RIP MJ

1993, I went to the MJ concert with my dad, and we waited, only to be told some 45 min later that he was not well to perform. We went back a second time, hopeful, and then he appeared. It was my first music concert (the cameo by Tommy Page in Plaza Pelangi does not count), but yes, my first full fledge concert, and I went with my dad who promptly abandoned me midway because he wanted to better view.

I bet he was as excited as me to see the King of Pop. RIP MJ.

major-minor

my first concert at the opera house. amazing. loved the second set of tchaikovsky piano concerto no. 2. brilliant performance by stephen hough.

What is your story?

Just came back from uni. In an attempt to finish an assignment, I could not find a seat in the library and wandered off to the faculty building but was freezing my ass off on the uncomfortable stool and thought the postgrad room was too toxic what with the designers' glues and stumbled into a students' photo exhibition.

Most of the projects were very personal, one spoke of his 20-year-old friends, another of the anniversary prayers, and another with a portrait and close up of their deepest fears, together with a survey of what they feared the most. I like most of the works and the storyboard and creativity.

What is your story?

Healthy living

I found out last week that my housemate's friend has high blood pressure at the young age of 27 and the doctor told her that she has to change her lifestyle or else.. so she and my housemate decided to live more healthily from Monday (15 Jun) by cutting down on cigarettes (him) and salt (her) and wine (them). And the spillover effects were that our household has also decided to do the 1 month challenge because we have just been eating way too much and not exercising enough, me especially since the month of May has literally become a month of eat, sleep, assignments and exams. Totally unhealthy...

So... 15 Jun shall be day 1!

How do you destress?

Guess who is so stressed from assignments that she has to channel her energy to baking / cooking to destress... Hey, it's a step up from drinking coke / coffee.

(No, I only made the sticky date pudding cake - ma housemate didn't line the sides so the crumbs came off..)

Very simple breakfast...

Presentation

In the midst of discussing the presentation format for our report, a coursemate used the following analogy:

As shallow as it might sound, if a guy wants to 'kao' a girl, he will see whether she is pretty first, i.e. to be attracted first, before taking the next step in getting to know her, if there is no first attraction, no matter how good the girl is, he will not be interested in wanting to get to know her better.

I think it's not about being shallow, but in knowing and working with the hard truths.

Merci!

My housemates' folks are here for a week, and we just had a 3-hour dinner made up of 1 Malaysian and 5 Vietnamese (with 5 nationalities split between them - Original, German, French (ex-Cambodian), Australian) and 1 French. Dinner was a spread of oysters, sashimi, garlic bread, spring rolls, steak, wine and bubur cha cha - almost as diverse as the nationalities, no points for guessing who made desserts! 

My attempted conversation with the French granduncle were just hilarious. Even though we were seated next to each other, it went round the table starting with him him showing me his four-faced buddha pendant that he bought from Bangkok and then speaking to his wife (in French), his wife relaying to my housemate in Vietnamese, and then her to me in English before I looked back at him and nodded my head in delight. 

Despite the language barriers, the universal love for good food was shared. Dinner was great.

Time

I've been reading Time Magazine since I was 12. Although it's been an on-off relationship of sorts, I've always felt an affinity to the magazine, even though it is very US-centric. I don't however remember most of the writers as I am very much a content seeker. Today I picked up the magazine again and decided to resume the affair and pay more attention to its contributers. 

Image source: http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20090601,00.html