A day of surprises.......

Yesterday was Saturday,
The Saturday,
and yes, I did go for my aptitude test and the supposedly scheduled interview…..
why do I say supposedly??
well…..because it was
CANCELLED!!!!...haiz!!!
might sound like good new to some,
but I was really banking on it,
and I lugged like these whole lots of stuff (my A1 sized ‘O’ level project work book just to name one) there,
but it was all in vain……
they didn’t get a chance to see my works at all….
sigh!!!!
so now,
its all down to how well my aptitude test was, and how my results are compared to the rest…..
argh!!!!!
I can’t stand the waiting!!!!!!

and aparted from this surprise,
there were another 2 more….
one, Lionel was actually there too….
and it was surprising caused he had never mentioned about doing architecture…..
and the truth is he didn’t, but his mom signed him up for it..hahaha!!!!
but here’s the biggest surprise……
just before the test…..
there was this guy who was looking really familiar to me from a far….
and so, I decided to move in closer to have a better look,
and who would have known,
it was Wei Phin ( my primary sch. classmate who came with me to study in S’pore, but when to SAJC after sec. sch. and we’ve lost contact since then.)
and both of us was just as shocked….pleasantly I mean=]
thought the situation seemed a little weird initially,
probably because we have not met for such a long time,
but later, it was like back to the old days…..
had lunch together after the test and was reminiscing the good old days.
there was a friend there with him to…
think she’s his other half,
as she was there purposely to accompany him.
how did I know??
well, she wasn’t there for the archi. test,(she’s still in J2)
but stayed outside and waited for him….
but well, that’s not the main point….
the thing is, I’m just happy that we got to met…..

anyway,
lets talk bout the test….
first thing to be happy about was that it was nothing like the medicine ap. test
(i.e. write a essay to verify the statement that student nowadays are being to carried away by their academic pursuits that they neglect the personal characteristic development need in the field of medicine…….or something to that context)
boy, if it was an essay,
I would have walked out of the hall immediately……hahaha!!!
but well, luckily it wasn’t=]
it was on modeling, drawing and description.
first ques. asked us to make a model of something that represents one of the given themes (i.e. light, mass, contract……….)
second ques. was to draw the model in the context of the surroundings that we’ve designed it to be in,
and third was to provide a 30 word description on the model and drawing….
and……
it just happened that when I saw the 1st ques,
to tell the truth, I had now idea where to start and how to begin…..
but then, the only thing that came to mind then was ‘TRIANGLE’
and so,
I started making triangular pyramids out of the given paper,
and in the process, ideas begin developing,
and it just felt so natural and weird,

cause I didn’t really know what I was doing,
my hands were just cutting, folding pasting and cutting again. =]
but at the end,
I was pleasantly shocked and quite happy with my final model…
and I christened it ‘Inversion.’….
Basically, it was a structured based purely on triangles.
I think it fits in to the theme of contrast and light. had this futuristic expressionism feel to it.
and as I progress to ques 2,
I integrated it into the ecotecture stuff I was blogging about a few blogs back (tree growing right through a building)
and that was exactly what I did,
I had a tree growing out of it,
and pictured it in the setting of a tropically jungle,
surrounded by lust undisturbed greenery.
come to think of it,
sub-consciously I had already set a purposed for this building,
to be a rain-forest research center…….=]
finally, for ques 3,
all I could do was touch on the point that I wanted nature to be preserved as the main foundation of the buildings design.
but the 30 word limit was really too little to write anything specific.