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I am hungry (this is irrelevant to the content of the post unless you are being very meta)
Man, for the first time this week, I'm up at this hour because I WOKE UP. Versus "I've been awake since this time yesterday"

I feel like a desaturated photo. By that I do not mean "I feel artsy and tragic and ~indie~", I mean "I feel like I don't have enough energy to be full-colour."

Okay no actually I feel much better. I didn't manage to sleep in my bed, but I slept. It is in fact semi-impossible to sleep in my bed right now, since it is holding many, many things. You know you're an architecture student when you can't find your bed.

Stuff on bed:

- Violin (shut up. I was playing it because I was stressed.)
- D diao (ditto.)
- stacks of old scores, recently rediscovered
- FOAM.
- an art friend bag with sandpaper and misc. satay sticks
- Stacks of bristol board according to size
- The Works of WILL ALSOP (borrowed from NUS library)
- actually, MORE FOAM
- three technical drawings on A1
- four pillows (DON'T JUDGE ME)
- Chopper from One Piece
- A blanket
- .. and a model. Not the Calvin Klein variety. The bristol-board-and-white-glue variety.

Stuff that is NOT on my bed:

- Me

Before you ask "So where have you been sleeping?", the floor. In 15 minute segments. I've discovered that the floor is suitably uncomfortable, as is 15 minutes, for me to sleep AND wake up. As opposed to "I shall nap for 5 minutes!!"---> *wakes up 14h later* D8

STUFF IS ALMOST ALL OVER next week is final crit, and then the week after is the stupid ass exhibition, and then EXAMS. PEACE, PEOPLE.

Exams are peaceful. Honestly. Mugging? The amount of brainergy it uses is TINY compared to design. I spent my life eating information and processing it! It's nothing! TRY COMING UP WITH A SITE SENSITIVE, ELEGANT, SPATIALLY FASCINATING BUILDING WITH LESS THAN 150 SQM. JUST TRY.

(Do not actually try. I have not even told you where our site is! >_>)

Oh and HWANG SENT ME A THINGIE FOR MY BIRTHDAY! It is on my handphone. I need to see her soon D:

Other than that... I dunno. Been all right. I feel weird about the Japanese earthquakes. I know it's ridiculous, but I feel like part of my childhood just got attacked. I mean, beyond the obvious empathy for fellow human beings, I feel like I know some of those places? And also, I just did a research essay on the Tokaido region. I know its urban planning quite well. Which isn't exactly the area afflicted by the tsunami/quake, but... when I studied the evolution of the Tokaido region it felt like I was studying the evolution of Japan in general. So it's strange, you know, to see these human motivations being knocked down.

But, hey, I believe that Japan will stand up from this. I also believe that they will take the shards of Tokyo and put together an even better machine. Go, office of Kenzo Tange! (and the rest of you guys! >_>)

Okay. Going to school now. I have a structural consultation, a Singaporean urban history tutorial, a website to design, and a meeting. Ta, all. I look forward to seeing you during the holidays!

piss off! at 08:30 a.m.Friday, April 1, 2011

Javanese Tales~
Sore throats are like, the bane of my life. I swear. Why, you ask? BECAUSE IT SEVERELY LIMITS WHAT I CAN EAT. Porridge. Soup. Porridgey soup. Whoo.

The UHC doctor I saw today was like oh you're from architecture! I always hear that you guys are stressed. And I was like >_> yes. Being stressed is the norm. Her handwriting was atrocious and I don't know how the pharmacist understood it, but she was nice.

Anyway, Indonesia! It was actually pretty fun. I bonded with the guys in my group, mainly. I like the guys in my group. They're hilarious. It is like having a lot of very weird older brothers.

One realises how incredibly weird they are when one looks through one's videos.

scene: Andung (horse carriage)

IVEN: (screaming) OH MY GOSH THE HORSE IS TOO CLOSE TO ME! IT'S GOING TO EAT ME!!!!
PAULINE: Oh my GOD Iven STOP IT you are going to fall onto the road!!!!
YENSHAN: (excited) I need a carrot! I need a carrot NAO!

The only sane one in the above exchange is, yes, a female. Iven was distraught because the andung behind us was enthusiastically catching up, and he was in the back seat. So he was convinced that the horse was going to eat his hair or something, I don't know, one does not try to reason with Ivens. I've noticed that the only two Iven/Ivans I know are both hysterical boys who spend most of their time hanging out with girls. NAMES HAVE POWER, PEOPLE! >_>

Yenshan is like.. like SB. But insanely rich and everyone thinks he's gay until they really know him. I realise that the latter half of the sentence falls under the category "like SB", but anyway.

Oh and we saw lots and lots and LOTS of things, because my tutor is this German slavedriver. Actually he's quite nice. To me, anyway. He drinks way too much beer. He asked if I wanted any, and when I told him I didn't drink much he was like "Oh, really?? But you look like you're a beer girl." I assume he meant 'a girl who likes beer' and not one of those bikini clad bimbos who serve beer out of pitchers at beach bars. Anyway, both are untrue! I dislike beer, thoroughly! But I haven't actually drunk much of it, so, oh well. Might be Ignorance.

Nevertheless, he forced us into this vicious programme while we were there -_- So we had stuff like days starting at 4 AM and ending at around 11. Jeez. We didn't just visit UNESCO sites, we visited other historical sites of interest and also random things like a tile factory and a six star tropical resort. Omg the resort was so sexy. It was like going into Shangrila. By which I mean paradise, and not the other chain of hotels. Very cleverly designed, too. I'd talk more about the architecture, but only mu would care. So I will leave it at that! The resort was Amanjiwo, and also, it is USD$700 per night. For the worst room. BUT if you are Indonesian, it is USD$420 per night! Omg, right.

About the ancient sites we visited... Herr Tutor made us sketch at every site if he could, but we avoided sketching at Taman Sari because he, ahaha, got lost on the way >_> Oh you see! He was being a rich bastard and stayed in a 6 star hotel. Because apparently our shitty 4 star hotel was too low class for him, cough. So we went to the sites separately. He would cab in glamorously. We figured he also got extravagantly ripped off. I mean, seriously. Ang moh cabbing from 6 star hotel. Just asking for it.

Also everyone's ability to be serious about filming/ photographing/ sketching was seriously depleted by the time we hit Taman Sari. I personally had a very short attention span. "OOOH A KITTEN!" "Omg ECHO~~!! -- cho--- ooo..." "Hey the sultan kept his ho's here?" "EH it looks like a condo lolololol"

Which reminds me of how we tried to visit some fort, but it was closed, and instead we wandered around outside it. And then we discovered a kitten, but it ran into a drain. So we stood next to the drain and miaowed in this really sad attempt to get it to come back out. Probably we were saying the equivalent of "I are carrot nudsadakalkdl HONK effff youuuuu potato-aru" in cat, so I'm really not that surprised.

Yenshan and I were walking together when we saw the kitten again, and then we ungracefully threw away our dignity and chased it. Big, big failure. Kitten was like HOMG BIG SCARY HUMANS and dived into the drain. Again.

Aaaaalso, we made some Indonesian friends D: Well I um, I say friends! But actually it's more like, a whole chunk of desperate 19 year old boys. They were all asking if Stephanie was attached. Oh background! She's half-Austrian, and Indonesians have this huge THING for white people. I don't know why. They're nuts. They see white people at the temples, and the freaking tour guides are like, PLS BE TAKING PICTURE WITH ME~ And someone told Herr Tutor that he looks like Brad Pitt HAHAHAHA. And I'm Gong Li right ehehe okay bitchy sorry slap me please.

Mildly creepy harassment for Steph though. Cuz random unknown Indon dudes were like :D Can I have your numberrrr can I have your emaillll how old are youuuuu, omg. And sometimes really OLD guys would go after her. CREEPY.

Also we played this stupid game where we replaced the first letter in everyone's names with B. And then we shouted them across the bus. "BYYYYYYNNE!!!!!!! BYNNE BHEN BUE BIN!!!!!" "YESSSSS BHOAW BEN BHAN?!!" "DO YOU WANT A BANANA POCKYYYYY" "NO IT IS OKAY. THANKS." "HOW ABOUT YOUUUU BOH BEI BIANG?" "IT'S FINE, BEN BHAN."

I don't even know why. We're so retarded. I'm glad the bus driver couldn't really speak english.

Ohhh but if the guys were great and big brotherly, the girls were.. okay well. Two of them in particular -_- ROOMMATE and THE USUAL PEST were awful. My room mate, who shall go unnamed, gave me severe, severe headaches. For example, she once DISAPPEARED on a rainy night from Carrefour. At like, 9PM. We were all horrified, because you know, OMG WHAT IF SHE'S BEEN KIDNAPPED!! WHERE IS SHE!! We even hijacked the announcement system thing to call for her to meet us at the entrance. She left without all of us and walked back to the hotel by herself?! I mean, what?! She claimed that she walked around the whole place and couldn't find any of us. But I don't know how? She must've been spectacularly unlucky. Or in another dimension. Because it's not like we split up, and anyway because we were shallow, we were all mooching in the snack section. We were so freaked out. I didn't even know what to say to her after that. I was so pissed.

And another night, I walked out of the bathroom after my shower and was like, eh?? Because she was gone!! Oh my god! And before that, Weixiang told me that she'd borrowed his tripod and was thinking of going out into the streets at night to film! I was like O_O_O_O_O because I thought she'd actually gone. So I called Farhana to see if she was in their room, but Iven answered and told me that she was with Weixiang. So I called his room, and he was like "No? Why?" and I was like ZOMG SHE'S GONNNEEEEEE!!!! And he was like OH NOOOOOOOO!!! And he was like, I shall look for her with you!!!

And then the two of us were about to go hammering on people's doors to look for her and go out into the streets and stuff when she suddenly appeared. It turns out that she locked herself out of the room by mistake and went to take refuge in someone else's room because I was showering. I mean I guess it isn't TOTALLY her fault, but I was just like *head throbs* =_=

She's OLDER THAN ME YOU KNOW. I shouldn't have to worry about someone older than me disappearing mysteriously like the autumn mist!!! TOO MYSTERIOUS. Please stay still. And also please stop running about in your underwear, that is just strange.

Also she got incredibly drunk on the last night. Also she ruined some of my footage. Also... okay never mind. You get the idea. So not on.

Also I think she wanted to hit on the Indonesian girls, which makes her a fascinating mirror to the Indonesian boys attempting to hit on our girls. I have NOTHING against wanting to hit on girls, okay, I really don't, I'm not just saying it, girls are quite hot and whatever, I just.. IT JUST ADDED TO THE VENEER OF CREEPINESS ON MY ROOM MATE. I mean she seemed slightly predatory?! It wasn't like a, oh PENPALS then maybe GIRLFRIENDS? kind of thing, it was like *hentai smile* which is just O_O_O_O_O_O

But okay. Maybe I'm prejudiced. Also possible. I have always found her strange, you see. So maybe I am colouring what I have seen with what I have thought.

As for the other pest, there's not much to say, but she was typically irritating. Also ruined tons of footage with her aggravating voice and inane comments. REALLY SOME PEOPLE NEED TO SHUT UP. SILENCE IS A GIFT.

(That also applies to me. Especially when I am Tired and Stressed, because I turn into a huge, huge moron. A huge moron with no EQ.)

But it applies to her more. Like, 98% of the time, she really should just stfu because everyone is desperately trying to draw and she is being a noisemaking machine.

Also omgggg she's so selfish =_= AND SO, SO GREEDY. I HAVE NEVER LOST SO MUCH FOOD TO A HUMAN BEING BEFORE. Not even to sam! And at least sam is adorable and asks before taking-- or at least, she used to >_> -- and wouldn't steal food from people she isn't close to. PEST was just like OM NOM NOM NOM~~~ I tell you. Food. It is IMPORTANT TO ME. I get pissed off super fast when food is involved. She, me, food: bad triangle. Bad, bad triangle. A) she has stolen my food, and B) she has spilled food on my stuff before. KILLING MODE ENGAGED.

Today I saw her eating an ice cream with one hand and chicken mcwings with the other?! I mean who does that! WHO DOES THAT. Also apparently she didn't pay for the mcwings because she managed to slyly make use of the 1-for-1 thing to get my friend to buy them for her.

So much rage. They are both lucky they didn't end up head first in Merapi, that's all I can say.

Hmm what else is there to say about the trip... Not much, I guess. I filmed a huge, huge chunk of footage. Total overkill, actually. I think my video camera is finally on its last legs. I'm... a little sad, I guess. Shitty though it was, it's done quite a lot for me over the years. You know how it is! Never mind, now I can get a cool new one >_>

Oh yeah and also YINGXIAN CAME TO SEND ME OFF!! But I was a biiiig failure and got shoved in too early so she came all the way from punggol for nothing ;___; I am a bad, bad person. So I bought her a postcard (the only thing I bought in Indonesia that wasn't food) and wrote in it, but I couldn't mail it while I was there. So I shall mail it in Singapore, and add some sketches. Yingxian is so nice, you guys!

Okay I guess that's about it. Since my return it's been non-stop work for me. Non-stop work that I should, in fact, return to. I was doing my readings for SSD2213, and I should finish them by tonight -_- If I hope to sleep at all tomorrow. Yeesh.

All right all, thank you for listening. Ta~~

piss off! at 10:09 p.m.Tuesday, March 1, 2011