25/100

 Today is the last day of the CNY

feeling a little sleepy though for a 10.10pm.

woke up at 730am. did situps n scooted to office. . somehow. feeling a little jaded though.

hope L finds someone that loves her as much as i do.

day 23 and 24th/100

Today is a wednesday. running day.

woke up earlier today somehow.

time pass quite fast .next week is a critical week for archicad learning.

Day 22

 Archicad questions

1.trace reference, suitable to put as worksheet, but what is efficient way to move it?

2.how to not show topo site in basement, but not in L1

2a:topo lines cut diagonally

3. staircase how to get rid of orange box

Documentation- done in viewmap?

1.Can show 4 windows as one?

2. how to find site in frame

3. difference in pulling from  project map vs view map; annotate in view map?

4. autocad layering, how to appear as magenta or yellow?

Today was a leave day. woke up earlier to go to hydrodash w S! it was good fun, for an hour. then had a japanese lunch that was not so good, and came up to about $30/head. then had a coffee at this place called apartment. which they mentioned have been there for 2 years. its doing well, i rem, someone once said that 99% of businesses fail in their first 2 years, so if they were still there. that means they are doing something right. They had really nice cups that sit nicely with the mouth feel of the coffee, which they mentioned was custom made by a local pottery studio.

https://studioasobi.com/contact-handmade-pottery-singapore/

Then came back home after that and had a consultation with Archicad teacher, who very kindly went through w me my queries on the about steps. which took 2 hours. crazy! then it was a quick dinner of 2 eggs n duck meat. n now waiting for the miso soup to boil b4 i make it hot. meanwhile time to update my warehouse research on the other blog!

Discovered CELPE-Bras, the equivalent of JLPT for foreigners in brazil. Have drop them a message to enquire more!

Day 21 Thoughts

 After yesterdays session w L & L. 

one theme that we discussed about came to mind. The obstacles, or seemingly obstacles that L brought up. To me, these were but just temporary. To L, however, even temporary has/ can have a very permanent effect. This was like a new revelation to me. As i never did process things in this manner, even though i think i live in the moment. or so i thought. Perhaps this is why i am a little messy, like to be it is just placing it there for now. it will be adjusted later. where this never happens. and this does go on to affect the space around it. As such, to me i will address this in my actions.

Sometimes, it is not about the best perhaps. It is just to get it going, and the conversations even , that flows as a result, is what shapes it. As the quote of the year goes, 

Knowing is not enough, we have to do

Willing is not enough, we have to apply- Bruce Lee 

About discipline, that L mentions is important, is that Discipline is about setting priorities.

Day 19/20

 Day 19. Friday

A fast one, arrived early so as to discuss the P one. ate a peanut pancake. had a small discussion before, and think that as i didn't contribute too much, i didn't go to the meeting. After just b4 the end of the day, for a summary. things i could have highlight:

-existing double circulation. by cutting out one, and maximizing the island wide accessway

-loading and unloading direction as it was contributing to the double circulation, by changing it instead of 3 sides, 2 sides.* identifying the bottle neck and changing it.

did archicad in the afternoon. and was trying to solve the smallest thing which is just crazy

left office at 7pm to scoot to K place. hotpot. it was a feast. so lucky to be invited to one!

the wind was crazy, n figuring out instructions fr chinatown is a whole different ballgame. went back home after didn't go to S. it was only 10pm though, must be getting old. it was also TG bday. beau setup K dad had done. with a full table of 5 fruits. 2 red trays of sweet candies, the meesua and 5 eggs.

Day 20. Saturday

today started early at 7am. body alarm. met the girls at bishan park for our weekly walk. really starting to enjoy it now. we saw flying roosters. many birdnest ferns and ruffle ferns. then 1130 to WM house. this was a real challenge. but the bigger challenge has gotto be from there to G house. the food was amazing, it was alot of fun! really enjoyed! played cards, gambled, though lost money. received angpao. we had curry chicken, kongba bao, zapchai. amazing tomyum goong, was so full didn't eat the prawn cake. dim sum, ha gao. then played goalpost. then scooted to G house. it was nice to see the cousins, and heart wrenching to hear the story of E n S..and their ailments. but glad to hear that they overcame it. it seems the take-away is that if something is not working, only then fix it. otherwise let it be. 

Almost forgot to type. Definitely didn't forget in my head. but because took a wrong turn, was 15mins late. then had a session w L & L.it was good this one. but don't think it is good enough to solve the problem.

Quote of the Day:

Knowing is not enough, we must apply

Willing is not enough, we must do- Bruce Lee

Day 18

 Today was one of the more difficult days.

one drive had deleted all the files in my folders. archicad wasn't working properly. n had a bad diarrhoea in the morning.

Tomorrow will be better

Day 16/17 of 100

 Day 16

Wednesday, was a day off. had a sudden urge to go for lunch at the marymount  shunfu stretch.

then went to the chinese bookshop zall. bought a book for M, then the plan was to head back to have a pastry that i bought at M&S. but then had a craving for hokkien mee, in then end scooted there but shop was close, so ended up buying pigs stomach soup instead, n had it for a mid day meal. read perhaps a few pages of the timeless way of building, a little research on the warehouse. then took a nap. had the timer on for 30mins, but then it became

Day 17

15/100 Tuesday

The second annual leave day.

really nice weather, cool, with a small breeze.

Day 12 & 13 & 14 Monday

 i really need to type more regularly.

Today is a sunday, day 4 of CNY. 

Day 12: Saturday

Went to ah pei's house to visit. All were looking good. Ivy was there too, and very kindly prepared some fruits. i have an ego problem i think. i think when pp talk to you, and kinda squat down next to you. its a bad sign. i dunno why these days, my brain seem to jump around alot more. Ah pei looks glazed over, like staring into space. Because of a UTI, or part of it, he had his urine bag outside the body.Ah Mm was holding strong, i asked her about her house that she was building. she said it ll be ready in september. 6 months, the architect is the brother of her neighbour. n they decided to build 3 in a row, so as to get a good discount on the volume.  Dinner was at Slings. she prepared a very good fish soup, with 2 fish emperors and something else. devils eggs, and a chocolate tart

Day 13: Sunday

Had dumpling with chilli oil last night

Remembered watching netflix pretty much the whole day. Terrible, this made me realised netflix is just too powerful

Day 14: Monday

Morning was pulau ubin. woke up at 730 to catch S hitch at 815 at the jetty. we got lost and went to changi jetty instead of changi point ferry. good fun,  went cycling, very friendly with many temples, did many small prayers. had lunch at a place called little brewery, good grills n local beer. had a chicken thigh, 1 pale ale n a stout. came home showered, then went w dad to pick up the rights. and then headed back to F place to have beer, which he very kindly provided. it was nice to chill. haven't talked to R in a long time like that. didn't know she is into data science now, which is super cool. then back, showered n going to take it slow tmr..wake up a little later. As it is CNY, so office will still be close till wed. another 2 days of borrowed time.

10/11 of 100 day

 Yesterday was CNY eve so didnt post, and today is the day 01 of CNY

as i was staying over at T for the eve, i actually had to finish the house cleaning earlier by 4pm. it was a rush. we were lucky to have the day off, but i slept at 3am the night before. so woke up at 1030am, had a nice long chat w L, and sent the parcel out, had a nice breakfast at joe n dough, garlic bread with eggs n a latte, and went to the toilet bowl shop and lights but both were close. so came back to clean the house. b4 i knew it, it was 4pm, to head over to collect the pencai. we went there in B new car. very sporty. managed to buy a nice CNY outfits w new inner garments, so felt ready for this one. it was nice, having dinner together with everyone, helping to wash the fish, the red garouper one. n placing the tofu with fried leeks. n the soup with peanuts. L bought the tangerine jelly cake that was refreshing. Probably as fast as a day could pass.

Actual day 1 of CNY, wished everyone, had tangyuan with red dates soup. then went to the temple but the queue was too long, so we ended up heading over to shang earlier then usual. had a rather large private room. had peking duck, dim sum, fish stomach, dumplings in chilli oil, .etc for lunch. then headed home to drop the jewellery off, n collect the food b4 heading to Y place. it was nice to see the uncles and cousins. had quite a few of the NY snacks there, drank probably an expired red wine. L is, one of the younger cousins has really grown quite a bit. one is having his house ready by the year end. then heading to S to help prepare a little of tmrs food. bouillasie n a chocolate tart. had some sake too.  it was good fun to prepare, i enjoyed. then headed home. showered n typed this out.

One thing i realised from helping S to prepare the receipe is this. that one just does, nothing complicated about it. what has to be thrown is to be done so, clean, measured n just, literally just do it!

08 & 09 / 100

DAY 08 

yesterday night was a brain drainer, had therapy after ukelele class.

L mentioned at the end 4 things to look out for, that breaks all marriages, be it straight or not couples.

-stonewall, defensive, contempt, criticism

-homework 1 was to remember what was desirable about the person, 

-homework 2 was to see if we can enact it back

It was helpful that she mentioned we would probably not be able to match back the same desire. but is how we recreate that. somehow, to me it is about reframing the "issue", it is not about the lack of desire, but rather something else.

Ukelele was really enjoyable though, the focus that is necessary to play the notes really takes my mind out. i find that when things are necessary, there is no choice but for my brain to be sharp, exactly like how i need it to be.

DAY 09

today a point learnt about houses was interesting. that it was about the circulation. how one ends up at the top of the stair. single lane stair , or folded, but then the living room becomes too small.

today i suddenly felt very sad, when i thought about L and i going our separate ways.

so much so, that one of my colleagues mentioned that i looked very tired. even though i slept early last night

07/100 A Monday, week of CNY

 woke up at 745am, as this is the swopped week. where 2 weeks of 9am-6pm, and 2 weeks of 10am-7pm.

snoozed twice, and dream was about missing a train. it was quite real, i remember consciously thinking that this is so strange, like i knew it was a dream. as i got off to feel the marble textures and carvings underneath my feet. today is a rest day for the 30mins sit-ups, so i did instead the yoga 15mins. before i knew it, it was time to scoot off. Had the haircut yesterday so it felt like a neat monday morning. Also as the feasi and timeline was done, i felt ready for work. It was off to a quick start, with a first round of drft w V,  he highlighted that for demolition, permit and submission process wld take about 4 weeks, so that went into the time as well. Then a quick racer discussion w J. where H pointed out quite a few mistakes that i felt embarrass to make. Like 

1.habitable ht to be on the roof, and also the 

2.FEA to be in front of the building, so that there can be the slab overhead internally.

3. Crossing of circulation. going out and down from ramp and drop off.

Then after lunch, a quick update. some frivolous thing, then rode home. i still enjoy v much this riding w the wind in your face. this is probably as close to flying that one can feel. with the wind in your face, and turning left and right. Home, ate the frozen carrotcake for dinner. n played the ukelele, this really puts me in a good and relax feel. going to google some stuff on archicad now, to prepare myself for the upcoming battle.

06/100 One day late post

 So this is the CNY week, i forgot to post yesterday, even though i was working on my pc till about 1130.

So yesterday was a a Sunday. Woke up at about 10am, heading to T to prepare lunch. The star of the meal was a " Firecracker", a roll of a pengcai, cha sao on the outside, with yam, chestnuts and some treasures inside. We made soup, a meat, tomato and bittergourd, with many tomatoes a per a la S style. A tofu dish, that was quite simple, Mix, oyster sauce, soy, vinegar, sugar , chop garlic, scallions into hot oil and over the steam tofu of 8mins. It was a meal of just the right portions, that we haven't had in a while. K broke his nose over the week, so we saw him in his plastered nose. Q as usual was an adolescent and having a little tantrum every now and then and X, was as usual as well, as L likes to say, in her own world, saying her favourite phrase of the moment, " are you ok". Had a hair appointment with S 5pm, did a scalp treatment, this time it was at novena. Found parking at the loading/ unloading bay, terrible planning. kinda smelly, and quite  a few dead corners. wtf. After a quick dinner at the foodcourt, i headed to paragon to buy the CNY clothes. was going to buy new sorella s when i came across a linen orangey shirt and brown pants that will be my first day clothes. Armed with 5 unders, and 5 uppers, new black socks from nike as well from sat, think i m ready for this coming 2021 cny! by the time i rode back was about 930, did the program schedule. quite please w myself actually. manage to finish that and the feasi.  ok typing this in the rush hour of the morning! 

It going to be a short week this time, work till wed, hooray!

05/100

 A saturday that passed fast. woke up at 830am. went for a stroll w K & M at the Hort Park. it was a pleasant day, rode there and felt that it felt like being under the ocean. a bike as a fish, untethered by gravity and by the tedium of everyday inertia. a throttle that glides one through the space, with the expanse of sky above and tar below, and green on 2 sides. as free as one can be. had laksa and otah for lunch. it was really good. simple pleasures of sg. got back at about 3pm, after some shopping at queensway. glad i got the racer feasi out, now whats left is the notes for JHC and the program schedule. had dinner at 7pm, did laundry, hang the clothes, showered and all the time seem to be have disappeared. 

practiced also california dreaming. why is it that when one get older, time passes twice as fast?

can't believe it

04/100

 crazy morning that i woke up at 11am today.

jumped straight up, think perhaps i was so relief  to finally have a meeting, that my brain just disconnected. So hopped into a cab, a quick washed up and straight to office.

Also today was the 05/02 dinner w s,z,v. i even thought about buying a new shirt for it, but when it actually came, i was late for work, so it was a crazy rush, a black shirt, grey pants.

we had the P meeting today at 3-4pm, in anticipation of an office sharing which never happened. but we had the team sharing instead which was great. learned alot about a waiver for workers dormitory natural ventilation vs fire code for Fire lift lobby. about grease traps locations and ventilation and also about parti wall bricks and manhole installed acute to last IC, which caused backflow of sewage, which caused many a change of hands. Only told to us, as the ID knew the plumber.

Dinner was great, at the resto Altico that W designed. .really impressive, beautiful space.

glad to be back, shower, hair blown and clean ready to call L and crashed out.

03/100 First Client Meeting ina while

 since i transfer fr the hdb team, today is the first client meeting i went out on. Haven't worn proper shoes ina while, as it had been the white sneaker shoes for the longest time. Also, put on a long sleeve shirt and pants. Quite a crash course in learning about placement of beam and column, and wall alignment to catch beams. It was a 3 hours meeting, in which suggestions were very carefully made, and direction followed. For eg, when we first sat, the client mentioned, he didn't prefer option2, and so, straight to option 1 we went. without talking about option 2 at all, at least for an hour, b4 J slowly steered us back in. Went back to TM for dinner, it was nice, attempted to have another session of online shopping w M, but it was difficult to decide on which one to buy, so this didn't happen. But good to see that it went through, as in M even thought about another item she wanted to buy, but perhaps on a different occasion. The day before yesterday, a monday, the office shared that N mother had passed on from a virus infection. this means that he did not even get the see her, as the quarantine was still on, in fact he was still here on monday to share w us that he will be gone for a month. there is no right time for anything. Covid is under control in sg, waiting for the vaccine to roll out, but was for the rest of the world, it seems numbers are still trying. going to head to bed now, at 12.50am.

02/100, a wednesday

 today i went for a run, on my own as i had some work to finish up..

it was nice, and i ended off, lying down on an inclined bench, facing the HSBC, DBS and Fullerton building.

unprotected opening can be best understood by doing a calculation in sequence. Started from the 

1. assume rectangle

2.enclosed rectangle

3.Unprotected opening area

4. percentage of unprotected/enclosed rectangle

this inclined bench, when i sat on it, i felt so at eased. it was a good moment in touch. Employed, with my namorada, and around chinatown area, and with a vespa.

Second month of 2021. 100 day challenge 01/100

 Lets do 100 days of blogging

Actually this is inspired by a patreon ukelele person that i follow. hers of course is more challenging at a song a day i think. crazy.

For me, hopefully it ll be easier. Each day is a brand new start. No looking back.

Ukelele class today at 7.30pm, so have to be efficient to finish up the work.

L n i started online counselling, i used to think i could express myself and am eloquent, but i find this really helps. Having someone to paraphrase and restructure ones thoughts. That author i started reading a little, we write so as to savour life twice, Anais something,  and about the modern woman and her compatibility with the sensitive man. So many thoughts go through my head these days, on whether this is the right career for me, with the many pop up windows on government grants on the various courses. And of course, how my future will look with me alone. Without my love.

Deep breath\ there now.

Everything s going to be alright.

Better to blog at night i think

Today went by quite fast, it was good to sit in for the feasi for pka, first qn E ask was the sectional height of office-->affects placement of office-->clearance of ramp above-->min length required for clearance-->entrance of it. Then S commented on the layout, mainly mastersuite toilet window, and light in. Thickness of walls at 100mm will suffice. Then ukelele at night. The calculation of the unprotected was quite a handful, the different configurations. It was interesting, planning ahead for certain notes of the Uke to play it smoothly. Even rode today, though there was some indication that it might rain.