The inner mumbles of the Mumbly Panda

King of the Rodeo

So...im feelin much better...mentally stronger and happier and also physically more awake..! this is the first time in a long time (6 weeks) where i can finally relax for only a little while..call it my mini holiday before the holiday.
We've had to design 3 buildings on a proposed pier which is part of the forward thinkin of re-generatin Plymouth as a city (or is town?). We were placed into teams of 3 but we were marked individually for our own buildings. 3 choices: Ferry Port, Shops and Restaturant. After much discussion with my tutor, he decided for me it would be best to take the Ferry Port as usually the building itself would be placed at the end.
The ferry port had to contain not only 4 toilets (dont ask!), a waiting area and a managers office but an exhibition area for art, a performance area for festivals and concerts and generous outdoor deck area for waiting...

the past 6 weeks have been hard...jus tryin to keep calm and jus get on with it even tho at times i cant even lift my eye lids...a prime example was last week...i spent the entire Saturday drawing all my plans,elevations,cross sections and perspectives. i completed it on Sunday morning with the thought that i could take em to the studio and photocopy them for backup. i put them in a cardboard tube and was off. the journey didnt take long. i live 5 minutes from the studio. i got there and opened the photocopier and i opened my tube..only for the tube to be hollow. my work dropped out as i was walkin to the studio! i dashed out and searched and to make things worse...it was hail stoning. that was heart wrenching. tbh, it was heart wrenching cos i dont think ive ever felt that way about my work before...throughtout my school career, i dont think ive ever cared bout work like i did when i was lying on the floor looking under the cars.
i shed a few tears..whined for a bit...bought a Whopper meal to make myself a lil happier (the first time i actually went to BK to eat cheer myself up..) and got back to re-drawing everything again on Sunday afternoon till the early morning.

I presented my work yesterday and hopefully things went well. i got very good reviews from my tutor and i pray that my grades will be ok. he said that the drawings were beautiful, the building itself was realistic enough that it was 'buildable' (any other buddin architects out there reading this...always aim to get a word like 'buildable' as a descriptive for ur building!) and privately, he said if my team as a whole worked to my work rate, our designs wouldve been one of the best designs. Praise God!

i know my spiritual life has been dry and at times i feel disconnected and at times quite angry at Him (the losing of my drawings)...He still pulls me thru...and He pulls me thru comfortably. i call losing my work "God testing and shaping me". i havent lost the faith. ive grown a little stronger for it. since that day, the work load altho just as intense, has felt effortless in my mind...thanks God. :)

PS- watched 300 yesterday...i thought it was good...a solid 8/10. the CGI was just beautiful, simply stunning. altho it is hard to look cool in tight speedos. the helmet made up for the speedos. :)

I'm Currently Listening to: "Match Box" by The Kooks

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Hunting for Witches

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Dear William

Dear William,

Balik Kampung sekarang ah?!

So..you're goin very soon...and to be honest, that sucks! But God has given you a path and you must follow for He knows whats best.

I just wanted to say "thanks man" ....here's a shortish list dude:

thank you for bein who you are

thank you for sayin things that are so "blur wan!"

thanks for bein an inspiration to me in how you cope with ur road with God...

thanks for sharin ur tactics on how to take hospital food...next time im cleanin up a hospital, i know which floor to start first..

thanks for bein that ever smilin brother of ours

thanks for "guarding" the cooked meat durin my mom's dinner parties..(!)

thanks for hangin out with me when i came back for my moms birthday by havin a 'girly sleepover' at debras..

thanks for prayin with me

thanks for playin basketball with us...i apologise for knockin u over when we play...you have poor footwork. i'll teach you.

thanks man. terima kasih abang.

i hope to see you very soon man...i wish you all the best.



God Bless,
ross.

posted by Mumbly Panda @ 20:02 0 comments

updating.

So...haven't been on here in awhile..i apologise for the lack of updates.

i have been busily tryin to figure out how to design and come up with valid solutions to the building i'm trying to design. our last design project of the year is to do with a Pier. we are to design a building on the Pier...im in a team of 3 so there are 3 buildings but we are marked indiidually to our respective building so my two friends are doin Shops and Cafe whilst im doin the Ferry Port. this whole year, ive played it safe and have gone with the cubes and minimalistic stylistics but this is the last chance i can get to do somethin far out without gettin hassled on it too much...ive also played it safe and used alot of concrete usually so this time round my main and eye drawing factor will be *drumroll* ..... grass. yes, im goin to try and emphasise the use of grass in my building...this is an initial concept model:
i want to use the circular structures to have a grass texture to be an ode to the cliff which the Pier connects to...hopefully old wooden boardwalks and all things like that...but yeah, im workin quite hard(ish) on this...hopefully it will be a success...not like its goin to be made but what the hey...one can dream...

aside from that, everythin else is goin ok...spiritually dry...not feelin like im connectin with people here like i did in brum...God will see to it...ill be patient...

I'm Currently Listening To: "Original Fire" by Audioslave

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