time difference is

i've been living 4 days into daylight savings time.
i have no freaking idea how this spring forward, fall back concept of time works.
anyways, that means i get to sleep in 1hour more than last week.
sweet.
the other day i sent off my friends to the train station a full hour earlier than i was supposed to.

since winter gets less daylight, shouldn't the day end 1hour earlier rather than later?
so confusing. *shrugs*

easter feaster

someone asked the owner if she ever tried hitting a golf ball off the top of her car, and she said her brother did!

it's funny how there are so many types of people around, and what seems weird isn't so koo-koo (i think this was frank sinatra's favourite phrase... read that somewhere) as it is anymore! some individuals certainly have outlandish ways of expressing themselves, but that doesn't make them any MORE different from the rest of us. odd to be so different yet so similar! i think, though people can be sincerely wrong in their views, it doesn't make the mainstream any more "right" just cuz they're in the majority.

were visited by 2 separate groups from sydney in the space of 5 days! at the height of it all, there were a grand total of 5 girls under the same roof! with 1 bathroom to share! there was a bit of havoc, but it was nice having dinner together round the table and creating a ruckus after a bit of alcohol. it's wonderful how well food bonds people. i read somewhere that inviting someone home for a meal is the most universal sign of hospitality. so we had meals at home, ate out, ate in the car and talked and it seemed to become a natural thing to do, like we've always done things this way. no matter how disparate individuals may seem, it is always nice to know that something fruitful can come out from sitting down together for a simple meal. :)

i heart severus snape

harry potter and the half-blood prince is out this july! wonder how it's like in melb... will there be ppl dressing up and queuing up in front of the bookshop or at platform 9-and-3/4s at the flinders street train station or what. apparently there's a collection of essays written on 'the reading of harry potter' and these are undertaken by professionals in their fields of psychology, politics, english lit, etc! it's amazing how ppl are actually analysing the books! anyways i actually read the collection of essays from end to end! didn't draw the connections before, but these books could relate so many ways! was imagining these decrepit adult professors or professionals reading these so-called children's books in order to analyse them!

they must be over-theorising. sure, it is important to speak to your audience, but trying to pry jk rowling's mind open just from her work is being too one-sided. an individual is a much more complex kreacher than that. still, it is amazing to know how far-reaching a good story is.

so it's hard to imagine that in 2 bks' time, the series will end! better to wrap things up when they're hot than to have an ongoing days of their lives.

collecting atmosphere

we had a nice softspoken austrian lady who collects atmosphere
she presented her work to us today, told us of her approaches and methods
i was intrigued

she said
"all emotions are OBJECTIVE"
supports the theory that we share a common 'denominator' with regards to our understanding of Space
invisible Space being unseparated from the visible

she created a net to test the atmosphere and to be more aware of her own movements in Space
i didn't know what she caught in her net
nor did i ask
she made drawings of the life of surrounding Space

i DID ask her, though
what went through her mind as she made those drawings
she answered, "nothing"

against the backdrop of the magnified screensaver, a projection from her computer
i realised her explorations were as ethereal as someone playing a piece on a piano

"everything you perceive at any moment is a creation"


stupefied. for now, i create.

somebody shoot me

die. i am doing too many tests.
must.pay.more.attention.to.getting.work.done.

in design research methods today, the egocentric old bloke (who, incidentally, includes 2 books authored by himself in the reading list!) was pushing for a work that totally spoke for itself.

for the first time, i agreed with him.

for it is important that a work is able to convey the full amount of its meaning without having to be elaborated upon. at least, for a design concept. personally, it should be apparent to others, possibly even lay-people, what one's intent is.

as such, i dislike representations and re-enactments for the sole reason that every.damn.thing is happening in real time, and in real space. why do people merely want to repeat? saying that there is one same universe is such bullshit. we all approach the situation differently because we are all different! theory does not have to go hand-in-hand with practical design. hell, a theory could even be drawn from the work at a later stage!

anyway.

found this while i was at calm one's blog. reckon mine's a confused li'l pea brain to start with.

Your Brain is 33.33% Female, 66.67% Male

You have a total boy brain Logical and detailed, you tend to look at the facts And while your emotions do sway you sometimes... You never like to get feelings too involved

What Gender Is Your Brain?

i didn't know i had a TOTAL boy brain. i thought i was girlier than i gave myself credit for. my confused pea brain cannot handle it when there are too many new emotions to deal with.

*sobs* i need to go get some work done.

the 6th harry potter book is out this july!

just a short one before i zip off for a lecture.

was thinking of all the derogatory things that are connected with research, and how you're are perceived as a boring ol' nerd, and the shit that needs to be sifted before you arrive with a putrefied, i mean, purified truth that would have evolved in time anyway.

until i came across rosenberg's bit on the reservior for poetic research thanks to suzie's recommendation for suggested reading.

i want to be conducting rhizomatic research.

i am a multiple. i won't be straightjacketed into boring cetripetal-only research based on a single fact (which might not even be a fact after all).

flow and interaction, kinder surprise chocolates, magick

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proud of my noncapitalised-and-schizophrenic self.

i'm back. no. really.

has been so long since i've blogged... coming to 5 months, i think! wow! that's nearly half a year! wonder if there's a difference being out of the loop for such a long time. i feel older. and more jaded than when i was li'l miss morgugu (for those who have found a way around the enforced password! it's not hard). i won't remove that blog that was my past. i like to know that i have left traces for myself (or others) to discover.

lurking at the blogs i used to read acts as a time line, as others' documented progress/process is measured against my own undocumented one. feels good to be back in the loop. feels like home.

updates, updates. am currently in melbs now! time sure zooms past! have been here for slightly more than 2 months (cuz i just paid my 3rd rent) and it's definitely a nice change to be staying on one's own in a foreign land. missing friends and food and the familiarity of singas has somehow become etched in my subconscious. maybe that's what leads me to try to re-create a bit of the past in the present.

have learnt to cook, wash up, pick up after myself and the housemate, and do my own budgeting. it comes naturally to some, but it has been slower for me. it's hard to believe that these angmohs have survived so long without domestic help, whereas in singas, i [albeit slightly ashamedly admit] have not grown up without them. and while i feel a certain camaraderie with *anyone* from whom i hear the singlish accent, i am still very much on my own. perhaps... perhaps i keep to myself because i am more aware of my differences. i dunno.

have been more introverted lately. taking more time to reflect. i guess this quarter-life-crisis is making me take a longer, harder look at myself and re-evaluating what i've cheerfully ignored for the past 25 years. shit. can't believe i'm 26 soon! :)