The Architecture Spirit And Bowling For Columbine And The Paradox of Thrift

THE ARCHITECTURE SPIRIT

Come on future architects,
Hold your knuckles, touch others ( future architects only!) and say ‘hai’( like what Hiro will pronounce it if he wants to agree on something).
Yes, it’s ‘the architecture spirit’ what me and my friends called it and we will do it when we feel tired and stress with our studies ( AUSMAT to be specific). Maybe some might say, ‘ What the heck?’ or it means nothing and does not affect their emotions. Lucky for us, we found that this kind of ‘activity’ does HELP us. So, every morning or before we start the class we’ll do it to make us fresh and eager to study. There were days when we felt so tired and didn’t have the mood to study.

“uh”, “ah”, “haiyaaa” ,“die la”

Those were the only words that we kept repeating over and over.

Suddenly, my friend ( Athira) said, “ Hei, no wonder we felt really weak and bored because we didn’t do the ‘spirit’ thing!”

So, “HAI!’ we go.

BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE

We are going to do a review on a FANTASTIC, DA BOOM documentary; Bowling for Columbine. I never felt so in touch with any documentary before but I do with this documentary. It’s mostly questioning about the gun shooting issues in the USA among students. The main focus is on the Columbine massacre. I did some researches on the two boys, Eric and Dylan, who committed the crime. The killed 12 students and 1 teacher and before they killed some of the victims, from what I found on the net, they asked them whether they believed in God. The policed Now, every time I heard their names, I will feel sick and thank god they are dead because I will kill them ( no way..It’s just an exaggeration) if they are still alive! At first I thought that this kind of massacre only happened in the USA but it’s also happened in AUSTRALIA in 1996! Now, I’m scared to go to Aussie. Thanks to the ROLE OF MEDIA, it creates FEAR in me.
I’ve been thinking what if there is Bowling for KBU?? With all the tensions and pressure, pressure, pressure, suddenly one of the AUSMAT’S students shoots everyone in the cafe and library?? Oh! I don’t think that he will do the gun shooting in library because he’ll be freezing while killing people in there. What am I talking here? I’m not giving anyone the idea of doing any massacre, am I?
So, don’t pressure yourself too much. Go shopping!

THE PARADOX OF THRIFT

This is the best part. I’m not going to write about any paradox as what we study in English, ok? Here goes the application of economics in my daily life. Engineers, grab an Economics book now! Well, as we all know, our level economics activity is now in the downswing (‘thanks’ to the Land of ‘DREAMS’), so as what the paradox of thrift suggested, we have to shop to help the economy. GOOOOODDD.. Hence, the last Thursday my friends and I went to IKEA to shop! They are having SALE now so we cannot resist it and eventually more of our friends went to there now (they are in IKEA now when I’m writing my post). We are very influential and I think IKEA should take us as their product speakers. How much will they pay? Hmm..money! =D Now I sound like a materialistic girl.

That’s it for this week. I have speech to complete!
Bye!

questionsssss...

This week I want to talk about the world. To me this a simple piece of idea that I have but it do means a lot to some people, I hope. To give opinion, is not an easy thing to do and I don’t usually like to express it. Tragedy after tragedy has opened my eyes and I WANT TO SPEAK. I cannot just sit back and see the whole bad things going on nowadays in this beautiful world that God had create for us.

One question that I want to have the answer.

Why don’t we just keep the world as it is?

People are not satisfied with what they have. Power. Wealthy. Blind the politicians and cause pain to the whole world. They don’t think about the others as what they should be doing. The citizens chose them because of the trust that they have towards the politicians. Why would they want to bomb other country if they already a rich country? Why would they want to colonize a country that doesn’t even belong to them? What do they get from the war? Dignity?

The answer is simple.

Suffer and anger.

They would create a new generation that will only know about destruction and revenge. Have you ever imagine a little boy holding a gun to protect his little baby sister? How sad would it be if the boy ends up to be dead in such a young age when he can play and study for his future. If he is still alive, the only goal of his life is to have peace and revenge for the death of his family and community. The war is not only destroying the country but the whole world.

There will be no more a bright and cheerful kids in this world when everyday what they see are guns and bombs. Their Barbies are the bullets and their PlayStations are the riffles.

The war is not only affecting the people who are being attacked but us. We experienced the effects now. The economics is fluctuating and inflation is getting higher. Don’t we realise that? This problem will not last for two days or two weeks but for years if the world is still a fan of war. Politicians have to think about this deeply and not just being selfish. Don’t blame and accuse innocent people if the problem is actually caused by you. Would you be happy if you, yourselves are having the difficulty to move and have a good sleep in your own home and motherland?

Peace is the only simple thing that they are asking for. Just leave their country and let them carry on with their lives. What if the whole tragedies happened to be in the US or other European countries? Do they feel happy about it? Oh yes, my son holding a gun and my dad is dead. Yipee! No,right? So, stop the war and give them peace. Stop the bombing and shooting. Paint back the dreams of the kids and give sun to the people for them to survive.
Lots of questions that I have thrown in this post. I ‘m not seeking for the answers but the actions.

Please save the world before it gets angry.

Thank you..

sorry week

Second month. February. The clock is still moving. Wait! Stop!

Haih..I was having a bad week for the last 5 days.. Before I start begging for sympathy, I would like to tell about a happy and inspiring experience that I had.
Last Saturday, I met some of my seniors who had their flights to Adelaide in KLIA. I went there at 5.30 when they were actually departure at 8.00 pm! I spent hours and hours lingered in that astonishing building. What I saw there were the faces of satisfaction and it’s not happy because after a year struggled in AUSMAT, they finally achieved their goal. They are such great seniors and very helpful in terms of giving us advise and supports as brothers and sisters. Good luck and all the best to all of you in Aussie. I always pray for the best for you guys and miss you so much. Be strong, Kak Aween(thanks for all your help), Kak Pika(take care, cute sis), Abg Afifi( thanks for your support), Abg Luqman( thanks for the books) and Haf( study until you die,bro!)

So, the suffer part begun when I fall sick on Tuesday. I had a bad fever until I cannot concentrate on my assignments and experiments. I almost burnt the Chemistry lab! Sorry Miss Prema.. Thank God nothing broke, or else I’m the one who will ‘break’ at the end. That’s not the end of my bad week. During my Applicable Mathematics class, I cannot solve any question. For Goa sake, even the simple transformation I could not remember! My brain had Z-E-R-O function and useless when I was sick. Moral of the stories, don’t get sick.

Today, I had my EALD test and I made a BIG mistake. I forgot the title of the film that I reviewed. How can I forget about it?? It’s on the cover, Izzati. My brain was really screwed up and I need to fix it. Sorry, Mr Derick. Don’t be mad, because I also want to kill my brain. So, it has suffered enough. That test was really pressuring me and friends. It’s all because of the 10% ! It’s a lot..

Well, the sick case is not end with me. Almost all my housemates are going through it right now. Sorry, friends. This is the third time I said sorry in this post. So, please forgive me,ya? My housemates and friends are totally true friends. They helped me in everything. I’m so touched. This make me love them even deeper. Thank you, my friends.

This last paragraph, I would like to dedicate to my cats. Ok, no more the bad week. Actually, I miss them so much and want to hug them now. They are my siblings, my lover and my life. They complete my life all this years. When they sick, I fed them. When I sick, they accompanied and licked me to show their care. Their eyes are full of honesty and they can never make me mad at them even though they are so naughty.

I have to log out, because more homework is still waiting.
Till next time..

study until you die

“Study until you die!”

Yeah, I am dying right now. The AUSMAT crashed my comfort life and brought the army of tension and enervation. We have loads of assignments, quizzes and tests each week and month. Can you believe that we have Physics quiz every week??It’s a good effort actually though it’s a torture because I got a brain cramp in every quiz! Shaking, sweating and unbreathable! Everything comes at the same time. Only me and my friends know how does it feel except the genius, of course.
This week, I had the most frenetic days of my life. Mia and I were doing our collage assignment about Boy Tales of Childhood from 6.00 pm until 5.00 am!!! We were kind of over excited doing the assignment until we forgot that it’s already morning. The worst part is that, we made a mess in the living room. Sorry, friends. There were lot of colour papers, pens and scissors scattered around the floor. Everywhere!
We have to put a warning sign on the stairs to avoid any heart attacks in the house after seeing the mess. If we didn’t do that, they might be thinking that someone broke into the house in the middle of the night or maybe the guard sneaked into the house to grab some foods. Huh??
Today I just realized how hard it is to be a reporter. People, please appreciate the reporters and especially the cameraman. We did the first shooting of our documentary which is another assignment for us. The reporters for the day were Athira Azmi, Fara Amilia Mat Isa and Ainin Leong whereas me as the camera‘girl’. I prefer girl than man although there’s no such thing as cameragirl in this world.
We tried to catch as many victims as possible.
“Hello, miss. Can we interview you”
“Hye sir, do you have some time so that we can ask you a couple of questions?”
Some of them are great, fabulous by giving us responds and informative. To be exact, they have brains. Not like some people who appear cool but had nothing enlightening to say to us. We really thank to those who had really helped us today. This documentary thing is not over yet. We are going to continue it next week. Where? Sg Wang! Yeah! The scariest place for me. I hate the place! Help me!!

I’ll see you next week if I can survive in that scary place..