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.