The tuesday of a 4 day week

Woke up at 7.15am, made a breakfast of butter toast and coffee, and then headed off to office. The usual walk across the overhead bridge to the top, where the cross branches of the trees form a really intricate pattern. the plan was to go earlier to do the sketches, but by the time i arrived it was 830 am, just half an hour earlier. time passed really fast, as i sat down, i realised O had already drew the changes so i started making the adjustments in cad. Also i added the grid from the structural photographs set as sent by the contractor. the meeting was at 3pm, so the plan was to leave office at 2, eat at 1.30pm, and start sketch at 11am. but after the grids were in , i adjusted the carparks to fall within the grid, and was only done at 1230pm. F kindly bought take away and we went downstairs to the canteen to eat as the meeting room was used up. and somehow she mentioned they didn't like people eating at their tables for the smell of things. the sketching was good fun, and the new pens i bought came in really handy. the 0.8 for boundary line and 0.05 for the internal rooms. i did the last sketch at 2.30 pm and we left only at 2.45. senoko crescent is in a part of sg that i have never visited myself. we took a couple of highways came out onto a whole landscape of industrial light building. large metal spans and corrugated surfaces with dialect signages. when we arrived, O requested for my sketch to be photocopied and we had 3 sets out. And the meeting started. local style with a smattering of english and chinese. As this is a design and build compe it was interesting to hear immediate systems type being thrown about, hollow core, truss beam, and some of which i couldn't catch. there were about 10 people in total including us. the largest most useful discussion was the structure location and span of the beam across the carpark. one engineer said that the beam span to depth ratio is 15. i extropolated the existing building grids outwards to get the grid of the carpark, but for one side, O had an independent grid and divided mainly the lots by sets of 3 cars. O drive back and it was quite long as going back was traffic jam time, but i could clarify many points so it was useful. the best part was that during the meeting a true point of concern was the shortage of almost 100 lots overall, but when i returned to the office, i seem to have found a scheme that can fulfill it. starting from the perimter lots, rotating the core and then adding double row parking. bought takeaway and left office at about 8pm. had from that scissors place economical rice, the otah, ngoh hiang and leek. bought 5 persimmons too to celebrate. overall a good day indeed, i really enjoyed the process. so i have set myself a target to learn 3 autocad shortcuts a day. today i ve learnt the mtp/m2p command to find the midpoint, throught the "c" command for circle; the right click "add selected" for continuing on in the same layer or cltrl 3 and dragging and drop a hatch or line type into the new palette, and the "join" command with all, relieves one of singular clicking. before sleeping, the aim is to do a little reading as well. ok i am all ready to zzZZZ