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)