Need Re-Motivation

Again, off form again.

Was out with Les on Sunday, stayed up the whole night till it literally DAWNED on me that I have an accounting test. Crap, the paper was at 6.30pm and I had to drag myself through what seem to be the longest architecture tutorial ever. I couldn't take it. Caught a few winks in class and just had to be ready for the paper.

Tricky. That would be the perfect word to describe it. No other way. The second question stunned me. "Sold stock of goods worth $2000 to Mr Lim on credit for $4000". What the hell man? What is the double entry suppose to be?!?

Dr. Mr Lim $4000
Cr. Stock $2000
Cr. SCAMMED $2000

Yea, I think that just sets the tone for the rest of the paper.

Finally got my sleep after that, and woke up to the sounds of 98.7fm on a great Tuesday morning. Got on my mountain bike and rode to school. Damn, it feels so comfortable. Sat in class to Understand Weather, then walked Ting to the studio, she's as pretty as ever, then went home . I have to stop getting distracted when I'm on the bike. I was cycling home, when an auntie caught my eye. No, she wasn't pretty, she was just doing something strange. Couldn't figure out what she was doing so turned my attention back to my front.

Wa lao eh, there was a kerb luhh. Slammed the rear brakes cause my hands are always on it. Tried to squeeze the front levers but missed it. My bike different set up uh, as in the lever angles are different, so just couldn't find the lever on my mountain bike. Thankfully however, the rear brakes worked and I stopped with quite a distance to spare.

Wind today is horrible man. It was so strong.

Got home, then went back to school for LC. Then went home again, in the strong winds.

Played the guitar, finally, after a long time. ^^V. Then, got a quote from a very nice song.

Still no mood to do any architectural work. It's just down right demoralising when you have to keep changing stuff. So yea, going to cool off, have a little bit of fun, and slam right back into work.

"This life is not about what you have. It's about what you believe."

~Callum

The Long Time No Post post

Yes, I know, long time no post. But my blog shall not crumble and fall like Glen's and Les. Theirs was doomed to fail ever since the idea pop-ed up in their heads. So anyway, re-cap of my life. Finished my Industrial Training Programme, then it was straight to BP submission. Ouh, that was fun. Three weeks to finish everything, and yeap, I have to say, I'm pleased with the quality of my work. Here, let me show you.

Yea, that's the first storey floor plan. But what I really really like is the section.

Yup, generally pleased with the BP submission set. After that, was straight to BATAM. Went there to do work uh, but had some fun along the way.
Yea, that was the hotel. Cool right? Each hotel room was a unit on it's own. And oh my, the view, was nothing less than spectacular.
So yea, all complaints aside. It was quite OK. Yea, I have more pics, just a little short on time(lazy) to upload them all. But anyway, the project there, well, not bad. Quite impressed with the quality of work being done by the team. We didn't win anything, but again, good effort.

That was our floor plan for the SPA. Yea, good job. And no, I don't want to hear anything about the other group smashing down columns and not respecting the privacy of the users. Back from Batam and I received a warm welcome from my bike! ^^V. Took it out to Changi. Reached East Coast from West Coast in 34mins 52 seconds. Rather impressive I must say for a comeback.

The bike, at Changi. I enjoyed the ride, solo. Nothing holding me back and nothing pushing me forward. ^^V

HOT CHOCOLATE!!! ^^V! Yea, I think that sums it up. After ITP was BP, after BP was Batam, and after BATAM is now currently MDR.

A lot of other stuf happened luhh. Like Les getting his new wheels and how he scared the shit out of us. Dinner where 'The Island' idea came up. Ouh, got an accounting paper tomorrow and now setting up my bike to meet Mr "I've spend $150 on petrol". Yea, I think that's all, nothing else significant I guess.

"Nothing holding me back and nothing pushing me forward."

~Callum

Yes uh! BP submission is finally over. All 13 drawings submitted on time. However, a few rules were broken again. No matter how much I try to rush some people, it just doesn't seem to work. All the time I save for you guys, you guys just wasted it idling away. That's not what I'm here for. I feel so under utilized. Next on the agenda, AHS title block was leaked. Somehow, some people got their hands on the title block. Only Joel, David, Fadhil, Harith, Ding Sian, Hoe Khang and Sumo was suppose to receive the title block. So, yes, time to own up. How did the title block leak? It took some effort luhh, although it's not perfect, at least we had a scaled up location plan, scale bars, project title, and project reference number. So yes, it is a sensitive issue if the title block is leaked.

After submission, had quite a time at IMM, but then reach home and was flat out on my bed. For TWELVE long hours. WOOO HOOO. What a sleep. Woke up at 7am today and the sun was welcoming me to the day that lie ahead. A perfect day to start. Played flight simulator, and there was just something wrong with the navigation. There is no way I could set the autopilot to follow the beacons, why?! To make matters worse, the flight director caught the wrong glideslope on today's landing. Quite scary. I was on approach to Jakarta, 1500ft in the air when, eyes fixed on the glideslope the Inner Marker rang. I looked out of the cockpit and saw the runway threshold disappear underneath the 777 which I was landing. And no, I did not attempt to land the plane, I radio-ed the tower and went around. Second approach and I was still using the glideslope hoping it would spring back to life. It didn't, I missed the second approach. The third approach was a visual one, and yupz, the glideslope was screaming for me to pull up when the plane has already landed safely. Crazy instruments.

After that no life session, guess what? I went to school for a more no life session. I felt like re-doing the presentation boards for JC 3. AMBITIOUS, but rubbish. I only have the site plan out so far, and that is not even complete.

AFTER both that no life session, I went to get my life back. A ride to East Coast Park, I was on my hybrid with Mr Smug on his Trek 1000. First, he had a flat tire, he fixed that and came right out. Then I had a flat tire, I thought it was a normal on-going problem. We cycled to the gas station where smug commented, 'not bad uh, 30km/h on a flat'. Once we were there, the tire couldn't be pumped! There was just something wrong. Thankfully however, there was another roadie on a full carbon bike who lent us his pump. He actually did more then that, he pumped it for me. We were rolling smoothly until we hit town, where my tire had another meltdown. This time we were sure it's the tube. We pushed the bike to the LBS at waterloo, and OH NO! It's closed. So we sat there, thinking of the next plausible action. Being guys, we can't decide quickly, and thank god for that, because a mechanic came out of the shop, presumably to go home. Sumg pounced on the opportunity and asked him to change my tire. $10 for that service but it was worth it. Today, it was just MEANT for us to reach EAST COAST.

And we did. We reached east coast. Figure out there was nothing to do. Ate BK. Went back. Same shit different day huh?

The ride back, was predictable and smooth. The only climax was the flyover at Commonwealth, Smug sprinted on his Trek 1000, screamed out 'ARRRGHHHH' as he approach the climb. I was next and I stood up and paddled hard. That was when I realised, my MOUNTAIN BIKE, with 28c wheels was overtaking the Trek. What a moment that was. This just proves the point. 'It's not what you ride, it's how fast you can ride it.' But I have to admit, we're both out of shape for such a ride.

So yes, wrapping it up after BP! ^^V. Hmmm, and yea, maybe a ride on Tuesday, the four fastest bikes we have in our collection, me on my DMG road, Wynn you'll be taking the Aleoca XT, KT on his Cannondale, Smug on his Trek. That would be quite a sight. DMG, ALEOCA, CANNONDALE, TREK zooming past at let's say 32km/h? That should be maintainable. Maybe we just go town for satay or something. Xingg, if you want to join can uh, open to Iman and David also.

"It's not what you ride, it's how fast you can ride it."

~Callum