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I guess it was during my pre-school years that I was conscious of the design act. Under  a house where I was born, I constructed wooden bridges based on the stories I hear of this bridge that everyone in the world would have to pass through, at least once.

The Boy Scouts movement in the mid 1960's allowed my design & build ideas to be realized in what was called "projects".

In 1972 ITM Year One, our own first design & build project for the Architecture Studio got us even to carry pieces of 3X7 plywood on a motor-bike (thanks Zul Dol) only to realize a defensible studio space.

Design never stopped at the Rhode Island School of Design except for a few days when a strike was conducted at the end of 1979. And MIT even allowed ... 

Design in Malaysia is yet another story. If there's an event to remember in my design adventure in the early 80's, it was having to get a colleague go to Singapore, get a 12-digit calculator (not available in Malaysia then) to help with the calculations involved in proposing a RM20billion project in Greater George Town, Penang. Big project, bigger problems, biggest bulls...

The design act does not seem to want to stop.

2006: Proposed Redevelopment of Six Kampungs on Sarawak River Northbank, Kuching.

2006: Proposed Extension of Wan Zu-OHZ's Residence, Kangar.