Monday, March 22, 2010

And so I missed the Alice exhibition in MV.

My back is hurting from sitting too much. I swear I hear a crack each time I stretch. I don't know if I'll be prepared for this Thursday's final crit. Right now, my heart says "Do your work!" but my mind says "For Heaven's sake, go and sleep. I can't take this anymore."
After Design tutorial, we had a field trip for History. KL historical buildings tour/presentation. Walked from Petaling Street to Masjid Jamek, to Masjid Negara, stopping at every important landmark along the way, including the Merdeka Square and SAS Building.. and then back to Petaling Street from 3.30pm-8pm. The trip was nice in a way that there were a lot of places that I have never been to, like Little India, St Mary's Church and the KL Railway Station. And this is the first time I've seen the National Mosque up-close :S Although my back and legs are hurting like bitches now.
I want to sleep so badly.

I'm reading Louis I Kahn's "Between Silence and Light" again, to help me with my design concept and stuff. There is a certain beauty and quality to his poetic words that I respond to. Sometimes, I think I would have been better off doing something with writing, reading and speaking, because all of that seems to be more of my forte.


"Everybody is not equally talented. They are all marvelous, yes, but not equal. There is no person without talent. Talent prevails everywhere, but the question is in what way your singularity can blossom, because you cannot learn anything that is not part of yourself. Many of you have learned physics, I am sure, and passed every examination, and you don't know a word of it. That happened to me. I copied the notes of the boy next to me because he could both listen and write. If I listened, I could not write. If I wrote, I did not listen. The teacher might have said to me "Louis Kahn, it is important you learn physics because you're going to be an architect. But I would rather you don't take notes. Just listen. You will be examined, but I will ask you to draw physics for me." And I would have surprised him. It would be my forte, my way, and therefore it must not be disturbed. If you are crowded with that which does not belong to you, you will forget it; it will never be with you, and you will lose your sense of worth."
-Knowledge, Louis I. Kahn

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