entre les trous de la mémoire

Yesterday, I woke up around noon. It was a decent sunday sleep-in. Rather than doing school work after getting up, I read. It felt really good, very fulfilling. Books used to be a huge chunk of my daily life, for some reason I have been putting off on books for a while, and I feel my identity has started losing its integrity. In order to avoid doing something, people always find excuses and make them sound legit. I'm very much like that. After I read today, I realized that it is not something hard to keep up at all if I just set aside an hour for books per day. Because I waste at least an hour everyday anyways. Indeed, I need to chase back my good old habit before it runs too far away from me.

Well...I went completely off topic. I wasn't going to write about reading at all. Here is what I originally planned to write:

Yesterday, I woke up late. Then I got to read a little bit. Around 6pm, I walked out of the parking garage and found out it was raining, not so bad, but it wasn't definitely just sprinkling. I never liked rain for various reasons. However, being unaware of what I was thinking. I stood in the rain for at least 10 minutes, totally spreaded my arms to embrace the raindrops. It felt surprisingly amazing! I was reminded of the song "Grace like rain", and received abundant joy. Troubles on my mind were washed away. From getting poured on intentionally for the first time, I tasted a tinge of freedom.

Rain is a great relief, snow never is.

I went to the Mindi Abair show that I mentioned in the last post. It was great! She did a wonderful job engaging the audience, and the ambiance was just enjoyable. I got to talk to her for a while after the show, and I heard the drummer got a master degree in music from USC. During the show, I video recorded a song called "Smile" which was featured on her newest release. It's not my favorite, but it's a happy song.

So, enjoy the video & have a great monday-off thanks to the Pres Day :D

I have to write this concert report thing for my Jazz history class. In order to make the report happen, I need to attend a live jazz concert this week. The nice thing about this assignment is that I have an legit excuse to skip a homework night, and get to enjoy a live jazz show. So yesterday I found out Mindi Abair is going to be playing at Jazz Alley in downtown Seattle from thursday to sunday!! I haven been listening to her since 2002. She's my favorite female saxophonist, and now after 7 years I get to see her live. This is amazing! I'm going to the thursday night show since I usually have the least amount of homework on thursday. Ah, this thursday night is gonna be smoothed out!

Give me a shout if you wanna join me :)

Clare & The Reasons, has been winning my ears recently. Absolutely amazing group from NY. Their debut is called "The Movie", and the album indeed reminds me of an old movie from the 60th, or even earlier, mingled with some opera elements.

Tasty, and artsy!

Go check out their myspace page:http://www.myspace.com/claremuldaur, cuz if you don't, you are missing out ;)

and tell me what you think =)

98.9 KWJZ was playing Booker T & MGs's "Green onion", and John Legend's "No other love" this morning.

I'm so confused @_@

ahhh...what is wrong with the Smooth Jazz industry?

I finally received this treasure in mail today. I had to calm myself down in order to open it because I was over-excited for this book. I have done so much research on picking a right book for preparing SoA Exam P/CAS Exam 1. And this one is going to be it! :) I hope to take the exam during my senior year. I'm thrilled to start the journey, though I'm informed it's going to be very tough :)

This is building the foundation of my future career, and thanks God for giving me the talent and passion to do it. I'm very excited and just thought I should share it with my favorite people :)

man, isn't ASA an amazing title?