Dat Faint Glimmer

Ye've left a glimmer still to cheer,
The man-the artifex
That Holds inspite o'knocks and Scale
o'friction waste and slip,
an' by that light-now Mark my Word-
we'll build the perfect Ship
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

when man drops low on e horizon due 2 trials n difficulties, things of beauty inspire n challenge..like music or painting, or (dare i say) architecture...Einstein once told a famous composer (can't recall which) dat listening to his symphony made him believe dat there is a God who created evrything beautiful in its time again..

dats my manifesto where architecture is concerned..dat man may know how only God can create a being so capable of beautiful n wondrous things..if we onli reached e potential He set for us (instead of settlin for dat 1 miserable bite of e forbidden fruit in e garden of Eden dat everyday tastes more n more sour in e belly of every man, woman n child)..

e most beautiful buildin i've evr seen is e Church of Notre-Dame Du Haut in Ronchamp, France..by Le Corbusier..now i can definitely tell City Harvest blokes how insignificant their buildin is..hahaha..(by architectural standards at least)..its really a statement addressed to God n cast in concrete..

its a buildin dat says though i hav my doubts n concerns, at e end o' e dae i still trust in God n still choose to follow e God who rules both earth n heaven..n incidentally, our lives..livin faith dat questions n asks but still believes when 1 noes e answers dun come easy or r not neccessarily understandable..

dats y i love architecture..more than e fact dat i love 2 draw..n more den e fact dat i wanna disprove e common notion (back home at least) dat buildin, construction n design r dead end industries..but bcos its so awesome to make a statement dat lasts for decades or centuries in e landscape..a statement dat is an eternal hymn of praise or a deep-seated questionin of social norms n customs..i never liked bein pigeon-holed in life(n Dats incidentalli wat Singaporeans do best; ch*o ch*e b*e) n with architecture, i'll never be..cos each new design reveals somethin new bout mi..(at least dats e way i see it)

mayb some of u like mi..mayb some of u dun..but i like wat i'm doin..n dis is mi..so i'll keep buildin my 'ships' n livin my life for my Maker..can any 1 of u say e same??haha