Since I have so much time in the world now and almostt nothing on my hands, i’m gg to put the photos on my com into gd use. And probably bring u through the life of an archi sem1 student. Which practically ruined a hell of out me. but strangely, I dunno what other course will make me love doing so much. Even for the amount of macs consumed( u all wouldn’t want to know how much sundaes, fries, MACS BIG BREAKFAST and SAUSAGE MCMUFFINS I ate) no wonder my arms are giganormous now. I swear they increased almost twice the size. Okk. And Let me continue.and how badly my face is screwed by pimple breakouts. How badly my arteries are choked by trans fats (un)saturated fats. How much spare tyre I collected. How crazy I have become with just 1 sem of hanging around with very much insane and astonishingly high ppl. The unclean unhealthy dirty air and environment which irritatingly has no aircon on weekends and at night. And it’s really disgusting to work in there when there’s no aircon! The zooomg amount of money I spent. Like zomgggggg. Brokebrokebroke.

I’m surviving. I hope I will!

Ok. so this was how sem 1 started. the diy pinhole camera that had all of us rushing to all the kodak, fujifilm shops just to print our negatives. which failed terribly. horrifying start to year1 mans. but anyways, we were given afew themes to choose on and to take a photo of it to represent the theme. ur photo had to tell a story. my theme was " Paper" nd this was my second photo taken. a rather literal representation to the word. bcos I seriously was sooooo stuck then to think of any more brillant ideas. but i kinda like this photos. the mixture of colours came out quite beautifully.

Then we had to do a transformation using a photocopying machine.and ahhhemmmm* ps. but for that crit i think it was this transformation that saved me. hahhaaa. that crit to think abt it was the most horrible crit ever when my mind went blank in front of the tutors.

Then we had to do some model to explore spaces. using clay. mine turned out realllllllly terrible. it was so pottery looking. and nonetheless like some urinal or toiletbowl lookalike. it was just ugly.

And because it was so cmi. a redo was needed. which is common n nosurprise in aki. The 2nd clay model turned out better. Then, after clay. it was acrylic. acrylic wasnt fun at all. esp the gluing part. superglue ate my skin of mt fingers liek nobody's business. and I was super slack with acrylic cos mine just kept failing accompainied with zero ideas. only during the redoing week then did my ideas came. and finally sth decent that came up. and i kinda like it. hahahaa.the wonders of the machine cutter at the workshop.

After acrylic was cardboard week. which the photo cannot be uploaded due to whatever problem blogger has with it. then followed by the use of charcoal to represent shadows through ur cardboard model. i like the contrast that the charcoal gives.

Design sem2 first assignment. my dogkennel look alike paper/cardboard model. giganormously huge. and rather embarrassing.sad to say.

Next was weeks of hell with satay stucks and strings and the brick. our stick structure had to support a brick. and satay sticks and arches were exceeeedingly irritating cos they keep getting on my nerves by breaking. imagine doing one arch and then when u are on ur 2nd one, ur first arch breaks. and this continues several times. with a looming deadline.

and so i went to crit with an ultra CUI model cos my strings were like all over the place in 3 different colours. which needed a redo for portfolio. and this redid model looked a thousand times better.

Besides our deisgn module,there was our spatial and visual module which i enjoyed the most i think although it was hard to juggle between it and deisgn initially. Our first assignment was the legendary lines.lolll.

and then some clothees peg assignment at axonometrics which was no joke. it took away our slp.what to say.


and i almost forgot abt this assignment. I kind of like how this turned out. except that my pencil looked strange and fake.hhahaha.this was no joke as welll.

But the worse of all was thissss! maria botta house!one section of the house took me about 2-3 hours. and 3 days for the whole thing. crazinesssss.but after the whole thing. u will just have this sense of ultra satisfaction cos u completed it. just like that.



Then we had to practise sketching. which i enjoyed very much. esp with 6B pencil which was nice to use.

and then photography which was ultra funness. cos it was one of the easiest and slacker assignments. and hhahaa! u dunno how much i love my ant photo. the ant is cute.i think.


30 5 min sketched. which i took alot more than the 5 min for each sketch hahha. and this one is the first and probably the nicest out of the 30.



and this clothes hanger is probably one of the most irritating thing that bugged me throughout the whole sem. PF shit project. like reallly #%$#!! so glad i'm done with it. shoooos away and bye blothes hanger. i'm totally not interested how much tension and compression u are experiencing and neither do i want to find out the interal members of the trusses that u represent. and i'm so glad u are out of my life.

this is the story of my aki sem1.

THE END and ciao!