Slow and Steady Wins the Race

so what am i up to..?

i'm currently unemployed, when other studiomates are tweeting from their offices. yup, it's supposed to be the time for practical training.

my head and hands are currently free.

pfftt... in your dreams.

i'm tied to the Oxford Brookes workshop preparation works, spending everyday checking flight tickets, arranging the Euro trip, then doing literature review on urban design. not much work there, i do feel that i'm left behind from those who goes for practical training, some of them have mastered new softwares, producing greatly-rendered images of their designs, some of them get paid, some gets to do presentation for clients. but me, other than being all flexible with the preparation and spending time overeas, i don't see myself as more beneficial than others.

what i imagine for how the coming semester will turn out is me, being left behind doing housing projects, with very small knowledge on the computer-aided designs and rendering. even in the last project, when everybody was already doing their design with lumion rendering, i'm still the one left behind with the traditional work; Adobe Photoshop. but i managed to save myself from all those computer-crashing problems or with lost surfaces or forms.

i was afraid to install the softwares on my laptop because it was the last few weeks of the submission, so i can't afford if my computer crashes or become overheated or had to be formatted. so i had to play it safe, added with my design works not going so well. so i just spent time doing my work in photoshop, where i am most confident and well-skilled, so that i can finish my work in time for submission. it turned out that i managed to finish my work really early, for the first time in 3 years and 6 semesters, i had the chance to sleep well the night before the final submission.

as for this coming 7th semester, i don't know where everyone will stand. i mean, with our presentation of works being kicked up a notch, i see everyone at almost the same levels. now that the practical training lessons come in, i see the league is shuffled.

i predict that many of the studiomates will take their work more seriously, work will be done faster, plus the newly learned software skills. it's hard to see where i'll stand.

or am i just being too blinded that i'm left behind because of a few months of practical training?? being sent to the opposite part of the globe to do urban design at this level is actually a great opportunity too. i might not learn new software or rendering techniques, but i will learn the process of higher level designing. and hopefully be able to work with outside students, and will manage to go to Bartlett Summer Show 2011 to see the works, then visit overseas architectural firms.

plus, i see the situation of me not going for practical training as a chance for me to organize the committee of the coming Archifest. yes, work is already starting, just need a meeting this weekend to get everybody to go full force, paperwork is almost ready to be submitted.

work is progressing but is slow. it might sound like we are behind schedule, but i see it as "slow and steady wins the race."

there's no point rushing through things when they are not ready. what counts is how things are strategized. when everyone knows what they are doing, that's when things will go at its optimum.

trust me. i don't just go blank when i stood still.

it doesn't matter if you start late, but make sure when you start, you don't stop.