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!