diary of a mad procrastinator

Of late, my brain (mostly the left side) has been deluged with useless divide-and-conquer algorithm, patent exploitations methods and of course the nasty little eekiness of life. So, I've been on a look out for a new hobby. How? By grabbing every opportunity to do something totally new everyday in hopes of coming across some new obsessions.

In fact, just the other day, I woke up extra early just to see my first glorious sunrise of Sydney....ok I lie. What happened was, I stupidly ordered coffee at 10pm against the warning of others at Gloria Jeans thinking I needed to be hyped up to study for the rest of the night. I had undermined (or forgot) the power of that innocent, small cup of aromatic liquid. I was still wide-eyed after sunrise..and could have probably run around the golf course next to my place if someone had dared me to (of course, i knew nobody would). Ok, I digress...This post is meant to be about a piano concert I was invited to last weekend. Classical? No! I was just talking about trying new things wasn't I? It was called Piano Stories III and the pianist played around 20 pieces from Final Fantasy (yes...as in the in video game) and a few from Spirited Away. Obviously the people I went with were uhmmm *very* much into Final Fantasy. It was kind of like a "Perlman or Shaham" concert for the Jap. anime obsessed people probably. Prior to this, I'd never heard of Nobuo Uematsu and his popular FF works, and was not familiar with cool words like Chocobo and Princess Mononoke. I have to say this concert opened my eyes (or ears) to another genre of music and it really wasn't that bad...(I made it through the 2 hours without falling alseep!), but I definitely wasn't as excited about the encore as the majority of the audiences were. So....I guess my hunt for the a new hobby continues.

Update: I've been listening to the songs while studying today. They are definitely growing on me..good background music for studying!