beautiful disaster

Had a fun day today. I prefer Vienna to Richmond. It's cooler because it's up north, and we stay in Aunt Helen's house, which warrants easy Internet access and a cosier environment than the hotels.

Oh! Guess what! Yesterday i fulfilled one of my resolutions for this holiday: to learn how to cook! Actually, i helped Aunt Helen cook lunch and dinner. And today I learnt how to make French toast for breakfast! Yay! If Jac can cook, so can you!

Went to D.C. today with Mum. We visited Capitol Hill, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Smithsonian museums (we intended to visit all but in the end cut it down to just two: the American History Museum and the Natural History Museum. We did run through the Freer Art Museum on Asian art but I got bored and my feet were aching) and Union Square (Mum insisted on going there just to see the 97-ft tall ceiling). Took tons of pictures using Aunt Helen's digital camera, which is why I have a picture gallery now. I got really camera-happy at the start, and then we realised we only had about 20 shots left, so I had to take less.

Went to watch Stomp! on Friday at the Carpenter Centre in Richmond. It was really good--very funny, with the guy who kept trying to fit in. Mum fell asleep, though. She always does. She fell asleep during the Moscow City Ballet's Swan Lake, too. We wanted to watch a play or something in Vienna tonight but they don't perform on Mondays--all the performers take a rest after the weekend.

The Carpenter Centre is gorgeous. It's really, really beautiful. Its interiors look like the set of the Arabian Nights--a brilliant ochre hue that darkens into orange. There are box seats with sculptures and walls that glitter. The stage and the walls that frame it is no ordinary type of stage--its edges are patterned and shaped in an elaborate gold border. Whereas the Esplanade is all cool minimalist, the Carpenter Centre is ostentatiously old-Hollywood. I love it. It's the best part of Richmond.

Word on my Founder's Day Dress: it is hopefully still in the shop in Singapore. Yes, I am getting it in Singapore because after a whole week of looking, I gave up. It's sort of hard to get a dress when you've already got one in mind, and I realised I shouldn't care about what other people think I look good in; I like that peach dress and I'm getting it because I like it.

Leaving for Singapore in about 9 hours' time. I'll reach Singapore on the 23rd at midnight, all sleepy and jetlagged from a 25-hour flight (layovers at Chicago and Narita. Coool.). Can't wait to see you all! :)

jac was here with you 6/22/2004 12:01:00 pm

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My Destiny
Psalm 46 (NASB)
God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change
And though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea;
Though its waters roar and foam,
Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride.

There is river whose streams make glad the city of God,
The holy dwelling places of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.
The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered;
He raised His voice, the earth melted.
The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold.

Come, behold the works of the Lord,
Who has wrought desolations in the earth.
He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;
He burns the chariots with fire.
"Cease striving and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."
The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold.