Some people dare to play around with this act.
I wonder why....
Friday, January 30, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Reflection
“Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous”Confucius (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)
Obama- Community College
Transformasion of Bush to Obama
Quote ucapan Obama tentang Kolej Komuniti:
Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
Barack Obama
ARCHITECTS' QUOTES
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Luis Barragan
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
Luis Barragan
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
Luis Barragan
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.
Luis Barragan
A house is a machine for living in.
Le Corbusier
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Le Corbusier
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Le Corbusier
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Le Corbusier
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
Le Corbusier
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
Le Corbusier
A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.
William Kent
All gardening is landscape painting.
William Kent
Garden as though you will live forever.
William Kent
Form follows function.
Louis Sullivan
It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.
Louis Sullivan
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
Frank Lloyd Wright
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Frank Lloyd Wright
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
Frank Lloyd Wright
very great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Freedom is from within.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Less is only more where more is no good.
Frank Lloyd Wright
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Space is the breath of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
Yoshio Taniguchi
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
Leon Battista Alberti
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Tadao Ando
The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
Tadao Ando
The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
Tadao Ando
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
Tadao Ando
When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
Tadao Ando
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
Tadao Ando
Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
Christopher Alexander
Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.
Christopher Alexander
am but an architectural composer.
Alexander Jackson Davis
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
Arthur Erickson
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
Arthur Erickson
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
Antonio Gaudi
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
Antonio Gaudi
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
Walter Gropius
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
Walter Gropius
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
Walter Gropius
When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
Arne Jacobsen
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
Arne Jacobsen
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Philip Johnson
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
Louis Kahn
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Louis Kahn
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
Louis Kahn
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Adolf Loos
Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
Adolf Loos
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
Adolf Loos
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
Minoru Yamasaki
And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
Minoru Yamasaki
And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.
Minoru Yamasaki
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Less is more.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.
Robert A. M. Stern
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.
Robert A. M. Stern
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.
Thom Mayne
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
Thom Mayne
Luis Barragan
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
Luis Barragan
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
Luis Barragan
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.
Luis Barragan
A house is a machine for living in.
Le Corbusier
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Le Corbusier
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Le Corbusier
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Le Corbusier
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
Le Corbusier
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
Le Corbusier
A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.
William Kent
All gardening is landscape painting.
William Kent
Garden as though you will live forever.
William Kent
Form follows function.
Louis Sullivan
It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.
Louis Sullivan
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
Frank Lloyd Wright
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Frank Lloyd Wright
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
Frank Lloyd Wright
very great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Freedom is from within.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Less is only more where more is no good.
Frank Lloyd Wright
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Space is the breath of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
Yoshio Taniguchi
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
Leon Battista Alberti
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Tadao Ando
The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
Tadao Ando
The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
Tadao Ando
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
Tadao Ando
When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
Tadao Ando
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
Tadao Ando
Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
Christopher Alexander
Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.
Christopher Alexander
am but an architectural composer.
Alexander Jackson Davis
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
Arthur Erickson
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
Arthur Erickson
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
Antonio Gaudi
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
Antonio Gaudi
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
Walter Gropius
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
Walter Gropius
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
Walter Gropius
When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
Arne Jacobsen
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
Arne Jacobsen
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Philip Johnson
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
Louis Kahn
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Louis Kahn
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
Louis Kahn
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Adolf Loos
Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
Adolf Loos
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
Adolf Loos
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
Minoru Yamasaki
And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
Minoru Yamasaki
And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.
Minoru Yamasaki
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Less is more.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.
Robert A. M. Stern
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.
Robert A. M. Stern
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.
Thom Mayne
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
Thom Mayne
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Old School (Pantun 4 dan 6 kerat)
Penakik pisau seraut
Ambil galah batang lintabung
Seludangnya buatkan nyiru
Setitik jadikan laut
Sekepal jadikan gunung
Alam terbentang jadikan guru
Alam terbentang sebagai rujukan kehidupan. Tinggi falsafahnya.
Pantun seterusnya...
Anak rusa nani
Baru kembang ekor
Apa dosa kami
Lalu tidak tegur
Yang uniknya pantun ini ialah bagaimana masyarakat melayu dulu mencari punca kesilapan/kekurangan pada diri mereka dulu sebelum mencari kesalahan orang lain. "Self-reflective" le ni.Sekarang zaman dah berubah dan mengakui kesilapan diri mungkin boleh menjatuhkan maruah yang tinggi "self-esteem"nya. Mungkin. Atau mungkin juga kerana sering didendangkan lagu "Bangau...oh bangau...kenapa kau kurus" yang sering menunding jari kepada orang lain.
Teringat kata-kata Mamat dari Mambau..."Lu fikir lah sendiri..."
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Test Your Brain
Try this creativity test, are you are right brain person or left brain person.
http://www.wherecreativitygoestoschool.com/vancouver/left_right/rb_test.htm
QUESTION TO BILL GATES
Mr Bill Gates :
Sir, how is it that your name is Gates but you are selling WINDOWS?
Sir, how is it that your name is Gates but you are selling WINDOWS?
Thursday, January 22, 2009
The New Map???Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Perjumpaan Dengan Pelajar
Time to Meet the Students (Meet Uncle Hussin)
Time to meet the students..if in the states they are classified as seniors, junior, sophomore and freshmen and adult students. In Polytechnics there are classified into two categories, pelajar baru and pelajar lama. So have to plan what you're going to say to these students...if not it will become a welcoming boring speech. For sure most of the students will dooze...
I like to use Analogy in speech. For this particular group of students (The Freshie) I used an analogy about fishing industry in Japan. (I managed to grap a book about japanese Management Styles before I when to sleep).
In Japan the people love to eat fish. To ensure the fish is marketable when reaching the port, the fishermen had to search ways to make their catchs fresh. In the early days they used salt and ice. This was not so effective. Next, the japanese place their catchs in tanks of water. So that when the catchs reaches the port the fishes still alive. But then, the customers still dont like the taste. I guess the japanese can differentiate the taste of fish that are in the container and the fish that are wild. So what the fishermen did was amazing. They place small baby sharks in the tank. This baby sharks will chase the fishes in the tanks and make the fishes more tasty.
Back to the students. PDs' students are the fishes, the tank is the politeknik and the little sharks are the lecturers. I guess the KJ will be the big sharks. The lecturers will chase the students (the fish) who are lazy bumb, bite them in order to unsure t that they are marketable when graduating. I am not sure wheather my message reached my audience..But from their body language, I guess what I was trying to address mereka boleh faham.
For this afternoon, perjumpaan Pelajar Luar bersama Pengarah and the police, I have to thinks a new analogy. Any clues....
Time to meet the students..if in the states they are classified as seniors, junior, sophomore and freshmen and adult students. In Polytechnics there are classified into two categories, pelajar baru and pelajar lama. So have to plan what you're going to say to these students...if not it will become a welcoming boring speech. For sure most of the students will dooze...
I like to use Analogy in speech. For this particular group of students (The Freshie) I used an analogy about fishing industry in Japan. (I managed to grap a book about japanese Management Styles before I when to sleep).
In Japan the people love to eat fish. To ensure the fish is marketable when reaching the port, the fishermen had to search ways to make their catchs fresh. In the early days they used salt and ice. This was not so effective. Next, the japanese place their catchs in tanks of water. So that when the catchs reaches the port the fishes still alive. But then, the customers still dont like the taste. I guess the japanese can differentiate the taste of fish that are in the container and the fish that are wild. So what the fishermen did was amazing. They place small baby sharks in the tank. This baby sharks will chase the fishes in the tanks and make the fishes more tasty.
Back to the students. PDs' students are the fishes, the tank is the politeknik and the little sharks are the lecturers. I guess the KJ will be the big sharks. The lecturers will chase the students (the fish) who are lazy bumb, bite them in order to unsure t that they are marketable when graduating. I am not sure wheather my message reached my audience..But from their body language, I guess what I was trying to address mereka boleh faham.
For this afternoon, perjumpaan Pelajar Luar bersama Pengarah and the police, I have to thinks a new analogy. Any clues....
Monday, January 19, 2009
Pelajar Yang Suci Bersih
Pelajar baru JKA yang mendaftar pada 12 Januari 2009. Program Sijil/Diploma Kejuruteraan Awam dan Senibina Sesi jan 2009.
SMS 0127XXXX34
Seorang student yang agak rapat dengan saya, yang sering berhubung melalui SMS dan saya petik SMSnya " En XXXX..sy betul2 minta maaf dgn En. XXXX..sy tahu sy byk mgecewakn en XXXX..en XXXX tlalu baik bt sy..tima kasih byk2..wlpn sy rasa sy x dterima tp sy minta ampun minta maaf byk2."
Dari beberapa perjumpaan dengan pelajar ini, beliau cepat putus asa. Kurang tabah menghadapi dugaan. Saya sering memprovokasi dirinya..cuba melihat reaksi spontan tingkahlakunya. Beberapa kali dia SMS saya minta perjelasan...saya balas apa yang patut. Saya beritahu dia, saya akan jawab dalam blog saya. Sebenarnya saya tak mahu ianya ditonton oleh satu dunia, tapi dia SMS saya...minta alamat blog saya. Ok kalau nak betul, saya akan tulis.
Kepada individu ini, saya tidak ada apa-apa. Saya seperti manusia lain ingin melihat orang lain berjaya. Saya mahu semua pelajar saya berjaya dalam hidupnya di dunia dan akhirat. Apa yang saya harapkan masalah awak telah pun selesaikan. Tumpukan tumpuan tenaga awak kepada tugas awak sebagai pelajar di PPD ini. Masalah yang lepas biarkan ianya berlalu dan jadikan ikhtibar dan panduan hidup awak. Peribahasa Cina ada menyatakan " Dengan melihat cermin, kita dapat membetulkan topi kita" Dengan melihat masalah yang lepas kita dapat memperbaiki diri kita. PULL STOP.
Dari beberapa perjumpaan dengan pelajar ini, beliau cepat putus asa. Kurang tabah menghadapi dugaan. Saya sering memprovokasi dirinya..cuba melihat reaksi spontan tingkahlakunya. Beberapa kali dia SMS saya minta perjelasan...saya balas apa yang patut. Saya beritahu dia, saya akan jawab dalam blog saya. Sebenarnya saya tak mahu ianya ditonton oleh satu dunia, tapi dia SMS saya...minta alamat blog saya. Ok kalau nak betul, saya akan tulis.
Kepada individu ini, saya tidak ada apa-apa. Saya seperti manusia lain ingin melihat orang lain berjaya. Saya mahu semua pelajar saya berjaya dalam hidupnya di dunia dan akhirat. Apa yang saya harapkan masalah awak telah pun selesaikan. Tumpukan tumpuan tenaga awak kepada tugas awak sebagai pelajar di PPD ini. Masalah yang lepas biarkan ianya berlalu dan jadikan ikhtibar dan panduan hidup awak. Peribahasa Cina ada menyatakan " Dengan melihat cermin, kita dapat membetulkan topi kita" Dengan melihat masalah yang lepas kita dapat memperbaiki diri kita. PULL STOP.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
ഗ്രേറ്റ് എഞ്ചിനീയറിംഗ്
Great Engineering Quote
Engineers aren't boring people, we just get excited over boring things.--Anon
Saturday, January 17, 2009
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