working for food

Playing for 3 minutes to eat a multi-course western dinner at Meritus Mandarin is not a bad deal at all. Cured salmon, crab cakes, miso sharks fin soup, trout roe, chicken stuffed with foie gras and chesnuts, an atas-sounding TimeOut chocolate-like dessert, chempedak parfait, handmade chocolates with musical notes printed on the top - the works.

I am getting fed and fat.

To make up for it I shall starve tomorrow at KoolBlueSkool and eat the $1.20 sandwich. And practice my cello through the 2- plus hour break.

he needs some kit kat

During orchestral break today I heard a cellist go through an entire cello 'recital'. Bach! Beethoven! Saint Saens! Elgar! All the famous concertos!

Hearing the said person made me tired and hungry so I binged on 1 chocolate 1 walnut 1 almond 1 dried apricot 2 macadamia nuts and Vitagen.

the anomaly

The flowers in the parks are astonishingly gorgeous. I didn't know I liked flowers until now. More flower shots can be found in my Facebook photo album 'voyeuristic in the park(s)'.

There is a lot more space, a lot more sky, a lot less people littering the parks unlike in Your Sunny Isle.

One of the many sketching artwork in the galleries. I wonder why people sketch rather than take a photo. Isn't it easier?

street musicians at portabello road market
buskers are everywhere, in the tube stations, they invade any occupiable space but not in a bad way.

The market

The rude shock of a defaced black cab

Pavement art at Trafalgar square.
The artist collected quite a lot of 1 p coins.

cute shirt at camden market
the hub of all things punk and pseudo punk and poseur.

I'm not that into photo taking so I didn't take as many photos as I should or could have, but the experience was great. London is like some cultural Mecca; anytime of the day you can get some kind of performance, chamber music, theatre, experimental whatnots, buskers (even in the rain). I didn't really want to come back but I ran out of money.

strings scratch the lens of my brain

Two days after touching down in Singapore I get an email asking me to do a literature review for articles to substantiate some claims that Dr X made.

Five and a half fruitless hours later, I have found more articles against Dr X's arguments. Articles that support Dr X's view - a grand total of zero.

I am now wondering if the London trip has damaged my article search skills beyond repair, or if Dr X's arguments are not valid.

This is proving to be extremely frustrating. Five and a half hours of classical music to kickstart my brain (to no avail) has made me jumpy and nervy and high strung and hungry.

*silent scream*

I shall switch to mind-numbing Chinese music.