(Brrrr....rrrr....rrrr....)
Winter is here and I am here half squating in front of the laptop on my chair trying to keep my feet warm. I have finished one of my last assignments, and there is just one more left before I can celebrate the end of semester. While I was doing the assignment, which required us to reflect on our design methods, I did extra reflection on my own, till the time when I was a high school student. I liked drawing but only as a hobby, things that I do when I feel like it, now it becomes a burden to me, and I wonder why. What has changed? I think there is a constant fight within my heart that part of me want to rebel against the design culture among architects today, a yearning to adopt a functional stream based on each culture that we design in, and I think I can't do it well yet.
Being able to finish the reflection I managed to peer back under the layers of my heart, and there I find a small spark that comes alive every now and then when I want to draw something just for leisure. I am determined to keep it alive and keep it burning, and become a big flame that brightens my study as an architecture student. And I think I found the fuel, the passion that is going to keep it burning - designing for people, and designing to sustain a society. There maybe no fancy drawings or models, but I am determined to keep soldiering on this path, to design buildings that work for people.
