Friday night. Drinks and late night nom. Good. 40 minutes of sleep. Bad.
Saturday goes right up to the list of craziest days ever. Woke up barely an hour into sleeping and walked 3 km to the IELTS test centre. Did my test, had coffee, spoke rubbish, had lunch, walked 5 km to sit in at a friend's concert. Had 4 pieces in the concert with Carl Vine's Piano Concerto being my favourite. The music was very very vivid, so much so that for all three movements I imagine environments that matches the music. Very wintery feeling. Dinner, crash at a friend's place for TV and some rather strange wine before driving off to Laverton and back. Supper and clean church to finish off the day. Brain dead.
Sunday. Played for first and second service in church. And then started what was to be a 5 hour conversation among some friends from high school. Everything from talking about the good old days, how Malaysian education really is not that bad but gave up trying to convince people, Malaysian politics, my memorized account of what happened to my PhD, arguments for and against going back home and many other random things. So much fun catching up with them and great to hear some of their stories.
Monday. A continuation of yesterday's set of conversations but this time for 8 hours, hopping from one place to another, eating from one place to another. So much fat and sugar consumed but necessary for the ongoing talk *post-justification*.
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I find it interesting how we can learn to pick up non-verbal facial cues from friends we know for a long time and decipher it before a single word was uttered. Even when there is insufficient context present such as a sudden change in topic, one can still pick out what the other is going to say. I find this quite fun to do especially when you have to call their bluff. Reminds me a lot about the psychology experiment we had to do in my first year.
Also the other thing that I like to play with other people is Chicken. I do this a lot with my sister and she likes playing it too (metaphorically of course. We don't literally drive cars into each other). There are some people that I will never play this with because I know I'll lose but for most I'll pose the challenge. Great way to call someone's bluff and to extract information from others too. Most pull out at the last minute but a few brave ones will press on. In conversations, the brave ones are the ones who will generate excellent material for which I would be very grateful that they didn't chicken out. Ironically I'm pretty bad at this game when I use it in poker.
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Having a new perspective is always an eye-opening experience, you get to see things that you sometimes miss even after having spent much time on a subject. Outsiders poking fun at other people are sometimes the best. A friend who studied in Singapore for high school makes the funniest comments and when he throws Malay language into the mix, it cracks the rest of the Malaysians up while stunning the Singaporeans. Makes me feel slightly better that my official result of C5 in Malay for SPM has not gone entirely to waste.
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Had another poke (actually more like a hard elbow to the side). Feels different from the other pokes I've had before. This was actually serious. Huh.
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