21st birthdays. March is the month of birthdays. in aki tons of pple have march birthdays =) in my studio of 13 pple alone there are already 4. sigh we're all growing old. and by my bday, most of my friends will be on exchange.oh well. this is funny. i was at the bustop the other day & a couple were complaining abt turing 20... as the girl so aptly put it "it's like 2 fat numbers put together" hahaha

today was an interesting day... oh no my vocab seems to be degenerating ha oh well but this time it was really interesting =) Mondays start out as usual... a spillover of Sunday doing design cos there's studio on monds. I revitted out my design (finally! thank God) for the 1st time after interim. haha sick of revit, sick of the comp... so i've been sticking to butter paper & a physical model haha so she told me "by next studio i wanna see proper plans" so i knew it was back to the revit again. ok la actually in a kinda perverse way it's quite fun, like building up yr own house with furnitures & all u can add or even design yrself. =) yups. so the morning was spent revitting the last of my design. then it was studio. was kinda nervous b4 my turn... dunno why this sem i've been pretty nervous abt even informal studio crits like this... prob cos the need to do well is stronger this sem. Thank God it was a good crit though =) yay! finally! Hallelujah! =)
only minor changes to design... on to details already... but the bad thing was i didnt really know the concept behind flat concrete roofs argh i hope she didnt take that badly =)

so yeah studio was not bad... then it was off to astee's birthday party at... *drum roll* west coast macs... oh man it was the children macs parties thingy replete with musical chairs, animal party hats & kid-size happy meals with toys haha cept that we're all overgrown... pretty hilarious i must say and i think we behaved worse than kids aw man haha it was organised by her JC friends... so nice huh wow. plus my tutor actually came! haha cos she was astee's tutor last sem... man i really think she is so sporting! even played musical chairs with us =) not bad huh i had funky tutors this whole of year 2 (thank You God =) plus they are both nice too =)

so after that, somehow while some of the guys took bk to sch in marshie's car... we girls and a few other guys had to WALK bk frm there to sch! but it was a pretty interesting (haha a good word to use when u have mixed feelings abt stuff =) walk back. we crossed over the road to this narrow path between a condo & this bldg which was overgrown with coarse grass. at some parts there was steep "steps" and then a jump down & even one part where we had to grab on to railings to tiptoe at the sides cos there was a hole in the middle. it's like back to ccab again... cept now there aint a gentleman to hold my hand when i land from the jump down =( but thank God for His Hand =) i didnt twist my ankle or fall =) yeah after that i managed to find the bustop to go home while the rest continued back to sch. so yeah it was an interesting day=)

over the weekend i went to the bugis/waterloo area for my urban yet-another project. slavedrivers! but thank God now they are allowing pairwork so it's me & lw again... hopefully with our improved hehe photoshop skills we will be more effective =) one thing abt aki is that it makes u aware of yr surroundings more, also in exploring the various parts of Singapore more so yeah an architect has a real broad edu which i find very enriching =) so there =) a myriad of concerns... an infinity of inspirations... C=

oh yeah btw i like beautiful things. haha i know this is a random thought but i jus realised this this sem. i mean i have an acute sensitivity to aesthetics as opposed to a general one so yeah =) hehe. but beauty is subjective. beauty can come in a diversity of forms. and so my inaugural column on aki (which will hopefully appear soon =) will be on that of the beautiful. i think that's why i'm so fascinated with figure skating. as a sport, i put it tog with synchronised swimming & rhythmic gymnastics... dance on ice, in water, on the ground...the beauty of the movement, of the music, of the chereography =) ok b4 i go on and on i better go now... to sleep... while i can =)

good nite & God bless u all =) and i'll try to post more frequently =)