The Past Has Already Gone

....yet why some of us still contemplating about it?

When some of us got back something that related to the past, something that remind us of the moment that we're so happy, should we really hang onto it?

If everything has changed since then, why bother to hang onto it?

We can't just got back to something in the past just because it's good, it makes you comfortable,... it's familiar...

"we were just happened to be classmates for 12 years..."

"we were just happened to share the dormitory for 4 years"

"we were never together..."

"we were never friends..."

though I have to admit I never see this could happen...yet it is happening...

For that, all I could say... that I wish all the happiness in the world for you and her.

I hope you and him will stay together forever... from here to the hereafter...



Over my shoulder, I saw nothingness crawling behind my back...

A silhouette of a girl dressed in beige with the sound of her heels clicking on the pavement, slowly disappearing into the light of...

Final Week before Revision Period

For this week, I'm going to finish up all the unfinished tasks and assignment for my Graphic Communication subject, compiled them and present them in a port folio form. That's one.

Two, I'm going to submit my term paper on Tadao Ando for my Intro. to Built Environment subject. Pray hard I'll get 20% solid.

and three, I'm going to submit the maths assignment. Hopefully I'll get the 10% and that'll adds up to my 36% carry marks. I'm going to need at least 39% out of 45% to get a solid A.

Then, I can finally focus on my preparation for final exams.



that's all for now. Until next post, au revoir!

IBE Assignment

As for today, I decided to work on my Intro. to Built Environment term paper where we're required to choose any international prominent architect (still practicing) and discuss his works, contribution in the field of architecture, experience and educational background. We can also include critic of his works in the literature if we want to.

It's a 10 to 15 pages of course including photos and this is to be submitted on next Wednesday. 

Me? I chose Tadao Ando. 

Well, I love Frank Lloyd Wright (who doesn't?) and since Tadao Ando is in fact influenced by his works, and of course Le Corbusier's, Louis Kahn's, and Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe's works too and therefore, I chose him. 

...yeah, to those who know me definitely will say it's because he's Japanese and he even built his firm in Osaka (Tadao Ando Architect and Associates) instead of Tokyo where people believe that it's better to start in the most populated city in the world. No my friends, it's not because of that. 

Anyway, I'm going to gather some information from the Internet and going to the library probably tomorrow to borrow some books (our library's collection on this guy is unbelievably small. Only 6 or less books. Not to mention those in other campus libraries) and hopefully be done by Monday cause by Monday, I need to start on my Maths assignment and of course to work on my port folio. 

until next entry, au revoir!

1st MISI Main Board Meeting

Oh, I haven't told anyone. Except my BFF. I'm now holding a presidential position in MISI club for tenure 2012. Honestly, that was out of my expectation. I was hoping to be on much lower position as I'm aware of my lacking in so many area. Now the responsibilities have rest on me as it was officiated during the Annual Grand Meeting last Saturday. Long story short, do pray hard for me, kay?

Basically, we heated off with some introductions of the main board members. 4 girls and 3 boys. 3 Human Science students i.e. Mimi, Dani and Che Mi; 1 AIKOLian - Shamy, 1 Econs, our Mr. P - Ajip, and 1 BENLian - Dilah. Representing KAEDians, me. 

70% of the time were allocated on discussion regarding the main programs that are going to be held throughout our tenure and 20% talking about our job scopes, and picking our Exco or Bureau i.e. the one that we're going to monitor. I decided on Public and Relation Bureau. Can't blame for loving social networks!

Other than that, we discussed on arising matters, and finally closed with a mini round table session, just to make sure that we're all in the same page. 

Finished around midnight, I sent Mimi to her mahallah and headed back to mine right after. It was cold along the way. It's December... What can I say. Hopefully the flood in KL nearby IJN and HKL is going to ease down a bit.

All in all, here I am... Just done listing out the things that need to be done:

1. Vernacular architecture assignment - to be submitted TOMORROW
2. Lettering assignment - to be submitted TOMORROW
3. Maths quiz on Log and Matrices - TOMORROW
4. Intro. to Built Environment assignment - to be submitted on 21st of December
5. Maths assignment - to be submitted on 22nd of December
6. Graphic Communication's Port Folio Day - early January. 
7. My very first MISI's proposal - to be done, signed by advisor and approved before 13th of January (my flight)
8. Big Bro's wedding! 

Wish me luck, guys!

xoxo,

V

Am I Serious?

A classmate asked me a question this afternoon.

"Which department are you going to next semester?" 


Before this, I would definitely say it it right out. But all of a sudden, my voice stuck and I was speechless. For a moment there, I was 100% sure that I have a second thought regarding this matter.

No, E. I told myself. This is it. After 4 wrong stations in 2 terminals, this is the one. I got the ticket in my hands right now and all this while I am almost 80% sure about the road I was about to hit. There's no way I'm backing out of this.

"I'm going to architecture, if God's willing. Of course it depends on so many factors we know but yes. That's the plan."


Right after that, I got my IBE mid term's result.

One word. Awesome!

Next, we set the date for our final exam which is going to be on 3rd of January. Maths' paper going to be on 8th.


Dear God, I need the strength to keep heading forward in my life. Give me guidances and patients so I could go through this. Amin.


Au revoir,

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GC: Assignment #15

The 15th assignment given to us today is the lettering assignment. Pretty easy I guess...

I'm still working on my previous assignment though~

Got Math quiz on logarithm and matrices next Thursday...

Nothing much to say... it's been real crazy for the past 2 weeks... with the finals are getting closer...

Class of 2011...

Well, for Graphic Communication... :D

From left: Mirwan (Cambodian), Abdullah (Palestinian), Nabil (Malaysian), Hazem (Canadian), our Bro. Zakaria a.k.a Zack, almost invisible Bayan (Saudi Arabian), Huda (Nigerian)

At the back: the tallest Awni (Palestinian) and Ahmed (Palestinian).

Peace 'em out!

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App Review | Blogger

I think it's safe to say that I'm a passionate Apple Apps user as I regularly download new apps and I know it's unfortunate for me as I honestly just came across this app today.

... And again it's unfortunate for me as the developer of this app have not yet released the iPad version. Admit it! We all love HD stuffs, right? Anyway, let's talk about this app...

First thing first, let's get into some details.

App Name: Blogger

Developer: Google

Price: Free

Category: Social Networking

Released: September, 2011

Version: 1.0.0 (up to this entry date)

Languages: English, Malay, Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian (Phew!)

Seller: Google Mobile© 2011 Google, Inc

Requirements: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch (OS 3.1.3 or later)

GC: Assignment #14... Part I

So we arrived to the 14th assignment~ few weeks left before the port folio day... *Nervous!

Okay, first of all... after doing a little research on residences during Nara period (8th century), I decided on Fujiwara no Toyonari's mansion.

The first source I could find in our own Resource Centre is this book : 'What is Japanese Architecture: A Survey of Traditional Japanese Architecture' by Kazuo Nishi and Kazuo Hazumi, first published in 1985 by Kodansha America. I got the second edition, published in 1996 by Kodansha International.

About the book: it's a super guide for the understanding of the form and structure of traditional, historic Japanese architecture. Many diagrams of structures. Not lots of photos - but the illustrations of construction techniques, plans, sections and elevations give a different perspective than the plentiful picture books of Japanese architecture.

A clip from the book. Just a preview. This is copyright material. 

The challenge here is to understand the measurement used during this period which are the ken (translated to 'bay' in English), shaku, and sun. Up to this day, 1 ken is approximately to 1.818m, and every ken is equivalent to 6 shaku and 1 shaku is equivalent to 10 sun. For this very assignment, I only used up until shaku and that's it.

About this mansion, it belonged to Fujiwara no Toyonari and according to the book aforementioned above, it was thought to have five ken wide and 3 ken deep. Referring to the one after Sekino Masaru, seems to me the mansion was built symmetrically.

I also found the mansion being illustrated in D.K. Ching's book, Design Drawing. The illustration in there is clearer and closer to the real measurement.

As for the assignment, we have to do the floor plan, the elevations, and later on the axonometric plan view. I'm half way done for the floor plan (I was home throughout the previous week) so I barely started the drawing.

Any who, I'm going to gather some information on IBE's assignment before getting on with this one.


Signing out!

E

My Big Brother's Engagement Party

Song that I'm listening to right now: Marry You and Just the Way You Are (Glee Cast Version) ... 

Okay... Where do I begin? I went back last Tuesday and all the way to Friday were the days of making preparations i.e. The clothes to wear on Saturday, for me and ALL the bridesmaids, the house, the dining utensils, the FOOD, the people, and of course, the highlight of the event is the 7 trays of trousseaus... In our Bajau tradition, the groom also give stuffs to the bride, okay... 

Later I'm going to explain our tradition that we chose to follow this time that usually being implemented especially to the very first child of the family and plus my brother is also the grandson of the family, therefore it's given that we have to spend a lil bit more than the usually being spent on wedding..

But as for the engagement party, we didn't spend so much though. We had catering took care the food for Saturday morning and a cousin of mine took care the barbecue on Saturday night.

On Saturday, us, from the groom-to-be's side went to the bride-to-be's house which is located on the next village to ours...FYI, groom-to-be is NOT allowed to come during engagement party in the bride-to-be house...

Anyway, from morning to around 2 p.m. was the feast event. Mum took care like most of dad's siblings' wedding so it's given all of them came for bro's engagement. It's actually a very rare occasion to see all 8 (out of 9) of them together at family events.

Around 2, lead by our village leader, who has a fine name but unfortunately being nicknamed by abang and his friends as Deka. He was actually had to be sent to the hospital in the morning because of asthma attack but he refused to miss the event so he came with Dad anyway~ We were so touched because of that. 

These are the 7 trays of trousseaus... I made all of them myself and a cousin helped me until 3 in the morning on that Friday...

Some fruits... 

Shoes and make-ups... I had to re-wrap the small-sized box with white paper and later with a silver wrap... but still, it's worth the view...

A handbag... 

and a perfume at the back... 

A silk from mum...

Telekung and sejadah... love the small butterfly~

Of course, an engagement cake... and last but not least... the Sirih Junjung, and the ring... Abang bought the ring bed and Mum made the sirih junjung... The green leaves are what we called as sirih and are eaten by some of the elders to drop their blood pressure... But it's a symbol of.. I'm not really sure exactly but it's important in our tradition in fact, it heads these trousseaus... 

... at the bride-to-be house, I literally scattered the RM15k bills around the ring... Kidding! I rolled the RM100 bills in 10 and tied a ribbon around it... 

... Presenting the bridesmaids...! We all are cousins.. This was before we head towards the bride-to-be house... 

...and of course, the best man. My lil bro, Arif right in the middle of us girls.. 

From left, Jila (daughter of papa's lil sis), Nana (daughter of papa's lil bro - Unc. Muss), Ain daughter of Mum's lil bro) and our lil Yaya (daughter of papa's lil bro - Unc. Arshad)... She is such a doll! Her 21 yrs old sis, Afizah didn't come as she's currently attending UNIMAS. Me? hehe.. I skipped 2 classes for this!  

Nana and Jila... 

This is Kak Ida... after mum put the ring on her.. 

Mustafa Kamal and Noor Hamidah are officially engaged!

During the discussion of the wedding~

Hence, it's official, people! The majlis nikah is going to be on 20th of January, majlis berinai on 21st, and the majlis bersanding is on 22nd. Pre-wedding party on 19th - the bride-to-be's birthday and post-wedding party plus the majlis potong kek on the 23rd, also the groom-to-be's birthday... Yeah.. nice coincidences, right? 

Anyway, these are the dowries from kak ida to my brother...  9 trays... 

Baju nikah... same with the best man's just now... 

Sejadah and songkok... 

Belt and wallet... 

Black leather shoes...

watch and a perfume...

Adidas perfume set... 

basket of fruits... 

na'ah! THESE ARE MINE!!! :D

talking about coincidences... both side of family actually ordered our cakes from the same bakery.... so sweet...

When we're done with the serious matter, we off to the dining area and had late lunch.. but before that, I took some pictures with Kak Ida... 

That's Mum with Kak Ida.. and that's Unc. Muss's wife.. Aunt. Liza with our newest lil cousin, the heartthrob, baby Danish! 

Another picture with Kak Ida... 

After that, the bridesmaids were taking over the stage! LOL

the girl in blue is Jila's lil sis, Mimi.. she's 16. there's another lil sister, but she didn't came with us.. 

Got home around 4 p.m. I think, and after I sat at the couch like 5 minutes, I blacked out. I woke up around 7 p.m., and prepared some fried noodles for the barbecue plak... we also had karaoke! We finished around 1 in the morning, cleaned up, and woke up around 8 the next morning. 

So.. that's ALL about the engagement party... PHEW! that was a lot!

I flew back to KL today and arrived at exact 12 midnight at the campus! =)

Have a good night, people!

xoxo,

V

Looking at the Stats...

... at the audiences section, I was wondering...

What are you Japanese been reading in my blog, huh?

It's very interesting to find out I have readers from different country...

Anyway,　どもありがとうございました！！！

Books Suggestions

I've been asking here and there... and for you guys out there who have some time to check out some books during your free time, I'm planning to post series of entries of books suggestions that I picked from lecturers, seniors, and of course forums and architectural sites.

If you guys have any ARCHITECTURAL BOOKS or magazines suggestions for me, do drop some comments, yeah!

Getting Inspired

I read about this on Tanggam.com and I would like to share with you guys out there...

The title of the post is "Mental Block? No Idea for Design?"

Point number one would be reading some magazines that has good reviews first. Not just looking at pictures. Some reviews are descriptive, some are critical. Go for critical ones as these can tell you not only what's good about a design but also WHY. They also often compare with other good or similar design.

...and of course, it goes without saying that we need to improve our vocabulary each and every day for this... If you think you can tackle heavy reading right away, you're wrong. I learned it hard way so trust me. 

Point number two is traveling. But only when you have obtained comfortable amount of vocabulary then it is wise to travel to great places. I'm talking about design language vocabulary here. We have to be able to communicate what we see and feel when we go to a site. Simply 'nice', 'cozy', and 'beautiful' aren't just good enough. We must know what exactly that makes us feel that way and why or else traveling or visiting great places might not reveal any substantial results within the time frame.

I really have to agree with the point stated above. A lecturer suggested for us to go somewhere around the city to explore local architecture but it seems that it'll go to waste if we're not sure what are we looking at... or looking for... 


As for myself, the first thing I do after I turned on the research mode button, I just started Googling and Yahoo!-ing. Then I'll holed up in the university library for hours, trying to get some books that can help me. Followed with sessions of few minutes with some seniors.... 


Okay, I guess that's all. I'll post some more later!