Take 5

24th January 2009

Saturday

I am halfway through my spring cleaning of my room. Almost everything is going down the chute, and the amount of junk accumulated never fails to surprise me. This year, I am tossing old cellphones(irreparable), old books, and almost all of my lecture notes from my poly days. Finally getting rid of all those crap. My table's pretty empty now, if you were wondering about it. But the overall state of the room is still quite cluttered.

The first two weeks of school is finally over. And this long weekend is much needed. But due to the sudden attack of flu bugs, this festive period has its mood greatly dampened. Hopefully, I'll recover by the time school starts, so I can get in some decent practice.

2009 is settling in. Everything's more or less up and running now. And truth be told, I'm extremely excited about the new year. With all the planned events and the yet to be discovered potential of the new year, I feel that everything is picking up rather quickly.

Oh and if I haven't got my dates wrong, Krissy is returning from the Maldives today. Exciting! Looking forward to another dive soon.

Mountains.

6th January 2009
Tuesday
Wonders of the natural world

My routine has been thorougly trashed due to my inconsistency. And it is the last week of holidays before semester two starts. Two concerts right before school starts - NAFA brass band + Justbrass on Saturday and Ngee Ann Polytechnic Band on Sunday. I have a bad feeling about these concerts though. Hope it turns out fine.

Lots of weird dreams recently, and also a couple of unfounded apprehensions about this new year. I just realised I typed 2008 instead of 2009 for the date of this post.

Anyway, what about mountains? I was listening to Eine Alpensinfonie by Richard Strauss and the sheer intensity of the piece is just beautiful.

Maybe one day I will scale the alps and see for myself what lies at the summit.

"When you're at the foot of the mountain, the natural instinct is to look up. Where do you look when you're at the summit?"
-Han Yong