acer sucks
i’m blogging from my old toshiba laptop. fragile and obstinate it may be, but at least better than acer. acer sucks to the core!!
barely two weeks after the last repair, i have to send it in again for another repair. and what pisses me off is the kind of service methods used at the service centre. totally not customer-friendly can!! and i think no matter how many times they are going to change my motherboard, my laptop will still remain problematic.. that’s because i’m suspecting that their parts are not entirely new..
sigheth.. totally no more faith in acer products.. and in the meantime what am i to do? no laptop equals ULTIMATE BOREDOM!!
and school’s starting. part of me says i’m excited, the other says i’m not ready for another hectic semester because i’m NOT DONE partying!!
my throat hurts this morning again and has been for the last three weeks. i suspect nodules. if so, need to be removed. but i don’t know what’s stopping me from seeing a doctor/specialist..
i’m getting a new wardrobe tomorrow. it’s gonna be a lot bigger.. which means no longer need to squeeeeze clothes :)
actually come to think of it, without laptop is also good. because it’s so hard for me to stray away from it when i have it (i can stay by its side 24 hours!!), i figured i could do something else now that is probably more useful and which i have been procrastinating haha.
flower of evil
Is it you I keep thinking of,
Should I feel like I do,
I’ve come to know that I miss your love,
While I’m not missing you.
We run til it’s gone,
Et les fleur du mal,
Won’t let you be.
You hold the key to an open door,
Will I ever be free.
Les fleurs du mal unfold,
Comme les fleur du mal.
Dark demons of my soul,
Un amour fatal.
Been tryin’ hard to fight,
Commes les fleur du mal.
Les fleurs du mal inside,
Un amour fatal.
All my life I’ve been waiting for,
In this perfume of pain.
To forget when I needed more,
Of love’s endless refrain.
We live and we pray,
Pour les fleurs du mal,
I’ve lost my way.
What is done will return again,
Will I ever be free.
2009!!
goodbye 2008..
and thank you for alll the wonderful (and not so wonderful) moments haha. it has been a good year at school, at work, with friends, with family, with health and wealth. i hope 2009 will be as good if not better.
Happy new year to one and all. Here’s wishing all a great 2009!!
祝大家在新的一年里，身体健康，一切顺利！
Prosit neujahr!! Wuenschen alles familie und freunden einen guten Rutsch!! Haha. Ich muss heute abend viel Sekt trinken!!
Chúc mừng năm mới. Tôi tất cả các gia đình và bạn bè một năm trước.
witnessing the other side of the world..
she has no husband, no kids, no home.. every night she would sell rambutans and tangerines by the roadside, hoping for tourists and passer-bys to buy something.. she barely earns enough to support 2 meals.. her clothes, her hair clips, her shoes were saved from garbage bins.. at night, she sleeps, leaning against the tree trunk behind her..
kids out in the streets to sell tissue paper to make a living
this may sound ridiculous but i knew this place was haunted..
exam results
well.. as expected.
B+ for design.. partly due to the plywood group project which got slammed real bad.
and history.. i’ve always been weak in history.. so i’m satisfied with B+
but sustainable.. i thought i would get at least an A-.. sigh..
guess i have to work a lot harder next semester.. next semester, design is 12 MCs!!
and i’ve decided to push backward my application for exchange programme.. think i’ll use year 3 to prep my portfolio for RIBA and i’ve heard that it might be wiser to map modules in year 4??.. hopefully when the time comes to apply next year, there will be more choices to choose from and lesser competition!!
vietnam!!
vao cuoi thu’ hai cua thang mu’o'i hai, toi di thanh pho ho chi minh du lich. toi di du lich sau ngay nam ddem. sau khi toi di du lich viet nam, toi thich nguoi viet, mua o’ sieu thi va an mon an.
met familiar faces during my trip. traysy and ivan and their friends were on the same flight, and saw kat (the aki one) with her family at ben thanh market in ho chi minh. quite embarrassing lah because i was then bargaining and trying very hard to ‘money-squeeze’ the vietnamese sellers dry lol.
wanted to post some pictures here but one, there are so many nice ones from the thousands of pictures i took and so it’d take me eons to upload.. two, because i am lazy and i prefer to make a video compiling all these pictures in a sequence. this way, i can also show my friends and relatives during chinese new year..
so stay tuned!
slogans these days..
some dirty minds may get the wrong head.
OK!! F*** YOU!! F*** YOU!! CHICK GU!! CHICK GU!!
CHIKUNGUNYA!!
-_-.
cuckoo
a box.
roof. walls. door.
ventilation. drainage. natural lighting. eaves.
owlchitecture.
sometimes humans care more for animals than their own breed.
maybe we can learn how humans create architecture for animals.
mizejewski is one cool wildlife ambassador.
dicembre!!
exams have ended!!
how was it? .. let’s just say.. sustainable’s doable but history’s DIEable..
just came back from a noon run. horrible i tell you.. it’s so hot and halfway thru’ the run i needed to shit..
today’s mum’s birthday and i haven’t got her a pressie. think i’ll just take her out for a nice meal tonight :)
i don’t look forward to going back camp.
but i do look forward to leaving singapore the day after..
awake studying for exams..
i had loads of green tea haha. thanks dennis for that recommendation!!
i’m now wide awake like an OWL.. O.O..
oh did i mention while drinking green tea i’m being raped..
by none other than FRAMPTON.
YES writer frampton. that arsehole…
his brilliant yet incomprehensible and excessively-ornamented pots of flowery lexicon irks me and has advertently caused the bastardization of any pocket in my grey matter once infilled with a skillful inclination to analyze and comprehend the challenging.
see what i mean??
another arsehole is kusno.
WHY do they have to make me circumambulate around their text. it’s torturous!!
and it’s 2 days to history exam and i’m starting to feel really scared and unprepared..
help!!
to be with you..
I’ve been alone so many nights now
And I’ve been waiting for the stars to fall
I keep holding out for what I don’t know
To be with you
Just to be with you
So here I am, staring at the moon tonight
Wondering how you look in this light
Maybe you’re somewhere thinking about me, too
To be with you… there’s nothing I wouldn’t do
And I can’t imagine two worlds spinning apart,
Come together eventually
And when we finally meet I’ll know it’s right
I’ll be at the end of my restless road
But this journey, it was worth the fight
To be with you
Just to be holding you for the very first time,
Never letting go
What I wouldn’t give to feel that way
Oh, to be with you
And I can’t imagine two worlds spinning apart,
Come together eventually
And when you’re standing here in front of me
That’s when I know that God does exist
‘Cause he will have answered every single prayer
To be with you
Just to be with you, yeah
You
Ooooooh
The bad things in life always seem closer but good is always waiting around the corner. even if we are too blind to see it sometimes, it’s there as long as our hearts are open to recieve.
mixed feelings
relieved and happy.
crit’s over.
last two weeks was horrible and total spoilage. not even a day of at least 6 hours of sleep, rushing panels, models and more models.
but yesterday was a good 8 hours haha.
“drawings are excellent and the overall is thorough. it’s very very impressive especially for a second year. you have thought a lot for your project. but i wish the experience in that space could be more special and detailed more than generic. and the furniture or the experience could have been varied across the three wings. and your studies and concepts were interesting, but somehow you intention is still a bit weak.”
“the undulating profile of the roof on your drawing and your model.. not quite the same.. error of accuracy there perhaps?”
“i wish you had more time to develop on your furniture.. good that you managed to develop the structural aspect of your building. good. but your furniture on plan looks like carpark lots..”
those were my comments. and i think these were minor already. i’m happy i didn’t get slammed.
worried.
vietnamese oral screwed up big time.
history and sus.. don’t know how to study. one full of readings and another like don’t know what to study..
weird.
i’m not busy finally. being FREE is something i’ve never had in a long time. and even though i’m cleared of most of school work, i don’t feel relieved or like in any mood to CHEER.. i’m still a bit in that serious serious mood.. maybe it’s the post-semestral/post-crit thingy that will linger for a couple more days.. and then when i realize i’m super free, well except that i need to study for exams, i will have fun and i will enjoy having fun.. ;)
happy birthday pa. hope you like the carlsbergs.
december is coming.
this year has great plans!!
will anyone lend me his or face to practise?
la divina
i’m listening to her d’amor sull’ali rosee..
i have missed her and her voice..
the one and only maria callas.
help!!
i’m just writing about an issue i need to resolve..
should i go ahead with the current external structural supports for my building?? it makes the entire form more interesting, more striking, more structural, and customers on the second level will see a ‘columness’ interior.. sense of floating roof?? but that will mean customers approaching the building will look at these elements first!! and i remember in my process of design intentions, mine should emphasize on horizontality, on sleekness and thin layers.. which SHOULD be seen/felt/whatever by people first.. and also.. when i calculated the span-depth ratio, the column’s diameter was a horrific 37.5 cm!! well not an issue in general, but if juxtaposed with my sleek horizontal floors and roofs.. OMG.. it’s FAT AND UGLY.
now.. what if i recess the columns in the interior… customers from outside will NOT see them first, but the horizontal roof, floors, layers, etc.. like a huge floating leaf with an undulating profile of the roof as they approach the building or view it from afar.. and column diameter?.. only 15 cm!! structural calculations in a later part will be a lot easier haha.. but from the inside.. customers will see the columns.. or maybe it’s not so much of an issue?? if i will just locate them properly, it should still respect my design intentions right?? no jeopardize right?? oh but wait.. my form.. eeee..
sigh. me needs to think and analyze more.. and know what i want..
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