小德你好，我从未来来看你了

小德啊,

我是30年以后的你。 喜欢科幻的你看到我应该不会太惊讶吧？
我想和你聊聊以后的我们。

现在的你在幼儿园里刚刚知道这个世界如何小运转。有阶级辈分，有处人处事的逻辑，自我意识挺强的。会对自己在意，对周围也比较敏感一点。观察力挺好，在保护自己和放开自己的交接点探索着，交了一些小伙伴。你可以去准备一本册子让他们留下一些信息，现在的我挺想见见他们的。记得有位印度姐姐和你很聊得来，但没记住名字。

明年开始的小学生活，你会经历转学和晋级班次的刺激，老爸开着摩多载你上课那迎风感，老妈早起送上火腿香肠早餐和那杯热牛奶的温度，你要好好体验哦。记得在学校等妈妈来接你的时候，你会认识一个老伯伯，在无比膏那办公室旁的走廊坐一起聊天。慈祥的老伯伯会和你聊人生和分享趣事，那是你第一次感受陌生人的人情味，直到现在我还仍然记得他的微笑和慰问。如果可以的话，你帮我记一下他的名字和住处，我想见见他。你会在小学的时候发光发热，几乎全校都认识你。可以的话，别让自己太嚣张，不然会做错一些事。四年级的代班李老师是一个很有爱心的女老师，可惜她只待了3个月，但你们会常常通信聊天，你很喜欢她的字体。五年级的主任吴老师是你的启蒙老师，也是你的第一个伯乐。直到现在我还有和她联系哦。我很欣慰你在小学时做了很多开心的事情，活跃的你是这30年里难得的真性情，只要尽情的感受身边每件事就好。对一些同学要好一点，别把自己看得太高，这点要记一下。

你的中学时期进了不错的班，只是学习有点吃力，但不用太给自己压力。你很喜欢图书馆一个人温习的感觉，可以提早去适应一下。那里的管理阿姨有点凶，但你会和她做朋友的。你应该不知道发育是什么吧？简单说就是慢慢变大人的过程，思想和身体会转变。你十三岁会用电脑找人聊天，聊一些自己搞不懂的事。电脑不懂是什么吧？它像一个藏在盒子里的老师一样，可以陪你玩，帮你处理事情。高一的时候你会遇上第一个自己爱的人，这个人会影响你好一段时间。你会开心，会痛，会不知所措。想提醒你要勇敢一点的爱，不要犹豫太多，这样你会留下少一点的遗憾，也多点让自己开心的事。你会有一班一起打球的兄弟，但要记得不要太走心，不然会伤害到自己，帮人也不用一直帮哦，要爱自己多一点。大姐会常对你说她不想要你当她的弟弟，我知道你会痛，希望你别往心里憋，长大后你会明白，做好自己就好。高二你会经历一个很大的人生考验，你会得到怪病，第一次感受脆弱。自己很痛，没自信，感觉自己像个怪物般活着。不用怕，真的不用怕。虽然这个考验会一生陪伴你，但你会好起来的。爸爸妈妈也很着急，他们也跟你一起痛，别怪他们做了一些不太好的决定。看看现在的我，是不是也活得好好的？还是可以很帅很酷的，当过怪物以后才会好好珍惜自己的身体，知道吗？

你在高中时候的大佬会和你分享上大学的事，你会去他就读的大学开始新的旅程。可能你习惯当哥哥了，所以把大佬化成你的小导师。你的大学之旅是一个非常重要的转折点。你会开始认真学习英文，学着融入吉隆坡那种大都市的生活，最后找到自己的位子。你会很开心很享受，但仍然被初恋影响着，没关系的。那些伤会结巴，也会让自己的感性变成熟，也学会尊重，共情，只是你会泡在里面一阵子。你也知道自己喜欢画画吧? 你以后选择了建筑系，有点辛苦，但你不会后悔。记得第一学期的时候你一直很努力，但就是做不对，做不好。没事的，很快你就探索到其中的奥妙了。现在的你可以试试让老妈买一点乐高给你玩，让你更早可以体会建东西的乐趣，好像还不赖。

出社会以后我就简单说吧。那时候的你做到真正摆脱初恋的枷锁，开始萌芽自己对爱的需求，渴望，给予施和受，会跌倒也学会爬起。你会开始为别人哭，也会为了另一半做很多连对自己都不会做的事。现在看回去都挺美好。而且会很多哦，你不要太密集哈哈。那个时候的你不太注意饮食，可以的话，去学会看食物的营养和成分，你会少一点对健康的无知。对了，你会有机会到英国留学，一个人在那么远的地方，经历成长和锻炼，拓宽自己的视野和维度，也做得挺好。你会觉得自己渺小，但又觉得自己充满无限可能。回国后接受社会洗礼，但不太会存钱。这点要好好提醒你一下，别觉得自己很有钱，让自己早学点钱的知识，你就会发现自己能做到的事情会更多。

到了30岁会有一个小小的革命。全世界换了一种运营模式，你开始为自己打工，也开始接触教育工作，成为别人的导师。像你现在的老师给予你爱一样被延续，像是一种时代的交接。你会在自己预设的未来中活着，也从一些事情中得到惊喜。

小德，你可能会问我；36岁的我是一个怎样的自己？我会告诉你，我还在成长当中。这对你来说可能很遥远，但这个时候我已经慢慢变成，我们想成为的大人了。我没有组织家庭，可能也不会有，也不着急，有爱的人就好。老爸老妈还在，他们老得挺快，每次回家你会心疼，在学习面对他们离去的那一天。你会慢慢发现这世界上，你最爱和最爱你的人，应该就只有你妈了。她现在还是一个大美人哦。可以的话，我也想去见见现在年轻，短发的她，和她说一些爱她的话。她常用藤便打你吧？哈哈，别太在意。是会疼，会哭，但现在回过头想，那种严厉的教导对你很有效哦，你成长的一部分是打出来的。现在你不明白这一点没关系，让她好好的调教你就好。现在的你还会抱抱她，但长大以后变少了。你爸也是。不过英国回来以后，我已经摆脱这所谓的尴尬，每次和他们道别的时候会抱抱他们。可以的话，现在的你记得多和他们说谢谢啊。爸虽然对你有时候很凶，但他最会买你要的东西给你了。那他也很贼，总是要用成绩来换游戏机，我怀疑是你妈教他的，哈哈。

小德，我不求你能记得全部这些事，但我想你多一点爱自己；这包括你自己的好和不好的地方。尤其是高一那场病的开始，别太自责。你会遇到几个很好的医生，慢慢把脆弱接住就可以了。它始终会慢慢变好的，知道吗？好了，很开心能够回来见见你。爸要来接你回家了，不要告诉其他人我来过哦，这是我们的小秘密。等下回家和狗狗玩以外，记得去做我拜托你的事情哦。可以慢慢来就好。

BIM DIARY: WEEK 08

Material schedule and floor finishes demarcation.

This week was a little short. I had been introduced to material schedule while helping my another team member to create the schedule ready for tender purposes. But before going into it, I had many questions in mind.

First of all, the project I involved in is a mix-development- the revit model is done separately for residential on the upper part and commercial units on the lower part. The combined ( or the central model) is the final model which compile the both parts into one for final checking. Here's the thing. If I were to obtain information from these imported models in the central model, I could not do this because it was locked within the model itself. In other words, I was unable to extract related information, for example, the total amount of fan used in both models when I want to create a schedule about it. 

Sadly, I wasn't given the solution and certainly I could only create a schedule with empty data. At the very least, I learned the way to create the columns of the schedule effortlessly. My training session continued by helping the team on demarcating different floor finishes on each and every plans for the project.

So,

I still couldn't taste the magic out of what I've learned so far in the documentation for tender using Revit. I was surprised by how things got messed up and even complicated. I have still a very long way to go.

BIM DIARY: WEEK 07

This week was a fresh start going back to Revit from Lumion.

My sensei finally got me into a real-time project, a project which undergoing KM process and preparing tender at the same time. I was assigned to work on window schedule with the leader in the team.

At first I thought it was a fast process- since the Revit should be more effective when it comes to documentation, well that was what I had in mind, not until I got into the real scenario. The reality is that, it will only be easy if the element is a window itself, one can simply obtain information like plans, window types, and all other data, easily generated in one click away. But in many cases especially in commercial projects, curtain walls are created for a project and yes, those ain't no windows.

Then I learned using their tricks and extra effort to generate schedule for such curtain walls using sections, a lot of hiding and revealing unrelated elements, create sheet, and then drag each and every wall one at a time into the sheet. I have to say it was pretty handful. It was doable, but quite troublesome if there are great amount of curtain walls to cut section.

So,

I thought I had a much higher expectation for Revit's efficiency performance. But I should not make a definite judgeent based on just one day experience, it is afrerall a complex software. Stay tunned.

BIM DIARY: WEEK 06

Lumion in a nutshell

This is quite a short week working on the project. But it was great that I can finally get the glimpse on how Lumion works on both exterior and interior rendering.

Due to the first week of fasting, most of my Muslim colleagues were not around to guide me through the process, so it was rather a do-it-yourself week. The first ever thing to learn is of course, exporting the model to the Lumion. It come to my surprise that the steps to do that were quite hassle-free.

On key thing to note is the difference between importing a Revit family and importing a sketchup model into Lumion. Both works extremely different and for fast production, Mr.S seems to be the better the option to do that. Mainly it shortens the time to update each and every model, while keeping the texture as it is (Lumion will recognize the texture as a material)

So,

I've completed an exterior scene in one day, and another for an interior view. In fact, Lumion is pretty user-friendly, and really fast when it comes to rendering. Not to mention the superb quality of foliage and environmental ambience (presets). I've even learned how to make a simple video of the project with just few clicks away. Love the software!

BIM DIARY: WEEK 05

CUT, CURTAIN WALL MAKING, DESIGN OPTIONS & PHRASING

It was a short Revit training this week due to busy schedule in our own office and Labour day.

First thing to do was sharping up my skills in Generic modelling- creating curtain walls with several ways, including extrusion and void, wall type, and array.

While trying to fill in more detail into the model, I discovered some useful tools like design options and phrasing- the tool to allow you to categorize things you've wanna show in your model, especially when you are sending it to the client. What it does best is hiding elements whenever you want it to hide, and group these hidden elements at your will. To illustrate, when your client asked for two options on the facade of a same building, you can create options by grouping them into Option 1, Option 2, and so on. Unlike using Mr.S, I normally will duplicate models of the same building in Mr.S and then starting to edit each and every one of them. Doing that might just increase the size of the model that you're working on and eventually lead to the risk of crashing/lagging.

Another useful tool I've learned was the 'cut' key. It's simple and it literally means cutting a model line into two (sounds funny haha). By doing that, you can delete the lines you do not need while making sure the other lines are still connected.

So,
Nothing much to conclude for this week, but my guardian is taking me to the next level of the design process ( All designer might already know what it means) next week. Yes, from Revit model to rendering. Stay tuned!