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London Symphony Orchestra
Went for a performance by the LSO today; list of pieces:
Vlad Maistorovici, Halo (World Premiere)
Beethoven Piano Concerto no. 3
Beethoven Symphony no. 7
The first piece confirms that I really don't have a ear for modern music (Whitacre, Part, and some others I must have missed notwithstanding); something in it just... jars. Nonetheless, the use of the ( Read more... ) -
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All the news channels had called it a once in half a century rainstorm, and he could believe it. The rain came down in sheets, waves, gouts; having made puddles of every road and concrete surface, it proceeded to dance on them, shading and shimmering ( Read more... ) -
Dinner and Breakfast
Am finally getting into the habit of cooking again, late in the last full term of school. It's always difficult to start, given there's always excuses to not cook if the set-up, the whole bunch of 'standard' ingredients, is not there. No pepper, forget it. No soy sauce, forget it ( Read more... ) -
Learning French by Reading
At this rate, I will be able to go to Africa and meet up with French or Congolese/Nigerien/Chadian aid workers. I would be able to discuss with them, to some extent, the gaps in governance of authoritarian regimes; the problems posed by corruption and conflict to development and social services; the ways in which the democratic project is being ( Read more... ) -
March, Third Year
Started this journal in first year thinking to use it, and here we are - clean and unlived in.
And it is almost the end of the last term of school, too. What happens next? Who knows?
Every breath these days seems deeper than usual, and held for longer than usual. -
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There is really just this. One chooses the way he lives. Then he bears the scars that must be borne. -
The Ducks/The Squirrels/The Former Cows
More walking around London - Covent Garden, Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus, St James' Park, the inevitably huge gaps left when the previous visit to London lasted only three days. Thankfully the city is surprisingly walkable. Perhaps it is a holdover from the days before ubiquitous cars, as most of the architecture is?
Nothing bought at Covent ( Read more... )