To look life in the face

and to know it for what it is

Buying tickets for a performance

Filed under: Random thoughts — Xiao at 1:02 pm on Saturday, August 30, 2008

For me to hear Jean-Yves Thibaudet perform and Lorin Maazel conduct at the Proms would cost me a mere 15 quid and I would catch the performance on my way home. 

For me to hear Jean-Yves Thibaudet perform alongside the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London at the Festival de Musique Classique Montreux-Vevey, I would need to pay 25 quid for a ticket and a return train ride to Montreux.

Are you the adventurous type?

Filed under: Random thoughts — Xiao at 9:28 am on Friday, August 29, 2008

If the tendency towards excitement, novelty and risk-taking is associated with risk of promiscuity, and if the same factors are associated with type of career, then isn't there a relationship between personality type and risk of promiscuity?

The privileged & the not-so privileged

Filed under: Random thoughts — Xiao at 8:28 pm on Sunday, August 10, 2008

Peeking at the fireworks of the fete de Geneve from behind the spectator seats, between bars and picket fences. It reminds me again of where I stand in society.

Title?

Filed under: Random thoughts — Xiao at 4:10 pm on Friday, August 8, 2008

Should we be honest & true to our feelings in our way of action, or should we choose to consider "the big picture"?

As children, why are we expected to return? Why do we have to live according to standards imposed by others upon ourselves? 

Is there necessity in emotional attachments? Is there necessity in building relationships? Are relationships not the result of two intertwined selfish ideas?