Saturday, February 28, 2004

my goodness! i can't believe nobody has commented on my last post! does no one find pavel or the GW valentine as deliciously funny as i did? psh, humour is lost on you people... LOST, i say! ;p

anyway, i would just like to announce that i am officially broke and probably won't be going out anywhere anytime soon. sigh. such is a life of a poor university student... if anyone wants to donate $$$ to the tiffany shui fund, feel free to do so. either that, or buy my groceries. :)

so i'm off on yet another OC-caused music search. this time i'm looking for the song that played while marissa and teresa were talking at the end of the last episode. i think it's "des moines" from the group halloween, alaska.

oh, so i went to the st. lawrence string quartet concert with jeanie and grace on thursday. it was absolutely amazing... the pieces were played so passionately and just so perfectly - the dynamics, the subtle nuances, the meticulous timing... if you guys ever get the chance to hear them play, i highly recommend them. student prices are always about $10, but at the jane mallet theatre (which they frequent quite often) in downtown toronto, tickets are $5 for students (which is good as opposed to the normal $30+ adult price). honestly, this is the 3rd time i've heard them and the third time i've been blown away. and goodness, i didn't even like stringed music before! i'm a self-proclaimed band geek who has been scarred far to many times by hearing the beginner strings play way back in grade six... anyway, here was the programme:
> string quartet in f major (maurice ravel, 1875-1937)
> yiddishbbuk (osvaldo golijov, 1960-...)
> string quartet in c-major, op. 61 (antonin dvorak, 1841-1904)
i found the second piece to be a little inaccessible (a little too modern for my taste), but it was still very passionate since it was based on the drawings of three children killed during the holocaust. i loved the third movement of the dvorak piece (scherzo - allegro vivo), but my absolute favourite was the ravel. even the wonderful dieubussy (haha, erik satie coined it) told ravel "in the name of the gods of music and in my name too, do not alter a thing in your quartet."

hey so do any of you guys remember those awesome king's quest games? well i found these great remakes of the first and second games in that series, you should really check them out - a great time-waster! so yeah, i was playing the second one yesterday during the afternoon. in the evening i went over to vic and jess' to hang out with everybody, listen to dave sing, watch asian-pop videos while shuddering at the extremely effeminate guys in the band, teach the boys to play euchre, and eat chocolate cake and cookies! mmmmm... so yeah, we stayed over pretty late - i got home by taxi-ing back with xin and dave at 6:50 am... though i myself took a nice long nap while everybody else was playing an extremely competitive game of monopoly (filled with many outbursts of expletives.... ahem, vic!). oh, and you know what i learned while i was there? we were watching this korean music video when they all tell me that this girl, harisu, was actually a guy not too many years ago. she's quite hot. i'm sure all you guys are quite disturbed now.

yup, that's her.

was pretty productive today and worked on a project with some lab members and then read some psych. gonna go make some dinner now...

p.s. somebody kill me. i just found out that we have to do ANOTHER FREAKIN' FLY LAB this term! @#$^#$%#$&##!!!

posted @ 7:38:00 p.m.

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