2 Months

2 months is forever by the standards of this ultra fast, information saturated world ain't it? well, not by the architectural clock thats still ticking down to the final conclusion for this semester..eternity is like waiting for the semester to end so one can take stock of all the grenade fragments and body parts littering the sidewalk of our lives..

i remember the time when after seeming years of service to Country and my Fellow Citizens in the Singapore Armed Forces i finally was discharged..or ORD'd as we call it in Singapore...No more armoured vehicles to hose down at the washing bays or Own Vehicle Equipment to oil and maintain..goodbye Company Sergeant Majors and OCs..and then the grenade fragment picking up began where i started to pick up the pieces of my life that had come to a grinding halt while i served NS..

same feeling different circumstances now you might say..Design 3 is not an easy nut to crack..even with all that temp job working in a firm over summer last year..still i don't seem able to execute my conceived ideas quite as well as i wished. Oh well, i figure its due to the disjunction between idea and reality. I must say i'm much more satisfied with my design though. The idea of deformation and skewing of standard buildings to challenge perceptions of what is conventional architecture has great merit. And the use of steel structure in a non-rational, non-linear manner to support the building certainly screws with people's perceptions of what is "accepted practice". As Charles Jencks would have it, " in an age where consensus about any subject is practically non-existent, the answer to any question might as well be fish" (paraphrased)

well, we're having our FOCUS end of semester steamboat session this friday evening at Hamilton Bap.s so i'm looking forward to that and will keep readers who have endured my almost 3 months of silence updated..you deserve it..haha