Urban... both the weekly fashion spread in the Straits Times that i like to read and the crazy module for which i spent my most harrowing week in my aki sch life so far slogging for...
Once again the odd week has surpassed itself in the pain threshold.
The culprit? the urban module once again, now in the form of the analysis of a street in singapore... actually i must say that the assignment itself is quite interesting... i mean living in singapore, we dun really take that close srutiny at our surroundings so this kinda heightens yr awareness abt ur own urban fabric which is impt i think since i mean its our own country.
yup. but the requirements r in another world... everything handrawn? in 2 weeks? in a sem that is chockful with other projects? for a module that is a bit too heavy?
well but i must say that i do appreciate the fact that the school is responding faster and better to feedback. So far... 1 test cancelled, 1 assignment indefinitely postponed, 1 assignment converted frm indiv to an optional grpwork, the design submission extended though ever so slightly :)
so i guess things are improving la... but still much room for improvement. uni-wide... i must say i'm real happy that they finally extended the mid-sem breaks to a FULL week instead of ending abruptly on thurs... haha i see the hoo-ha over the fee hike might have done some good in other areas? haha but more must be done to appease us... like why do i go to my 2326 class every other wed and have to wait at least 1/2 hr for the technician to fix the same laptop/comp connection prob? *tsk tsk* and the length to which they explained the efforts they went to get the full week break is quite overly dramatic =) i mean how can giving one more day change tons of things in their schedule? like maybe dun structure yr weeks that start on sund and end on thurs? yeah simplify the whole admin sys and everything will be better. well for all the complaints... i must still say there are improvements so there. like the addition of old chang kee and new zealand ice cream now at YIH =) hehe
anyhow the whole urban experience has left me, other than the sleep debt i'm now 'paying' off =), a seriously improved knowledge of photoshop! something i'm really happy abt yups =) and of cos in a highly stressful and painful environment like that, pple's ugliest and best colours are revealed. some things i see are well it suffices to say that it's real sad... but the good part is real good. Many thanks to Sarah & si-si =) for being so nice to help me write the words and render and draw my 2326 panel i really really appreciate it... esp Sarah since she aint in my 2326 grp but was so nice to help since she finished her urban... i'm yrs if u need help next time =) yups so it's real amazing to see stuff like that hai i need to be more efficient if i wanna help pple too...
oh the most brilliant thing abt the whole urban is that God was so amazing! i caught the flu bug the week before and was still sleeping like 4 hrs a day in the midst of it. i thought i was getting better but somehow the blocked nose didnt go away. and over the wkend it jus got worse i was so sad cos i felt that if i had slept more it cd have gone away. plus now it was into the thick of the urban thing. plus having to deal with studiomates that tease u to a point where even the most tolerant person cant std it. jus cos i'm nice doesnt mean u can do this k. so my latest strategy? jus be quieter and they'll say lesser. haha plus it's better for my health. yups. i mean some amusement is always welcome but when u're sick, stuck with lots of work, it's just plain irritating and unhelpful. yups. anyhow, bk to the story. on the nite before submission i didnt sleep but amazingly as my mum pointed out - u're getting better! which was true all praise be to God Almighty! yups i'm so grateful to Him for that. indeed "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness" =) Amen =) so yups a real miracle indeed *big grinz*
another thing that i've realised... mg and even ac was a pretty sheltered kinda existence and uni is like well more the real world... which is good and bad. good cos its a better reflection of society, or reality. bad cos as serene so aptly put it, it is no longer the "protected wild" in AC but the real wildness or in a more bluntly put manner, a more immoral kinda world. i mean the level of perversity in the things pple say is shocking and they do it without qualms. then again of cos not everyone is like that, thank God =) but its quite disturbing and sad. i mean if i already feel this way, then what must God think? I think it really saddens Him to see his creation degenerate like that... of cos he can change all that in an instant, but He's gracious He gives us all a choice so please, please make the right one.
Now in the 2nd yr of aki... i think some things have changed. we are definitely more familiar with each other... too familiar i think =) which is both bad and good. cos this sem is purely aki modules and projects all within the aki pple, we're working a lot tog. and it's closer to our 'vision' of Onestudio hahah our crazy (or maybe not so? =) dream of setting up an aki firm with all the pple in my yr 1 sem1 studio1 =) haha we even like set up the diff roles or each person haha and actually in say 2326, it's already happening on a small scale so yeah but then thru it u see the working dynamics and well it's not perfect. cos there's like other stuff we have to do so it's not a clear reflection but its a start. but the bad part is... cos of the workload and maybe cos we're too familiar, pple become bitchy to each other... ok it can be funny but too long and it is really irritating and unedifying. so yeah i've jus learned how to filter out the bad stuff and forgive the pple involved =) i try i try =)
so yeah finally it's the even week =) praise the Lord =)
ooh btw Blessed Birthday to those having their birthday next week C= there are quite a few C=
God bless and good night!
Once again the odd week has surpassed itself in the pain threshold.
The culprit? the urban module once again, now in the form of the analysis of a street in singapore... actually i must say that the assignment itself is quite interesting... i mean living in singapore, we dun really take that close srutiny at our surroundings so this kinda heightens yr awareness abt ur own urban fabric which is impt i think since i mean its our own country.
yup. but the requirements r in another world... everything handrawn? in 2 weeks? in a sem that is chockful with other projects? for a module that is a bit too heavy?
well but i must say that i do appreciate the fact that the school is responding faster and better to feedback. So far... 1 test cancelled, 1 assignment indefinitely postponed, 1 assignment converted frm indiv to an optional grpwork, the design submission extended though ever so slightly :)
so i guess things are improving la... but still much room for improvement. uni-wide... i must say i'm real happy that they finally extended the mid-sem breaks to a FULL week instead of ending abruptly on thurs... haha i see the hoo-ha over the fee hike might have done some good in other areas? haha but more must be done to appease us... like why do i go to my 2326 class every other wed and have to wait at least 1/2 hr for the technician to fix the same laptop/comp connection prob? *tsk tsk* and the length to which they explained the efforts they went to get the full week break is quite overly dramatic =) i mean how can giving one more day change tons of things in their schedule? like maybe dun structure yr weeks that start on sund and end on thurs? yeah simplify the whole admin sys and everything will be better. well for all the complaints... i must still say there are improvements so there. like the addition of old chang kee and new zealand ice cream now at YIH =) hehe
anyhow the whole urban experience has left me, other than the sleep debt i'm now 'paying' off =), a seriously improved knowledge of photoshop! something i'm really happy abt yups =) and of cos in a highly stressful and painful environment like that, pple's ugliest and best colours are revealed. some things i see are well it suffices to say that it's real sad... but the good part is real good. Many thanks to Sarah & si-si =) for being so nice to help me write the words and render and draw my 2326 panel i really really appreciate it... esp Sarah since she aint in my 2326 grp but was so nice to help since she finished her urban... i'm yrs if u need help next time =) yups so it's real amazing to see stuff like that hai i need to be more efficient if i wanna help pple too...
oh the most brilliant thing abt the whole urban is that God was so amazing! i caught the flu bug the week before and was still sleeping like 4 hrs a day in the midst of it. i thought i was getting better but somehow the blocked nose didnt go away. and over the wkend it jus got worse i was so sad cos i felt that if i had slept more it cd have gone away. plus now it was into the thick of the urban thing. plus having to deal with studiomates that tease u to a point where even the most tolerant person cant std it. jus cos i'm nice doesnt mean u can do this k. so my latest strategy? jus be quieter and they'll say lesser. haha plus it's better for my health. yups. i mean some amusement is always welcome but when u're sick, stuck with lots of work, it's just plain irritating and unhelpful. yups. anyhow, bk to the story. on the nite before submission i didnt sleep but amazingly as my mum pointed out - u're getting better! which was true all praise be to God Almighty! yups i'm so grateful to Him for that. indeed "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness" =) Amen =) so yups a real miracle indeed *big grinz*
another thing that i've realised... mg and even ac was a pretty sheltered kinda existence and uni is like well more the real world... which is good and bad. good cos its a better reflection of society, or reality. bad cos as serene so aptly put it, it is no longer the "protected wild" in AC but the real wildness or in a more bluntly put manner, a more immoral kinda world. i mean the level of perversity in the things pple say is shocking and they do it without qualms. then again of cos not everyone is like that, thank God =) but its quite disturbing and sad. i mean if i already feel this way, then what must God think? I think it really saddens Him to see his creation degenerate like that... of cos he can change all that in an instant, but He's gracious He gives us all a choice so please, please make the right one.
Now in the 2nd yr of aki... i think some things have changed. we are definitely more familiar with each other... too familiar i think =) which is both bad and good. cos this sem is purely aki modules and projects all within the aki pple, we're working a lot tog. and it's closer to our 'vision' of Onestudio hahah our crazy (or maybe not so? =) dream of setting up an aki firm with all the pple in my yr 1 sem1 studio1 =) haha we even like set up the diff roles or each person haha and actually in say 2326, it's already happening on a small scale so yeah but then thru it u see the working dynamics and well it's not perfect. cos there's like other stuff we have to do so it's not a clear reflection but its a start. but the bad part is... cos of the workload and maybe cos we're too familiar, pple become bitchy to each other... ok it can be funny but too long and it is really irritating and unedifying. so yeah i've jus learned how to filter out the bad stuff and forgive the pple involved =) i try i try =)
so yeah finally it's the even week =) praise the Lord =)
ooh btw Blessed Birthday to those having their birthday next week C= there are quite a few C=
God bless and good night!
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