Feeling emo

This is the Merdeka post i supposed. I understood the meaning of LONELY at this particular time. Clock almost strikes 12 when i was writting and will pass 12 after i finished this.

Cannot think of what more meaningful to do other than writing myself a post here. Happy merdeka myself. Self Merdeka quoted. I am 22 and it should be a long time ever since i learn to live in this world. I am so OLD and there is more days ahead. How am i going to make it wonderful?

My dinner was burnt down as of my clumsiness again. Forgot abt the corn and in the end, a black corn is what i have. A lesson again, my dear SUEANN.

The four days of holidays is used to do my report and presentation. Gosh, studio havent really figure out. My phobia i guess. I do not know from where to start it out.

HAPPY MERDEKA to myself. Just for this very moment. :P

Merdeka from mind over someone who been in my mind for almost one weeks. It is time to let off. I cannot figure out what that feel was but it was too confusing after all. Ya. It is time to let it off as of the different world. A simply different one. I meant to.. gosh.. let off is better...... it is just fantasie after all..

Emo with ning baizura -selagi ada cinta.. GOSH> getting more and more emo in this merdeka.. Happpy merdeka.. Is time back for works!!!

I will.. never love.. never emo over..............Felt i am such a childish one..

SIgning off

SueAnn

Why i do? Been escaping from the tiny world of blog since then. Ever since, last month? haha..

UPM do has the story. We was on one week holiday due to the quarantine. That was a nice outbreak anyway. The day before the break of the news, we were rushing the assignment like hell. Non stop of photoshopping and autocadding. And just a day before the submission, we were announced to break free, break out, break up with our assignments. We had an extra week for free.
Arigatou H1N1 after all.

And the day after the outburst of the news, up the hill we go. Thru, it was an inconsiderate thing to do, we did that. Were pretty proud for being at the hill and yet, we completed the task finally.
This is a post straight away after the presentation.

Feeling : Relieved, regret, happy

It was a rush presentation anyway. Mr. meor was all the way like this @ @... haha.. But at least i tried to finish my board using computer finally without manual.. there is a number of people i would like to address my thanks. My mum for all the food she cook, my sis for all the reminder she gave, dad for de cool advice- hentam la, my facebook entertainer, Coursemate, and lecturers.. Almost everyone. Sound like a speech after the award winning. :P

One sad news, Sg might not be in list anymore as we cant get through the H1N1. We have to sneak in if we wanted. No one is responsible again. After all, our lecturers still treat us as kids. Just pray HK trip will not be affected as well. Rain rain H1n1 go away.....

Grown up kid react differently this days. So different. Cant even know what he she thinks. haiz.

Bye DNA, thx DNA, for being once in my life. :P

Along the waiting ....

When you waited too long, it get fed up..

These happened for the past two weeks. It is time to wake up and face the reality. The reality that stand by myself for the two weeks. Hope flow in at times yet, it just procrastinated one to stop and wait longer. The illusion that given is all fake. It is upsetting but that's life. You take and give. There is dreams that we share and all these were impossible. How i wished that was possible.. But that is still impossible no matter how positive I am..

Submission.. Back in action.

the began of first two week...........

Finally, i get my free night. Over the last two week, it was all about rushing here and there. Assignment never stop assigned to kill us ever since the past two week. Almost every night, i made my own panda eyes. But, not only complain, started to learn more about life.

The hardwork does pay off at times. Finished the assignment and able to pass up it. Although there is much more room of improvement yet, i have done that holiday assignment with bonus which is the sarawak holiday. Talking about Sarawak, it finally ended. Have to learn to love reality. Practical training was a worth thing to be enjoyed. Ours is definitely different from others. It is a break from architecture in a fun way. Meeting the fun people and fun activites. In the future, if i ever looked back, the experiences will never removed from the mind. Will not unless Parkinson attacked. Haha.

Today will be a break day from sketches, conceptual, CAD, model and others. No architecture night and just me and myself and my interest. reading blog and watching as much drama as I can. But with ONE condition, tomolo, i have to stick myself on the chair and start drawing the needed thing for crit submission on monday.

Second project : An expression of personality on a Pavilion.

This project is different than other project. A new feel as now we are allowed to express what we really want. Our own design setting. My personality...
Stubborn, restless, cheerful, and stubborn again. How to really reinterpret this into my cool pavilion? Something rigid , dynamic or something soft, curvy.? Let's think again tomolo.

Going to singapore soon. For class trip. The last trip was 4 years ago for the Xmas. The orchard road is a memorable place. The place that i found the wild me. I love partying with stranger on the particular day. Weird interest. But with Chinese only, it really make me felt chinese. Look like I have to save more and more money for the coming trip. Not only singapore but hong kong for next year. Architecture student is poor student.

Ok.. time to catch back my drama... Hail..

A new chapter of life

Finally I am back from kuching. It bring both feelings. Happy for being at home at last and sad for leaving a place that became mine for approx 3 mths. The unusual feel of not meeting such a big crowd need time to heal. This two month has brought us so much closer. From someone that is formal became someone that can joke all the time. It really take time to build such relationship but sad to say, it is hard to maintain. We might bump into each other like we just knew each other. After all, this is life. You come and go in everyone's life.

MJ is gone. The reaction that people gave is.. WOW.. why treasure only if it is lost? While he is alive, there is people that judge him and when he gone, all these gone and it turn to be something else. When human gone, the story also gone. LOST + GONE = treasure. guess that is it..

Man in the mirror- reflection- i guess this is the best song to see humans. when you feel lost, sad or

Judgement day

Judgement day.

Judgement is another aspect of life that i discovered. A simple person might not be as simple as he or she look like. It back to the simple rule that everyone
did have their mask. Mask to reveal the true side of them. These mask are terrible weapon as we cannot judge how the true and false side
of a reality. It get pretty scary at times. Not pretty but really scary. And it felt horrible when you thought you understand someone but actually, you didnt.
Not at all. Things doesnt turn on the way it supposed.

Upset to the most. Back to the basics rule. You may be high at the wheel and down at the next minutes. You might hate someone for today, forget them tomorrow. And hate them
again the next day. But when it come to someone with faces, it became hard. You will never know when the face is true and when is false, and you
just get mad for not able to judge that. You angry with yourself because of poor judgement.

Guess finally i understand why it is easier to get along with people of same key. Good people stay in group and bad people in their group.
Bad people like me is worth to be hate anyway. It is punishment after all. Honest and simple people often mistaken for their faces. And i
terrible did mistakes with my naked eyes. Sorry for being so. Sad for being blind all the time.

People have right to be what they suppose to be. Everyone did. But at certain limits, they should be true to themselves at least. Nothing should be
a reason to the deed behind everything. Well, maybe there is some reason. Affection is not a least item. Who will said no to love? Bear in mind even you want to
appear the best in front of someone you like, be yourself. Do not change yourself for that someone. After all, poor judgement lead to many misunderstanding and regret that you cannot retrieve at the
end of the day. To call off the day, be true to yourself, my friends.



Signing off
Under the cloud.

SECOND REVIEW

UN studio project just caught my eyes. Browsing through the web and discover some design. It is not extreme yet it stands for its purpose in a striking way. From buildings to chairs just like the Barcelona chair by Mies Van Der Rohe. The different is the chair design and name. MYchair does has it purpose as a seat just like Barcelona. The fact is when you are an architect, you never run away from designing anything useful in daily life. Anything not only buildings.

MOMEMA in Dubai by UN studio is a more tender idea compared to Frank Gehrys. The exploration of space is a great. Its interior somehow is not that expressive as the exterior. It tends to adapt another style. A style more to Daniel Libeskind. Yet to said, the MOMEMA does stand great in Dubai along with other vertical growing buildings.

UN studio also has the Star facade in Taiwan - Technically acting as a sunscreen and weather barrier the curved facade is fully glazed and combines the curtain wall glazing with horizontal lamellas and vertical glass fins. The position and size of each of the façade elements are derived from a twisted frame system, which is related to the interior organisation of the building. The concave front of the building displays different fluent forms when seen from varying distances and directs the visual field of the customers traveling on the spiraling escalators. Edge-lighting for the vertical glass fins spreads soft colours onto the façade by night. The lighting intensity and colour effects are digitally controlled and choreographed adding another layer of fluidity to the building’s skin.
That was the review of the facade of the building. The building depends on the exterior to make it tally with other buildings. It still represents Taiwan in a new way. The idea is there.

UN studio make its debut in the labratory. Science is no longer the same with this building. Some of Zaha Hadid first impression as in the Montepelliar building. It looks familiar to one of the building in final project either.
The research labroratory - The facade is constructed from flat, vertical aluminum slats, which, in places, are twisted outwards in bowed forms. Tall, vertical undulations are generated, which present an open or a closed aspect depending on the angle under which they are viewed. On the lower level the colour yellow is used, which gradually changes to green towards the top of the building. In the interior, two internal vertical voids allow daylight to enter the interior functioning as a form of internal facade. The two voids have the geometry of asymmetrical truncated cones which mirror each other vertically. Shared walkways surround these internal voids, creating a clear organisation whereby dark corridor systems can be avoided. On the ground floor, where daylight is at its lowest, yellow is used. Per floor this colour then deepens through to orange and finally to red on the uppermost level.

The next project : The design for the Theatre Spijkenisse focuses on the placement and orientation of the building in the urban location, whilst simultaneously providing architectural solutions for programming needs and public access. The placing of the programmes within the building aims for efficient routing through the theatre, coupled with a logical relationship to the surroundings, whilst the design and placement of the various volumes make use of the natural variations in the levels of the site. The two main theatre spaces are positioned to receive the visitor flow directly from the foyer and the public square. From the foyer, a sculptural stairway forms the binding element towards the entrances to the theatre rooms. The theatre cafe is located adjacent to the nearby water and is designed as a third theatre, in the form of an amphitheatre.

The building is structured to combine a unit-based volume (the black box of the theatre) and a series of movement-based volumes (foyer and public circulation). Because this organising principle is made constructive, a fluent internal spatial arrangement is actualised, efficiently connecting spaces to each other. The multipurpose auditorium can seat up to 450, and that is adaptable to a great variety of performances. The free-flowing space of the foyer is made possible by a spiraling constructive element that connects the entrance to the auditorium and to the music rooms above, thus welding together ‘with a twist’ the three levels of this side of the building. This twist forms a 3D interpretation of the repetitive pattern, executed in the muted tones of stage make-up, which is applied to the facades and then enveloped by a glittering mesh.

Colourful just like a building in Kuching by DNA. The Boulevard shopping centres that look simple during the day and lighting make it alive at the night. Brilliant idea for sharp effect and minimalism cost. Credit to Mr. William. Haha.

Rhino facade strip from UN studio is not a bad idea after all. The moving lines do potray every single space well. As it is unique that a megayacht shipyard allows publicity regarding their design and manufacturing process.

The Burnham Pavilion in Chicago is not a bad term either. The shape is smooth and it just looks nice from the picture itself.

Out There: Architecture beyond Building
There is a distinct dystopian thread running through Out There: Architecture Beyond Building that leaves you more concerned about the mental health of the exhibitors than the world they attempt to critique.
Its curator and director of the Architecture Biennale Aaron Betsky tasked around two dozen international architects to produce a piece — not of architecture, but about architecture — to explore how the profession can domesticate technological systems to make people feel “more at home in the modern world”.

The majority of the exhibitors are showing in the Arsenale, a 300m-long, 10m-high linear procession of large rooms in what was the city’s old rope works. The scale and character of the installations they have produced suit this windowless space well, but those expecting the shock of the new may be disappointed. Many of the pieces, knowingly or otherwise, have a space-age rhetoric that has become instantly recognisable.

Moving through the first space, David Rockwell’s and Jones/Kroloff’s Hall of Fragments, is a bit like going through a kaleidoscopic egg timer. Projected onto two large screens that in plan curve towards each other are fractured images from a hundred classic films, from Hitchcock’s North by North-West to Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. These filmic fragments follow your progress as dynamic shards, even coalesce around you if you pause for a moment, but melt into nothing once you leave your seat.

Other architects explored interactivity such as Barkow Leibinger’s Nomadic Garden, where laser-cut tubular steel pieces of various heights can be reconfigured by visitors throughout the duration of the biennale. Its description as an “ephemeral version of poché” chimes with other gaming metaphors in the show such as the computer game that models interactive planning processes by MVRDV, and the installation organised on a giant chessboard by Penezic & Regina. Here, the rigid logic of a game, with its necessary abstractions and clear-cut rules, hints at the dehumanising approach to architecture that is one of the show’s major themes.


One of the high points is Nigel Coates’ Hypnerotosphere which, taking the obverse approach, puts human experience at its centre.
A suspended screen creates a circular enclosure, inside which are fleshy pieces of furniture, loosely suggestive of a domestic interior. Projected onto the screen are two interacting male dancers interspersed with images of the Corviale, the doomed mile-long housing block on the outskirts of Rome. The suggestion is that architecture should amplify, not disrupt, such lines of human desire.

But elsewhere, images of domesticity have a darker agenda. UN Studio’s installation of three interconnected white chambers, for example, aims to evoke feelings of emptiness and alienation, The pessimist undertow really reaches full strength with Matthew Ritchie’s and Arand/Lasch’s “anti-pavilion” which “inverts the obsolete technocratic optimism usually associated with pavilions.” Its creators suggest that the truncated polyhedral shapes, which can be scaled up and down and attached together in limitless different ways, could be multiplied across the universe.

This notion of infinity is extended by Patrik Schumacher, who wants us to imagine an urbanism where “there are no more landmarks to hold onto, no axis to follow and no more boundaries to cross.” Both these practitioners, with their emphasis on multiple centres, reveal their profound interest in the network society. And yet these endless, amorphous propositions seem far too literally inferred from the immense scale of emerging global communication systems.

Betsky’s view, that we are controlled by technology and imprisoned by architecture, is certainly popular within a certain wing of the architectural intelligentsia, but is it true?

Technology will increasingly marginalise architecture as the means to connect people in the 21st century, and it would have been great to see a show that explored more convincingly how the profession can help shape the merging of virtual and real worlds in a positive way. But in deliberately ducking the thorny question of building, the show fails to place architecture firmly, materially, and imperatively on this territory. The ideas are too frequently so tentative, so ungrounded in reality, as to offer little insight.

At the end of the main Arsenale exhibition hall, out to the left, are a handful of pavilions for nations too new or too small to yet have a place in the Giardini. One of these, the Croatian Pavilion, has as its motto: “We are positive we can destroy our world, yet we do not easily give up the idea that we can improve it. Into the sea of possibilities we jump and swim.” You can’t help wishing that more of the exhibitors had grabbed their trunks and dived in too.

Fresbies

DNA, made up of juicy vegetable and fruit that everyone will want to dress their salad up. Under one roof, the open concept office is well portrayed. You sit in the corner and your working area is just in front of the boss. Doors are not welcomed in DNA. It restricted the flow of people or to be known as roadblock. DNA never stand for the deoxyribonucleic acid or the ribonucleic acid. It stand for the bunch of architects that will never called themselves nerd or the other way. Well, or course, the bosses are not nerdy at all.

DNA by the four main tress partner was establishes in 2000. The most happygolucky is Wong Kiong. His word can be heard from one end to another. He doesn’t look like someone who can judge but his voice is. From the senior, Wong Kiong expected a lot from trainees too. It might turn out to be a nightmare of long working hours to people who work under him.

The humorous, the cute boss. He can joke well when he know you are joker like him. Haha. This man is not simple at all. Although he might look simple at times, but when come to work. He can be the controller. He knows how to bring a scene to alive with his free hand sketches. Amazing. And of course, he looks like a dad to us over the time. The poor kids from west Malaysia tend to get his attention and to certain, it is a bit unfair to the rest. But we did enjoyed.

The next is the enthusiasm and cool boss known as William. Cool when you find out that he can talk about movie with you all the time. Even the alien vs monster of his version to the terminator nor startrek. Music is a must to him. You will notice the boss did the youtubing during work. Only for the sound. His drawing is another thumb up. You will be stunned to be standing in front of him looking every single line he drawn. A prince charming for some. Quoted.

And the lastly, the legend How. Legend as we rarely in contact with him. But we do hear stories about him. Someone that look quiet but indeed was told social able. He likes to go for movie. If anyone interested in movie, tag him along. And his birthday is on May. There the legend goes.

Under the trees, bunch of fruits are blooming.

To be continued.

Review 1

A life without motive is senseless. Images flowed from one side to another. The world will evolve even without any of us. This is the sense of reality. To live in an invisible world was not a matter of desire but the belief. Survive and well adapted to the surrounding.

Just like buildings. Buildings come in many shape and form that make their identity. Thanks to the architects and partners. A sustainable building is not all about the love at first sight. It takes time to get on to know a building well. Just like how you get to know your friends.

But there is a fact that, when you are famous, everyone will look high upon you. Talk about Norman Foster, Kengo Kuma, Daniel Libeskind , Tadao Andao or our own lady, Zaha Hadid. They sort of becoming brand nowadays. Brand that everyone go onto like NIKE, ADIDAS, PUMA or REEBOK and etc. As a Adidas lover, the Japanese architect became my favour. Simple and elegant without fuss.

Grab a book on Kengo Kuma today. His design well, there is a scheme at least. He prefers to indulge all bamboo and natural things in his building. Well, it turned to be aesthetic but the book don’t only show the picture but the story. It tells about how hard the bamboo are cultivated, preserved, and maintained. If the bamboo was such a hard case, why choose it at first hand? This is a lesson learnt from the book and the architect. We should not choose a simple or easy way from the beginning. When everyone thinks it is impossible, then it is a sign to possible. This lives our life to the fullest.

Read my sister tiny little blog today. She has grown up a lot. Not the little girl i used to cheated on. Definitely different. Of course, felt ages flow like running tap water.

Signing off.

Relief.

Ignorance

Define selfish.

I really wanted to know it so well.
It is an act that ignoring others as long as the mission accomplished.
And the result is : The selfish one is happy without guilt.

The one being left out have another different experiences and perception toward the selfish one.
It became a lesson to judge people. Just an act and you know your friends around. Through it is hurt at that moment but it just teach you to see people differently. Thanks for teaching me that.
i dont learn from trance but you guys. Grateful perhaps.

review of someone

The architecture never end there as easy as what expected.

Talking about architecture that became part and parcel. It actually change my whole lifestyle. weekend no longer the same when you were an architect. Talking and topic of conversation is no longer the same. The way one try to capture the moment in life is different. Taking photos became a hard task. You only want to capture something worth the news. You see things differently. You interpret things more different than anyone else.

Boss Wee showed us the picture he took during the trip to China. It is all about buildings. Human just became the scale of the picture. And architect enjoyed seeing those picture. A normal person might get bored over all the pictures of building. Of course, i am still thrilled to listen to
that as the curiosity to know the building that an architect would bring back for us. There is whole lot of pictures. The iconic bird nest, water cube, CCTV that look like dragon peeking in between building and the national theatre. The concept of the whole museum is like a diving process. You enter and walk under the water and reach a cave, breath and there is the void of spaces. What a building.


Kengo Kuma style is what impressed the boss that always have the Bali style. The hotel that look simple managed to get attention. Any idea of interpretion played well when it come to architecture. The architecture language. And they managed to find the old style of kengo kuma which they describe it as the poor detailing. There were also places in China that showed the modern part. Typical apartment and shopping centre show the different part of China.


It wasnt normal for me to talk about architecture as it is simply another language.

defeated by me..

Been in Kuching for more than a month now. A month is not a short period nor long either. When i wished that i can be independent all the time, guess i failed again. I relied on my parent for everything. I cant be that real cool to stand on my own. Yet, i am proud to be my parent child. Proud to be on top of all through i will not said this in real world but i am glad still. They might not giving me any big car, big house or lot lot money but they still give what they can to me. This is all one can have. Right now, i am missing everyone of them. Thinking that today is the dumpling day, when i used to have at least the dumpling on this day, i missed my home.


Apart from being the crying baby, i think i have much more to add on my working days. Today, something to highlight. Attended the meeting with Mr. Wee and ee sheng gang. Through i have to admit that iam a bit sad as not to get involved in desiging part. But, as a friend that learn along, i am quite impressed with the work done. I can see the work result of everyone.
It was a co-operation work so far. You did this and you did that with the time frame improving everything. Being an architect is not easy at all, you have to learn deal with client, design as what you believe and may not get the result as what wish for. The client may turn their back on you anytime. A betrayal perhaps. It is all about art again.

And get the accessment for today from the mr. boss. Well, have to admit i am the worst of the four. Through is not that good, but still, it is somehow, proved that the mr. boss evaluated it right. I still have the bad and good point for some. The moment i saw the
result, it is kinda upset. Slightly. But when think again, it wasnt that bad either. I still have room for improvement. Manual is my weakness and got to admit that. And after the long thinking, i felt i did chose the right place. At least, he boss is evaluating me as me. When to go back, the boss told me to work more with him, i got shock yet i felt... It is nice for someone that have so much workload to care for small potato.

How about sharing some dinner? Today, Ka yee again lead everyone to cook. Today we have four dishes. Three is vege and one is baked bean. I am quite impressed with the lady coooking skill. It is so far so good. At least, we did save lots money.

This coming weekend is going to be a full activity day. And plus with the two days holiday that we have on the coming monday and tuesday because of the gawai day. FUIYO. we are lucky to celebrate this festive with the local. Plan to go the Damai beach and long house for the four day. No assignment but just play all the time. Waiting eagerly for the weekend.

AZZZZi... ZAH came.

Ya right. Dr. Azizah finally made her visit here. The lady that we were waiting finally reached Kuching last monday. Dr. Azizah is picked from the airport by the loving couple, Mr. Wee and Auntie Sam. And we headed to the hotel. A hussle in the registration and finally we were left alone with the visiting lecturer. We managed to cross the river for the first time. My comment to the boat is... it is dangerous.. Haha.

We planned to get some teh C peng from across the river but it was not there anymore. We ended up with the amoi cantik which actually is the ABC. Then we headed to the Taman Kereta- "carpark" for dinner. Another guilty day for me again. Mr. Wee asked me and Henry select the dishes. And unfortunately, anonymous uncle helped us. Unfortunately is because the of true to find out that people sometimes might be more terrible from what they looked like. He selected the expensive food just like no consideration that it eventually turn to be a waste. A fish for 140 is crazy. Although it was a treat but there should be moderation at times. Haiz. And i learned from someone that he eventually used my name for it. GOSH. The expensive dinner will be a lesson for me.

After dinner, we went out for movie. Watched the Angel and Demon. It was so so. The plot is just normal but the ending was an eye opener. Unexpected . All my prediction is not correct at all. But, OK lah. Can be accepted. A cold night.

The next day is actually de day when Dr. Azizah came to our office. She and mr. Wee is like old friend already since the makan makan thing. SO there shall be no problem la. Wonder what Mr. Wee said about us. And eventually, our boss are going to China for study trip. Haliluyah. Freedom for a week.

And we also get a chance to visit Saidal office which is so near our office. Walking distance but this guy never find us. Mesti kena pukul. Haha. he was the only trainee in the office so his workload is extremely more. Do more and learn more. See his office, i somehow love DNA more. DNA is not any typical office. Messy yet open. Love so.

And we went out for dinner that night at waterfront. Dr. Azizah treated us for the soft crab burger as advertised but it was not nice. We have our ice-cream and karaoke session. The opening was terrible. I asked Sheng for company for in the end she left me alone. Selection of wrong opening song perhaps. We sang together for Dr. Azizah that night and off she went to Sibu to visit Samuel. BYE Bye Dr.

LOST part 2

The day is getting darker. Of course, the troublemaker felt more worried. What happened if we cannot find the way out? Will it be a scar in everyone's experience? The only worry. If i am not the one that cause that, i would wish that we will gain a new experience like lost in jungle for a night maybe.

We walked follow the river flow. Step by step over the slippery stone was a pretty challenging task. The river indeed bring us to that adam and eve of the day. As we were moving forward with the river along with sheng's sad face, kayee's energy and michael's serious face, we came upon the couple. The couple of " Adam and Eve " was going to do their XXX business. We were sorry to disturb but they are the angels that was sent for the day. They guide us to go out from the jungle. Step follow by step, we finally find the light. It is a real beautiful sky that we saw.
And of course, my guilty left at least half when we finally saw the tar road. Freefom regained.

Lots of joy were saw on the face. Video were taken. Pictures too which actually featuring the most determined girl. Haha. It might not be so appropriate to upload the picture. To continue with the food shot.

We were so tired that food doesnt really taste anything. And some is even lazy to eat.

Mount santubong.. LOST

Well, the journey on last saturday was a great story about lost in the jungle with Tarzan and Jane. It is a pretty long story to be share with. Which will be continued tomorrow as office is going to close.

Up the the mountain we went last saturday. The journey to Mount Santubong is not that far compared to the journey up that took us almost 7 hours. It was a tired journey. There is 10 of us for the beginning. Everyone started it with a smile in their face but just after 5 minutes, something went wrong. Haha. All started to breath like there is no air. It is because the guide , Henry is going too fast. He was sort of running up the hill. And some cannot catch him behind. For someone that went before, it was easy but for those who never even been to a mountain was difficult.

We can hear some girls and boys shouting behind wanted to stop especially the China boy.. QL wanted to be back in his home in China. Haha. It was all the way up. Everything was fine until we reached the waterfall which is in viewpoint 5. Some of them decided to stop and going down but the power 4 wanted to go up. Just to see what the view santubong can give us. So, michael, ka yee, ee sheng and me went up. One checkpoint by another. We managed to get the view that we have in mind. The way going up was getting steeper and we sort like having some wall climbing.

Along the way, i have a baby to be taken care of. Ee sheng which is a bit slow but determined actually deserve a praise. Thru it is slow but at least she made it. We managed to get ourself about 2250m above the sea level. Only 750 to go but Ee Sheng cant really go on so we have to go down. A bit sad. It is just another 2 more hours and we will reach the top..

I was happily like no one while going up but when going down, it is a nightmare turn to be. It is not a simple way of going down and it look dangerous. We managed to get back to the waterfall before the true nightmare came.

Wanted to change so i took over to lead. Lead but in the end i made them lost. Thru i am not so good at direction but have to mad for the confusing sign. I took the road not to be taken and well, it is really not to be taken. The moment i realised i missed out the sign was too late. We cant turn back apart from going to the front. Gosh. Along the way, i felt guilty. With the ee sheng that started to look worry. Luckily Michael and kayee took over to find the way out. The tarzan and jane of the day. We went thru all the road that no one ever will use for mount climbing. The plants is there and we have to make our own way.

We have to cross the faulty bridge and many other land that cause scratch on our leg and hand. Just like the jungle kids. But the day is getting darker. We .... continued tml.. haha.

ALOHA

Friday evening is just a nice day of the week. It is the marker of the coming weekend...Monday blue but friday?   Friday red... haha.. Weekend.. Sort of different... It is no longer the weekend when you rise up at 12noon in the soft bed with the blanket over the cool air from air cond.. It is a complete different picture from what one can expect.. Kuching weekend is to be wasted on a early rise to wash clothes and join the crowd to do voluntary work..  And well, this week is a day off which will be wasted on some holiday stuff. We are going to Mount Santubong for a 3 hours climb or more??       

And well, back to the working environment. Every Thursday will be the presentation day here. Not to the lecturer but to the client. Almost same experience as usual. Crit, change and change again.DIfferent is the responsible. No longer a freelance thinker but to carry along the company statussss... DNA rockie.. 

Just brought a laptop. The world without access to the internet is definite a nightmare. Will have to take care of it as it wasnt mine. Will defend the evil luck that charming around me.  

Well, after work will be a time for the ladies to cook. Have to admit, they really can cook. At least better than mine a lot. Yet, there is much communication between us during cooking time. A well planning and job distribution. Thanks to the chef again. Enable us to save more and more and hopefully more.  

            

Another week on

Well, this have been the fourth week in Kuching. Look like time passed kinda fast. Planned to make at least few blog entry a week but ended up.. Mainly because there is no net access. A life without the line is so different..

Started to love Kuching either. It is a quiet and lonely place. More different than the city life so far. The time frame here is kinda different than in KL.. You will find peace here very easy.

The last weekend was a fun day with the habitat. Habitat is a community provided to help the poor people to build houses. And of course, DNA is part of them. This time, we are involved in the labour work. Work like fix the wall panel and filling in the foundation of toilet. We did a tough job under the sun. We have to work like a labour collecting all the stone pebbles and then transfer it. Ended up burning in the sun. But it is a day. WE called it a day.

About the training itself. It is so so far so good. We already have 11 trainies from UPM, USM and UTM... Include me of course. We are the 11 troubleyee in the office. Our office is a tiny open space office that look messy for the first impression. Pictures of it to be uploaded soon. Hopefully. So far, given all the task what an real architect did. Although it is not a big one but guess learn a lot from it. Got involved in the early part of BP submission set under Michael. He bullied us in a nice way. Haha. Here draw, then there change, then change again. It is a never ending work. And i trully saluted the batch of draughtwoman in front of me. They faced the autocad for the whole day and it last for five days.

While every day routine rotating so do the mind of the architect does. step by step, we are much closer to the architect lifestyle. And i will not want to be a draughtman only. Either an architect or nothing. But for real, i hate computer work all the time. For the whole week, i been doing the staircase. Either the concrete stair or the spiral staircase. Gosh. StairCase. Nightmare for the week... one step = 164mm or more or less. Gosh.. All in dictionary.

Photo nex...

de 3rd week

Haliluyah.. so fast and now it is already third week being in CAT. So far, the trail never dissapoint any of us. The same things going on. The people here are nice. The people that we meet told us roughly about a small city life.. We tried much of the food here.. Some is nice and some is awful. kueh chap, kolo mee, tomato mee, eatable fern, osyter and others. ANYHOW, de laksa i had is terrible. 

I can said that the people lead carefree live over here. They finished work and have dinner. That's all. Many shops closed quite early here. EE SHENG said they have no life but indeed, i think it is more livelier as they spend time for themselves and not just hanging out there. 

Last week, we went for some voluntary task which actually end up being one great experience. It is indeed a great oppurtunity that you never found in any place expecially KL. The journey was to he BAGOR national park. You have to sit car for 45 minutes then crossed the crocodile river and walk in the sun for 10 minutes to reach the place. Guess what i  did. Me and EE SHENG happily installed the windows panel. It is a great experience. While the rest doing other more challenging stuff like making the wooden stair and painting. It was a tiresome day. And we got a treat again from the BOSS.. He is too kind hearted as he scared we all lonely in the new place. Lonely.. i am so lonely.. He always belanja us. Maybe he is kaya. HAHA..

Talking about that, let me describe a bit about my big boss. He is known as Mr. MIN. He has a lovely family with sam, sean and sara. He is the one that picked us up from the airport, getting us all the cooking utensil and etc.. A great time working with him as it always turn out to be fun. Imagine. You are happy to have work load from him. The more the happier. 

Ka ki liang here speak hokkien most of the time. So, i guess i need to learn some from fellow friends. They mixed english and hokkien and it make me guessing all the time. 

Everyday is a fun day. With different work awaiting us. We have board cutting, CAD editing, designing, butter pading, joking, visting, and more. Thru it is getting more and more people here, yet, we are not being left being. This is one think that come to our mind. Our skills was so so compared to the fourth year UTM trainees but still, we learned our part. THX again DNA. 

Apart from Mr. Min, there is also 3 other handsome boss that work in the open area studio. One is Mr. William that is cool, Mr. Wong Kiong that is loud and one more. I need to get to know him better. Hehe.  

NOT to forget to the most adorable PR that always act cool. Haha. He will kill me if get to know this. Someone that is friendly and 'caring'.  Maybe cause of his post as a PR. We have trouble him a lot. WIth his 'siu bai' and pajero, we get to travel around this new place. We will repay you someday mr. PR.  And michael that is kind. He has the loudest laughter you can find. His rhythm of laugh is .... same.. hehe...

 

Yahoo. today can go cinema for the first time. How will it be leh?

Hope to get de laptop soon........ haha. 

That's all. To be continued...................

CAT adjournal

It has been a week since the arch foot step on the cat tail.. 

 

Kuching aka CAT is another place where all the four arch will be projection on. Believe it or not.. i is another trail that will carved in the hisory of everyone.. Their first time in everything.. Catch up with that..

PANG kong liao.. de hokkien world rock here... GOSH..