A friend invited me to watch a musical in London sometime ago. I pondered for a while whether to join or not as I got a few essays to work on as well as the potential travel and ticket cost of the trip (the days of generous scholarships in Japan are gone -_-). At the end, my impulse won the day: I went to London yesterday justifying my decision by telling myself I’ve lived frugally for the past months and have never seen a musical since I came to UK. The outcome turned out to be satisfactory as well, the musical “Les Miserable” was great and worth all the expenses (http://www.lesmis.com/). The music’s beautiful and the casts’ performances are amazing. Though I never read Hugo’s original novel, I know about the story through a firm (I liked it) and various readings. The musical portrays many of themes in the story wonderfully: human nature, will to change, determination, justice, meaning of one’s life, love at first sight, unrequited and unconditional love, fighting for a beliefs, etc. I love this musical and would definitely see more in the future. The experience reminds of Julia Robert’s reaction in movie Pretty Woman when she saw her first musical in her life.
Besides watching the musical with my friends at night, I also visited various places in London myself in the morning: Westminster area, National Gallery, British Museum, and walked around in various shopping districts. Visiting the gallery and museum (since I don’t enough time, I can only explore a small portion) as well as walking around London made me think about various things, mainly about human civilization, life, and my preferences or thoughts on various things. Many of these are probably stupid/unsophisticated thoughts, so before I reflect on them more clearly, I won’t bore you with all the non-senses. Nevertheless, I find the experience of taking my attention away from my immediate obligations and goals and wandering aimlessly for a while rewarding (at least when I feel like I learn something new–though that may not be true).
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hey,
thanx for popping once in a while. been a while since i did anything to my domain… either too buzy or too lasy :p will upload some shots of sakura, tho not fr beppu (sadly)
my semester starts tomorrow, looking forward to another 4 months of endless readings, arguments, calling-names, & who knows wut else. hope my kohais wont b too hard to deal with. anyway, thats all bout me now. u take care & do come visit me when u can.
cheers,
nic
hey, I watched "Les Miserable" too. but i didn\’t have the chance to watch it in person, i watched it in my Broadway Musical Theater class. it\’s quite an interesting class, cuz i get to see all these great and famous musicals and films. hope i could watch one in person one day.