I just stumbled upon this very interesting article.

This post is meant for Architects / Architecture Student

# If you are not one, you can skip it to avoid nausea...

If you are one, you can read it to experience nostalgia ...

YOU KNOW YOU'RE (OR WERE) AN ARCHITECTURE STUDENT WHEN...
1. ...the alarm clock tells you when to go to sleep.
2. ...you're not ashamed of drooling in class anymore, especially in the Structures lecture.
3. ...you know what Fevicol tastes like.
4. ...you CELEBRATE space and OBSERVE your birthday.
5. ...coffee and cokes are tools, not treats.
6. ...people get nauseous just by smelling your caffeine breath.
7. ...you get surprised when you see a new building in your school.
8. ...you think it's possible to CREATE space.
9. ...you've slept more than 20 hours non-stop in a single weekend.
10. ...you fight with inanimate objects.
11. ...you've fallen asleep in the washroom.
12. ...you're brother or sister thinks he or she is an only child.
13. ...you've listened to all your CDs in less than 48 hours.
14. ...you're not seen in public.
15. ...you lose your room keys for a week and you don't even notice.
16. ...you've brushed your teeth and washed your hair in the school's washroom.
17. ...you've discovered the benefits of having none or very short hair. You've started to appreciate inheriting baldness.
18. ...you've used an entire role of film to photograph the sidewalk.
19. ...you always carry your deodorant.
20. ...you become excellent at recycling when making models.
21. ...when you try to communicate, you make a continuous and monotonous whine.
22. ...you buy a RM15 and aboveto buy magazine that you havent read yet.
23. ...you take notes and messages with a rapidograph and colour markers.
24. ...you combine breakfast, lunch and dinner into one single meal.
25. ...you see holidays only as extra sleeping time.
26. ...you've got more photographs of buildings than of actual people.
27. ...you've taken your girlfriend on a date to a construction site.
28. ...you've realised that french curves are not that exciting.
29. ..you can live without human contact, food or daylight, but if you can't print. it's chaos.
30... when youre being shown pictures of a trip, you ask what the human scale is.
31. ...you can use Photoshop, Illustrator and make a web page, but you don't know how to use Excel.
32....You refer to great architects (dead or alive) by their first name, as if you knew them. (Frank, Corbu, Mies, Norman...)

damn.. architecture is good.  

12 Comments

Laila June 10, 2007 http://kakiblog.com Votes: +0	hehe.. totally agreed.. report abuse vote down vote up
Fuqaha June 10, 2007 Votes: +0	are you in any way related to architecture ? kakiblog.. gotta bookmark that. report abuse vote down vote up
Laila June 17, 2007 http://kakiblog.com Votes: +0	eheh~ yup.. sile2 la bookmark, i'm doing the same way for your blog. template yg besh, tp quite berat lew incek. haih~ report abuse vote down vote up
Fuqaha June 21, 2007 Votes: +0	hehe.. thanks for the comment.. hows the new template? is it faster? I seldom use dialup ya know, thus i never thought of how heavy my previous template was to dialup users - until last week when i need to use dialup in my new house. Damn, it was sooo slow.. report abuse vote down vote up
Laila June 21, 2007 http://lailalalalala.multiply.com/ Votes: +0	ho.. aa.. da tersangat cepat sekarang. . di mana ye sekarang, malaysia or oz? Di malaysia, banyak program under PAM, in jun n july.. report abuse vote down vote up
Fuqaha June 21, 2007 Votes: +0	kat UM.. yup, i know the programs. I made the poster for PAM exhibition at One Utama. Just sent for printing this afternoon. Wait till it circulated. hehe.. report abuse vote down vote up
Laila June 22, 2007 http://lailalalalala.multiply.com/ Votes: +0	oh.. i thought that u are in oz right now? ahah.. so u're the one who made the poster. i'm doing architecture too, uitm seri iskandar.. program under PAM yg dkt uia x pegi ke? report abuse vote down vote up
tieha June 22, 2007 Votes: +0	btl gak tu :- :- > report abuse vote down vote up
Fuqaha June 22, 2007 Votes: +0	the poster, is it circulated already? I dont think its even printed yet.. I was not chosen for UIA, as they picked just one from 1st year. And we are having measured drawing right now, due next week. ARgghh!! Heres a thumb of that poster. will write an article on it. report abuse vote down vote up
Laila June 23, 2007 http://lailalalalala.multiply.com/ Votes: +0	aa.. i think i've made a mistake yesterday. i thought that the one yg kaler orange tuh yg incek buat. poster yg ituh psl scholarship yg PAM nk kasik. about the latest one (ur handmade), x terbace lg.. measured drawing ek? hoho~ bertabahla hati ye.. sy merasainya juge. haih~ nway, the architecture will forever be the archi'TORTURE', aite?:p report abuse vote down vote up