have i posted this before? maybe not. this is super duper cool stuff. lol.

really hoping to get into architecture. the interview went.. i think not too bad. it was like a chit-chat session. they asked me if the slompretan area in surabaya still looks like the one in the postcard i brought. i said no. haha. actually i hardly visit that area so i'm not sure.. but i think must be very different now lah. the one in the postcard is like COLONIAL era!! still had horse-carts and chinese signboards. then when they asked what's my favourite place in singapore, i said it's TJ. haha. yeah, really like that place. and i said maybe cos you spend a lot of time in it so somehow start to grow a sense of affinity to the place. not very related to architecture but nvm.

it was raining both on the test and interview days. pathetic.

i wish you all the best, dude.

whoa. i love songs from the 90s. "cheesy but nice" as callista puts it. besides songs today are even lamer.

i like this one. so nostalgic. (okay the dance is.. interesting.. i can't do that.)



and the lyrics:

Code Red - What Good is a Heart

I told you how I felt,
I told you what it meant,
But I still haven’t changed your mind,
I know that you’re afraid,
You’re frightened of the pain,
But you can let down your guard...

Cause when we run, when we hide,
We deny what’s inside...

What good is a heart if you’re not gonna use it,
What good is a love if you’re too scared to choose it,
If you’re heart is beating, then it’s for a reason, girl,
If you’re not willing to start, what good is a heart?

Don’t make the same mistake that people often make,
And miss out on a chance for love,
You’ve got to make your move, you’ve got to make it soon,
Cause you’re dying inside...

Yes, I’m a man, but I cry,
I have fears, I won’t lie...

What good is a heart if you’re not gonna use it,
What good is a love if you’re too scared to choose it,
If you’re heart is beating, then it’s for a reason, girl,
If you’re not willing to start, what good is a heart?

Come on, baby, you know it,
Anyone who looks can see that I’m right,
There’s a chance here, we could take it,
Or regret it for the rest of our lives...

lol kenny. it wasn't supposed to be angsty. it was supposed to be thoughtful.

let me blog about the nus architecture/industrial design aptitude test so future candidates can search the net and find out the type of questions they ask (just like i did before my test). one word of caution: i am honestly not sure if doing your "homework" and finding out typical questions is a good idea. but no doubt people would want to know and be mentally prepared so here goes:

the 2008 nus arch aptitude test had 3 questions (as usual, i think)
1. make a model that explores the idea of oppositions. you are given 3 pieces of construction paper and 1 transparent sheet to work with.
2. make a drawing of your vision of the future Singapore. your scope can be the entire city, a street, a building or even an object or a piece of furniture.
3. in 50 words or less, write about no 2.

there. hope i've been helpful. from experience,, really no need to prepare. it will come naturally to you. but i haven't been accepted into the course, so don't count on my words. lol. actually wanted to wait for the results before i write about this but nvm.

this kind of tests and interviews are the place to meet really old friends you've lost contact with. lol. today had tea session with ntu hss faculty and i met joanna (from 2E) and serene (from OG7 PAE). yesterday met xiaowei and feizhen (from 4A) and thank (from PAE CG).

i hope i get in!! well at least give me a chance at the interviews!! and to everyone else who's hoping to get into the course, good luck!

i am in a dilemma.

you know what i think posting personal stuff on your blog is like. it's dangerous, to say the least. and i'm already suffering from post-stupidity syndrome (where you start tearing all your hair away because you remember something stupid you posted like a bloody year ago (or even longer)). who has experienced this? please stand up. don't tell me i'm the only one. lol. but it just goes to show the extent to which i bared my bloody SOUL on this blog. ok i'm exaggerating it. but you get the drift.

it's like why should anyone want to read about my bloody pathetic life? (i do read other people's blogs, though not all the time. kaypoh mah.. lol.) at the same time.. does anyone actually want to read about e e cummings and guan wei xing and such people? and i'm talking about you, my friends, who may be more interested in, say, religion or journalism or anime (in short, a wide variety of things i can never explore). this poses a problem because surely,, i'm writing for an audience.

i don't know. maybe i should just delete this blog. (oh but i love the picture of the dog!! huahaha)

speaking of the stupid things i wrote, well.. it's a bit too late to regret. lol.

yesterday had tjchoir performance with the rest of the alumni. so met quite a number of "old friends". then today the nus architecture aptitude test. hm.. shan't write about it until maybe much later..

wholly copied from wikipedia:
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), popularly known as E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright. His body of work encompasses more than 900 poems, several plays and essays, numerous drawings, sketches, and paintings, as well as two novels. He is remembered as a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular.

i am posting a photo because, really, look at him. i dunno. i believe people's looks reveal their selves (though i don't believe in selves. hang on there, i'm working on that idea)



trivia: he always signs his name in lowercase letters. (ie, e.e.cummings).

this is something he wrote in his work 'IS 5''s 'foreward':

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter
very little--somebody who is obsessed by Making. Like all obsessions,
the Making obsession has disadvantages; for instance, my only interest
in making money would be to make it. Fortunately, however, I should
prefer to make almost anything else, including locomotives and roses.
It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring
electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara
Falls) that my "poems" are competing.

They are also competing with each other, with elephants, and with
El Greco.

let me just add that that is very (and i mean very) ambitious. lol.

anyway. here's an extract from his poem 'You being in Love' which i found extremely funny. lol.

what does it all come down to?     love?     Love
if you like and i like,for the reason that i
hate people and lean out of this window is love,love
and the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love and the reason
that i do not fall into this street is love."

and here's an interesting poem:

why did you go
little fourpaws?
you forgot to shut
your big eyes.

where did you go?
like little kittens
are all the leaves
which open in the rain.

little kittens who
are called spring,
is what we stroke
maybe asleep?

do you know?or maybe did
something go away
ever so quietly
when we weren't looking.

it seems to me he doesn't give his poems titles. they are simply known and referred to by way of their first line.

okok haven't updated in ages but this is what i've been wanting to share for weeks.

Guan Weixing was born in Dunhua County, Jilin Province, China in 1940. Here are some of his works. to view more, visit http://www.guanweixing.com/