As promised~

yup, here's the..uh hem...the hunks......:P
Pic's a little noisy..guess the ISO was set too high cos the place was pretty dim. Better than nuthing. By the way, picture courtesy of Loong. ;)

On the first day of christmas...~

Christmas this year was spent with some good old friends in this tim sum restaurant in China Square. It's been quite a while since we gathered like this to celebrate Christmas. It seems almost as if we were back to our secondary and JC days, albeit some addition of new members to our 'TC' family. If i'm not wrong, the last time we spent Christmas was a mini gathering at my house. Back then, we already had a married couple. This year, another of my friend will be getting married coming June. And I'm still stuck here muggin for that 'hopefully I can get' Masters.

Anyway, we had the usual gift exchange thingy and I got myself an optical mouse courtesy of our up and coming Dr. John Wong. 10 years ago, who would have thought that the pioneer batch of sports class kiddos from AHS would produce doctor, engineers, accountants, officers and..erm..hopefully an architect (thats me :P)?? Its quite amazing that we are still together after all these time. Hopefully this will continue for years to come. Perhaps 10 years down the road, the 'TC' family might triple the current size!

Well, quite a few things coming up. First is the annual IHG...better win this time. Then..HOPEFULLY, I will be involved in the IVP competition. Not to mention a certain exhibition, which...again..HOPEFULLY will see our dear SM Goh to grace the event. Still have to explain to these big shots my design scheme...bleah...dun like this kinda thing, worse than crit... The memories of UM back in the June holidays still haunts me.

Anyway, wishing one and all a Merry Christmas and a wonderful year ahead...again.. :P

P.S. Stay tuned for pics of the hunks from the 'TC' family :P

Merry Christmas..~

It's the time of the year again. Don't really feel the mood this year. Hopefully next year this time I can experience a different Christmas somewhere in a snowing Europe. Anyway, wish you all a Merry Christmas and a wonderful year ahead~!

A night with the 'China Girl'

Almost a month since my last post. The 'highly' anticipated Technology workshop will be coming to a close coming friday. That will..hopefully officially mark the start of the holidays for all the poor aki souls out there.

Last nite, a little farewell party was set up for the parting Koreans. Managed to rent a boat at the Republic Singapore Yacht Club and some of us spent almost 6 hours swaying with the boat throughout the mini party. Good thing no one fell into the water.

My first post of a pic taken by me as I was approaching the boat. Not really a great shot cos the pier was shaking like crazy and i only managed to snapshot a couple of pics and this was..erm..the most presentable pic available...how sad.. :S still, enjoy the sunset view by the pier.

Guess who's that cockster in the pic :P

zouk anyone?

for those of you thinking of going to KL zouk to have a good time....you might wanna check out the following site before going there. There might be a tip or two on how to erm.... save yourself when necessary. :P

Here's the link:

http://zoukabuse.blogspot.com/2005/11/on-29th-of-october-my-fian_113156885692194273.html

its done~

Yes, the end of design for AY0506 and the start of mugging. You might think its the end after the exams, but unfortunately there is anther 2 weeks of 'Technology' workshop for us during the 1st half of the December holidays...or I shud say...workdays. Anyway, here's some selection of the renderings I did for my final project of the sem. Enjoy~!

face the self who said you cannot do it

Ever since life started in NUS, or rather the architecture department, I can feel myself drifting away from many many things. Because of the hectic schedules and commitments coming from all corners, I've stopped meeting many friends and many activities I usually do prior to life in NUS. I thought i could start everything anew and finally get a hold of myself. This is the third year now, and it seems as though I've achieved nothing much. Perhaps I've made a few new friends and gained some new and valuable experiences, but I'm losing the much of myself in return for these things.

This is something perhaps many of us are experiencing now, and yet we are either too busy to think about it or want to believe that there are better things to come. We will try to sink ourselves into the loads of activities happening around us, regardless if its work, friends, social activities whatever you can name it. We tend to believe that these are the things that make life, life. Its seems as though your life revolves around people around you, but why not the other way round?

I've started to do certain things I used to do and liked to do previously, and it feels really good doing so. For instance, I'm sitting down now thinking to myself about many things that have happened. I used to like to sit back and wonder whats the purpose of me doing here. Why are certain things this way instead of that. The only difference today is, i get to type out my thoughts on this blog.

Its puzzling but it feels good to take a step back from the crazily active world we live in today and enjoy the feeling of watching things past by and try to understand them instead of just be like one of them. When you take a step back and look at the world we live in , you'll realised many things. They are things not new to you but somehow, we don't really pay much attention to it. How people get happy, sad, cheated, surprised, loved and hated..all the emotional and physical aspects of life suddenly raced across you so quickly just like TV dramas. Its then you realised that it takes so much more to be involved in this ever changing complicated world. You will also realise you are nothing but an insignificant dot among the many other dots around you. You'll feel humbled, your ego level drops, the things you've once achieved are seemingly not even worth mentioned as insignificant. For me, its not a bad thing as when you bring yourself down to that level, the bad things that happened to you before are also seemingly becoming just as insignificant. Everything for a moment, seems to have been reset to the original status. You'll then feel that a new chance is given and new hope arises.

What I am trying to drive at here my friends, is to remind you that sometimes, we have to press the pause or reset button to take a break. Like what one of my friends mentioned, run away to a land far far away where there's nobody, cause that's where and when everything stops for you instead of you stopping for others. Find time to be with yourself. We have problems and obstacles every now and then and I'm not trying to tell you to escape from them but rather, you take a step back, away from them so that you can face them. We always have times that we think we cannot achieve or overcome certain things, but isn't it because we couldn't accomplish them that we are trying all over again. Whats left in life when there is no new challenges ahead? Don't be afraid to take that step, don't be disappointed if things don't turn out well cos failures like achievements are just as insignificant. I seem to be talking about 2 different things among the loads of rubbish I've crapped above. But that's because taking a step back does more than one thing to you.

'Face the self who said you cannot do it' This was a phrase I've came acrossed and come to learn today and made me wrote this tok cok session number 2. Best of all, I'm writing this during my studio session which i'm skipping for the day....haha....see what I mean by taking a break? :P '

k, I'm going off to town now to continue my break. Don't take my tok cok session so seriously that you think you'll see a totally new Chee Wee the next time you see me k? :P

cruise control...hopefully

Today marks the end of a series of major group projects that I've been doing since the beginning of this semester. Although there are many occasions that we will experience working in groups when we proceed to our working life in the real world, group work during in school doesn't necessarily mean it will help us in learning all the right traits to handle such situations in future. In school, there are always many problems and issues we face when working in groups. Whether if its difficulty in syncronizing our schedules, or is it just your plain bad luck in getting 'free riders' as your group mates, it always get on your nerves when things just don't go as planned. When you start to work, you'll probably be working with people from the same company, and schedules are likely to be easily syncronized. For that, you have one less problem to worry about. As for those slackers, well.... I always believe that some day, somehow, they will get what they deserve. Ok, that's just my perception and probably my compliants about working in groups.

Well lately, certain random thoughts of life just hint upon me. Guyz out there who knows about computer hardwares and its fluctuating prices will surely come across a time where you hold back your money in your pocket before splashing it on some gadget when 2 years down the road, they become obsolete and worthless. Like I've told many of my friends, if you believe that the price will drop in 3 months and you can steal a better deal, that's a big mistake. Simply because by that time, with the same amount of cash, you can purchase something that's of a newer technology. So does that mean you're going to wait for another 3 months? I always believe that when you have the ability to buy that particular object, you should buy it and don't look back. I'm sure the feeling of retail therapy more or less will satisfy you more than if you hold back and wait for another 3 months. There are always better and cheaper options somewhere somehow, but you won't happen to chance upon them all the time, even if you try really hard searching for it. Moreover, you might not have the money to buy that item in 3 months time as you might have splurged the money on some other things that are of less significance.

So why am I talking about this? Well, if you relate this to making decisions in life, its pretty much the same. Sometimes, you shouldn't ponder to much when making choices as the more you think, the more complicated things get. Moreover, time waits for no man. That's the lesson that I'm trying to draw from the 'buy what u like when you can' analogy. Like what Forest Gump said, ' Life is like a box of chocolate, you'll never know what you're going to get.' Indeed, you'll probably not know what's going to happen most of the time after making certain decisions in life. Still, if you think that it will make you happier by making this decision over the other, you shouldn't be bothered too much by other factors.

Ultimately, decisions you make should be one that leads to the most favourable outcome for yourself, or rather one that you'll feel good after making that decision. You have to be a little bit selfish sometimes in order to gain that happiness in life. Sounds really selfish and evil but well, don't apply it when you'll end up hurting or getting someone in trouble. Maybe everyone should adopt this mentality and we will not complain about our lives. So maybe we should think before we even make any complaints above how drastic our lives have turned to lately (applicable for aki students only :P), and ask ourselves, why did we choose this profession in the 1st place? Yes I know its only human nature for us to complain about life, and I'm one super complain king as well. But I guess, its probably time to take life on a different perspective, and start making decisions that you know you will find happiness instead of drudgery. After all, we only have a lifetime to live, so make the best out of it.

I still think I'll continue to complain though...:P

*end of tok cok session 1*

LOST Season 2

For all those 'LOST' fans out there, yes...season 2's out! Well...it can be found in the usual sources, can always ask me and I'll guide you to getting it. :P Anyway, long time since I last posted. Really busy and even though there was a one week break. Had to stay home water the plants and take care of my kitty cos my parents went to Korea for holidays....damn...wish I could go. Well, school starts again and the site for P2 so happened to be at Katong Park. Good for me cos i take 10 minutes just to reach there from home. Once again....INTERPRETIVE CENTRE. What's new rite. It's always pavilions, artist's centre, interpretive centres and interpretive centres.... talk about creativity. Think the tutors in aki needs it more than the students do.

Anyway, kinda got glued to this Japanese drama showing on channel U lately. Its called 'PRIDE'. I'm sure most of you have heard about it. So what's so interesting about this show. Well, briefly its about this guy and gal whom they actually played this 'temporary couple' game while the gal waits for his long lost boyfriend to come back and marry her. Sounds corny and old fashion ay? But the setting is actually quite modern with the lead actor being an ice hockey player. Other than the interesting story line, there is always the packaging factor that draws the viewer, and what else can be better than having Yuko Takeuchi as the lead actress. My she's pretty. Seriously, she's coming quite close to my dream gal :P Here's a portrait of her i drew few years back. Not very flattering on how she look so i added another pic of her to let you guys check her out. Hmmz..maybe I should find time to start my portrait drawing again....IF only there's such luxury of time available. By the way, the theme song by Queens, ' I was born to love you' rocks too. Do check out the show if you have the time. 7.30pm every Monday and Tuesday on Channel U. bleah...I sound like some TV guide suddenly..k...8 o'clock lecture coming up next...time to hit the bed

end of the horrendous project....

yes...our dear invisible toilet project will be officially an issue of the past by tomorrow this time, that is after our crit for P1. Well, never had i struggle so badly to finish a project since the days of UM.. :P Lets hope this shall be the last time I'll ever be involved in late submission. By the way, here's a rendered picture of our project...which took me a painstakingly 8 hours long worth of rendering time...

Anyway, when most of my studio mates were enjoying themselves at walas the very night we submitted our P1, I was still bugged by the ever boring, useless, time consuming, cap affecting, dumb and stupid module call HR3003..whatever... We were supposed to hand in this 3000 words essay coupled with a 20 minutes long mini lecture to be presented during today's tutorial. It really sucked big time. I finally gave in and knocked out this morning and concussed for around 3 hours before i woke up to realise that there's still quite a bit of the presentation to be prepared before we go out there to land the biggest smoke bomb of the year. 3 hours of torturous boring crap... and a tutor whom looked..erm...have a look urself....juz right below...

Yes...that's my HR tutor....and doesn't she reminds you of Edna from 'The incredibles'? Isn't it incredible? :P This really strengthen my belief that certain characters are not entirely fictional. The creator must have seen them somewhere somehow and...WALA...the producers of 'The incredibles' must have attended HR classes in NUS!! I feel a little bad posting this pic 'cos she's really quite an understanding tutor who had been trying her best to blend into our generation though...erm...it didn't turn out very well. But I couldn't bring myself not to show this to everyone~ :P k...so much for after almost a week without any post. Holiday's round the corner, time to slow the pace a little and take a deep breadth and ready myself for the coming P2. K, need to sleep...having a throbbing headache at the moment...aftermath from those uncountable sleepless nitez... ZZzzz.z.....

the human torch...human hand torch to be exact

ok...I'm freaking shag out now but then...I'm still awake at this freaking hour...3:13am to be exact...hmms...interesting numbers again. Well, this goes out to KX as he seemed to be pretty much affected by the 11:11 syndrome I've mentioned yesterday. Guess what? I've witnessed for myself the legendary human torch today right in our BU lab this morning!!

Life sucked as usual today as I've to drag myself to SDE at 9:30...ok..I was late...10:15am .. to do the wind tunnel test with KX. We had a hard time setting up the smoke the previous round. So today, KX came out with a little cardboard box to confine and direct the smoke and it worked~!! The smoke was stronger and in fact, getting stronger by the minute as we carried out the test. Even the dear Lab uncle was amazed by the amount of smoke we managed to create UNTIL.... ' hey, ur styrofoam's melting and I think your box is on fire~' came out from him that we realised ... OMG...THE WHOLE BOX'S ON FIRE!! The 1st thing KX did was valiantly grabbed the box out and WALA....the WHOLE BOX was totally consumed by the flame, and along with KX's hand some where in between. Yes...that's what the human torch thingy was all about. Kaoz.... KX was literally HOLDING RED HOT FLAMING FIRE IN HIS HAND! Surprisingly, KX got off without a scratch. Not so sure about a burnt though.

Anyway, if it wasn't for the Lab uncle who noticed the burning box...we'd probably will be missing a building or 2 from SDE. Come to think of it now...DAMN...we should have just let that happen... BURN DOWN SDE...LET THEM BURN IN HELL... :P

Oh yes, we've kinda squeezed out the invisible toilet thingy and cross our fingers...IT BETTER WORKS!

numbers of the day --- 11:11

Wonder how long this novelty of bloggin' is going to last for me. Anyway, nothing much interesting about my current state of existence 'cos I'm staying alive only because I've to do design. Something a little new today though. Me and Kexiang actually attempted to carry out this little test on what I'm too lazy to explain....well my 1st pic here right above...yes Johnny, I'M POSTING MY PICTURE LEH~! :P Anyway, we tried our luck with the wind tunnel test today but it didn't turn out well, so another session of 'trying our luck on the wind tunnel test machine' has been scheduled later at 0930hrs....and I'm bloggin now.

K.. before I start feeling guilty and stop this nonsense, do check out these four numbers. -->11:11 I've been seeing this number over and over again for almost...4-5years I think. There's actually a spooky explanation to this.For those who have been experiencing this, search google and you'll be able to find out what its about. Its kinda ...erm...you'll know what I mean after doing the search...:P

and so there was the toilet.....

How many variations are there to designing a toilet? Thousands some might say.
How many variations are there to designing an INVISIBLE toilet....? God knows....

Well...and so there was the toilet...the toilet problem me and my group mates have encountered after our not so swift encounter with the ex-president of SIA during our design studio today...my oh my is he a king of the smoke~!! Apparently, he never realised that there was a certain gap between the so-call level of intellect between a student and a practitioner. Now we are stuck thanks to his comments on how exciting our design can be, IF we ever get what he proposed done..... so who's in for the exhibitionists' style washroom? OPEN FOR ALL TO SEE...bleah....thank god he's not any of our crit...

my first post~~

Kinda wierd, but after watching this Japanese Movie titled, ' Crying out Love, in the centre of the world', it makes some sense for me to find a place to leave part of my thoughts and memory so that one day, I can look back and reminiscence the feelings of yesteryears. Its really quite a well thought out script and somehow echoes to the world that, memories are all that's left when one leaves this world.

Another captivating line from the movie was from this 'Uncle Shige', when he actually told the heartbroken Saku that heaven was a place created by the living in order to give them the slightest hope of reuniting with their past away loved ones when its their turn to go there.

Photography also played a major role in the show. Time freezes each time a picture is taken. Moments that will never be repeated again can only be preserved by this marvelous invention call photos. Perhaps its time for me to find more time taking pictures than wasting my brain cells thinking of reasons to 'smoke' for design.... i don't wish for time to stall, but at least more time for me to take a step back and grab hold of my life...bleah...