ATU Farewell Night

ok i'm just kidding. how can i not blog if i'm having a BREAK. how can i not blog if i don't wanna exercise, don't wanna help do the chores, and don't wanna go out of the house. so at the time being, i'll just grab pictures from others, or use my 3.2 megapix camera on my handset :(

this post will be about the so-called ATU graduation dinner... and all the pictures are randomly from those who posted up in their facebook account. thanks alot.

top: eu win - fu han
bottom: tim - mei yueh - subby - airina - yoke peng

the bank negaras

heck, the dinner was actually fun. despite the 2hours late commencement, the fact that we had to stand outside perspiring like shit, the disappointing menu, it's still overall quite a jolly night. firstly we had to chew our gums off the squid and the 'store' flavored beef, and then we had to be entertained by the oh-so-amusing JUMPERS! lol. jumpers was the bomb of the night, seriously. but i still think the band will never be complete without nouri. or azlina down there listening to nouri's all time infamous quote.

to be frank i'm not sure who will be leaving and who will be not; i can't delineate jpa people from the mara people; but one thing for sure, the next year will not be as fun, without even a single of them. i seriously didn't regret paying that 50 bucks for some fired kuay teow and some harder than rock fried squid. laughter and memories of the night worth way more than that.

let's get down to some picture... hm of course i don't really like the pictures. cos i'm not the one who took it. but it's ok, i'm not the best photographer on earth anyway.

airina - subby

the stanford girl

the michigan boy


the stanford boy


the michigan boy


the upenn boy and girl!

mei yueh - yoke peng - subby - airina - uma - tim- jian wei

yoke peng - ms. syeela - airina - subby

uh-oh fuhan... uma's getting jealous!

pose of the day - our pretty butts

i will continue to update the pictures of this post, until i get more of them. so will most the posts that are yet to come. until i get a cheap-second-hand camera. sob.

sigh

sigh. airina lee lost her camera. she is now officially a handicapped blogger. to lament the lost, everythingthinkthink will take a 1 week break.

Emanuel Ax in Town!

What I love about classical concerts is that they start punctually, finish on time, minus the hot and stuffy stadium with a rambunctious crowd screaming their heads off throughout the entire experience. Especially when you pay much less and get to sit in and air-conditioned hall listening to a world class performer. What pleasurable auditory. The thought that classical music as rigid and dead is the most inaccurate fallacy ever. What music can be more alive when people are still performing it after centuries?




Emanuel Ax had a concert in town last night. It's been quite some time since I last watched concert on solo piano. When was it, 4 years ago? Since Volodos lar. I must admit that what makes me attend a concert is not what the performer is playing, but who is performing. So when I read that Emanuel Ax is gonna be in M'sia, I almost couldn't belive my luck. Emanuel Ax, best friend of Yo-yo Ma; Emanuel Ax, the one who won the Arthur Rubinstein Competition at the age of 25? Yes IT's HIM. *swoons*






Well, I think if there were any setbacks, the only one would be a repertoire that I think it's a little lopsided. Even cy felt that the music was too much of a kind. Schubert - Liszt - Schubert - Liszt - Schubert - Liszt - Liszt. Romantic pieces. Even the last 2 encore pieces was again another eminent name in romanticism - Chopin. Nocturne in D flat and Waltz in A flat if I've not mistaken.

And the best part of it all?




A photograph with the concertmaster himself! Wee.....


p/s: Tried out the new Sbux Dark Mocha Frap. Very much like Java Chip, nothing special.

Ikura @ Saisaki

our very last outing as Austin together. it was fun of course, especially when you get a free meal at Saisaki. hah. not much pictures of food taken at the lunch though because those waiters don't allow me to! wtf. i seriously think bloggers should be given a blogger identity card or whatsoever in which you are granted permission to take pictures of everything. eh i wanted to promote that place lah ok. now no pics of the myriads of food how to let people see? padan muka.

we reached the restaurant around 1pm, after jian wei's frantic hush for us to make in on time. the place is in UOA btw. everyone was practically starving when we reached there! i'm sure some of you skipped breakfast for that :P ah the allure of food... *sniff sniff*




tim only joined us 20minutes later, and eu win and the famous girlfriend xin dee only arrived around 1.40, which was a total waste because we all know of his penchant for binge eating. lol. but at the rate jian wei's going, he's gonna beat him in no time.

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

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Desserts

now what i recommend for people who are on a diet but can't resist a buffet - the ikura. it's actually salmon roe, which according to yiling and e-jieh, totally kills your taste buds. after one shot, you'll lose your appetite for at least 15mins. good one eh.




my personal favorite is of course the ikageso and the unagi, as always. just like shogun, each one is given a fresh oyster (hah cy... we go there next time ya).




joke of the day - e-jieh the jelly man who without the slightest tinge of embarrassment, took ht's jellies and gulped it in a split second.




we had our time to the fullest, leaving the place half an hour pass closing time, at the time in which all the staff has already finish eating and cleaning up and switched off the air cond. wtf. anyway i guess if they don't do that we'll probably eat until dinner or so. or maybe supper.




went to pavilion after that. eu win and gf AND jian wei went for movies, e-jieh left, no idea where tim went, and so us girls went shopping and hunting for tops for the atu dinner on thursday. last time shopping with them liao... sob.



that's it. our very last outing. bye bye austin.

阴天

阴天给人的感觉真得很舒服。当你出门时，云朵总会挺身而出为你遮挡着无情的太阳；当你回到家时，习习的凉风回轻抚着你，一直到你入睡为止。

今天的天气非常阴暗，但却没有给我那份亲切的感觉。可能是前几个晚上都睡不好，搞得心情较沉重，上课时也不太爱讲话。回想起来，中学的我真的非常多话，不讲话真的难过不吃饭！现在的我给别人的印象却是很独来独往的，不喜欢多说话 - 喜欢沉醉在自己的空间里。这是一个好的转变吗？我自己也不懂。或许少一点说话能让我看得更多，听得更清楚。人的面目，朋友的丝丝细语，我都听清楚了。

今天我睡醒从房间出来时，客厅并没有像以往那样。阴暗的天气都把阳光给吞噬了，屋里需要借助灯光来照亮一切。在没开灯的那一刻，突然感得很寂寞，而那份寂寞确是很陌生的，意味着孤单，冷落。最后一个礼拜了。在这里交的第一群朋友 - 也是最了解我的一群 - 即将离开，到很远很远去。明年我也会到哪里，但何时能好象现在这样说说笑笑，是个可怕的未知数。

我开了灯，掀开熟悉的书本，再一次把心情埋进书里。