i cant explain it, i cant give you details but here’s what i have to say: God is Good!!! you know i feel like im african american and am raisin’ my hands up to the sky and praisin’ an’ singin’ tha’ God is good! man, ah can feel it in mah bones an in mah head an in mah h’art ah know God is merciful and God is worthy to be praised and good ol’ God loves me and he loves ya too. he has delivered me from sin and from all my anxieties and now ah’m just floatin ‘roun those big dark clouds up the’e in the skah. mmmm mmm mmmm! God is good!!! hallelujah! 🙂
Daily Archives: March 2, 2002
faisal alih’s thesis
a few weeks ago i helped out my friend faisal on his architectural thesis. he and his group mate, jigs, were working on geothermal design, specifically on subterranean structures in the sierra madre UP campus. about a week prior to their presentation and defense before a jury panel i stayed nights over at their house.
i suddenly found myself in “arki” mode as i helped conceptualize and critiqued structures, drew perspectives (chamba perspektib) of hypothetical buildings, theorized on design concepts and stuff, working working working with only coffee and pancit canton keeping me up. all that i had left behind since i shifted to fine arts came back to me: getting all exhausted working out a good design, falling asleep and waking up to realize that your hand is still sketching that nth floor plan, the madness of theories and considerations of end users, getting all windang from too much of everything and talking nonsense to your fellow workers until you drop of exhaustion and then waking up early the next morning because you have to finish your work for that afternoon’s deadline, stuff like that. it was scary in a way.
needless to say i still had fun, people made all the difference. i met all my old classmates (most of who, by the way, have graduated and are now working in top architectural firms in manila). and of course largely because i was able to help faisal with his thesis. now ive my closure with architecture. i may perhaps have left arki hastily (in a way), i was desperate to leave lest i rot in the course just because i couldnt ‘do’ the math subjects. i found my place in fine arts and it’s great there. i never asked myself how i would have been if i were back in architecture but that opportunity to help in faisal’s thesis prodded me to answer it. i thank God im no longer in that program because i am now really sure i didnt want to be there in the first place. perhaps i could have pulled through it (faisal says problema ko lang talaga sa arki ay yung math) but i have it better in fine arts. ill leave arki to the arkiteks. 🙂
last note on that, despite everything id like to mention here the people who made my arki experience a memorable and endurable one: fai, buds, sammy, jerome, paolo, jing, suzette, addie, odie, cor, aida (sorry girls i missed helping you out in your thesis), mang charlie, jeck, nina, malaya, jet, nap, jigs, mickey, kitty (id), sir nick, sir joven, dean fernandez (dean parin tawag kahit hindi na dean pero yun pa rin ang tawag) and the countless others ive failed to mention. cheers!
jehboy birthday
i just came from jehgirl’s birthday dinner earlier this evening (yesterday). actually she was born on the 29th of feb and so she didnt exactly had a day to celebrate technically this year. i text messaged her on the 28th greeting her advanced happy birthday. a half hour later (when midnight had passed) i text messaged belated happy birthday. it must be hard having to wait for the leap year event just so you could really be celebrating on the 29th. hap hap jeh!
benjamin padero 