it was a sunday and i was up and about by the time it was noon and got myself ready for the day ahead. it started with classes at geylang, which was quite humbling, seeing so many people from all walks of life exercising their lips and tongues, attesting or hoping to at least attest to one faith. there were some funny moments though, i was there and listening to all these people trying to recite the opening verse of the quran with their native tongues, funny sometimes, bloopy sometimes but learned something about language. mr. bani is always enlightening us. and i as usual i get the ignorant spell, try to compensate by scribbling it somewhere somehow on my little notebook then he 'enlightened' us again by sayin that a 14th century muslim philosopher who had special interest in education and learning said that it was better for a person to learn something by looking at the speaker than by looking into the book, for which he explained that ur vision is limited by the lines in the book...what about the lines on the face? in this day and age, it's very hard not to be perturbed by those creases one has and wondering whether or not they've heard of botox and such, but ok that not the point. anw he akin learning as to downloading software into a computer i.e. the computer doesnt know would have to be made known to it by downloading or installing the software. and the process of communicating this information is via usbs or wires etc. he correlated this to learning with humans having to download whatever info, maybe with the help of books and stuff but i think what he is trying to say is that wireless is better. haha. ok lame. but u get what i mean. i still can't remember the name of the philospher though, algazee..something. after that it was some interacting sessions with people of some sort and i didnt socialise, the usual anti social me.
then it was off to some studying which didn;t happen but i ended up at toa payoh central lib to read haruki murakami's sputnik sweetheart and later on when over to SPANs to meet up with a special someone for lunch, and it was banquet once again but this time it was la mian, think it's called da zhang la mian or something. damn nice! and damn worth it, first time i tasted la mian, thick wormlike noodles handmade out of flour and pulled and stretched into fine noodles. i hope the la mianer washed his or her hands though, cause i tasted the flour and he's pulling it with his bare hands and so maybe i also tasted the......ok never mind. what's nice was nice, right?
then it was off to serangoon for some studying, some girl was under the watchful eye of the father, possessive!
it was sentosa thenafter, we went with the intention to catch a glimpse of the sun setting, candy and i but there were clouds and it was post showers ok no thunderstorm is more apt, that we were only able to see those amber streaks and residual orange sunlight with the clouds superimposed onto it all the way into the horizon. at the foreground there were anchored ships, dull and rustic, creating some sort of a disgusting contrast to this almost (well definitely not perfect, in singapore it'll never be) acceptable local 'version' of the ideal sunset. but u dont have to be environmentaly anal to be spending time with someone, it's how u spend it that matters, i'll say. but who am i to say- i'm not some 14th century philosopher.
sentosa can be boring really esp when darkness falls, of course nothing to see, not that there's things to see in the first place! so we went driving round and round with the occasional- breaks!
then came monday. and the blues..... i decided to not go for ryans class lyrical that is. and i'm wanting to do more lyrical stuff in the future, boring or what, but i think it makes the movements more meaningful if u actually translate the words into choreography. and also to follow the footsteps of my current dance idols- from where else but so u think u can dance- melody, blake, kalimah!!, nick and craig!!
and monday was the day i made the decision not to choreograph for DR, no time for a lot of things. i'll just dance and keep myself busy many other ways. maybe i'll stop choreographing for now at least till something comes along the way and circumstances improve and the drive allows and maybe if i breathe in more motivation, i just might.
i'm late for tutorial now, this hospital room is getting dusty and getting to my nose.. aarrggh. the funny thing is i'm seated at the department of allergy, immunology and rheumatology.