cheers to a new beginning

many a worthy student walked out of nus aki school with a sense of liberation, meditating on past experiences, good or bad. We all have gone through our own experiences, sometimes shared, most of the time individually through common activities, and it is up to us what to make of these memories. i remember chair-throwing heated arguements with my tutor colin throughout my entire first year, i remember beng kiang telling me my design for a garden is not architecture but art installation, i remember countless workings with fantastically horrible partners/groups, and of course, concussions after not sleeping for days. these are only a few of the experiences that have made me the designer i am today. not a good one, but one who is looking forward to improvements and future experiments and challenges.

i'm not sure about the rest of you guys..but i feel that everyone goes through shit times, everyone goes through even shittier times. at the end of the day, you come to realise you'll never be able to escape from shit. nus might have been real bad for some. but take it as an 'consolation' that future times may not promise anything better. i guess what i'm trying to say but doing it real badly is that there is not point drawing only negative juices from memories. the real challenge is to appreciate what was or could be learnt in those memories, not matter how good or bad they were.

i guess the message being relayed here is that i find it a pity some of my dear friends are so quick to express how much they did not learn from/ did not enjoy nus. my experiences were not so different from theirs, and i agree nus is a terrible school. however, we did spend good times then that have brough us here now. and at the very least i did learn a little bit about architecture.

now that i am gone, cheers to a new beginning. yes everyone knows i miss school. but i think you all misunderstand me. i don't miss nus, though i did enjoy my time there (no matter how shitty it was). i miss being in a institution that can push me to bring my ideas to a higher level.