726 400

And that. Is how it's done.

Accounting test today and it was perfect. Absolutely perfect. For the FIRST time ever, have my balance sheet actually balanced. After calculating the assets, I arrived at $726 400. And then, it was the moment of truth. After totaling the liabilities and owner's equity, I covered my calculator screen, held my breath, slowly moved my hand away and there it was. Shining right at me. 726 400. FOR THE FIRST TIME! IT BALANCED! AND IT WAS THE FINAL EXAM. Ahaha, yes, after the papers were collected, I waltz across the classroom to my bag, and oh my, the smile on my face was so wide. Went to the toilet with a smile on my face and pee-ed with a great sign of relief.

My perfect day continued. I went to the Architectural Design and Resource Center (ADRC) and was expecting the aircon to be turned off in the model room. But nope, it's on and I found my file with ease. Being caught up with how perfect the day was going, I forgot that I wanted to look for Mr Goh to clarify if I could form another team for the BCA-CDL Green Mark Competition. And oh my, I saw him, and Mrs Koh walking back to school from lunch. Of course, I greeted him with a smile and he was enthusiastic about another team coming in. Perfect.

Then, the traffic light turned green as I was about to cross, courtesy to some guy standing there under the sun. And, I walked to the bus stop, waited less than a minute, and my bus came! PERFECT! I took 196 all the way to the bus interchange, and once I alighted, another 196 came and I took it to reach my house! ABSOLUTELY PERFECT.

And the whole time from after the test till i reached home, I had my mp3 plugged in and the volume cranked up way high, and it was churning out all my favorite tunes. Yes, my smile was never wiped off my face. I even got a hair cut today! And then as I laid down on my bed to rest, I remembered Maurices' performance on Saturday.

And as I smiled to myself. I remembered the 21st of February 2010. Where Wynn got the shit scared out of him.

AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
AHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH.

man. We were laughing so hard it actually started to hurt. I couldn't stand up because it was so painful after that outburst of laughter. Oh well, Wynn, I guess you've learnt how to spell friends, F-A-G-G-O-T-S. But really, that was a good laugh. I'm sure we'll NEVER forget about it.

Yea. So, I'll just lay here, and keep on smiling to myself. Today. Was perfect. Absolutely perfect. :)

Let's Face It.

ok. Let's face it. I've got sleeping disorders. What the hell happened?! I want to sleep! LET ME GO TO SLEEP! PLEASE. It's 2:45 in the morning and I'm still awake. So, anyway, I've been keeping a sleep diary, a diary where you record your sleeping time and hours.

Monday : Slept at 4am
Tuesday : Woke up at 3pm, didn't(couldn't) sleep
Wednesday : Slept at 7pm
Thursday : Woke up at 1am
Friday : Slept at3am, woke up at 1:30pm

Wa lao, some days I'm sleeping almost 12 hours and some days I'm not sleeping and other days I'm sleeping the required 8 hours. BUT IT'S NOT THE RIGHT TIME. I'M SUPPOSE TO BE AWAKE DURING THE DAY. I'm tired, really. But I just cant sleep until the sunrises. Argh. This is getting irritating. Funny how I wake up at 1am and can never get back to sleep, but I wake up at 11am and the bed pulls me in deeper. Please, please please, switch it around.

And honestly, I feel tired the first few hours when I wake up in the sunlight, but after that, bam, I'm right on the ball. The energy comes in when it's called for.

Ok, so here's the plan. I'm going to stay awake all day today. Meet my gf in the morning, then meet Syah for accounting notes, then meet David for the bike(tentative), then go see Maurice perform, then study with Wynn and Les, and then go sleep. And if I still wake up in the middle of the night, I'm going to go to the doc and get the medication, then overdose it and die. Ahaha, so would need to stock up on the red bull for this. Or maybe I should just clear all my plans. Stare into blank space, and hopefully try to hibernate.

ARGH! SLEEP. COME ON.

Addition:

Was so bored. Decided to do this.

Original Image at B.T.. Forgot to adjust the camera EV setting, so yea, the lighting destroyed everything. So, tried to fix it in photoshop, since I can't sleep anyway.

B.T.!

Yes. Finally.

Welcome to Bukit Timah Nature Trails! ^^V YES. I'm happy. Waiting damn long to actually do it. Of course, I was excited at the start. Until all the shit came in.
It rained, a few minutes before I reached. So. Wa lao, one tiny tap on the levers and I was drifting. Like a pro! (as if) But ish. I was damn slow, and yea, the tail was all over the place.
I even got lost when trying to navigate out. Yea, just thought the handlebar views will look cool.
Steep downhill. It's ok, not really my favourable section of the track. But, this is worse.
But man. The view is spectacular.
Yea. That's it la. Most probably will try it again during the DRY season.

imprompt sleepover

Yes. I am that bored that I am blogging from David's laptop, on David's sofa, in David's house.

HEY! So anyway. My hybrid, has grown into a mountain bike!!!! AHAHAHAHAH!!! YES!!! I'M FINALLY GOING TO B.T.!!! And my roadie has had a weight reduction session, so! Over the course of the SEVEN weeks of holiday for me.. (7 WEEKS of ITP for some people, or 6 months for one faggot) I'm going to do a road run on MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY. And off-road runs on TUESDAY and THURSDAY. Saturdays will be spent with ^^V and Sundays to rest and recover.

Yea, that's the plan. But what's most likely going to happen is, I'm going to do a road run on monday. Get shagged and tired, skip the offroad run on tuesday, find excuses to do something else on wednesday, pray that it rains on thursday and cycle down to west coast park on friday. Yea, I think that's the most likely course of action.

Ouh. Waiting for Wynn to comeback also. When that guy coming back uh? Gone for quite long eh. Waiting for his Xbox to be frank and honest. It's the holidays, I have nothing to do.

Wah. And got sleeping problems man. My body clock is screwed. I wake up thinking it's 11am, look at my phone, realise there's 12 missed calls and it's 5 in the evening. Cool. So, anybody with a healthy lifestyle, please give me a ring and I want to hang out with you. Healthy lifestyle in my books would include waking up at 7 in the morning, planned and organized day, and is in bed latest by 11pm. So yea, gimme a call if you lead such a lifestyle, I would really love to be your friend.

Talking about friends! Yea, could you know, probably go for soccer, or jamming? Anytime soon. (yes, that was a hint). Or maybe dinner! OR! PRAWNING. (assholes). Rite. I think I should get some sleep. Going to school LATER.

Wow.

Wow. Totally nothing on for CNY. But! However, I have time to clean my bikes and re-set them up. Oooouuuuhhhhh.. I really want to go to BT! Oh well. Still waiting until I get my confidence back.

And, I met up with El, she returned my phone, and oh my. She was so thankful. Like wow. I'm impressed, not many people are like that nowadays. Or maybe I'm just meeting the wrong type of people.

What now?

Great. Now everything is over. Submission is done, Presentation is done, GEMs exam is done. Basically, the only thing left is the accounting exam, which I must pass. Like literally, otherwise, I'll be dropped out of the course and everything will be wasted. So, looks like I'll have to push hard for that.

So anyway, looks like I have almost everything I wanted. I'm happy. Or I'm suppose to be. But. I'm not! It's only two days after JC4, one day after Friday, and I'm already feeling bored.

Got my MP3 for $40. That was cheap, but now, like all my other stuff, it's full of scratches. Comes with a radio though, so I'm not complaining. Thanks Iezah for finding that and thanks Nigel for paying for it. ^^V.


Finally. Changed my guitar strings. Feels damn good now. Sounds perfect. Or almost. It's not the instrument, it's the musician. Music, by someone's definition, is the idea behind the sound. So it's not so much of the sound that comes out, but the idea behind it I guess.


Got my boots anyway. Golden, and black. Nothing much to say there. But, I think, the biggest accomplishment so far, would have to go to this.

Yeap. Maximum speed reads at a modest 98.7 km/h. Just to put that into perspective, there is no roll cage, there's only two wheels, there's no crumple zone, there's no air bags, there's no guards, there's no full face helmet.

There's just you, pieces of aluminum welded together, and one small mistake and you'll find yourself slamming the asphalt with your whole weight crushing down on you. Ahaha, yea, so, missed my target of 100km/h, but let's not get over myself here. Still young, still have my chances I guess. And yes. I didn't have my legs after that run. But god, that was fun.

But you know. I just can't help feeling there's something missing. I just open up my organizer, and the pages are blank, and no matter how much I keep on flipping, they still remain unwritten. Maybe I've accomplished too much in a time frame too little.

I can barely remember how my presentation went. I was way too sleepy and I wasn't thinking then, I was merely reacting. Maybe that is what's wrong. I'm not appreciating all these little moments as much as I should. Now everything doesn't seem like a big deal. There's no more, 'YES! I'VE DONE IT'. It's more like, 'ok, it's done, what's next?'. And the current problem is, I can't answer that.

what's next?

♥

The stars lean down to kiss you
And I lie awake and miss you
Pour me a heavy dose of atmosphere
'Cause I'll doze off safe and soundly
But I'll miss your arms around me
I'd send a postcard to you dear
'Cause I wish you were here

I'll watch the night turn light blue
But it's not the same without you
Because it takes two to whisper quietly
The silence isn't so bad
Till I look at my hands and feel sad
'Cause the spaces between my fingers
Are right where yours fit perfectly

I'll find repose in new ways
Though I haven't slept in two days
'Cause cold nostalgia chills me to the bone
But drenched in vanilla twilight
I'll sit on the front porch all night
Waist-deep in thought because when I think of you
I don't feel so alone

I don't feel so alone
I don't feel so alone

As many times as I blink
I'll think of you tonight
I'll think of you tonight

When violet eyes get brighter
And heavy wings grow lighter
I'll taste the sky and feel alive again
And I'll forget the world that I knew
But I swear I won't forget you
Oh, if my voice could reach back through the past
I'd whisper in your ear,
Oh darling I wish you were here

If you're asking for it

You know. If you were asking for someone's help, I think it would be common sense, genuine common sense, to make it as convenient as possible for him to help. And yea, it wouldn't kill to say 'thank you', wouldn't hurt to smile once in a while either, wouldn't hurt to come prepared. Really. It's the little things that make it seem epic.

Presentation was o.k. I guess.

Some comments :

"I like your energy"
"You have a lot of potential you know that?"
"You spent a lot of effort on your layout, but it's perfectly fine"
"Without the 3d renders, everything else on the board is alright"
"You make us feel under dressed"
"Don't cut up your words"
"Your plan, should have blown it up"
"The shadow uh, how did it cast? There's no wall there"
"That's it?"
"The doors should fold on the inside, it looks messy."
"Read more books, on contemporary architecture"
"Talk to your lecturers more."
"I think you could have developed that, I kinda like the idea. There's something there."
"I see you've put in a lot of effort on the models. You did it again, and again, and again until you got it."

Yea. Negative or positive comments, is to your perception. But personally. I think it went, all right?

Well, yea. I think presentations should be like MINISKIRTS.

Long enough to cover everything, short enough to catch my attention.


Anyway. Keith wasn't there during my presentation. What the hell man. He helped me so much and he wasn't there to see how it all went. Yea, that was the only person I was really hoping to see in the panel today.

So yea. I guess this is the part where I say thank you?

Thanks to the lecturers, Keith and Halim. And yea, apologies for the attitude. sorry if I was rude.

Thanks to the Leslie, for assisting with the printing of the boards.

Thanks to Glen and Wynn for the compliments on my work. (Really, never deprive a guy of hope, it could be all he has.)

Thanks to Nigel for just being there I guess.

Thanks to Iezah for talking to me in the middle of the night while waiting for the boards to render.

Thanks to well, everybody else who think she/he had affected my performance in this project. (I'm sure a lot of people are going to take credit here.)

One. Two. Three.

Callum's Board

Joel's board

Hoe Khang's Board

Yea. Three boards sia. Man, my laptop have been through hell.

It has covered, in 2 weeks.

- 2 of my exterior renders
- 2 of my interior renders
- Joel's exterior render
- Joel's interior render
- All 8 of my boards
- All 8 of Joels boards
- All 8 of Hoe Khang's board
- Completed Need For Speed Undercover. (err? Random.)

Yea. I arranged all 3 of those boards. Hoe Khang and Joel have already coloured their plans and my only use was to put in on the board, and that's what I did. Hoe Khang was really thankful, treated me supper. Joel was thankful as well, wanted to treat me LJS, but it's like $8 per meal, so I declined.

But when his boards was printed, he took a look at it, and I don't know. Seem a little disappointed. Either that, or he was really tired, but I think he was disappointed. Ok, I'm not making excuses. But his board was really done under serious time constrain. For the first time ever, I was pressurized to complete it with the constant time checks. So, that was the first mistake. Second mistake of course was that I was too absorbed in just completing it, that I forgot to step back. And stare, and maybe find more improvements to make. So yea, I don't know. If he was disappointed then I would know why. But really. Time wasn't really on my side on this one.

But I can't help think it could have been better. Somesort. But i dunnoe already la. Need to ask Keith already. He's a lot more pro in this. So far, all the calls he made on my board turns out right.( AHAHAH! Say only, later during crit kena shot.)

So. !!!. Three different boards. Three different layouts. Two weeks. Cool.

Oh. really?

Yes. 5th Feb is over. So anyway, just would like to share, the construction sequence of a building.

First, the first story in situ slab is casted and the precast columns and beams go up. Along with the HS wall. Since they're loadbearing. Or can bear load. (the water bottle behind represents a huge water tank)
(Notice the secondary beams are in place). The precast floor slabs are then put in place.

(FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE! THE PIECES ACTUALLY FIT!!!)
More precast slabs are put in place. And the next storey beams are put up.
The process repeats itself until all five storeys and the roof are in place.
Next. The precast facade wall is hoisted up and secured down into place.
Next. The windows and Green Wall and the Green Roof are stuck in place. Using UHU glue.

Finally. The doors, and the balcony railing are secured in place using 5ml of elephant super glue.

Now that the construction sequence is complete, go take a look at ur MAT lecture notes and realise everything I wrote above is bullshit.

ANIWAE. Boards! PRINTED. ^^V.
That's mine.
And yes.
It's really that big. I didn't place some miniature furniture around it.
And yes.
My living room is that small.
And no,
it wasn't easy to come out with.

So, after I've done my boards, I thought 'HEY! I CAN REST'. Damn was I wrong.

I helped Hoe Khang with his boards.
While he was sleeping.
On my bed.

Yes. He went on my bed. I don't know how. One minute he was on the floor, and the next, he was soundly sleeping on my bed.
Yeap. That's his board. Well, partly mine. Since I did it. But sia la. Nice sia. I like the way his plans move up and down like some musical notes. If he said his concept was 'harmony', I would have bought it. So anyway, some colours came out wrong as expected. But overall, not bad. 2 boards, and both doesn't look that shabby in 2 weeks.

Yes, I'm also trying to prove the point that there is no hard and fast rule when it comes to your board. Whatever works, works. So you kinda have to keep trying. Give me another day or two with Keith and both the boards would have turned out better.

Ok. Architectural nonsense over.

What's next?

Err duh. Cycling!

Planning to change my hybrid to a mountain, and then, ^^V. Can go BT already!.

After that, must train on the road bike to get my stamina back up, and then maybe play more soccer, and then somehow build my upper body.

Ouh. And you know the BCA-CDL Green Mark Competition thing? I feel like joining sia. Anyone intrested?