What I did on Monday 8 am to 10 pm (click for photos)

We literally move 6 boats from main road to the lake, built 3 platforms on 6 boats, move all the instruments onto the platform, moved other instruments to three other spots facing the lake, Assisted the performance by playing the thunder sheets, took the boats to the shore, took of the platform, load the boats to the truck and load all the instruments back. Unforgettable group effort and spirits to make music happen.

Check out this video of the performance from 4 45pm to 6 15 pm. ( less than 2 hours is the actual performance!!) and New York Times' review...look out for me among the bushes when u click on 'slideshow' lol....

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/arts/music/23xenakis.html

persephassa on the lake from liubo on Vimeo.

Liquid....

literally flowed out from my eyes, ears, nose in various color.

I am not trying to disgust you, but its true, I don' t know what is wrong with me.

I am experiencing so-throat, bleeding both my nose and ear, and red eyes.

I guess its the stress-- well, I don't really stress about work.

I guess I don't drink enough water-- maybe, because there isn't enough warm water and I don't feel like drinking cold water all the time.

Well that's my physical condition.

Not too serious to be worrying yet.


Then again, do I really wanna tell you what's in my head, in my heart?

A term's ending is another beginning. There are so many unknown in front of me. I couldn't think beyond June. All I know is , I am going to be in New York, with a friend who's willing to host me, with a job, which I am yet to know what is it about.

I wanted to explore my artistic instinct, whether I am fit for the artsy world, whether I am choosing the right thing on campus, whether I am spending my time wisely. Whether I am learning, and making myself happy and useful everyday.

At the same time, I will be missing a good company. Someone whom I have spent most of my Dartmouth with. I don't want to think about it yet, but its coming. Oh life, why can't it be any easier?

Green Key Weekend

This is a weekend where its perfectly fine to drink the night away and party as hard as you want!
For me, I have been working the whole term for this week, and finally I got to perform in this big event of the year-- Step show ( see video in previous post) !

Memorable moments this weekend:

-When Motema, Sabrina and I coincidentally wore Purple and laugh to a scene under a tree!

-When the dance floor was cleared up and Kevin, the DJ cum BF played specially picked songs for only Motema, Sabrina and Me!

-When the boys and I spent an hour in FOCO and then building 'Eifel' Towers in the room. lol

-When people do not know whether I am hyper or typsy .

- Frat hopping.


Now that the week has ended, I have to study for finals on Monday!

Ujima show last saturday!

Another blog

Hi Readers,

I am keeping another blog for my writing class this term. The posts are more intellectual motivated and less personal, however, its another way of learning what I am doing on campus and what I am learning!

Enjoy.

Si Jie

Have I lose....(click)

my habit of blogging?

Time never seems to be enough for me when classes are on.

But when I have them, over the spring break (the past 2 weeks) essentially,instead of blogging, here's what I did:

1) Overslept till 2 pm due to watching late night movies from iTunes rental store
2) Spent the first few hours upon waking up cooking, shopping for food, and eating
3) Watched more movies
4) Repeated step (2) for dinner, sometimes cooking for a big group of friends

5) Okok I did meaningful stuff too: phone interviews for summer internship (positive:P)
6) Organized late night hang out, dancing the night away with African music
7) Drove 2 hours to Boston to shop for shoes, belts, bags, jackets, and Chinatown food supplies
8) When not shopping in Boston, ate African food in Ethiopian restaurant and Chinese dim sum the next morning
9) Moved into a new dorm where I am hired to be a UGA
10) (since am on the R boat)Talked about future plans involving big words such as "coordination" and "commitment" which is yet to be determined of course

So enough of reflection, what's popping for Spring term (starting tomorrow)?

1) Newly hired as a UGA, basically am assigned to take care of a floor of residents
2) Applying for grants to work in New York for the summer
3) To help envision better network/organization for international students
4) Perfect my dance moves for Ujima ( a dance group i just joined)
5) Continuing to get paid working different jobs on campus
6) Taking exciting classes such as Painting, Writing with Media, and my first LAB CLASS with my bf as the TA (lol, very tricky:P)
7) Embracing Raggae, Bob Marley for the upcoming WMPE concert
8) More future planning...
9) Keeping up with friends...

Ah..the list can go on...But if you don't see me blogging anymore...refer to the list and you'll know why...

Friendship- pause. stop.

Has it ever occur to you that friendships, as emotional attached can one be to them, has pauses and stops? I define friendship as a constant interaction between two people, where potentially through increase interaction, have increase importance in each other life.

Its very obvious in where I live, where the D plan makes it totally possible for you to be in touch or out of touch with someone for a long time. You could be 'best' friends and keeping track with everything each other do by simply being in the same class, doing the same activities. But once the term ends, and you take different courses, you can hardly even find time to catch up when you bump into each other on the streets. Occasionally you might suggest a lunch/ or dinner. But when that happens, you have maybe 8 weeks of gap of stories to tell. Eventually, you don't even bother update each other about your life anymore.

Perhaps I should thank the frats and sororities for holding all the dance parties: it happens almost every weekend, and presumably you go every weekend, you are bound to catch up with people at least once a week. What if you don't drink as much and find the basement sketchy and stinky?

Thinking out of the Dartmouth landscape, I now have friends across the globe where I proudly claim to be good friends with. With the little chance of traveling, the time we could possible meet with each other is when I happened to be in a nearby city our country- I could fly over to visit the place , and also this friend, kill two birds with one stone. Then I find myself over the stretch of few nights, listening to stories stretching as far and 3 to 4 years back. When we finish our stories, we realized, our friendship has paused 3 to 4 years ago, and resumed for that few days. We love and appreciate each others' company but know that we will resume to the 'other' life fairly quickly as we part.

Maybe what I said is not fair to the friends who are now continents and oceans apart, where it's almost impossible to keep in touch frequently. But doesn't it make you think that,being in the same place, same city, same campus, there should be more motivation for us to keep up with friends, and depend less on coincidence?

I never stop wonder what stops us from sending that one blitz/email across for a get together or a lunch date?