Barack Obama the Architect

November 9, 2008 · Filed Under Architecture Humour · 2 Comments 
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Barack Obama the Architect

telegraph.co.uk compiled a list of fifty things you might not know about Barack Obama. Some of the highlights:

  • He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia
  • While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead
  • He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia
  • As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine
  • He doesn’t drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol
  • He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn’t

Last but not least, joining the list of architect wannabe with superstars such as Brad Pitt, Obama said: “He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician.” (Source: telegraph.co.uk)

It is always ‘the architect’… architects are sexy? No? I don’t think so. My non-architecture friends marveled at me, citing architects are rich, WTF! The very first industry to collapse during recession is the construction industry. I’ve seen Lawyers, Doctors and Accountants with their brand spanking new Mercedez-Benz S-class but never an architect, the grass is always greener on the other side, and when you cross over to the greener side, the other side now appears to be greener! Life’s a bitch.

According to this blog, the Chinese version of Barack Obama is Tony Leung (Hong Kong Actor). They do look alike, the cool, quiet and serious killer looks.

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Compact Living and Small Spaces

May 13, 2008 · Filed Under Architecture Rumbling · 2 Comments 
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Australia, a country where land is abundant as opposed to Singapore (reminds me of my Singaporean lecturer, I dislike him – a fresh graduate with zero working experience, he said it is all right to insert raster images of human, furniture, cars and plants in the working drawing set – little did he knows that he is what we describe as “the empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”), anyway not all Singaporean acts in such manner, right Arron Kong?. Where was I? Yeah, compact living… compact living is simply not a doable thesis topic in the land of kangaroos, not to mention the Australian way of living doesn’t accommodate the whole idea of living in a house without a backyard.

A friend of mine once told me after years of observation, she finally realized the reason Koala bear is one of the ‘mascot’ together with kangaroos. ;-)

Anyway, compact living sounds like a challenging thesis topic if the site is in one of the many cities in Malaysia, and definitely a big yes in sardine like Singapore. After all, lands is pretty expensive in Asian countries; we don’t have the luxury of colonizing other people’s country and wipe off (Genocide) their race from planet earth like what the Europeans did 400 years ago, and then go on wearing a T-shirt that screams ‘Free Tibet’ – Hypocrites, agree? Read more

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