"Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary—the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trim tab.

It's a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trim tab. Society thinks it's going right by you, that it's left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go. So I said, call me Trim Tab."

—Buckminster Fuller

Something interesting I came across while doing research for my project. I'll have to write about two designers etc. Still thinking. I mailed my tutor about my possible choices,see what he says. =) Yesterday night I worked till 530. AM. I was rushing my work for today's studio. =\ Took damn long. They asked me to come support for IBG.

I mentioned I had to rush work for Tues but someone else said he has a lot of work and a super long day ahead. Well that's nice but unlike you, I can't just rip off/copy tutorials and assignments or smoke my way through entire essays. There's no substituting for the real thing, your own, original work. Hard work and effort, and no way around it. No cheating here.

So I coloured and drew all the way from like 10pm to 530 before finishing everything I had to finish. I actually overshot and did some extra work but it saves me some time I guess. I just have to refine my designs. Went to meet XW after studio for like 15 mins =( Val wanted to meet at first but ran off to met her cousin.

Went back hall and felt like doing work but was quite tired. XW convinced me to sleep so I did. Woke after an hour and she convinced me to sleep another. I felt much better after but feel very sorry for the two hours I wasted not working. =( I got 2.5 hours of sleep the previous night and I often used to stay up without sleeping.

Decided to take a break from all that drawing and did some hardcore wiki-ing to research for this project. Not very urgent but good to start a bit first. Most immediate concern is reading for AR1221 tomorrow, which I've done. Thursday semantics project I've done but need to print it out somehow. DAMN YOU PRINTER.

Friday...lecturer not around. BUT I need to finish filing my acrylic(pain in the ass) sometime soon. I don't want to drag it out for too long. Maybe...Thurs morn. And think of how to make my foam sphere. Blogging is good. Helps me to sort out my thoughts easily especially when I have so many concurrent things going on. In my free time I shall complete my metamorphosis assignment too.

Side note: Man I love hall. Hall is freaking awesome. I totally take it for granted. It's so convenient I don't think about the 3 hours I save on transport everyday doing nothing. The people around, the community, the company, it's like living in a chalet 24/7. There's fun to be had, and there's a sense of freedom and independence. Totally unlike army. Living on the 2nd floor has its constraints. I'm right next to the gate, but I guess it's convenient. There's an abundance of 'foreign talent' and its quiet, but hey, it's quiet!

I suppose it's a blessing in disguise because it's really as conducive environment to study in. Party Central is level 4. And when you're staying in hall, you really need to balance out your life properly. And not get distracted when you shouldn't be. Level 2 does that for me. Open the door when I want to interact, close it when I get down to work. Just like an on-off switch.