For the past few days, I’ve been rushing my way into completing a proposal for a design competition held by Wu Zhi Qiao Charitable Foundation. My submission tonight marks my first ever entry into an architectural design competition! Don’t hold much expectation, the research and design process was rewarding enough, and participation was the key objective.
I had to rush in order to submit it before heading to my week-long trip to Australia with my family. I’m now all packed and ready for a light sleep before heading to the airport in less than 5 hours.
Starring through my studio window, the far mountaintops are barely visible behind layers of slanted rain. This familiar scenery always brings me back to a particular episode when I was in grade 1 or 2 studying at a boarding school in HK. I remember myself sitting in a classroom with my desk close to the window, I was starring at the yet to be familiar gloomy and harsh scenery outside, daydreaming and wondering whether I would be picked up by my father. I don’t remember all the details, but I still remember the happiness I felt when my father arrived.
My sister and brother-in-law decided to take my niece and nephew (from my brother) to watch Toy Story 3 today, and I chose to tag along. I went into the theatre without reading any reviews or watching the trailer beforehand. I don’t remember watching the second episode either. The movie was surprisingly good, I think this is the best way to enjoy a movie – to watch it without any expectations whatsoever so that everything shown on the big screen is nothing but surprise!
The World Cup 2010 in South Africa has finally ended with Spain winning this most prestigious soccer award. I’m not really much of a soccer fan, but the atmosphere in HK is definitively much more vibrant and infectious compared to Toronto.
