Just finished final model

Today I finally finished my final model...having also printed next week's pin-ups and the ppt...just need to shorten the ppt...rehearsed last night...45min...too long...

learnt to cycle without hands

today i learnt to cycle without hands...not mastered yet, but i can go quite some distance and even turn gently with just my feet! yay!

2006-06-17 . Delft Lake part 2 - Campfire's burning...

Good weather today...after two days of dreary rain...we went to delft lake again, only this time at night, at 9 to be exact...keith had this idea to have a poetry night...all in all about 3 poems were recited...eric, keith and zhaopeng did the honours...there was this over zealous dutch teenager who kept shaking our hands and getting amused that we chinese were there at delft lake...later on at around 2am , other not so polite local teenagers crashed our party again, only this time, they didnt even introduce themselves...at least the previous guy, the topless guy in the pics introduced himself as Nick...these other ones ran across our campfire and one had even pulled his pants down while streaking across the fire...bad manners....really...anyway Keith got mad and confronted one of them, and almost got into a fight...we managed to break them up before anything else happened...later when we went to get our bikes, masa realized his bike had been stolen...we wondered if it was the bunch which had just crashed the party, but could find no incriminating evidence against them...they just repeated their apology for not being able to help us find the bike...if not for the fact that english is not their native tongue, i would have immediately seen it as sarcasm...once again keith confronted them, only to be greeted with much discriminating jokes and teases from the almost drunk bunch of young punks...shouting " chineeese.....saki saki!!!" duno what 'saki' meant, but in that tone, it didn't sound flattering...anyway, with the little incidents which peppered our little campfire outing not withstanding, it was a rather beautiful night ...



grace's birthday song...

2006-06-14 . Food experiments

The first is stir fried lamb with rice and vege...
the second and third are actually together...duno what it's called...
a nice touch was the use of raw spinach...

2006-06-11 . Holland vs Serbia Montenegro

Today saw the first match of Holland, meeting Serbia Montenegro...seeing how fanatical the fans are, I'm glad they won...coincidentally, today was also the day for some sort of carnival, so there were street acts, from giant mannequins, human dolls on giant balls to celtic humanoid creatures walking around on stilts and bogus street goofing golfers...coupled with the great weather, it was simply fantastic...

2006-06-10 . Delft Lake part 1

the weather was really good today so we got together and went to Delft lake for some volleyball and frisbee...i cant remember why i didnt take any pic of the scene at the lake itself...just the library on the way there and the famous vermeer twin drawbridge tower on the way back...

2006-06-08 . The day after the party

there was lots of left overs...so we had hotpot party part 2...they felt that the way i cut the pineapple was interesting...hence the foto...they also tried to transform my rx-8...gave up after awhile...i myself took some time to do it...the stupid antannae tend to dislocate the flap hatch behind the head...eric later told me that it's cos this Decepticon model was initially an Autobot and the head part didnt have such protruding antannae...

The Real Birthday Party

Last night was the real birthday party of clarence and I...there was the hotpot session in the evening followed by drinks after. (the picture of the stewed cream of beef n vege was taken the night before). The highlight of the night was the pillaring session...they couldn't pillar clarence without first pillaring me...so i had to sacrifice...they let me choose my tree...

soon it was time to cut the cake and blow the candles...the presents were many...wow thanks guys!


anne and wangxun

clarence brooding over his broken cuffs

sunmeng pleased with the food

petra n I

attacking the food




raimund caught in the act

wonder what kick they derive from us doing that

sonny's watermelon present

the presents

the cream of beef and vege


the guys diggin in...



clarence examining his cuffs...

Masa & Keizo's party

The merry folks of the international community for Urbanism and Archi gave Clarence and I a birthday celebration...belated...and gave us address books and Lamy pens...thanks!







and the highlight of the night...the SM segment...(non-sexual content)

After the Go

Had the Go/No Go presentation on Tuesday the 30th May, and it went rather well but for the fact that I totally messed up the presentation...I can't for the life of me, figure out why I had opted not to present the spatial characteristics of my design. Oscar said it was my worst presentation ever...and I can't help but concur... I emphasized too much on the technological details and failed to present my building as a whole in terms of the space and how it was used by the immigrants and locals. Terrible...

I'm very glad that my tutors saw that it was just an oversight in terms of my presentation, albeit a very great oversight, and gave me a 'Go' ... I'm now an 'architect', but one who has made a very fundamental error at that...I must remember that an architect sells the space and the use of his building before anything else, at least at the stage of selling his design...

Frustrations aside, I was very touched when my friends came to support and helped me to put up the presentation panels, which was almost like wall paper, covering much of the wall...there were 30 A1s...thanks guys :)

The rest of the guys who attempted the Go presentations essentially made it, except for Rickey and Adu, who were given conditional go's as their tutors weren't quite convinced that they had attained the requirements...initially Adu was really affected, almost reduced to tears, while Rickey was lamenting that he had half expected it to happen...Adu cheered up after awhile and had a pretty good time at dinner and the gathering after at his place for drinks...he even played mahjong with the mahjong queen Yanling, who was so sleepy that her eyes were puffy...but the moment she heard 'mahjong', she sat up and crawled to the mahjong table...haha...

The day after the Go, Wednesday, was spent pretty blissfully, firstly at the Pathe at Rotterdam, watching X-men 3, after which Clarence and I went to watch Michael Buble at the Ahoy Stadium, also in Rotterdam. ( clips can be found at YouTube.)





'crazy little thing called love'


Today, we went to Kinderdijk, a beautiful little UNESCO supported area near Rotterdam Lombardijen...much time was spent waiting for the bus...much time...zzzzz....and the place was beautiful...only when we were leaving after having spent almost two hours in the miserable drizzle...then when we felt we had enough of the foul weather, and went back for some hot cocoa, it started to clear...sigh...o well...we were tired and sleepy, and couldn't care less ...so off we went back home...dinner was at Keith's...(the graffiti was found along the tunnel between Delft station and Aldi)