i'm currently a 4th year student doing architecture at NUS.. yes.. apologies for the repetition. reason no 1 that this blog even exists.. is.. i got this idea as i was having a constipation in my toilet. i was thinking to myself.. ok.. i've watched the movie Julie and Julia.. and u know.. the power of how a blog could actually reach out to netizens really impacted me.. btw.. if u havn't watched the movie and u don't know what i'm talking about.. please watch it! starring Meryl strip and Amy Adams.. WHO IS SO UTTERLY HOT!!!!!!!!!!!! :) The movie by the way.. is AWESOME!.
btw.. b4 i digress again.. i'd just want to say why i thought writing this blog was going to be something worth while..
Firstly, i love God.
Secondly, i am an architecture student.
Thirdly i'm in campus crusade.
Fourthly, and i mentioned again.. for the 3rd time already.. i'm studying in NUS! :)
i had a few thoughts in mind that i wanted to write but didn't but suddenly these thoughts just came back to mind.. and that is the thought of existing.
Just by existing, we are proof of God's work.
The Christian Architecture student probably faces one of the most challenging lives a student probably would go through. Architecture students.. are well reputated to be working and working.. too busy for anything else.. family, relationships.. even God.
I had a little goal in mind when i started my 4th year in this really draining school. I wanted to be a prototype so to speak of what God can do through someone mediocre like me. For the past 3 years as an architecture student, i can tell you that my designs are somewhat mediocre and lacking in lustre. its not that i don't put in effort.. its more like.. i somehow seem to be focused on the wrong things.
yup.. but again.. i have to mention where i'm coming from as a Christian. firstly... it is by God's grace that i even managed to enter into the school of Architecture in NUS. i wanted to do architecture in NUS for a simple reason. Nothing else in NUS interested me except architecture. i wanted to study something that involved drawing and creativity. Science made me confused, maths irritated me, business is not my cup of tea, arts.. well i don't wana b a teacher (no offense to anyone), Law.. nah i'm too dumb.. medicine.. even dumber for that.. yup so .. it was as clear as crystal that i knew i wanted architecture.
But did the school want me?
after getting out of army, i applied for NUS.. and i was on the reserve list. i was saddened by this.. but knowing that there was the possibility that i wouldn't be able to get into NUS, i applied to Singapore Poly for the architecture course there.. and i got it! to my delight!.. i was ready to settle for a poly life.. because i was thinking.. with my A level grades.. B,C,C,D, it would be a miracle if i could get into a prestigious school like NUS doing the only course that i was interested in. THere was still a chance that i could get into the school through the reserve list. but the chance was slim. i wasn't expecting much..
back then, i was still in Sungei Gedong.. serving my NS..
but one day, there was a phone call to my house. i wasn't home.. but my dad was.. he picked up the phone. " hi, i'm looking for ******... is he there? It is regarding his place in NUS architecture. He has been accepted from the reserve list."
my dad replied " oh! can i ask if there is a Richard on the reserve list? because my son is also on the reserve list. Did he manage to get a place in NUS too?"
Pause on the phone..
Voice " Oh !. yes.. i actually called your house yesterday but no one picked up the phone! Yes your son is accepted in to NUS Architecture school too!"
so.. ya.. it really is a miracle that the person who called up my house actually dialled my house number by accident looking for someone else instead of me. My chance by right was gone because i didn't answer my house phone while i was in camp. but somehow.. the person called my house by mistake in the afternoon.. and my dad happened to be at home at that very moment.. because my dad usually comes back in the evening from school..
even now when i write it down.. i just wana thank God that he brought me into this school which totally i didn't deserve to be in especially with my poor grades.
to cut a long story short..
i have a purpose in this blog.. and that purpose is that i wana be an example to Christians who are in architecture schools like me . to let them know that God is bigger than architecture.. and we can still have a life outside this school that drains the life out of us . God has a plan for us in particular. And it is something he has been planning for a long while. i don't know exactly what..
but the more i think about it.. and the more i realize how God himself was the first architect. He designed earth. Talk about kick ass design.. HE owns us all period!
YUp..
in this blog.. i'll just b writing down my struggles here and there.. and put up pics of my designs.. and perhaps even talk about how the designs came about.. yup..
i just thought that sharing my ideas on design and how very much these ideas are not mine alone but rather a collaboration between my tutors, my friends, me and of course God.
also i was thinking.. that i would love to hear your comments and listen to your stories about how God has been guiding you in your architecture course.
after all we are all in the same boat :) Architecture is one of those jobs where by the people directly design history.
I believe God wants to use us. and He will.
I don't know how. but i trust that He will.
yup. i guess i don't really have much to say for now :) cept adiouz. and LETS START THIS JOURNEY TOGETHER. :) GO GO CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS ALL OVER THE WORLD! :)
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