When Teen Titans and Justice League joins forces.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIC!!!!!

Sleeping around in Melaka

To Twist or To Curl??

while waiting fro the bus back to Sing-land....we decided to tackle 'The Big Question'. What is 'The Big Question'?? It is one that most, if not all NUS archi students have asked themself at one. One that has never been answer since the begining of time up till now that is...'The Big Question' is.......

Is the Macdonald Twister Fries better than the ORIGINAL A & W Curly Fries??

another video from the previous day,

a trip at to the Capitol Satay Celup Restaurant.

we figured that we had the highest nuber of stick per table that day, and plus the fact that all the waitress seem intrigued that and angmoh can eat so much satay celup(even the kid on the next table was amused by thomas) that we were presented with 'The Mega Prawn'...hahaha!!! anyway the final tally was, Jon-35, Thomas-30 and Pek-30......who would have thot combining satay with yongtaufoo can produce such a heavenly combination, the epitome of hybrid food....

Hot chick=]

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her hot hot ASAM LAKSA is the best way to start and end a day...actually you don't really need an excuse to eat her hot ASAM LAKSA!!!...haha

the Laksa!!!

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A bowl a day,
Keeps all misery at bay,
eat too much,
you may turn gay....

Iggy's Pod

Iggy's Pod, originally uploaded by jonolist.

hehehe...normally the egg is always under something...a chickens butt for example, now, it has 23 humans under it...revenge of the EGG reincarnated as IGGY...hahahaha!!!!! taken by jon,first row third from left

recognise this??

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Sinful bliss=]

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My pre-22nd Birthday Present...

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mid thigh to mid carf, with 8 tapes, 20 stitches and a few freaked out patients....things archi student do for archi.....hahaha!! Thankz jon, sorry you had to wait so long with me. Thankz nikki for ferrying us to A & E=] and Thankz Shux for ferrying us back=]

The D&E assignment by uma in year 2....

Pek’s Island


On the 6th level of the anglo-chinese junior college oldham wing block, there exist a humble balcony shaped in a square and opened on 3 sides. It seems like a space left over in the design of the building and seemingly possess no particular programe.
The journey to this balcony is not any unique experience, it takes the form of a boring and tiring climb up a neverending flight of stairs through a claustrophobic stair well of heavy and stagnant air to a balcony which sits above an office occupied by saddistic, teenager-torturing homosapiens (pe teacher) isolated and separated from the mains school building. Maybe that’s why no one uses it. More importantly, 17teen-year-olds and 18teen-year-olds have better and more ‘happening’ things to do than to embark on this unexciting pilgramage.
I happen to chance upon this space during a particularly taxing week. It immediately hit me as a very pleasant space.
Firstly, it is not enclosed and being on the highest level of the campus, it is all most always winding. In the mornings, the sun explodes into the space warming up the chills of the night; in the afternoon, the constant wind blows away the afternoon heat; in the evening, the main school building shades the sun while gentle breezes welcome in the night; and at night, being away from the escaping heat of the ground, is remains cool. Furthermore, being so high up, there is much need privacy while still being able to see everything that goes on below, from the voiddeck, to the grandstand to the track and sports complex and further of to the laughing and playing kid of the neighbouring school. Being there puts me above the sea of noise below. Up there there is almost silence, where troubles and frustrations are gone with the wind, revitalising me to step back into the dutys and expectations that awaits below.
It is a space set amidst a sea of controlled chaos and cacophony. Virtually unknown and unused by the very entities that created it and live below it.

Tiw Pek Hong

Nachtmarkt

Nachtmarkt, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.

outdoor market in Vienna which even has a fleamarket every saturday....u can find ANYTHING and EVERYTHING there..

Charles Bridge at night

Charles Bridge at night, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.

Crossing Charles Bridge back to the Old Town after a day spent wandering around Prague Castle. note its only about 530pm...

Religious Buildings of Innsbruck, Wien and Praha

St. Jacob's Cathedral, Innsbruck, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.

St. Jacob's Cathedral, Innsbruck, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.

Karlskirche, Vienna, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.

Perspective paintings in KarlsKirche Dome, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.

St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.

St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.

Tyn Church, Prague, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.

St. Agnes Cathedral, Prague, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.

St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.

St. Nicholas Church, Prague, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.

Opera in Vienna

VIENNA OPERA, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.

like what Nic says:" eh u do set-design one leh....how can miss this kind of thing...." hahaha!!! so when in Vienna, apart from seeping coffee at a café, a visit to the Viena State Opera is a must i guess....Anyway, this neo-classical building is like a architecture-ism rojak. Supposedly, together with its Neo-classical concept, there is also, Romanesque, Baroque, and Renaissance influences. Apparently it was heavily criticized during its construction phase. So much so that one of its 2 original architects, Eduard van der Nüll committed suicide, and the other August Sicard von Sicardsburg died shortly later. None lived to see the opening of their creation. However, Gottfried Semper was responsible for its final look after its rebuilt after wwII.(RMB Gottfried Semper, most of us Archi. peops heard erwin sprouting his name on the first History & Theory of Modern Archi. lecture in year 1. we never heard of and could hardly spell it then)

Theater here is diff from in S'pore...theres actually such things as standing tickets for poor or cheapo peops. and minus the fact that you stand the entire show, its like S$7 and its just behind the stalls. and if like me(after intermission), you could get a space to stand at the very barrier between the stall seats and the stall standing area, the view is as good as sitting in a back row of the stall..hahaha!!!! Anyway, the opera was l'Elisir d'Amore in Italian(of course...). Didn't understand much but think it was something like:
girl like boy, boy like girl, girl somehow choses some other guy, boy does something enormously sacrificial, girl is touch, girl dumps other guy for boy, other guy got motherly screwed.
as for the set, extremely impressive and realistic surface renderings and details on stage elements, but same set through out entire play with only 2 changes in lighting. Maybe it didn't need a changing set or lighting...i wouldn't know.

All in all i would say it was a 2 hour well spent minus the fact that 1/3 of my vertical vision was obstructed by a balding Austrian head before intermission and that my back was scream "&@#^*#@$" after the show...hahah!!!

Giant Ice Sculptures

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Innsbruck, Austria.....The new Nordpark Cable Rail Stations by Zaha. Hadid. Consisting of the Congress Station, Loewenhaus Station, Alpenzoo Station and the Hungerberg Station, this cable rail line brings skiers from the center of Innsbruck to the mountains north of Innsbruck....aboves are the photos of the terminal station,Hungerberg Station. Like the usual works from Hadid, they scream for your attention with their highly sculptural and dynamic form. However, in this case, though they stand out distinctively, they still remain harmonious with their picturesque surroundings. Like giant ice sculptures amidst the Austrian mountain-scape.

A Twin??

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As Promised!!!...hahahaha...

Bye Lund

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This is me, and this very moment checking out hand luggage limit and directions to hostels online...why do i have my christmas hat on?? long story, and its all thanks to my crazy corridor mates who have interestingly come to see me pack...hahahaha!!!
thanks guys for being such wonderful corridormates...though its only been 4 months and i haven't spent much time with you guys, but those time that we did, they were wonderful....so Ruth, thanks for being such a great big sis;

Antonis, you're the only greek i know and because of you i think all greeks are nice people now;

Xavier, will always remember us being pissed drunk and hung-over after all our parties and nights out, congrats for turning a asian into a alcoholic..hahaha!!!;

Lindsay, no more stoning OKAY??....;

Fatimah, keep smiling, keep laughing and stay high, and away for alcoholic Xavier of course;

Martin, stay consistent on your expresso intake yar...hahaha!!!....

and to the rest of of Vildanden 26A, keeping partying hard and take care. hope to see you guys in the near future and of course, know that if you're anywhere around Singapore or Malaysia, give me a buzz......HEJ DA!!!!

Bye fellow NUS-sians

avril me and shiping, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.

fellow NUS Exchange Student....last few parties before heading back to sing-land

Pre-Christmas

christmas, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.

A Pre-Christmas party at my Corridor 2 weeks ago...over here, every slight excuse for a party is blown up to full scale...hahaha!!!

Final stretch....

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down to 2 weeks left in Sverige...and i've a feeling this 3 computer screens gonna be seeing a lot of me just like they have for the last one week...at less until my subimissions ove..heres a intro to my current 3 closest friend...Lapbie's my trusty itune playing, photoshoping Ibook is always there to keep me awake with random songs; Leftie's usually tuned onto 3D Studio Max which i've tried to learn, some what unsuccessfully last week, and Rightie's my Archicad/Internet/anything-and-everything-else companion...........Leftie and Rightie are 'conjointed' twins of the computer world....hahahahaha!!!

Autumn

autumn, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.

Autumn's almost at its end...today was the first morning that there was frost everywhere...still no sign of snow though it did rain ice on sat.....I WANT SNOW!!!!!!!!!!! sigh....

Halloween

Halloween, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.

As of yesterday, i'm no longer a Halloween-virgin...hahaha!!! Halloween over here is just another excuse for the Swedes to PAAAAAARTY, and as if they ever needed any reason at all to party. but it was cool. Being a newbie to Halloween, and on a shoestring budget, the best costume i could come up with was BANDAGES...courtesy of the Architecture Department of LTH(ie freeload from firstaid kids)...totally and absolutely free...haha!! initial i was gonna to mummify myself, but i sort of underestimated my body size and kinda ran out of bandages, plus it wasn't easy bandaging yourself with only one arm(the other being totally bandaged and stiff) so in a moment of desperation and being totally tangles in bandages, a light buld when on somewhere....A CAR CRASH VICTIM...just a little wrapping here, and a little there, together with some graphite smears here and fake blood there and WHOOOAAALAAAAA!!!! my first ever halloween costume...hahaha!!!! and i was all set for booze trick-a-treat...hahahaha!!

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the closest we got to celebrating halloween back home=] a bunch of grump sch kid...HAHAHA!!! i miss those days....

Dear Architects, I am sick of your shit.

An article taken from a random blog i stumbled upon...entitled (dito) interesting and true to a certain extent, and it does results in a substantial amount of self-reflections. so enjoy or not-enjoy this article...

Dear Architects,
I am sick of your shit.

Once, a long time ago in the days of yore, I had a friend who was studying architecture to become, presumably, an architect.
This friend introduced me to other friends, who were also studying architecture. Then these friends had other friends who were architects - real architects doing real architecture like designing luxury condos that look a lot like glass dildos. And these real architects knew other real architects and now the only people I know are architects. And they all design glass dildos that I will never work or live in and serve only to obstruct my view of New Jersey.

Do not get me wrong, architects. I like you as a person. I think you are nice, smell good most of the time, and I like your glasses. You have crazy hair, and if you are lucky, most of it is on your head. But I do not care about architecture. It is true. This is what I do care about:

* burritos
* hedgehogs
* coffee

As you can see, architecture is not on the list. I believe that architecture falls somewhere between toenail fungus and invasive colonoscopy in the list of things that interest me.

Perhaps if you didn’t talk about it so much, I would be more interested. When you point to a glass cylinder and say proudly, hey my office designed that, I giggle and say it looks like a bong. You turn your head in disgust and shame. You think, obviously she does not understand. What does she know? She is just a writer. She is no architect. She respects vowels, not glass cocks. And then you say now I am designing a lifestyle center, and I ask what is that, and you say it is a place that offers goods and services and retail opportunities and I say you mean like a mall and you say no. It is a lifestyle center. I say it sounds like a mall. I am from the Valley, bitch. I know malls.

Architects, I will not lie, you confuse me. You work sixty, eighty hours a week and yet you are always poor. Why aren’t you buying me a drink? Where is your bounty of riches? Maybe you spent it on merlot. Maybe you spent it on hookers and blow. I cannot be sure. It is a mystery. I will leave that to the scientists to figure out.

Architects love to discuss how much sleep they have gotten. One will say how he was at the studio until five in the morning, only to return again two hours later. Then another will say, oh that is nothing. I haven’t slept in a week. And then another will say, guess what, I have never slept ever. My dear architects, the measure of how hard you’ve worked and how much you’ve accomplished is not related to the number of hours you have not slept. Have you heard of Rem Koolhaas? He is a famous architect. I know this because you tell me he is a famous architect. I hear that Rem Koolhaas is always sleeping. He is, I presume, sleeping right now. And I hear he gets shit done. And I also hear that in a stunning move, he is making a building that looks not like a glass cock, but like a concrete vagina. When you sleep more, you get vagina. You can all take a lesson from Rem Koolhaas.

Life is hard for me, please understand. Architects are an important part of my existence. They call me at eleven at night and say they just got off work, am I hungry? Listen, it is practically midnight. I ate hours ago. So long ago that, in fact, I am hungry again. So yes, I will go. Then I will go and there will be other architects talking about AutoCAD shortcuts and something about electric panels and can you believe that is all I did today, what a drag. I look around the table at the poor, tired, and hungry, and think to myself, I have but only one bullet left in the gun. Who will I choose?

I have a friend who is a doctor. He gives me drugs. I enjoy them. I have a friend who is a lawyer. He helped me sue my landlord. My architect friends have given me nothing. No drugs, no medical advice, and they don’t know how to spell subpoena. One architect friend figured out that my apartment was one hundred and eighty seven square feet. That was nice. Thanks for that.

I suppose one could ask what someone like me brings to architects like yourselves. I bring cheer. I yell at architects when they start talking about architecture. I force them to discuss far more interesting topics, like turkey eggs. Why do we eat chicken eggs, but not turkey eggs? They are bigger. And people really like turkey. See? I am not afraid to ask the tough questions.

So, dear architects, I will stick around, for only a little while. I hope that one day some of you will become doctors and lawyers or will figure out my taxes. And we will laugh at the days when you spent the entire evening talking about some European you’ve never met who designed a building you will never see because you are too busy working on something that will never get built. But even if that day doesn’t arrive, give me a call anyway, I am free.

Yours truly,
Annie Choi

'Airport-Sleeping'

Bergen Airport, a small and might i say very cozy airport. thought it was showering bergen-style outside, it was pretty darn warm and cozy inside. and thankz to my Lapbie and free downloading back in Lund, i was able to spent the entire 16hrs doing nothing but eat, sleep, watch movies and go to the little men's room....hahaha!!! it was lucky i did a little research on 'airport-sleeping' before the trip...and thankz to the info i got from sleepinginairports.com, i knew exactly where in Bergen airport to bunk up and settle down.=]


1 night bedroom, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.
Shamelessly marking my sleeping territory for the night...hahaha!!!! this is what i call, true BUDGET ACCOMMODATION.

Bergen airport Comfort Lounge, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.
Its there for a purpose, so i might as well use it...my bed room for the night. though shared with 3 other budget travellers

fellow airport-sleepers, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.
Other fellow airport-sleepers who either didn't bother exploring the airport for a better place to spend the night, or just simple love the feel of uneven sleeping surfaces.

All the walking, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.
The result of 4 days in Norway filled with walking, walking and more walking.

Packed and ready, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.
Avril's Borrowed Deuter, Uncle Tony's worn out jacket and My trusty shoe-bag and scarf....things that really got me through Norge


Airport-sleeping, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.
Good Night

Bergen

Last stop before heading home, Bergen , the city between 7 mountains as well as the City of Rain. Sure enough, living up to its name, that day was the first day of my trip in Norway that it rained. but whos to let a little rain dampen our spirit right...haha!!! like he use to ask, 'Are you rain water soluble??'....NOOOOOOOO....didn't really see much in Bergen though, the latest bu to the airport was like 1720....BAH!!!!! in fact i spent a total of 15hrs in Bergen Airport as compare to 3hr in Bergen...haha!!


Train ride, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.
The train ride from Voss to Bergen...its like the train track literally runs on the fjord surface.

Bryggen, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.
Bryggen, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.....medieval style

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Here...its as narrow as it gets...haha!!

Stairway, originally uploaded by cloudberrie.
ME!

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IT!!