Wednesday, May 21, 2008

關於今年申請TU Delft的疑慮...? (請入內)

Van: Wan-Yu Liu
Verzonden: wo 14-5-2008 19:39
Aan: Ootes, H.A.J.
CC: Wan-Yu Liu (TU Delft)
Onderwerp: some questions about admission for the coming year

dear sir/madam,

I am a student in my MSc2 now. Some of my friends in my country (I come from Taiwan) contacted me and asked about the admission for the next academic year. They've sent out their applications to TUDelft, and some of them confirmed that their applications were delivered to Faculty of Architecture already. Just want to ask if the procedure will be continued? (For those who already got their admission letters, those who are still waiting for the results, and those who maybe want to apply in the future.) They're quite worried about the situation, because their documents may be destroyed in the fire as well. Will the faculty will accept new students for the coming year? If yes, for those whose documents were destroyed already, will they have any chance to re-apply within new deadline? Furthermore, for some people who got the admission letters already, they applied for more than one schools at the same time, and now is almost the time to make a decision. If TU Delft won't accept new students for the coming year, they need to reply to other schools as soon as possible. The situation is a bit urgent for them... Thank you very much. And looking forward to hear from you soon.

best regards,
Wan-Yu Liu


Dear Yu Liu, (...... 亞洲人的姓/名有這麼難分嗎......)

All the students that applied at TU Delft and were admitted, were put on the waiting list or were still in the process of being evaluated have received a letter in which we explain the situation and tell them what they need to do.
We will continue to admit students as usual and we can assure that the quality of our education will be as good as always.

Attached I send you a copy of the general letter which was sent. Some applicants may have received a letter with additional information about how to resend their portfolios if it got lost.

I hope this answers your questions. Should any of your friends be in doubt about his or her personal application, please state name and MSc number (if known) so that we can look into the problem.

Best regards,

Madeleine de Morree
Faculty of Architecture
International Office
Delft University of Technology

Dear student,

As you may have heard in various news broadcasts, the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology was destroyed in a serious fire on Tuesday May 13. Although this is unfortunate, we are very glad that no personal injuries have occurred. Also we have been able to save valuable collections of scale models and chairs by famous architects such as Rietveld.

Thanks to the help of numerous colleagues and relations in the field of education, architecture and business, our education, research and examination activities will be continued as from next Monday. Lecture rooms, instruction rooms and offices have partly been found at other faculties. Also large tents have been erected to house our teaching activities during the last few weeks of the spring term. We are confident that we will close this academic year without any delays.

The academic year 2008-2009 will start in September, as planned, both for our Dutch and our international students. We can assure you that the quality of our education will be of the high standards that characterize our faculty.

We can assure you that we will find alternative accommodation for our faculty within two weeks.

Our international office staff have been allocated new offices already and they have resumed work since Wednesday. In principle all our procedures and deadlines will be applied as planned. Should anything out of the ordinary arise concerning your specific situation, we will inform you individually by email.

You can reach us as usual:

Email: int.office@bk.tudelft.nl

Address: Jaffalaan 9A, 2628 BX Delft, The Netherlands

We hope we have sufficiently informed you. Should you have any questions, please contact us at int.office@bk.tudelft.nl. or read the latest news on www.bk.tudelft.nl

With best regards,

Prof.dr.ir. J.T. Fokkema, Rector Magnificus Delft University of Technology
Prof. ir. W. Patijn, Dean Faculty of Architecture

Monday, May 19, 2008

你毋庸置疑是那樣的人

「對人,也是沒有理由去信任而不信任,大於沒有理由不信任而信任。所以人跟人之間才有所謂的建立關係。信任需要時間,也需要對的人。今天如果別人對我抱持懷疑,那也不是什麼值得太難過的事。要不就是我做了什麼不值得信任的事,自己該檢討;要不就是對方不了解我... 那又有什麼好在意的呢?」
 
「我不要求別人做到的事,同樣也不希望別人要求我。」
 
「可以的話,把對人的期望值降到低限,日子會好過很多。所有別人釋放的善意都是額外賺到的。就像你偶爾做點好事也是一時興起。我不喜歡不安、失望和失去這一類的負面情緒。只要你不要期望從別人那裡得到、被滿足和被喜歡,那些忐忑和不確定都是可被消除的。」
 
「這就是我寧可獨處的原因。」

 

Friday, May 16, 2008

Prophetic logos

 
Redesign of the logo of TUDelft by unknown.
So ironic but still creative!!


That reminds me that our T?F logo is with flame as well...
on 13th floor's red carpet!

 

Thursday, May 15, 2008

多事之秋

禮拜天超開心的Lake BBQ結束以後
就是接二連三的衰事湧上
短短三天已是如此漫長
 
先是禮拜一睡醒
發現房門因為不知名原因打開了
還好人沒事東西也沒丟
 
當晚焦慮了一整夜睡不好
半夜頻頻起床檢查門戶
然後拖著疲憊的身軀準備要去上設計課
 
後來就不用詳述了...
系館都還沒等我踏進一步
就在熊熊大火中灰飛煙滅了
 
下午沮喪萬分地離開Aula
去DUWO拜託他們幫我加一個室內鎖
被拒絕後到police station備案
 
這下我真的是道地的咕嚕人了
罰單也繳過了
現在連警察局都進了
 
傍晚BK塌了以後
和Guner兩個人焦慮地互相安慰
一起得了high rise fire恐懼症
 
偏偏我宿舍還在13樓...
再結合前一晚造成的門戶大開恐懼症
又累又難成眠啊...
 
禮拜三早上九點在Aula有說明會
匆忙下樓以後發現腳踏車竟然壞了
只好去路邊攔一個倒楣鬼載我去學校
 
倒楣鬼更倒楣的是通往學校那座橋被關閉了
他得載著我繞遠路到運河的另外一邊
還要在聽到我是建築系的學生以後say i am sorry
 
說明會讓我見識到咕嚕人的從容堅毅
一邊危機處理還可以一邊搞笑
整場說明會下來笑點不斷
 
結束以後studio集合宣布緊急措施
人脈極好的Winy Maas先生決定要全員移陣到Berlage去
也就是接下來兩個禮拜workshop我們得每天通車...
 
然後World Wonder的人代傳Deborah的指示
說禮拜五deadline的essay照原計畫繳交
系館倒了人沒倒所以不予延期嗎
 
Please deliver hard copy of the essay assignment with the A5 notebook to 13 south secretary...
對啦
最好現在還有13 south secretary這種東西...
 
慘的是本來想用沒課的禮拜四趕報告的計畫也被破壞了
tutors說我們還是來看一下進度好了
明天下午一點大家Berlage見啊
 
所以下午苦哈哈地唸了一堆reading
現在用壞掉的手敲著鍵盤...
上禮拜交完Roemer那篇3000字的essay廢掉的右手...
 
附近還有人在開party是怎樣
音樂開那麼大聲怕沒人聽得見是不是
一整個ooxx...
 
要堅強
要堅強
要堅強...

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The Crown Was Fallen, the Tough Time Is Coming

 If you have never been to TU Delft's Faculty of Architecture before, it's too late for you to come- forever.
 
This morning I got a phone call from Carolyn around 9:30, and she said "oh, take your time, there is a fire alarm in BK, we're coming out now." Usually I got calls because of being late (sorry I always sleep late and never be in time for the studio), and if anything delay and reschedule was announced, someone will inform me. Because Carolyn's voice was so easy... I thought just someone did some stupid thing to activate the alarm by accident. Maybe one or two hours later we can go in back again. Anyway... I left my room and took my bike. On my way to school, I met Victor (another guy in our studio, he was going home) on the bridge. I noticed that the smoke from the campus was heavier than I supposed. I kept cycling. When I arrived, I was so stunned by the scene in front of me. Cordons were set around the area already and flames and smoke kept coming out from the southern part of our faculty. Fire started from the 6th floor and spread quickly. In two hours, half of the building was brunt down.
 
Studio guys met each others on the main road and went to Aula (congress center beside the central library) to listen to the Dean of Faculty. There, I met one of my tutor, Lidy, in rMIT last semester. She was quite sad about this terrible thing. I really can't imagine how many things we lose! All books, all computers, all research data since the faculty was founded, all design projects in progress... everything was gone in hours! Especially for teachers, all their academic efforts- for years or even for all their lives- can't be get back anymore. Dutch architecture would be damaged and become backward so much... TU Delft is such an important institute in Europe, but now all valuable resources was lost. I don't know how we can continue our school till the end of this semester... not to mention that where I should start my final project for next year. When we had lunch on the roof of the library, keeping eyes on BK... the other half part of the building was in fire as well... 13th floor, where our studio was in, was brunt out and turned black.
 
15hrs, they sent a email saying that the fire at the Faculty of Architecture is not yet under control. Around 5pm, when I was with Guner in her room, Ryan (Canadian guy in our studio) messaged her and said that our 13th floor started to collapse. We went out to the corridor and looked towards the campus. The fire and smoke was still on. Our 13th floor was totally destroyed by fire- no more Green Dreams, no more World Wonders, no more red carpet. The crown of DSD+T?F was fallen. (At the beginning, when Winy Maas conceived the idea of our studio, 13th floor was on the top of BK, looking down to the whole campus.) Now even in Rotterdam you can see the smoke all over the sky of Delft. I don't want to say it's destiny but everyone here knows how bad lucky the timing was. Water pipes got some problems this early morning and they just turned off the water spray systems. A coffee machine was broken then. And then just hours, the whole building was lost. I am also feeling lost now...
 

A Tough Time Is Coming


Just as Sebastiano said... the logo of the tu delft is now quite applicable!!!




 

A Really Sad Moment

 

>> Bouwkunde gebouw Delft stort in

 

The Crown Was Fallen


If you have never been to TU Delft's Faculty of Architecture before, it's too late for you to come- forever.

This morning I got a phone call from Carolyn around 9:30, and she said "oh, take your time, there is a fire alarm in BK, we're coming out now." Usually I got calls because of being late (sorry I always sleep late and never be in time for the studio), and if anything delay and reschedule was announced, someone will inform me. Because Carolyn's voice was so easy... I thought just someone did some stupid thing to activate the alarm by accident. Maybe one or two hours later we can go in back again. Anyway... I left my room and took my bike. On my way to school, I met Victor (another guy in our studio, he was going home) on the bridge. I noticed that the smoke from the campus was heavier than I supposed. I kept cycling. When I arrived, I was so stunned by the scene in front of me. Cordons were set around the area already and flames and smoke kept coming out from the southern part of our faculty. Fire started from the 6th floor and spread quickly. In two hours, half of the building was brunt down.

Studio guys met each others on the main road and went to Aula (congress center beside the central library) to listen to the Dean of Faculty. There, I met one of my tutor, Lidy, in rMIT last semester. She was quite sad about this terrible thing. I really can't imagine how many things we lose! All books, all computers, all research data since the faculty was founded, all design projects in progress... everything was gone in hours! Especially for teachers, all their academic efforts- for years or even for all their lives- can't be get back anymore. Dutch architecture would be damaged and become backward so much... TU Delft is such an important institute in Europe, but now all valuable resources was lost. I don't know how we can continue our school till the end of this semester... not to mention that where I should start my final project for next year. When we had lunch on the roof of the library, keeping eyes on BK... the other half part of the building was in fire as well... 13th floor, where our studio was in, was brunt out and turned black.

15hrs, they sent a email saying that the fire at the Faculty of Architecture is not yet under control. Around 5pm, when I was with Guner in her room, Ryan (Canadian guy in our studio) messaged her and said that our 13th floor started to collapse. We went out to the corridor and looked towards the campus. The fire and smoke was still on. Our 13th floor was totally destroyed by fire- no more Green Dreams, no more World Wonders, no more red carpet. The crown of DSD+T?F was fallen. (At the beginning, when Winy Maas conceived the idea of our studio, 13th floor was on the top of BK, looking down to the whole campus.) Now even in Rotterdam you can see the smoke all over the sky of Delft. I don't want to say it's destiny but everyone here knows how bad lucky the timing was. Water pipes got some problems this early morning and they just turned off the water spray systems. A coffee machine was broken then. And then just hours, the whole building was lost. I am also feeling lost now...

Saturday, May 03, 2008

我不能為你做得更多

「沒有不去做的理由 因而去做
 和沒有去做的理由 因而不做...
 你是哪一種人呢?」

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

paintball

 
春假前的最後一個studio day攝於Delft漆彈場
 
雖然不是第一次打了
但還是很想知道外國的漆彈場有沒有比較high
就在最後一刻改變心意報名參加了
 
場地還不錯
真的就是一片叢林和爛泥巴
匍伏前進的時候還會被不知道的植物卡住
 
二三十個人拆成紅黃兩隊
在約莫100mx40m的戰場上
兩端是各自的基地和插旗點
 
只要把對方的旗子偷過來自己的陣營
讓兩支旗子擺在一起的隊伍就算贏了這一局
一共打幾局... 就是打到大家彈盡糧絕為止
 
因為英文爛又沒在看戰爭片
也就只能喊喊cover me或a guy behind me之類的
毫無戰略地亂衝一氣
 
規定是九米以內不准開槍射擊
因為可能會打傷人
然後中槍的人要高舉槍枝離場兩分鐘後才得重新加入
 
當然除了漆彈射程太遠彈頭會下墜
這種漆彈遊戲和真實戰場還是有本質上的大不同
學到不少啊
 
第一
在戰場上
對敵人仁慈就是對自己殘忍
 
有好幾槍我還在那裡考慮距離太短的時候
對手就毫不猶豫開槍了
還真是愚蠢的婦人之仁
 
第二
在戰場上
有一種叫浴血奮戰的東西
 
有沒有中槍完全是自由心證
最嘔的就是明明打到人了那傢伙還裝死不離場
或是有人莫名其妙跑過來說我打到你了
 
第三
在戰場上
沒有人規定一個人只能死一次
 
照道理說
中彈的人在中彈後必須高舉槍枝離場
而場內的人不得射擊離場中的敵人
 
另一條規定是離場以後再回場的人
必須從己方陣營
也就是插旗處重新開始
 
本來我的習慣都是往前衝的
而不是留守的狙擊手
不知怎麼的某次回場的時候發現沒有人在守旗
 
大概是我們的人死光了吧
不得以我只好留在那裡顧旗子
然後就發現自己四面楚歌了
 
不用說我就這麼壯烈犧牲了
更慘的是中了一彈以後站起來正要離場
四方八面的流彈根本沒停下來
 
而我就在這種應該很安全的時候被爆頭
出去以後還要跟別人解釋為什麼會蠢到頭頂上正中一槍
還不知道是哪個興奮過度停不下來的傢伙開的
 
anyway...
這告訴我們身為一個訓練有素的軍人是很重要的
那些能在重重戰火中生存下來的士兵真的很厲害
 
要說漆彈遊戲少了點什麼味...
大概就是它不提供手榴彈和埋地雷的設定
也不允許短刀攻擊和肉搏戰吧
 
那種挨近掩體以後突然發現掩體的另一邊也有一個敵軍
但礙於距離太近無法互相開槍只能隔著掩體say hi的場面
真的很好笑...
 
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