mobile oxymoronic haiku

the sweltering heat || when the sun rays touches skin || sticks and burns like ice

very good advice

An excerpt from Patrice Hannon's "Dear Jane Austen" states:

There is a certain kind of self-absorption---we are all absorbed in ourselves to some degree, of course; I mean a measure beyond the ordinary---that threatens to destroy the foundations of common civility. I am afraid the romantic elevation of individual desire over the general welfare has fostered this unfortunate development. Thus, the gentleman stops in the most inconvenient places to dial his cell phone, putting his own ease over the common good without so much as a second thought....You are quite right to deplore his behaviour but do not let it affect you so strongly. Such sensitivity will ruin your happiness---heroines should be made of sterner stuff, or if not, then they must choose to behave as though they were.

I therefore find it helpful to frequently carry an armor of "nonchalance." If people don't follow rules, let us not be over-acting in showing our disagreement. There are many ways to correct our fellow men...ways that are within the bounds of politeness and proper decorum.

in my wildest dreams

...i am a finalist in the Nth Van Cliburn International Piano Competion and a performer at the Verbier Musical Festival. :)

keeping up with the Joneses

...of cyberspace. After another blogging sabbatical, I shall resume my favorite past-time of cyber-soliloquy--ing. Due to another upcoming piano performance w/ other musicians featuring pieces by Johannes Brahms, I am rekindling my deep deep love for Impressionism.

Might I suggest that you spend some leisure time perusing "The Everyday lives of the French Impressionists" which I discovered after watching a YouTube video of Erik Satie's popular piano piece Gymnopedie (which I can't locate now...someone gave the blog link on the comments section of that video).



For the entertainment of my favorite imaginary cyber audience, I share with you an excellent depiction of Gymnopedie using Impressionist art. [click here to view YouTube video; embed code was disabled by the creator of the video]

Also, I have been having the oddest fixation on "imaginary numbers" after following A Twitter account with the following image as a tiled background:

And that "i" is the symbol of an imaginary number such as the square root of -1. Now if someone compliments you using hifaluting mathematical notations, do not easily be flattered, because that notation may actually mean that it's "imaginary."