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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Got it!

Yesterday just got my “new” cheap AUD2k car, the 1985 Suzuki Sierra LWB 4WD. It’s cute, it’s small, and it’s only 1.3L. I almost lost the chance to get the car when one of the buyers wants the seller to hold back for 1 week but the seller isn’t keen to do so. Since I am keen get it straight away, the seller approached me again.

Drives like a lorry, but as small as a mini van. This is an upgrade from my current very reliable, going to sell it off, 1984 Ford Laser. I will miss my Ford but well, now that I have this 4WD, I am able to have some fun driving in it in Tasmania, lots to do and explore.

Sometimes, how I wish Singapore sells cheaper cars. If you can afford SGD100-130k back in Singapore to drive the best Toyota or Nissan, you can get even better deals here. Just AUD108k, you can drive the newly launch Jaguar XF, saw it on the TV ad yesterday.



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The Long Wait have Arrived

At last, Sony Alpha α900 is out 2 days ago. It looks gorgeous and very “tasty”. I wish I can have this new baby.



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Presentation

Had quite a bad start this morning in our group Design Studio presentation. I really hated one of my tutors. We call him the old botak head, “秃头老” He is really an evil person. There are so many comments which he made that it is beyond our presentation criteria. “When designing in a micro scale, the building materials, building depths, and probably air shafts can be considered for climatic respond so that when you are designing in the macro scale, you will know about the street qualities that are affected by those components.” Right, that can be considered but that wasn’t supposed to be in this stage, it is suppose to be in the next individual precinct design stage when we get into a much more micro design. “If you don’t know the answer, just say you don’t know.” What the hell, I was thinking of how to put my thoughts in words. Bastard. I hope my 5th year tutor will not be him.



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Roast Pork Belly

I miss Singapore’s Roast Pork Belly, aka ‘siao rou’ or ‘sio bar’ in dialet that I decided to make it. Hoping that it turn out well, and it turn out to be a real gourmet. Sinful but mouthwatering. Though the choice of belly is limited here, it still prove success. I will continue hunting for bigger and cheaper pork belly to try again. Now I truly understand and enjoy the feeling of chopping the ‘sio bar’. Quick without thinking, chop chop and chop, goes down the knife and the sound of chopping through the crispy skin and hitting the board, wow, it was a sound of hawker food.



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