Another extremely long hiatus. With some photos to document certain stages of my life, I guess. Nope, not yet graduated but as a measure to save money on formal shoots (and because of the prolonged procrastination after Ewe graduated), we decided to do the shoot together. (: We've aged so much, looking back it's amazing how many people we've crossed paths with, relationships faded or strengthened.

Oh, and a belated merry christmas! Second year counting with yien chen apart from us for this season, but nevertheless we decided to up the game this year with decoration efforts, gift exchange and manicure session just for the festive atmosphere. Maybe a themed dress code next year too?

Reflections on the past semester - it was definitely one of the worst semesters ever, and I cannot imagine how Masters might be even worse? The semester was so bad that I had a breakdown every few days, up till the point whereby the stress level was so high that I simply could not design straight anymore. But I think I'm still extremely blessed, because of the many close friends who cared and helped. After the semester ended, I was really surprised going through my design folder, realizing that I literally churned up a brand new design every crit (complete with workable plans every time), and with two crits per week no wonder my stress level broke the peak.

Still, I'm glad that I willed and forced myself to push the design to churn up completely new stuff each crit, even though it might not have been the best method to keep pushing myself in this unhealthy way. If that was not done, my final crit would not have ended on a rather good note, so I'm still thankful for what I've been through. Also, am grateful for a very holistic and perfectionist tutor despite the amount of work required to fulfill practical and idealistic ambitions at the same time.

One major reason for such a difficult semester was definitely not just design though. I still cannot fathom why we were given three other cores this semester (and at Master level), with the urban module so badly organized. 9 people working on one single essay is a joke, with it ending up just the few of us working without sleep to complete the essay. Still, all of that is over.

Next semester I'll be flying to China, Sichuan for a month for design studio. Hopefully it will be a brand new experience, for this will be the first time our design project will be related to real life project. Additionally, let this be a grounding experience for our Masters thesis preparation.

Have a merry christmas, and here's to the coming new year (: