Swoosh-Mate

A chess game.
Does not only involve pawns, towers, knights, bishops, kings and queens moving, but a deeper knowledge of your mind. A certain belief in your own powers. It also means observing your opponent's or, less agressively, companion's movements, hand patterns and body language you only scarcely understand. Sounds beautiful at first, but as you go deeper and deeper, it's about applying pressure, creating impressions of a fight over an area of the board, it's about mischief, mislead and stabbings. About thinking several exits, generating resolves, steering from desperation to ingenious bravery. And it can be governed by appearances. Especially if people less intelligent play it, the lesser army can checkmate an opposing king despite it's disadvantage. Of course it has a chaotic element, the human mind, but otherwise It's a complex, balanced setting. Every situation has between 1 and hundreds of endings. In chess you cannot just quit. There's a lesser or higher level of respect radiated by the game itself, often times obvious battles like single kings versus armies are carried until the end out of sheer respect.

Life.
Milions of idiots in your face day by day. Internet dumbasses, day-by day monkeys, scaredy-little head-nudging pigeons, ridiculous parrots, grining hyennas in rich-ass cars. Hardly ever an extraordinary panther or a noble horse.
In life chaos strikes the sh*t out of you.
And I ranted on for another 5 rows about conspiracy theory here, but then deleted them.

Anyone up for chess then? =)

Chaneliiiiiiiing

So... I've been taking this youtube business kind of seriously for the past few days, and here's what it came down to:




There are about 8 videos on my channel, so feel free to check them out should you be interested.

Talk about funny business =)

YOU KNOW YOU'RE AN ARCHITECTURE STUDENT WHEN...

1. ...the alarm clock tells you when to go to sleep.
2. ...you KNOW what Fevicol tastes like.
3. ...you CELEBRATE space and OBSERVE your birthday.
4. ...people get nauseous just by smelling your caffeine
5. ...you think it's possible to CREATE space.
6. ...you've slept more than 20 hours non-stop in a single weekend.
7. ...your brother or sister thinks he or she is an only child.
8. ...you're not seen in public.
9. ...you lose your house keys for a week and you don't even notice.
10. ...you've brushed your teeth and washed your hair in the school's washroom.
11. ...you've discovered the benefits of having none or very short hair. You've started to appreciate inheriting baldness.
12. ...you've used an entire role of film to photograph the sidewalk.
13. ...you always carry your deodorant.
14. ...you take notes and messages with a rapidograph and colour markers.
15. ...you see holidays only as extra sleeping time.
16. ...you've got more photographs of buildings than of actual people.
17. ...you've taken your girlfriend (boyfriend) on a date to a construction site.
18. ...you can live without human contact, food or daylight, but if you can't print, it's chaos!
19. ...when you're being shown pictures of a trip, you ask what the human scale is.
20. ...you can use Photoshop, Illustrator and make a web page, but you don't know how to use Excel.
21. ...you consider using broccoli for your models.
22. ...you consider 3AM an early night.
23. ...upon hearing 'supermodel', you think of a nicely crafted-foam core model.
24. ... you ask Santa Clause for architecture supplies.
25. ...Your four basic food groups are candy, caffeine, coffee, and pretzels.
26. ...your roommates say "good morning," and you reply "good night."
27. ...'Red Bull' is you favorite drink.
28. ...all of the Christmas gifts you give are wrapped in tracing paper.
29. ...you hear the same song on the radio 3 or more times in one night.
30. ...the only sleep you get is in your G.E. classes.
31. ...you're dating another architecture student.
32. ...you're in a 6-unit class and it is still not enough.
33. ...your parents are complaining that you're not having enough fun.
34. ...you see showering as a waste of time.
35. ...your parents have more of a social life than you.
36. ...your 11-year-old sister has more of a social life than you.
37. ...you know all the 24-hour food places in the area.
38. ...your friends get more sleep in one night than you do in one week.
39. ..."scoring" involves an X-Acto blade
40. ...you say "It's only midnight- I have plenty of time to finish."
41. ...you confuse sunrise with sunset.
42. ...you ask what time it is, then ask "AM or PM?"
43. ...you strangle your roommate because he said he stayed up late studying.
44. ...you know how much a cubic foot of concrete weighs (150lbs).
45. ...you slice your finger, and the first thing you think of is if you'll be able to finish your model.
46. ...you understand why architects have glasses and white hair.
47. ...you can listen to all your CD's in one night.
48. ...you wake up to go to school and you're already there.
49. ...you start wearing all black.
50. ...you have no life, and admit it.
51. ...you have memorized every radio commercial that airs after 10PM.
52. ...you confuse today and tomorrow.
53. ...you can write a 6-page term paper by procrastinating.
54. ...you count the number of days (not hours) you've been awake.
55. ...concept of time is not forward, but a countdown from the time a project is due ("What time is it?""4 hours 'till").
56. ...your idea of splurging on yourself is buying another circle template (or other miscellaneous template).
57. ...YOU ALWAYS WRITE IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
58. ...you have a 30, 60, 90 and a 45, 45, 90 degree triangle. Or two. Or three. Or more.
59. ...you start replacing pictures of your friends and family with pictures of buildings.
60. ...you never have enough wall space to pin things up.
61. ...you can go for days without sunlight. (You go to class in the dark, you come home in the dark).
62. ...computers are known only as the white box of death. (They keep crashing on you).
63. ...time spent with friends must be scheduled way in advance.
64. ...you buy 50-dollar architectural magazines that you haven't read yet.
65. ...when someone offers you a BIC pen, you feel offended.
66. ...you wear your USB Drive around your neck.
67. ...you know what Glue tastes like.
68. ...when asked if you like the Guggenheim you reply Which one?
69. ...you go to class to be marked present and then sleep until the lecture is over
70. ...you are a "fourth year," not a senior cause you definitely aren't graduating any time soon. (hahahaha. )
71. ...you know how to silk screen your own t-shirts.
72. ...you know that professors aren't required to come to class, ever.

Thanks Mihai&&Silviana!

Look mum! I'm on youtube :)

I want opinions. DON'T be nice xD (and there's room for all your commenting needs on youtube too, if you feel like it)

Blobby snap!

CAN. YOU. IMAGINE!?
This is actually my third post this YEAR. In DECEMBER!!!

Putting the worthless talking aside, I hereby declare my blog re-started and re-visualised by my one person. For The Win!!! =)

Aberatie.

New year? So what? In fact it's just passing from a day to another and geting younger by the second =] 

Made some calculations and I just entered the 6820th day of my life. Fascinating, ain't it? Of those 7k days how many were brilliant? How many were good? How many were just there? How many were mediocre? Which one was the worse? Which one was the best? When did I skip a beat and ran out of air? 

Lots of questions, lots of things left yet to discover.

But what we lack these days, and I don't refer only to me but to all of us, is determination. Knowing our goal, knowing where we're headed. Knowing when and how to change our ways, to pursue our goal. It sounds easy, but proves to be hard.

I think my goal should be what I'm most afraid of this year. We all have that one thing we're scared to death of doing, and until we've tried it we can't say we actually live up to our own expectation. We get so frustrated by our incapability of crushing down our fears and living our dream, that we miss happiness completely. I'm a get me a fearcrusher these days. Not alcohol, that's a fake one. I'll try getting me one from the attic of my head, hope there's not too much of a mess to find it.

People lived today, but others died today. Bear this in mind when letting fear get the best of you.

Crap. Quadruple crap in fact... I survived day 6666 in the past year. wtf was I doing then? July 31st... Ah. I was sound asleep i bet =)

Damn, last post was soooo elaborate. 

Hi, my name is Proptelescu and I'd like to speak to the president.

There are more chicken than people in the world.

True- It just makes sense - how many chickens do you eat per year? The UN estimates that there are about 15 billion chicken in the Asia-Pacific region alone.

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Coca-Cola was originally green.
False- Coke has always been brown. Snopes implies that the brown color was intentional, to help hide any impurities in the days when making Coke was still a small scale operation.

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If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter 'A'?
A. One thousand
True- As long as you're not one of those people like me who say "a hundred" instead of "one hundred," and as long as you're counting in English. Cuatro/quattro/quatro/quatre is 4 in the romanic languages. And acht is 8 in German & Dutch. I suppose you could count in Chinese and never get an a, or any other of the 26 letters in our alphabet, for that matter.

FROM http://www.jefflewis.net/factoids2.html

Si alte vorbe de duh ce mi-au vehiculat prin capatzana:

Ociffer. I swear to drunk I'm not God. There's no blood in my alcohol system. That's my stuck and I'm story to it.  

I may be schizophrenic, but at least I have each other, and when I am alone I am together.