it turns out that.

I need 5 tea-cartons instead of 4. I was so proud of myself initially, managed to condense everything into 4 boxes but it turns out that I can't even lift them off the ground, and I reckon the boxes weigh even more than I do (the maximum weight for each box is 40kg, and believe me - I'm nowhere near 40kg). There's no way I can part myself from all my notes, think of all the time I spent in the gloomy libraries photocopying! And the effort I spent lugging them home! And reading bits of them! And letting them collect precious dust in the corner of my room! How can I let all these papers go to waste, by throwing it into the bin? Nein, nein, nein!

So 5 cartons it is. Oh well, I've always had a thing for prime numbers.

And everyone - I don't know when I'm coming back yet, but if all goes well, I'll be home very soon, like, er, in a few weeks, er, yah.

I'm aiming to write 7000 words of quality by midnight. I promise I've got it all sorted in my head, just that my brain (what brain?) and my fingers and the screen operate in different languages, they can't communicate properly. I wish there'll be wires I can attach from my brain to the computer, and I'll just have to think, and voila! All the words will appear on the screen in a beautiful and intelligent essay, with plenty of musical examples.

I'm delightfully deluded, am I not? Maybe the phrase should be 'deceptively/deliberately blind'. On the count of three: laugh with me!

Dominic>> I'm very happy - I just played through Aida/Amonasro duet on your keyboard. So fun! Let's play Mozart duets soon!

Yang'en>> Everything okay in Singapore? I just found your Wagner score at home (the cheesy one), I'll ship it back for you!