In the Midst of Midterms

So much has happened since my last post, which was about two weeks ago. That is way too long, but my excuse is that I had two exams last week, not to mention two more this coming week. So I shouldn't even be blogging right now, but then I'd be extremely behind. Let the recap begin...

Two weeks ago on Saturday, we headed over to Ministry of Sound (finally!) to see Wolfgang Gartner. It was pretty sick and the people there were super nice. Everyone was offering to take pictures of us and it was just a really friendly crowd--a much better experience than Skrillex and nothing got stolen, thank goodness.

you can kind of see him through the fog...

We didn't exactly have many photogenic pictures that night so no photos of us will be posted haha.

On March 2nd, we went to the Barbican Centre to see the London Symphony Orchestra perform Mahler's Symphony No. 9. It was really amazing and I'm glad we went! Kind of brought out the inner band geek in me :(

inside the concert hall

The next day, we ventured over to Wholefoods for the thirsty thursdays wine tasting event. We sampled five different wines and five different snacks and we bought some stuff afterwards. The wines were okay but the best drink was the last one with raspberry vodka, elderflower, and other stuff.

the raspberry drink

After studying all weekend and finishing the essay for the mandatory class, Lynn, Charine and I decided to finally check out that sushi place in the Brunswick Centre. It was decent.. I just liked watching the sushi train because I've never seen one before!

yum

This past Tuesday, we went to a gallery near King's Cross for design class. It was by an artist named Douglas Gordon and his work was pretty interesting. There was one room that was pitch black except for three large screens with a film projected onto it. It was titled "k.364" for Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major where it follows two musicians on the train to the concert and then playing in concert. It was pretty moving and I could probably sit in that room for hours just watching the screens and listening to the music. The other room was completely white with various photos, postcards, posters, etc. posted on the walls in a certain order. It was basically like reading the story of Gordon's life in pictures and mementos and you kind of interpret it in your own way without ever really knowing what he meant to convey. Anyways, I thought it was really interesting. And on the way back Charine and I saw this interesting little park with a lot of mosaics and glass art. Plus it had a tire swing.

Charine playing on the tire swing

Besides that, it's been a crazy weekend. I'll have to recap our birthday weekend in a separate post or else this one will go on for an eternity. More to come!

Cheers!