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Met up with Ming, Yan and Shawn on December 28th, and Aunty Lee Choo and Uncle Kevin took us around St. Alban’s for a bit. I was definitely still flu-ey that day (apparently sleeping most of Christmas and Boxing Day didn’t help a great deal) and was extraordinarily clumsy (I fell down twice, which was so undignified and so not fun; I’m just lucky I didn’t twist my ankle or something). Anyway, St. Alban’s… (I’m just going to ramble on here; my thoughts may or may not flow in the right order and I might jump about a bit. I beg pardon if I don’t make sense, but I think I just need to kinda think aloud at the moment. ) It’s tough being in the arts and being a Christian. And sometimes I honestly wonder how to reconcile the two. It’s almost as tough as being a scientist and a Christian. Only – it seems to me – with the Science/Christianity case, it’s the Concrete versus the (Apparently) Vague, whereas with Arts/Christianity, it’s the Vague versus the Concrete. Science tries to prove (or disprove) that God exists. You have the whole Evolution vs Creation debate, which I won’t go into because it gives me a headache as well sometimes. Right. Sidetracked there. Sorry. 8D So scientists wants proof that God exists, that He created the world in 7 days, so on and so forth. But do the artists care about that? Not really in general. The artists don’t want you to prove anything; they’d rather have the freedom to do anything. Scientists want to find out what’s right and wrong, but Artists would rather you didn’t tell them what was right and wrong and just leave everything is up in the air. Finally watched it! And I feel like being a bit of a critic today, so…
Review (or rather, analysis) time!
This might very well have been the highlight of my winter break, although it’s really hard to say which one I enjoyed more – this or the museums. It was a different sort of enjoyment. The museums were an intellectual paradise. This was… well, taking into account that I’m pretty much Disney-mad, that The Lion King is one of my favourite animated films, that I enjoy going to the theatre, and that I’m kind of an art-and-design person… It’s a sort of dream come true? ahahah The Lyceum Theatre! It was a little weird going to see a play all by myself – especially on Christmas Eve, when so many people were there in groups or with their kids. But I just kept telling myself: If you don’t see it now, you may not be able to see it ever! So enjoy! And I did. To London I went on that slight-cloudy day, To go where I would and wander where I may; Finally to Covent Garden I did make my way, For the 2PM Lion King matinee! . Pffft. I haven’t tried rhyming anything in years. *feels rusty* High Street Kensington: Why, I wonder, did those Fifth Generation Chinese fillmmakers (e.g. Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou Tian Zhuangzhuang) have this liking for using colours in the titles of their films? Not that there were that many, but somehow the ones with the “colour names” are always listed amongst the notable films of that time. Hm.
Too tired to edit+upload more photos at the moment, but here’s one looking out in the early morning at a snowy Hemel Hempstead from my aunt’s place where I stayed for a week or so during my winter break London trip. (As with the museum pics, also a clickable thumbnail linked to a bigger image.)
… and I just realised that I forgot to fix the horizontal slant on this. -_-” Last spurt for the British Museum! By the time I finished with the main Egyptian, Assyrian and Grecian exhibits on the ground floor, I had less than an hour left and so pretty much flew through some other sections like the Egyptian mummies and the Chinese and Japanese exhibits. There was a Southeast Asia exhibit next to the Chinese one but I gave it one glance and automatically decided to ignore it since I was so short of time. Looked like there was a lot of Hindu statues and stuff that I didn’t fancy looking at anyway.
(Jo, remember our impromptu decision to go? One of my spur-of-the-moment choices ever!) I don’t normally like loud, loud stuff, but I make an exception for Stomp because it just wouldn’t be the same without it. =) |
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