Today, i got to tour a construction site of an office building in town done by a friend that is currently working with me. It was a great experience. I can feel his excitement, love, and this strange attachment to this thing called architecture that probably only us can understand. It reminded me again why I am doing what I am doing right now. It is really a silly profession. A passion, a curse, that made me staying up till 2.10 am doing things that I was not really obligued, professionally, to do, but still did it because I just 'morally' felt needed to. No, I do not consider myself workaholic. I will never get a wife if somebody read this, but I will still say it anyway: it becomes your baby, you know, just like Nk and Fi with their new baby. Weirdo! Hahah. One visiting architect in school mentioned about having that strange attachment too. It is that kind of a maternal relationship you have with the building you have been working on and have to release it to the owner when construction is completed. It's like a parent nervously sending a son/daughter off to college. There she goes, you are on your own.
In that trip, I was also happy that I could bring our two new interns who just got here from Kazan, Russia. They just got here last Saturday and probably still felt a little bit disoriented in a new place halfway from their home, literally and figuratively. I think I will try to befriend them as much as possible during their stay here. They reminded me of my time interning also in Shanghai. I felt estranged and dreaded at first for being in totallly new place. But I was very fortunate then to meet some really good people. I had a great time there both at work and after work hours exploring the city. Oh, I miss my friends over there, Dong Chen, Rabbit, and several others.
Now, back to the Russian interns again. They are staying in a hotel in downtown. And of course, they mentioned how strange that our city center was so quiet at night without any night activites. They had to walk so far on their first night looking for food and only got to eat some hot dogs. They said, it was the opposite of the urban life in their hometown in Kazan. Yeah, as a matter of fact, it was also very different from other big cities in Asia and Europe. But still, I think, this city, this place has it's own charm. Anyway, I gave them a quick tour of places they could go on our way back to the office. And then, I told them about the coming presidential debate tonight and how it might be entertaining for them to watch. They just smiled and, I think, sarcastically talked about their recent presidential election and how nobody really care. She even didn't know the name of the new president. I think their new president is Dmitri Meyedev or something like that. But that response was interesting and unexpected for me.
Ok. Next thing that will be exciting for me to do is to interview Prof. Wd together with Trs about our coming election, will keep you posted.
In that trip, I was also happy that I could bring our two new interns who just got here from Kazan, Russia. They just got here last Saturday and probably still felt a little bit disoriented in a new place halfway from their home, literally and figuratively. I think I will try to befriend them as much as possible during their stay here. They reminded me of my time interning also in Shanghai. I felt estranged and dreaded at first for being in totallly new place. But I was very fortunate then to meet some really good people. I had a great time there both at work and after work hours exploring the city. Oh, I miss my friends over there, Dong Chen, Rabbit, and several others.
Now, back to the Russian interns again. They are staying in a hotel in downtown. And of course, they mentioned how strange that our city center was so quiet at night without any night activites. They had to walk so far on their first night looking for food and only got to eat some hot dogs. They said, it was the opposite of the urban life in their hometown in Kazan. Yeah, as a matter of fact, it was also very different from other big cities in Asia and Europe. But still, I think, this city, this place has it's own charm. Anyway, I gave them a quick tour of places they could go on our way back to the office. And then, I told them about the coming presidential debate tonight and how it might be entertaining for them to watch. They just smiled and, I think, sarcastically talked about their recent presidential election and how nobody really care. She even didn't know the name of the new president. I think their new president is Dmitri Meyedev or something like that. But that response was interesting and unexpected for me.
Ok. Next thing that will be exciting for me to do is to interview Prof. Wd together with Trs about our coming election, will keep you posted.