well i feel like they're talking in a language i don't speak

having taken a long break from this blog (well a forced break cos no energy or time), time to write something.

just came back from a UChicago gathering with the new freshmen. it was kinda weird introducing myself as a 2nd year, as it probably was a little weird for the 3rd years to introduce themselves as such, or for those who graduated to do the same. and the freshmen! oh goodness there are a lot of them. i can't remember a single face now probably. i went up to talk to so many people i actually got confused and introduced myself twice to this one guy. but i realise that now, after many years of willing myself to, i can force myself to be sociable. not like i wasn't having a good time, cos most of the freshmen seem like perfectly nice, well-adjusted people that i would want to befriend in the coming few years (oh dear that sounds pretty odd doesn't it?).

but for a long time, my first meeting with strangers always results in awkward silence, and i take very long to make friends. but now i realise i can turn on another personality that is rather loud and somewhat entertaining, which i suppose i pretty nice and useful. personal growth! haha.

and monday is coldplay! i have no idea why i'm going to see them again, but i suppose i still like their songs, even if they did get worse after parachutes. i heard they are really good live now, so we'll see. i listened to the new album on the way from my place to thomson and back, and i thought the one thing that really seperates them from the past and now is sincerity. the album feels a little formulaic i think, and there's this feeling that they don't really mean what they sing anymore. i was quite surprised when i heard the song "parachutes" being used for a CK perfume ad, because if i recall correctly, coldplay once said they won't let their songs be used for advertising. and i suppose they've gone the fame and fortune route like any band which wants to survive inadvertantly has too.