2nd Semester Final Submission Ends

... and holiday starts again!! Technically, again, I still have an assignment submission next Friday, Building Technology in Design. Last semester was Professional Studies. Oh well… Time to pack my room. It looks like a warzone. Clean my car, clean the house, go shopping, cook nice food etc. etc. etc. Tonight, I am cooking roast pork belly again! Yummy!



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Busy time ahead

Though busy, I still want to post something. I just finished rendering my ground floor plan. It took me nearly 5 hours to colour and adjust on Photoshop. But it took me about 2 to 3 days to finalise my plans and to sketch it manually on my yellow trace and scanned it this morning. I just don’t want to use computer to CAD the plans out. I am just plain lazy to do precise CAD. Every semester end submission, I would spend most of my time to CAD, print out, test, see, reCAD from sketches I drew. Maybe that is the reason why I never started in the design stage. Now, I decided to do everything manually, except rendering of course. It also took me just about an hour to resolve my plaza issue. It isn’t what I really wanted, but there isn’t time to refine more. Just do it.





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Creative selling cheaper in Aus?

Sometimes, I wonder if Creative is actually a Singapore brand. Because, Australia is selling cheaper creative products! Currently, Creative is having a sale. The online discounted price for a 16GB Zen player on Creative Singapore online store is the original price of the Zen player selling in Creative Australia online store. Not only that, Creative Australia is also having the same sale, and the discounted price in Australia is cheaper than the discounted price in Singapore! It is $30 difference! Base on current exchange rate, it is 1:1, so it is a good time to shop in Australia. A Creative webcam I saw on the Australia website is selling at $40 cheaper than Singapore, what’s more, $40 cheaper is the difference after I added the delivery cost into the total!!

I always thought it is cheaper to buy Creative products in Singapore, but I am wrong.

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Launceston Day 2008 Day 2 Fireworks Night

Managed to take 2 fireworks pics from my 170-500mm lens. I didn’t realise last night that the fireworks can be so small at about 3km away from my house.





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TD Models

After weeks of TD, Theory in Design, and few weeks of group TD project, we had finish the prototype models just 2 weeks ago. Last night, I went to take some photos of the prototypes and with the help of a few model friends, here is the result. It’s too bad not all the prototype are there. 2 of them are in another location. It would look real nice when the 8 models are in. Currently, 6 are displayed in the 1st and 2nd year studio.

More photos in my facebook album page.




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Pissed

I am super pissed today. What the hell my lecturer wants. He chosen the section for me and for the first assignment I got a DN. This afternoon, I showed him my detail section, and he just slammed me if I took it from my design submission. He kept whining about he don’t want the design section and said that I just copied and paste for his submission. I cursed him in my heart and I tried to explain that it was not a copy. I did make an effort, 3 days worth of late nights, just to edit them and make them buildable and detail for his submission. What’s more, that is the type of detail standard I always do for any submission, regardless for design or construction.

Secondly, he doubts my drawing standard level. He could not believe that was what I had done is what my ability was. The way he talks, is so sarcastic. I had the urge to shout out loud into his ears, “Hey, I can draw submission drawings even better than what I had done for you! This is only a small percentage of what I had done before!” I hate him when he doubted me. This is not the first. Last year, during my final presentation, he doubted me if I can come out with a detail which is almost perfect. Asked me for a precedent, which I told him I do not have. That is the detail that I came out with. He doubted me! Is he expecting me to insert the detail I done back in my poly days and tell him, that is where my detail derive from?! That is crap! I learnt from detailing and construction properties and came out with my own detail. And I did not follow any other architect’s detail! I seldom do that. I only look at how they design, and came out with my own detail design.

Such a pain. He is just another person who does not appreciate a student’s hard work which he thinks that standard isn’t what a student is capable of. Who the hell he thinks he is? The master of detailing? From what I see and what he can do, he is so “outdated”. My roof cladding is flat metal profile, and he talk to me about corrugated zinc. Does he have any design sense?

Arghh… I am so pissed that I have no mood to do my design. Crap…

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