I'm feeling sick

It's almost 4 in the morning and I'm still rushing to finish my report after sitting in front of the PC for more than 20 hours.

My stomach is acting up and I feel so nauseated. It must be from the excessive eating of unclean food for the past few meals. I realized that I cannot tolerate oily food anymore. I had mixed grill at Mr. Ho the night before and it was so oily that I can't help going to the washroom so many times today. Then I had chicken nuggets and fillet-o-fish just now. I think fillet-o-fish was fine. The nugget was too oily, that's I feel so nauseated now. I must stick to my green salad and fruits diet soon before I turn into some green vomiting monster. I feel like shit. I wanna cry. I want to finish this damn report and study for tomorrow's exam. But I'm not feeling well... Can I postpone my exam? T_T

Help me...

ARCHITORTURE

I found this went I was googleing on architecture students blogs.
Original is found here

You Know You're An Architecture Student When...

A litany of depressing behaviors.

* The alarm clock tells you when to go to sleep.
* You're not ashamed of drooling in class anymore, especially during Structures lectures
* You know what Superglue tastes like.
* You celebrate space and observe your birthday
* Coffee and Red Bull are tools, not treats.
* People are nauseated just by smelling your caffeine breath.
* You are surprised when you see a new building in your school.
* You think it's possible to create space.
* You've slept more than 20 hours non-stop in a single weekend.
* You fight with inanimate objects.
* You've fallen asleep in the bathroom.
* Your brother or sister thinks he or she is an only child.
* You've listened to all your CDs in less than 48 hours.
* You're not seen in public.
* You lose your house keys for a week and you don't even notice.
* You've brushed your teeth and washed your hair in the university's bathroom.
* You've discovered the benefits of having none or very short hair, and you've started to appreciate inheriting baldness.
* You've used an entire role of film to photograph the footpath.
* You know the exact time the vending machines are refilled.
* You always carry your deodorant.
* You become excellent at recycling when making models.
* When you try to communicate, you make a continuous and monotonous whine.
* You've danced YMCA with excellent choreography at 3 am and without a single drop of alcohol in your body.
* You take notes and leave messages with a rapidograph and colour markers.
* You combine breakfast, lunch and dinner into one single meal.
* You see holidays only as extra sleeping time.
* You've got more photographs of buildings than of actual people.
* You've taken your girlfriend (boyfriend) on a date to a construction site.
* You've realised that French curves are not that exciting.
* You can live without human contact, food or daylight, but if you can't print it's chaos.
* When you're being shown pictures of a trip, you ask about the human scale
* You can use Photoshop, Illustrator and make a web page, but you don't know how to use Excel.
* You refer to great architects (dead or alive) by their first name as if you knew them (Frank, Corbu, Mies, Norman, Tadao).
* You buy 50 dollars worth of magazines that you haven't read yet.
* When someone offers you a Bic pen, you feel offended.

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*You spent 20 hours in front of the computer working on the same project.
*You don't understand how somebody can spend less than RM20 at the stationary shop.
*When someone called you lazy, you want to have them murdered.
*You can live without human contact, sunlight, food, but if your plotter’s ink runs out… Chaos!!!
*You have the modern mark: a blister in your palm’s hand for the constant use of your mouse (This is so true!)
*Changes in your vocabulary: homework to project, ball to sphere, print to plot...
*You spent more than RM100 on printing.
*You hate tracing papers.
*You hate people telling you "go to sleep" or "still a lot to do?" or "when can you finish?".
*When you finally have free time to go out you keep thinking "who was the idiot that designed the restaurant’s bathroom?" or "who designed this menu?" or "who designed this [chair, table, lighting, fork, etc]?"

It is flat, thus it weights

Semester 3 is finally coming to an end. It seems like only yesterday I enrolled in LimKokWing and today, I'm blogging about how I'm already half way through my diploma. Gosh... time really flies when you're so occupied!

This semester seems to fly faster than before! Or rather I feel that I am not settled down enough for this semester. Gym and dates took too much of my time and I hardly able to do as much as I did last semester.

My lecturer once told me that I slacked a lot this semester, but to me, I'm still doing my best, just maybe not as good as before. Not as perfect. That statement made me cry, not because those are harsh words or anything. It is just that, maybe, lecturers have too much of an expectation out of me and I can't seem to achieve them. I am a disappointment. Yet, I will stand and do what I can now and not let what had happened get into my way.

Meh... Enough of babbling.

So yea... This morning was Semester 3 design presentation. I was in group A! (Panels were Mr Terry and Mr Asfia, did I spell his name right? Corrected! Thanks to Azie) And I'm also the last to present. Everyone was looking! (Ho ho... Didn't I just get everyone's attention?) Even group B's presentation was already over by that time. Was a little nervous... Cause I feel that I did not put as much effort as last semester. And Sheounz only gave me A-! Was thinking "Oh no... Elin is going to give me B now"

Yea... Weird thoughts when you're nervous. Well, few things that were raised up by panels

• The roof is flat thus, it weights. Should make it pitched a little. (Well, my mistake. Design flaw)
• Stagnant water (my design got water feature) does not gives cold air when water vaporizes. Will only brings humidity to the building and thus, my building will only last for 5 years (I didn't know!)
• Sliding wall made out of wood is too heavy to push. Not practical (My mistake! Was suppose to be bamboo! I told the panels those were wood strips)

Overall, it was a good presentation. The panels loved my boards and model (My model suck I tell you). But yeah, if they like it, then it's good.

I noticed that I did not take any pictures of my model! So no pictures here.

I shall fall back into slumber.

Dancing With A Stranger

I finally finished my model and presentation board! And slept for 12 hours straight after staying awake for 3 days.

Space, Inside Out

Did some manual rendering with colour pencil on the presentation board after I printed it.

Now I am left with design diary, portfolio, topography model and perspex cover for my models.

SketchUp to Revit

After doing 3d modeling in SketchUp, I was thinking... Why not I do my building plans using Revit? Here I go...

Tada...

It took me quite an effort to link SketchUp files with Revit since I don't really know how Revit works. But with tutorial I finally get it done. So this is how it looks like in SketchUp, rear elevation.

2d elevation in SketchUp

Elevation in Revit

Combo, not a bad idea. I was thinking maybe I can do abit of presentation rending with Maya.

3ds Max

Creating terrain was so difficult with SketchUp! Cause I'm noob =_=

It took me nights, and sleepless nights trying to model the contour in SketchUp but it wasn't accurate.

Then my hero, 3ds Max came in.

My heroic 3ds Max

So accurate!

D. Gray Man

I so want to get my hands on Lenalee's exorcist costume! It's so cool... *too bad I'm not involved in cosplay*

Wish I have the body to wear such sexy costume though. Sigh...

Oxymoron!

It's 3.30 in the morning now and as usual, I'm procrastinating again.

I was Tadao Ando'ing' a minute ago and I noticed something about him. I shall share my opinion of him here...

He is actually a really complicated guy, but he strives for simplicity. And thus, he claims that he is simple guy by using lots of geometrical plans to create his "spiritual space". (Sounds like me, I guess. Simple yet complicated. *sigh*)

Yay, paradox. Just like Tadao. He want his space to come between fictive and reality. Make it spiritual and highly symbolic.

Oh Tadao, I have fallen in love with you... Because you are so like me (or I claimed to be)

Let's build a home together, shall we? (*laughs* literally)

Stop finding reasons

It has been ages since I last posted. This will be a quick one. And most probably the first post that I write about my personal thoughts and feelings.

People called me kiasu, workaholic, or which ever names that lie between that, though it does not bothers me, the simple truth about me is that, I'm a perfectionist. Blame Sagittarius, blame my personality. I can't change it. And I don't want to. I am a proud Sagittarian.

Being someone who always want things go her way, sometimes, what I achieved, is not something that easy to satisfy my huge appetite. I aimed too high and disappointments are always there.

Not only that I am always disappointed with myself, I found out that I let down those around me as well. Sometimes the guilt is so overwhelming that I wish to turn back time and patch up on things that I could improve on. I really dislike this part of me. I dislike being regretful.

Just like any other teenagers, there are times that I just wish to take a break and be "normal" for a bit. Normal as in, well, let's take things easy and go with the flow. Why push yourself so hard? Life is short. Stop and smell the flowers.

Which I did. And all that I get from being carefree (a little) is just regrets, disappointments and frustrations. I want to make things work again and again, strive for the best. After all, this is the real spirit in me. The perfectionist, the kiasu fella.

Let me advise you, readers. The more you want something to work and go your way, the worse it will become. Just do what you can, you never know when it's already brilliant. Don't think too hard.

Because I think too much, think too hard, tried too much, tried too hard, I expect from myself too much and aimed too high, well, it can be good or otherwise. Don't be a Saggitarian like me. You will only be discontented with life.

Be happy