Jazz @ MindSay

The Utah Jazz evened up their series with the Lakers at 2 games each. It was one of the best games so far of these playoffs. Deron Williams had 29 points and 14 assists in the 123-115 overtime win. Carlos Boozer had 14 points and 12 boards. The series will continue Wednesday in L.A.

 

The Spurs tied up their series with the Hornets at 2 with a 100-80 blow out in San Antonio. The Spurs controlled the game from the start and had little trouble in this one. Tim Duncan had 22 points, 15 boards and 4 blocks. Tony Parker added 21 for S.A. Game 5 is Tuesday in New Orleans.

I apologise if you found my last post a tad bit too existential. I have lightened up considerably since. Well, highlight of my weekend was fried chicken. No, I'm kidding, (though it really was good...yum) the highlight of my weekend was Tint N' Tone - ISH's first Art & music festival  Hurrah! It was an unprecedented success and it was an absolutely perfect way to showcase the talents of our school (which are numerous I might add). I was completely dazzled by Madhu's performance, she was phenomenal. Hence, I will now give her a standing ovation here in my room lasting 3 seconds only because I am cramping right now. Please excuse me for a moment...........Alright I'm back.

 

Nikita was cool enough to give me a lift to and back from the State Gallery of Art where the showcase was held and she was flawless with the clarinet, her instrument of hypnotism (haaha, she's gonna murderlise me if she ever reads this), though I was exhausted of all my powers of persuasion before she finally agreed with me. I especially liked the improvised jazz number with Nikita and Vysh on the clarinets, Ajay on the saxophone, Hadi and Mr. Jonathan on the trumpets and, I think(the details are a little blurred, I was drunk on Pepsi ), a teacher from the elementary school on the organ. The other performances missed out on being my favourites by an infinitesimally fine line, which proves what an excellent evening it was. I will be loading pictures of the artistic extravaganza (hee) on my album soon, so go take a look at how pleasantly neat Nik's hair looked (I mean that).

 

Mr. Jonathan mentioned on Friday that I should get involved in the school's music scene a bit, an offer which I will consider seriously. And since I'm obviously no longer with my Singapore band (Quixotic - remember the name!), things on the music front have been depressingly mellow for me. I mean it's cool practising Weezers and Moldy Peaches in the deathly quiet of my lair but it would be great to get out a bit. I was a Senior Soprano 2 for three years straight in choir, one of my humble collection of achievements. People back home keep telling me its a shame I'm letting my experience go to waste. But I don't know. I'm on the fence right now. Stay tuned for that decision.

 

Well, technically, it's Monday morning right now - 1:27 am. And I hope it's going to be a good week, you'll know soon enough. Au revoir, this is Mithrandir (I'm a lass though - my Singaporean pals just like calling me Mithrandir a.k.a. Gandalf) signing off.

 

P.S. This a random,useless fact that would be an utter waste of what might be 10 seconds of your life (I'm a slow reader) but here it is nevertheless:

In 1765, the sandwich was invented by John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, who gave the food its name. The Earl used to order roast beef between pieces of toast for a snack while he was at the gaming tables, it allowed him to keep one hand free to play while he ate.

The frequency of requests didn't seem to be slowing down, and it was time for another Neil Diamond song. A number of the requests I had received had been for Neil Diamond numbers, and the song of choice was Beautiful noise. This song did quite well. It has had over 750 viewings up to the point of this post.

So here goes. My rendition of Beautiful Noise by Neil Diamond.

I hope you liked it. There were a number of other songs of his that I did as well. All of them were requests, and will appear in later posts.

  We finally got a load out of New Orleans with extra time to deliver it, so off we went downtown. Here is a video of some of the bands and sights.

 

 

i'm writing this post listening to etta james's 'dont go to strangers'. it's a chilly winter and being alone in this foreign city doesn't seem all that great at all.

i decided to start this blog (i shall call this the night blog since i run a day blog) out of lonesomeness. it's just difficult to be all yourself at the front line, telling the world (and your family and friends) how you truly feel and what's really bugging you in life. it's best shared with strangers and it's best kept anonymous.

i googled 'lonely blogs' and mindsay came up. i was hoping for, you know, 'special blogs' for 'special people'. but i guess loneliness is far too general and common for anyone to cash-in. which is supposed to be a good thing, right?

i just lost my only 2 english channels. i don't know what happened but when i rented this place, it was a given. now i'm stuck with over tens of chinese channels which i don't watch. thank goodness for the internet. i'm pretty sure now that those english channels (hbo's on of it) were illegal. run along.

the soup's boiling, and here i am, sitting alone in my apartment blogging about how miserable i am. i am on many social networks, even the local expat forums, but to be honest i'm just not in a good state of mind to socialize and meet people. maybe i'm just sick and tired of all these social meet-ups and for once, i yearn for something like this:

bump into a stranger on the street. he's cute, i'm smart. how we bumped into each other - well, maybe my book fell on the floor or something. then we proceed to talk and eventually got to the point where we're both foreign to this city and decide to meet-up for coffee.

things like that - real life, real happenings. not online.

i refuse to meet up people i meet online - i just don't think it works for me. i've tried, and it was never meant as dates. i'm just, not into these 'online' social crap.

so is that why i'm lonely?