Oh dear – i think i’ve wasted a bit of time today… woke at half 11… took a long time to unpack >< i dunno why ^^;;.. i’m just slow.. then spent aaages looking through my photos and sorting them out and looking for ideas about the film… then sorting through leaflets.. (still not finished yet).. i gotta compile a travel journal for berlin  – i went to too many places tho ><  -i think i worked a bit took hard there haha – should just chilled and had fun maybe XP.. tho it was amazing… saw so many amazing buildings and stuff.. >< i got lectures tomorrow tho – and still not done my laundry and stuff u.u… oh dear. (really need to get it done .. my white coat kinda turned black over the week haha.. )

oh yeah – i didn’t do all that but i _did_ watch princess and the frog… haha… hopeless ><

.. amazing film ^^

Just back and too dead to type..

Literally just got back – with lots of type but way way way too tired… its 1am already – i still have to email my bro and unpack the suitcase… i think i hate unpacking as much as i hate packing.. eurgh.

… I think I’ll just sit here and procrastinate a bit enjoying my yoghurt and admiring my laptop and internet… awww i’ve missed you so!

Panicking a little..

Everyone from church keeps inviting me to go out ><… tho i feel like i should.. and i kiiiinda want to…  but theres so much to do! i haven’t even touched the building research for berlin yet – i don’t have a plan for the whole week… I’m dead tired (entirely my own fault) …but i really need my sleep for tomorrow and the whole of next week … waaah no breaks! i don’t know what to do.. I’m already not going to the cinema with michelle n chrissie earlier.. i don’t get why time can’t just stop for me so i can do everything i need and want to do D<… like sleep.

I’ve got a symphony concert tonight as well which i already have tickets for… and then the dance (which i might skip)…and i still haven’t  applied for a job over summer…and lorena’s already been rejected from BDP saying they have no spaces and i haven’t even emailed yet! waaahhh… so much to do so little time! 24 hours a day 365days a year! whhhyyy… ><… and why does packing take so long >< its a titchy suitcase! but thats exactly why u.u… *sigh* *breathes*

Best mangas…

One Piece – hahahahaha ‘nuf said.

Angel Densetsu – because its just hilarious…. not strictly shoujo… so guys – its safe.

Kimi wa Petto – one of my all time faves… omigosh… its so human and… wow… its like shoujo for women rather than girls tho… but amazing… momo x sumire!!

Zettai Kareshi – just great just great – but one of the best shoujo mangakas Yuu Watase – should definitely read her one shots if you’re short on time and want a nice bit of sugar break..

new mangakas – Mitsuki Kako ..Minami Touko – feel like i should get drawing to catch up with these amazing people…

whoo exams finished today… i went to town after…and hung out with lorena and peggy for a while before institute… now i’ve got a list in front of me of stuff i need to get done for berlin… but nooo…. haha of course what do i turn to to waste time?? – SHOUJO XD… awww i’m all fluffed up now – just read the cutest cutest one shot ever…. seriously XDD…. <3… feeling all fluffy lol – i popped into lisa's room earlier and she was just watching bloody zombie movies screaming gore gore GORE… i'm so glad i have my shoujo XD.

give it a read – it only takes a few minutes haha – and it does err… help.. if ur a girl XP… haha.
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/ane_mone_seikaten/ – serious sugarness.

Being Honest..

I didn’t like my design for the last project. I knew I could have done better – i’ve just come back from my pdp meeting with the tutor – I got a C… its a pass and he said that I should draw a line and just learn from it and work on those aspects that I could have worked on in the next project – like lorena said – its a learning curve. I’m learning to design. It was an unresolved design and even Dickson said it when I only sent him my photomontage and section.. he said it showed I didn’t love my output..

To be honest though.. I didn’t really think about the programme of the building at all – it wasn’t until I did the section in the design report that I really did the programme analysis… so it didn’t really factor into my design.

I know what I need to do now … a lot of the work I did… I just did because the brief told me to – but its true – for the next one: I will try and show something in each image. He was saying how each image to just show clearly one thing – bring it across to the viewer.. its ok if I have many images. Thats kinda a critique of how I work actually. I think its because I’m lazy – I try to squish as much as I can onto one image instead of doing more images to lay out my thinking.. I won’t do that now. I will sketch big. sketch lots. I will think clearly. I will understand my scheme. And let this show in the project. Yeah.

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So:

-   focus on whats important… what comes across from each image?

-   Possibly 1 page on site analysis – its not about the quantity – but the content!

-   focus more on one concept – and really work on it – ideologically not form… don’t be so quick about the form. Keep playing with ideas, plans, interiors, shapes..

-   OPEN YOUR MIND. Don’t stay fixated on one idea – branch out. Let people in. think and rethink and keep your eye on the bigger picture – I stayed too honed in on the whole levels, and routes and entering in the tower… I should have thought – is this really necessary? Is this the most appropriate response for this project.. this programme?

-   Add people in all my floorplans, sections – doing what they are meant to be doing – this will clarify the spaces and what the spaces do…and lastly…

-   PROGRAMME ANALYSIS. – might be a bit tricky in Berlin but hey – design a building according to programme. How the spaces work – get the appropriate scale most importantly and he said I had quite good grasp of external, internal, public and private space…

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so yeah – communicationcommunication communication, wider thinking and PROGRAMME.

.. there. Now this is here if ever I wanna look back on this.

Don’t Worry – Be Happy.

Sorry that I’m constantly sounding frustrated. I am a lot of the time… with myself. I shall try not to be – but I want to be so much better than the person I am!! right now!

I – I – I … haha I shall shut up about myself now. Don’t Worry. Be Happy.

Homeless resource centre in Berlin?

As projects are getting more and more ambitious… i seem to be getting more and more lost… I’m excited. I’m anxious. Anxious to get started.. anxious to do well – to get planning – to start working… but why is this damn exam in the way!… i wish it were tomorrow.

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no i don’t. but i wish it wasn’t there. Tells self: stop wishing and get working.

Missing them already.

Thursday – revision – did pretty well i think.. then institute… was soooo sad >_<… Hafens are gonna leave!!!! she cried and everything… awwwww

Friday (22nd) – more revision – mum gave me a phonecall which was nice.. still doing pretty well in the whole waking early at like 8.30ish thing.. went to Aubrey’s really late that night and hung out just for a little bit before going home to sleep

Saturday – ooo fun! didn’t do all that much work – worked in the morning – then about 3-ish – headed to Aubreys to help make SO MUCH FOOD – was so fun.. weird exotic foods.. and and!! best thing ever – lisa and lorena came with me ^^… and it was also elder hastings last missionary dinner thing… so that was nice.. then they were gonna go salsa dancing after – but was gonna have a “lesson” at her place first – so lorena joined in with that and it was really fun – didn’t actually go to club copacabana tho… went with Chrissie and Michelle instead to try and catch Sherlock Holmes at the AMC – but in usual cinema tradition (with me and friends anyway) – we missed it… but it was still good – coz we got the chance to walk around town and have a really good long girly chat.. (coz we walked to odeon to see the times, then walked to picadilly to bus… then grabbed a burger for them… then to michelles for a bit longer of a chat… then walked to chrissies to take her home… and walked back to mine then split up hehe… so looooong chat – but it was really really nice… should do it more often haha) it was about half 12 by the time i got back..

Sunday – reeally tiring sunday… not too sure why – i didn’t miss the bus this morning! which was good… and sacrament meeting was good as well – pierre gave a talk! and so did 2 other YSA… then i went to the family history class instead of the normal YSA one… and i really want to do family history now!  (i will do actually – after i finish this entry and write to elder Lau… ).. but yeah – i did a lot of things quite differently today – i didn’t hang out with the YSA after the meetings – I got invited to an events committee meeting! my first one! so good – i actually have a part to play in my calling now – i’m so excited! i kinda represent the YSA in the committee – so i’ll have to be in charge of certain things and asking different individuals to give up some time to prepare for the ward Easter Fair which we’re organising… which is going to be great btw! – i was going to make the poster for it today – but im far too tired now… I’ll do it tomorrow when I’m done revising.. so much to revise tho – I’ve written out like 20 pages of notes and i’m still not finished u.u…

but yeah – got my temple recommend as well…

went to the meal – was nice… went to aubreys… wrote cards for elder and sister Hafen, wrote to elder Hastings… then the epic bus journey haha – we missed the bus to the stake relief society meeting… so would have arrived 20 minutes late anyway… but then we missed the busstop! and had no idea where we were lol – so got off was all lost… walked the path the bus took for a while… then caught the bus back after about 15 minutes walk in my 3inch heels lol – then 45mins late – finally got to the meeting… caught 2 speakers and a musical item so was actually ok i thought ^^- had some refreshments then got a lift back.. which was nice of Inga..  – but all that commuting… got me exhaaausted now.. but not sleep time yet – still gotta write to dickson and so the family search =.=… early day 2moro as well – don’t wanna stay up past midnight..

oh noes.

See this is what happens when i stop typing daily… i just don’t type… then i forget what i do with my days u.u..

anyway last entry – 17th..

sunday – stuck to my guns and didn’t do any work – was a really good sunday – missionaries came round to aubreys and we did some roleplay for talking to people – learned so much – really want to serve a mission…

monday – woke kinda late.. 10.30 – but still finished the last half of planning my humanities essay – went through the exam.. i think i did ok – xept that i FORGOT the name of the piazza i was writing about haha… idjit ><… but they might not notice… ^^;;… i remember who built it and where it was so i was just like “so was another more ornate piazza in Ferrara that Duke Ercole for blahdeblah….blah”… maybe they won’t notice ^^;;… haha – i found out after it was piazza Ariostea… tsch. italian names.

Went to FHE after (i don’t go very often)… there was free pizza …and a wonderful slideshow showing the memories sister and brother Hafen had collected over the time they’ve been here… aww i love them… <3

Tuesday – worked a little… did laundry – bumped into Karlye there… caught up for a little bit.. that was quite fun.. then went Aubreys for quite a quiet lunch… then back to work..

Wednesday – today… eurgh… i thought i was fine before the exam… turned out i’d revised all the wrong things and the things i did revise didn’t stick in my thick… in my brain.  and yeah – i think i did pretty terrible… i haven’t counted up my theoretical marks yet.. but i don’t think it looks good. better knuckle down for the next tech exam… since thats probably the even harder one ><…. i guess there are less details to learn tho and its a tad more interesting..

kuut milg to me… haha… something i’ve not said for a loooong time. bet no one will ever guess what language that was… i am feeling so random XD – just watched 3 episodes of Monk… was planning to start planning the berlin trip tho u.u.. aww.. fail.  today’s full of it.