philosophie.

last weekend of summer

Waking up in a nice quiet house in the middle of dense forest and fresh after-rain air, I feel that my heart was cleansed and my soul was wakened. Even though I was born and raised in big cities, but I think I’ve come to love a quiet morning with birds chirping and an easy walk into the embrace of nature, having breakfast with a seemingly carelessly assembled bouquet of wild flowers in late summer than in the forest of concret. I even think music makes much more sense to hear and listen in nature than in some prestigious concert halls located at some busiest corners of humanity.

We were invited to spend a night at friend’s house in New Jersey. It reminded me of a stay in a house in Connecticut last summer around the same time of the year. Everything was quiet and the rain nurished everything in the last bit of sweetness of summer.

On the way driving back to the city, we were listening to Brahms piano trio No.2. It sent chills down my spine like never before.

Thursday night, we went to the Russian town in south Brooklyn, had some festive Russian dishes (yummy!) by the Atlantic ocean at night. It’s been a great time. (Thank you Leo for your hospitality!)

do you know who’s hiding? :)

Driving on George Washing bridge. Manhattan on the left.

back to .. civilization.

Otherwise, I’m just working on the piece which is to be performed in several cities in Canada in about a month; getting addicted to watching the Food Network like never before and waiting for school to start (it seems to be taking forever..)

Aug 27

I am waiting for school to start on the 2nd.

Meanwhile, I am eating much more than I did back home in Toronto, at the same time moving around way more than back home in Toronto.

Dear friends from home, I miss you very much.

I saw leaves falling off on Broadway, people at Times Squre is still as crowded as ever.

Falll, would you come sooner?

适时的梦

梦起我骑一架自行车 回到上中学的日子

我骑着车，穿梭过整个人大附中的院子
又接着穿梭过整个人大的院子

找不到食堂了

看到前面一个女孩和一个男孩肩并肩骑车
那种学生时代 我是在也找不回了

醒来以后 觉得我找回了自己
觉得好像突然周围这一切陌生的 都开始有意义了

还是不太相信自己在纽约。
等到想明白了，却又不太相信自己的过去是真实的。

纽约这两天太热了。

今天下午，我突然听见对面的楼里有人在放圣诞歌曲。

我在迫切地等待纽约的秋天。

first dayyyy

Hm, first full day in NYC not as a visitor.

Something about being in NYC I find is that one must have a very clear goal or purpose of being here, otherwise, it would be so easy to be lost in such a vibrant place without a trace. And unless one is extremely financially endowed, one might feel a little.. desolate.

Anyway.

One thing I don’t quite get is why the doors in NYC are so heavy.

The practice rooms at school don’t have air conditioning, with a weather like this, I cannot stand even being in it for 5 minutes – 10 minutes would be pushing it. It feels like being in a sauna room of which the temperature and humidity is at your exceeding limit. Practice begins tomorrow, and I wonder how I will survive – or if, at all.

Perhaps I do sound like a little negative, but I think this terrible weather is really just making me feel nasty. Though, whenever I went to school, I always felt so much better. I look so much foward to the work coming my way, even if that means during these two orientation weeks, I have at least four exams for which I had totally not prepared.

Ah!

Sorry that I haven’t shot anything – cameras are in the package still. Will do soon!