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Alex Philp
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Ali Mac's poetry. Since he won't update, I'm theveing.
Take the case of poor Goldilocks,
Who sneaked into a shiny Swiss box,
No matter how much she foraged,
She just couldn’t find porridge,
In the kitchen-less shiny Swiss box.
With design it is all about patter,
What you draw it no longer seems to matter,
Without ‘sense of place’
You are condemned a disgrace,
As the London architects get fatter and fatter.
With my course I have run out of luck,
An architectural sitting duck,
No matter if it’s Chipperfield or Diener,
The crits just keep on getting meaner,
But I really don’t give a…toss.
Neary finished the degree anyway!0 Comments 286 weeks
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Snaffled from Nadia N.
For all toshe who can selpl precflety!
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs cpoy it1 Comment 292 weeks
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An Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scotsman went to Switzerland...
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We went for the architecture, for those of you not in the know Swiss architecture is pretty good, to look at it, think about it, and be inspired by it (read stealing ideas, but in a nicer fashion)
First in Basl for two nights, Great town, free tram and bus transport from the hostel, GREAT hostel. Lots of architecture to see, and lots that we saw without expecting it or knowing of it’s existence.
Then to Zurich again for two nights, where we didn’t get free tram tickets but we did get rained on, again a pretty fab hostel. I was generally less impressed by the architecture in Zurich than Basl, except for the Silhoff(sp?) school, that was probably my architectural high point.
Our fifth night was spent in a hotel in Chur, not particularly impressed by the hotel but the host was amiable and all was well, we in Chur a bit but mostly ventured out of the city into surrounding villages. The Swiss have an astounding rail and bus system, always running on time, clean, helpful drivers/conductors etc. etc. etc.
Our sixth and final night was spent in Vals, at the thermal baths. The hotel was ok, huge up point was having our own oven and hob, down point no food to cook. The thermal baths themselves? Great. I can't adequately begin to describe so I'm not even going to try.
Photo's should be up once I grab them from the other two...
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Big bebo love to my favourite number two wherever you might be! Happy Valentines! xx
opss...wrong Alex...i have a feeling ive done this b4! doh! ignore the messege. Sorry dude
Hello my lovely - yes well I'm free at the moment anytime during Tuesday next week (day and night depending on coffee / pint) also Thursday night....what say you? P.S. Would be spiffing to meet your lovely lady!
ace thats cool uni is done!!! its the big bad world now hahahahaha! hope ur interview works out. you should see about getting a stall when the aberdeen market comes, jewelery seems to sell there well. mxx
Ok my sweet - thanks for letting me know, would be lovely to see you if you can make it xx
hello there!!! its been a while since i last heard from you! hows things? much new? mxx
Allright dude in france currently checking my bebo on amazing mobile technology! Party is on saturday the 19th hope u and ur lovely lass can make it!! x
alex hows the work going? Got much left to do?
Do some work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey got ur book Alex, give us a shout when ur around SSS and il return it. Thanks a million, lovin it!
Deathly hungover for two days
And a VERY sore back. Went and did the same thing on saturday, woke up in a hallway again... making a habit of that 
Can't believe you went to uni after that... are you mad??!!! Still coming to the flat warming?
Oh no! Overwhelming urge to.... Nah yer ok. I'm quite comfortable and do not feel the need to chase chipmonks, or fish(?).
Ahahahaha!! If you did you know she'd show you up
Zomg you could borrow my sillicoln implants!!!! You'd make a dashing lady!! "I'm a laaady!" Hahahahahahahaha
I'd sure like to see you in a shiny new dress though...
Eeee thats really soon. How much are tickets? I really don't think I'll be able to afford it
I'm moving into Lexykins flat soon and need all the money I can save!! Sowwy 
OK, when is it?
Can I go even though I'm not an archi kid anymore? I want an Alex sandwich more than anything...
Oh!! Thats Joooolian!!! He's also Anna's step / half brother in law! How cool is that?! He's cool although I couldn't quite believe it when he firemans lifted me out of the door last Thursday! He's lucky he didn't get weed on I really needed the loo! Oh yeah well thats who's supposed to be speaking this week? Some dude from a firm called Mahattan loft corporation.... looks fairly interesting I suppose!