Thursday, April 30, 2009

Curly new hair style

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My sister sent me an e mail last week..she said that Curly has a new hair style!!! Curly used to be the most dirty one..now she looks so much cleaner with this new hair style..Well, our naughty Cookie has not change her hairstyle for quite some time..probably my sister still have't figure out new style for her!!


Curly got a new hair style..much more lovely than the previous one..



Lupin, Cookie and Curly

 

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Friday, April 24, 2009

THE revival of PRUITT IGOE

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The collapse of Pruitt Igoe
image from http://images.google.com.au

Occupied by single-parent, welfare families, the design proved a disaster. Because all the grounds were common and disassociated from the units, residents could not identify with them. The areas proved unsafe. The river of trees soon became a sewer of glass and garbage. The mail boxes on the ground floor were vandalized. The corridors, lobbies, elevators, and stairs were dangerous places to walk. They became covered with graffiti and littered with garbage and human waste. The elevators, laundry, and community rooms were vandalized, and garbage was stacked high around the choked garbage chutes.Women had to get together in groups to take their children to school and go shopping. The project never achieved more than 60 percent occupancy. It was torn down about 10 years after its construction and became a precursor of what was to happen elsewhere in the country.
Quoted from Newman Oscar,1996.Creating Defensible Space, Center for Urban Policy Research
Rutgers University,US.



Sound familiar?? The government block in Malaysia
image from http://images.google.com.au

The social issues create from Pruitt Igoe is absolutely obvious. Why is our government still look into this type of housing for the people? Will they be tear down one day? If yes, can we stop it before its too late because the children staying there are also future of the country, we need a better environment to develop them of course...If I would have to stay there i think i will get depression..a serious case i think..



 

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Thursday, April 23, 2009

autumn in Tasmania

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the tree opposites my house starts to turn into brownish red in colour
my lecturer told me that there are no fluorescent
colour for tree.and look! there is in Tasmania..

It is autumn now..it's the time where the leaves return to where it belongs..approximately two more months to go into winter but the cold has started one month ago..but anyhow, launceston never been hot before from the day i came. I remember how i stand the cold in last winter..with three layer of clothing and a wind breaker..sound ridiculous...but it's true..

I start to miss my hometown, KL. where there is no four season, no winter..but i always complaint how hot it is..any thinking how good of i were born in a four season contry where i can experience the four season..and now finally i realise how fortune am i was born in tropic country...

I look into the mirror before i step out from my house..i look fatter after putting on so many clothing..then i ask myself did the pedestrian pathway wider here compare to KL? cause the body size is bigger in winter...people tends to bound to other easily..for public comfort, should the pathway designed wider? its seem like a tiny issue but it does make sense..especially after i did my HTD assignment whereby we have to look into the human behavior in urban..maybe i should put up more on this topic later..

 

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

73 days more to Melbourne

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Finally there is holiday awaiting!!! We got Easter holiday from this coming Thursday to next Wednesday..Sooo happy..unfortunately there are assignment due straight after the break! The sketch design for Design studio and HTD writing in draft..It doesn't look like holiday anymore...Anyway..Aice! see...u have to knit faster o...i got almost half loo...we have to make sure it finish on time o..Gambate!!

 

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Sunday, April 5, 2009

Indonesia Batam Trip

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I should have put this photo earlier....This is a really amazing place, Batam in Indonesia, we went there from Singapore by boat but we only manage to stay there for one night..hm..sad..we suppose to stay there for two night, the hotel admin put the wrong date when we booked..so, we only stay there for a night.. We miss this place so much and hopefully we will travel there again sooner..and to my friend, it is really worthwhile to visit cause the trip does not cost much..and really NICE scenery...

Finally we reach the hotel..a very beautiful lounge with scenery..Five of us..the lu's sister
Daddy and Qiqi at beachside
Qiqi, me and Yiyi..the water is so clean but we are not going to swim anyway..
Lupin is pretending to meditate...bluff..she knows nothing in meditation..
It's Five of us again...in one of the hotel lobby...
It's Christmas..we were waiting to get up to the boat in Singapore..nice hat though..


If Ping say this is a good hotel then this must be good co she is very Choossssy..Here we are..me and darling!

 

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Thursday, April 2, 2009

count down 77 days...

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Finally the count down has come to 7+..How good if we can turn the time faster..of course if there are no assignment to hand up..I hardly concentrate this semester..What in my mind is just Brisbane! Gold Coast n of course my darling.....hey dear, the knitting is fifty percent done jor...

 

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