once again, i am standing at a new starting line, running the tortoise and hare race with myself. 和龟兔赛跑, a story my coach told me when i was training as a gymnast. looking back, from primary to secondary school and to the polytechnic, from combined school to national team, the bittersweet days are over. old friends leave, new friends are here. i am grateful to the coaches, teachers, lecturers, classmates, teammates for this enriching journey i’ve walked through so far.. let’s continue to work hard together ! another 4 years of university life.. well, hope to make full use of this opportunity to learn as much, at the same time, to produce some good results as well.
have you heard of the story of the tortoise and hare race ? it’s one of the few short stories i love to read, the idea behind the story really inspires me. would you like to be the tortoise or the hare ? haha… as an architecture student, i suppose we got to be both… just like the hare, we work smart and fast to meet the datelines, while at times, we got to be like the tortoise, to slow down and think through. both is necessary i suppose.. what do you think ?
my dad always joked about not having anything for us.. but instead, he has three lenses for my brothers and i. a set of binoculars 望远镜 to look far, a magnifying glass 放大镜 to magnify and understand a problem we are unsure of, and the microscopic lens 显微镜 to do lots of research and questioning.. these are precious ‘tools’ that are brought along with me all the time. and not forgetting my camera tooo ! how it captures the moments in life. we can’t see the future through a rearview mirror.. we look forward..
we’re at the 3rd week already, next mon’s interim crit ! im really happy to be working with my studio mates, working hard… we’ve got lots of research on the nature/ culture of bamboo and the idea of zen, the joints and love stories except for a 1:5 scaled model which has to be presented soon !
