The place where Broadway and musicals are located.
The place where I will begin the next chapter of my nomadic life.
The place where I turn into an eccentric academic out of sync with normality.
NEW YORK.
Welcome.
The place where Broadway and musicals are located.
The place where I will begin the next chapter of my nomadic life.
The place where I turn into an eccentric academic out of sync with normality.
New York.
An aspiring hikikomori/ gomiyashiki owner who will get 3 dogs, 1 cat and a herb
garden when she is in her 40s.
Currently a second year Phd student in East Asian Studies, NYU; a self-proclaimed OTAKU; a
clumsy but avid snowboarder; and absent oneechama of Variel.
8 Sept 2010: West Side Story, WICKED
19 Sept 2010: Chicago
8 Oct 2010: Promises Promises
29 Oct 2010: Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
14 Nov 2010: American Idiot
18 Jan 2011: Billy Elliot
8 Feb 2011: La Cage Aux Folles
6 Mar 2011: Paul Taylor Dance Group
5 Apr 2011: Catch Me If You Can (Broadway preview)
2 Dec 2011: La Boheme
9 Jan 2012: Rent
22 Mar 2012: Phantom of the Opera
23 May 2012: Avenue Q
26 Sep 2012: Newsies
2 Oct 2012: Turandot
4 Oct 2012: Once
15 Oct 2012: Sleep No More
28 Nov 2012: Lion King
7 Feb 2013: Book of Mormons
14 Mar 2013: Jersey Boys
25 Mar 2013: Sleep No More
21 May 2013: Kinky Boots
26 Sep 2013: Big Fish
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
10:49 AM
motto motto!!
It's getting worse. My perverse pleasure in academic stress is getting worse.
Naoko left last week and I thought I could get on with my readings. However, I am barely catching on. One of my professor in EAS focuses on China and talks about Marx all the time, when I had forgotten all about this ah peh (Btw, if you are interested in Marx, check out this online lecture by Prof. Harvey from CUNY: http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/). Today, I spent a whole day writing a measly 3 page essay, and knowing what I want to say but unable to sieve through my sad repertoire of English vocab in my anthro seminar. Tomorrow, I have a seminar with 4 articles on Foucault and Habermas which I have not touched at all.
I am someone who likes to announce my superficial and material happiness to the world. A great romance-fantasy novel, k or j-drama, a movie, purchase of a pair of shoes that finally fit me (an impossible feat, cos I like to torture my feet), shopping, or encounter with a delicious meal. On a deeper level, I also use this blog to air my grievances over my family and emo all over.
This is the first time where I actually have to say, I am bone-deep happy over a non-superficial event. I am finally studying and I am happy. Of course, there are still some issues that plague me as an academic... questions of power, the subaltern voice, agency... but these are secondary. I am simply happy to be using my brain. My brain is one happy little grey mass. I am physically tired and sleepy but my brain is shouting 'yaay!'
Oh, on another note... it seems like UBC's anthro dept is quite famous! SHEEET! I actually got an offer from UBC anthro but turned it down due to lack of funding. Haiz....
Back to my brain... one reason it is happy was that I finally realized that the almost introductory grad class for anthro is full of American MA students who make noise. White noise. Clearly, that is why there are no actual anthro students in it. Which makes it a great intro class for me to get back my anthro groove but I will have to listen to lots of white noise. But white noise is also good for the ego of my brain. Woo hoo!
