in your very home? wow that sounds like something straight out of an Enid Blyton book! (read far too many of them as a kid, guess that's where all my British stereotypes come from.) but no srsly, that's really awesome. what are they though? like a little shed full of gnomes and pixies? naaw.

i guess coming from HongKong, where there aren't many heritage buildings still around with majority pulled down in the name of progress, and Singapore, with only 44 years of independence. most of our buildings are what my architect friend calls 'desperation buildings' - built solely with the aims of speed and cost, hence having little aesthetic and cultural value - everything else seems pretty cool to me! (: haha some parts of Singapore's beautiful, but some of the government-built housings are really terrible, they look as if they were painted by the colourblind! i've begun to really appreciate the place after living in Aussie though. that's probably one of the best things to come out of my studying overseas.

you've been to almost half the world! yes university is the best time to travel aye? when we're all still young and carefree and have months of holidays a year. it'll give us something to look back on when we enter the rat race (: i've got a friend who took a gap year to backpack around New Zealand alone, working to support herself along the way. she's one of the bravest and most inspiring people i've known! where do you intend to go next? (: