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5:36 AM

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Sorry for the hold up from the last blog. Wanted to write more but yeah no time coz I had 2 assignments to complete in just one night. Due to those assignments, I slept at 3 in the morning. I just love how the lecturers planned the due dates (not)-__-". Anyhoo.. The assignments that I was working on were to complete my mini model and to prepare for my English presentation which was today. Thank God I managed to get done with them and get some shut eyes.

The model assignment was to construct a model showing my place of retreat by referring it to any painting that I have chosen and so this is what I got and made.

Hah! This be the picture that I have chosen to create my model from. It’s a painting by Andrea Beech named Acrylic Abstract Painting. I think it’s a simple and yet awesome abstract painting. It looks as if there is an opening in the picture. Can you see it? Its like that black patch almost in the centre of the painting. Its like never ending. There is also many square boxes in the painting almost signifying the painting as part as part of a building all on its own. The light colors in the painting just make it seem as if it pertruding out of the painting. From this painting I drew out the main outlines and the contructed my building as I have shown below.

Yeah and that was the result of what I’ve gotten from my painting.

English presentation kinda sucked for me cause I memories dam hard and I was so sure I got everything in my head when it came to the time I can release everything, I have no idea I what I needed to say.dammit.lol. I was dam stoned out there.. disappointing it was but then I’m satisfied with the marks. Haha. Out of 16 I got bloody 11! MIRACLE. Thank God that’s done and over with.

Visited Malacca last Friday with the rest of the architecture students to look at buildings and sort like analyze. After analysis we are supposedly to sketch out the buildings and write our comments about it but… I took the short cut and took the pictures instead.lol. Don’t misunderstand me as a lazy person okay. Haha. It’s just so that I can show you people the land of Malacca.LOL. Okay okay maybe I was a lil lazy but then it’s true I did it for you people too =P. Here’s some picture that I have taken in the trip to Melaka:

The first place we visited was Jonker Street (yes, the oh so famous street.lol. Psst.. there’s pasar malam here every Sunday =D)
Yeah. You will be able to see all the paparazzi in this picture a.k.a my college mates.lol

This is dam cool. It’s not an exterior feature of a house but instead it’s an interior of one of the really small shop house in Jonker Street. Can you imagine? There were indoor windows and sun-roofs in the house. Imagine all the natural light you can get. It’s an awesome idea though to have light coming in through the roof during the day time. I guess having windows directly in front of the other rooms does give a cozy feeling. It’s like waking up every morning and opening the windows to your familiar surroundings instead of waking up to face the view outside. The sky-roof is a very good idea cause it prevents light from entering the house directly through the windows. Thus, it wouldn’t be too glaring neither will it be too hot.
This is one of the old ceilings that I’ve found .fully made with wood. It’s still in a pretty good condition after all those years.

I kinda like this picture. So that’s the only reason why I posted it up. Haha

Let’s say he’s a lil lost…(okay maybe a lot.LOL)

This will be Jonker Street and yeah it was a really hot and sunny but no doubt the sky was perfect!

And that will be the perfect sky after I changed the camera setting.Nice right?

The interior of one of the many souvenir shops found in Jonker Street. I think Jonker Street can be considered as a main tourist attraction in Melaka other then the Red buildings there.

A mosque built beside a temple. This just shows how close the , communities there, were last time. To consider putting both different religious buildings side-by-side, I thought that was something we don’t see everyday but well, it’s a good thing. Shows that Malaysia is a multi-racial and open minded country back then.

The backside of the shop lots. No different from the old house we can see in Kuala Lumpur. So couldn’t it have been the same architect? Well, I’ll soon find out and will let you guys know.

A lil verification done to this corner lot building. What that was changed was just really the paint job. Just in one glance I actually thought they restructured the whole buiding.LOL. but nah.. I mistaken it. They kept the whole concept of the antic shop and just repaint and added in some modern furnitures and such. Even the windows are kept. This shop is named Geoprapher, I still have no idea why they named it that. Any idea why? Btw it’s a club during the night, most tourist will be chillin’ and drinkin’ there. So.. yeah.. I think it would be sort of a happening place during the night.

As you can see, antics are widely sold in Melaka. Nothing could be more interesting then visiting one of this shops. Not only that antics are also sold at a very reasonable and affordable price. Most of the items are handmade from wood and painted.

Can you see?! 2bucks per 1 and half hour. Its cheap. Well, at least the cheapest I’ve seen.lol

so cute! lOL. i meant the public toilet and that toilet casher guy=P

okay that was only about one destination.after Jonker Street, we moved on to mini malaysia. But then it was a huge dissapointment. When you hear the title 'Mini Malaysia' , you would definately think about mini twin towers and mini skyscrapers around Malaysia right?. wrong. i was so excited to finally reach our destination. cameras ready. passed the main entrance. and this is what mini malaysia is about...
The main entrence(sounds interesting right?)

then followed by kampung..

then next kampung..

more kampungs..

and countinuing...

So dissapointing -tsk tsk tsk-.. what to do..its malaysia. In my opinion this place should be updated with the latest buildings in Malaysia. at least show like the interesting places around Malaysia instead of kampung houses. With that this place could actually attract more visitors rather then just a handful. Other than that.. we had to pay an entrence fee of RM10 just to look at kampung house when we could see them for free in the kampung areas -__-"

okay this is it!

Before we ended our trip in mini malaysia. They had a presentation ready for US to enjoy.lol. Lets say I wasnt really interested in the presentation until...

yesh! that is whats interesting.LOL.i'm sorry i dont have a recording of it but its so really funny. that's our lecturer btw. i got more pics but I dont dare paste more just in case he happen to find my blog =P. I'll say that's about the most amusing thing that happened on that trip.haha.

oh i forgot one thing.. LUNCH! ..OMG cant believe i've forgotten that..

ok as you know right..when you go Malacca you'll mostly be suggested to try the Malacca's Famous Chicken Rice Ball right?

and thats what we had for lunch..

mmm..but i'll say.. the rice balls are not as nice as normal chicken rice. I'll recommend you to choose the yam rice ball instead of the chicken rice ball coz it has more tast and taste way nicer .trust me.

To find out more about this place just go ahead and visit the website below.
http://www.melaka.net/famosa/

After a long days work(crapping as in talking) everyone on the bus was tired

and that was the bus trip home..

finally done!.. took a frigging long time to complete this blog.

hope you enjoy..

as for now I'm gonna take a break and continue to update you on more tomorrow..

so..keep checking =)..

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