Zhilei's birthday...
We had our first studio outing... at Togi.. haahaa.. my favourite korean restaurant... I hope my studio pple liked the food..=)
Coincidentally it was Zhilei's birthday too on Thursday.. and thanks to Dennis Chan who always ends studio on time.. haahaa... we were able to arrange for dinner... =P But we all dilly-dallied.. so reached quite late and everyone super hungry sia... took some pics... and this one is classic...
Roystern's first encounter with the appetizers... lettuce that was for bulgogi was used to wrap appetizers instead.. or was this the kimchi shot.. haahaa.
The Birthday Girl!!! Happy 21st birthday...=)
Make a wish! make a wish! haahaa. And the lady boss even gave zhilei a party hat... grin...
And the impatient cake cutter... *plop* goes the cake into the plates... =P
And the whole bunch of us... minus jiayun, clement, edlyn and zoutong... studio 7!
yup... that was all for yesterday... I shall go attempt to revit Bentota now... yikes... headache.
Reflecting.
"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."
- Mary Tyler Moore
It was definitely embarrassing what happened today... but hopefully what's past stays in the past. Maybe if I say it to myself often enough I'll believe it. I've got to admit... reading my own blog depresses me too.. haha. Apologies to those reading... methinks I'll be stuck in this quagmire for some time to come... so there's a whole long list of unhappy and dreary posts coming up.. unless something good happens for a change.
I went to surf for Murphy's Law... man.. I really do believe in it... haha. but perhaps trying to take it in stride is the first step to being happy again. Like what my primary sch teacher said to me when I left school, "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade." Corny as it might sound, it certainly does make sense.
I'm freaking ticked off by myself.. these phases are blardy getting on my nerves. My blog turns out to be my venting station... pathetic sia. bleagh.
In the middle of a long day.
Supposed to be having CAD tutorial now... but simply no mood for doing revit... so just stumbling websites now... Will have to go finish up the 2223 slides soon.. tut is at 2pm. This morning's lecture for urban design was mindboggling... I mean I understood the english.. but I still don't get the concepts.. and the reading list is simply astounding.
Sliding into depression mode where I feel dumb about everything. Design isn't looking too promising at the moment too... concept may be too simplistic I feel... And self-absorption is simply bad for improving one's mood... everyone is too busy these days to sit around to mingle... CT pple.. i miss all of ya... School is too serious business. There are too many things to be done that I feel that my life is simply not mine anymore...
Hopefully CNY will afford some time to catch up on things... and I can get a hold on those things that seem to be slipping away... I just don't feel like I belong anywhere now... and I guess those who know me well know that belonging to something is important to me. Looking at the current situation... learning to become more self-reliant is definitely on my list... otherwise I would be sliding deeper into a miserable state.
The day is still long... lessons until 6pm today... I really feel like going back to pgp to sleep... sleeping is my form of escapism... besides reading that is.. but there isn't time to go library to get books. oh well.. and just too tired these days too. I wonder whether it is really depression... nothing serious definitely... but something definitely there.
Ramblings.
In studio now... seems like no one is in studio on a nice Saturday afternoon... I'm procrastinating about work again... trying to come up with concept for design... but keep getting urges to go kbox-ing.. yesyes.. i'm a bad student... flipping through library books for inspiration but so far nothing has struck yet...
was talking to lingwei yesterday about stuff... and well made me think about a lot of things again... so in a limbo again... sometimes I wonder if pple are actually in love with the idea of being in love? Or is it just loneliness that drives pple to want to find a companion? not in the way of friends... just that little more... we are essentially selfish creatures... hardly do you find someone who doesn't put their own happiness first right? Grin.. I guess listening to jay chou's songs aren't helping... they're too angsty... haha.
I'm debating if I should go home today... tomorrow still have to go Bugis to do the urban design mod... pattern languages... omg.. totally blurred... the other mods are all looming... design concept by monday.. and I really have to set aside time for revit...
I can feel the depressing mood setting in... irritating... moping around is unpleasant. Hopefully burying myself in work.. or trying to.. will alleviate the problem... didn't manage to watch geisha either.. haha. oh well.. shall wait for someone to screen it in studio perhaps...=) poor students.. haha.
I overslept again...
yikes... this time round it was quite bad... I missed 2326... which is not so bad... but I was late for studio!!! my god.. I was so paiseh... sigh.. this comes from walking back to PGP at 4am in the morning.. and sleeping the day away... the next time I shall not go back anymore liaoz.. got sleeping bag in studio can liaoz...
Now i'm in my room watching videos on youtube and waiting for my laundry to dry... wah lau.. I hate doing laundry... takes up so much blardy time... I know i'm wasting my time now... and I even did a mani and a pedi... haha.. it's been a long time... yes yes... i know i'm always saying how little time I have to do other things etc... it is true.. just that I don't feel like doing work tonight... after the horrendous nights we spent the past 2 days doing precedent studies and site model... But then again.. compared to DT's studio.. we are so lucky already...
haha.. here's a pic of my mani... nail art nice right!! heehee... toes were boring.. so no pic loh.. lolz.
Got to come up with a concept by Monday... yikes.. I hope mine will be unique.. otherwise no point already... argh... CNY is coming... but I have absolutely no enthusiasm for it... sigh. There isn't much meaning of it anymore lar.. since i rarely see my relatives nowadays...
My room is in a mess... need to mop and sweep soon... this weekend bah... should I make potato salad for studio on monday? hmm... i'll have to be home on sun then... oh well... see if got mood...
And I wanna watch geisha!!!
CT pple... anyone interested??? SMS me alright... let's watch it this weekend leh...=) haha.. so if I get to watch it this weekend it'll be fated for me to spend that money... cos you all might not see my blog in time... rofl.
gotta go check on the dryer now... hope it's done... =(
Not off to a good start.
well. things aren't looking that good... I left my phone at home. dang.. now i have to go down to farrer park tom to get it from my mom before she goes to work... and I haven't done my precedent case study... and to top it all off.. I left my site analysis panels in the DDS comp! wth... now I can't email it... bleagh~ besides the pertinent fact that I don't quite know how to go about doing the case study... sigh... and i couldn't make it for celine's shop opening. wah lau. this really sucks...
Heard from del, wenzi, joce and Mzn... so that's one good thing... like mom said... we're all in different countries... sort of lar... but reunion I guess will have to wait till Jan 07 bah... cos I definitely won't be here in July... hmm... but when are the rest of you all coming back... we should plan a gettogether...
I can't blog much today anyway... nothing remotely cheerful either... still waiting for ep 17 of ISWAK to dl finish... argh... I shall try to do precedent case study now.
Ending the week on a lousy note.
Well... today I was on time for the 9am lecture.... *applause* haha. Anyway it was Architectural Construction... I like the way the TBT went about the lecture... it's not at dry as we expected... Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs... hmm... never thought about it that way... but when he went through the semester outline... I felt that we were being dealt death sentences... Essentially if we die in studio... we die in AR2326 too...
It was a rainy dreary day again... and didn't help that studio was freezing cold... LR424 also cold... and we had lecture in total darkness... lights all off... yikes... we were all trying to write notes such that our words remained on the same line... haiz. But that's that... hopefully get a good group for project... then maybe got hope...
Then it was a mad rush to find a precedent case study... well, I found lots of interesting stuff... but nothing that could stand alone as a case study... so DC suggested Glenn Murcutt... and thank god Li Dan has the book... saviour sia. Hopefully I can get my hands on it soon! Monday must show work in progress... and Thursday is presentation liaoz. My scheduler got no space to write now... wth.
And of all things to happen, I fell sick. Nose running like watertap. Head aching like got anvil knocking on it. How to survive? Like that loh. Haha.. think that will be my catchphrase this week... Tommorow have to go for site visit again for photos... Please please to all the powers that be... let it be a sunny day...
I'm still going for gan-ma's boutique opening on Sunday.. yikes.. have to find a way to leave early... haiz. no choice... otherwise monday prepare to die.. haha. Anyway pple reading... excuse all my dreary and doomsday-ish writing... my only outlet for stress relief lar... life is still liveable... so don't worry about me yet...=)
I hope I can wake up on time tomorrow.
Yes.. today was another wet and dreary day... went for site visit... walked all the way from outram... to yankit rd... via the duxton plain park connector that is... If not for the fact that the connector was not very well maintained... and a bit boring... it actually is a pretty cool idea... but then again.. it could be because of that rain...
tried to sketch a bit in the park... in the end I fed those blardy bloodsucking mosquitoes... the grand total for standing in one spot for 15 minutes.. is SIXTEEN unbelieveably itchy bites. check out the triad on my wrist area... there's another triad on my elbow.. but too difficult to contort my camera angle... yup... i know i am wu liao... but well, when u're miserable on a site visit... you'll start doing stupid things alright...
yes.. and I just realised that I'm blogging "today's" events on "tomorrow".. haha. oh well. I have to sleep soon... otherwise i'll be a goner tomorrow... Urban Design and CAD here we go...
I wanted to start my new blog over the New Year... but as usual time got away from me and I procrastinated. So here is the much belated 1st post that I was telling you all about. And well, wad'ya noe... it's the momentous first day of school, synonymous with hell semester... others have things known as hell week, well we at the department of architecture have hell semester. *dry laughter turning hysterical*
I took a look at the design brief this time around and well, let's just say divine intervention is required. As I was telling Lingwei today... a name change might be in order to change my fortune... haha. On the brighter side, Tzewei and I were trying to make ourselves happier with our nice studio space... I guess once we give it the lived-in look, things will start to look better.=P
And the above is an aerial view of my project site... the design brief is an international youth hostel, those backpacker types... so if any of you reading this have any ideas... please buzz me or leave a tag message... i'll be most grateful...=P
After a very wet and cold site visit... the bunch of us from studio 7 went to Maxwell for dinner... yumyum... and then I had to go make my way to SGH to see Zhen Hao who had an op today... poor thing... we'll definitely go visit you at your house okie...=)
And here we see the illustrious OC serving his men a cuppa milo... *guffaws* Clarence dear.. you don't quite look subservient enough... ROFL.
And here we have our poor patient acting cute...=) Yeap, it's good to see you're still the same old you even when you're not well... Get well soon! And I have to add that we had a good ole time suan-ing Von the Piggy as usual... who ask you to come so late and wake up so late.... 245... not pig then what... haha.... I tell you lar von... it has become a lifestyle habit for us... =P *runs aways from von*
I'm supposed to go meet the BH pple tomorrow, but honestly have no idea how to squeeze out the time... but sometimes no choice lar. juggle juggle. Please let us have good weather tomorrow! Otherwise our 2nd site visit will go down the drain together with the rainwater...
I'm going to post in excess today... cos got a lot of things that happened but I no time to blog... Christmas Eve... Penang... Darius's birthday.... Marcus's Birthday... yikes... hopefully can do it all fast...
and I shall go ask Von to add a tag board for me... hiaks hiaks... thanks in advance girl...=P
