A blog by a Singaporean architecture student which began during his exchange in Delft, Netherlands but continued upon returning...
"The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', which means many, and 'ticks', which are blood sucking parasites."
"Architecture critics are like eunuchs... They know, but they cannot."
Below, some shots of Chet's new work place. Pity they won't allow outsiders into the building. Would love to take a walk along one of these these sky bridges. Went there after a presentation to MOE HQ... Hopefully the meetings end beyond 1730hrs each time so I can just fall out from there :P
Like for the past couple of years, we did it nice and simple. 1 cake, 1 candle, 2 persons.
It's a very Bat-ish Birthday for me this year, since apart from cufflinks I received from ZM and CM (thanks alot, my 1st cufflinks >.<), I got Batman: Arkham Asylum for PS3 from Chet. 1/2 way through the game... it's really a job well done. I'm sure any Bat-fan will attain geek-gasm / nirvana from it, and sure as hell a normal gamer will enjoy it too.
...and to complete the "Bat Birthday", colleagues from office pooled together to get me this DC Direct statue of The Dark Knight featuring Batman from the 2nd movie. My 3rd Batman statue...
Then below are gifts to myself (herh herh, then again, it doesn't take any special occasion for a collector to buy a figure lah~). McFarlane Spawn's Series 22 The Viking Age Bloodaxe (R3: Repaint, Resculpt, Revisit), and from the same series Skullsplitter. These 2 figures features hidden articulation, some new materials (velvet / fabric), and some really ass-kicking sculpting works. Been purchasing some pass Spawn figures, cuz recent releases in general really couldn't match the level of attention to details displayed in these figures. Sigh...
Every year, the "gah-men" never fails to make me stressed as my birthday approaches. Cause they've made every Singaporean male's birthday into a deadline. Notice the irony? "Birth-" and "dead-"?
So every year I'll procrastinate (I admit) till the very last few months (6 weeks) to start training for IPPT... And then, feel stressed over that last decisive chin-up that I'm always short of to pass. So if you see that I seem very far away these days, it's because I'm stressed over this bullshit, and worried of the consequences of failure: you lose your freedom. Looking back at last year's results slip, which isn't very far from this year's, I'm reminded of how close I escape RT. Don't think I want to undergo these stressful periods again, particularly before my birthday.
Perhaps it's time to continue training and pass for 2010's work year... though I'm almost certain that if I do that, it means I'll slack for 2 full years :)
To celebrate Chet's finding of an ideal job, we went to Suntec Crystal Jade for some noodles after work and took a stroll to Esplanade, where we took some photos... Start work loh~~~ Hopefully now we will become more stable financially >.<
A proj I've been following for quite some time. She's coming along fine. If TOP is a building's birthday, then ours are quite close to one another, provided there are no further EOTs ;)