Reviews
I finished reading Never Let Me Go (K. Ishiguro) yesterday. I really enjoyed it - I loved how smooth the flow of words was, how slowly the story was unveiling itself and especially how I was not in a rush to get it entirely ever since the first pages. Kazuo Ishiguro definitely has a style on his own, but his slowness must not be taken in a bad sense ; you actually take your time because you already know what the end is (the whole book is a thread of memories) and then, you can just appreciate all the tiny details he put in his story. I also love how you know it is not our world, how you are perfectly conscious during all the reading of this, and how you do not dive in this parallel universe as you would do with Twilight or HP. You just keep a very external eye on the story, not swallowed by this other world and however not both feet in our world. A great experience, if, of course, you're fine when action is slow.
Also, on saturday night, I've been to a concert set up by the Alliance Francaise in Hong Kong. It was 'Nouvelle Vague meets up with High Tone', two French bands (obviously). I already knew Nouvelle Vague, which is a band playing some kind of electronic bossa nova (you could say they do with bossa nova what Gotan Project does with tango) and I didn't know High Tone but have been very positively surprised. High Tone is a band playing electronic techno music, but they have a whole concept behind it. Firstly, they use ethnic rythms in their music ; secondly, during the concert, they had these arty videos playing in the back, while they were in the darkness. It was not only music, it was music and a message given through the medium of the videos which were very visually artistic. They were mono- or bi-chromic and really well cut. Well, I loved it. It was somehow hard core but they really rocked the place.
Then, Nouvelle Vague. God, I loved them ! The two singers are like the yin and the yang - one is tall, blond, skinny, with a very strong voice and almost wild character ; the other one is small, brunette, all in round shapes, with a very soft, almost kiddish voice and a cute dollish attitude. What I thought interesting in this band is that they sing together very rarely - it's always one of the two which has the main part throughout the song while the other only accompanies sometimes. They kept singing one song each till the end, but none of them was overshadowing the other. They did rock the place too ! I look forward to seeing them again if they do a tour back in France.
Well, apart from that, I'm slowly getting ready to leave. It is extremely sad and as well very exciting. I got my visa for Cambodia 2 days ago - I plan on spending by b-day in Phnom Penh ! I'll be travelling with Virginie through Vietnam first, during the last week of May, then I'll go to Cambodia by myself. Those who are familiar with my icons may have noticed few icons about this country. I'm so attracted to it and thus so excited to go there that it almost overcast my huge and profound sadness of leaving HK. Almost, though.
Oh and I "encountered" a new model. French one. Was nice, but not fantastic if I shall make a review. He had an amazing flat though. :)