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Dublin Meanderings

2012-01-31T15:04:00.003Z

Spent a day with numb hands walking around the city - after Ashwin and Guo Ming came over for the weekend and I was completely unable to show them around (was the other way round, in fact. They even brought me to my bus stop) I decided "it's time to get a bit more city savvy, woman".

Wandering around brought me into
1. music stores
where I picked up a book explaining the musical influences behind every Beatles' song. The stories were much more romantic in my head, and so much more banal in real life. Some of the songs that have stuck so close to my heart like "all you need is love" was politically motivated (a slogan to unite the world during the Vietnam War period) and done for a commercial, and "let it be" was Paul singing about the band's mounting tension from the business side of things

2. book shops
where I found classics for 2.99 euro (SO CHEAP) but i can't be arsed to read any of them. Found The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks. One of those books that have forever made an impression on me. SUCH a good read. I cried like a bitch at so many of the short stories haha

3. charity shops
love how random they are, but my sinus went mad in several of them.

4. shoe shops
where I was sorely disappointed. I can't believe Dubliners have such poor choice of shoes?!?! Am not going to survive here for long ;_;

5. hunting for the perfect hot chocolate
Yet to be sourced. . .

So anyway I stumbled upon the Dublin castle by accident but it was so unimpressive...
Ugh hate doing touristy stuff, but it must be done...

Venice

2012-01-31T14:56:00.003Z

looks AH-MAY-ZING. And I'm going to be there for a whole week. Mind blown.

I've never liked masks. Creeps me out. But the Venetian marks are just ridiculously beyond beautiful and I'm going to get me a collection.

Venice recalls to mind The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe though. Something about it's extravagant beauty on top of a rotting foundation.

2012-01-30T17:09:00.002Z

it takes a certain kind of bravery (madness?) to start something, but what we often forget is that it takes a certain kind of bravery (madness?) to end something as well

2012-01-29T22:58:00.001Z

you know that feeling when you're really getting into a song, when the bass is carrying your heart beat along...... and all of a sudden you're staring into the face of a memory that you thought had looong died out

puts you in a strange mood.

2012-01-29T19:07:00.002Z

The intricacies of Singlish

And sucking up 101 - how to get a girl to do your homework

2012-01-29T18:38:00.007Z

I love love loveeeeeee sharing music - I've always thought the music you keep close reflects a lot about you as a person. Personal theory is that you usually only reallyreally like songs that echo within your own heart. It's such a wonderfully intimate thing, makes you an instant friend of mine if i can play a tune and you go "OMG WOW GIMME THAT"

So anyway here are some good tunes I picked up today

Met someone at a DJ tutorial course who has accepted the challenge to try and make me a dubstep convert. This one came pretty close

Gets really good towards the end haha I love Coldplay

BEWARE: will get stuck in your head all day

fun fun fun~

Haha SUCH a weird song but I start liking it somewhere in the middle

A song you have to watch and not just listen to. Loooveeee all the surprises

This remix is EVEN MORE CHILLED OUT than the original (didnt think that was possible)

Another surprise actually..... but man, really liking the chilled out take on the music not too sure about the voice though ha

youtubing BBC Live Lounge is just like falling into a blackhole, I haven't even had lunch yet and it's time for dinner already. Today was soo chilled out, sleeping till 1pm and waking up to the rain, staying in my jammies all day... and blogging non-stop.....

2012-01-29T14:48:00.003Z

taking the chance to do all the shit i always wanted to do but didn't have the time/opportunity to in SG

Gonna try being a DJ (DJ MAO IN DA HAUS finally), salsa dancing and do a photography course while here - wa hey just found some discounts on groupon!!

2012-01-29T14:46:00.001Z

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2012-01-29T14:08:00.006Z

Hair is driving me nuts. So here's the plan

1. OMBRE! (Yes, including the white blonde base haha)

(Random interjection of a faaaaarking beautiful woman)

Followed by 2. CURLS (think I might look really stupid though)

Followed by 3. BOB

Followed by 4. SHAVED SIDES

Followed by 5. SHAVED for Cancer

few remixes outplay the original, but here's one

2012-01-29T00:59:00.004Z

"You're the pillar of strength in this family! Heavy burden"

burden gets heavier when this comes from your mother. Trying to keep us together is really the main reason why I took Psychology as my second degree. to understand wtf is going on in my/our heads, and maybejustmaybe figure out a way to make it better.

In any case on days I feel a bit bummed I absolutely love logging into SMU's elearning and just marvelling at how IT'S SO FREAKING EMPTY, WAHAHAHA

2012-01-23T01:48:00.002Z

http://www.thecoolhunter.com.au/article/detail/1957

I am definitely going to need that as reference.Aghh going nuts with wanderlust

2012-01-20T23:17:00.000Z

A little more on Ireland.

Irish Firsts

2012-01-18T00:37:00.003Z

1st day fencing with UCD's club!!

What fencing always looks like ie tight butts flying

A few things I learnt:
1. I am going to have muscle ache tomorrow
2. There are pentathletes trying for Olympics training with us and one other exchange student from the US who's been fencing 9 years (ZOMG)
3. Ok so the Irish aren't all red heads. I've only seen one Irish guy with seriously ginger hair hahahaha still buying the red wig from a tourist shop for St Pat's day though
4. The Irish say "fuck" as "FOOK" and "shit" as "shite" (always a necessary cultural lesson)

The ultimate domestic Goddess

Also, it's only in Ireland that I am learning what a domestic GODDESS I am.Yesterday for dinner I made salmon steaks pan fried in butter and served with a white wine sauce, and today for lunch was the most amazing panini in the world. Cherry tomatoes and button mushrooms fried in olive oil garlic and basil, in between bread toasted with ham and cheese, some fresh lettuce and drizzled with olive oil.

FWAH. No photos unfortunately, was too hungry by the time we did the groceries and cooking. Tescos is about a 20 minute walk away - not cool when carrying 3kg washing powder amongst other things and the night winds are glacial.

Haha classroom looks exactly like this from my POV, this googled image was taken from the seat I was in today

It was the first day of lessons today, too. Not such a great story here, the class was half-filled and not a single Irish student in sight (recovering from Black Monday?). I'm in a group with a New Yorker and a French, and we have a presentation due next week. This should be fun.

Eh this new layout was a bit of a bo pian situation. Retardedly I went exploring new templates without saving my old one with my tagboard code and links. So... hum.