::Budding Architect::

my upcoming "baby"

2008-12-15T14:53:00.007+08:00

my baby's name is CANON POWERSHOT G10..isn't it such a beautiful name? hehe.
oh God, really can't wait to hug you, to hold you.
come to mama, my baby..weee~

*taken from the website*

Advanced amateur photographers are a discerning group, and they've flocked to Canon's G-Series for its ability to meet and exceed their demands. The third-generation PowerShot G10 is a stunning successor, loaded with uncompromising specs like 14.7 megapixels, a 28mm wide-angle lens, and Canon's new DIGIC 4 Image Processor for notably improved face and motion detection. This is a camera that supports and nurtures creativity, with a full range of shooting and recording modes and compatibility with exciting accessories including Speedlite flashes.

Image Sensor

Camera Effective Pixels		Approx. 14.7 million pixels (CCD)

Lens

Focal Length (35 mm film equivalent)		5x zoom: 28 (W) - 140 (T) mm

Focusing Range
Normal		50cm (1.6 ft.) - infinity (W)
Macro		1 - 50 cm (0.39 in. - 1.6 ft.) (W)

Image Stabilizer (IS) System		Lens-shift type

Imaging Processor		DIGIC 4

Viewfinder		Real-image optical zoom viewfinder (Dioptric adjustment available)

LCD Monitor		Type: 3.0-inch type, color LCD with wide viewing angle (Effective pixels: Approx.416,000 pixels) Features: Brightness adjustment (15 levels, Quick-bright LCD)

Focus		Single, continuous AF (Face Detect¹² / AiAF (9-point) / Center / Flexizone ) ¹AF frame can be moved and fixed to specified face. ²If no face is detected, AiAF (9-points) are used. Manual Focus

Metering System		Evaluative¹, Center-weighted average, Spot² ¹ Control to incorporate facial brightness in Face Detect AF ²Fixed to center / linked to the AF frame

ISO Speed		Auto, High ISO Auto, ISO 80/ 100/ 200/ 400/ 800/ 1600 (Standard Output Sensitivity, Recommended Exposure Index)

White Balance		Auto, Day Light, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, Fluorescent H, Flash, Underwater, Custom 1 and Custom 2 *The colors of faces are evaluated in Face Detection AF

Shutter

Speeds		1/60 - 1/4000 sec. (Auto mode) 15 - 1/4000 sec. (Total shutter speed range)

Aperture

Type		Iris type

f/number		f/2.8 - f/8.0* (W), f/4.8 - f/8.0* (T) *The f/number can be set to f/11 in Auto mode

Flash

Range		30 cm - 4.6 m (W), 50 cm - 2.8 m (T) (12in. - 15 ft. (W), 1.6 - 9.2 ft. (T))

Shooting Specifications

Shooting Modes		Auto, P, Tv, Av, M, C1, C2, SCN , Stitch Assist, Movie Portrait, Landscape, Night Scene, Sports, Night Snapshot, Kids & Pets, Indoor, Sunset, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Aquarium, Underwater, ISO3200, Color Accent, Color Swap

Digital Zoom		Still images/Movies: Approx. 4.0x (up to approx. 20x in combination with the optical zoom) Safety Zoom, Digital Tele-converter

Main Features		Auto red-eye correction, i-Contrast, AF-Point Zoom, Face Self-timer

Continuous Shooting		Normal: Approx. 1.3 shots/sec., AF: Approx. 7.0 shots/sec., LV: Approx. 0.7 shots/sec.

Number of Images Shot (CIPA)		Approx. 400 images

Recording Specifications

Recording Media		SD memory card, SDHC memory card, MultiMediaCard, MMCplusplus card card, HC MMC

File Format		Design rule for camera file system, DPOF (Version 1.1) compliant

Data Type		Still Images: Exif 2.2 (JPEG), RAW CR2 (Canon original) Movies: MOV (Image data: H.264, Audio data: Linear PCM (stereo)) Audio: Sound memos, Sound recorder: WAVE (monaural)

Number of Recording Pixels

Still Images		Large: 4416x3312, Medium 1: 3456x2592, Medium 2: 2592x1944, Medium 3: 1600 x 1200, Small: 640 x 480, Widescreen:4416 x 2048

Movies		Standard, Color Swap, Color Accent: 640 x 480 (30fps), 320 x 240 (30fps) - Not compatible with AVI type

Playback Specifications

Main Features (Differences)

Still Images		Trimming, i-Contrast

Display Languages		26 languages

Interface		Digital input/output (Hi-Speed USB¹ (MTP, PTP supported)) Audio and video Output² ¹mini-B ²3.5mm jack

Power Source		Battery Pack NB-7L AC Adapter Kit ACK-DC50

Dimensions (excluding protrusions)		109.1 x 77.7 x 45.9mm (4.30 x 3.06 x 1.81 in.)

Weight (camera body only)		Approx. 350g (12.3 oz.)

Hmmm I guess this camera is just perfect for me as a budding-architect-to-be. I'm not going to be a professional photographer though I am so into photograph. My passion is architecture. So, this cam is just nice to take all those magnificent buildings' pictures and also for cam-whoring. weee~

Well this model is one of the latest model of canon. so the price is still much higher than it should be. I would still wait about a couple of months for it to be lower. and fortunately my brother is in Japan now. the price is far more reasonable there. so I'll just ask him to buy it for me. no big deal.

After my last baby has crashed during my visit to Langkawi before this, I've been so lonely without it. but, my new baby will come to me next year so , I won't have to have the solitary life anymore. *wink*

where did the budding architect go?

2008-12-13T01:32:00.007+08:00

assalamualaikum...

i've abandoned this blog for a such a long period of time. well there's reason for me to leave it like that. i am so busy with my study, doing AUSMAT for this year and the following year. well why i'm doing AUSMAT? of course for the sake of my passion. i've been offered by JPA scholarship to further my study in architecture in Australia. well i asked for UK but I'm not so lucky. But Aussie is ok what! So to enter universities in Aussie i have to sit the TEE (Tertiary Entrance Examination) and get high rank for TER(Tertiary Entrance Ranking)...hmm it is not an easy job. i have to strive hard starting from the beginning. no matter what happens i have to finish my AUSMAT and fly to Aussie.

different from a level architecture course, this AUSMAT some how has not-related-to-architecture syllabus..i dont know why. dont ask me. it is the Australian way. suppose a student who want to further in archi will learn how to draw basically or anything about drawing during the foundation but we, who are doing the AUSMAT, dont have that kind of things. Apperently, we are studying applicable maths, physics, EAL, and even chemistry and economics. why on earth we have to study chemistry and econmics...well thats the subjects that i have to take. by hook or by crook i have to get at least 85 for each subject*according to the JPA cut-off point* to fly to Aussie. only after that, i'll start study architecture from scratch.

another thing is that we also have to take IELTS(International English Language Testing System) as an extra english course to meet the application of some universities in Aussie. hahaha, it's tough.for me at least. because my english is not so good to easily get that band 7 like others. fortunately, my IELTS lecturer was superb. she taught us a lot about english and how to score in IELTS. apart from that, she is such a nice soft hearted and open minded person. she taught us about life too. i like her. she is one of the best english teacher that i ever have. may God always bless her. by the way, she is Chinese and her name is Mrs Lee. haha. forgot to tell about the IELTS. well, IELTS. hmm it has four modules which are reading, writing, listening and speaking. i like reading the most but writing is not my cup of tea. huh it is so irritating when you have to write two essays in only one hour. anyway, like Mrs Lee always says, IELTS is about time. you have to be very punctual if you want to score the IELTS. hahaha..and it's absolutely true. i always dont have enough time to write the essays and read the long boring passages from the reading modules.

for this year, we actually focus on our IELTS and i had just sit my IELTS exam last week. the result is on next week*yaww...it is so dreadful to think about the result*.along with the IELTS course, we have AUSMAT year 11 or we can call it as a bridging course. it is actually some kind of preparation for us to do the real AUSMAT or AUSMAT year 12 next year. most of the time, we only revise the topics that we have learnt in our secondary school plus some new topics.

haaa, that's what the budding architect doing all this time. and now maybe i'll be active again in posting for this blog..so just stay tuned and wait for my other post later! hehehe

~whaT shouLD yoU studY~

2008-04-24T09:04:00.001+08:00

Your Learning Style: Unconventional and Insightful

You are very intuitive and ingenious. You're attracted to any field of study that lets you break the rules.

You Should Study:

Art

Art history

Architecture

Comparative religions

Eastern religion

Education

Music

Philosophy

What Should You Study?

~العمارة الاسلامية

2008-04-17T16:28:00.003+08:00

Architecture. The diversity in architecture has spread along thousands of years. Since people know how to create and build building. Yet today, I want to talk about Islamic architecture.

History

To make it simple, I can say that the main reason of Islamic architecture in the early times especially when Islam started to spread around Arabic region is all about building places for worshipping - mosque or musolla. They just use simple layout and design based on things around them – the rocks and the dates’ fronds and the woods and the trunks. e.g: Quba mosque.

(Quba mosque nowadays)

Then when Islam spread more and Muslim armies conquered a huge expanse of land, they also needed places to stay and to pray. So they built homes and mosques based on the model of the Prophet's house or adapted existing buildings for their own use.

And then, from these buildings, the vocabulary of Islamic architecture is derived and used for buildings of lesser importance such as public baths, fountains, anddomestic architecture.

Styles

Persian architecture
Moorish architecture
Turkistan architecture
Ottoman Turkish architecture
Fatimid architecture
Mamluk architecture
Indo-Islamic (Mughal) architecture
Sino-Islamic architecture
Afro-Islamic architecture

First, the Persian Architecture

Fundamental principles

Underlying characteristics

Iranian architecture is based on several fundamental characteristics. These are:

درون‌گرایی: Introversion (?)
نیارش: structure(?)
پیمون: homogeneous proportions(?)
مردم‌واری: anthropomorphism (?)
جفت و پادجفت: symmetry and anti-symmetry (?)
پرهیز از بیهودگی: Minimalism (?)

(well, actually I don’t really understand about these things. May be one day I’ll search da info bout them and xplain them to you)

Categorization of styles

Overall, the traditional architecture of the Iranian lands throughout the ages can be categorized into the seven following classes or styles ("sabk"):

Pre-islamic:

Pre-Parsi style
Parsi style
Parthian style

Islamic:

Khorasani style
Razi style
Azahari style
Isfahani style

Materials

Available building materials dictate major forms in traditional Iranian architecture. Heavy clays, readily available at various places throughout the plateau(a relatively flat highland), have encouraged the development of the most primitive of all building techniques, molded mud, compressed as solidly as possible, and allowed to dry. This technique used in Iran from ancient times has never been completely abandoned. The abundance of heavy plastic earth, in conjunction with a tenacious lime mortar, also facilitated the development of the brick.

(Hmm I think the material[mud] is not suitable for nowadays. Earthquakes are very likely to happen now.)

Geometry

Iranian architecture makes use of abundant symbolic geometry, using pure forms such as the circle and square, and plans are based on often symmetrical layouts featuring rectangular courtyards and halls.

*actually for this post, I made lot of copy n paste from wiki..but have deleted the complicated info*

that's all for now

p/s: for other styles of Islamic architecture, I’ll give the info in other post.

~OK or KO~

2008-04-14T03:52:00.006+08:00

~Here are some of my latest drawings...~
since I was asked by mom to start skecthing and drawing if I really want to be an architect, I started to think what should I draw...Hmmm..I was really at my wits' end...I don't know what to do...so one day I just realised that my dad had a magazine 'bout home design which he bought when he was studying in USA...so I tried to search for that book.....well it was so tiring to find that book...Hmm actually have you ever faced this incident : if you don't need that thing, it can just be anywhere around you but when you really need it, it just disappear and hard to be found...and that was what happening when I tried to search for that mag....but Alhamdulillah, thanks to Allah, i finally found it in a box at attic upstairs...

So, I began to draw the simple one....and here is the result...
quite bad, right?.....
but it's ok...
Even the Rome Empire cannot be built in one day!!

And this one is my favourite....I don't know why I really like this house..mybe because its location..hillside...and the design also...

And this one....Hmm its a Malay house..found it in the internet so I printed it and copied it..
Hmm may be the colouring is bad....hahaha..I was trying my bro's colouring at that time...it is called prisma colour....haha it does looks like a hightlight marker but with much more wonderful colour...but too bad..I can't use it properly..heheheh..(don't worry yana..there's always a room for you to improve..haik!!..Gambate-neh!!)

so...are they OK..or KO???
hahaha comment me...

... _________________________________________ ...

"BE UNIQUE!"

Why Architect?...

2008-04-13T21:52:00.003+08:00

Hmm..
Kenapa nak jadi arkitek...
Apa kelebihan arkitek ni....
Yang paling penting kenapa sya nak jadi arkitek?
hmmm...

1st.(aduih..nak ad 1st 2nd gak ke?)
sebab saya minat bangat sama melukis...sangat2 minat..mgkin sebab ktrunan yang sukakan seni dan ada bakat melukis kot....hampir semua org dalam rumah(its mean my family la) boleh melukis-->>ayah, mak, along, angah saya n adik...(aik..hbis tu siapa yang tak pandai melukis kat sini...sebenarnya ada..tp BIARLAH RAHSIA..hehehe)hmm sampai spupu spapat pun pandai mlukis + minat melukis...so memang tak pelik la kalau saya minat melukis..

since kecik lagi mnat lukis t'utama lukis rumah2...n then bila dh bsar skit, ske buat rplika rumah untuk anak patung(aiseh...dah besar pn men anak ptung lagi)..buat rumah model tu dengan kawan stu sek. sya buat sendiri sofa, katil, lmpu, meja n semua klgkapan rumah la...it took months to finish it...tpi tak pe la..jnji sya puas + seronok time buat...sayangnye rumah tu dh hancur angkara adikku..(sabar je la)

kadang2 bila pergi kedai atau mall msti ad promotion jualan rumah kan...saya geram sgguh tgok model house yg dipamerkan tu...memang time tu mata brsinar2 tgok rumah2 tu...dalam hati tu kata "huih ni tak leh jadi ni..ak tak kire..satu hri nnti ak akn buat jugak mnde2 macam ni"ehhehe lebih kurang camtu la...

hmm ni la passion ak yg amat mndalam...I have to be an architect...MUST!!

2nd.(hmm yg 1st pun dah pnjg lebar explanation, yg 2nd ni cm ne plak)
kerja ni cam glamour la jgak...aduih..ni dh lari dari niat yg btul ni..heheheh..sebenarnya mksud sya ialah everybody akan tgok building yg kite reka tu..hahaha bgga + rasa terharu la jap bla org puji building tu cantik...hsil krja kite akn berada di tmpat tu tersegam indah..cewahh..kalu nsib baik bleh jadi tkoh arkitek yang mnyumbang kepada ketamadunan zaman tu...macam bgunan colloseum tu, istana al-hambra tu...heheheh...berangan sgguh la cik yana ni...tapi tak pe...kejayan itu datang dari cita-cita and cita-cita itu datang dari angan2...hehehe...

waktu search pasal top women architect in the world sya trtarik dgn satu nama ni...ZAHA HADID..sbbnye nama die nama muslim..(but i dont know whether she is muslim or not because she is an Iraqi..most of Iraqis have muslim names even though they are not)so saya searh la psal die dlm internet..WOW..she's so great...zaha hadid ni pnah menang Pritzker Architecture Prize...and actually she's the 1st woman to win that prize...(dalam post lain may be saya akn crta lbih lnjut tntang ZAHA HADID) so she become my idol in architecture field...sya nak jadi macam die..Insya Allah...

hmmm...that's all 4 now...
(cos ad sbb len lgi tp yg smpingan punye so lain kli plak ye...)
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salam from a budding architect..
"BE UNIQUE!"

My PatH...

2008-04-13T17:01:00.000+08:00

GUIDELINES FOR ARCHITECTURAL STUDENTS

WHY DOES THE COUNTRY NEED ARCHITECTS?
In line with Vision 2020, the building construction industry is one of the many aspects of the economy that can make the government's aspirations come true. Architects can play a major role by contributing quality architecture to our built environment.

WHAT IS ARCHITECTURE?
Architecture is the art and science of building. The word "architure" was derived from the Latin architectura, which itself came from the Greek architekton which meant "master builder". According to William George in his book World Architecture, architecture may be described as "the art of designing and creating beautiful, durable and useful building... Structure which are built with only stability and strength in addition to usefulness in mind may be described as works of engineering. It is only when the idea of building beautifully in conjunction with strength and utility is introduced that the science of building becomes the art of architecture."

WHAT ARE THE PROSPECTS OF BEING AN ARCHITECT?
Besides practising in the government or private sector, an Architect may also be engaged by a developer, contractor or teach in a University

WHAT DOES AN ARCHITECT DO?
*An architect is a person trained and qualified to carry out the following tasks:
*Planning
*Building Design
*Landscape Design
*Urban Design
*Interior Design
*Leading and coordinating the input of others in the building team
*Liaising with approving authorities and certification
*Supervision during construction

WHO IS MOST SUITED TO BECOME AN ARCHITECT?
Beside passing all the examinations and getting the necessary grades to qualify for admittance into an architectural course in a recognised school of architecture, the student ought to have:
A love for the arts
An appreciation of space and forms
An affection for the heritage and tradition
A sensitivity in all matters related to the senses

WHERE TO GET THE TRAINING?
Architecture training is almost available in all countries in the world.For courses in architecture overseas, kindly refer to the list of recognised schools available at http://www.lam.gov.my/accreditation_list_pre.htm

WHAT ARE THE ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS?
Course work generally consists of lectures, laboratory work, group discussions, seminars and studio work where students work on the drawing board and computers. Practical training forms an integral part of the course.
For courses conducted at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and the Universiti Teknologi MARA, a candidate must have obtained at least a Grade Two in the SPM examination with 5 credits of which 2 subjects are Bahasa Malaysia and Mathematics. Please refer to prospectus for more details. Posessing good skills in art and technical drawings is an advantage.
For courses conducted at the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and the Universiti Malaya (UM) minimum requirement is two principles and two subsidiaries in STPM. A student is required to undergo a matriculation programme conducted by the university before being admitted to the architecture course proper.

HOW TO REGISTER AS AN ARCHITECT?
Those who have obtained qualifications recognised by LAM and PAM are exempted from the Part I & II examination. The Part 3 Examination is mandatory for every would-be architect.
Upon passing the Part 3 Examination, one may become a member of PAM and register with LAM as an Architect.

helloo

2008-04-13T15:29:00.001+08:00

hye evrybody