Faces, Pages and Places

… this post is going to be a short one. Heh.

Been busy with a whole bunch of stuff from job applications to final examinations (which are just about to be over any day now). Anyway, stumbled across this YouTube channel by this artist who you may or may not know/remember. Summer’s coming - I can feel the heat - so these are for you out there looking forward to our last sun-filled summer fun together as IC Undergraduates! Woohoo!

Camile Velasco - Road Trippin’ (Red Hot Chili Peppers cover): ROAD TRIP!!! WOOO!!!

Camile Velasco - Natural Mystic (Bob Marley cover): OK, this one’s kind of random, but damn her voice is so sexy =P

Just got back from my pseudo-holiday to Paris last night. Was looking through the pictures (which I promise to put up tonight soon) and I made a new banner for the blog from them. What d’ya think? For those of you who miss the old one compiled from my winter trip to Morocco, here it is for the archives:

Will include a short write-up on the trip along with the photos in the next post, so come back and check again soon! Heh.

I was out to get some lunch today and as I turned the corner into Gloucester Road, I was met with a sea of people crowded outside the tube station and sprawled across the entire street. At first, I thought there had been some accident (or worse, a bomb-scare), but then it didn’t make sense that there would be so many who had emerged apparently from nowhere. Then, I got to thinking that maybe some superstar was in the vicinity and got pretty psyched up (we were just talking last night about how we’ve yet to chance upon meeting a celebrity walking around London).

Walking further up the road, I started to realise that everyone was decked out in black and got a little worried I might have walked into a throng of voodoo/witchcraft fanatics. It didn’t help that I noticed someone waving a faux axe in the air. As I made my way cautiously around them, I caught sight of a few wearing T-shirts printed with the New Zealand national flag. So I finally came to the conclusion that there must be some rugby match on and was very certain that I had got it right this time. But then again, who were they playing against, and where were the supporters of the opposing team? In the end, I gave up jumping from one silly assumption to the next dumb deduction and simply asked a hot chick standing nearby what really the heck was going on on a seemingly normal Saturday like today.

As it turns out, February 6 was Waitangi Day (New Zealand’s national day) and every year on the Saturday closest to that date, New Zealanders in London go on a pub crawl around the tube’s Circle Line. However, I think saw more people celebrating outside on the street than inside Stanhope Arms itself. LOL. Haven’t seen a mob this size since last Chinese New Year in Trafalgar Square. Which reminds me, this year’s celebrations are being held today as well! I wonder if the two congregations would inadvertently meet somewhere and cause the biggest human traffic jam in London history. That would be an amazing sight (from far, far away). Heh. In any case, Happy Waitangi Day to all my friends from/in New Zealand!

Sorry I’m 2 days late in posting this! Was a little busy with some University stuff. So, another year’s come and gone on the lunar calendar and yesterday we ushered in the Year of the Rat, which, incidentally, marks the fact that I will turn 24 real soon. Whoopee.

Had an overkill of a reunion dinner with my “framily” - Lance, May, Melissa and Yew Vern. Picture this: 3 guys and 2 girls with a total appetite size of 3⅔ times the average Joe gorging and feasting on 8 different dishes served with rice. These [and their made-up names] include:

Salted Mustard Greens Soup
Plum and Lemon Sauce Chicken
Deep Fried Haddock with Ginger and Spring Onions
Drunken Soy Chicken
Chili Pork with Crispy Aubergines
Boiled Pak Choi with Oyster Sauce
Stir-fried Leeks and King Prawns
Steamed Asparagus and Dried Chinese Wolfberries

Took some photographs to share with you, but it turned out pretty shitty, so I won’t bother. The food lasted us till tonight’s dinner, so that’s about 4 meals worth.

…as she is come February 29th.

For those of you who haven’t, it’s time to pay up.

What do you do when your barely-2-month old desk lamp decides to die, and buying a new one costs £6.99? Well, if you feel like being exceptionally cheap-o, have a sense of creativity/humour that’s slightly whack, don’t mind that your study area looks like a Vegas stripper’s changing room and so happen to find Christmas lights in WHSmith originally priced at £14.99 selling for £0.99, you’d do this:

Kinda reminds you of The Fray’s How To Save A Life album cover, doesn’t it? Sadly, my ingenious plan didn’t quite work out as well as I would’ve liked - the lights were too dim and now simply sit as more of a decorative object than anything. Party like a pornstar. Oh well, at least Sasuke thinks it’s cool.

As per mentioned in an earlier blurb, I am in the midst of my January business examination consisting of 2 papers (you guessed it, Accounting and Entrepreneurship). Till it ends next Wednesday, there won’t be many (if any) updates here for you guys, sorry =P

Before I go back to hitting the books, let me leave you with this video I found. It’s a live performance of Gravity by Sara Bareilles, an artist I introduced not too long ago. It just goes to show how there are so many brilliant undiscovered talents out there, and yet we get served the same watered-down, hyped-up baloney everyday. Anyway, here it is, and I hope you enjoy it!

I think I like this Gravity almost as much as the one by John Mayer (listen to his song by the same title in the music box at the top of this page).

Welcome to the new site. I just got back from my winter trip and as you can see at the top of this page is a banner compiled from some photos taken during my visit to Morocco. Will soon decide on the direction of this new blog. As of now, I’m just thinking of posting anything and everything - music, photos, blurbs, videos and etc. Don’t think I will restrict it to written posts like the last one. Hopefully it’ll be more interesting this time around - for me and for you - so stay tuned!