Food for thought

Pitera has always been attentive to the emotions evoked by a place, as an afternoon of "desk crits"(critiques of student work) shows. As he moves from table to table, where students draft a variety of landscape designs, he readily draws upon his own experience of place as he examines each design.
He examines one student's drawing of a teaching garden, a garden that will be used to educate children about the connections between farmland and the dinner table. Pitera scrutinizes the space designated for a small cornfield.
"Have you ever been in a cornfield?" he asks the student. "It's exhilarating, but it's also spooky. You lose touch of the horizon, of boundaries. That's why so many horror films use them."

What an interesting point made by Pitera. Must always consider the experience of a space yourself first before imposing others into the space.

What about the sharing of our own experience in life? Do we often give advise to other people not knowing what the consequences are, or will result in? It's a scary thought to know that as you try to influence others with some of your ideologies, they can see a darker perspective of your rosy scene...

Food for thought.

juxtaposed

Found this really cool website that helps you pass your time through solitary fun!

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Here are some Holy Words to whet your appetite.

ANSWERS: unequally yoked, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, the three wise men

You are my Valentine

Valentine's Day was great!
I had fruits and marshmallows dipped in chocolate fondeau. All of which was homemade with tender loving care. It's my first Valentine's day and it started out great! Hope it will never be my last. Its amazing how I always go home empty-handed but so filled. haha...

Process

Whee!! Submission is finally over.

It was a tough process and going through this course is definitely not easy. Sleeping about 4 hours a day weeks before the submission can get your health down if you don't keep up the fruit and vegetable intake.
However, I'm inclined to say that this process plays a part to what we are to be in future.

I guess it can be illustrated through the design process of a product. For industrial designers, they learn stuff like following the thought process of a designed object( say maybe an Omega watch or a Nike shoe). I've seen some of the work and I'd have to say that beginning and end product are really worlds apart.
At the beginning idea, it looked like some lines scribblied oddly across each other.
As the idea develops, though it still looks rough at the edges, ugly and impossible to use, it starts to look more like the end product.
Through more excruciating thinking and making, the idea finally evolves into something sophisticated, beautiful and functional.

Similarly, I guess we all can look at ourselves in this way...
Though we are still rough at the edges, neither beautiful nor perfect, we are going through the same excruciating process of evolving to something so unique and beautiful no one can copyright who we can become. But we must remember to focus on the end product and not let other distractions make us lose our focus, strategy and style.( these are terminologies used in Design.)

Strength

It's amazing how I managed to live through the past few weeks.

Meeting up with friends was something that was almost impossible last semester.
But because I constantly reminded myself of the New Year Resolutions I made weeks ago, I tried my best.
Well, so farI can say I have been keeping to it. I really hope I can keep it up.

Hope is the word cos it's been getting really busy these few days. I seem to be returning to my cycle of late nights and less sleep.

One thing that sometimes keep me off that eye-drooping routine is the 24 hrs theory someone once told me. I think it was Mj.
But it's rather ironic that I am actually writing this down since I am still at the moment trying to complete my work at this unearthly hour.

But it's amazing how I pray for God to give me strength. Despite the late nights and early mornings( if 9am i what I consider so), I am surprised that I still managed to stay so awake.
Even reaching home safe and sound while driving home even though I tend to doze off occasionally. I thank God for Mj for being so thoughtful and sweet, buying me 'Kopiko' sweets to wake me up, to Sarah who consistently ask if I'm doing well and to Dorcas who despite her and my own busy schedule, just picks up her phone and send me an 'I just sms you to tell you I miss you' msg. So sweet!

Well, I do take some of these things for granted sometimes, like how I feel that sometime I have neglecting some of my friends like Hew Wing, Ridza, Verna, Violet, etc. , due to my busy schedule. I really miss these friends that took up a major part of my life up to now, especially in the period of growing up irrationally together. sweet memories...
Yet, I feel that they understand.

I think my relationship with God is progressing. Considering the time I spent with Him last year and last semester vis-a-vis to this semester, it has definitely progress and strengthened. Sometimes, I can even feel Him beside me, accompanying me through those long and lonely nights, when I do something so terribly upsetting, when I am unhappy and even when I am sitting on the train dozing off. If read wrongly it can be kind of eerie. However, knowing and trusting in the character of God, it isn't so.

I'm so glad that I'm so blessed. Can I bless others too?