Reality just keeps getting more interesting by the minute.

adventures are waiting. let me go, please.

Episode 10; season finale: OVER! Season 1 has finished!

Really, while the typical Architecture students have the knowledge of how to let loose in their nature, I need to learn how to let loose. I’m sorry but letting loose is not to be learned…if I recall clearly. I am weird, really weird. How is it that all my friends from high school are able to move on, but I’m still the one clinging onto the past? It’s difficult for me to make close friends and actually hang out with them. I wish I was social enough…but at the same time, most of my friends go home. They went home this weekend so I’m stuck in my dorm room studying…being a nerd. This weekend was the perfect weekend to go home and especially since one of my best friend is having her birthday dinner…I could’ve went. Everything would’ve worked out perfectly if my parents didn’t go to Vegas.

But on the bright side, SAN FRANCISCO IN A  WEEK! I’m really excited to see my CAL friends. And field trip. Heck yes. I better get close to my Architecture friends. I mean, of course I love talking to Jane, Angie, and Jessica. Bahah, the Asian girls in our section. The Asian Fantastic 4; interesting.

I like talking to my ‘best friend’. He’s older and although he says he’s not a funny person to talk to, I feel better after talking to him. Okay, really. Talking to older people is nice because I can confide in them and they give me advice. Somehow, it’s different when I talk to people my own age. And by the way, even my 4th year suitemate guessed who I had (still do) a crush on. She told me when I said “TA”, it gave it away. Oh ML, I really want to meet you. If Caleb and Tyler came tolife from my stories, can’t you?

Coming soon: another story with Celeste but Matt FINALLY appears; there may be a new one that involves different characters becuase I’ve been going through some awkwardness and really weird situations.

Lost in her own imagination.

fly with me;; red is my best friend's favorite color

Project 2. I lived in episodes. Season finale: when hard work pays up. Is there a possibility that my stories come true to life?

I tend to daydream what would happen. I never had the thought that what I write about actually comes true. I now know that whatever I wish for…they do come true. I guess I have to be very careful with what I wish for. The words I write in my notebook tend to find themselves in the real world. I can see them flying around. I just have to put them back to together.

My mid-review actually went pretty well. Funny thing is I didn’t know what to say before I went up. Then my best friend just told me to explain my diagrams and my scheme. I did that. And I knew they were going to say something about the middle. It so happens that according to an instructor who reviewed with 4  other groups…said my project was the first project he saw that pushed outwards onto the two buildings. I was part of the last group that he reviewed. So I guess I’m proud of that. And they liked my stairs idea. Like Escher. Exactly my point. My inspiration.

I pulled two allnighters and didn’t sleep for 56 hours. Then after review, I slept for 16 hours. When I woke up, I was dizzy because I didn’t eat for 24 hours. I guess that’s how I starved myself. And after I ate, my stomach started acting up on me so I went to the restroom few times. My stomach wasn’t used to eating so much. So now, I’m drinking lots of water. I still feel dizzy though.

I want to fly. Up into the clouds and get lost…wondering how I got there. Just like my project idea.

Just let go. No more holding.

Do they think I'm crazy?

Follow my instincts. Just let the design come to you. That’s what happening to me. And now that it’s here, I have to prove how I got to where I’m standing. It’s exactly describing my project. The stairs and one of the bridge is transparent/translucent so that when you walk onto a platform, you will forget where you came from and can’t look back (or in some cases, can’t look down).  Therefore, you have to explore..going one way, end up coming out from another. You have to find which doors you opened and which doors you didn’t. I’m exactly going through that. I have to figure which doors I opened that lead me to my cube and which doors were closed. I feel as if I’m in my own my project. Floating on the platform and trying to wonder how I got up to here.

I talk to everything. Animate and inanimate objects. Sometimes, I wonder if I’m actually a princess with the ability to talk to animals. But that only happens in fairy tales. And whenever I look out from my window, balcony, or out into the ocean…I want to let go of everything. But I realize, life is a rollercoaster. I’m afraid of rollercoasters but when I’m actually on it, I feel alive and the ability to fly. So after I went on X2, I wanted to go on it again. Just like life. Life has its ups and downs. But now that I’m back down and smiling, I want to go back on life again.

And friends help me through. They’re like guardians..guiding a blind person. Sure, it may seem like they didn’t do anything, but by guiding a blind person, the blind person is able to know which direction to go to. And just use her senses to come up with her own opinions and thoughts. Or maybe like a boy teaching a girl on a bike. Cliche, much? What about a friend pushing another friend on the swings. Luckily, my ‘best friend’ brightened my day and told me not to worry. Smiles.

So I have one straight road to walk on. Actually, I’m walking on it right now. Even though there were things popping out and scaring me, I survived. No heart attack. Just few tears. But the light is not that far, right? No, it isn’t. Well, according to them, it isn’t.

Courtyard. What is a courtyard?

EPISODE 8: weekend full of drawings. FINAL SHOWDOWN!

Foreshadowing what is happening on Wednesday/Friday.

Let’s do this everyone. Yes, we’re going to conquer the mid-reviews. But first, let’s conquer the drawings, really long boards, big models…and site analysis + scheme diagrams. Boy, this weekend looks like hell. Oh yeah, and priority number 2: structures midterm.

Holycrap. I love Justin Chen Illustrates: I Dream of Architecture. Very nice comics. I think I’ll be including one comic that deals with what I’m done with the related post. Credits to him! Brilliant.

Yes, courtyards. That’s our project. Analyzing Watt Courtyard. Episodic Architecture has definitely gotten to me because throughout this project, I’ve been thinking in episodes. Season 1 is almost over! Just few more episodes until season finale. Ha. Season finale is spilt into two parts on Wednesday and Friday. Excited, anyone?

Please visit his site. It’s very entertaining. And yes, it will be part of my daily reads. Plus, I added the link to my Facebook. Ha. Spread the word! I bet I’m the last to know about this. Are there any more like this?

A fine line between reality and imagination.

Is there a line?

I find it strange that I still think about him even though he has graduated. And the funny thing is…I didn’t even meet him last year. We didn’t become friends even though I talked to him twice…randomly. But we never got to introduce as friends. I mean, we always saw each other, but I was too afraid and not outgoing enough. I wanted to. I kept having a feeling that he was perfect. And he still is.

Well, life is giving me more opportunities to meet him because he’s staying in LA to work. My mind keeps telling me “here’s your chance”. My heart keeps telling me that he’s prince charming. But I just stay behind and watch other people become closer to him. I guess it’s because he wasn’t my TA so I didn’t have the chance to be close to him in the first place. I wish I did have him as a TA…or at least went to ask him for help since everyone said he was really really good.

In my dreams, he’s someone who I can talk to. Someone who loves me for who I am. Together, we create the perfect fairy tale. But in reality, we’re just strangers. We pass each other as strangers. However, once I pass him and close my eyes, I imagine that we’re not strangers anymore. However, there is a fine line between reality and imagination. Or, what exactly is reality?

Yes, watching “Good Men, Good Women” really got to me because that’s my life. The reality and the imagination.

Mind reading. I got some researching to do.

I’m sleepy because I had 4 hours of review today. And it wasn’t even the final review. Hey, at least I now know what to do. Both instructors agree I’m in a good direction. And I have a clear road ahead of me. Hopefully, my plans and sections look beautiful by next Wednesday. And I’m excited to work on my site analysis and diagrams again. Oh panographies are beautiful!

Neuswenstein Castle, Germany.

I think I daydream too much. For the past few days, I’ve been daydreaming about Michael. I mean, I haven’t even met him yet…as friend. I don’t know but I think I really do like him. It’s kinda funny.

Okay, you’re probably wondering why my title is about mind-reading. Because my studio neighbor, Kai aka my ‘best friend’ (just an inside joke between Angie, me, and Kai), and I can read each other’s mind. Actually, it’s been me reading his mind most of the time…but he did it once when he said ‘you’re welcome’. I don’t think it was intentional. But I keep inputing things into my model and he said that they were his ideas..drawn out too. I didn’t even know that he came up with those ideas. Oh best friend, how much I love sitting next to you. He still has to take me to Yogurtland. Yeah, I don’t know why I’m craving Yogurtland but I miss it. I want to different fruit-y froyo. Makes my world with smiles and I need happiness in my life for the next one and a half week…until doomsday. But on the  brighter side, I get to see my studio mates a lot.

Howwever, this weekend looks hectic for me. Mid-autumn festival this weekend means family time while I have a project due Wednesday. Oh no! Time management needed. Desparately.

PS: Don’t worry. I’m keeping my wordpress. Apparently, everyone is getting a tumblr. Boooo. I like wordpress. People can give comments. (:

Season 1. Project Three.

Episode 4: Mid-hell weekend. Why? Because mid-reviews on Monday. A model, diagrams, and picture montage. Yes, that’s the life of an Architecture student. And I’m missing a football game because I want to work in the studio on a Saturday night so that I don’t feel rushed. Oh, and because I’m slow when it comes to working on a model.

“Til I get over you.”
How come all the other years have at least one cute Asian boy and our year has none? It’s kinda weird but sad. I really wish I met Michael. My world could’ve changed and I wouldn’t be daydreaming so much. And I’m still not over David.

I’m still afraid of getting hurt.

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People watching and analyzing. What a great combination.

Yes, our next project involves people watching. We have to analyze Watt courtyard and in order to do that, I have to sit in Watt Courtyard and observe the movement that occurs throughout the day. Oh how creepy will I be? Kinda creepy because I’ll be people watching. Seriously, they need to set up tables and chairs in front of the cafe and make it feel like Italy, France, or Asia. I mean, those are the three study aborad places, right? I like people watching because I get to observe people walking around, chatting with each other, or just doing homework on the tables.

Oh this weekend sounds fun because I’m going to a birthday dinner for one of my suitemate’s 21st birthday, but I have to go home on Sunday to celebrate my mom’s. But at the same time, I have lots of things to do. I mean, we’re starting our new project. Site analysis. How am I suppose to that? I hope I’ll improve from my final project last semester. I really want to create better projects during second year so I can be ready to build my portfolio during the first semester of third year. According to Stephanie, who is my suitemate and also a 4th year Arch. student, we have to have really amazing portfolios first semester of third year in order to get our first choice of study abroad.

Really, can I get over my obsession of ML? He’s already graduated. But the funny thing is he’s still in LA working. He’s in a firm that designed some Kaiser hospitals and some MtSAC buildings. Small world. And he has a Parking Day in front of LA Library. All these things make me sad because I have so many opportunities but I’m still not friends with him. I only talked to him twice…but not introduced as friends. I let my prince charming pass by. I actually did.

Is time drinking too much Redbull?

“Redbull gives you wings.” – Redbull commercial.

Trust me, there’s nothing special about today except: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRINCE HARRY!

I wish time didn’t fly by so quickly. Although people keep telling me, “you should be excited to grow up”, I wish I can stop time..or at least have the ability to play, pause, fast forward, and rewind time. But wishes don’t come true, right? Wrong. I already know few wishes that did come true. And this wish is no different from the others.

I’ve been wearing my lock and key necklace. It comforts me. I’m just happy to have a lock & key necklace after reading Sarah Dessen’s Lock and Key. I can’t wait until she comes out with a new book just like Along for the Ride. By the way, I recommend all girls to read that book. It’s amazing.