Past. Present. Future: January 2007

Saturday, January 20, 2007

more abt work.

time flies at work whether u r enjoying it or not. so u might as well make the best of it. i'm going to b put into different teams so i get the max amt of exposure i can get from getting an idea of life in a architectural practice.

i'm an intern so they just ask me to occupy office spaces of any guy whose on mc for the moment. currently, the guy whose seat i'm occupying happens to fall into dis mc category so i get to use his space for a few weeks. he has like a shit load of sting n jay chou n jj lin on his shared folder, which means good music everyday on his earphones which he left on his desk. i also happen to b enthroned in a very culturally rich sector of the office. my bay's lucky plaza. i'm surrounded by filipino pplez lolz. they discuss over plans, sections n elevation diagrams in tagalog. adds flavour to the working envrionment. the next bay adjacent to mine is wad i call chinaland n thailand, for obvious reasons lolz.

dat aside office life has made me realize dat school life is definitely much more varied n more fun. its not dat i'm not enjoying myself, its just different, dats all. but one thing abt dpa is dat they r realli welfare pple. one just has to look at the pantry n just start salivating. i'm told other firms just haf a water dispenser as their pantry.

yesterday the southern gate pple went for an excursion to the farms n nurseries in lim chu kang. they dragged me along also. was realli very educational n definitely not a wasted trip. we also dropped by sungei buloh, which left me silently telling myself dat i should go watch the birds there at dawn b4 i go play soldier. ok these days i'm summarizing so much dat i'm not making any sense anymore.

one week realli does fly. work gets tiring n kinda routine after awhile, but when u look back at wad u've done n do a stockcheck of wad u learnt in these 2 weeks, it feels rewarding. francis once said dat pple at his firm r all underpaid. underpaid in the sense dat the work they do is their passion, n no amt of cash can account for dat.

morning jog n novena tomorrow. bed bed.

Monday, January 15, 2007

quick one

so i've settled in office life. it keeps me occupied, which takes mind off stuff, but it can also b an anesthetic. when i don't get any tasks, which happens quite often, it can get quite boring. but dat aside, i always get thru a day learning something new n exciting. hopefully, i haf dat same passion for my work in future.

these days r kinda like an overdose of archi n structure. there's no such thing as a break from archi coz i'm exposed to spaces n places everywhere i go even after work. begun to finally appreciate modernism n some of our own buildings here which i used to dismiss as bad taste. as an art student, i haf treated my buildings as little projects of self-interest. from an architect's perspective, a project is a process of adapting to someone else's dream, n making sure dat u see it thru. feeling for something, having the passion to want to design a fantastic shopping mall or hotel, is difficult coz it may something u may not naturally feel for. dis, i believe, is an added challenge to the architect. then there r other stuff. vitruvius summarized the tenets of architecture very succintly; firmness, commodity, delight. of course the structure shd look pretty, but it shd work as well as it is beautiful. so there r many dimensions to a structure. just compare dis wif the analogy of getting a girl, n u'll most probably get the picture. i'm too lazy to descibe dis in detail, so if u catch my balls, gd for u. if u don't, well.....u'll probably catch them some day, don't worry.

kris, wei jie, tianwei, pris, n eud came over to my house for a bbq on sat. was realli fun. strangely enuff, all the hangover symptoms quickly unfolded after i stopped drinking, n i woke up the next morning feeling perfectly normal. sunday was kinda bittersweet. had a short reunion wif my godparents n sean.

on to other matters, i finally decided to edit n update the template alittle. dats liebeskind's proposal for the freedom tower to replace the wtc. every architect's dream. off to dreamland. office life is quite unhealthy so i'm waking up early tmw for a run b4 wk.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

dp

ya i noe the heading's still season's greetings. oh well, too lazy to change it. no time, no drive. was unexpectedly offered a job at dp architects. they're working on the ir now so its realli hectic for the firm. which means i haf come right in the thick of things. right into my 2nd day at work, i realize dat the more i deal wif buildings n structures, the more i love them. so far so gd. its been a real-eye opener, working in an office, n i look forward to going to work everyday. i means i may haf to forgo my initial plans but who cares? here's my lifelong dream b4 me n i'm living it. balance is gd though. told them i'll b taking the morning off tmw to go swim n play badminton. made up for dat by working overtime today, n if i feel like it, same goes for tmw.

time does fly when u r enjoying urself. in the office u never noe wads the weather like outside, u're completely shut off. which is why i think its healthy to do some outdoor stuff once in a while when u get the chance to. then again, i've nothing to complain abt. the office doesn't realli haf an office feel coz its located in a shopping mall in the city. its gd.

tired. off to bed i go.

Saturday, January 06, 2007

a sketch

much has happened. gloria, sam n me to visit apri in tanjung pinang. spent a very very good n flavorful christmas n an even better new year wif family n friends drinking n make merry. my god very very good food went in here –pats belly like an ah pek n shakes head like an indian....

first, a summary of tanjung pinang. when u go there u realize dat s’pore’s a palace. everything there is ALWAYS half broken, half done n half baked n i believe dat no system actually exsists there. told apri dat i never understand the indo way of doing things. but food was good. n we did haf some fun. n some realli good laughs lolz. improved our teochew too. all in all, it was realli quite some experience haha.

wif 3 mths ahead of me, i can n do wad i want, when i decide to do it. u’re realli ur own boss. no more obligations imposed. no i still don’t plan to find work. plenty of things to do on my own. its realli gratifying. dis truly is life, n i think i’m realli enjoying it. its out the whole day every day. u wake up at 6, go for morning mass at 630, haf breakfast at boon lay market behind the church, do wadever u plan to do for the day, break for lunch, ....n so far stuff’s always packed til abt 9 at night. u just learn so much more outside school. n i haf promised myself dat i'll do something realli crazy n unbelievably not me by the end of jan. won’t b updating so regularly from now on. just no urge wif all these going on.

alrighty then, til i feel inspired to write some gd stuff here, goodbye. til we meet again.

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