Sem Break 2.0!

Hello Semester 2 break!

I am currently in my ole' favourite spot in Starbucks, sipping on my mocha frappuccino, texting my boyfriend and just, chilling. Have't had the chance to do this in a long while, I'm glad I have today to spend on my own, despite having a blocked nose and pretty much freezing in this air-conditioned cafe. So, where do I begin writing? I think I shall start with summarising this entire semester.

So, this semester has been completely different than my first sem. In first semester, it was all about studio life. We ate, slept, and practically lived in our studios. This semester, we were privileged enough to spend most of our time in our dorms, and even spent a lot of our free time hanging out at Setia City Mall, which is a mall located near our campus. I even had the time to get dressed properly and put on some makeup every morning before class, which is good since I spent the last semester looking like a piece of trash hahaha. Anyway, design class went quite smoothly for me during the first two projects, but project 3 was pretty much a disaster, which is a shame since that final project matters so much more than the first two. Study wise, construction technology and history were pretty much hellish for me, I mean I did try to study constech earlier than all the other subjects, but I still had a hard time understanding the subject, and the worst part of it is that the topics that I have studied were not in the paper at all. Disappointing, amirite? Looking at the bright side, my friends and I got a lot closer this semester, since we spent a lot of time together playing bowling, karaoke, going out for sahoor at 3am in the morning till 5, I'm honestly quite surprised (and glad) at how close we've gotten. There's no denying that these kids are pretty much my second family now. As usual, drama was inevitable. This semester we had more drama to deal with compared to last semester, but somehow the arguments and misunderstandings that we've had have brought us closer together, as we've spent sometime working on fixing those two problems. For archifest this sem, we won a few awards, most outstanding award is probably the best studio award. Oh and also the best performance award, which Nia, Eyas and I performed a mashup and a raya song for. We managed to go on a few tripbarais as well, the highlight is probably our raya trip to Johor and Selangor, where we drove all the way to Johor Bahru and back, and the fact that I drove 180kph on the way back :p That was one hella experience.

#tripbarai raya black edition 2k16: Haziq, Caer, Dikmas, Nia, Yong, Akid, Afiq & Eyas (front row) (missing a lot more from this picture)

Oh, before I forget, sports! We had a pretty rad archisport this semester, and my favourite part is probably our frisbee matches. Kosmik didn't manage to win, but I had the opportunity to play for Maverik, and even got to wear their Subway jersey, which was pretty hella awesome. Archisport has given me the chance mingle with the seniors, which is quite nice seeing that I no longer have that privilege through Mestika ever since I've quit playing angklung.

Part of Kosmik Studio (Kispot '16 Futsal)

 I think that's for the summary of my second half of my first year studying architecture in UiTM, if I've missed out anything, maybe I'll include it in the next post! Thank you for reading this ^^

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