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YearFourSemOneDayOne... or DayTwo~

yes. and I made it to less than a month after my last post. I wonder if anyone still actually reads my blog or am I rambling to myself in cyberspace.

Tho it's technically Tuesday, i'll talk in monday terms... after all the drama of balloting for tutors, this one good that one no good, that one go overseas that one useless etcetcetc... I settled on Mr Tay Kheng Soon... of Akitek Tengara... ( hope i got the spelling right..) and then it was praying time that I'll get him... and then thank the gods and goddesses la.. (altho it's too early to judge) i got him!

Welcome to MuzFloat studio... the brief being a floating community and all.. so i thought my own private moniker for our studio is quite apt since the students must try to float but our buildings must surely float... hahaha.

Anyway, it was the first day of studio.. and we were all waiting in trepidation for him to arrive... by reputation (my only tutor thus far that generates a lot of entries when you google him=P) and stories from seniors... we had a lot of preconceived notions about how his studio would be like... he was almost late for an hour cos he was meeting the vietnam pm and our pm at the istana... the coincidence zai loh.. my brother was there also... on some sembcorp business... shook hands with pm also... wah. up and coming loh my kor.. haiz. and see where i am? haha. that's a convo for another time...

back to studio... so the dean came in and asked us if tks was there yet... we were all like nope.. then dean go and contact etcetc... so we started studio at about 330pm... when like the F1 studio ended la.. hahaha. it was quite comical... when tks came in almost all of us stood up... like at attention like that... and true enough his first few questions we kinda predicted.. though there was no answer in sight la...

TKS: "So, how many of you here chose me as your first choice?"
~the whole class put up their hands... tks looks a bit gratified and says...
"so you know what you signed up for?"
~at which everyone looks furtively at each other and gives him a weak smile.
TKS qn 2: "So, how do you plan to inspire me?"
~total silence from all of us with uneasy shifting in seats, atmosphere hits a high in awkwardness... i think he takes pity on us and moves on to the next qn...
TKS qn 3: "Let me ask you, what do you think design is?"
~and you can see the wheels in everyone's minds start to turn furiously and try to come up with an answer that is not too fluffy and politically correct and it turns out the conclusion is architects are problem solvers and we are kinda a socialistic studio... hm.

studio then got more intense with an impromptu 1 hour sketch of our dream home... yikes. haven draw in donkey years la. then roundtable presentation loh... then thursday studio will be a painting of our names... "throw away all your preconceived notions, lessons, ideas!" "break away from the norm!" etc... we'll see how that goes.. *weak laugh*

we ended about 7plus maybe... with tks parting words, "thank you, today was not as bad as i imagined it would be." wow... xy and i were saying after that... we felt so gratified that we didn't suck as bad as he thought... haha. that sounds quite dramatic hor.. but it was like "wah! we don't suck! hahah. we got hope!"

All in all... i feel quite hopeful after today's first session... the brief is very interesting.. with little precedences to study.. so we dont feel like we are copying or adapting anything... which on one hand is tough to have no examples to learn from... but on the other hand... we'll probably change some of our design/studio habits..=) i like that.

here's to a good year four sem one.=)

posted by Wei Lin @ 4:40 AM