I know it’s not december, though as I type this the sun is setting (it’s only almost 4pm). that is a random title using a line from my favourite Death Cab song, Brothers On A Hotel Bed, which to my amazement and very great happiness the band performed last night. more on that in a bit.
so I’m into the second half of term, with almost exactly 4 weeks till I go back to singapore for christmas. life’s been good. just submitted mid-term coursework this week, along with the first draft of my short story. with regard to school, I can’t help feeling as if there’s a lot more about the stuff I’m studying that I’m supposed to ‘get’, but I’m not getting it. not anybody’s fault in particular; it’s just that there’s no time to go in-depth and even if there was I wonder if I (we) would even be able to comprehend it.
other stuff. jafnie came over the weekend before last (wow that’s actually a long time ago now I think about it), and there was SingSem, which was a kinda forum/discussion thing for civil service scholars. it was… troubling in some ways, as in the attitudes some people held, though luckily not so much in a I-just-got-a-horrible-vision-of-my-future kinda way.
we went on a day trip to Windsor and Eton, which are just across each other along the Thames. Windsor Castle was suitably old and opulent. pity we couldn’t get to go inside Eton College though cause they close to visitors after october.
Windsor Castle
yet another airport misadventure with jafnie when he flew off on monday, he almost missed his flight again. because before that we were along oxford street shopping (again).
the next weekend I was in Bath with muthu and zhangfan. very pretty city, especially in sunlight. took a tour to Stonehenge as well.
Inside the Roman Baths in Bath (ok duh)
Stonehenge
the weather’s changing now. I still can’t stand how early it gets dark; I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it. yesterday and the day before were around 6 degrees, but occasionally there’s still the lovely autumn day:
watched Wicked this past monday with woonloong. amazing show – the story, costumes, and of course the singing… woah. would thoroughly recommend it. in fact I think I actually wouldn’t mind watching it again sometime later. also saw a very good performance of Hamlet at the Young Vic a couple weeks back; they set it in a madhouse, and the actor playing Hamlet also played his father’s ghost. it reminded me of all the times we tried so hard in tsd to come up with a ‘directorial concept’. got tickets for all the Young Vic productions coming up. also want to catch Juno and the Paycock (can you believe it!) sometime soon.
which brings me up to date, to Death Cab. last night was the second time I was watching them after Munich, and I was so glad I did. they played all my favourites: A Lack Of Color, The New Year, We Looked Like Giants (amazing interlude bit with Ben Gibbard on drums) and of course Brothers On A Hotel Bed. really liked how they played some old ones too.
on a random note, I was thinking today how even though I’m such a big fan (I knew all the lyrics to just about every one of the 26 songs they performed yesterday, and I know they did 26 songs, because I took down the setlist on my phone) I actually wouldn’t want to meet them in person. I would have no idea what to say.
anyway. their songs have been playing in my head the entire day today. bliss.
