when blushing becomes bragging!!

Yeah, so i thought i would just share this passage of an email from my design tutor about next week's submission...

" Those who are behind should make a huge effort to catch up with all the exercises to date.

The program submissions we looked at on Monday all also need some
additional work to get to a stage of thinking we saw in Laure's studies. "

yeah, that's my level of thinking she's talking about! freakin' genius

it's not often that every photo looks kinda good

so i'm going to add a couple more to the already well illustrated wedding series, this time, with a twist. As we have already established that my dress was a flamboyant red, i figured we could take the emphasis away and try to go for another look, weddings do work in B+W




this is Peter, Chris' architect uncle who was in Sydney last year to build the new law building on campus

absents are always wrong!

i'll drink to that!!

This is the letter I received in the mail yesterday, I was expecting a copy of the boring international student newsletter inviting me to go to the blue mountains with a bunch of germans or something like that... so it was a shock, and I did not see it coming....
anyway, it's cool, the only sad thing i guess is that I made it on the golden list for a session which had no architecture involved whatsoever.... photography, painting and ceramics... do you think it's trying to tell me something..?

a few wedding photos because we looked...HOT

isn't that dress the coolest thing ever...??!!! it was such a heartbreak taking it off when we got back to the hotel, a dress like that makes someone like me feel like that

give me some red, give me some gloss

here is a pre-design sketch of our next big project... now that we have finished the bedroom bench ensemble, we feel that the lounge room needs a serious revamping!!
give us some feedback, if we knew what we were doing, we would be industrial designers...

i forgot to mention that the reason for the fancying up is that we are going to a wedding in melbourne this week end, one of chris' cousins... so yeah, does it make more sense now... sorry

spot the difference....

phase 1 - bedroom suite - completed

this is our bedroom!!

is it slightly weird that....

Angie wants to adopt AGAIN one week after taking peaceful sky home...?

to put one's life on hold....

I guess that according to Shakespeare, life is what happens while you are busy doing something else.... well, the point isn't really about who said this or that but that life must be seriously under way right now because i have been freakay busy!!
it's a bit of a shame that all this business has mainly been spent in pajamas with copious amounts of instant coffee by my side....
On the up side, I have to admit i have turned right back into an architecture loving nerd and have re-found the old feeling of knowing why I want to study this... I had lost sight of that and eventhough it is more work than what i have produced in 3 years, i am also really enjoying it and feeling architecturally revived.
The studio is so far going really well, this first semester is about preparing for the second fnal semester so it's all about defining a program for a future building and studying the site etc... in order to come up with a design for it next session. in my case, the brief and site are quite loose except that it will be in sydney and will be a public building, some kind of institution like an art gallery or whatever.... for the last few weeks, I've been intensely studying an art gallery by portuguese architect Alvaro Siza and it's that building that is completely responsible for the previously mentioned love of architecture since it is really beautiful and fantastic to study.
anyway, enough of the nerdy stuff.... unfortunately, that;s almost all that;s been happening lately and it is proving difficult to find time for other things except a few social events and a lot of yoga! it might sound kinda weird but my downward dog pose is looking good and i'll be turning into bendy wendy in no time, i have even made the purchase of a proper yoga mat, the neighbours might have caught unaware performing a salute to the sun once or twice this week and yes, i have sort of ditched the pool for now... i guess i function in phases,,, what next?
I have been slack with the camera but I miss it and better get back into it illico presto since Chris and I will be the "official" photographers for Melissa's wedding so there you go!
Chris is doing fine by the way, he is in a different studio and it's interesting to compare the approaches although at the moment I am only concerned by the fact that he has a tendency to womanise female tutors with his extreme intelligence and good looks... i guess it was to be expected.
Anyway, You're happy now Maurice??

learning illustrator......

tutorial #1 : cool hair!

What is the difference between a stroll and a hike...?

there is none, it only depends on who you ask...
for instance, we are once again (and have been for the last 6 months at least) in the process of building some furniture, in this case a bench for the bedroom which should look really good, but as I.G. has gone home for a week and I need constant entertainment, I have made it my duty to sand the already assembled carcass of our construction. Considering we are equiped with a highly performant electric sander and I.G. assured me that it was pretty easy-going and would only take a few minutes, you can imagine my surprise when I realised that sanding was actually pretty hard work and after the better part of two hours in our "workshop", only a sharp eye could spot the difference between before and after.... still, my eye is pretty tuned and i am hoping for some recognition when I.G gets back from his little holiday! I am blaming the difficulty of the task on two things, my possible lack of experience/biceps (I haven't been quite as determined with my swimming lately) and more importantly the sandpaper itself which isn't quite coarse enough for the task. Still, I must have looked pretty damn cool as a sunday D-I-Y supa-chick so all is not bad!
other than that, I would like to introduce you to the new look of my blog, it is a new year after all and one resolution is to be a better blogger this year than in the last few months so it is only appropriate that this blog gets a breath of fresh air here and there, plus i think it looks quite distinguished like that... whadayathink?
finally, I would describe my current mood as bittersweet as after two wonderful weeks on the ranch, I am feeling a bit sad but normal life should kick in anytime now and I can only be happy that we all had such a good time and will be looking forward to the next. In the mean time, Sydney is always as beautiful and good to me so I can't complain, can I?

cling cling i have an annoucement!!

Cazita now lives closer to uni than she used to park!!!!!! we visited the mentionned new house and we, FB and Incognito Gusto give a double tick of approval!!!
The room she now occupies is bigger than what came out of the description and if we ignore the appaling lack of Acid Hip Hop in the house, the flatties all seem like pretty good people, with free tickets to the theatre.... i don;t want to steal the thunder but I can more easily find the courage to write about cazrock's life than my own right now!!!!!!!!!!!
a special birthday etc post will come i promiiiiise!!!
GO CAZ!!!!!!!

wow that felt goooood!!! coming soon, an entry on ALL the prezzies that I'm getting this year and the multiple celebrations etc etc..... it's been a good start too!!!

it's my birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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the best way to get over a fall....

.. is to jump back on the horse/bike!
well i am happy to announce that after a baking disaster trauma, i am back in the game with a delish pear and ginger cake that I made for chris tonight as the result of a combination of love and boredom spending the day at home.
still, a very fun part of the day was spent on the phone with da Fro and that wasn't boring at all, it was good and really fun,
that's all for now, more news lata!!

3 down, 6 months to go....

before my visa runs out... well the details are a bit different but the desired effect is to convey the idea that time flies whether you're having loads of fun or you're bored....it's all the same, it doesn;t stop and you can just watch...crazay stuff!!!
I find it hard to believe that I have just finished my third uni year down under!! not quite 3 real years but it won;t be long either!!
I can;t complain at all though because it's been 3 damn good years, well with ups and downs from a uni point of view but which helped me come to the conclusion that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, and so you just have to switch sides from time to time!! when you get extra sick of the grass you're standing on, jump and you'll soon find that it wasn;t so bad... you see, and it works both ways too but no jumping for me yet, right now, i'm having a fine time on my little patch of grass so i ain't going nowhere!!
As the session winds down quietly, Chris and I had a fine week end in Cudmirah in the newly set up family caravan (lint) rescued from the 70's from chris' grandparents garage... it was good, the weather sucked but who cares when you're camping in style and we had a 3 day long fiest!!! chris did all the cooking as well which was supa cool for you know who... and well, i'm on a hunger strike today to give my tummy some time to digest! it was supa delish though!
the caravan park was alright although pretty gloomy because of the weather but it;s right on a pretty big surfbeach and is also close to a big lake, on which you can rent kayaks and stuff. it should be fun for a nice summer week end.
at the moment, it's a bit hard to tell if it is still winter or summer as they keep promising... the weather is sort of crap half of the time and keeps switching back and forth... oh well, summer will come and then we'll be praying for some shade away from the damn flies so there you go!
Overall, i'd say that everything is cool and life is good!!!!

sketchup rocks!!

in an attempt to simulataneously keep help chris finish his assignment on time for thursday, keep myself entertained and learn how to use a pretty awesome little program,
here is a 3D model showing part of chris' design which kept me going for the better part of the week end.
also succombing to peer pressure, i was forced into baking a short notice cake and it was the most desastrous baking experience in my shot carreer..... i won;t go into details but the model was much MUCH better!!!
at the moment, my session is sort of quietly winding down while chris' is going a bit more fearcefuly, as a result our life is slightly on the boring side of things and should improve in a couple weeks, starting with a deluxe camping trip this coming week end!!!
soon after, new winging material will be present in the form of full time work...with the obvious advantage that work has over uni, that is money of course!! oh and i should give it more credit, i also get ridiculous amounts of free coffee!!!

Haaaaaaaappy BBBBBBiiirrrrrtthhhhdayyyyyyyyyy Fliiiiiibuuuuuurnaiiiiin

fliburnain fliburnain fliburnain fliburnain!!!!!!!!!!!!

yay happy birthday to marc, le plus grand fliburnain craninien que la terre ait porte!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!