the oddities of enrollment in...

... a course which claims to be mentally intensive, and yet! responses to the effect of 'i find this interesting (full stop)' is heard almost invariably after the question of what one thinks has been asked.

i'm starting to have a slightly negative impression of my batch mates! why can't they be more socially responsible, tsk.

in the course of 3 days, the entire 3rd storey got converted into a megalopolis of spray paints, wood blocks and other unwanted remnants of their projects. how can people be so insensitive as to lay their work all over a staircase landing and leave the unwanted sheets of newspaper used to cover the ground for spray painting (which is not allowed)? at the very least, cover the floor adequately so that no paint gets onto the floor, so as to minimise dirtying, right?

and yet, the indecent stains were left there despite nice reminders to clear the mess. which finally got cleared after tutors blew their tops. so dumb, right. and i had thought architects(-to-be) have to be very sensitive towards the surroundings and people, isn't that an important trait.

anyway, today was quite sucky. felt i wasted my time rushing to finish the project, when the final result was abominable. and when i sensed it after the initial materialisation. i feel slightly, errrr.

this is so sour...

and, i wonder why am i so daft, or too intelligent to meet the demands of design. maybe a lot of my friends get it too. it's like, you spend so damn long thinking of the solution to your design, and you brainstormed for so many ideas and you threw most of them away, thinking they are too kitsch or simplistic. and then, some fellow scores a goal with a concept similar to your discarded trash.

and i'm sure most, if not all, of the white lanterns submitted for the lantern design competition will receive low scores there. hello, white in chinese culture means something and you don't know, you ching-chong. (i mean, of course the tutors know, but an overwhelming number of entries were made with white paper. oh gosh. and come to think of it, one of the - literally - expensive lantern sculptures i saw are rectangular coffins. hah.)

which makes my group's one better. but. (OH WELL.)

okays, end of bitchfest. i've so much to do tomorrow, alright till then!