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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Science and Industry

The museum of Science and Industry further south from my university...awesome building, that huge area of snow, just before you get to the building, isn't solid ground. It's a frozen body of water with snow on top. I was gg to walk across until my friend told me and we decided the ice might be too thin to be safe. But then we poked the frozen water with a stick and it didn't give, so we jumped on it for fun...and cheated death! woot!

belle epoque at 7:30 PM

Stalagtites! or is it Staglamites? or stalacmites of stalatites or anyone else have any idea? It's staggering at any rate...and very cave like. This is actually just the underpass

belle epoque at 7:29 PM

Through the fields toward the Midway

This is farther South, after exciting the back door of my lecture hall, very lovely and deceptively like an expanse

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morning walk...

Taking a morning walk...down south toward 50th street passing benches

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Snow!

This is the entrance to the quads on a snowy morning 730am

belle epoque at 7:24 PM

New Babylon

Today we had our last rehearsal before the performance of the film score for the New Babylon, while the film is being screened. I actually had fun today, what with trying to count and remember my rests, while trying to crane my neck north-east to check out the film and then trying to play and watch at the same time. It worked! I actually got the gist of the film and I really loved the style, it was pretty dark in a forward-looking kind of way, or maybe I say that only in retrospect. It was difficult and pretty amazing that we managed to pull it together, still remember when everyone starting stamping on the stage and cheering after we finished the first reel exactly matching the score with the film. Conductor tells us the first time this was premiered they thought the conductor was drunk because the film didn't match the music, but today it did like action to action and it was amazing to sneak peeks and see how it was pulling together. now all those practices felt worth it and I'm really going to have fun, its so exciting to see how Congruous we are.

belle epoque at 12:19 AM

Friday, January 19, 2007

Russ

Here is my Russian homework for today

SENTENCES FOR TRANSLATION
My daughter talked on the phone all evening, but I watched TV
for 2 hours. My husband was in Moscow, where he saw how
workers built (finished building) a library in two weeks. I
told him that he used to like me for a long time, but he does
not anymore. He did not think I was alone. But on Saturday
night he is going to write an essay and he is not going to
rest up. But Vanya will call the director in an hour and will
tell him that they have been drinking at work. On Monday she
finally resolved to close the window, but all of a sudden the
phone rang. For the first time Katya saw him in April in
Odessa, then in June in Novgorod, and then she understood
(grasped the idea) that he gave the books to a teacher. What
time is it now? It is 8:30. No, what are you saying?! It is
5:45. But in Russia they do not say 5:45, they say 17:45.

Is it just me or does this read like an
Art Film.

belle epoque at 3:32 PM

Saturday, January 13, 2007

I love this pair of boots!! from nine west!! arghhhh $49 opinions, anyone?

belle epoque at 1:25 AM

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

COOL NEW SITE

http://geekologie.com

ok this website is so hilarious and

http://geekologie.com/2007/01/mail_with_drawing_instead_of_a.php

this is really funny and somewhat inspirational

belle epoque at 5:31 PM

Thursday, January 04, 2007

My first dinner on my peeppeepThomas plate!

belle epoque at 8:49 PM

My Sesame Street bedsheets!

belle epoque at 8:48 PM

peep!peep!yay!

Today was exciting! I used my peep!peep!Thomasthetankengine plate for the first time! I got my food back in a styrofoam box and emptied out the contents into my plate, one for mashed potatoes one for chicken and one for vegetables (the largest one) and I was so pleased with myself (and so happy looking at the colourful plate, it says: Go Red Engine! Bust my Buffers!) that I ate and chewed very slowly and deliberately and I began to wonder about why chewing is important.

Belle Époque: says why do you think chewing your food is impt
X says: so that you don't choke lor.
X says:
duh

It can't be that simple can it?! and it really isn't!! check this out
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=george&dbid=36

cool huh!!!
So everyone, chew your food,

it's what Thomas would have wanted.

belle epoque at 8:47 PM

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Hallelujah

I really love this song (that's on my video now) I keep hearing it on various tv dramas but just figure out which it is, Here is the Rufus Wainwright version of Hallelujah

I heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift, the baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelu----jah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof, you saw her bathing on the roof, her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair, she broke your throne, she cut your hair, and from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Maybe I have been here before, I know this room; I have walked this floor, I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch, love is not a victory march, it's a cold and its a broken Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know whats really going on below, but now you never show it to me, do you? (and)
Remember when I moved in you; the holy dark was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above, and all I ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
And its not a cry you can hear at night, its not somebody who's seen the light, its a cold and its a broken Hallelujah

belle epoque at 11:58 PM

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Back in Chicago

Winter break was very short but very sweet, thanks to everyone who made it so amazing for me. On the flight back to Chicago, when we were about to land, we were flying above clouds that had somehow come together and resmebled an arctic landscape. It was amazingly surreal and beautiful and reminded me why I am where I am today.

(Let's live it up Winter Quarter o7! :D
Happy New Year everyone! A new year and more new resolutions

Maybe there's a God above, and all I ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you

belle epoque at 3:40 PM

Sam, Shawn and I on the cab back to the university from the airport

belle epoque at 3:37 PM

Mom and Dad and I

belle epoque at 3:36 PM

Arif wakes up in this shot

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My best and brightest sending me off at the airport:)

belle epoque at 3:36 PM

Naz and I at the airport

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Jem and Fish eating at airport

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Rif and Tiap eating at airport

belle epoque at 3:34 PM

Anemometer..totally useful here

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close up of food

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my new peep!peep! plate for use in Chicago!

belle epoque at 3:33 PM

Cousin and brother and family new year dinner !! Turkey, crayfish, shepherd's pie, rice, my faaaave veg!!

belle epoque at 3:33 PM

my stuff before being crammed into the suitcase

belle epoque at 3:32 PM

Marc's pig with money at Liang Court

belle epoque at 3:31 PM

Quartet 04 Siying missing again:(

belle epoque at 3:30 PM

Best pals from my strings batch, Pooh, Jon, Jasper and Alicia!! my twice octet babe violin :)

belle epoque at 3:30 PM

Sasha at my computer

belle epoque at 3:29 PM

Jon being dead (or himself. It's hard to tell)

belle epoque at 3:29 PM

Jasper being lame haha

belle epoque at 3:28 PM

Pooh and I! my future family doctor

belle epoque at 3:28 PM

Hwa Chong Strings party! (with juniors)

belle epoque at 3:27 PM

Look at the light...its soooooo pretty...

belle epoque at 3:27 PM

Females at Remix, and a red elephant

belle epoque at 3:26 PM

Mr Foo soliciting (Drink Kathleen....driiiiink...)

belle epoque at 3:26 PM

yummy:)

belle epoque at 3:25 PM

GORGEOUS sushi

belle epoque at 3:25 PM

Remix dinner (farewell:( ) at Jap restaurant, CHIJMES

belle epoque at 3:24 PM

Naz and Alvin haha

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At Nat's house!

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with Naz visible!

belle epoque at 3:23 PM

YLC on the bus to Nat's house!Adrienne, me, Jon, Naz and Nat

belle epoque at 3:23 PM

I miss Sasha:(

belle epoque at 3:22 PM

invasion of personal space

belle epoque at 3:22 PM

talk about scandal

belle epoque at 3:21 PM

Botanic Gardens rocks at night!

belle epoque at 3:20 PM

Mr Foo's place whee!

belle epoque at 3:19 PM

Yi Yuan and I

belle epoque at 3:19 PM

Kath and I! (me getting familiar after getting drunk)

belle epoque at 3:19 PM

Aruha!!! Adorable :)

belle epoque at 3:18 PM

Jit min and I (Mr Foo's house!)

belle epoque at 3:17 PM

Ros and I having a drink. Well, just me.

belle epoque at 3:17 PM

Kath and I

belle epoque at 3:16 PM

YeZhi my most Favourite violin babe!

belle epoque at 3:16 PM

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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Science and Industry

Through the fields toward the Midway

morning walk...

Snow!

New Babylon

Friday, January 19, 2007

Russ

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

COOL NEW SITE

Thursday, January 04, 2007

peep!peep!yay!

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Hallelujah

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Back in Chicago