On V-Day and what else happened during my absence

17 February, 2009

Copied from my LJ.

Went to my first Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (free) summer concert on V-Day. It was so nice being at the Myer Music Bowl as the night softly fell to Rachmaninoff. Man, Rach. is da man. [Ungh...? Is it even appropriate to Fitty-cent grunt at classical composers?]

Had 2/3 of a LOTR marathon with kuropuu and watched Ip Man (Donnie Yen is the shit) before we heard her parents stirring and realised that it was 6 a.m. and scurried off and pretended we had been sleeping this entire time.


My neighbour's caught fire the night before last. I was on the verge of unconsciousness when I smelled smoke (more than usual, if you take into account the Maroondah-Yarra Complex (pdf) that's burning close to us) and someone was yelling blue murder and banging on the doors for everyone to wake up. The flames were something like three storeys high and it was so surreal; the entire neighbourhood standing silent in the chill night air watching the house burn. We heard the fire engines but they were lost further up the road. Moments later, five rolled up.

And then an ambulance.


Last night, I found out that a friend of mine had had a spinal tumour removed. He had it checked up here but the quack just told him it was a muscle problem. Went back to China and had an operation. He won't be back to Uni until July. :(