Memories

While editing my past blog entries due to some format problem between Live Spaces and Blogspot, I read some of the blog entries I made a few years ago. Some are funny, some are sad, and some feels foreign to me. Especially those about my life in SISPEC, I cannot recall those things I did which I wrote about. It is weird because those are the things which I did. I think I am really a person with very short term memory and always forget things I did in the past.

It is a pain because when people talk to me about the things we did in the past, I may recall or may not even recall anything, I cannot follow what they are talking about. I think you know what I mean.

I also have a bad memory in remembering people who I did not meet for a long time. Not just acquaintances, but people who I worked with, even for 2 or 3 years.

How I wish I have a photographic memory. But it is good that I am what I am now. At least I can, once in a while, read through my past blog entries and revisit what I did and miss. It is good that I kept my blog running.

Also, apart from memories, I think I have a huge gap that is missing in this blog between the day I came to Tasmania and today. There are so many things that happened apart from the holidays and school work. I have not been writing about my personal life since then. I do not wish to write any of it and I am leading a very happy and exciting life. School days is coming close to an end in about 3 months time before graduation. Just to let everyone know that I will only be back to Singapore next year end of January. I hope I will be able to find a job in Australia. If not, I will have to go back to the hectic 24hours lifestyle in Singapore.

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Migration to Blogspot

Hi all, I have migrated all of my previous blog entries over to blogspot. It is a pity that I cannot migrate the comments.

My new blog address is http://yokechye.blogspot.com

I will no longer be updating on this blog. I hope I have made the right decision after using Live Spaces for almost 5 years. Sentimental to leave here, but hope for the better as I felt that there are quite a bit of limitation to using html and css over here.

See you guys on the other side!

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Live to Blogger

OK folks, I have imported all my Windows Live Spaces blog entries into blogger. Thanks to Zhuotong Nan's shared space, I have managed to get all my post imported into here. It is a pity that comments are not exported.

The next thing that I have to do is to work on this blog's html.

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Hossan Leong!

Hossan Leong came to Hobart! I “pontang” tute on Thursday just to go Hobart to meet him in person. Actually it is part of the Singapore Buzz organised by Overseas Singaporean, Canberra. Hobart is his first stop. He headed to Brisbane the next day and I think he should be back in Singapore sleeping.

I brought my camera along but I forgot to bring my CF card! So sad. Lucky Jonathan had a camera and helped me took a picture with Hossan.



As usual, the moment he opened his mouth on stage, we started to laugh. He’s jokes are forever humorous. I cannot forget his airplane jokes about British Airways, Qantas, Singapore Airlines, United Airlines, China Airlines, etc. I can’t stop laughing.

Another surprise guest is Dr Lily Neo, one of the Minster of Parliament of Singapore. She is visiting his son, Alvin Neo, who is studying medicine in UTas. Oh my, the house of doctors. Mother’s a doctor, Father’s a Doctor, Sister studying medicine in Singapore, and he is studying medicine here. After talking to him, he isn’t that proud at all, a very humble person. Funny when Jonathan told us that he did not realise that the aunty he kept addressing to is a MP when they met in church.

It was a fun night. Thanks to Jonathan for allowing us to sleep over at his place again. If not I will have to drive back again at midnight.

The next day, we went to the Island Market in Moonah to get some chicken meat for the house. It’s cheaper there and after all it’s along the way home. We also went to catch a movie, Up, at Eastlands. Up is a very touching and funny show and I highly recommend it to anyone.



On the way back to Launceston, I saw cockatoos along the highway again! There are flocks of them! I think in hundreds! Why did I forget to bring my CF card?! Oh well…

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Ages

It had been long since I last blogged. I am supposed to be so free that I can blog during this Winter holiday but it seems that I am preoccupied with playing and going out and been lazy at home.

Tonight is my last night of laziness. Tomorrow will be the start of another nightmare. I am still not prepared for school and clueless about what is my next step.

Farewell freedom and welcome nightmare!

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Not for the faint hearted

Disclaimer:
I hold no responsibility/liability to what so ever that happen to people who sees the following image below.



Mouse that I caught this morning.

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What do Architecture means to me?

All these years, Architecture has meant to me with a singular and direct reason, to design beautiful architecture and space. But this has slowly changed as I move further into the final stage of my academic “milestone”.

Life could have been better if I were to choose something other than Architecture. Maybe a photographer, a builder, a gardener, or an IT technician. Thoughts have been running through my head today about the meaning of Architecture. I have been revisiting the reason to Architecture for me. What kind of person I am towards Architecture.

Frankly, I am not a theoretical person. I don’t like reading books. I don’t like to talk about who said this who said that. I don’t like to reference. Why do we reference? What do we reference? We reference to reinforce our argument? Is there the need to do it? Yes in academia papers, but what about during practice? Is there something in us that we need that reference to be accepted because it is a “right of thought”?

I am just a practical person, a person who has a limited numbers of vocabulary. I have a poor memory in remembering words and names. I don’t like to use bombastic words. It is from all these contributing factors that leads me to understand my position in Architecture.

I am so practical that I design things in a way they must work. I create space that respond to user’s basic needs, but I am not a boring designer. I am concern about the environmental quality we live in that I prefer to design using elements that provides not only a good working environment for users but also a sustainable approach to use renewable energy. I uses the minimal amount of materials and components and in favour for exploiting the available natural resources I can get from the site.

I disagree with the way of Architecture. Architecture is very subjective and it is that way since the day I step into school and learn about Architecture. It is a bias subject. It is a subject that will always have questions. Why do we do it? What is the reason? Why? How? And? So? Those are some of the questions that are always asked. Is there a simpler way we can approach Architecture? Why do we have to complicate thing? I am a simple minded person when it comes to Architecture. So please don’t complicate my thoughts and talk to me about theorist. They bore me. They are only a stranger to me.

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New DIY Hot House

To prepare for winter, I had done a simple new hot house with some timber planks from my garage and cheap plastic sheet from becks. I still need to improve on it when I have more time. For the meantime, it should do just fine.



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Watermelon

Winter is nearing and I hope that my watermelon can survive. Meanwhile, I am looking for a bigger hothouse to keep all my heat loving plants warm and sheltered



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Gordon Dam Trip

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