The Wait is Finally Over!

The past weeks were full of disturbing incidents hence lack of sleep, but finally when the Admission and Records of IIUM office emailed me the result of my application to KAED... now I can finally eat and sleep without worrying so much about it...

Oh yeah! The result is... drumroll please...

I'M IN!!!!

Now that I think of it, the nearly 2 hours of interview by Applied Arts and Design lecturer and 2 Deputy Deans in KAED, is totally worth it!

To be honest, that was the first time I've been interviewed. Though a week before the interview I was in total control and composed, I was in wreck the morning of that day. I was so nervous, I went to the toilet like 5 times! I couldn't think straight, I took wrong buses to the faculty building, and thought the back side of the building is the front side of the building.

Though I got there half an hour early, I forgot to bring my certificates. I sneaked in an eraser during the drawing test - but eventually being confiscated by one of the Deputy Deans, and until this day, I actually couldn't recall clearly what did I blabbered about throughout the interview but not until after I showed the three interviewers my e-portfolio - my serial planes that I worked on a week before coming here.

All in all, I think it's safe to say that getting into KAED was something that I worked on all by myself - of course by the recommendations by the Deputy Deans in KAED so I would like to thank them for the opportunity given to me and hereby I promise that I'll work hard - and if I don't, well... make me, threat me with anything...

... I guess this is a point in my life where I'm about to embark on new journey - that I supposed to take long ago... So, wish me luck!

and now, let's begin...

okay, peeps! finally after waiting for 2 whole weeks, the result of my application to IIUM's Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design has been announced!

and the result is... drumroll, please....

I'm in!!!!!

Thought I won't be able to make it as it's been 2 weeks already... But totally wrong on that... =)

Now I realize that the nearly 2 hours interview is totally worth it...

So, hereby I announce, my new journey has begin...

Damage!

On Monday, while I was reading some books in the library, I received a call from a private number. Filled with curious, I picked up.

"Is this Nuraini Munira Jalir?"

"As the lawyer of D****** V***** R********, I would like to inform you that this company is going to sue you with RM 10 000..."

I was about to collapse upon hearing that...

"For further explanation, please call this number.."

I called the number 2 seconds after I hung up the first call.

Turns out same voice, same slang, answered my call. Then he explained about this privilege card that I agreed to sign up on October 2010 in East Coast Mall, Kuantan.

It is a privilege card that can give you discount if you flash that card while buying plane tickets from AirAsia and if you reserve at some hotels in Malaysia. The original price is RM 999 but there giving out some special promotion - RM 350 for students. I agreed to pay RM 60 for deposit, it's not I'm going to get the privilege card right away, it's a deposit that will be burned if I don't wish to proceed with the whole thing by settling the fee of RM350.

It is true that I agreed - filled a form and whatsoever, but one thing I remembered what the agent said is they don't accept any payment within 12 months, they'll send some sort of notice - letter to remind me about the whole deal.

But what the guy had told me on the phone was totally different from what I heard from before.

That if they don't accept any payment within 12 months, they have rights to sue me, with RM 10 000!

My banks accounts - Maybank, and CIMB had been suspended and I may not eligible to apply for any scholarship after this.

A letter will be sent to my current address saying that I have to be in court next week for the proceedings... WHAT???

Even the lawyer mentioned earlier that maybe it's the agent before this had some problems in explaining the whole deal to me... WHAT???

I can't think straight after that... Maybe it's my fault that I didn't read the whole agreement before signing up but how come these agents can be so stupid in explaining things?

Then the guy said if I don't want to be sued, I should pay the whole package - RM 999 plus I have to bear half of the lawyer fee of RM 350 to revoke the whole thing by 3 p.m. that day.

Is this some kind of fraud? That's what I've been thinking.

I called my parents after that and asked for their advices. My brother agreed to take care of the whole thing once he got here in KL. He called the guy earlier and had some sort of agreement to settle things which I still don't know about. But the guy agreed by settling things up by being paid with RM 300 ++. WHAT THE???

Feeling lost and unable to use my mind for awhile, my mum asked me to trust her on this that she believes that as long as I don't use other's people money, I don't cheat other people's money, there's no way I can be sued easily.

So, in conclusion, all I want to say is before you guys sign anything, do read the whole agreement!

I have so many things going on for the past 3 months already. But with this thing, I'm almost lost my senses and only today I guess, I'm back to my normal self again and be able to think straight.

I'm not saying the whole thing is settled already, but for now I think I can sleep without thinking so much about this whole crazy-stupid-ridiculous thing.

What a damage! Tsunami in Japan with 9.0 Richter's scale is devastating but this tsunami I had... a total damage to my perspective upon strangers at the shopping malls.

Materiality

Materials are imbued with meaning. They elicit memory, desire, agitation, and recognition, significantly shaping the experience of an architectural space. The sensory characteristics of a material - whether it is supple, brittle, translucent, cool, elastic, crude - and the extent to which it is manipulated evoke presence and absence weight and density, light and time. Materiality is fundamental to the vocabulary of architecture. Just as there is poetry in selecting a specific word or words to convey a certain meaning, there is poetry in choosing a specific material or materials to bring into being a certain place. Materials may have fixed qualities within mutable states; they may be raw, finished, decomposed, or fabricated. Technology amplifies mutability, creating a culture of endless signification: plastic endowed with select attributes of glass; corrugated metal differentiated by fluidity and impermanence. Our work reflects purposeful, honest material choices, giving rise to places of self-production and self-reflection.

Detail

A Detail is a discrete element of a larger work - a particular component to be considered particularly. In a room, a detail can be the resonance or buffering of sound, the tangible, corporeal feeling of a floor or a bench, or the way two materials meet side by side. On a building, a detail can be the treatment of a roof edge or surface, the unexpected use of a certain material, or the way a corner is turned. Further, a detail can be unfixed, ephemeral - the dematerialization of a textile interplay of light and shadow, reverberation, temperature. Details, though they may be small are not minor or inconsequential. If a building is more than the sum its parts, it is nevertheless the sum of its parts. Details are inextricably linked to what we call "desire": our greater aspiration for a work of architecture; our vision for its unifying idea or meaning. Detail should express the same meaning as the space and contribute to the holistic experience of that space.


-1100 Architect, The Monacelli Press

Disclaimer: quotes from the above book..I do not own this..

Evolution of the 'Sea Lion'

I was just in the mood to post this up... =D








































Okay! I'm done...

Disclaimer: All the pics here are MINE... Took them using my 8.1 Megapixel Sony Ericsson W995 camera...

p/s: please don't mind the background..

Early Sketches

As I promised before I'll post up the early sketches of Vice Versa.. I have to admit that it's not that good if you guys want to compare to real archi students... Still, this is my first attempt...

Let's just let the pixes do the talking, kay?

click here to see the pixes in high pixels...

Vice Versa Part II

Basically for the centre part, the planes have the ‘heads’ and the ‘tails’... At lighter tones, the ‘heads’ are smaller from one to another while the ‘tails’ are shorter from one to another... This part is going in a circle, in exact 360 degrees. From 0 degree to 90 degree are the light tones, from 100 degrees to 270 degrees are the dark tones, and from 280 degrees to 360 degrees, the planes are going light again... So, this is it!

This is the front view...



This is the view from the back...



This is the right side...



When I’m done with the centre part, I went on with the left ‘tower’...


Done with the left part...



Proceed with the left part...



and voalla! This is before I’m truly done a day after...



With that, I’ll post the final part and I’ll explain what’s this model about...

Merci!

Vice Versa Part I

Part I

Finally after I'm done with designing, planning and buying all the stuffs I need to do my first project - serial planes, so I figured.. why don't I post the whole process in here?

These are all I need for the planes...



...err... you may wonder... what's with the inter-framing iPod, right? Thanks to Danny - it has a name, I can stay up until late night finishing things up... If there’s anyone of you out there in attempt to do a serial plane, please be extra careful with the knife... The mounting board may looks easy to cut but I almost lost a finger when I unknowingly changed my pressure and strength while holding the knife!


This is for the center part... inspiration for the shape? Sea lion, I guess... haha kidding!



The 'tower' - this has another set - so basically there are three parts of the whole thing..



Preparing for the fun part of this project - degrading and upgrading the tones... some may find it unbelievable but to be honest, this is the first time I bought poster colours... I chose Buncho because I saw my roommate used the same thing back in foundation.. Simple, right? ...and why purple? Though I never listed purple as my favourite colour, so the sole reason why I chose purple it's because I would like to dedicate this project to my bestie - Shasha...




These are the colours I used to come up with different light and dark tones... It’s easy to get different tones for the light ones but I got to be extra careful while mixing up purple and black cause they did turned out to be a different type of purple - not darker ones... Since I’m not that expert, these are all I got...



So, after I’m done doing final touches - correcting and making sure all the planes are ready, I proceeded with the base for them...



I’ll post up the early sketches of this model later, kay?

See you in part II...