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Thursday, March 29, 2007

I went to McD this morning for an interview and YESSSS they hired me and John.

My design class started at 11am and Beth(my lecturer, briefed bout our project. The name of the project is 'a finger in the swan river'. wad the hell is tht? i hav no idea. Anyways, int his project, we have to design a jetty, swimming pool/bathing pool, 4 male and female toilets, changerooms, windbreak, breakwater and seatings.
At 2pm, we went to our site for a view and photographing. Here's our site.

Crawley Foreshore (20minutes walk from UWA)

Yes, the designer

Beth, our hot lecturer giving instruction

Gals from my class

And the angmo gang

After uni, i went to Garden city and here's my dinner.

Teriyaki Chicken

It was a long and tiring day. So, i decided not to do anything tonight and sleep early.

Boring Monday

Monday, March 26, 2007

I only had design studio today from 2pm-5pm but i went to skul very early today(11am). I thought that we're gonna get another new project since we've done our 3d model and i can get rid of the picture of the face for the rest of my life after it haunted me for the past 4 weeks! But who knows, today was totally wasted. Wad we did were jus handed in our model and volunteered to exhibit everyone's works. And you know wad, Asians are always being left out! SO, let the ANGMOS do all the exhibition.

3rd floor of ALVA

Outside our studio and our models

Mine is the 3rd from the left

This is Gerald, the guy from Kuching that i mentioned before

I left uni 15minutes earlier today after im done with photostating notes for Wednesday's test. I grabbed dinner and started to build my structure for tomolo's tutorial. And yes, this is a last minute work because i went out too much during the weekend. Wads worse, today is sooooo windy and cold. So im wearing a jacket outside my house to cut woods and build my structure.

Its really cold.No joke!

Thursday n Friday

Saturday, March 24, 2007

I had a long day on Thursday from 9.30am to 5pm in design studio. Actually my class starts at 11am but i went to uni at 8 something since i din wanna waste time sleeping and wanna finish my work so that i could relax a bit this weekend.

My studio

Ah Chun and Mizuki busy doing their model.

And other angmos as well.

Friday.

I woke up early to do my model. Then at around 11am, i went to immigration department in city to collect my working permit. Before that, i met John up. After collecting my working permit sticker, we went to eat sushi for our lunch. Then, we went to McD in Victoria Park to apply for a job.

John and his gf's car

Damn i love this car!! Honda Jazz!!

John driving.

Perth is goin to be like a Heaven IF i hav a car :)

After we applied, John dropped me off at Vic Park bus station. I reached home at around 3pm. And since i got nothing to do and lazy to do my model, i slept.

Later that night, i din feel like staying at home so Cody, Ryan and Jon came and fetched me to Ryan's house.

Ryan and Cody(in front of Ryan's house)

I actually dunno wads the purpose of going. Everyone was so busy talking to their girls. Mazael talking to his gf, Cody talking to his soon-to-be gf and Jessica busy watching movie.

and Ryan, i supposed he's chatting wif Rebecca
SO, i play with my phone's camera.HAHA

But later that night, we had some chickens and drinks. I reached home at 4.30am and went to bed straight after that.

Cant wait til next week's Mambo Night and next next week's Rivercruise. Hopefully they are goin to be great.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

hmm...i know i always blog bout uni n my works nowadays. so i thought of blogging wad i did during my past holidays(18 Nov2006-18 Feb2007). But hey, no promise. Im gonna blog bout it ONLY if im free. So, Ciaozzz.

Cho tai di

We had an hour break after lecture from 11am to 12pm. For the past few weeks, we've been walking around n sitting on the grass field doin ntg to kill our time. But today...hehehe...CHO TAI DI. I know CNY is over now so thats y we're not playing money. We're jus playing to kill time.

Those cards proved my luck this year. Damn. How to have good luck like tht!?

Final Model

Saturday, March 17, 2007

F*CKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKk!!!!!! After more than half an hour blogging and when i posted it, error occured and everything's gone!!!! AND I HAVE TO RE-TYPE!!! DAMN!!

So this post is goin to be a slightly different from the previous one coz i cant really remember wad i typed! i wil try to remember!

I know some of u guys out there already started to get annoyed because wad i've been talking about nowadays is about 'school school school' like wad kelly said. But still, im gonna blog bout it because i do nothing besides 'school school school' and projects. At least im not studying textbooks like u guys do and i dont have exams. HAHA. All i do now is spending time doin projects.

Okay, lets see my model now..

The one on the left is just a sketch model and the one on the right is the model im gonna present.BUT....

Lets see how strong is my structure...

3.0 kg

4.5 kg

6.0 kg

And....

11.0 kg !! And its still standing!!

Cannot Cannot. I must modify it to make it weaker. So, this is my final model.

But still, its not much weaker than the previous one. The base is too strong until u can stand on it and its not gonna bend even a little. I FAILED.

Being a good architect, a structure must be built ECONOMICALLY and at the same time must be strong. But wad i did was, building strong structure and not building economically because my structure is too strong than necessary. So that means im wasting materials. Do i make any sense to u guys? if no, nvm. I dont have time to do another model anymore.

Lets just hope lecturer is not gonna put extra weights on my structure to make it collapses. If she does and my structure doesnt collapse, im not a good architecture student.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

I made it!! Yes!! Finally its done and ready to be handed in tomolo. But its not the time to feel happy yet. As i said before, this rendering stage is only the 2nd stage. The 3rd stage is coming up tomolo, which is making a 3d model of it.

The one on the left is the photostated version of my collage(1st and 2nd week's work) and the one on the right is the one i rendered for exactly a week(to be handed in tomolo).

This week has been a damn busy week.

This is jus a simple idea i thought of and im stil not sure if im gonna use it.

To make it looks more complicated, i came up with this.

And then...

ARGHHH....i DONT like it!! After one whole night thinking, i stil cant think of a better structure!!

How bout this? hmmmm...ARGHHH....dunno!!!

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Finally, the fun part is here!! Another project was given to us today for ARCT1130. And why am i so happy?? Actually this project is about designing ur own structure and make a model of it. The best thing is u can design WHATEVER u like. However, the hard part is, ur model must be able to withstand the weight of 5litres of water and the time given is very short. The due date is next Tuesday.

Here's my rough sketch but im not sure if im gonna use this because it jus suddenly came out from my mind this aftnoon.

I've bought 2 strawboards this aftnoon after my class and it costed me freaking AUD12 !!

Monday, March 12, 2007

I reached home at around 6pm after i finished my class. Cody, Ryan, Mazael and Jessica came and picked me up at 7.30pm after they picked up their dinner. So i went to Ryan's house and watched them eating dinner and talked. At 9pm, Mazael had to go to his recording studio(Murdoch Uni) to do some recording. Actually practising for his assignment tomolo. So me and Cody followed.

Pics of future Dj. Mazael Ong.

Good morning everyone. Welcome to South Street bla bla bla. This Mazael Ong. Its 11am now and we can feel the afternoon heat is kicking bla bla bla.

Thats wad me n Cody listened over again and again and again for the whole night.hahaha

And also, present to you the wanna-be Djs.

Dj Cody Wong

Forever loveee~~~forever loveeee~~~Wo zhi siang yung wo ze yi bei zhi que Ai Ni~~~Chong jing yi hou~~~~Ni hui shi shuo yiu~~~Xin fuk de li yiu~~~

Hahahaha.

Goodbye everyone and thank you for listening to Radio Yeehow.

Im still me

Im not turning into somebody else. Im still me. Its hurts.

It hurts even more when you actually thought Im acting 'wei da' all these while.

Im not and Im never.

Sunday, March 11, 2007

This is wad i've been working on since last week. Well actually i jus started today. haha. And finally its done.

the 1:10 drawing i mentioned before.

Friday, its supposed to be my free day but we had to go back to studio to use the light table to trace our collage because its impossible tracing it to a thick paper w/o using the light table. Before that, i went to buy stationaries for my course and it costed me aud70 plus!! Then went to look for a novel for my darling but i couldnt find it.

This is my fren, Gerald from Kuching.

Thursday, March 08, 2007

This is the final work of my collage. Im proud of myself. HAHA.
I know i havent updated for 1 week.This collage thing might look simple, but it took me daysss to make it THAT simple. Finally, this collage thingy is done and NOW, the hard part, we're goin to trace our collage and start to render it. And thats only the 2nd stage of our project. Our last stage wud be the HARDEST one...making model!! which means make the original picture become a 3d one!! Wish me lucks guyss. Plus, thats not the only project im doin. I have another one, thats 1:10 drawing of our body that i mentioned previously. So im gonna finish off my works now. See ya!!

Project project project

Friday, March 02, 2007

Uni started since Monday. This semester, i only need to go to Uni on Monday-Thursday. Friday-Sunday will be free. WOW...3 free days yea? happy? Hell no, lecturers wont even let u to hav free time during the long weekends. We're now doing this collage thing for ARCT1100 and i have to due it on Monday. And i completely have no idea wad is this for! ART sounds sooo complicated for me at the moment. Sigh. Im never an art student as i was from science stream.

This is my messy table on Thursday nite. Cut and paste were wad i did.

We were given a picture of an artist and we're instructed to trace the black and white elements of the picture using tracing paper.

10% of my final product.sigh.

Doing collage isnt a fun thing to do at all. I HAVTO cut elements out from those pictures above to paste on a cardboard, so i cud produce something similar to the original picture of the artist. This thing worth me 20% of my 1st semester result.

And this morning, i woke up early because i had to go to Uni to meet up my groupmates to finish our project for ARCT1130, another unit. Its about BodySpace, MindSpace and SoulSpace. Actually i stil think that Art doesnt make any sense at all. The process is so tedious man.

This is the Bird eye's view plan which we cudnt finish on Wednesday. The hard thing is it must be drawn in 1:1 scale. That means, it must be drawn according to the exact measurements of our body.

After almost 2 hours of hardwork this morning, yea, finally its done.

After we've drawn everything, we had to think of a name for our work and write a group reflection about the work done. Thanks to Anji for volunteering to do the writing. HEHE. On Tuesday(6th March), we have to pin-up our works and present it.

Isnt it more like Doggy style or something like that? HAHA..after the drawing, i actually found it stupid.HAHAHA

69 position.HAHAHA

This is my sketching because we have to draw it in a smaller scale 1:10 individually and due date is on the 13th March.

Now, Im gonna introduce to you my Groupmates.

Olivia(left) and Diana(right). Both of them from Jakarta, Indonesia.

Anji from Sri Lanka. A literature student previously.Thats y she volunteered to write the reflection. She's probably good in writing.

And finally, Sam from South Africa.

At around 1pm, I left uni and went home. I was so tired. While waiting for her reply, i fell asleep and woke up at around 6pm. I was in front of the comp since then til now.

Since im sooooo bored, im gonna off to this movie.

A korean movie. My cousin said its funny. So, im gonna watch it now. Its better than wasting time browsing around. Bye...