I.ya.

My semester started off tossing a dilemma back at me. Holding a score statistics book in my hand, and a decision need to be make between a 4-2-3 or a 3-3-3 formation. It is the working drawings, drawing the verge of an extra-k spent ( I got the Tokyo guilt, still) and Harry's voice telling me to save it. Then all of the sudden I got Alina pop into my brain with the chilling smile and say how easy working drawings is. Being satirical or not, it doesn't make a different, deep down I foresee another tiring semester ahead, but yeah, gungho will be the shibboleth, all the way.

So yes speaking of the Tokyo guilt, it was exactly 2 hours ago when I receive the text message from my mum, sounded rather cynical than excited-on-my-behalf; okay your papa give you the chance to go is the exact words she used. Perplexity driven, I reciprocate by asking the underlying conditions upon the approval.

Quirky, yes, of all the terms I can come up with, conditions.

No reply, overwhelmed by guilt, I text dad and thank him for giving me the opportunity to go. Knowing that zomg-blood-sucking-8k-fees is slapping his face, he still can fork up that extra thousands just for me to go and have fun. Now you tell me how am I supposed to not feel bad. It has always been like that, you won't like it if you are in my shoe. A simple ABC steps, I ask for things , I got it, I feel bad. And it beats me trying to step into their shoes instead and think over the whole scenario. I usually ended up with the white flag and the topic will never be raised in the phone calls. We both know that I felt bad for asking , and I've thought through, and I decided to wait for a little bit longer. But at this case, they made their move astep forward and actually approved.

It's not a rant, duh, I'd say this relationship between my parents and I are odd. Sometimes even I don't know how to talk to them over things. Bad son it is i guess. But yes mum,dad, the approval means a lot to me, a thank you is definitely not enough.


Now, the overflowing nimiety of emoness being peripheral, attempt 1. I've got some eggs to break ( not on a frying pan sadly), handrawn detailed drawings of a free standing structure, and a big bunch of history terminology and arimathematics coming right up. Not to forget the council, we have a benchmark to set, yo. So yeah this semester is gonna be shit, starting off with a saturday orientation having a risk of poor participants. I need the hype, but not from me this time, to start off my sem, I really do. PAMCamp, Formalnite, competitons and sitevisits, oh hell oh hell.

I need coffee, no.

Idolas.

I don't understand how American Idol can come up with so many mountains and hurricanes for the contestants to climb and screw every year.

I am listening to Kris Allen, for the friggin' 3rd time of the day. kill me.

zomgfail.

omg this is funny.
DAMN FUNNY.

spent my whole morning, well, 1 good hour browsing through the FAIL blog.
you should go see see lol.

Good Morning.

Counting

My 22nd working day started off with the senior architect sitting opposite me telling me that "I'm sorry guys, it's Michael again."And I am currently listening to Jackson 5's ABC.

So I withdrawed 50 bucks from my bank account yesterday.
Newspaper, chipsmore and a bread just to get the change for parking. 3.3 bucks.
Somemore I purposely pay separately so I can get the change twice ftw.
Lunch with Jon. 15 bucks.
Dinner (aunt's out.) 4 bucks.
Groceries 7 bucks.
TOOK THE WALLET OUT FROM YOUR BAG, WALKED OUT THE CAR, AND MANUALLY PUSHED THE CARLOCKSWITCH AND LOCKED THE CAR ( that's how i lock the car all the time)
WITH THE KEY INSIDE. PRICELESS.
well, not priceless. But my face expression at that moment is.
20 bucks.

SO I WITHDRAWED ANOTHER 50 BUCKS TODAY WOOHOO.

oh by the way I scratched my car the day before yesterday. you don't have to know the detail, except Douglas screamed like a girl in the car that time.

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Dad made a big fuss about this PPSMI, as if it affects his own children in 3 years time.
Happy touring Italy with earplugs mum.

" The Cabinet decided on Wednesday that Mathematics and Science will be taught in Bahasa Malaysia and vernacular languages in stages from 2012 onwards. Deputy
Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who announced this, however, said more emphasis would be placed on learning English.
-The Star PPSMI twitter."

These are some snippets from The Star Online:

"Beginning 2012, students in Year One and Year Four in primary schools, and Form One and Form Four in secondary schools, will learn Math and Science in Bahasa Malaysia. "

"The gap between rural and urban students has widened since PPSMI started."

"Only 19.2% of secondary teachers and 9.96% of primary teachers were sufficiently proficient in English,” he said, explaining the Government’s decision to revert to the old system."

"Muhyiddin: PPSMI would take 15-20 years to see effect; must consider repercussion on students."

Okay, let's leave the first statement aside. Now the Government's decision to revert the old system, which both Math and Science will be taught in Bahasa Malaysia, is because of the low proficiency of the teachers in English. And let's head back to what happened in Febuary 2009.
Teachers claimed that they are going mad handing Math and Science in English and they
had to take English classes to improve their command of English.

I don't understand why they are being so impatient about it, if 15-20 years is the time we need, then you either wait, or figure out a way to shorten the span. Backing out half way at the very beginning stage is not a wise step, at all. It's intricating for the students to juggle around the two language, especially for those students who will enter Form Four in 2012. I can imagine them sitting in the class, staring at the teacher blankly, not understanding a shit of the technical terms used ; akin to my situation in during my A Level Physics or Math class, the sudden switch from kecerunan, to..gradient. Rural area students that prefer the mother tounge over english might find the decision capitalizing for now. And in a long run, rural area will remain as a rural area.

The idea of PPSMI has nothing to do with scrapping off the mother tounge from the students by forcing in a second language into the teachings of both subjects, so clear up your mind please. And you're telling all these decision are made objectively for future of kids, not politics. Oh how are we supposed to believe that.

But, it's Malaysia we're talking about, who knows, a week later we are going back to English.
Oh and and, isn't it ironic of how the teachers are the one that's complaing about the whole new teaching method, and of how the acronym of the whole-skim-pengajaran-dan-pembelajaran-sains-dan-matematic-dengan-menggunakan-bahasa-inggeris is in Bahasa as well instead of English.

post-it-stop-motion is coolz.

good morning world.

Human Twitter.

Latest news :
Maths and Science is now back in BM.
Awesome Possum.

work.dot.

i am feeling random. dot.

Step one you say we need to talk.

Throughout the whole DATUM, I wasn't paying much attention to what the speakers were saying, not that I don't want to, mainly because I can't understand what they are talking about, even if I was listening, the speed of each word getting translated into my brain is slower than the speed they mutter the words out of their mouths. Then my brain stopped functioning, as new words started piling up in my brain, like how the papers started to stack up in front of the typist in the Typing Maniac game on facebook, my englishvocabularydex need some time for the recognition process before its top left corner red LED light starts to blink.

The brain is clogged.

So what I did was, sketch, and gazed at the images shown on the projector screen. From time to time listening to my friends discussing about things that they've learned and inspired throughout the intelligent discourse,I felt like I just wasted my money, no, mum's, attending the event without really learning things from it. I did, I think, but I don't think it's enough. What I've gained instead, are the confusion and questions about architectural knowledge and a list of words that I need to run through the dictionary at home to be added into my EVD.

There are ideas and opinion swimming in my brain needed to be enunciated, and all this while I've been waiting for the right moment where my perceptions articulates , without causing any misunderstanding, misinterpretation, and disagreement throughout the manifesto. Viable, but I'm still waiting. And here you go folks. here we have the first step. The Singapore trip 2 essay request is what I can think of for now, yes I can practice, and no I would not want to showcase something that I'm not very proud of for some obvious reasons. Plus, I believe he wont take my shit alone, not up to the standard, oh maybe that's why he paired me up with the apple. Who knows, laziness will drag me to the dark side soon enough, just wait and see what will happen.

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Dictionary is the new Detective Conan

Architecture and English ,it was never my forte. But I want to make it one.
At least for now, I hope i can.
Get the joke you two stooges. and yes guide me, apple.

i like this picture. and good night world.

"I'm not lost, I'm not lost, just undiscovered."
- Undiscovered, James Morrison

current situation

I am bored.
Spent the whole afternoon with Jean the Penang girl listening to her telling me about dissecting a old dead body "Rosie" named by her Dissection class groupmates.
Just read a few pages of book and yawned. (NOT THE SECRET JUNWIN.) It's 7.40pm and I don't wanna sleep so early.


"You should write more."
I know, but what's there to write. -__-

heyp.

I believe you guys (refering to the SABD-ians) are now munching food and stuff happily in the Apartment now, honestly I'm very jealous of you guys but on the other side my family's here, so you all should be happy for me too.

Well today's DATUM was not as good as last year I believe, Winy Maas was last year's Bjarke for the day, although last year Kengo Kuma was the first day final speaker, but he's kinda boring compared to Bjarke. Well the first four speaker, one with the awesome Malaysian Architecture which I don't find interesting, two talking to themselves, one talking with too many punctuations, and we have Winy Maas talking about pigs and flood and what not.

But it was the final conclusion and Q&A session that really taught me something for today.Of how politics influence social influence architecture influence politics. It's a neverending cycle either from thisway around or another. Then again, talking about the optimism we have ( or we should have) , as a designer, in creating something new or better, has taken into account of the cycle. Given that Asian has been categorized as the conservative ones, people here preferred their houses to be left the way it was, therefore who should we blame when compared to the western country, the design and architecture we see here has been left behind. Giving a situation like this, how much optimism the designer has left when it comes to designing at our own land, when the posibilities has been constricted, by the society, the politics, economy and you. Are we ready for this? The society, politics, economy, are we ready for the change? I don't see how people here are still not ready for it when they are educated overseas and how their mentality are not influenced by it. So if in this case we're ready, why there's still no signs of what's coming up.

it took me a lotsa thinking on the way home to come up with the short paragraph up there. do tell me if i'm right or wrong at any place instead of laughing at it in front of the computer screen. yes you.

I'm actually very interested in this topic, I do hope that I have a chance to research more about it. And as for now, I'm off to dinner with my family =)