in germany!

so check out my OTHER blog from here on out until the end of summer...


www.niharikaineuros.blogspot.com



danke!!!!!!!!!!

(thanks :)

MIA concert!!!

in S:F: was freakkkkkkkin crazy....... i definitely got elbowed in the face. anyway.. some pics follow

great Arch / design blogs

http://urbanpalimpsest.blogspot.com/

http://theartofwhere.blogspot.com/



because i don't know how to save them on my page so i can check them easily and regularly.

anyone know how? john?

the gazebo at central park

is my favourite thing... i want to be there tail end of winter wearing a red dress that had a large skirt and corsette top, with my hair in a classic french twist, with pearls on, and i want to be photoraphed in it. or photograph someone in it.

The vibrancy of the red will pop out sooo much against the drearily inviting backdrop... I don't know why I love New York so much in the winter time... or any time at that.

The reason I rememberd the gazebo is because I spoke to a friend today briefly who was visiting ny.. he was "throwing a ball around w/ some friends" at CP (lol so modern-berkeley of me to make an abbreviation out of that) and then was "lying around on the grass". He's a med-school-student at U Michigan so he doesn't get to do much of either of those things, let alone be outside in the sun due to Mich's harsh weather conditions so i was pretty stoked for the guy...... I'd be lying if I said I wasn't jealous, too - I love Central Park....I wish I could've been there too. Ugh it's freaking ridiculous how much I freaking love New York and all that the city is about.

NY just has such energy to it. Even though the park and 5th ave are obviously different, they both have such strong vibes that attract me and keep me intrigued no matter WHAT. Part of it could just be the fact that I don't live there... I have decided I want to live there at least some point in my life, preferably before grad school no matter where I do that at, whether it be colombia or whatever... And while I'm there I want to work for shop architects. ( http://www.shoparc.com/ ). how effing cool would that be.


--

Or maybe when I'm in Germany this summer and I check out Zaha Hadid's BMW factory, steal one, and drive to london some how and beg her to let me work for her. And then I'll open up a firm for her in NY! And i'll be set for life. fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkk yeah. and then I write a book about how fucking amazing it was to work for her, and become a millionaire. travel the world. and do all sorts of good things for the impovershed people of the world and help them help themselves by giving them schools and more importantly food so that they don't have to skip school to work to make money to buy food to eat.




the end.


ps. i really like the following blogs:

http://urbanpalimpsest.blogspot.com/

http://theartofwhere.blogspot.com/

Crash via lack of Calcium

2 of my nails broke today.


i haven't been drinking milk lately.


therefore, my nails are breaking and brittle because I haven't had enough milk.


that makes sense, right?

finding an apartment.. in GERMANY

If you thought finding an apartment in Berkeley was a bitch, try finding one in Munich. in GERMAN.

www.freetranslation.com is my best friend right now.


http://www.wg-gesucht.de/1-zimmer-wohnungen-in-Muenchen.90.1.1.0.html?max_miete=&min_groesse=&zwischenmiete=0&frei_ab_Day=01&frei_ab_Month=05&frei_ab_Year=2008&zeitraum=0&frei_bis_Day=01&frei_bis_Month=08&frei_bis_Year=2008&filter=1&moebliert=0&haustier=0&ot%5B2123%5D=on&x=37&y=13


that's the site i'm using

if anyone cares to help me:


max miete (rent) = 500 eur
min miete = 200 eur
part of munich : Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt
furnished please




siggghhhh.......

Mentoring in Richmond, Ca

Sooooo I'm a mentor in Richmond, and it's been very interesting, to say the least. We've been teaching high school students about city planning and how to analyze sites. We have used various pedagogical tools to get these ideas across, and we're very please with the way things have worked out!

They will be presenting this Thursday in Richmond at the MLK Community center, so as usual, my Thursdays will be completely booked. But, it's for a good cause! So, rock on Richmond!

Anyway, we will be doing a "helping-hand-activity" which I came up with... so I got to use photoshop today after quite some time and it felt lovely.


The program I'm working through is called Y-PLAN, and its been in conjunction with a class I've been taking here at UC Berkeley: City Planning 190b-290b. That's right baby, graduate seminar. And though it takes up more time than any other 3 unit I've taken aside from ED 4/1 (first "studio" at UC Berkeley for architecture majors) I've loved it and would definitely recommend that anyone who is interested in bettering their surrounding community through the community itself should take this class.

Care for more info? Post a comment on the blog and ill get back to you asap.

Speechless

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/05/03_wootton.shtml


The chancellor made a statement about the brutal and senseless killing of Christopher Wootton...


This is surreal.

the amount of violence in berkeley is disgusting..

http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=11120

for all the press releases that the cops do.



fucking po. i wish a little more could be done around here...

R.I.P. Chris Wootton...

L - R

Me, Ryan, Mel, Chris, Sid, Ty


So I just found out that a friend of mine passed away last night around 2 am.

He was stabbed by a student at Berkeley City College.

WTF is someone from BCC doing with a knife outside of a fraternity house!


I can NOT believe that this has just happened... Like you hear of people getting robbed at gun-point, raped, beat-up, but i've never heard of anyone actually being stabbed! And this time, it's not just anyone, it's someone I've known and have hung out with and partied with like for the past 3 or 4 years of my life!

And he was going to graduate in only 2 weeks! He was studying nuclear science and got into the masters program at CAL! That is such a hard program to get into!!


This guy really had it going on....

The AUDACITY of these people is just so ridiculous...why do you need a knife with you i DO NOT understand. Sure, berkeley is violent at times... and rather dangerous. but why do you have to bust out a knife over a stupid argument?


I just can NOT believe that this is seriously happening!!!

And to think, I just hung out with the guy YESTERDAY!

and then the next thing i know, he is gone!








I just can't believe it... PEOPLE! STOP THE VIOLENCE!