Friday, March 18, 2011

3 tahun yang lalu, di persimpangan jalan

"Kehidupan seorang yang bermujahadah dan tersusun tidak mengenal erti mengelak atau mungkin mengelat."

"Kadangkala (kita) tertipu dengannya, dan merasakan itulah tribulasi hebat bagi kita."

"Di sinilah kita memetik kata-kata tarbiyyah bukan segala-galanya, tapi segala-galanya adalah tarbiyyah. Apa sahaja yang kita hadapi, di situ ada ruang tarbiyyah buat kita, hatta sekecil mainan perasaan sekalipun."

"Meninggalkan salah satu demi yang lagi satu, itu bukan jalannya. Sekalipun masa tidak mengizinkan, maka jalan baginya untuk memenangi kedua perkara tersebut adalah menyusun urusan dan masanya dengan baik."


"Setiap kali ia ingin melepaskan beban dan melengahkan urusan, ia berkata pada dirinya, Itu bukan jalannya."


Ada insan yang dikurniakan bakat menulis, lalu dia menulis dengan baik, memukau perhatian pembaca dengan gaya penceritaan seperti pengolahan drama Melayu Samarinda. Tetapi malangnya, penulisannya ibarat tin kosong, tiada agenda.

Ada juga yang menulis dengan hati, lantas tulisannya mengetuk hati pembaca yang terasa tulisan itu ditujukan kepadanya. Saat hati tersentuh dan mata membesar ketika membaca tulisan itu, seluruh jiwa raga pembaca terus bermuhasabah dan mengambil ibrah sepenuhnya dari tulisan itu.

Petikan-petikan di atas berasal dari satu penulisan yang kini berusia lebih kurang 3 tahun, dan entah kenapa ia sering menghantui (in a good way) fikiran penulis. Semoga ianya juga berbekas di hati orang lain. Jazakallahu khayran kpd penulis asal, yang kini sudah jarang menulis. Kemungkinan kini lebih banyak menulis manusia.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Plugin City

If there is a new city centre to be built in the peripheral regions of Victoria, how would it be?
Can we take the original Hoddle grid of Melbourne as our precedent?

Of course!

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

PP3 01 Time Management & Investment


1. Architects need to know how to read the economy. We know there's a 7 year cycle, so knowing where the economy is heading helps architects to handle their work. This profession stands right at the front-line of domino when the economy starts changing. Building industry will be called to halt when economy is not good, vice versa.

2. When it is booming, more projects come in, more work obviously, hence probably need more workers. Cash flow looks awesome, everyone seems happy.

3. When the economy is sliding down the graph, be prepared to be in a period of leisure-sketching, client hunting, reading books, updating websites, drinking coffee and learn new ArchiCAD skills. Wether we like it or not, the cycle will happen, and we just have to live with it.

4. Make some good friends with lawyers that specialize in the law of brankruptcy. They might prove to be a worthy companion during the problematic years.

5. This profession can only generate us money with our own effort (I'm hoping its not). It is not like a computer-gaming industry where the experts spend a fair bit of time creating the game, and once the game is on the market, the money keeps on rolling into into their bank account. So, time management is very important.

6. Some clever firms in Melbourne was said to have a sub-firm (i think that's what they call it) in every time zone so that they would have their drawings being produced every second. Its all about productivity and efficiency.

7. It is advised that only 70% of an architect's income should come from his profession. The other 30% could come from other alternatives. This is where investment comes in. 

8. The architecture profession nowadays is not the same as it was 25 years ago. Back then, fresh graduates enter firms, worked their way up the office organisations, and perhaps be one of the CEOs. There is a clear career path there.

9. Now, this profession is not based on that career path anymore. It is more towards project-based. If an architect's CV shows that he or she has been involved in the construction of a lot significant buildings, he or she is more desirable. (Is it applicable in Malaysia yet?)

10. There are 3 architecture bodies in Australia that students need to remember; they are the AACA, AIA and ARBV.

ps: just some notes from Professional Practice lectures. 
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