woke up at like 8++ am to reach school by 10 ++am only to realise noone was there (and wont be there till like more than 2 hours later). waste my sleeping time! but at least i managed to do some last minute work to appear more prepared. been quite lost during RAG up till now. oops.. i already told the RAG head that i have no idea how to construct stuff and yet he still insist i can do it. "just advice people" where got a role so shuang one!! bluff me!! and now, here i am wondering how are we ever going to build something that isnt going to collapse and crush the judges. that's a sure way to get their attention..
anyway, moniza and i agreed that RAG has made us emotionally unstable. at different times of the day, we either feel hopelessly dejected about how we are ever going to complete everything or strangely optimistic about how everything is going to come together nicely. i have gone to sleep thinking"this is crazy.. how to finish!! give me 2 years also maybe cannot be done.. now only 2 months!?", dreamt about seniors going "this CANNOT work!! what were you thinking!! i already said... yadda yadda yak" and woke up telling myself that all these worries are extremely unfounded. somehow i always feel less stressed out when someone else in the group is extremely stressed. so i assume i will be the last one to totally lose it. already 2 people i know have gone a bit cranky partly due to RAG and at this rate... i will last till ... 20 June 08.
Ways to drive yourself up the wall#1
always remember that life just isnt terrible enough as it is. we have GOT to make it worse. if a long 1metre pole can do the trick, we must most certainly use 100 small branches stuck together to get the job done.
so...
a building with supposedly 4 metal albas forming its main frame...
and four wooden planks to form its walls...
being declared as not being elaborate enough (put simply, it will turn out like crap)
so...
it led to a search on how to make the freaking building more realistic!
so began the countless suggestions (from sightly disturbed to extremely delusional):
- pipes
- rattan
- cans
- wire
- chopsticks
- plastic forks and spoons
- straws
- toothpicks (?!?)
if you think these are crazy suggestions, check what real crazy people did (which only encouraged us to continue on our deluded journey)
http://englishrussia.com/?p=552
http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/eiffel_tower.html
actually, i would really like to try the lego one sometimes... (see!!?? i am becoming crazy already! *slap*)
final decision: we are using bamboo poles and kidnapping some scouts if we can to help us tie the building together. i am most certainly convinced that it will work (and will remain convinced until told otherwise, so if you are convinced it will not work, shush!!! no one asked you!! *denial*)
vital data (for me):
http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?id=s0000021
http://www.klsalesinc.com/filecabinet/LawnOrnaments_Windmills.jpg
http://www.die-erde.com/europa/bauwerke/Moulin_Rouge.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgargonzalez/1423611063/
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