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:: Monday, October 25, 2004 ::

In other news...

Two things this week

One, Ballroom and Latin private classes just started this week. I was finally able to coordinate my timetable with Hub's. Save for the fact that hes a fast learner, general commitments, time and geographic incovenience are factors which makes it almost impossible for us to practice and perfect the routine. Its such a tragedy we can't go for the competition. Betty our coach is 75 and shes been dancing since she was 5. Shes a remarkable lady for her age, her grace in dancing is balanced with a rough cynical manner which makes you think of one of those cabaret has-beens at a gin-joint. I never realised that putting physical movements to a song can be highly exhilarating, especially when you get the routine nicely fit into the proper continous motions, it becomes a natural swing across the dance floor.

Two, I have been exploring Warwick marshlands with my cycling gang, which sadly consist of only two people for the time being. Me and Melvin (a malaysian who travelled across the causeway everyday for the last two years, just so he could get to Hwa Chong). Orienteering in the marshlands could get quite difficult especially without a map and a compass, it quite reminded me of a Blairwitch setting, coupled with the bad weather.

As for the week ahead, amid the tests and readings, I'll be going to Wales with Janice and the Airforce boys in London (Sebas and Kai). And what we to do? Pay 260 pounds to hike, rockclimb the coast of Wales. It was a decision made in the spur of the moment, not realising that the three of them have undergone BMT. I reckon I'll be clamouring the coast while the three of them waltz effortlessly around it.

I'm coming back on Sunday to prepare for project on Tuesday and then Wenesday I'm off to Berlin with some Singys.

And so till then.

:: Stuffy 10/25/2004 06:43:00 AM [+] ::
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Insert: Helene and Me, 3 Brits (Tim, Tom, Andrew), 2 Italian (Ceceilia, Aud), PRC (Rainbow)

Last Sunday was a rather relaxed day...
I decided that I shall not do any math, any politics, any economics - not that I've even touched alot the last couple of weeks, but today is Sunday and I just spent an hour finding all the song titles to Henri Salvador's album 'Chambre Avec Vue'.

I brought Rainbow (my PRC flatmate) to church, and then we went to Helene's house for a French meal. It was cordially and marvellously done, French style. Starters of soup, chicken and cheese and wine and of course dessert of coffee and crepe with fried chocolate banana. She does it with so much effort, so much appreciation, so much perfection.

Did I tell you how I met Helene? If I hadn't I must. I followed some of the Singys to Leamington to look around during Freshers week, but Ade, Germ and Ade (there are two Adelines) wanted to go shopping (if you ask me, I'd prefer London shopping) and I wanted to go to the Museum. And thats where I met Helene because Weiliang had invited her for the Leamington trip and she didn't want to go shopping either. I never knew anything about French Impressionists painters and she educated me because she paints as a leisure sport. We started a conversation on art and we took off from there.

We arranged to meet at the Warwick Art Centre two weeks after to play the piano at the studio rooms and exchange musical scores.

:: Stuffy 10/25/2004 06:39:00 AM [+] ::
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Summing up the last couple of weeks...

Apologies to the flood of emails which I haven't replied, do be patient with me and I'll promise to get them sorted out once I fit the pieces of my routine together. But I'm getting there.

I came back from London two weeks ago, since then lectures and seminars have been a whirlwind of papers, words, and voices whispering a world full of -isms. I shuffled my seminars in such a way that I have my Wenesdays and Fridays free. This week when I went for one of my seminars, I realised that I was the only Asian against the whole EU (one Norweigian, one Russian, one Portugal, one Sweed) and the those who didn't want to be in the EU (namely the local British). I forsee a challenge in the months ahead.

As for University societies and activities, I've taken up ballroom and latin dancing(My partner, Hub and I vowed to dance like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers), currently going for private lessons, banking and finance society, economics society, tap dancing and yes of course- cheese and chocolate society.

I have alot to say about everything and everyone, but I must hold my wry sense of an opinion for the time being; till I find the time to sit quitely in my not-so-quite room, till I find the time to sit and feel thoughful.

In other news, I just got my first parcel when I came back from London, a birthday gift which i hadn't the time to collect the week before (but partly because none of my flaties said there was a mailbox until a week after) - a nice lovely fuzzy bear whom I just named after the owner. Special thanks to John!

:: Stuffy 10/14/2004 02:11:00 PM [+] ::
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