Complete!

Ahhh...Taste that? The taste of freedom!.....or boredom.....>.> lol. Studio is officially over. Now i have all the time in the world. Which isn't bad but what happens when theres nothing to replace that empty void in the afternoon which was once filled with endless hours of studio? Unfortunately...i discovered myself to be a workaholic....or maybe an addict. With nothing to attract my attention, ive become a aimless wandering mind (kind of like the dementors in harry potter when they weren't in azkaban...ew..i hate referring to pop culture). I could have turned my focus on to something constructive...such as helping the poor, taking care of the wounded...building bridges....but NO...todays mass media does not support this, instead they pull me away from the goodness that i could accomplish and shove selfishness and greed down my throat. Now i am corporate puppet ready to consume, buy and cover myself in the clothes of the wealthy. Am I enjoying this?: Yes. But what would have happened if I was to ignore all the evils the world has to offer? Nothing. Because its impossible to ignore them! Everywhere one goes, the world opens its hand and out comes distraction, disorder, sin, CHAOS! And we enjoy every minute of it. We do not care, we bathe in its dirt...

(.....wow ok.. I dont know how I got from taking about me not having studio anymore to this.....maybe it was bugging me subconsciously. Who knows but i like it :D)

Its been at least 2 weeks since i updated again...yet no one else has yet updated theirs..or at least read mine....or at least comment...But Ill carry on! lol

This is my final project. Looks good eh? lol My crits did like it..sort of....They told me i had to take it one step further and my idea was too trapped in this one idea of a curve so my study models showed too little progress. So next semester: Have a solid idea, and work faster. Woo!

The week i was doing this, I had 5 hours of sleep from Sun-Sat. It was epic. THe most i ever worked on anything. But the actual model took me only 1 night...lol It was preparing everything else that took so much time......

But now Studios over, all i got left is a math exam...which i dont know the time ..or day.....and a essay for humanities which i should be doing right now...lol

Good luck to everyone else during their finals :D

Updated! no joke~

Ok...so im finally updating my blog ( and because Janet told me to)....Does this mean im currently done with all work? No...actually I am currently battling with the architecture World itself. Imagine that, a WORLD against little ol' me. Ill win...eventually. :D lol But anyway ill talk about my current situation right now:

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 so short...I need more time...everyone needs more time...its stupid...I made some sketches. The roof is spirling upwards in a half moon shape. Its not bad...but its a pain to build...

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

Update finally? Psych!~

Well i havent updated in a while and i dont think i have enough time :( Its the final project! and another common coming up! The project is a Mayan pavilion...so i got to use Mayan stuff...which can be fun but its alot of work....like alot of my other projects...but anyway alot went on and ill write about it later lol

so.....

brb...
:D

A mEsS

Im reaching the climax of my project....i should be done with everything, yet...nothing I have is completed...its all roughly 90% done. Ive seem to have hit a wall..no nothing to do with my eyes,(see earlier post on asian eyes) but a wall void of any creativity. I seem to be unable to come up with any solutions as to what to do. Which is the main reason as to why everything is not completed. So to solve this problem, i did a little art, to free some (maybe trapped) creativity.





Haha. I made little clay figures, which now sit on top of my computer screen. Obviously encourageing me on. One of them is a snail. (I have no idea how that encourages me) and the other one is of my Crit. giving me a thumbs up! yay! haha

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....

Moving on and things keep getting weirder

Ok....for whatever reason, I felt as if my last post was really....depressing (and EMO)....

Talking about my problems and ab0ut my thoughts? I think Ill save that for when im drunk( beacause it'll be really really funny)

Well anyway, there seems to be something weird going on. Let me explain. I was looking over the contacts in my phone, (something i do out of boredom) and I noticed several names that i dont recognize....Strange...

_________________________________________________________________

(ok i was writing this 3 in the morning got knocked out after that last sentence.....haha so let me now continue)

_________________________________________________________________

So it seems that im getting numbers out of nowhere, and Im too scared to actually call the numbers...so until the people actually call me, i wont even look at those numbers. Oh yea...and one contact was just...letters....wtf? I didnt even know you can type letters into the phone number slot....

As I have stated before, there are days when i fall asleep during studio, obviously from being tired. Its not really a problem, (which is how i see it) but there seems to be a trend going around in Studio. If a person leaves their desk and their computers on, you go put up porn as their background. So if a Crit. ever walked up to you while you were closing the programs (which blocked the view of the background). The crit. would obviously see it. Well, people started to do it to those who fall asleep too. Luckily no one was behind me, and i safely changed the background to normal. But it was interesting, my picture wasnt of a girl but of two Spanish looking males, discovering each other.....Was I excited? OBVIOUSLY...not... It was pretty funny though...

The sobe bottles, gatorade, water bottles and ginger ale cans seem to be multiplying on my desk...Mating with each other perhaps? I believe so.... Ill just wait for some inter-bottle marriages to happen. Hmm wonder what a Ginger-ade or a sobale tastes like?

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

Almost done reading The ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE!

Yes i read it in the dark....because its not scary...

The Future

While attending classes, thoughts constantly run through my mind.

-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...

Asian Eyes....

Gift? Curse?

While attending NJIT, I began receiving questions (jokes), mostly directed at my eyes.

These eyes of mine can be described as narrow slits. And so what are their purpose?

The Sun!

Advantages? : Many
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)

Suns Effect?: 0%

We as Asians seem to be immune to such things as bright sun..for we are already squinting...or so the white man has claimed.

So... there seems to be no need for hats or sunglasses because our eyes seem to block all light like a brick wall.

Sleep!

Advantages?: Many

Asians with their eyes seem to be the masters of illusions... Are we asleep or not? Are we all just sleepwalking from day to day, not knowing what our bodies are accomplishing while our mind rests? No one knows, therefore if one does fall asleep, the likely hood of being seen or caught? None

Disadvantages?: Yes

While attending classes or lectures a powerful feeling of sleep seems to take over. For the average white male, they have no problem with a little focus. Asians however seem to have a tough time...why? Our eyes seem to be closer together, meaning the distance is shorter, and every blink (or squint) becomes a fight to stay awake.

(I just take really long blinks during lectures...blinks that last for like 30 minutes. haha)

Driving!

Disadvantages!: Many

Alright all Asians can drive, no matter what anyone else says, its true. However, how well do we see while driving? Where could have this stereotype come from? Could it be from our eyes? Did the prehistoric white man look at our eyes and judge that we cannot see the road, therefore cannot drive?
Who know?

Cooking!

Advantages? : OF COURSE

We as Asians have dominated the culinary world. But with what exactly? Strange and mysterious foods never before seen or heard of by the populace of the world of course. I will now break it down into 3 groups which i believe to be the most popular

Sushi : The pinnacle of Japanese cuisine ( well i believe so) What is this made out of?...Raw Fish...EW! The rest of the world does not touch it! he he We keep it for ourselves :D

Bulgogi: Commoners food. Easy to make, and delicious, the white man relishes it. Wait...whats that smell...WHAT?!?!KIMCHI! EW! hehehe the white man does not know what hes missing :D

Sesame Chicken: Usually sold in a downtown Chinese take-out places somewhere. Where did this come from? From good ol' USA of course. The chinese immigrants decided that for whatever reason they could not make traditional Chinese food so they just decided to invent new ones. Still good... but whats in it? EW!!! CHICKEN!!..oh wait..what? oh :D yum

(ok that wasnt about eyes..but w/e)

Brains!
Advantages?: Yup

As Asian we must stick to the stereotype of being successful at whatever we touch. The phrase "Asian Invasion" comes to mind as one realizes how fast the Asians grew from building the railroads to owning businesses, stores, and eventually the international market. What is the cause of our success? Our eyes of course. Indirectly though. Small eyes=more brain space duh!

Unfair advantage? I think not!

Wow.. I seem to have somehow made this sound like Asians are superior among all races. IM NOT RACIST! I SWEAR! lol

But thats the end of talking about the design and functions of our eyes, lets get back to my life

Landscape: the best project i have completed thus far.

A park. Well more like a amphitheater. But if a there was a park that was an amphitheater id totally go hang out there like everyday.

Well now im moving on the the living cube. Basically a 8x8x8ft room (tiny) and it must meet these standards such as a bed 24 linear ft of shelving, a piece of furniture, and a work surface such as a desk. Sound easy? No. With such small spaces, getting designs to fit and fit well, is one of many obstacles we must face before this is completed. And the actual model will be made out of wood.....intense.