complicated simplicity

It has been a very busy week for me indeed, a rather tormentous week physically and emotionally I guess… The Lion King Last Thursday I went with IC-SingSoc to the Lion King Musical (Website). It was a musical based on Disney’s Lion King, and well, I felt it was rather impressive. The actors were solid, and the visuals were fantastic. As in, “fantabulous”. If there were scenes which I thought were impossible to put onto stageplay from the movie, I was proven very wrong. They had an excellent cast with solid vocals as well as good acting. It was my first musical in London, and therefore I have nothing to compare to, but if everything else is at least as good, there’s a very high chance of me hitting all the rest. I got plans for Phantom and Le Miserables, soon. After the musical, I walked Doris and Eunice back before enduring the cold home. Lake District I was away for the weekend in the Lake District of the British Isles. Photos available here. It was an eye opener. We drove about 7 hours on Friday evening up north, and reached the cottage at about midnight, stopping for dinner at a fish and chips place (local slang calls it a “chippy”). We bunked over and prepared for a lovely day ahead. As the group was pretty large, we were spilt into 2 groups and had options of either taking the tougher route or the easier one. I felt up to it and decided to take the more difficult route, together with Alvin and Johnny and a couple of others. I guess at that point in time, there were several things bothering me and I wanted to physically challenge myself to relieve myself emotionally. We hiked up to an altitude of 400m, and it started to snow. WHEE. I was so excited, my first proper experience of snowfall. We carried on and went up to an altitude of 981m, where we were caught in a snowstorm. SNOWSTORM, WTF. All of us were caught by surprise, and we had to battle gale force winds and sub 5 degress absolute temperature (about sub 12 if we take windchill into effect as we came to find out later on.) It was the closest I would ever come to the Himalayas I guess. Climbing in knee deep snow, ice covered rocks and 15m visibility was challenging, but absolutely fun and exciting. Imagine just looking around, and seeing nothing but a blur of white. Cool. The second day I decided to take the scenic low altitude route around the lakes instead of the high altitude one. The sights were much different, and the weather was much better. I got quite a few good shots, including a couple of lovely paranoic shots which you should all have a look! After a long day’s hike, we started driving back to London. We stopped at Warwick for dinner at this lovely inn. I was famished. Yummy yummy. Traditional english food and cider. London School of Economics clubbing event: Chinois Chinois Last night I went Leicester Square with a couple of the IC-SingSoc people for the LSE party at Club Metra. People like Kelly, San May, Yun Lei, Raj and PC joined me there. I must say the clubbing scene here is quite different from back at home. I met many long lost friends, eq. JACQUELINE. When we saw each other in the club, she was like, “IVAN! I THOUGHT YOU WENT CHICAGO!”, with an expression of shock, and amazement that only the 34th would understant. I was like, “OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, JACQ!” She’s looking so beautiful and matured now, so much different from the Jacq Sim I knew 3 years back. Some people even thought I was trying to pick her up. Gosh. Anyway, she’s now a 3rd year at LSE doing her degree in Economics. And I found out that Fidel is in Imperial as well, but apparantly he took this year off to do his industrial. I won’t say too much about the party as to put it mildly, it was scandalous. There’s no word that can describe the other extreme. It was great fun, and we danced and drank all night long, until about 3am. I reached home at about 4, and slept at about 5 after washing up and such. And I got a 9am lecture today, which was totally a waste of time. Kelly, Yun Lei and I were bitching about it through the whole lecture of funny symbols and derivation of the Activated Complex Theory, which I bet no one in the lecture room understood. I lasted until the 5th slide before dazing into space. The other 2 gave up on the first slide, since it was not even examinable and we would do it in our 2nd year. Anyway, Olivia-san was asking if I was interested in hitting Spain this Christmas. Lets see: France, 16-24Dec. Spain: 28Dec-5Jan. Exams: 9th Jan. Shit. Time to study = 6 days. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Tempting, will consider about it.

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