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Well I thought I might do a proper update.
Sooooo
I'm still working full time which swings from hideously tedius to nonstop action stations. I guess thats the nature of office work though, you have a rush then a quiet then a rush again. The main thing now is learning and learning and learning! Sometimes I reflect on how much I have learnt in the past 6 months and it is unbelievable! I know so much about planning law, development assessment, strategic planning, the LEP process, the DCP process, mapping, negotiation, dealing with bad customers, office skills and everything. I really hope I get to learn something useful in urban design and sustainability over the next few years because its something I'm sorely lacking. BASIX gives me the poops in a big way because it just never works and no one does it right, and I can't wait for some of these buildings to be built and see what happens. I bet half of them don't meet the requirements and no one will even notice or care. If we want Sydney to be a sustainable city we have to do more than reduce glazing on western elevations and have large roofspaces!
Martial arts is going well. I can't go tonight because my sister got her drivers licence and took the car to fester in the heat at Bankstown where I can't use it! Stupid system! I should have driven her to work so that I could go. Then again I don't want to go and pick her up.
I have been considering starting Wing Chun Kung Fu. There is a school near work and the instructor is a woman, so it looks promising. I'm not sure if the transition from a Korean/Japanese system to a Chinese system will work however. And I start learning Japanese on the 8th Feb! And! And! I HAVE A BONSAI! It's a Chinese Elm and its SOOOO cute but I think I need to start training it more. The cockatoos attacked it the other night though so I hope its not slowly dying. Apparently they can be dead for up to 6 months and still look alive.
Finish later, I have to go driving now!
Sooooo
I'm still working full time which swings from hideously tedius to nonstop action stations. I guess thats the nature of office work though, you have a rush then a quiet then a rush again. The main thing now is learning and learning and learning! Sometimes I reflect on how much I have learnt in the past 6 months and it is unbelievable! I know so much about planning law, development assessment, strategic planning, the LEP process, the DCP process, mapping, negotiation, dealing with bad customers, office skills and everything. I really hope I get to learn something useful in urban design and sustainability over the next few years because its something I'm sorely lacking. BASIX gives me the poops in a big way because it just never works and no one does it right, and I can't wait for some of these buildings to be built and see what happens. I bet half of them don't meet the requirements and no one will even notice or care. If we want Sydney to be a sustainable city we have to do more than reduce glazing on western elevations and have large roofspaces!
Martial arts is going well. I can't go tonight because my sister got her drivers licence and took the car to fester in the heat at Bankstown where I can't use it! Stupid system! I should have driven her to work so that I could go. Then again I don't want to go and pick her up.
I have been considering starting Wing Chun Kung Fu. There is a school near work and the instructor is a woman, so it looks promising. I'm not sure if the transition from a Korean/Japanese system to a Chinese system will work however. And I start learning Japanese on the 8th Feb! And! And! I HAVE A BONSAI! It's a Chinese Elm and its SOOOO cute but I think I need to start training it more. The cockatoos attacked it the other night though so I hope its not slowly dying. Apparently they can be dead for up to 6 months and still look alive.
Finish later, I have to go driving now!