Thursday, December 4, 2008
Complete!
Monday, November 24, 2008
Updated! no joke~
1. Studio! I wont call studio a prison but i have been here for the last 2 weeks working diligently...and..intesely (if thats a word) to create a pavilion fit for the mayans....well thats what the assignment is... but people forget the mayan empire died out. kindof foolish to build something for a fallen race of people...Their form of architecture and concepts are not used anymore. They were a race dedicated to the Cosmos (if you remember your freshman World Civ class), looking to the stars for enlightenment. They also happened to make human sacrifices, cutting peoples hearts out on an alter. Why would i create something for these people? Besides those facts, nothing else is known about them. They are a people shrouded in mystery, nothing is known about them except the fact their calander ends in 2012...so i guess the people decided thats when the world ends...Great... i wont even graduate college....
2. I hate my design again....The amount of time they give us to come up with a design and make models is
3. My progress is so slow..everyone is way ahead of me and I need to catch up....right now...other classes are holding me back too....i neeed to write a research paper on Vitruvius, a roman guy. woo.....lol Maybe the day i give my oral presentation in class ill wear a toga. haha
Oh and I made my schedule and it seems that my Friday classes start at 3 in the afternoon so I might soon start having overnight expeditions into NYC. Good stuff. lol
SO....... Until Dec 1 when studio is officially over Ill be working OVERTIME~
Current Status: OVERWHELMED! but still fighting on!~ :D
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Update finally? Psych!~
so.....
brb...
:D
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
A mEsS
I dont know what my crits going to say after he sees it. Im guessing that he'll laugh.
Well tomorrow (wednesday), im taking my commons as well (like a midterm) and I havent yet started studying. Why? Because i have to build my project, which is due on Thursday....Tough...So im trying to manage both and i have to say its hard. Especially when you hate math...HOW CAN I HATE MATH! IM ASIAN! well i just do. haha
Well Newarks been pretty interesting this week. There seems to be drive-bys (shootings) going on left and right. One happened a block from my studio 10 minutes before class ended. Crazy stuff. Yesterday there were at least 4 helicopters flying around. It was intense.
Hopefully it wont continue and I wont be scared to walk down to subway....not that I am....
Well this hell will be over on thursday after I hand in my living cube! So thursday ill be going to hang with a certain Mr. Chan....
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Moving on and things keep getting weirder
Ugh..Im suppose to make a logo, which is also suppose to help me "advertise" my living cube which is my next project. I got to think of something cool....and by cool i mean asian
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The Future
-What am I doing here?
a. Am I just wasting money?
b. Is college necessary?
-What is my goal?
a. Is my objective one that I have the strength to accomplish?
b. Who do I have to help me if I do fall?
-Am I happy?
a. Am I generally making friends and enjoying their company?
b. Am I lonely?
I. Need more friends?
II. Girlfriend?
-Is the major I picked the right one for me?
a. Am I enjoying what I am doing?
What should I have for lunch?
So ok..the last one was a joke...but that does generally run through my mind (and Im pretty sure through all of yours as well) But these are the thoughts I have during class when Im suppose to be focused on the teacher. Well Ill start on my first thought:
What am I doing here? To go to college! Am I wasting money? I hope not....but with the facilities and classes available to me, Im pretty sure ill get my moneys worth. The rest of the world now pretty much runs on a college degree. Without one, we're pretty much lost. But in the end all we get is a piece of paper(and knowledge in certain areas), telling us we can get paid large amounts....eh I like that :D But of course we'll have fun during this period in our life...right?
My goal? What have I set out to accomplish? MASTER ARCHITECT! Thats my goal. To create buildings, memorials, houses, shacks all so my name can be heard and adored! Yet... do I have the tenacity to accomplish what I just said? Can I lift this world I will create on my own shoulders? Or do I have to borrow some? Are there people around me who will willing give me their shoulders? I dont know...I never asked...but hopefully the friendships I create will be so close that I can practically share toothbrushes and underwear. :D
Did I find happiness? Am I comforted by the people around me? Do they give me a sense of belonging? I guess in a sense. I did find olderclassmen (or senpais) to talk to and befriend but no one really in my grade that I can generally hang out with. So I guess when Im not working, I do get a little lonely( unless theres people around) I guess this means I should make more friends...but people here...are weird. I know I too am unusual but alot of people here are from south jersey and...we just dont really mix that well. Theres alot of international students as well...but not the cool ones....just alot from mexico.....>.> So my range of friends is very small, just around a couple of white kids and very limited asians...Well anyway...now that Im here, living by myself away from the ever watching eyes of my mother (shes like the giant eye in the Lord of the Rings that sees everything, Sauron) Im free to...get a girlfriend...well not like I was not allowed before, its just hard to do things (not sex) around my mother. But do I really need one? Do I need a female to hug and hold, to make me feel squishy and soft inside, like yogurt? I guess I do. But not now. I guess Ill wait until someone shows up....or is that too passive? Should I go out and search? Should I ride out on my chariot of love, searching for the one i need?(corny!)
I dont know....
Am I happy as to what I am doing, training to be an MASTER ARCHITECT? Does this make me happy? I can happily say that it does make me happy. I enjoy it IMMENSELY. The hours I spend into the night creating visions and ideas in my head, bringing my imagination to its limits(if imaginations do have limits then i pretty much did it), working with my hands, and starving!
I love it all.
But then what will this lead us to? What can we look foward to in the future? Are we all just blinded by our imagination and the illusions in our head? Will everything end as nothing, or come out as something? Will we realize and succeed in our dreams or will they be crushed by our own two feet?
I have no idea...
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Asian Eyes....
Imagine a sunny Sunday morning. One walks to open the blind only to have the Sun BLAST the light waves and particles on to a very light sensitive eyes (after spending a night in darkness)
Who know?
Advantages?: Yup
Sunday, October 12, 2008
48+
Well anyway.. first off. I been up for 48 hours straight again....to finish my project...but im still not done. lol. The project is landscape, (as i have been talking about in the last post) and basically i have to stack 30 of these 1\16 inch boards on top of each other which collectively become 2 inches. Its tough..alot of work and alot of glue....Well anyway. I been up for 48 hours but not neccesarily constantly working, i had to take care of some business first.
Such as Gethsemane. What is Gethsemane? Its a combination of all the Christian clubs around the Ny and Nj area. Well not all but just one that happens to spread to alot of different colleges, called KCCC (Korean Campus Crusade for Christ). And you dont have to be korean. I was just founded by a Korean guy....well i shouldnt say that, it was founded by a white guy who then brought it to Korea and the koreans just decided to return the favor. Its alot of fun, good people, good food (after we buy it ourself though..well we dont have to buy it if we dont want to but since we're in NY..and hungry) Gethsemane is on every friday at 7 on 59 st and something....its in a school called P.S 111. (Tried to get mr Chan to come but ....)
Well thats not what i really wanted to talk about but what happened slightly before. Not around that day but a little before. ok...here goes..
NJIT and Rutgers (Newark) has a joined ministry called JUICE, basically we come together, sing songs have fellowship and listen to a sermon(like a lecture but more interesting and meaningful..well at least to me) But as went there, this fob girl kept on trying to make me say hello this other girl (who is pretty ok looking) and i cant really tell if shes trying to set us up but i wasnt really interested. But me and this girl did happen to talk a little, all i can say is that shes totally not my type. lol She goes to Rutgers Newark and I went to NJIT, even though the schools are right next to each other, i felt like its kinda pointless too. But then one night after Juice ended(every thursday night), the fob girl just grabed me, placed me in front of the girl and said "Josh give her your number" and i was just thinking to myself "OMG WHAT IF THIS TURNS INTO A RELATIONSHIP!!(not shouting in my mind because im happy but because i dont want to have one..yet) But not to be rude and because i couldnt say or think anything in that second...all i could do at that time was just hand her my number....after that, i started to think about things more, and I didnt know what to do ( i think im horrible at relationships, dont know what to do >.<, im like a little boy in kindergarten that can only pull hair because i dont know any other way to express how i feel...well that's what i think im like.. lol). Well anyway the next day was Gethsemane and she usually went, so i was a little nervous at what to do when i see her. Well when i saw her coming, i saw her hands laced around another hand....a boy. Not just a boy but a skinny skater punk boy. I guess that was the type she was into. I didnt know whether to be disappointed or relieved as i saw them stroll happily down the street. I guess somewhere in my mind i really do want a girlfriend but i wouldnt know what to do....because...im a dork haha But while we're taking the subway to New York, i just see then all over each other...Public display of affection was everywhere...IF THIS WAS INDIA THEY WOULD BE SCREWED! lol. Well seeing them "cuddle" each other, kinda made me want to cuddle too...so.... i hugged my friend who was next to me, and then sat down and closed my eyes for the next 20 minutes..lol (everyone thought i was sleeping) But throughout my night, my eyes just kept on just straying to them. and it made me kinda angry...maybe i should get one of those things that horses wear so they can see in only one direction.......haha
(This is not a cry out to the internet world for a girlfriend by the way)
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Studio/Dorm/Penis Piercings
Well i sort of have one...and dont....So let me share :)
My Roomate is actually a pretty cool person. Hes fun to talk to, doesn't smell, not weird, and an athlete. So basically hes me...but white, hot, and has a body of a roman god.He plays tennis, plays the guitar, an architect, and single.
ank. We basically stood in the elevator in complete silence, markers on our faces, and a penguin...just standing there. Honestly no one could hold their faces. It was horrible. For the first five seconds it was all quite. No one knew what was going on. Then after about 10 seconds. You just heard snickering and the whole elevator started cracking up. It was amazing. ( I wasnt the penguin, I took the picture)
Imagine a room full of supplies and bored teenagers. Its about 3 in the morning....its time to fool around. lol. At that time everyones just frantically trying to finish their work, playing games on their computers, eating, or fooling around with the supplies...you know the usual, making body parts, pretend guns or boomerangs.....lolWell I guess ill talk about my project now since i just cant hold it back anymore. I talked about my painting and how we're suppose to make it abstract and such, well turns out we're making landscape (dont remember if i told you guys that part). So im making a model which was inspired by the artwork that i picked. Well, im completely left brained....(since im a lefty as i already ranted about) So everything i create is...just practical. It took me 4 models but i think i got it, but its still not what "I" want. Being abstract...is very difficult...like building models is easy, just put stuff together and youre done. But trying to show a feeling or an idea is the hardest thing to do especially with structures. (and i guess art too but i think its easier) So trying to show a feeling that i want to bring out...its not going right right now. Hopefully i can figure out a way. Oh yeah, my model has to be landscape (which is TOUGH) and its of a park. Like people go and hang out park. But my Crit. doesnt want like a nice Jersey/ Mass. Park but like a CRAZY one. Something that stands out....>.<
Thursday, October 2, 2008
A new Project
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After a night of creating abstract pictures, i also had to put them into a power point, with my analyses of the painting. However no matter how i searched google, only one link with the actual picture showed up.(Other websites turned up his more famous pieces) So really no info on this painting.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
A New Light
Ok, Im pretty sure i told everyone, or pretty much everyone (well if i didnt, im telling you now) I didnt get to sleep for around 48 hours (yes...two days) What was i doing at that time? working, working on i think project, which i really liked this time haha :)
Its a cartisan square. Basically i have 8 Quadrants, 4 have to be solid and 4 are void. I have to subtract from the solid and put it into the void while being asymmetric, balanced and dynamic. So basically make it pretty...like art. lol Well I did. And i do think this turned out very well. Basically imagined a dam breaking, the water bursting through. But instead
Now I got this new project...which i think is going to require the same amount of work...probably more...Its getting harder and harder every new project. I cry. I live in Studio, which i really like...but there is LIFE OUTSIDE OF STUDIO! which is what my RA told me (hes in architecture too)
Well I went to NY today(trying to find life outside of studio). Met Chris, James, and Chihiro. I had the BEST PIZZA EVER, (Johns pizza) containing mushrooms, onions, and olives. There were 8 slices, only three of us (chihiro wasnt with us currently) So we counted to three and stuck up one finger or two. The person that doesnt have the same number finger can get the big slice. I won, naturally since I AM amazing, but i offered it to the less fortunate so i let chris and james fight over it (Chris won) and i took a smaller slice. After Pizza, we went to YOGURT LAND, which lets you pick what flavor you want and every ounce was 39 cents. I got mango, taro, banana, and blueberry. They were really good except for blueberry, just a little too blueberry flavored. But the taro was amazing, blew my mind. Then Chihiro finally showed up, we went to a book store (STRAND) and I got me The Zombie Survival Guide, (lol) and then we went to Starbucks and sat in Au Bon Pain and we talked about life, politics, business and love..( ok..we really didnt talk about love or business) But I really enjoyed myself. and hopefully everyone enjoyed themselves as well...
Monday, September 22, 2008
Eh...
Hmmm....sick too.....hope it doesnt get worse........
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Starting up
Well life of an Architect student is pretty fun, if you enjoy alot of work and being social. But slowly im starting to feel the strain on my body, as i physically get more tired and weaker ( haven't worked out in FOREVER, needs to hit the gym :( ) and the mental power (not like a psychic ) that I just pour out everyday is just and endurance trial, which soon my brains going to give out on. Haha, but do not worry!! Josh is much tougher than anyone thinks! Even though its tough and I'm probably going to end up sleeping in the studio, I'm really enjoying what I'm doing, and the rest goes for all of you out there! Enjoy what you do, or else.....life sucks. :D
Wow...right now something exciting just happened. This girl just broke her knee...playing soccer(outside of course) Supposedly she already had a bad knee, from playing soccer....lol with a bunch of guys. The worst part about it is that her birthday is tomorrow, so at 12 am in the hospital, shes going to sign herself out with her new found ability as an adult. She was of course warned by her friends not to go but she refused, for her passion for soccer is unquenchable!....
Well anyway back to the regular stuff. So, basically I'm still in New Jersey, Newark to be more precise. I'm so close to home its...kinda weird... but I'm really glad because...i need Korean food...(born and raised on it) After a week of college, my mouth was watering for a piece of kimchi. I miss Kimchi so much, i was actually thinking about naming this blog Kimchi.....ha ha. But i chose this name because, i am an architect! and i will design, talk about design and talk about how i see the design of things in this world...maybe try to relate it to my life or something like that. ha ha.
So for my first post ill talk about the hurricane ravaging the southern part of the United States. Hurricane IKE, i believe it was called, left many homeless and missing. Many probably (regretfully) perished at the hands of this storm but thankfully, the hurricane brought very warm weather up here in NJ, allowing many to enjoy the beaches...Weird isn't it? That on one part of the country, a disaster of epic proportions occurs and the changes that happen to the rest of the world is just very pleasant and nice? I least...i think what I'm saying is right. I kinda planned to write about this at the beginning of the week when i heard this..somewhere...but i kinda forgot ... :(