Can't believe I'm blogging again after 4 years being absent. Used to love this so much, then along came facebook and all my thoughts could be safely channeled out through short updates.
Well being a blog about my thoughts studying architecture and life here in Adelaide in general, I find it suiting that I'm currently writing this in the airport on the last day of the semester as im waiting for my flight back to Malaysia. After being so busy with assignments in this last few days, I absent-mindedly got my check-in time confused and am now paying for it with a 2nd ticket bought just to reach Melbourne in time for my flight back to Malaysia.
Architecture has always been more of a passion for expression rather than the dry boring technical stuff we have to first learn in Uni. But I digress, I'm not here to talk about the stuff I learn but more of a reflection of who I will become.
I met this one girl in Adelaide, her bubbly attitude towards life inspires me more every time. There's something about her that I find similar in a very small minority of my female best-friends I have. A reassurance of sort.
She got me thinking yesterday. What have we learn in this semester. Aside from all the boring technical input, the human side of architecture is what's best taken home after all is done. Personally I have learn that perseverance must never be confused with progress. I always thought the more I put into my work, the higher a grade I would get. But that isn't always the case with everyone. Works for some, but not me.
What exactly do I mean by that. To say putting in 10hours of effort against 10minutes of pure random thought generation is a simple generalization of things.
The formula for success in terms of a week is 3days idea generation and 4days of no sleep. I've tried both, and both ended in failure. Just generating ideas while executing it an hour before a studio is just dumb. Putting in a whole week of work with no solid concept is also pretty dumb.
Well anyways, my plane's just arrived. I'll continue this later on while I'm waiting in Melbourne for my flight back to Malaysia. Ta~
