roma

roma! it's a beautiful city, with ancient ruins, historical gems and lots and lots of pickpocketers. i got my wallet stolen on the metro this morning on the way to vatican city's st. peter's basilica.

otherwise, it has been a blast! have managed to visit many architectural gems: tempietto, santa maria della pace, facade of something something quatro fontaine and palazzo farnese. the food is delish - pizza, pasta, gelato etc. i'm in love.

colleseum tomorrow.
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happy birthday emma

today is emma's 20th birthday. 
we are stuffed full of sushi, cupcakes and champagne. 
perfection.
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torture

sunday : 5pm - 2am mushrooms
monday : 5am wake up, 9.40am flight, 11pm sleep
tuesday : 9.30am wake up call, 10am jog, 10.30am tute, 1pm lunch, 2pm - 1am interim crit prep

what does the rest of the week bring? 

wednesday : 24 hours of architecture?
thursday : interim crit, emma's birthday?
friday : dinner?
saturday : 4am wake up, 6am flight to rome?
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the dam

amsterdam was fabulous. such a beautiful, yet disgusting city. my eyes have seen too much, and are scarred for life.

mushrooms were incredible. absolutely nuts. i was there, but not really. literally floating above my own body. my head wasn't screwed on and everything and anything seemed to be hilarious. we walked around and around in circles, we pushed our pad thai around on our plates due to our inability to eat it and we spent hours doing literally nothing. 


a good fun weekend - one that only comes once in a blue moon.
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a moment of weakness

i am not sure whether it's because my eyes are dry, or because i am actually sad/homesick/exhausted (feel free to add any negative feeling to that list), but things just seem to be terrible at the moment. and although i do love eating my body weight in sub-par food, if i continue this way, i most certainly will be the size of australia and will have to buy two plane tickets on the way home - depressing thought. it's getting colder, work is getting harder and i want to be on a beach sunbaking more than anything in the entire world.

91 days until my flight home.

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ps: amsterdam was fun.

20091119

i couldn't think of a title for this one, so this one's simply the date.

things have been relatively fun. last night was the nusex booze cruise which was fantastic. free booze all night with an after party at bodega (my new favourite hangout). malibu & pineapples all night, with trashy brit-pop as well as a few sneaky old school 90's classics...hit me baby one more time.

monday was my first notts archi-hangout. gatecrasher's traffic light party. wheyyyyy. fun all round, but drinks were ludacris. £5.50 for a jagerbomb? i don't think so. i'm sticking to gatecrasher on wednesdays and fridays strictly.

architorture hasn't been too bad. i whipped up a quick 1:50 sketch model in the two hours before my tute and it was relatively successful! interim crit on thursday - i will have to put my head down and butt up after this weekend.

in my intoxicated state, i finally applied for chipperfield's berlin internship last night. fingers crossed. i don't even know if i want it or not, because it will fuck up my life about 100 times more than exchange has...and i kinnnnd of don't speak german. i'm kind of keen to settle down and stay in one place for a while after this. perhaps a few weekend trips around australia, but nothing too drastic. i'm the most elderly eighteen year old ever.

speaking of travel, amsterdam tomorrow.

it shall be a blast.

i intend to have enough crazy stories to fill this blog for years by monday afternoon.

big love.

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chipper's does it again

in love with david chipperfield's private house for richmond.

right-click, save picture as does not work on his website, but i can assure you, it is probably the nicest thing you'll see all day.

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frank

 

sam in notting-ham

dream

last night, i dreamt you were here. & not sure why, how or what it was related to, but you saved me.
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madrid 2010

http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=453&storycode=3153008&channel=783&c=2

super lazy to repost.

have a look.

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weather forecast

nottingham weather theory:
if you wake up, and the sun is shining, it will be pouring by 5pm.
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my two loves

friends, and songs that remind me of them (in no particular order):

fraser: metro station - shake it

gordon: arctic monkeys - i bet that you look good on the dance floor

daniel: art vs. science - flippers

helen: anything by ben folds

tess: justin timberlake - sexy back

charlie: midnight juggernauts - tombstone

kit: crystal castles vs. health - crimewave

claire feng: deadmau5 - i remember

shaun: pnau - embrace

emma:  yuksek - extraball

ben: michael jackson - don't stop til you get enough
cho: killers - all these things that i've done

daniella: dizzee rascal - bonkers

sean: the style council - shout to the top

wendy: dappled cities fly - holy chord

lucy: rooney - when did your heart go missing

annie & merrin: kid cudi - day n nite

kiran: jens lekman - opposite of hallelujah

ali: fratellis - chelsea dagger

marley: baywatch theme song

(more to come)

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like can lead to like like

a day off in architecture? never heard of.

it's my day off. my lecture was kindly cancelled last night. fantastic. means i have more time to study (i.e. facebook) & clean (i.e. facebook).  last night was 'miss nottingham', which meant lots of drunk/half naked girls doing ludicrous things in the name of a figurehead position. it was entertaining, to say the least, and UQ would never allow such a thing, but pretty much pointless.

the uni work is piling up. i don't want to be stuck in january with so much work, so i am aiming to start now, but failing. it's so incredibly difficult to get into the right frame of mind.

last night, ben, simon & i edited wikipedia:

good times. they're no longer there (thankyou, wikipedia censoring) but it's funny nonetheless.

today, i am to wrap sam's present. do laundry. have a shower. buy urban design text book. have a healthy lunch. clean room.

wish me luck.

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places

so a lady on the bus on the way to dublin airport asked me where i was from.
good question.
my parents are from hong kong & singapore.
i was born in melbourne, australia.
i now live in brisbane, australia.
but i'm studying in nottingham, england.
so what does that make me?


i am starting to see the affect of gen-y's & their travel. i alone, know at least 10 people from australia in europe at the moment. everyone is constantly jetsetting - & through the aid of lamespace/blogs/email/skype - frankly it doesn't really matter. in some cases, i am speaking to some people more since i got here...now how does that make sense?
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mourning

thought i'd have a squiz at my very old teenage myspace. i'm now reminiscing many lost friendships from high school. tash sorensen? annie berquist? merrin mahon? various others. i hope you're okay. 
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red riders / ordinary

to you, love me.

58.51

that's exactly how much i made tonight. lies. okay. that's how much i came home with. ben and i found ninety quid at maccas. god. what a loser who left that there. went to gatecrasher tonight. fun fun fun. 'kaiser chiefs'? lies. again. ergh. but okay. i did slam my pointer finger on my right hand in a door. i am lacking feeling. but that's okay. i did make 28.51 quid tonight. so yay. hell yeah. amsterdam here i come. 
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flobo

"No nightclub floor was too adhesive for the Florence Boot freshers. No '80's rock anthem proved too corny to sing along to at a deafening volume, no fancy dress theme too obscure, no novelty item from Portland Atrium too ridiculously overpriced, and bollocks if they were ever going to get tired of Week One's mandatory, 24 hour-a-day, anti-any-other-hall-which-happens-to-be-nearby-chanting. Bollocks if they were going to back down in the face of any of the bigger halls on campus either: FB seems to have quite a reputation for being a bit quiet, a bit sultry and mysterious, skulking round the West Entrance, loitering just outside Beeston like a chav on a BMX, but this year, by God did we hold our own. It's worth noting that one of our freshers in particular took our good-natured (ahem) anti-Rutland banter to heart more than any other in living memory, and in no way am I condoning what he did as a result of his feelings, but suffice to say it will remain the stuff of Florence Boot legend for many years to come. If I was allowed to, I would say that the man in question's act of vandalism was brilliant. But I'm not. So I won't."

 - Gabriella DeMatteis, week one rep

b noc

b noc = big name on campus.
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it's almost too hard to speak to you now, & that hurts more than ever.
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quote of the day

"my microsoft word now auto-corrects "voldemort" to "he who must not be named"."

lazy wednesday

i must admit, it has been a while since i have had a wednesday night in. & tonight, i have achieved a lot - & it's only 9.30 (half nine, as they say in the united kingdom). 


facebook/youtube is being incredibly unkind & not letting me upload videos. i have hours & hours of entertaining video that should be released into the dangerous world wide web (even if it comes back to bite on the bum years later). i officially give up!


my dear friend sam is coming to nottingham next weekend for a visit & his 20th birthday. it should be fun. 
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chat

"i never knew you found paninis to be homoerotic"
 - clan three chat, overheard at hallward library

this is how we do it

autumn