I have been here nearly three weeks since I arrived at the UK . The strange-but-familiar feeling has almost gone away. I settled in very easily, back to the old streets and campus, just again, live in a different-but-familiar place, got a pair of lovely flatmates. Of course there is some new stuff that I need to get used to with, but none of them really causing any big issues, well, apart from you-know-that, namely, studying. It is so difficult to handling both studying for courses and for thesis at the same time; I am still struggling to find the balance between them, and fingers crossed that I could figure this out as soon as possible.
Back to an old place is a good thing in the sense that I can be much relaxed and push myself into trying other things. I know I am probably acting (very) different in here and back to my hometown. If truth be told, I somehow felt more liberated and relaxing in this place aboard. Maybe, I think, because Britain generally is relatively new to me and I am still in the honeymoon period with it.
This year, I also decided to join one or two sports clubs. I do feel the urge to do some exercise, partly for the sake of the past experience as well as sort of putting myself in the market (what the hell is this suppose to mean?). So far, I have tried out tennis and fencing and they both are quite fun and enjoyable. Especially fencing, the lesson for beginners was scheduled on Thursday, which was perfect for me, because after a three hours marathon of abstract discussion about something I do not actually give a dame, a sport involving attacking and be a bit violent does helps to take some edges off. However, now they are moving it to Wednesday night, which causes me a bit wondering, owing to the marathon is in the next day and I always using it to do catching-up reading. But anyway, I think I will continue to fencing, always fun to learn new stuff.
The past three weeks was a establishing-a-new-routine process, thus not much time to contemplate and meditate about what has been and will be going on. Because it seems there are so much other (important or trivia) things to do, I found it hard to actually sit down and do a bit records of my life, well, although basically no much news to be reported. But I think I need to make time to do this, since I almost lost the ability to write things down in detail by my hand and time does fly and leaves no traces.
Today I found myself addicted to Placebo, a band I barely know before, but I just brought an Oasis CD in charity shop. Life is funny and I hope I can always see the lights of it.
By the way, found two interesting links recently, both are about arts. One is Mauro Perucchetti’ssculptures exhibition and what caught my eyes is not only his contemporary re-creation of ‘Modern Hero’ but also the delicacy expressed in his other works. The other is much more celebrity-related, called 31 Portraits in 31 Days. It is an on-line photography charity event, and the photographer, Matt Humphrey, took the photos of some celebrities, including the wonderful John Simm, the writer and actor Mark Gatiss, the rising star Benedict Cumberbatch, also, David Morrisey. Well then, where is my dear David Tennant, Matt? It says on the website that you can purchase the photographs from 1st November, but it costs over 31 quid! Mum, I really am tempted though….
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