A Week in Review

This week was surely different from the previous ones. Started off with a lime with some friends at Trotters It was originally supposed to be a sushi lime, but found out that the place closed down sometime ago.  Had some fish and chips there and ironically mom, brought home the same order the next day when she came home from work. But the main happening for the week was me starting an internship at ACLA Works. They are one of, if not the top architectural firm in the country and they have been around for more than sixty five years. They are a small firm but with really talented individuals. Well when I started on Tuesday I was given the task of learning how to use Archicad. Archicad is architectural design software too awesome to put in words. I have seen the kind of work produced by that CAD software and I'm really glad I got the opportunity to learn it. Archicad sure would make life easier in years to come when CAD becomes more integrated into school work. Initially, I thought Archicad wasn't too hard to learn but boy was I wrong. It has a really steep learning curve, but as they say, Rome wasn't built in a day, so I'm gonna push hard to get a full understanding of how to use it.

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One thing that I dream of doing, is reading till I get sick. From a young age reading was something I did when the information between covers was purely fictional. I remember buying novels such as Animorphs and Goosebumps to quench my thirst for surreal adventures. During secondary school my friend introduced me to the Artemis Fowl series which I got hooked on. The series entailed an adolescent genius discovering and protecting a world under the earth's surface, which housed everything from pixies to trolls. Not to mention this world was eons advanced in technology than the human world. The boy also had a bodyguard called Butler, yes butler. Up to a couple years ago I bought the most recent book in the series after stumbling upon it in a store. In secondary school, literature was compulsory and we read books such as Shane and To Kill a Mockingbird, which I enjoyed reading but didn't enjoy dissecting it over and over to bring out underlying themes etc. From there I moved on to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci code, Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress and a yet to be read Deception Point. Somehow I need to transfer the energy I possess reading fictional novels and transfer it to the non fictional aspect of reading. I would read an architectural magazine, lets say Metropolis and it would hold me for a while before I do something else and get back to it, but I can't sit for an hour and read something non fictional. I just fall asleep or get the urge to do something other than reading. I do understand the importance of reading especially in my field that requires me to retain vast amounts of information to meld with my ideas, but the act of reading eludes me for now. I fight with myself daily on the time I waste where I could be reading. To visually stimulate my absent reading appetite I pilled all the books and magazines I want to read on my bed and put an 'IN' tag in front of them and to the right I have an 'OUT' tag, just like in an office environment where work comes to you and you need to process it and put it in the outbox. Thats my motivation I guess, but I need to get over this hurdle because the next semester is coming up and I don't want to be playing catchup when I could be progressing forwardly.

Monkey on my back

So I was rummaging through a drawer last night and I came across my old and trusty Gameboy Colour. Oh how the memories rushed back. Trips to far off destinations were shortened by this trusty companion. Stuck in my old friend was a copy of Donkey Kong Country. I loathed this game and its steep learning curve. If there ever was a game that would send you mad, this had to be it. I found myself a couple AA batteries and slapped those suckers in and fired up the beast. To my surprise the current level I was on when I put the gameboy away years ago was the one that was staring me in the face. Since last night I have been playing this game when the urge took me, and the sad part is that I am still stuck on this level. I think I am reliving the reason why I put this device away in the first place.

And So it Begins

Hi all. Welcome to my alternate universe. Here you won't be amazed by anything astonishing and magnificent, but rather be subdued by my average life and the experiences I encounter from day to day. The goal here is to become better at photography and drawing, with a glass of reading to wash everything down. As my goals fight with one another for attention I also need to start planning for the next semester. Yes I know summer hasn't even kicked into full swing and I still have school on the brain, but I just get the feeling that getting a head start would benefit me in the end. As much as I have everything planned out, the real task is well, completing tasks....