School of Architecture, Building & Design(SABD) Student Society: Beyond Borders 2007

As all of you already know, a bunch of us just came back from an Architecture Camp help by PAM at the Internation Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) a bout almost a week ago. The ones who attended it would know what a blast it was, especially when Taylors College managed to bag a few awards that Tony's so proud of he's actually all out in having some 'makan-makan' Oh please don't go watch Transformers I don't wanna watch it again :( for all of us :D

Ok but since I'm such a lazy blogger, I'm just gonna cut & paste my livejournal post here ok? With maybe more pictures and less words and some edits just so that some of you won't fall asleep on your keyboards and get those iddy biddy keyboard key-marks on your face with dried up drool on your cheeks.

OK here goes:

To be back home in civilization where there aren't 4 flights bloody hell of stairs to climb to get to your room, where it doesn't take a 2 and a half kms walk to your dormitory, where the premises is not as big as Melaka itself, where I can wear shorts and my tanks wherever whenever, where I won't get lost trying to find my way to the cafeteria, where FOOD IS EDIBLE, where toilet rolls are abundant, etc etc etc...we're home from IIUM y'all!

So there, my first (and I'm sure firsts for the most of us too) Architecture camp. Damn, how does one say that without sounding like such a geek? I thought I was gonna have loads and loads of fun and sleep. Who was I kidding, its an architecture camp. We sleep eat and berak models, drawings and presentations. However, very cool that about 20 other architecture universities and colleges around Malaysia took part, most of which I cannot remember their names because they all start with 'U' and end with 'M'. Lim Kok Wing was there too along with UCSI and Unity (those are about all the unis that dont start with a 'U' and end with an 'M'). I was put in charge of the exhibition booth, which I am partly ashamed of now because looking at the other booths I feel very inferior, small and in inadequate. Mine looked more like a TOY booth while LKW's looked mafia-ish. Our models looked simple and small scaled, others looked major and so detailed. Damnn (inside joke). HOWEVER, ours had pretty lights, made to look abstract and totally artsy fartsy AND we had TWO extension cords. Others had none. This helps make me feel important.

*clickety click* the retardation begins (more pictures)

There were basically 2 groups of students there: the Participants who are PAM student members and the Observers who aren't. I'm very kiam siap so I was an Observer. Very exp to pay for membership ok. Part of the activities for the Observers were the Archi race which was actually pretty much like Amazing race except we don't get to use airplanes to get to our spots and that we blindly run wherever our leaders leads us to. It was horrendous, it made me feel old because my stamina is dying and I cannot run as fast with slippers anymore. Also, there were way too many uphills and ascending staircases.

We also had Watergun War! Which was so awesome lah because we get to shoot people we don't like and laugh at them afterwards. NO No kidding lah it was fun because.. well simply because it was fun holding big guns and shooting/squirting water randomly at our opponents. And sometimes even group members.

Because of this Watergun War, I now have collected a new shade to my 4 different ones on my body. Now i must tutup my aurats for a few months so that my body can recolour and even itself out. My nose stands out because it seems to be the only part of my face that's burnt & it is not even funny anymore when you can't even cover it up with make up ok.

But preparing for Cultural Night was the best :) Taylors presented a sketch starring Adora and Ah Jin who did a tremendous job making the spectators laugh so hard that *cough* ANDREW COULDN'T EVEN KEEP THE VIDEO CAMERA from just screening our legs. The video turned out to be pretty much useless in the end because it only displayed our legs and abit of the BirdBird (KELVIN). Oh yeah, we won first place for the sketch! while LKW got 2nd and Unity bagged 3rd. LKW's was really artistic and creative, i was reallly really impressed! 4 guys came out as statues, all in while and just blankets wrapped around their peewees with a 'choir' at the background. Haha from what I heard one of the 'statues' took off his blanket after the show and didnt realise that he took off his boxers as well and started walking around the campus stark naked! With only 4 Muslim girls as witnesses. Talk about right place at the right time yo :p heeehee he ran into the store room shreiking when someone pointed it out to him not long after.

Our lecturers, Mr Cheah and Ms. Shereen (God bless their beautiful souls) were total sweethearts for coming to support us and then later treated us to supper when they saw how small the food portion was and how hard we were working all night for presentations. Since they couldn't bring us to McDonalds, they bought 26 large sets of McChicken to US! :D hahahahahahhhhahah the look of envy on everyone elses faces, priceless. I shouldda snapped some jealous face shots and compare them and then stick em all over the campus.

We stayed up till 7 in the morning the last day there, playing Truth or Dare which eventually became Dare or Dare or lick Wan's tits and also charades which was very pointless because I offered to go up most of the time just so that I won't keep falling asleep on the floor. And THEN it started raining. hurrah. We couldn't go back to our hostels 3 kms away until someone found us sleeping in the middle of the exhibition hall and then offered to send us all back to our hostels in his little proton. So nice these UIA students I tell you :) Really one I think they were all very helpful and sweet during our stay there.

Ok signing off. *muah! Enjoy the pictures!