Chapter 3 – Ishvakar Academy

How to create the architecture portfolio?

Mrtyu with her pair of spectacles wore green eyes searched the question in the G****e search box to find the relevant details and scribbled the steps in her scratch book from her dormitory which was a few feet away from Ishvakar Academy who was residing with her friend, Geeza.

Step 1: Choose your project

“Choose my project... oh G****e, I don’t know what Mr Alex assigned me, probably he would mail me by now...?” she lamented to the search engine on her desktop computer.

“Who are you taking to Miss Moaning Myrtle?” her roommate, Geeza enquired who was distracted by Mrtyu’s laments from her leisure time of reading fiction and comics.

“Geez... Stop calling me with the character from your fiction books. Last night you called me with some other name like Bellatrix…” she replied without breaking eye contact with the desktop.

“Alright, fine. Mrtyu, my sweet friend, what are you lamenting to your pc? God created me with these two ears just to bleed on hearing all you jabber.” Geeza mocked her friend.

With tightly sealed lips, Mrtyu crossed her arms and turned to reply to Geeza with sharp looks in her eyes, “I am googling to get some help on the project. Geez, come and help me.”

Geeza pulled Mrtyu’s chair backwards. Then she dragged Mrtyu from her chair and made her sit on the couch to give her shoulder massage. Mrtyu relaxed well with sound inhales and exhales, “Hmm... Geez, you have magical hands. (She said while twisting her neck in 360 degrees) I need you; this massage relaxes me from my tiring research on my project.”

“I did this to you not only for your relaxation, but I also have selfish intentions,” Geeza told her when she gave a soothing punch on her shoulders.

“I know you are selfish fellow, what do you want from me?”

“Not you. I want your pc to check on my F******k account.”

“Seriously, Geez, I am dying to finish my project but you...” Mrtyu got to her neck to hold it in her hands carefully and tried to apply little force, threatening her to help on her project.

“Oh, as you humbly request me to help you, I will help you. But you look spooky when your green irises contrast in anger.” Geeza hurried to the desktop without looking back at the return expression from Mrtyu. “Tell me the topic and let’s see how I can help you?”

A notification appeared on Geeza’s mobile, she opened it saying, “Mrt, you would have shown me directly rather than sharing me.”

“Shut up and do it. If I have opened the file, why would I ask you to help me?” Mrtyu threw a soft doll at Geeza. As Geeza opened the P*F file and examined every line stated in the file, Mrtyu was playing the Escape Room game on her mobile.

“I am not doing it for free unless you are agreed to help me in return.” Geeza requested her.

Mrtyu smiled at her and assured, “I will cover all the drawing part of your project, it's a deal then?”

Mrtyu asked her friend Geeza while sorting the things to escape from the room she trapped in the game, “Why do you choose botany, you aren’t vegetarian indeed.”

“My father raised plants along with me and I am too fond addicted to gardening. We have a few medicinal scrubs and roots; we have some cooking plants and some for decorations. You know, Mrt, Watching the bloom of freshly emerged bud is the most awesome feeling in this world.” Geeza explained. “Did you ever watch the bloom of bud, Mrt?”

“Nope, since I am always set my face upwards to look at the buildings, I never looked down to admire those little beauties of nature,” Mrtyu told her.

Geeza beamed with a smile, “Why do you prefer the buildings, Mrt? It doesn’t have life in it.”

“Life… who’s said the building doesn’t have life. Indeed they have. The buildings are not just blocks of cement and bricks or any other materials. It speaks the culture, it speaks the love behind it, it also depicts the true humanly feelings as a back story.”

“Your philosophy may be applicable for divine buildings and monuments but not for graves... haha.” Geeza mocked her.

“That’s where I find my friend as stupid in her views.” Mrtyu rolled her eyes.

“What… do graves do talk to you and tell you their love story?” Geeza found Mrtyu as a lunatic.

“Indeed… Did you know about wonders of the world?”

“Of course I know.”

“The great pyramid and Taj Mahal were built for the tomb,” Mrtyu mentioned the fact.

Geeza was shocked and wondered, “Mrt, you are awesome… Are you going to design your own exclusive grave?”

“Either Castle or Grave, the design must speak the uniqueness and the name of the designer.”

Geeza eyed at Mrtyu and started to read the dos and don’ts to her, “Mrt, Let’s get back to your project, I know I can’t win over your in conversation. You are grouped under the 12 people and you are the thirteenth person.”

“What a ghostly number I got! Read out the names and let me see who the co-researchers in my project are.”

Geeza started to read the names loudly, “The person named Adriana is the project lead, then your team have Nebula, Sycamore, Dmitri…”

“Stop… Geez… those names are annoying me. And just tell me did Seyfert was teamed in my group?”

Geeza turned her head slowly and shared a smirking smile, “Mrt…?”

“Hey, don’t overthink, we are just friends. He is the only person who talks to me in my entire classroom of 60 students.”

“Just friends! (Mrtyu nodded and Geeza smiled at her) I am sorry, Mrt, he is not…”

Mrtyu shrunk her face and nodded to accept the fact and it’s when Geeza revealed the truth, she brightens up, “he is not… in another team. He is in your team.”

“Oh… that’s great. And did Dmitri is in the same group?” she enquired with more keen eyes.

Geeza looked again at the list and replied, “Yeah, she is. Why, what’s with her?”

Mrtyu pressed her lips in line and replied with arched eyebrows, “Nothing… then it seems I have to be alone throughout the project.” She exhaled.

“Mrt… I don’t understand?”

“Dmitri is dating Seyfert since last year. So I am left unaccompanied in this project, Geez, What’s my topic by the way?”

“Your topic says Analysis about complex building,” Geeza mentioned.

“I didn’t like the topic. I want to project on interior designs rather prefer complex buildings.”

“I need to meet the lecturer and wanted my topic to be changed.” Mrtyu quickly changed her dress and went to the Academy building to locate Mr Alexander Thijarux.