Infosthetics

   

| Life mapping |  The above is an infographical depiction of all intimate relationship in 23 years Gregory M. Dizzia was engaged in. relationships are analyzed by how they met (e.g. school, phone, party), impressive attributes (e.g. figure, eyes, karma), what they did (e.g. kissed), facts (e.g. engagement, possible baby, long distance), emotional involvement & how they broke up. Some of the icons are very hilarious, makes it even more interesting.

   

| Tokyo Metro Axo | I guess the Tokyo metro must be one of the world most complex rail system. These images were found in ffffound (a rare|weird image showcase). the above is an axonometric diagram of Otemachi Station. Drawing an axonometric diagram for it must be a nightmare. 

| Architecture on a Periodic Table | 

Pre-Mid.Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most romantic nights in the year! I am so glad that I am able to spend it in HK this year! There is a party in the Bel-Air "meadows" this evening, with a lot of lanterns, mooncakes, and games!Wai Wei Sum, Sheung yuen and Niki joined the party, played lanterns and had dinner together. 

We started playing Scrabble afterwards, but didn't get to finish it! Niki and WWS did miraculously well on the puzzle ohoh, surprise surprise lol. Sheung yuen bumped in to Hayley and her dad! small world! We had fun in the little village of Bel-Air XD hahahaha and my little red room. 

We still want to play Monopoly, Football machine, floating air magnet machine, Scrabble, and puzzle and slide in the swimming pool next time!!! Dunno when we can do it! 

Hope they all had fun! 

Decisions

Today I was in several discussions related to decisions making. 

Holing with whether she should change her placement. And Leanne, with whether she should change her major! 

I also have to make a decision on what I wanna do in the coming semester. Fun but difficult. 

 
a) Architecture and change of use
Basically - old buildings with new uses. Deals mainly with the design problems arising from making fundamental changes to the way a building is used. E.g. in redundant industrial, commercial or public structures. 
(pros) Have always been interested in these issues
(pros) the best professor
(cons) but she might be a more traditional professor
(cons) the description said - "will demand a high level of detailed design", totally freaked me out

(pros/cons) Most challenging - most of my classmates hate this field, as we did a similar project last semester. 

b) Designing a place for learning (primary school)
- Imagery/iconography of the type of building
- reading the site/ precedent studies. etc. etc.
- visiting primary school
(pros) in a way seems the easiest among the 3, but also less challenging
(pros) I do like things related to children/education
(pros/cons) Could be something that I (we) are more familiar with, and therefore not a good thing, as we will put in a lot of "personal views/experience", and end up having too much unfocused ideas. 

c) Reading Context
More related to the site, final project is to design a mixed use building incorporating several related functions including a new library for the town, a small exhibition space and a registrars office
(pros) I guess i am better in researching on a place etc. more than the actual designing bit, this project includes both
(pros) The Site is not in Edinburgh
(cons) The final project seems to be less focus, and could be more difficult
(cons) Dunno about the professor, just know he's young

Rent

Today, is a normal day - see dogs; met up with a LPC friend in Cyberport Starbucks, then we went to my home to swim together! (totally unexpected!) 

Went out for dinner..... 

 

Later on, they talked about stuff that's out of my planet. outsider. 

Going to leave HK very soon again, even though some ppl adviced me not to be unhappy as I am going to be back very soon, but it's difficult. Shall I hope that soon I won't miss this place and the people here? 

Just got the course description for the coming semester, don't know which to choose!

Macow

Japan trip part 2. | MaCOW| 

  Two days and one night in Macow passed by quickly! 

We spent most of our time in the hotel/casino. Went out for a walk, it was nice to see daylight, and enjoy the light breeze in the residential areas, except for I saw a big cockroach... eww

The view from the room was very nice and peaceful, our room was freezing as usual, but the afternoon sun shines warmly into the room. 

Night time at the casino was exciting. The atmosphere in different casinos that we have visited in the past few times were so different, I can't decide which one I like best. omg, deciding whether to bet or not or which to bet requires so much concentration! It's fun but also frustrating, as it IS actually unpredictable. I was said to have led a hand-full of people losing money by "looking" at their tables @.@ hahaha.... The Venetian is such a big building, with some long corridors that felt too long, strangely dim areas, and empty shops. But WELL, I guess the most important thing is that people are having fun in the gambling area! I like it when people are really loud. One more thing, i am not tall enough to see clearly.

Part one and Part two trip were both so great, I love all the time spent with you =)

Mooncake-making

Jaci, my four year old cousin, always asks "why...." recently, so much that it's so difficult to explain, and always continue to ask when the answer doesn't satisfies her.

 
Her parents spent a long time explaining to her about "seat belt" - she asked a lot about why some seat belt braces only around your tummy, but some across the shoulder; why they only exists on some minibus but not all, why not on buses, and why the ones on minibuses are different from the ones from taxis. In order to explain, my uncle had to do an experiment at home to explain the use of a seat belt - Jaci showed me today - she tied a doll onto a chair and pushed into the wall - and then did the same without tying the doll, to explain that the doll won't fall out with the seat belt @@

 

| In Wanchai Starbucks with WWS today, such a wonderful starbucks!!! |
She also asks a lot about why bridges won't collapse, how lifts are constructed, how ferries stops at the pier.... She needed to go to the Star Ferry Pier at TST to observe how they throw the rope over to tie the boat to the pier lol She felt really satisfied after that.

Two nights earlier - she had a nightmare and cried for an hour, because, she was really sad in her dream - her Philippine helper's mum just passed away (which is true), and Jaci wants to find her a new mother.

Wachifield Music Box

 

Wachifield, my beloved Wachifield! 

But most of their products are very nice, and also the character design is fascinating! This Music Box!!! Impressive music box! I noticed it in May! And Finally got to see it while I was in Japan!!! They were in both the Wachifield shops we went! But since it's so big and expensive i didn't end up buying it!!! .... sigh.. I didn't even get to hear the music of it, as it was placed so high