Today I came to work and found out my architect had finally taken leave to get married.(finally! XD) So with the layout for the magazine completed I was left without a project and had to ask what else I was needed to do. Eventually the Director decided to let me learn how the firm presents their proposals for briefs from clients and asked me to work on constructing the presentation for the residential development project in Tangzhou Beijing,China.
He sat down and ran through the normal format for all the firm's presentations.. They have standardized formats for every aspect and they keep everything really simple and uncluttered. The format of the slides are different from what everyone else normally uses and the slides changes with each new point they talk about so that the clients can easily connect the images with what they are saying.
The presentation has several segments. One of the first few things they present is the site plan then the site analysis.. after that comes the design proposal and other aspects but for today I concentrated on trying to get a map of the location on Google earth and use AUTOCAD to edit the site plan so that it could be used in the presentation. Not being able to read Chinese wasn't really helping XP so I had to get help from the new architect I'm attached to. She's really much nicer then the one who's on leave now. She's way more patient and much more amiable. I realised that maybe my architect being a junior architect meant that she was actually under a lot of pressure to perform and ends up venting in all the wrong places whereas the one I worked with today is,
1. a mother
2. a senior architect and is able to hold her own..
or maybe it's just that my architect isn't a very nice person.. *shrugs*
In any case I wonder if I can switch to work with this architect because I work quite well with her and I do things a whole lot better and I'd readily go a little further to help her out..
I talked with one of the interns over lunch today and she only confirms what I already feel about this whole industry. However she did bring up an interesting point concerning how to climb the corporate ladder by first joining a smaller firm when you first graduate from uni. We also talked about the courses in NUS which I went to look up on for my English "Job Application Letter" assignment ^^
Seems archi students are always busy busy busy..
This firm has also surprised me in my preconceptions of a large firm. In my design team everyone pulls their weight(or at least is supposed to) This is a far cry from some of the smaller firms the other intern was telling me about where the director and senior architects just sit around and think and leave most of the drafting and planning to the others..
Sunday 10th August
You know I never realised Nathan Hartono looked well... good ^^ I always thought he was a much older guy but it turns out he's around our age! Gosh why did I never know before? =P hahaha
Oh and guess who I saw outside my window today.. BatPigeon!
In other news, library duty is giving me a real headache. I mean I'm very easy going, I don't mind if you guys dicuss or game or watch videos just DON'T GET CAUGHT for god's sake and don't do it to a point where other people complain and I get into trouble with the boarding masters!.. Do you guys really want me to be the evil librarian and go around chasing people?? I'm not that free, I have homework to do during duty as well you know! So please give me a freaking break!
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