to azarimy:

you have no idea how relief i am to hear someone telling me not to 'jump the gun'    cos' everyone keeps asking me, 'so how are you preparing so far?' (and i usually 'er...'    i think the reason they ask is because they don't know what else to talk about. haih) okay, i'll try the box thing you mention, just to know the basics. i've actually considered going to (maybe) work/help out in an archi firm, if they need someone (and my friends are all saying, 'you know, i have an uncle/auntie/cousin/etc who's an architect...maybe he/she can help you...'  >_< how come everyone except me has relatives who are architects?!!) then someone gave me a veryvery appreciated piece of advice, 'if you're going to (i mean, since you planned to) work with buildings and drawings for the rest of your life, shouldnt you enjoy these last few months before moving on to that other stage of your life? cos' after these few months, i think you wont be able to stop thinking about buildings and floor plans even if you wanted to.' 

plus he told me it wouldn't have worked out anyway because 1) the real architects will be too busy to teach me anything 2) i don't have any skills that they need anyway i.e. drafting skills/...(okay, i don't even now what they need...i have not the slightest idea what goes on inside an archi firm ) 3) even if they do hire me, it'll be for doing paperwork like photocopying or sending documents to other places and i wont learn anything useful for my future.

SO 

to gildil:

thanks for your info. but i guess i'll just have to wait till i start reading archi and learn the softwares along with my course mates    but i'll keep in mind Archicad, 3D Max and (from azarimy) illustrator.

thanks a lot!

USM penang ke?
I goin.

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Added on May 18, 2008, 11:00 amAnyone else? list down?

the architectural workshop started off in the mid 80s by UTM as social gathering of architecture students from all the schools in malaysia, IPTA, IPTS and polytechnic schools included. this is where u get to know what other schools are doing, get to know other people and basically socialize. architects are in fact social beasts. so this is one way to satisfy their lust to socialize.

but bcoz the hosts are IPTAs (with LKW being the only IPTS co-host), it must have an academic content to pass as a student event. hence they have workshop programmes which is less formal education and more people oriented. so u can learn while at the same time go hu-ha along the way.

at the same time, there are lots of competitions held there, the most popular one is the design competition. this is where u gauge urself against the best from other schools. the competition is prestigious enough that it became the standard to compare how good each school is.

it's an annual event, and each year the host will be rotated between UTM, UiTM, USM, UM, UIAM and UPM. so this year it's USM, next will be UM.

attending such event as a participant adds up to ur credentials as an architecture graduate. hosting a workshop is event greater prestige.

the host will usually issue a formal invitation to each school, normally direct to the head of school. is zatur still the head of school in LKW? ask her. the school will talk to the student body, and from there on the student body will organize a selection. normally each school could send about 20-30 students only, but everyone would wanna go. so pandai2 select between urself lah.

I'll snap some pics for you xD.

anyone else going?

justnewbie I suggest you go ask ur head of school?

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Added on May 18, 2008, 11:29 pmanyone goin for the event after that?
was it archidex..

thanks for the site.its very useful
Yeah i know.This is just something that i wanna do during my free time at home.Instead of surfing myspace,friendster or facebook, i want to surf something more emmm useful? heheh

If u guys said there's a lot, do share the forums aite.I did search using the search engine but it doesnt come out like i want to.maybe wrong keywords

dude, loves your works.thanks for sharing

https://eduregistration.graphisoft.com/?gcl...CFQc3egodCmQbJQ
This site claims that they offer archicad student edition for free.

I do not use it but it might be of interest to others.

hi everyone~~

i'm looking for a laptop that's compatible for autocad
do u guys have any suggestion on what's the best laptop -- brand & model -- that's able to run autocad smoothly?
(with tech specs included if possible)
my budget is around rm3000

i'm thinking of buying dell inspiron 1420
its tech specs :::

PROCESSOR ::  Intel® Centrino® Processor Technology - Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T5550
MEMORY  ::  2GB DDR2 SDRAM
HARD DRIVE  ::  120GB* Hard Drive
GRAPHIC CARD ::  128MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8400M GS
OPERATING SYSTEM  ::  Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
MONITOR  ::  14.1” WXGA Display with Integrated 2.0 mega pixel web cam
what do u guys think?
do the tech specs enough to run autocad?