ugh.. tropical workshop has ended and now's time for p1.. actually i'm in the midst of it, and it's due in like 2-3 weeks time... eeks!! and interim crit's on monday... aiyeee~!!!! well, what am i doing? there's this house along Neil Road... a rather dilapidated old Peranakan house with much of the original stuff in it.. but it stinks horribly of bat poo.. yuck.. had the guano smell stuck in my nose and throat for the whole day.. yup.. so we're supposed to create a workspace for this museum curator, and he's also an artist .. living in the townhouse.. erugh.. got such a terrible headache now... so blah blah... blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh -_- how terribly exciting..anyway good news is that i've got into the dive comm!!! yes!!! after 2 bloody years of contemplating.. haha.. anyway Norm said i did the best in the interviews.. hawhaw.. yah so i'm now the official Publicity I/C.. yayyyyyyy...so yes, saturday's the first meeting.. gonna play bball.. -_-... apparently jiebao's idea of group bonding... can we play captain's ball insteaD? ugh. stupid hall monkeys making so much noise outside. someone bribe them with a credit card pls?!?!gonna sleep soon........ugh.. i need a massage...
view from the forecourt of the site... happy guano land!!
i am so sad.. that i'm just bingeing on food.. i think. i dunno..don't know what to think, don't know what to feel.. 
to hell with my sore throat.. i love swee's potato chips....photos later... camera just died on me..
thought of so much to blog about on the way home.. but now.. seems like all the ideas have been drained away..today was extremely tiring.. had lecture till 10am and had to be at Blair Plain at Neil Road at 1030.. on top of that the night before i stayed over at mien's place to do the panels... but ... i slept -_-.. halfway.. and poor mien didn't even have sleep at all... so i woke up this morn, feeling as if my throat were parched or something.. just a weird funny feeling but dismissed it.. so yah went to Neil Road to look at townhouses...not shophouses cos they don't have shops at the first level.. and it was a friggin' hot day.. my toes were frying and every one was like butter on a hot potato..i can even hear the hot plate sizzling in the background... so anywayz it was a rather nice enclave, and this real nice angmoh lady let us into her house! we were just outside (her doors were closed) and she asked whether we wanted to come in! she just moved in abt 1.5 months ago, so it wasnt really that built up, just a smattering of deco and furniture here and there.. so anyway yes... that visit sort of 'rejuvenated' my 'want' to own my own townhouse next time.. sooo nice.. heeheee..yah but someone told me it's .5million.. yikes...so blah blah site visit and then we had to go back for a lecture and studio session.. knn.. i had to collect my earrings at 7 and i left the sch at 645!! one of the girls, possibly rachel had this tremendously black face that was smiling.. damn scary man.. but very pretty earrings!! hai.. that experience of sitting there checking my earrings while feeling they were throwing curses at me.. shall be deeply imprinted in my mind.. then went to scotts shopping ctr i mean food court for my fav Ed's fish.. warhhhh.. so yummy....but instead of deep fried dory, i had this boiled fish soup thing... heavenly....and so healthy...anyway.. then next was a trip to ikea! for my shoe rack that i badly needed... finally found it cos there were like only 20 pple or so in the shop.. haha.. i realised that ikea sells so many more things than i tot previously.. haha.. so shopping in ikea must be done not during the weekend...nor during the public holidays...so while i was eating.. this old man tried to sell me a few packs of tissues.. so the natural instinct is to just ignore him or politely say no till he leaves right? but there was a part of me nagging to just pay for that few packs although i didn't really need to... but come to think of it..what's $1 compared to my $4.50 bowl of fish soup???? i feel soo guilty right now.. sigh.. i feel like i'm back to my pri sch days of not daring to do things.. but i really want to help pple...in a big way.. .... how???so here i am, just finished watching america's next top model and preparing to sleep soon.. but my throat's just annoying.. doesn't help that i've got a damn sexy husky voice now..... got nin jiom pei pa gao sweets, hacks sweets, pi pa gao cough syrup.. and still doesnt seem to work!!! sigh.....maybe what i need is.....a little love....
it's been such a hectic first week of sch.. mainly cos of the stupid tropical workshop... it's not stupid, but it's stupid to spend the first week of school spending 90% of the time in studio.so we were supposed to choose a site in the Botanic Gardens, near Burkill Hall, which sits in the Orchid Gardens.. and design a photography exhibition hall and concentrate on the idea of 'skin' in the tropics.. non-aki pple, this means skin of the building, skin aka walls, fenestrations, windows, blah blah.. the outer layer of a building.. so there we were, 5 in a group, yongqi aka Gigi (mien and i gave him that name cos he always cannot remember ours.) william, Q - from Korea, Mien and me... we were quite pleased with our result, tho the crit was otherwise, cos we didn't manage to put our ideas across that well, and some arsehole just couldn't understand our design, tho the other tutors sort of begged to differ by keeping silent. but most imptly, adrain ( this architect from aussie) liked our design and tot our model was well made.. of course when u compare it to the rest........:P no offense, but this time the standard sort of dropped.. so anyway this 'pb' tutor.. lemme think of a silly name.. polar bears are too cute to be insulted.. panty ball.. puke breath.. pussy bloke.. yes.. that's apt, cos there was a mini black out, he suggested 'let's have a tea break!' oh my gosh that's so unbecoming of a tutor,.. well all of us didn't have a good impression before that anyway.. so yah, there we were, halfway thru a crit and he suggested a tea break. wonderful. and in the middle of my crit too. and pple who know me, i'm not one where u can incur my wrath. dammit. stupid pussy balls. i could hit ur balls with your golf stick. anyway that's over n done with.yah.bah. studio studio studio. i have simply no life. but i must say the proj was rather fun.. and getting super duper impressed by Q's cadding skills. it's like drinking water to him.. so anyway now i'm back in hall.. gonna wash my clothes, sweep the floor, get the panels up tonight with mien, read the lecture notes.. siggh and send sasa the bloody cd!! sa - long story hor.. i got the bubble wrap in my hostel, and the cd in hostel. which i tot was at home. and here there everywhere, and told myself to remember to take ur add, cos dun wan mummy to 'interrogate' me y i need ur add.. so yah! now it's in an envelope on my table now! sigh...k i need to think of how to settle my dinner.. and start my laundry.... toodles!!!
first day of school and lessons all the way from 10am to 9pm -_- i am so tired.. so guest lecture at 10am.. with some lecturer from Australia talking about 'veranda' architecture in Darwin, which is much hotter than singapore cos of its geog. location blah blah.. rather interesting so anywayz it ended at 1145, with a mini briefing of the weeklong tropical workshop stretching my hunger to 1215..had lunch, went to bazaar heh at central forum.. got a pair of rubber slippers for $5, the nike anti-racist bands.. *so not me* i won't tell u how much it is.. will post a pic later.. went to botanic gardens for site study, till 530, took cab back to sch for lecture, till 9. totally shacked. waiting to watch america's next top model and loading my pics. in hall absolutely tired, still have to do research for meeting tomorrow which so happens to be national day yippee i realise i haven't really put in punctuation but this is my blog and i'll do what i like so there.and i'm or rather we were 'suggested' by the tutor in ent. marketing to set up a blog and type out what we've learnt our thoughts or whatever, rather interesting module but i guess its rather demanding. but at least we've got a group and we're rather bitchy which is good and also got mr hot spot in the group so i know him and it'll be more tolerable. major comm. error and didn't collect my rachel and judith earrings. damn sad. norman was nice enough to suggest collecting them for me, but he was there from 715pm to 745, while they were there from 7pm to 820, i still don't understand how they couldn't have met each other, but i guess oh well. i should have charged my handphone the night before but i didn't have my charger. i should have sent norman their hp no, but i didn't. i shouldn't have deleted their email so that i'd have their hp no. but i didn't. i should have used norman's phone for the day, but i didnt cos i thought no one would need to contact me. so it's really my fault and i shouldnt have screamed at norman cos he's nice but i'm just a spitfire or whatever u call it. damn sian. collecting it on monday next week. more waiting sigh.here are the photos.
ok or rather the photo. notice the earring.. we got it pierced the day before at 77th street. finally after so long.. and on his wrist are the nike rubber bracelets.. k tired. watch teeveee....
today norman went to check in to Raffles Hall... and also to clean up the room since i brought my cleaning stuff with me too.. he stays on the 5th aka top floor so it's airy and cool.. but i think they've got to do something about the height of those barricades.. it's so low..prob 900.. felt as if i was gg to fall over any moment if there was a strong wind..anyway yes so we cleaned.. and cleaned.. goodness.. it was so disgusting the water turned black very fast.. and it's so gross esp when u clean with a dirty rag, the water marks that remain on the surface is gray.. so when it dries, it's still grey.. so clean for what! aiyoh. damn gross. all the itty bitty nooks and crannies are excellent breeding grounds for dust bunnies. eaurgh. and i got tired really quickly.. don't know why, probably cos everything i cleaned was times 2. cos it's a double room. 2 beds. 2 cupboards. 2.2.2. #_# so i just changed and sat on the bed... while norman cleaned and cleaned.. and moped the floor with a cloth.. so after that we went to Eusoff Hall.. where im gg to stay.. and cleaned.. this time a single room.. actually i thought my room was dirty enough, but seeing norman's room state, mine's a spanking new toilet bowl. it was faster than i thought, i sort of found an inner source of energy.. just clean and clean. haha.. so yay! clean room... and my dirty room is as clean as Norman's clean room. @_@so makes me wonder, like sometimes you are so caught up with standards that only when u have experienced other things that would be previously totally unacceptable that u find the previous 'substandard' thing become more standard? haha.. its like the he doesnt know that i don't know that he knows that i know that...
goodness.. been waiting for more than 3 hours..system for bloody cors has been down for like ages.. and we have to bid for our modules (mods).. what the hell.. so annoying..now they've extended the bidding period to 5 pm.. just a mere 2 hrs.. but it's still so slow!!it's been rather hilarious looking at all my friend's msn nicks.. CORS may not reply because his or her status is set to Away.from fine weather to stormy weather i waited for cors to loadblah blahhaha.. anyway yesterday Norman came over to cook a little lunch..it turned out very nicely.. haha we had brocolli and chicken panfried with oyster sauce.. yummy! and the remains of our salad from the day before, my sweet potato wedges.. yay! this time i bought the right sweet potato, not some quick oxidation jap potato. and oh oh! the star of the show was this recipie we saw on Jamie Oliver's show.. asparagus with crab meat sticks wrapped in a litlle bundle with bacon.. unfortunately the oven was down so we panfried it.. so yummy! it was sooo sweet from the crabmeat... yay!!! but in all the excitment i forgot to take pics of it.. haha.. oh welland finally got my studio grouping.. and by the good grace of God and His mercy, i reckon i got rather good tutors! and studio mates as well! mien for one, is in the same studio again.. hhahaa.. this is our 3rd studio again.. and loads of dean's listers and what's not.. yongqi and keguang.. well considering that there's only 5 dean's listers in aki.. 2 is a lot right! @_@ sigh.. maybe i'll be able to learn from them...and yay!! got Tan Siew Lee as mah tutor.. yayyyy.. and she's in charge of the Tech. Dept... so yay!!!! yayyy!!!!
tadah!!! this is what we ate the day before the wonderful asparagus meal...it's a salad - errr i forgot what lettuce, red cabbage, croutons which is just toasted bread, cherry tomatoes and!!!! yummy italian dressing.. all the way to the left is chicken!!! just cut to cubes.. ehheee.. and all the marinade was sesame oil! darling's a wizz i tell u.. so at the bottom right is the mushroom top shell dish we had.. oyster mushrooms and button mushrooms with top shell .. the taste was rather strong.. cos of the seafood.. but still very nice! we were damn full after that... heehee... best of all, we only used a tablespoon of oil.. cos there wasn't any left! amazing right and we used sesame oil to cook the mushrooms.. and we didn't have butter or magarine.. nor garlic.. nor onions......
this is the salmon meal we made before that mushroom and chicken and salad meal.. heeheenorman wanted to try out the salmon.. which was good i tell u! tho by the time we ate it was cold.. cos i don't exactly like salmon.. but it was nice.. flaky... and he put beer in it.. yumz...but Norman got the pot really black too.. hahaso the black stuff near the salmon looking like a tarantula's a mushroom concoction.. actually just button mushrooms.. cooked way too long in their own juices and too finely sliced by me to enjoy its texture...the burnt looking banana thingy's the sweet potato wedges i tried to make! apparently i bought the wrong potatoes.. Jap ones i think and they oxidise in like 2 secs! warau..so disgusting man.. and the pan was too hot and most of it got chao tar.... and mummy spent an hour and a half trying to scrape the black bits off the next day :Xso yes.. these are our wonderful concotions.. there's more to come i hope!goodnesscors is over! haha.. and freaking last min bids.. really last min i tell u.. got thru just before it turned 5pm.. haha.. laters!
