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.