Haven't cycled sinced March, when L left, and the bicycle was packed in the bag.
to midyear, thats 3 months. probably the period that i started my chair making class.
was googling earlier on the different boards, phenolic vs melamine vs laminate.
Melamine is basically low pressure laminate(LPL), which laminate is a high pressure laminate(HPL). phenolic board is basic HPL, but with a homogeneous thickness as compared to particle board. Formica is to laminate what kleenex is to tissues.
i am excited to spent end of year in tokyo.
lemme google on where to go!
Vesak Day Holiday 20-5-2019
Many thoughts in these days, today, actually now, B is at A&E, SGH, waiting to see the doctor, for a headache, and serious neck pain. hopefully not related to the seizure. L is there, and the grandparents went over to stay. the kids are enjoying the ipad. this feeling of feeling helpless as the kids prefer anything else then to having the phone is frustrating. It is probably, as one is walking back a restaurant, akin to see ing their staff throw away an entire tray of good food, and not being to do anything.
Anyhow. had burger with S for lunch. went to the temple in the morning, actually woke up with a headache. and sore throat.
Piling strategy priority is that speed, and control is of priority.
Had dinner with V, after the cat nets were installed earlier on saturday. had a bottle of white with thai food, it went quite well. there was quite a bit of pork collar, and sauce to put on it. then went for drinks at the stork. well rounded night
walked home from bugis, and cleared 10,000 steps. was walking in my new camper shoes.
went for an exibition as well with S, after sundays' lunch. tan cheng hoe, water color of old times wooden villages, kampongs. it was inspiring actually. and a lesson i took away was that in free hand painting, decided what level of detail to draw is important. the shades and tones of colors remind me of photoshop painting that R did. and even the objects drawn. this was really minamalism, taken into context. i thought about what the artist did not show, rather then what was shown, especially when the picture was just of a tree.
“L for luxury, language, lightness” or “G for garden, gender, glasses”. Among them is a rallying cry for simplicity in the letter M.
“My roots are in the Bauhaus movement, which applied functional rationality to the design of practical everyday life,” the designer explains. “Streamlined beauty, clear structures, reduction to the essential and free movement. But functional rationality is only the backbone of my work. I always look for contemporary forms of sophistication and sensual simplicity. I want fashion to be liberating in a subtle way… If there is such a thing as my own signature, it lies in a sense of structure, in quiet beauty and serenity.”
Rem Koolhaas on minamlism:
"Minimum is maximum in drag," wrote the architect Rem Koolhaas: a consciously inflammatory comment, but all too true, I think, where simplicity is crudely translated into a decorative effect. Drag implies spectacle. There is of course a place for theatre, but for architecture of this type, theatre is not the principle on which everything else is hung.
This is definitively not about creating the architectural equivalent of the hair shirt, but about making the best possible contexts for the things that matter in life, on paring back the accretions of surface and behaviour to what is essential: the glory lies not in the act of removal, but in the experience of what is left. Profound - and pleasurable - experience is located in ordinary experience: in the taking of a shower or the preparation of food. On Limestone: "Honey colored limestone" "Halila limestone", " York Stone" favorite Pawson design detail that celebrates the gap between wall and floor.
signed up for 2A class
met J for coffee
went to browse bicycles, and found perhaps the one. a giant tcr sl2.$1800
beautiful aluminium frame with 105 shimano gear set
came back
dinner w S
went to supermarket and bought BKT
chatted w L
started reading a book called Heidegger for Architects. interesting book, well placed, acknowleged his fascist involvement and also his undeniable influenced to scores of architect after.
One of the concepts he had was the state of being. that architects r the few professions in the collective of people that put a building together, in which this concern for this being should be of importance.
my word account is expiring: thoughts from googling on minamalism
Today was a day in learning about strategy.
whether to waiver the carparking requirement or green requirement. which is the lesser of 2 evils?
Minamalist
-Nicolas Schuybroek architects:
Type of minimalism where monastic appearance is
lifted by the raw textures. eg: wooden beam ceilings, distressed oak floor,
honed marble, furniture pieces
Linear and geometric. simple honest and well
proportioned
*no ceiling light fittings
Magdalena keck:
white walls, monochrome furniture.herringbone
pattern floor.
-Flooring Douglas Dinesan
-Even John Pawson uses it. Douglas fir wood grows 80-100m. patterns of the sawn grain
-Architect Tommie Wilhelmsen. designs many houses/cabins. nice feel
-jenalkema: https://jenalkema.com/works/
Heard earlier that a fellow team colleague has tendered his resignation.
even though we were not close, i feel a small sadness somehow.
all the rushing, calling , updating of tender drawings. what is there that cannot be solved, that one feels stress enough to resign.
so today, the retender drawings went out. M, and B will be quiet for now.
at least then i can focus a little more on JTK
had a breakfast of noodle soup kwai teow with fishball today
seems to have been the routine for the last 2 days, just that i need to catch the 7.50am bus for this.
the noodles are just so smooth and soft.
today one thing about work i ve realised, is that sometimes, don't be too smart to solve a problem.
and maybe it is better to let things take its course.
when you offer a solution, then the problem becomes yours.
and once so, you cannot stop halfway, or blame anyone for not appreciating as it was yourself who deciding to take it on in the first place
