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