nicked this off a friend:

a guy from my studio group posted this up on our wall, "just for me". i don't know if i should be insulted. i think maybe a little? 

still, it's a pretty funny website. i hope those shades are a joke, but i don't think they are.  

p.s. i hope my picture never winds up on this site

some highlights from da's trip to sydney up on flickr. the rest are on her facebook. maybe if you are nice and friendly to her you'll get to see the rest of it!

also the photos are all out of order thanks to flickr uploadr. 

the baby of our family has turned 17! 

(^  3^)/ ~~~  happy birthday young slurm we all love you very much

australian "news" has finally caught up with twitter! like omg guys you are so two years ago. or whatever. and suddenly, 

also, after months of trying to figure out how to add a twitter badge to my blog, i realize i am not technologically savvy enough to do so without succumbing to blogger's strange requirement that only helps you out with twittering if you use one of their standard templates. hence, this new layout. actually, i'm kind of liking it! plus having a tweet might actually resuscitate this floundering blog.

anyhoo da's coming to visit, i've got two deadlines due next week, and i've got to sort out a mojo jojo costume for gallian magdallian's villains party. mojo jojo! that is who i am. and the villain i shall be is moooojo jojo! so, for the time being there will be no fancy pants header graphic or anything to distract you from the woeful lack of substance and you'll just have to content* yourself with the quality um ... content* of this blog.

now i must go pretend to do some work. 

* homigosh y'all, see what i did there? homonym alert!

or maybe "underhaul" is a better word to use. 

visual overhaul in progress. please stay tuned.

courtesy of winky babu, my premium friend:

holiday in melbourne is over! no pictures yet because i have to get them developed off my new holga ^___^ hopefully they turn out okay. 

also, lent is over so i can officially swear again. thank goodness. that swear jar was really full. 

lots of people say that digital architecture is rubbish; that it's all about form and that at master's level we shouldn't be doing such a tiny project. it's really way too much trouble to argue with them, because the debate would rage 'til the cows came home. and then went out again.

for the record though, i would like to state that i'm greatly enjoying digital design this semester. yes my project is tiny, and yes it's not terribly complicated. but not having to worry about a master plan or sustainable strategies is giving me the chance to muck around with little models and devote time to materials research, and bar this litle bit of blogging procrastination, i'm finding for the first time in ages that i'm actually looking forward to doing work for design. 

recently, sydney's airport had the dubious honour of being rated the worst in australia, and i'm kind of not surprised. i've only been to the international airport once but amongst the features was a really disorganized security process, exposed ducting and zero way-finding landmarks. 

the domestic airport is really not bad at all, but the way there is pretty shameful. check it out! this was the train on the way to the airport. do you really want tourists seeing this ?! icky plop =(