So I'm reading the paper like I always do right, and then suddenly I come across this.
The Age, 7/11/07. And that's why you always buy the paper!To most people reading the paper this may seem to be another interesting looking set of apartments. But to students like myself, this triggers certain memories worthy of a wavy flashback effect. Let's start with the next picture. Notice anything similar?
No I haven't used my amazing powers to shrink the building down to the size of an obese dog, it's a model!This was a giant model Kavi and I did as an assignment a couple of years ago to basically teach us about commercial scale construction by reading off plans and reproducing a portion of the building at scale. We spent about six weeks or so making this and it really took a lot out of everyone there. It's only at times like these when you realise how much work it takes to finish work of this magnitude, and all notions of time management are thrown out the window. In other words, there is never enough time. If only real buildings could be put together using UHU, Blu Tack and superglue. You can see how big the model is from the photo below.
We were kind of lucky in that there wasn't as much structure to show so we could get away with doing more flashy finishes like the external concrete façade feature and the swimming pool. Even then that still meant we were working on it all throughout the mid semester break and towards the end, every night until about nine or ten. Caffeine, skipping classes and the strangely soothing smell of glue were our new friends, and good ones they were too.
As time went by, the cumulative effect of blood caffeine content and the lack of sleep drove us to do some weird things. Games were brought into uni to pass the time and take the stress off if only for a little while. Dinner and supply runs were made to keep everyone going. And slowly around us, the madness set in. What am I talking about? Perhaps the next photo will explain the state of things by the time it was all over.
No he's not drunk ladies and gents. He's just another building student like you and me. Apologies to Kavi... I bet you weren't betting on seeing this again any time soon... though I still love that time when we made Ave think we superglued her scarf inside our model. Awesome times folks, dizzy stuff indeed.
Join me next time when my fingers come out of their plaster casts in time for me to type about the wonderfully addictive game that is Guitar Hero III for Wii. Typing with one hand and a straw stuck to the other was very fun though.