These are photos taken UNKNOWINGLY by tiffy using my phone... The first day of school dinner at kim gary (secretly yawn!)


B!


He really has a huge head.

Had visit to 9, Jalan Siap Road a house with 35 years of tenure left.

Which is why alot of the house was built with the old house's rafters and tiles. A fine example of a building made with reused materials. The house cost 800K. Don't be deceived by it; the low cost was due to the fact that the owner is the contractor. Diao.


These are the old materials...


And this is the house (the fence is also made from reused wood)


The feature wall/fence is made from roof tiles (if I didn't hear wrongly) laid stages by stages ON SITE.


Mrs Tse and whats-his-name lecturer during our archi con in year 1 behind her




Cool car porch without cables to tie back or any of that nonsense




Courtyard! (But the wife demanded the well to be covered up with glass (DIAO.)


Terrence(our part time tutor's) designer chair and table




Ronchamp windows at stair landing (btw each thread and riser of the stair was manually measured and customised wth


Vintage window handles!


These railings are made from the old rafters!


Attic-ish ceiling of the son's room (psst: they are planning to install a ladder to make it accessible up there! how cool is that.)


Is this the IN thing now in private houses? V has the EXACT same "tub" at her place


Check out the column on the outside the groove is DELIBERATELY made and the texture is made with a COMB.


Exposed ceiling/roof of the 3rd floor meant for BBQing and Mahjonging wa lau... really looks very good.

The reason why I showed these photos is actually cos I think my phone camera ROCKS!!!!

Whoops! 4th post! :D

Just forgot to add, to benefit those who are reading my blog (HA HA) these are a few useful links:

http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/docs/undergrad/avg_sim.htm
Website to calculate your average grade to score to obtain desired CAP

https://aces01.nus.edu.sg/examResultSlip/login.jsp
Website to obtain your result slips online

https://online.sde.nus.edu.sg/SSTS/
Website to find out your current CAP and if you have met the requirements to graduate

And here is a list of projects since year 1 till present (for portfolio submission):

Year 1 Sem 1:
-Line Drawing (1 pencil, 1 inked)
-Plan, Section, Elevation, Isometric, Axonometric of Zoo/Neil Road
-Free Expression
-4 Hour Design of Contemplation Space
-Precedence Study
-Design of Car Workshop for Bachelor

Year 1 Sem 2:
-*Scape Design
-City Hall/ Supreme Court (Macro scale Design)
-Design of Art Gallery

Year 2 Sem 1:
-Sound Sculpture (Pair Work)
-Sound Sculpture (Team of 4 people)
-Design of Hall of Fame/Heritage Centre etc in Kent Ridge/Serapong/Labrador/Fort Canning

Year 2 Sem 2:
-4 Hour Design for Reducing Carbon Footprints
-Design for Creative professionals at Wessex

Year 3 Sem 1:
-Sustainability Workshop
-Design of Tiong Bahru for 3 tier family
-Design of Sacred Space

Please fill me in if I forgot something...

YES! *punches fists into air like Maria Sharapova*

Third time blogging in a month! WOOOT!

School finally started yesterday. Right smack in our faces: Technology report, Site analysis, Study Trip to SMU (spasms), Portfolio review, SKETCHUP session (double spasm). And that's just starters.

Tomorrow will be the 26th month anni with Lloyd. I think we've never even done anything memorable, except eat walk talk. zzzz. We pretty much lead very uninteresting lives as a couple. Being a cuckoo he FORGOT to bid for his CORE MODULES. Today is the final round and he asked me to bid for him. Since Singtel to Singtel sms is officially free now here are our texts

L: Call me when u bid for me?
L: Help me show hand k?
X: Wad u doing now?
L: i at lib now. i worried juz checked my cors it says not available for bid but the chart says can
X: I bid for u already.. sometimes it happens to me too.
L: ya i noe i check le but its not in the table 4 current mods avail 4 bid.
X: What is table 4? Mayb the round over a few hours ago?
L: it ends at 5 right?
X: Really ah? I didn't check wad time it ends. Pls don't worry k? i already bid for u. worse comes the worse u take it next sem?
L: ok what time the results out u noe?
X: I also didn't check (shall I include at this point of time I was getting irate) Ok i check everything for u now k. i'll msg u again later.
L: issit ok? sorry...
X: it'll close at 5pm and results will b out at 11pm. zoom in this pic to see your modules that ive bid? *attaches print screen of CORS module management*
L: oh man... you're the best...

It's the pits loh.

In other news, the exchange people are back in Singapore. Some I miss and some I don't (you know who). Speaking of exchange, I really hope I will get to go for it next sem though I know a million people applied for it.

I forgot to add in my previous post another resolution:

10.Try my best to be punctual!

I'm damn proud to say that I've successfully posted a second post! Great start to keeping my resolutions!

For those who've noticed the facebook... DON'T WORRY! nothing happened! It's just that my sis and bro are trying to add me to facebook and they don't know about it yet so I remove it first ma. Will put it back soon!

Speaking of facebook, I came across this article by Joel Stein of Times about facebook, it's really funny, take some time to read it if you're interested:

"You are not my friend- Yes we're on Facebook. But I don't care about your cat. And stop poking me" by Joel Stein

In the pre-internet days, neither of us would have even thought of calling each other friends. We'd have called ourselves friends of friends who met once once and yet, for some reason, kept sending each other grammatically challenged, inappropriately flirty letters with photos of ourselves attached. Police might have gotten involved.

But now we're definitely friends, having taken a public vow of friendship on friend-based websites, wearing a metaphorical friendship bracelets on the earnest Facebook, the punky MySpace, the careerist LinkedIn and the suddenly very Asian Friendster. As if that weren't enough friendship for you, some of you have also asked me to be friends on the nerdy Twitter, the dorky-elitist Doostang and the Eurotrashy hi5. You message me and comment about me and write on my walls and dedicate songs to me and invite me to join groups. More than once you have taken it upon yourself to poke me.

This is hard to say to a friend, but our relationship is starting to take up too much of my time. It's weird that I know more about you than I do about actual friends I hang out with in person- whom I propose we distinguish by calling "non-metafriends". In fact, I know more about you than I know about myself. I have no idea what my favourite movie or song or TV show is. Last I checked, they all involved Muppets.

Also, you're abit aggressive in our friendship. Would a non-metafriend call me up and say "Hey! Guess what? I have a bunch of new pictures of me"? Or tell me he'd coloured in a map of all the places he'd ever been? Or inform me, as Michael Hirschorn did in his Facebook status update, that he is "not making decisions; he's making surprises"? It's as if I suddenly met a new group of people who were all in the special classes.

The horror is, I can't opt out. Just as I can't stop making money or my non-metafriends will have more stuff than I do, I can't stop running up my tally of MySpace friends or I'll look like a loser. Just as money made wealth quantifiable, social networks have provided a metric for popularity. We all, oddly, slot in at a specific ranking somewhere below Dane Cook.

I'm sure social networks serve many important functions that improve our lives, like reconnecting us with old friends and finding out if people we used to date are still good-looking. And social networks all have messaging functions, which would be an excellent way to send information if no one have invented email.

But really, these sites aren't about connecting and reconnecting. They're a platform for self-branding. Old people are always worrying that our blogging and personal websites and MySpace profiles are taking away our privacy, but they clearly don't understand the word privacy. We're not sharing things we don't want people to know. We're showing you our best posed, retouched photos. We're listing the Pynchon books we want you to think we've read all the way through. We're allowing other people to write whatever they want about us on our walls, unless we don't like it, in which case we just erase it. If we had that much privacy in real life, the bathrooms at that Minnesota airport would be empty.

And like the abrasively direct ads for tinctures and cleaning products at the beginning of the advertising age, our self-branding is none to subtle. We are a blunt lot, in our bikinis and our demands that our friends go right now to check out our blog postings. We've gone 40 years back, to sales tactics predating irony, self-deprecation and actual modesty. We are, as a social network, all so awesome that we will soon not be able to type the Number 1, because we would have worn out the exclamation point that shares its key.

LOL. I seriously doubt anyone will notice this post at all. I have whipped up a brand new template for the blog but I can't seem to be able to push the bloody tag board down to go beside the picture!@#$%^

These are my new year resolutions:

1.LOSE WEIGHT. Alot. That means being disciplined in less food and more exercise!
2.Work f***king hard for this RIBA semester. No more repeating!
3.No more designing on contours! Everything FLAT! (does not apply to my boobies)
4.Pull my C.A.P up higher by 0.02.
5.Be less volatile towards everyone and everything.
6.Be more organised (in an obvious way to avoid getting accused of being messy)
7.Keep a minimalist lifestyle: throw away and recycle everything I don't need!
8.Read more about everything that's going on around the world; stop rolling eyes at every piece of global warming article.
9.Blog more.

Ok I guess that's about it... Always aim low people!
The models in Jon's blog looks good. He promised me an Edison Chen autograph but I think it's gonna be tough.