lines on paper

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

11.12.2024 Wednesday - talking about having the guts to leave things as they are

initial drawings about springvale canopy

I send this to the engineer but he needs to check with his boss

I forget that we have my mum today, and go to play tennis. Sam does seem to mind, but I feel bad about it. After tennis, Si Yong collects me from the club and we go to the Good Design week 'gala' dinner. The event is under-populated; 8 tables in a giant hall and not all tables are filled.

The food is surprising good and table company a mixture of familiar faces and new ones; SY, Tay & Suan plus a couple of young graduates from Digital Media and Management. I bully them a little and make them laugh to entertain ourselves because there is none from the organising committee. After the dinner, SY and I think that the OC must have been so disappointed (and embarassed if I were him), especially because we are there to witness this fiasco. All said, it is a nice end to the day.

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

10.12.2024 Tuesday - BP approved, dinner follows

Plan and section for a resort in Lundu

This is a message to you, you, you.
Listening to Bob Marley while writing things down, enjoying the day drawing in pencil on butter paper.

I suggest to Sean that we should treat his team to dinner since the Building Plans for Springvale has been approved. We decide on dinner at the Club, and that PH should invite TY while Sean invites Leong. During the evening, while I chat with JY and other separate conversations are taking place - I think to myself 'this is a good thing'.

Sunday, December 8, 2024

9.11.2024 Monday - site plan

My attempt at an early start to the week, result in this pencil drawing only - but nevertheless it proved to be a good start as things start rolling on from here. Often it simply takes a small step. And although this looks like a simple drawing there is plenty of important information and decisions within. The structural grid, distance from the road, placement of the two buildings, roofed areas and some notion about heights and section of buildings.

Later that day, I locate the large trees on this site plan.

8.12.2024 Sunday - Incomplete or Unreliable?

This morning starts earlier than I would have liked, I eat my Hilton breakfast quickly and we get to the airport before 9am to check in our long long table legs in time for the flight back to Kuching.

It is good to be home, I feel for those who do not have a life in their home towns, or do not a nice home town like Kuching to work and live in. And to prove the point, Sean collects us from the airport, we drop off the table legs at No. 40 well before noon, in time for nice early lunch before getting mom at 1:15 pm. I do some gardening before the good Doctor collects me for squash at 4:15pm.

Complete and reliable.

7.12.2024 Saturday - KL to KCH

Executive lounge listening to other people's conversations while drinking G&Ts and reading coffee table books.

I run up and down the hill behind SS3/22, and eat a rava thosai alone. The birthday lunch is at noon, and some guests have arrived when we get there. We sit with Sam's cousins, sister and her husband - during the meal I decide that I will stop attending these events. These people have only self interest, and I am not interested in spending time with them.

We begin doing something constructive after lunch; check into the Hilton, go to IKEA, wrap up four sets of table legs, return to the hotel for pre-dinner drinks (complimentary, of course) before preparing for our respective dinners (she with Meow, and me with Sher-lin).

SL and I have a long dinner, talking about experiencing joy in our work. It is the case of 'just because we make it look easy does not mean that it IS easy. Likewise, just because I appear happy at what we are doing, it does not mean that we are happy doing what we are doing ALL the time. We have just learn to relish the good times more than the bad.