randomosities

I have been in a state of shocked stupor, close to comatose, largely lethargic. My brain was fully on automatic… I guess I didn’t realize until later that I had been slightly depressed this week, and spent all of my free time rotting away at a cinema crying at any given moment.

Highlight movie: Julie & Julia. It made me wanna learn how to cook, and start it all off with boeuf bourguignon. I was always in love with baking (which I stopped quite some time ago) but until now, I never realized how much fun cooking could actually be.

Yesterday, KK and I went to MF’s where the boy sang, played the piano, electric and acoustic guitar until my head was spinning round and round. For the first time in years, I took the guitar in my hand and played whatever I could remember.. which was basically Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters (HAHAHAHA) and Nirvana’s Come As You Are (which was the first song I ever learned). So I went out and bought a Yahama acoustic guitar which came with a kit that had a (shitty) guitar bag, a pitch-pipe (a funny-looking blow-tuner thing), a string winder (a thing to facilitate my changing strings), a pack of bronze strings, 3 shiny picks, a strap and a fucking capo! That was absolutely sick. I just touched it and it sounded so good (no, I didn’t actually try it out in store, I just picked the cheapest thing :P).

MF finally passed me the Dimelo Tu book, so I can actually get on with learning Spanish. After reading the first lesson today, I realized I actually remembered more than I gave myself credit for.

After work today, I went to Indigo to buy Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking (but of course, it was sold out) and I ended up leaving with a psychological astrology book, a Spanish dictionary, and a Chinese characters books with all the 800 characters I would need to pass the first level in the HSK (the Chinese Proficiency Test). I’m gonna either take a Korean class this semester, or audit a bunch of Spanish classes at Concordia. I have to start getting my life together. Graduation is coming in… way too fast.

So here I am, trying to perfect my Mandarin, trying to continue learning Spanish and guitar, and trying to take on Korean. I have the tendency to be too ambitious.

Songs to re-learn and learn:
Stage Fright’s Cocaine Girl
Led Zeppelin’s Stairway To Heaven
a Beatles’ song?
Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit
Jewel’s You Were Meant For Me
The White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army
Dashboard Confessional’s… anything on TPYHCTFTM
Hole’s Gold Dust Woman
RENT’s Your Eyes

~ by alittlefish on August 24, 2009.