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Monday, 14 April 2008
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STRAVINSKY yelling and Big Bro here!
Thank you, gracious Lord -- Big Bro's knee has recovered quite well and can travel back to the States this Sunday
.Finally done with the Affordable Housing Competition stuff (due 4/9). Horaah! Ayyy! Alleluia!
Ditched both GIS classes
. (Found out from Maki afterwards that I din really miss much, though)Two nights of long hour rehearsals Wed and Thur. The long standing made my legs swollen (seriously, I need some "real exercise"). The Professional Orchestra musicians were just AMAZING. I can totally see why they called themselves "professional". I feel so little in front of them.
Finally came to the long prepared performance of Symphony of Psalms on Friday. Didn't stay for Harvard Glee Club's second half of the concert. So exhausted after the sing/yelling... and no kidding, my "support" muscles were soring! After I got home I almost wanted to go to bed without changing or erasing my face (ha, makeup undo).
Surprise visit by Big Bro! His 1st job trip resuming work is to Marlborough, MA for 10 days and he flew in to Boston Logan Friday night. His workplace is some 30 miles away... but we can surely hangout over the weekend
. Feasted at the local Dolphin Seafood for lobsters with him Sat night. Sunday was a relaxing day dim-suming in Chinatown and a bit of walking around Boston downtown.
Monday, 07 April 2008
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Eventful 1st Week of April
So glad that I met with Christoph and start to nail down some directions for the thesis. A bunch of readings and software/scripting skill learning upcoming. Also discussed final projects topics with Matthias and Micheal and got the list of stuff-to-do/lookup down. Man, that's a h*ll lot of work... but I'm so pumped for working on the finals now. A pitty I still haven't started with design sheets and summer intern hunting, though. Maybe it's a bit late now...
3 great lectures in a row on Friday :) What could be a more fruitful day?
Mark Mulligan's on Art of Concrete in Japan;
John Tobin's insightful lecture for BIM Implemetation. Learnt the new catchphrase "sustainaBIMegration"; &
Shigeru Ban's (one of my hero architects) presentation on his paper-tube works. This is the keynote lecture for the 3-day Systems for Inclusion (SFI8) conference happening at the GSD.
A dreadful Saturday pulling all-day-all-nighter for the Affordable Housing Competition final graphics. I hope this will be it. Slept all day Sunday to get recharged. Feeling good
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Friday, 21 March 2008
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Ecotect v5.5
Learned some simple daylight analysis in Ecotect this week
.Good Friday today, my passion week is finally over. Happy resurrection. Have a great spring break!
Thursday, 20 March 2008
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What hall? Where street?
Just took the evening shuttle home. And I was telling the driver my place was Harvard and Ware ("Where?") Street (don't worry, the driver knows it). But I often had to spell it out to people. It reminds me of the days at USC when I would call campus cruiser to take me home late at night. There was once a lame conversation like:
Operator: Where are you located?
Me: Watt Hall.
Operator: What? What hall?
Me: Yah, WATT Hall!! The one on Watt Way by Gate 2.
Operator: Ah! That one. OK. Where're you going....,etc.
So Watt Hall and Ware Street... I'm looking forward to collecting more stuff like the Howe House, Wen's Dorm and WICHE Student Exchange.
It's Spring Equinox by the way -- Happy Winter-almost-over & Summer-soon-to-come! :D
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
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Una piccola sorpresa
A tiny surprise I got while walking to school today. There were some flowers starting to thriving in the sidewalk of a neighbor apartment. Brilliant yellow and purple color. The shape looked like a tiny version of the tulip, one of my favorite flowers :). More fun to come when I saw the flowers actually "closed up" at dusk on my way home.
Thriving tiny flowers at 11am
Another little cohort
Then they closed at around 6pm.
Reminds me of the other fun flower pictures I've collected... trying to dig them out:
Night blooming cirrus flower on the balcony at home :).
Only the green flower blends into my MY home this perfectly.
A super-fragrant (almost pungent) climbing flower all over the place along the shorewalk of Lake Como. But the colors were just impressive during La Primavera (Spring). They came in white and violet.
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- Birthday: 7/14/1983
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Err, a wierd boring introverted quiet ocassionally humorous small female. Hoping to design safe comfortable if not innovative buildings for people to dwell.
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