We wanted to design a simple cubic building to compliment the existing buildings and achieve continuity within the site.”
SANAA

The design, a cuboid structural shell, picks up the basic functional and effective idea used by the original Zollverein architects Schupp and Kremmer.
The oversized cube, which measures 35 meters by 35 meters and is 35 meters high, reflects the dimensions of the Zollverein mine.

The seemingly coincidental organization of the openings, windows in three different sizes, create an unusual interaction with the surroundings and the interior.

“We have made many big openings in the facades to create different daylight situations inside the building. The position of the windows are defined by the interior programs. By varying the ceiling heights each floor has a very different atmostphere.”
SANAA

-un quote-

Fed Square... 2

the architects who designed Fed Square, LAB Studio, have now ventured into Newcastle. along with their infamous manifesto...





you would had thought that one is enough.

but not for me...

i have begun to understand and appreciate better the works of Carlo Scarpa. he has given me a new perspective on old buildings. his works are just so beautiful. Beautiful is definitely the word to describe his works. i can recall 2 years ago i'd totally ignored CS. first time i took notice of him was while i was browsing through the shelves of the archi library. i pulled his book out of the shelve just because i thought he had a nice name. running through the pages i couldn't understand nuts about what he was doing. his work seemed old fashioned. it was somewhat similar to the works of frankloydwright, which i am not a fan of. who would've known 2 years later i would have picked up one of his book and could understand his intentions.

however the new installations done by Eisenman is horrible. totally incongruous with CS' restoration work of the Castelvecchio musuem. it's hideos! he totally ruin it. they should'nt have asked an american to do the job. it should had been european, i.e. CampoBaeza, even Renzo would have been a better choice. geez.

anyway, class in one hours time.

a wink and a smile...

the holidays are over. my first class starts in 6 hours. i hope they won't request me to leave the class halfway through when they realised that i have not yet paid my fees. i really hope there won't be any complications for my elective sub. please please please. i just want to graduate in peace. happy happy woopdedoo...

had july camp over the weekend. it was surprisingly quite enjoyable. nick and ethan were hilarious. the speaker was... okay. he was super pro-america. everything good happened to him while he was in America i guess. the workshops were... you don't want me to go there. but the general atmostphere this year was so much more different than the one 2 years ago. things have changed so much ever since. this may not have been the best and most memorable camp but its definitely my last, i would assume. why are camps usually held at very secluded and obscured places? but i must say this july camp's campsite was nice. warm and comfy.

after being away for 2 days, the kitchen is back to a mess. sigh. can't wait till i move out and live on my own. things would be easier then.

better prep up before class.

rather like a habit... you could always break.

the winter break has been fun. though i am dredging to actually go for july camp. i absolutely agree w ming that the last weekend is better spent by yourself or atleast with a much smaller crowd. but, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

im wondering if the "shampoo" left in my bathroom is really shampoo. it's so dry.
My place has been turn into some sort of motel to many visitors during the past few weeks. we now have another new guest from Adelaide. courtesy of jules bloodline. but that's not the worst of worries... not looking forward to Archi Practice B. Raisbeck is taking our class!! ugh! fat bald bastard. from what i heard from the 3rd years. he makes your practice life a living hell. apparently we have to write our letters and assignments wearing gloves. gawd! and we have to work in groups! with landscapers. i tot the group thingys were long over. we final years need our own space and time to ourselves.

other subjects taken: Design (as always) and Principles of Business Law (hope it isn't a heavy loaded sub)

picasso exhibition at the NGV. hope it won't be a dissapointment.

woody allen's 'anything else' is a true parody of many relationships. a must see. available at your local video rental stores.

only because i know...

a conversation i had with Ben back in Sydney.

Ben: so how's architecture? i heard it's a pretty busy course.
Me: yea, well... we're probably relatively busier during the semester than the exam period
Ben: no exams eh?
Me: depending on the subjects taken, architecture is more of a... err... hand... hand...
Ben: hmm?
Me: whats the word? oh! a HAND JOB experience...
Others: *Gasp* ?!
Me: hmmm that doesnt sound right...
Ming: you mean "hands on"?
Me: oh yea! HANDS ON experience... oops!

the heat wins in 6 games...

was reading my cousin's   blog. she was rampaging about nuclear war that is soon to come or in-fact already have taken place. it's interesting that malaysia would hold a anti-nuclear war forum. finally malaysians are being warned about what is happening around the globe. being such ignorant people, what we know only revolve around the country. which majority of the information would be gossips and half truths. and to think i was once and at times still am as ignorantly blissful.

Dr. Helen Caldicot was one of the 5 guest panelist. wish i could have been there. but then again, i might had been bored to tears. i've read her book and that would had been more than enough to be well aware of the nuclear situation. nuclear war is a business.
a nuclear winter would be the worst scenario that could fall upon mankind, if a nuclear fiesta were take place. we've all seen a sneak preview of the damage and possible effect if a nuke winter were to fall upon us in -the matrix. i would rather surrender myself to the robots and be kept in the matrix.

but hey, look on the bright side. many of these nuclear weapons have not really been tested (in a larger scale) anyway. hence theres a small percentage of possibility that these buggers might not even work. or maybe this is all a hoax, and the nuclear bombs are infact just an empty shell. all just to scare the wits out of us all. afterall, its just a marketing business strategy. humans arent that evil and heartless. are they?

but anyway, why are we so scared and freaked out about the nuclear crisis? i mean, this has been going on for years since the ColdWar. back then, not many people really knew what was going on anyway. its just that now, things are becoming more publicized. as i said, its a marketing strategy- a strategy of fear. the more scared we are, the more likely we would pay our taxes. truly, the coldwar has not ended. yea, russia lost its superpower status all because of faulty nuclear missile switches . but that doesnt change the fact that it's over. infact its an accumilation of thingss in the past brought forward to the present. this makes it more so confusing to understand what the heck is going on?!

anyway, im just crapping here. so i'll just leave you with the currently infamous 22 questions  . and i'm off to have my hair cut.

aussie soccer sucks.

AsianFood & Wine Show...

visited the GoodFood&Wine show held at the Melbourne Exhibition centre today. and i was utterly dissapointed. being an asian in an angmo country you would expect or be looking forward to see "angmo" food cuisines. however, asia had taken oer the place. the show was dominated by Asian food/ products. even the chefs were cooking stir-fry pork. to my dismay, i could not find a single italiano stall. aside from asian products, the other half of the exhibition was dominated by Wine stalls. darn alcoholics. as expected, the wine section was dominated by the "angmos" happily sipping away their alcohol in their tiny alcoholic crystal. out of the whole show, i managed to see 2 celebrity chef/ barista. well, we saw the barista who hosts a tv show about coffee. i remember mom and dad watching the show, and wondering how DOES he manage to make coffee with his hair in the way. he has a way of preparing a latte tilting his head at an angle with his hair dropping on the side. damn "yaoyeng". and today he was at it again. then the other chef was the editor of the SuperFoodIdeas magazine, and i think producer of the ReadySteadyCook show. she was teaching the angmos how to be the best stir-fryers in the country.
but then again, it was a good experience. knowing to not go ever again. sigh, i should had book a seat for the celebrity cook show. apparently they had celebrity chefs such as Kylie Kwong, Bill Granger, Donna Hay, Curtis Stone and Ben O'something. But ANyway... atleast we know that african liquor tastes like cough medicine. bleargh!

i wonder if it would snow...

ahhhh... homemade pasta and pesto. and it's so freakin' easy.

butts that taste like hamburgers...

when it came to kissing butts. politicians are good at it. take for example the current events of Mahathir slamming PakLah.
with unreasonable doubt we'd all support the current prime minister. afterall, he's the man thats ultimately in power. not to say that i disapproved of PakLah's dictatorship, in fact i think he's doing a pretty okay job.
on the contrary, i am quite disappointed with Mahathir's childish behaviour in dissing the current PM. he's obviously showing the nation that he's more concern about his own personal interests rather than the nations. The johor bridge for one is a good example. he's obviously trying to stir up some old tension with the singapore government with the curvy bridge. i agree that the form of the bridge is an obvious provocative symbol of how mahathir wants to potray malaysia's relationship with singapore- complicated. it is not an easy road for singaporeans who are interested in venturing into the Malaysian market. okay, maybe its better that way. if not we'd probably have to establish a new "kampung lagi baru". not being racists here. purely referencing it through precedent events.
thank goodness the cabinet is on PakLah's side... vocally.

one of my tutor once adviced me to always have a sceptical mind when reading texts. it made sense, to establish a non-gullible mindset. not believing everything you read or heard. somehow or rather, i find it hard to establish a sceptical approach especially when reading most architectural texts. in particular things regarding Lecorbusier. despite the fact that he's a fetish hornbag, arrogant, and total weirdo; he is still an absolute genius. the greatest architect ever, IMHO. i feel that i know so little of architecture and everything i read made sense. every manifesto and theoretical stand to me made logical sense. everything is possible and sensible. heck im a sponge.

oohh... there's House today.

what a difference a day makes...

2:15pm... my last paper for the semester. actually, its the only paper for the semester. i wonder what i'm gonna do tonight or the days after?
smoke pot? go fishing? run a marathon? eat more? scavenging for truffles?

last night, while trying to get some shuteye. i thought of a whole new design for a house. man, the wrong time to be thinking of that. fengshui! fengshui! focus!

strangely, i'm not really all that stress about it. i mean, technically i should be studying at the final hours before the exam. every minute counts.

okay. i better read up. once more.

origin of minimum...

idea of being a true "minimalist".

Mass - the uncomplicated beauty of the unadorned wall

Light - shadows and the power of transformation

Structure - the discipline of mathematics

Ritual - voluntary poverty and its enduring appeal

Landscape - marks made by man

Order - reason made visible

Health - hygene and the overall neatness

Containment - how architecture defines space

Repetition - the elements of simplicity

Volume - the transforming power of proportion

Essence - the irreducible minimum

Expression - silence as landscape

Memory... a precedent?

derived from the past, determines the future.
all sources are from memory.
everything is a derivation from memory.
a reflection is seen through memory.
creation or recreation is only able when there is a memory.
reaction retraces memory.
everything has been experienced by our senses
but the memory is hidden.
all memories will in due time reveal.
the future of memory is uncertain.
it is an unpredictable parallax of time.
cities are generated through memory.
architecture is the re-emergence of memory.
it existed from something or somewhere.
reinterpreted or copied into the present.
repetition is the key to instill realised memory.
boldness and exaggeration magnifies memory.
time does not induce memory.
memory is forgotten but not erase
kapoof!!

"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."

Johnson wrote (Heyer, 1966):

The painters have every advantage over us today...Besides being able to tear up their failures—we never can seem to grow ivy fast enough—their materials cost them nothing. They have no committees of laymen telling them what to do. They have no deadlines, no budgets. We are all sickeningly familiar with the final cuts to our plans at the last moment. Why not take out the landscaping, the retaining walls, the colonnades? The building would be just as useful and much cheaper. True, an architect leads a hard life—for an artist.

...Comfort is not a function of beauty... purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful...sooner or later we will fit our buildings so that they can be used...where form comes from I don't know, but it has nothing at all to do with the functional or sociological aspects of our architecture.

super cool...

okay... i ended up youtubing for 20 minutes... heehee.

eggs are delicious...

apparently its official. the egg came first-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/5019682.stm

question is... then who sat on the egg?!
it's definitely not Adam.

what i've been up to...

during the construction period


finished product in context w its surrounding.

absolute stunning...

okay, back to work...

Storm...

How long have I been in this storm?
So overwhelmed by the oceans shapeless form.
The waters getting harder to tread
With these waves crashing over my head.

if I could just see you everything would be alright.
If I could see you the darkness would turn to light

And I will walk on water, and you will catch me if I fall,
And I will get lost into your eyes
And everything will be alright,
and everything will be alright.

I know you didnt bring me out here to drown,
So why am I ten feet under and upside down.
Barely surviving has become my purpose
cause Im so used to living underneath the surface.

if I could just see you everything would be alright.
If I could see you the darkness would turn to light

And I will walk on water and you will catch me if I fall
And I will get lost into your eyes
And everything will be alright
And everything will be alright.

take me away...

the Nets lost in 5 games, and the Pistons might lose their series against the Cavs.
my finals is due next friday. somebody! stab me!! quick! back also can...

there are limits...

i hate it when people take things for granted and disrecpect another persons space. the limit of space is just so limited. sometimes some people do not have a freakin conscious knowing when to draw the line at times. lines are meant to be crossed once in a while, but sometimes... can you just use a little brain. a little commonsense. i have a space too and i believe i respected yours pretty well to a certain extent. i am so so angry that i dont know how to express it. i cant believe some people could be soooooooooooo dumb at times. what the....!! i feel like tearing the persons head off right here right now.

i am so not being discreet.

i guess i'll just walk it off.

i will soon be a free man...

my exam is on the 6th of June. and after that... i will be flying!!
thats almost 2 months of holidays.
heehheee...

我是一个...小男孩

我很困倦...
时间 is almost up
... ugh.
i feel 肥.
chaiyya chaiyya...我不知道!!

sick cycle carousel...

i should be doing work now. but my eyes are feeling really heavy now. so much to do... and to think that the semester will soon be over. shoots, i better start settling my sydney thingy. and i have not even bothered looking through the VBS materials. what do 10 year olds like to eat? chocolate or maybe scones? and the mentoing ministry thing is giving me a headache. theres so much to scramble up in just a weeks time before the session. omg! theres the ltc thing on saturday. sigh, im actually abit lost on the ltc thing, what the heck is going on?! tsk tsk.
shucks, i shouldnt have taken up RP. its interesting, but making it into a subject just drains out the fun in its exploration. wish i could just drop a subject and concentrate on studio. i've really been neglecting my other subs channeling most of my dedication towards design. i guess extending a semester just to concentrate on studio isnt a bad idea i guess. better get it over and done with.

played tennis today with ethan. man its been awhile since i've exercised. great weather. managed to sweat it out, and now i feel less guilty eating. i feel slightly fitter than usual. man, better pay me rent tomorrow. and where is that stupid fella with my FOBS?! he's taking forever to fix it, plus he doesnt return my calls.
anyway, back to tennis. i think i'm dead rusty. my confidence is really slumping. well, its been like that for years. and speaking of that, just when i was gaining back my feel on basketball, now im nowhere near the courts. damn weather/assignments. then again, everyone around are not very inspiring/motivating to keeping fit, 'cept for the occasional ethan. does it really look like father and son playing tennis?! no way...

i should insist on telling. BenFolds is a real talented musician. i love his voice. it be so cool to have such talented fingers on the piano and a semi sort of melancholic voice to go with it. so nice. though, i'm begining to dig ClayAiken as well. confidence is the key, which i deadly lack. im like AustinPowers losing his modjo.

had my graduation ceremony last saturday (i'll post some photos soon). it was okay, i mean boring. plus the people who attended my gradaution actually sneaked out half way through leaving me there listening to people giving speeches about food and agriculture. atleast i manage to wake up on time for it being that fact lately i've been waking up no earlier than 10am. wasnt exactly a very exciting event for me. its not even a full degree, i mean the idea of graduation is the symbol of an end of an era and into a new one. which in this case would be working world. hence receiving i still had no feeling of accomplishment. i still have no idea whats so exciting about receiving the bach of planning and design? its useless. however, its great to finally be able to see how my great seniors (StephanBekhor, ThomMckenzie, DanButler, PeterFurlong and FionaPoon) actually look like in the physical and not their design works. i've always wondered who they really were, and to my surprise some of them i've seen them around and were in the same tutes. interesting indeed. i had always imagine ThomMckenzie being really tall and slinky, instead it was the opposite. man, its going to be tough, being the fact taht i'll be categorized into the same generation of architects as them.

the easter break...

"Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time， with history， with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms. I am one of millions who do not fit in， who have no home， no family， no doctrine， no firm place to call my own， no known beginning or end， no "sacred and primordial site." I declare war on all icons and finalities， on all histories that would chain me with my own falseness， my own pitiful fears. I know only moments， and lifetimes that are as moments， and forms that appear with infinite strength， then "melt into air." I am an architect， a constructor of worlds， a sensualist who worships the flesh， the melody， a silhoutte against the darkening sky. I cannot know your name. Nor you can know mine. Tomorrow， we begin together the construction of a city."

-Lebbeus Woods-

Conceptual Ideas...

here are just some of the stuff i've been working on lately (i like to show off, even if it sucks)
the project brief is to design an Urban Resort... its basically a place for lazy people... go figure.

lovely saturday morning/ afternoon...

managed to squeeze time trying to finish up on my urban design scheme drawings and model. but that was just for thursday. now i'll have to work on the upcoming exhibition next tuesday, not mentioning that i'll have to show some work progress for my RP class on monday.
ooooh this is going to be so fun!
i've decided that quick sketches are most definitely better than quick computer generated perspectives.

oh dearie me...

I love spicy food. eating spicy food is my life. newly purchased spicy indomee is pretty chachacha. but i like it! apparently spicy food helps to increase metabolism rate. heck how would i know is thats true... i can be quite gullible when it comes to these sort of issues. but if all this is true, then i should slurp up the left over chachacha juice in the bowl.

i have this love hate relationship going on with SLEEP. it just takes over and my body is becomes so vulnarable to its power. and i can do nothing except snore and dream that i'm up and running trying to work on my project. i wish i could just not sleep...

anyway. im thinking if i should eat another packet of indomee... NO! i shouldn't. the cold weather is really making me hungry.

today's agenda. a lecture on Asian Cities at 12pm. i really hope this will be interesting. but then again how interesting can a second year subject be. Derham is just bad, basically... its silly to let a caucasian to teach us about Asian customs/culture. all they would bloody know about is the "technical mechanisms" of fengshui. i missed yesterday's screening of "sepet" at the archi faculty. sigh. the timing is just bad. but today KengoKuma is giving a talk about his theoretical position on creating a "place of no place". the only project of his that i know of is the "great bambo wall". nevertheless he shoud be interesting, anything better than having to submit our urban schemes today.

note to self: get a stack of A3 paper. develop digital photos.

how's it gonna be-si... so rediculous-si.it rhymes!

ngo pass few day-si hou hou gan yew stress-i o. last night-si mou meh fan kao yan wai zhou gan yeh. cham man ngo had a presentation-si. yi ga, final year-si zhan hai hou tuo pressure-ah. yat ting yew push ngo chi kei. pat kuo this semester ngo quite enjoy-si, ko project hou interesting-si. and-si ngo tek tutor hou funny-ar. mui yat ngo kin kuei yat ding pit ngo chikei siu. harhar-si... (ngo zhi ngo hou nonsense-si.)
kam yat yao potbless-i at ngo kei CGL-si wukkei. punloi kui tei kiew ngo zhu roast beef-si. mou si kan lah, ngo hou lansi. plus-si ngo have to zhunbui ko biblestudy-ah for kamyat, han yao tangzhan at 2:15 ngo yew appointment kin Nikolas-i zhou LTC biblestudy-ah. ngo hou hou khanlik.

(lei tei kok tak ngo kei canto hou sailei mar? hou chi hai ngo hou keng ler... mou tak teng!)

ngo yika shiong complain-si. aiya... hou toh bills yew kaotim. zhan hai hou kuai ah. kuitei aussie zhanhai hou sucker for money-ah. aik, ngo cha tit mongkei settle ngo kei uni fees-i, han yao rental-si.
haiya... choi pintou ngo boleh wan koko photocopy shop-si. hokkao hou far-si.
okilar... lansi type-si lor. ngo shiong zhou yeh. wash the dishes-si, pay the bill-si, biblestudy-si, and study-si...
(ngo zi you tei feel-si leitei more busy cum stress-si, patkuo this is my blog-si so ngo mat tou tak gong)
hahaha-si...
(ngo zhitou this entry hou boring and iri-tating-si. i think-si leitai mou meh understand-si what i'm trying to say-si. hou complexity-si o. but, ngo zhanhai kok tak ngo kei cantonese-si mou tak teng! because-si i'm the lamyan o!)

whats been up...

do girls who like supermodels and chic stuff dumb? or is it just one of those typical plain girly things. but what are chic's stuff anyway? probably barbies and wrapping themselves up with a face towel.

anyway. been mentally busy and slack at the same time. time is just sooooooo precious that i still keep the watch inside the gift box, forgetting that it still runs with or without being strapped around my wrist...
Major presentation on thursday. and i have to show some sections tomorrow in studio.
Helping out in VBS during the winter break. its my debut trying to handle a bunch of 12 year old kids. apparently i'm qualified to do so because im young and hip and cool and funky. atleast there are still some people who thinks i am. heh. wazzap!
LTC. thank goodness its a small group this time. just hope the other facilitators will remember to focus on the participants and not to treat them as objects. i had enough of birthday celebrations and i have to do bible study with the participant. leave it to me...
Bible study. leading bible study on the book of Romans this friday. well at least all these bible study preparations is making sure my nose is kept in-between the pages.
in no time, me and Paul would be like this... (knots index and middle finger together)!
i dont think i can go exercising this week. i missed basketball today. man thats sad. i think im starting to lose my motivation. no! plus my appetite is getting bigger... darn winter!

okay. back to sections... urban planning is seriously full of rubbish. though i must say, the drawings looks inspirational/ professional. its the in thing now and everyone wants to call themselves urban planners even though in reality its a totally redundant job at times. i still dont understand the significance of urban planning graduates in society. seriously, all they do is cook up a whole lot of theoretical nonsense. trying to figure out the most ideal way of place arrangement, but in the end, all they do is just cutandpaste the precedents. the most ironic part is that they dont know how to design, heck they cant even draw. nevertheless, small urban schematic figure ground diagrams looks pretty cool in a presentation board.
fact is, you dont need an urban planner to figure all that out... an Architect is so much more capable in handling these matters. plus we can draw it out.

funny stuff...

"more with less"... isn't necessary minimalism.

yesterday. caught a glimpse of the men's marathon along Latrobe. it was pretty exciting. too bad we only managed to see the last 2 runners. they should had just given up and went for coffee at the degraves.

Deciding where to go for lunch as a group is such a hassle and pain. i'd rather go alone and decide for myself. everyone just doesnt want to make a decision and different preferences is always a problem. but finally managed to try out one of the greek cafes along lonsdale street. man it was pretty much what i'd expected. all the lovely pastries so tempting.
why is a bougata called a bougata? nevertheless it was delicious/ fattening.
no worries, playing basketball later today. still trying to increase my metabolic rate. spicychickennoodle isnt really helping much.
i found a new secret basketball court(s) between a catholic church and catholic college. so many rims to choose from and all with nets. i love it when the ball goes through the hoop with a "swoosh". still trying to regain my confidence on the floor. damn! lost my tall player to prayer meets.

potbless at Arthur's rectangular table. note to self: sundriedtomatoes and stirfriedveggies are a bad combination. but Arthur's blackforrestcake was pretty good. why the heck is he in Landscape? he should just focus on his baking/cooking. i could imagine him opening up a charkueytiao store. tsktsk. i meant Cafe/ Ristorante. Chris' dishes were pretty interesting as well. haha. for once the guys out win the girls in cooking.

Anyway, i should be reading on AldoRossi. its getting late.

notes...

Aldo Rossi
A. Campo Baeza
Alvaro Siza
Carlo Scarpa
John Pawson
Le Corbusier
Luis Barragan
Mies Van der Rohe
Riken Yamamoto

searching for perfection in relation to... Entortung.

i came across this article while reading the news. its so confusing. its always gross when you read/ see old people being so scandalous. ugh... bad images.

Who is the real seducer?
By PARVEEN GILL

SEREMBAN: Who is the victim? This is the million-dollar question.

A 78-year-old man who became an instant millionaire last month and a 53-year-old widow he befriended three months earlier have made police reports against each other claiming one had seduced the other.

The man was among the Felda Sendayan settlers who got handsome payments from the Government for their land.

The woman, whose husband died 10 years ago, is a direct-selling distributor.

They met at a bus stop four months ago and he became one of her favoured customers.

On Tuesday, the man made a police report claiming she allowed another woman to take photographs of his naked body.

The following day, police picked up the woman for questioning.

In retaliation, she also made a police report, charging that the millionaire had tried to force her to sleep with him.

In his report, the man claimed that the woman had asked him to go over to her house in Seremban 2 to discuss a land proposition and money she owed him.

He said when he arrived at the woman's home, she asked him to undress and to just wear a towel and wait in her bedroom.

He claimed that she later came into the room and ripped off the towel from his body. At the same time, a younger woman came in and took pictures of him in the nude.

The man said the widow then gave him back his clothes and he quickly left the house. He then contacted one of his sons and lodged a report at the district police station here.

The widow, who has two children aged 35 and 30, said the man was trying to defame her because she rejected his marriage offer.

She said he came to her house at 10am on Tuesday.

“He asked for a drink and later he got up and walked into one of the bedrooms. When he came out, he had nothing on but a towel,” she told The Star.

She claimed the man then pulled her hands, but she freed herself and fled into another room.

The man only left when she picked up the house phone and threatened to call the police, she said.

The widow was released on police bail until March 21, pending instructions from the Attorney-General's Chambers on whether there was a case against her.

-the star. 11.03.06

its bedtime...

the great aussie architect Harry Seidler has been certified dead. i actually thought he'd passed away 2 years ago, until i realized that he was still producing designs. well this time im right for sure. was never really a fan of his. maybe one or two buildings (his residential designs are quite nice), but generally its all the same. but he's got taht sort of sunshading stuff going on which is pretty innovative. technically, harry's not an aussie. then again not many well known aussie people are pure aussies. but i think he migrated there during the 2 world war. i think he was from Vienna.
But we've gotta give credit to the bugger though. i mean, he was indeed the father of aussie modernism. apparently he's good friends with Glenn Murcutt, the O.C.D. architect, who only can work with himself and himself alone.

anyway. there was more to what i was going to write. but im pratically brain dead now.

last uni day of the week...

and you wonder why architects spend so much time just to create one simple form.

i played basketball today... and rocked the house down.

i just had to post this up...

i have enemies in melbourne...

cell group. been designated into a new cg. its a manhunt. 70% of the members are guys. and 80% of them are/ were ranked computer gaming freaks; DOTA. Starcraft. CounterStrike. Warcraft. what the?! make that 90% if you include NBA live'04 a nerd game. tsk tsk. im glad people still think i can be 21. i dont look like a final year student. i've got a korean in the cg lineup. ugh. dejavu... 'yOOOUuuuu... OOOOhhh.... UUUGGGhhh.... GGRrrrrr... YOUuu!' darn drunken korean freaks. i shall not further elaborate on that.

LTC. bible study. i got abit lost during the discussion. interesting lineup of facilitators. apparently this semester's LTC would be pretty up close and personal. wonder what would happen if the majority of participants are females. i'll slowly evaporate.

i've been downloading alot of Rnb and funk music. i think im leading back to my old school interest. Basketball and RnB. just like old times during my early high school years. good times with no worries and total carefree. im subconciously trying to hide from the true worries of the future. man, i've never been to stressed out about it. maybe "dating" would keep me distracted. tsk tsk. no no... basketball, i must be true to the game. tennis as well.
i downloaded a whole list of BlackEyedPeas music. "guilty pleasure" as what paul would call it. but they actually do sound good. Will.i.am's a genius. been doing abit of research on funkmusic. hence i guess i be able to appreciate the music better. interesting facts. Fergie from B.E.P was formerly a member of the chic band, wild orchids. and the bands ColorMeBadd, POV, and Fugees were protégés of funk RnB legends Kool&theGang.

some old archi mates/ ex-housemates came down to pay me a visit. money makes the world go round. but its good to have a little catching up with them. see hows everyone doing. its weird being their senior and all. but always glad to help. and i love to embrace my seniority. heh.

anyway, i better go back to reading my text on 'revenge of Place' and drinking my green tea. i feel so ZEN. chill.

antifreeze & aeroplanes...

today was our first design studio class. lots to reflect upon as we begin on the project. i didnt manage to get my first choice. darn it! there goes my chance in winning 20,000 euros. sigh. but i guest its all destine to be in this studio. the theme is on forms and platforms. the studio leader is another old fella whos had heaps of experience/ stories to share. he's more of a scatter brain, but it could be because of language. he's from slovenia. but he seems interesting and passionate. for one thing, he's participated in almost more than 30 competitions in his life. man thats alot. wonder if he had ever won any of them. it was hard to get what he was trying to say, only bits and pieces of it. all that is important is to know that Light is 3 dimensional, and the platform to all forms. and from what i gathered in during the whole introduction is that theres heaps to do. form = models. lots of 'em. well atleast 50% of the students are familliar faces. we all can stress together.

ugh. the kitchen really stinks. i think something died in there.
we've finally gotten ourselves a (tiny) fridge and (leaking) washing machine. not too bad. atleast it purchasing it was convenient. walkable distance. the owner was a pretty nice and friendly chap. and he collects air jordans. he's got almost all of them. apparently he's been collecting airjordans since 1993. so tempted to just grab a pair from the stack. we'll wait till he sells his new fridge then we attack. he's quite a big fella.

no class tomorrow. woohoo! i dropped business law sub because apparently i have not fulfilled my history sub quota. in the end i decided to waive PBL and keep my timber furniture workshop for next semester and take up Asian Architecture. its the only history sub that im vaguely interested. there isnt much history sub choices in the second semester. the ones that interest me i've already completed. sucks. nevermind. i'll just have to befriend one of them folks in PBL class. well, as long as i dont have to take ED then thats fine with me. and i hope it'll stay that way until i graduate.

watch out! here comes the funky man...

today was my keeping fit day. well, it didnt start out to be a keeping fit day. instead it was a slack come home lie on bean bag to read day. but julius managed to persuade me to pursue on my keeping fit regime. running all the way from home to the uni ball courts. that was dreadful. i hate running. but things turn out for the better when we reach for the courts. made my yearly debut on the courts, and it wasnt so bad. we won a total of i think 6 matches. we had 3 straight wins out of the 6. man! i love this game (c). its really the universal game of all sports where people can just come together and and have physical fellowship (okay, that sounded wrong) all because of a basketball. soccer is somewhat similar... but its just too time consuming and the field is just too damn big. not everyone be able to strut their skills, 'cept they end up running back and forth barely even having any whatsoever contact with the ball. haiya bball is much more fun. period. okay second would be tennis, but thats more of an exclusive game.
dinner... i made porridge. i had smelly beancurd cravings. plus i didnt want to gain back all the calories i lost again. just plain ol porridge with raw egg and beancurd. except for julius whom i think is weird for adding sweet chilli sauce into his bowl of porridge. this reminded me of merrick and rosso... with the bearded lady adding sweetchilli sauce in everything.
bought myself a new cd. kool & the gang: gold collection. i've been looking for it almost everywhere. '70s disco, thats the real stuff. the real original funk music!
right now my fingers are crossed. im hoping to get my first choice for my design studio. its a competition with a prize money of 20 grand euros. man i can do plenty with that amount of cash. i'll get myself a new.... ummm. i'll know what to do once i win that money. plus hopefully we'll get our fridge and washing machine by tomorrow. im in need of a fridge and my sweaty laundry is piling up at the corner.
okay im getting sleepy now. class at 11 tomorrow. better brush teeth... the tought/ memory of dr. moy doing a 7 in one blow really creep the jeepers out of me.

i like the way you move...

today/ yesterday/ whichever. we failed to get ourselves a new fridge, and now all our groceries are still lying around the kitchen top with no place to chill. we've officially been striped off our luxurious living lifestyle of furniture. one by one as we watch the movers carry out the stuff. sigh. remembering every moment i've spent with each of the furniture last year, good times.
so now we've opt for a new way of living. a chill out minimalist style crib with bean bags and dim lights. everything is done on the floor except eating, we managed to get a replacement for the dining table. aint as big as the previous one but still good. timber finished. we're still in the process of revamping the place. trying to find the best deals for our essentials, i.e. fridge, washing machine, beanbags... even our new ironing board is at kneel level. we should change our carpet flooring into tatami mats. that would be so what we're in for. plus i hate carpeted floors, especially on rainy days.
while walking around the city looking for a fridge. we experienced a hail storm. that was pretty exciting, particularly when we were observing this guy trying to run across the tram tracks under the storm... and he slipped and fell. that must had hurt. hehe.
heck. im so lazy to type. and i just found out that im playing drums tomorrow... ugh.

smokey mountain lullaby...

back to where it will soon be over. after all the drama at the respective airports, i made it safely here. thankfully. but as i was setting foot into my room oh with horror in my eyes! mineral bottles flooded the area. i was abit irritated wondering who the culprit be. it was sort of expected who the culprit(s) was, girls can be so messy... even when they sleep in a strangers room. okay technically shes not a stranger. oh pls, atleast have the decency to just throw out all the bottles before you leave instead of just leaving it in the room. its a free accomodation, seriously. never again.
ANYWAY, well the place is relatively messy. but im pretty proud of myself being able to wake up early to clean up the place. the place has been vacuumed and the kitchen smells... much better. and all the rotten food in the fridge... (almost) all gone. it got abit confusing figuring out what was expired and whats not. i need to go groceryshopping / supermarketing soon.
Another matter which is a hassle to settle... bills. sigh. it has been piling up in the last 2/3 months. how on earth can the phone bill be so high?! and theres this call to Lorne where nobody seems to know who it came from, 12AUD for just one phone call. geez!
besides cleaning up the place, i managed to run some errands down at uni. there has been a few changes at the faculty. all the doors are now painted in slick black, and they finally created a direct cut through from the archi building to the faculty office. architects think so alike at these matters. i've also manage to select my electives. taking up a business law subject this semester (been thinking of doing a business/law sub since early last year), and its back to night studio sessions again. for 2 days a week i might have to end class at 915pm. i dread to think of walking home at that hour during late autumn. it seems like a pretty packed semester, although i think i might have fridays off again.

my oh my, just found out from my sources that a friend is attached to another friend of mine. interesting. how did it all happened eh. never suspected it to happened, then again there was this once i remembered we all plotting on throwing eggs at him on his birthday and she was the mastermind of it all. hehe. cute. i still am amazed... how?

dalam benci ada rindu...

it was a pretty slow day today. 'cept for the morning drama at home and at work. 3 more days before i complete my industrial training period. cant wait for it to end actually, definitely a very different experience from my previous company. hubbahubbahubba...
work in the morning was relatively exciting actually, stepped into the office and everyone was in no time updating me on the current status of the jesselton project. the client is getting impatient on the progress, but i just cant be bothered. still irritated by the mess left by the previous guy doing the project. damn lousy. nevertheless the morning was fun... i got to print out my drawings in A1 format. its always cool to print out drawings in a big scale. so profesional.
however the afternoon was somewhat the opposite. dragging myself to kill the time. maybe it was because i was sleepy. maybe i should had taken that nap instead of leaving the house earlier than usual. i can be so impulsive at times. i was so dead tired that i had to steal my colleague's coffee sachet that she placed near the hot water boiler. i think she was planning to make her own coffee plus that was the last sachet in the pantry. poor girl, i think she knows. i just pretended to show that i needed it more than her.
the heat + traffice here is driving me nuts, but i can imagine KL being 50x worse. WONDER WHY I GET MYSELF INTO SILLY WHIRLWINDS like that. besides, its just traffic. how much damage/ disruption can it cause. man! i can be such a loser.
paul's leaving tomorrow. cant believe he manage to squeeze in 2 wins from me. that reminds me, i better call julius' mom... soon.

ANYWAY, other shocking events. U2 won best album and song of the year. where the heck did thay come from?! out of nowhere. that was a real surprise...it definitely must had been a mistake.

i feel like reformating my mac... s'up!

my grandpa passed away 2 days ago and the funeral was today. my first ever funeral and on top of that it was just before the chinese new year. time always has a way of surprising you. although it was a pretty depressing event, it was still touching to see alot of people at the funeral. all i could see and hear were tears and sniffs.
a simple and humble man was really honored today. during these few days i've been reflecting on the times while he was alive, how unclose i was to him. i think the only words i've ever said to him was the usual Hi(s) and Bye(s) and the only physical contact made was the respectable handshake. nevertheless, deep down i knew that he loved us grandchildren, through that big smile of his whenever he sees us. he was definitely a man of few words. but things sort of changed when he moved to the old folks home. i guess when you become deaf, all you could do is talk since listening wasnt an option any more.
i never knew his faith in God was so deep and faithful. only till when i visited him once at the oldfolkshome and during the funeral. i always thought he and grandma were just sunday church goers and wasnt actively involve in church. turns out he was the church's official tailor and he's got plenty of homies at the church.
come to think of it, i do kinda miss him abit. miss the times when he was still living with grandma. the sifu in making "kiu ngiuk" and "pak cham kai"... yummy. i guess the tradition has been passed down to my dad, who is a relatively excellent tailor and at making "kiu ngiuk". but we've yet to taste his "pak cham kai". next in line to inherit the tradition would be... ummm.
now im really curious on how tomorrow would turn out to be at the reunion dinner. today was interesting, bcoz i get to see all my uncles and aunties in tears, a rare occasion you see them do it all together.
besides the funeral, it was a mudfest today. it was a muddy funeral from the funeral parlor all the way to the burial ground. thanks to my brother's judgement, we almost got stuck in the mud. the poor lady who drove right in the middle of the huge puddle of mud was seriously trapped. we couldnt help coz we couldnt afford to dirty ourselves, so all we could do was just watch her trying to get out of the danger zone for a few minutes before we decided to just turn back and leave her to figure it out on her own. later on the road to the burial ground was equally aweful... we had to walk through the mud. we were all muddy ankle down and i ruined my nice pair of shoes. knew i should had worn the other pair. well, atleast it only rain before and after the funeral.

other news. ive been playing alot of basketball on alternate days. got my self new custom made in-soles. the price of it is almost like a pair of shoes. infact its even more expensive than my new basketball shoes, which is giving heaps of feet problems. after trying out my new in-soles, i've developed blisters at my arc. i really really hate my feet. if only i had normal feet, it has faltered me from getting into the NBA. sigh... the "if only" dilemma.
but im still gonna play ball tomorrow. i dont care. i still kick butt.