Typing is a very interesting thing to do. I get a kick by just thinking, “let’s type something”... it’s a beautiful thing to press buttons in rapid succession. I love placing the full stop in the courier font. It is so defined and tiny...I get kicks by a range of very small, weird things to really expensive ones: just the thought of buying stationery, the thought of organizing into categories, making something cleanER, printing on a3, buying beads, wandering on the terrace just before it rains, traveling, shopping, making paper, naming cds with markers, sketching, cutting paper, watching tennis, eating ice cream, owning lots of empty books and paper, playing with the camera, etc. these are things that I think are very specific to me... I assume everyone has different sets of such interests, which is why we act fundamentally different from each other. What is the source of such interests in the first place?

I’ve been watching a lot of fashion related shows these days. I want to understand it. I think the easiest way of understanding a certain thing is to first understand wht it is not. I was watching the ‘101 most unforgivable fashion disasters in entertainment’ or something named similar. About 2 years ago, I couldn’t differentiate between a great outfit and a dress disaster. Not that im very good at it these days, but I think its more important for anybody to first identify and accept the areas in which they need to improve, and then work towards it. Sometimes I wonder why I should try in the first place.

Fashion is not my industry. But then again, I think fashion is one of the fields that is very easily relatable to architecture. Point one, everyone on this earth wears clothes, but few understand that they need to be ‘designed’. Point two- it is allegedly ‘inaccessible’ by the general janta. “Fashion is only for the rich. Fashion designers are expensive, and only work for movie actors.” Fashion design is nothing but the design of clothes, and I understand that. Every single thing I wear needs to be designed for my physical proportions, my personality, and me. It is a basic necessity. But then again, what do these huge stores like Westside do?

How do u present an interior project to a client? Model? One-point perspectives? It’s pretty weird, actually...even on these television shows, things are compressed into half an hour’s time, and the client is entirely missing! Wht do u do if people are staying in the space already, and u were allowed to visit it for only an hour every week? How do u implement the concept of working at site?! I think interiors must be designed at site, and not at a drafting table 16kms away. What can u do when it is physically impossible?!