Smoky Malaysia

Today, K.L. is so smoky. There must be a forest fire somewhere again. The news said the air clearness is only 4km. The entire city smells like a piece of burning rubber. Hopefully it’ll rain soon, so the smoke could be washed away. It hasn’t rain for a long time in KL… so HOT…

I went to the working site today, where my dad is doing his residential housing project for the army in KL. Ha! It was so fun. I got a chance to wear safety helmet and shoes again. Dad took me around the site and showed me three different kinds of housing design they are working on. He taught me some basic rules of constructing a house, like how to make post-and-lintel structure, and how to do reinforced concrete. I mean, it was just so fun to go back to a working site again after growing older. I’m able to understand how things work now. It’s also good for my design experience because I get to hear workers complaining how difficult it is to do some part of the construction such as a round shape balcony. No wonder why architects and contractors are fighting all the time during a project. There’s always problem when you want to transform something in your mind into reality. And that’s the challenging part that interests me. The days I’ll spend on the working site is not for me to learn how to avoid the problem, but to face it later in my own practice. Nice~

CiCi was just too excited about the working site. She went to climb on everything that she can, the ladders, concrete pipes, and even rooftop. Hhoo.. monkey-ci. She had fun. But after she went home, her mom complained that her jeans got too dirty. Heeheehee…