Name : Juliana S.Y. Chan
Known as : North Swallow / Hoku Tsubameko. Currently renamed to NS Chan Studio
Occupation:
- Current: Architect
- Others: Freelance graphics designer and Illustrator
Societies:
- Alumni of NUS Students' Comics and Animation Society
- Artists Society of Singapore (ASOS)- Secretary
[Profile in ASOS can be view
here.]
Hobbies:
- Painting
- Drawing
[More Introduction can be viewed at my Official Website
here.]
: Achievements :
Year 2015
- Pencil Drawing “Young Memories” featured in American art magazine, “Strokes of Genius 8”. Oil Painting “Simple. Happiness” exhibited at “SG50 National Day Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition 2015”, organized by Ngee Ann Cultural Centre Ngee Ann Kongsi. Oil Painting “Sri Mariamman Temple in Chinatown, Singapore” selected for “Arising Star” FASS Artists Grand Art SG50 Exhibition, organized by the Federation of Art Societies (Singapore). Oil Paintings "Her Family" and "Still Life No.3 - Together with Joy" selected for "Blossom and Flourish" Singapore National Women's Art Exhibition 2015 (in conjunction with the celebration of SG50), organized by the Federation of Art Societies (Singapore).
Year 2014
- Pencil Drawing “Honesty of Time” featured in American art magazine, “Strokes of Genius 7”.
Year 2012
- Assistant Treasurer of Artists Society of Singapore. Works featured in art publication of Artists Society of Singapore.
Year 2010
- 2nd Prize Winner for Open Character Design Digital Category in Extravaganza - Graphite 2010 competition. Exhibition and Prize Ceremony held with Anime Festival Asia 2010 at Suntec Hall, 14 Nov.
Year 2009
- 2nd Prize Winner for Open Character Design Digital Category in Extravaganza - Graphite 2009 competition. Exhibition and Prize Ceremony held with Anime Festival Asia 09 at Suntec Hall, 21 Nov.
- Thesis project selected for City Exhibition (NUS Architecture Graduation Exhibition- "How does your garden grow?") held at Iluma Urban Entertainment Centre, 13 Jun.
Year 2008
- 2nd Prize Winner for Open Character Design Digital Category in Graphite 2008 competition. Exhibition and Prize Ceremony held with Anime Festival Asia 08 at Suntec Hall, 22 Nov.
- Exhibited individual installation for team exhibition “Site, Situation, Spectator” collaborated among Department of Architecture, University Scholar Programme and NUS Museum. Installation is exhibited in NUS Museum.
Year 2006
- Selected for Student’s Exchange Programme (SEP) to Lund, Sweden.
- Design Projects (Year 3 semester 1 and semester 2) selected for Department exhibition.
Year 2003-4
- Head of Manga Sub-Committee in NUS Students’ Comics and Animation Society.
- Pioneer as Head of 2004 “Graphite” Organising Committee to organise first TERTIARY manga drawing competition for 3 universities: NUS, NTU and SMU.
- Design Project (Year 1 semester 2) selected for Department exhibition.
Year 2001-2
- Assistant Secretary and Head of Publicity of Hwa Chong Junior College Chinese Orchestra (HCCO).
- Won gold medal in team competition (HCCO) in Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) 2001.
- Performed duet in HCCO concert at Victoria Concert Hall 2002.
- Awarded First in comic illustration for competition organised by HCJC’s Comics Club 2002.
Year 1997-2000
- Awarded Best in Art Elective Programme (AEP) subject in 1997, 1998 and 2000.
- GCE O’ Levels: 9 distinctions, includes Higher Art Distinction in AEP, 1997-2000.
- Selected by school NYGH and Ministry of Education to represent Singapore in 1999 to Atlanta, Georgia, USA for overseas summer programme in Atlanta College of Fine Arts.
- 3rd prize winner in Singapore Story – Youth Edition Art competition organised by National Youth Council in 1998.
- Merit Prize winner in Care-for-Nature Spot-Art competition at Sungei Buloh Nature Park in 1998.
Year 1996
- Awarded 2nd position for Lions International Peace Poster Contest in Southeast Asia.
: Career History :
Associate at DP Architects, 2014-Current
Architectural Executive at DP Architects, 2012-2014
Architectural Assistant at DP Architects, 2009-2012
Freelance Graphics Designer, 2008-2011
Internship at K2LD Architects, 2007-2008
- Completed interior project for renovation of apartment at Hillington Green, Singapore.
- Completed interior project for creation of wedding banquet showroom at G-Hotel, Penang.
Internship at DP Architects Pte Ltd, 2006
- Participated in A&A works for Saint Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore.
Internship at The Design Studio of Colin K. Okashimo and Associates, 2005
- Model-making
Freelance Graphics Designer, 2004 - Current
- T-shirt design for NUS Students’ Comics and Animation Society.
- 2 Website Interface designs for NUS Students’ Comics and Animation Society, working with programmer.
- Poster Design for Graphite 2005 Competition.
- Costume designs for University Scholar Programme Rag Day 2004.
- Banner and nametag design for 3rd Great Asian Streets Symposium held in NUS, Department of Architecture.
- Logo and T-shirt design for Hall XI, FOC 2004 “Ignixion”, in Nanyang Technological University.
Multimedia Artist (contract-based), and Graphics Designer (freelance) at AsknLearn.com Pte Ltd, 2003-2004
- Participated in website competition.
- Developed illustrations and digital graphics for website layout or interface design, character design, stories illustrations, logos and icons, brochures, product covers, banners, posters, and simple computer-based animations.
- Participated in computer animated e-Learning softwares for educational uses.
: Qualifications/Education :
- Registered Architect - Qualified Person (QP) from 2012 - current.
- University Scholar's Programme, NUS, Singapore, 2009.
- Master Degree in Architecture, NUS, Singapore, 2009.
- Bachelor (Honours) Degree in Architecture, NUS, Singapore, 2003-2007.
Thursday, March 31, 2005
song~
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Ailing asked me to search for this song, and i found it quite a nice song. it's by Eason from the movie 『幽灵人间2』
你会不会歌手:陈奕迅 专辑:(幽灵人间ii鬼味人间)
你会不会(幽灵人间ii鬼味人间"电影主题曲)
作词:林夕作曲:陈奕迅编曲:jim lee
我们约会我们再会
没想到再没有拥抱的机会
我们伤悲我们流泪
也只能流落到陌生人的嘴
那五呎宽的床位
已成为这段感情的纪念碑
hmm.......
我们爱谁我们陶醉
还看错了现在身边是谁
我曾以为我却误会
一转身就能擦干你的汗水
给我一百万岁
也许都不能看着你沉睡
hmm.......
我还不够累
不能够沉睡
错过了再见你的机会
给我药水回到梦中的最美丽的盛会
你还盖着那张棉被
责怪我颓废
hmm......
你会不会
会不会
会不会
会不会
Monday, March 28, 2005
Gabz Bdae!!
yoyo~~ sorry ppl out there who have been waiting for this post. Sorry, I was rushing my design stuff. Ok, here there are!!
Last sat, the class guys (ah ba didnt go in the end) and jo went arcading and bowling in the afternoon til evening. Mei joined them but left already when I reached Olio in Suntec. I was involved in project discussion at sch lor~ And still rushed home again to get my camera cos I forgot to bring out earlier on. See! so Yong4 Xin1 Liang2 Ku3. So from here onwards i haf photos... I think Venki's Hp got alot of photos lor! Alot of funny snapshots. Venkie! Muz not delete them ok!!
At Olio, by the time my salad came, the rest finished their food... Soon we asked gab to guess his present. In end he still couldnt, but weimin pass the 'Big' present to him to open. A set of Ayumi's MTV!!!! awwwwww~~~~~ i oso wan to see the mtvs~~ haha. Here's a shot at gab opening the present:
Ok, this is stage one cleared. For the next station I suggested to go Crepes and Cream in Citylink Mall (yes jo, u dun need to announce my mistake of calling it the other way round...haha~~ so paiseh!)becos I got the voucher! Eat at least 30 bucks and u get 20 bucks off! good deal huh. So we went there. I haf "berry-in-love" which dunno y so many jokes on it.... snapshots going ard by venki with his camera hp.... hey, wat's with my Berry-in-love and dragging Venki into the picture?
The 5 other guys ordered Superbowl, with 8 scopes of ice-cream...
A zoom-in of the superbowl
Too tall until Selly had to stand up to eat... Haha~
Jovie shy ar....
Venki is so happy to be taken in photograph. Jo, muz learn from Venki more ok~~ haaha
Finally the 'Surprise' we ordered for gab came!! 3 scopes of ice-cream with 2 of them wrapped in wafer~~ haha~ wat a 'surprise' Anyway, we sang song lalaala~~
ok~~ Photo of everyone~
hahaha, the guys continue to eat their superbowl... they crowded ard the bowl like vultures!! haha~
Gab feeling very full liao, so some of us help him eat too~~ This is the mess resulted!
Finally we paid the bill and continued to sit there and chit chat. Duno why suddenly the guys mentioned pra-ta. den bra-ta. so I suddenly juz chipped in without knowing wat is going on and said "Blanta!" (the name of the traditional butter used for baking). This made everyone laffed.... esp. Weikun. In fact we were laffing at him becos he laffing... He broke into uncontrollable 5 minutes of laughter... until his tears come out.... here's the evidence.
hahaha~~~~ That's abt it~~~
hmm~ Each 61 gathering always lift me off from work stress... hope hols will come soon~~
Friday, March 25, 2005
Junkie
yes... think i ate lots of junk these days... I keep feel clumps of fats ard me... made me difficult to bend my body...
Anyway been MIA these days... yup, rushing design construction and UD assignment...I had a drama story for the UD handup.... Was rushing the construction stuff for consultation so i left tues night to wed afternoon to do UD assignment. It is already short of time, yet at such crucial time I fell asleep. I woke up at 6am to my horror that I haven do UD.... I know these happened a few time liao but I still get terrified. I know u all would say shld be used to it. Yes tat is one thing, and coping it is another issue k. It is like a real nightmare that I wish it doesnt happen. So pia like xiao and never manage to finish all the panels. I only handed up one out of the 3 we supposed to do. thanks to lav, ros etc who wanting to help and haf helped me. haiz~~ so paiseh. the more drama thing is during the process of rushing the work at home. juz realise cannot find alot of things that i need at that time. I almost went bersek again... so much so for my determination to stay calm at all times. Think i failed in that terribly. After archi's constant racking into my nerves, they become so weak and get tense much easily. haiz, wat's happening to me...
The aftermath is handing up the other 2 to the office. The admin lady saw me and feel so sad after she told me I shouldnt be doing this... not as if i wan but at tat time i feel so upset that i never say anything else but sorries. haiz... kill me.
NUS celebrating its 100 year-old thingy... but heard from a teacher that it is not 100 years yet.... haha~ anyway everyone in NUS can get this cerennial mug as souvenir, quite nice looking~
These days alot of ppl going overseas or trips... Archi got alot of grps of ppl going lor... so envious of them... one going HK, another on Japan... world expo there lor..., some dunno where etc.... haiz, i wan to go jap badly but no one sponsor me hahaha~~
ok lar.... my sis heard this rpg game from her colleague. Free online somemore, and is rather pro with nice graphics. The game is invented by some chinese company, so the game is set in chinese fashion, like the "3 kingdoms video game" haha. But u haf lots of USA and jap ppl playing it too. Go check it out! juz dl the game will do. it is 500MB. url:
www.conqueronline.comMe and sis were laffing at some armour/costumes they designed.. hahaha
Sunday, March 20, 2005
Wonderful Architecture...
hmm took this quiz from one of blogger quiz's site. oso taken by jov first. now my turn.... hehe... oh i got the star card.
You are the Star card. The Star is the light of
hope. Shining in the night, sending light into
darkness, the stars provide direction to
sailors and are a field on which to dream.
Humanity used to look up at the sky and desire
to be there, to find out what it all meant, and
now we have been a distance into space and have
elementary ideas of the makeup of all the
different stars. This kind of achievement adds
further fuel to our hopes. The eternal,
slow-moving stars that will be long shining
past the end of our own existence provide hope
of immortality, and the vast space they suggest
and the very mystery they hold provide us with
excitement and knowledge yet to be discovered.
Image from: Danielle Sylvie Taylor
http://members.limitless.org/~morpheum/gallery.html
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yep, i guess u all know that me and my studio have been going to North Bridge Rd to do site study. And finally after few years of curiosity, yesterday me and a few archi frens went INSIDE the grand
PARKVIEW SQUARE!!! Yea... soon u will share my discovery and be ready to get appalled by the creation outside and inside of this office building. Yes... it is juz an OFFICE building. if it is a hotel, such extravagant design is ok... but office/admin blding? Kaoz, wat extravagance!! Once u are inside, I can tell u that u will feel like u are NOT in Singapore lor. When I was inside, I felt so dreamy ok.... cant believe it!! Anyway, first let me intro u wat the building is in case u dunno... u can click on the links for larger image.
This is the building when u see from outside...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/North_Swallow/Parkview/PV1-1.jpg
Infront of it has this fortress like facade where there are lots of sculptures on top. U haf these Olympic figures carrying the huge 'pot' thingy hahaa~~ It will be nice if they are torches and fire burns in it. Then can be truly an olympic element...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/North_Swallow/Parkview/PV2-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/North_Swallow/Parkview/PV3-1.jpgHmm this is the front facade of the building... Actually I didnt get to take the top of the building... There are 4 human sculptures, bigger than human scale, and each carried a white ball... Then we were saying wat happened if the balls dropped.. U will have a game of vertical bowling. Woohoo...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/North_Swallow/Parkview/PV4-1.jpg
Ok, so after that fortress thing, we walked up the grand staircase and into the garden outside the main building. the garden seemed to be a Roman+Greek Imperial garden. More sculptures everywhere. 8 on the ground and ard 4 or more on top of the fortress. check it out.
First u haf this huge chinese crane....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/North_Swallow/Parkview/PV5-1.jpgnext u see the roman/greek-like sculptures of historic ppl. U haf Dane, Dale, Churchill, Newton etc!! wow...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/North_Swallow/Parkview/PV6-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/North_Swallow/Parkview/PV7-1.jpgClose up of the figures on top of the 'fortress'. Oh u have musicians!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/North_Swallow/Parkview/PV8-1.jpg
ok, the garden alone is too astounding. Lets go inside the main building... and then we found much more astounding interiors.. welcome to the unbelievable out-of-context world. The entrance seemed to haf some thai-looking urns...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/North_Swallow/Parkview/PV9-1.jpg the interior...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/North_Swallow/Parkview/PV10-1.jpg look at the cladding of the balconies and pillars... All the metal works.. the engraving and decorations.(sorry, this is abit blur...)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/North_Swallow/Parkview/PV11-1.jpg look at the lamp...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/North_Swallow/Parkview/PV12-1.jpg this is the bar counter...with some european furniture. Look at the ceiling and sides... it looks like some chinese murals drawn. u will see more of it in other photos. Doesnt this looks like a
CHURCH?? where u have paintings on the ceiling and side walls??
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/North_Swallow/Parkview/PV13-1.jpgthere is piano on the other end.... this reminded me of a theatre thingy.. as though phantom of the opera going to appear suddenly and play on it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/North_Swallow/Parkview/PV16-1.jpg ok, we walked around the centre space and we see some elaborate lighting figure... HEY! it is egyptian!!!!!! WHAT!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/North_Swallow/Parkview/PV14-1.jpg Ehz.... these egyptian figures hold the lights like Statue of Liberty with her torch and her book leh... EHZ EHZ! wat a pose! Copy cat!! haha....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/North_Swallow/Parkview/PV15-1.jpg
Ok... this building design on the whole has hybrid factor... a mix of chinese, roman, greek and eygptian, abit of thai.... but they managed to make it so special... even ang moh tourists there were appalled.
ok last two photos on the interior...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/North_Swallow/Parkview/PV17-1.jpg 
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/North_Swallow/Parkview/PV18-1.jpgso... how u feel abt this... beautiful huh.... once we step out of the whole place... we travelled back to Singapore... Amazing...
Think u shld go in there to take a look urself. Then u can truly feel the atmosphere. :) With the background music... and all....
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
I'm an Alien in a family of Piggies
(Yk: But i really no time to exercise... so at least stop too much junk food intake shld help isnt it?)
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haiz.... at the stage I am working.... the more i feel myself like an alien in my family.... It is more clearly seen esp. during weekends. Dad has retired already so he's enjoying his life and lazing ard.... sleeping almost 24 hours i would say.... But my mum would be piaing like crazy becos haf to cook extra meals for dad... But during afternoon, she would take a nap.... Needless to say, my sis treat weekends as her sleeping days since she has to work during weekdays.... and I think programming work takes quite some brain power... so it's tiring i guess.
So whenever weekends come, the whole family will be sleeping, snoring whatever. And I would be at my desk working my brain, eyes, hand, and mind away. Once I turned my head, I would see mum, dad and sis sleeping on sofas, floor, bed watever.... wah lao.... can u imagine that scene.... I looked pathetic... total alien. When they finally wake up for dinner, I juz question them why my life is soooo different from them. In fact I dun expect them to answer.... so it's more like a comment in a form of question. And candidly and cheekily they would say "yah". Ok, imagine my sulky face with eyes looking up. grrr..... So my family always try to pamper me with nice tidbits..... haiz.... as a result, me growing FAT!! argh, so I haf to stop eating tidbits now....
Alien Julie.....
Today last minute decision to go down to North Bridge Road to meet 2 archi frens. Haf to analyse the area/districts for Urban Design Project/Assignment.... so no choice.... My frens are terrified, as usual from other ppl, abt my unbelievable sense of direction. Yes yes.... I noe it's damn lousy but I muz stress that it did improve. Joy went back first after some walking, while Kx went to do some shopping in Bugis Junction. So I made some rounds in North Bridge Rd.... I was taking photos and den suddenly spotted this dead sparrow on the floor.... I became very sad over it..... It was an adult bird.... not old, so it is impossible to die from old age.... Maybe some accident... It was lying so motionless and solemn in the middle of the pavement.... among the onmoving pedestrian streets. Vehicles rushed to and fro on the dusty road, churning up dusty wind to brush our hair on our skin, and the feathers on the bird. It continued to lie on its side, unaware of the ongoing world anymore...... I feel so .... I dunno how to say but haf to bite the fact of that sadness. Then one construction guy swept the bird away and threw it somewhere in the bin. I juz cant bare to think anymore but to leave the place and went back to Bugis Junction. The world is forever moving... and moving.... no one cares..... no one stop to see..... no one......
I would prefer to have the sparrow lying on the lush greenery or trees, and not on the cold, unmoving streets. How I wish I can carry you and give u the strength to fly away again. You belong to the sky...
是一种无奈；一种伤感。天气虽热，担人气确那么地冰冷，有如下雪般地那么残酷，无情。力不从心而只能黯然神伤的我只能默默为你祈祷；默默地，深切地希望能保护你。望能把你紧紧地拥抱，一步一步向斑斓的天空，绿油油的田地迈进，离开与忘却那冷酷的地方。然后在这温暖的土地上，舍得放开我手中的你，把你放在天与地的怀抱里。那是我的承诺。愿我有力量实现这承诺。
Saturday, March 12, 2005
More resolutions for being 21 years old?
I know it is rather late to say these but then still wanna say....
In fact, I still havent gotton over the fact I am 21 liao. I juz dun haf that feeling of being 21... I keep thinking I am still childish at many areas..... I am still naive in some.... still still..... haiz. Oh yes, wanna say that these days are days that mix with hell load of work yet many sweet moments with frens in archi. Hence, the pain I gotten have more or less forgotten....
These days while walking on streets, on the way home, I have been thinking.... and thinking... of the past things i do etc... and laughing at my own childish manners in some situations and so on.... kinda feel embarrassed by myself. I wish that since I am 21 liao, I want to be more serious to some things. More reasonable in some, more matured in some, more sensitive in some, and being more considerate in some. Think this resolution of mine is a continuous thing from now til the end of my life.
I also realise some things that are so amazing... I find that in many areas I actually can draw a line between work and relationships.... as in I wont care how good or bad I am with this person, I will work with them equally as the rest. More or less equal lar. Then the code will change once we are out of the work context. Maybe thru work, I will change my impression of that person oso. 2ndly, I am amazed at how my split personality can act in work and normal days. I am such a totally different person in work when my that serious mode is switched on.... I am amazed that I am such a 'NASTY' person when I get gan jiong over things..... 3rdly, I am really amazed that I can choose things I wish to forget or forgive and it will work as it is. The more incredible thing is I can choose to ignore some facts I dun wish to consider and therefore I dun feel existence of that pain or trouble or problem. Maybe becos my memory or brain already no space, I have no choice oso. cant be helped. Overall, I am amazed at myself of those points... dunno if those things are good or bad. Ok la, that's all.
Recently I have been eating alot of junkies at night while working and sis commented that next time when i go out to work and eat like that, I will get fatter than her or much worse. The tot of getting fat already scare me out lor... hmm, now i am being 'encouraged' by my sis to take up more strict running schedule... I shall do that in the hols. heehee... meanwhile hopefully can restrain my itchy mouth hahaha~~~
all right, more work to go~!
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Dragging and dragging....
(Ed: Ur sentence of when it is meant to die, you haf to die, is abit sadist..... yk seems to give up on fighting life liddat too.... come on u ppl, genki!!!)
Been a few days MIA. What a little hell period i went thru and many more to come. I'll let u know why. OK, wednesday, which is today, is a day where many projects haf to be handed up. 5 things. UD quiz, UD panels, UD site visit, Design Construction, and History of SEA paper. Ok, first the thing is.... on Monday, I got a last minute notice from a fren that the SEA paper is due on tues noon instead of wed... Imagine that bloody look on my face. I haven start my research on that paper lor. Becos of that, I cannot do UD panels with my partner properly. (sorry Lav!!) Den so I hurried home.... I have not borrowed books for research lor.... so I anyhow use those I borrowed for my design work. In the end, i am too late to hand up the softcopy... but still i handed up my hardcopy to the office. Ok.... too bad.... but one down. Then also last minute on mon the UD online quiz supposedly to be on Wed brought forward to Tues night 9am to Wed 10pm. So i went home immediately again to do some design construction stuff.... and later at 9pm, I reached school again with a huge crowd of archi students gathered in my studio. We den began the mass doing of test thingy. Copy answers and discuss together and so on. Den I stayed in the studio to do some of the UD panels with Lav.... Lav already did the layouts....really grateful to her.... otherwise I really dunno how to cope with the rubbish load of work. Haiz... Ok I stayed until 1 plus am... and so took a taxi home~~~ Reached home and everyone was aleep.... -_-........ haiz.... i am that so different from the lives of the family members. They are pretty amused that I went sch so late at night to take test hahaha...... OK so the 2nd work is down. Finally the design work..... I do and do but still lagging behind.... too behind to start from.... I have to redo the whole 3d model lor.... things/designs keep changing.... u know lar.... *erhem* shan't say more.... think the archi ppl will know why.
So finally this morning came and I hadnt have the required materials but tried to make things look nice with colours..... so rushed until 12 plus, and hurried to sch to print UD panels.... cheers to Lav~ she deserves more credits. Anyway I added some stuff, moved some things etc before handling them up. :) ok, 3rd down. left the design consultation session and UD site visit. The site visit is nothing la, we went to North Bridge Rd and walked ard to observe the city elements etc.... At 4pm, our studio rushed back sch in Cabs and prepared our consultation panels on the spot. In the end, only 2 students managed to go thru the session..... the teacher had to leave mah.... Ok.... But if u think now everything is over and done with, U ARE WRONG!!! Cos immediately tml, I haf Design Structure consultation!!! ALamak, I really really behind time and everything keeps coming. help......
saffocating!!!
Sunday, March 06, 2005
Beware of the AIR u breathing in...
Yes to all fellow mankind, your health is in danger every seconds from the air u breathing!!! hahahaa~~
Recently, in Building Science, we get to know the air is really really dirty and alot of things are 'poisonous' ard. Firstly, there are compounds such as
TVOCs (Total Volatile Organic Compounds) that can choke ur lungs. These cmpds are emitted by things such as perfumes, alcoholic drinks, etc etc.... So to those who like to go bar to drink.... whatever pollutants u can name are found there. Smoke, dust, TVOCs, odours etc.... So bad for health. So one time in clubs and bars is equal to one time of killing ur lungs~~ ok, i am exaggerating abit but the facts are true. Then when we got to the perfume part, it's pretty funny. Our class got this guy who like to spray alot of perfume on himself... becos his scent is so strong all the time that when he approaches us from behind or so, we know who is coming without turning to look at the person. It is that strong. So I was telling him during the class that all of us should stay away from him since he is carrying huge amount of TVOCs with him. So it is a danger to us and it is suicidal for him hahaha~~
So, too much TVOCs can kill..... oh one more thing. there's a kind of ceiling boards u see on the false ceiling nowadays, with alot of holes on it. Such boards contain
Formaldehyde (HCHO) which is also used by doctors on corpses to preserve them before cutting them up. It is really poisonous for this one.... known as a 'occupation hazard'.
well there are interesting tots for other chemicals such as CO2.... Remember that during night time, the plants give out CO2 instead? Yep... so I was telling one gal that nowadays, tutors and designers are talking about having plants in close relationships to human, and incorporating plants in our buildings to make it a 'green' building. But den at night, the occupants will suffer from lack of oxygen! We are trying to kill the ppl living in these houses!! muahahaha~~~ (ops, i should say "oh no....")
After that tutorial.... all i can say is.... everywhere and everything oso not good for health... haiz.... so troublesome...
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Tormented Heavily
If any of you catches me during this whole week, u will think a shagged ghost has walked by....
Everything really comes together, nothing seems to help. I dunno why but I keep sleeping and sleeping and forever drowsy, sleepy and dizzy... and headache. I dunno why suddenly this whole week i tio the throbbing headache.... every step i take can feel it.... however i try not to show it on my face lar... else i seem frowning all the time.... and oh.... i keep getting some
nightmares.....
The night before yesterday's, I was trying to do my homework... 2 of them have to be handed the next day. Suddenly i juz doze off..... The whole night was abt weird dreams..... All of them lead to fear, insecurity, loss .... I feel like being tormented mentally and physically. In the dreams..... first i was with a grp of frens.... we were in a very isolated tropical country where there were forests.... We were looking at some huge ruins of scuptures and status... as though we were exploring artifacts and finding lost ancient cities.... then we reached a shore and dunno how the waves actually caught me. I tried to hold on to a rock but it started to gave way. Hence I shouted frantically for my frens to save me.... I think one of them tried to hold on to me and ended up we got pulled into the sea... and we just cant get ourselves back to the shore.... Then the scene changed.... the 2nd story... but i cant remember much of it, except the lift situation. It was a normal lift and I waited for it to come. Once it came, I hopped into it however before i can press on any buttons, the lift closed and assumed no one inside. So its ventilation abit low... and the lights not on. It immediately went down and down as though someone at the very down floor pressed for the lift. So it sped down and my feet was almost floating away from the floor as the acceleration was near to the gravitational speed. And so it keeps going down fast until I woke up, wide-eye..... Quickly I looked at the clock....shucks 6am... To my horror, I hadnt done any work, so immediately i rushed out to my desk and switched on computer and rushed like siao......
Since sunday, it have been always like this..... Today was the ultimate....cant even wake up for my 10am class..... so i went there very late in the end..... haiz.... wat's going on.... my life is in a messy state.....
Lack of proper sleep
Mind Full of troubles over design
Distraction
Headache
Drowsy and Dizzy
Lack of bloody energy
Datelines
my goodness, spare me.
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
My Life and the Cat's
(Ps: Haha thanks Jo to remind me that productivity counts)
Last night I had a short struggle with zzz monster before i collasped. Really easy this time, I had no watever perseverence left then as I needed sleep badly. I woke up in the morning and continued working.... My head and eyes were floaty floaty still..... Finally ard 2pm, I stepped out of my house to go sch. Urgh, my head started to spin more, and there's throbbing headache... Ack! What's the matter manz.... Reached studio and found out tutor was out for lunch.... soon he came back and waited until it was my turn to tok to him abt my design... It was about 5:45pm when I was ready to go home.... took 188 as usual and alighted at the Clementi Stadium bus stop, den walked along a narrow lane before I reached the HDB areas. I like this moments especially when it is sunset time.... The orange rays are cast on every objects and they are illuminated with a tint of bright orange. I will have to go under this particular pavilion before I can reach my block. This pavilion has become something I looked forward to... due to a simple reason: cats.
Last time I see some aunties sitting there and chatting while 3 cats sat at the pillars to hear them talking, as if they are part of the family and they seemed to listen attentively! so cute.. I love the harmonious scene between cats/animals with man. Then yesterday I walked by the pavilion again. There wasn't anyone but there were 2 cats at the seats. They were busy bathing themselves. The brown one/ginger one, stopped to look at me while i approached. I gave a smile and meowed at it. It smiled and meowed back at me, with a happy :D face, with that kinda grin and closed eyes! I grinned back~ (i oso smiled with closed eyes) We are like frens or neighbours, greeting each other with a 'Hi' or at least acknowledge each other as part of the community. That sense of warm feeling is so nice. If I am able to understand cat's language, I will go on and ask them how their lives have been and tell them mine and so on. How I wish I can make frens with them. But at least that 'Hi' incident made me feel that we are communicating. There is this tinge of magical or spiritual chemistry at that moment.
Today I was slowly walking home due to the headache... The heat from the weather worsened my headache. And when I reached the pavilion, I saw cats lying lazily on the ground.... so tempting.... how i wish i can do that .... I felt like doing that at that moment.... One of them rolled over, looked at me and grinned. I grinned back too. So now I have a habit of greeting cats, not juz familiar ppl.
My neighour who had recently got married end of last year, was busy coming in and going out of his house since then. Mum told me that ever since he got married and the wife came over, he had been buying food for her, else he bring her out to eat in the market.... We were curious why the wife aint cooking at all..... My mum was saying maybe she lazy or she dunno how to cook. Alot of other neighbours were also saying that the guy is so poor thing. Now he has to take care of one more person's meals.... He always come back from work, tired and all, yet have to go down again to buy meals all the time.... Moreover the wife doesnt work, so if she doesnt cook, etc, den wat is she doing? and so the tokking goes on..... I realised that somehow the social norm of woman doing cooking is still strong, as in, people still expects a wife to cook and all.... if not, ppl start to pity the guy and sound as if the wife is a failure or a big sinner or get blamed and so on. At this, I feel that I really really need to get down to learn cooking seriously one day. Knowing how to make nice sunny side-up is not good enuff (DUH!). Hmpf, I muz turn myself into a good cook, or at least churn up food that are acceptable and pleasant to the tongue. Haiz... so much to learn.... wish i can tell a cat wat is human world is all about.
