FMA Weekend!

But before I get to that, what have I been up to in the past two weeks? Apart from the usual (work, sleep, eat, going to Helen's house), I've visited a seedy motel in Soho (which is apparently in Greenwich), stolen games from Colm, managed to get closer to my death, had tea at the Ritz, and obviously the FMA weekend :)

So yeah, there was this seedy motel in Soho, disguising as a pub called The Greenwich Union. Sarah and I decided to meet up there the Friday before last, which was quite nice as I hadn't seen her for two years or so. I had chocolate beer while Sarah told me about her cunning plan to buy a house in Europe, so it was all fun :) I even took a photo:


On the Saturday I got to see another friend who I hadn't seen for over a year - Colm, having convinced him that his final year project didn't really matter... Well, he didn't really need convincing anyway... I even drove all the way to Elephant & Castle to pick him up (was out shopping with mum anyway), which turned out to be a really silly idea, as the traffic on the way home was hooooorible, mainly caused by various people abandoning their cars in the middle of road to find food/toilet... We finally got home in the end though, and proceeded to spend the next 8 hours on my computer... it was fun :) I even stole GTA San Andreas from him :)

Oh, I think I also turned 22 last Monday, i.e. closer to death, as Hane nicely put :) I didn't want to believe it, but my computer and phone both tried to tell me that it was "Fan Yang's birthday"... Anyway, it was a great day, Helen took me to the Ritz for tea! :D Actually, we got rather scared the previous night when I phoned up to confirm the reservation and they failed to find my booking... It was all OK in the end though, phew, the person was probably just a little blind :)

Anyway, you've probably read all about it on Helen's blog, I'll just add two extra photos :)

Mirrors!


and the outside:


Now, the FMA weekend!

Actually... I don't have time now... will finish this in another post later...

paper and emmie

It's me again!

Anyway, I was getting little bored this evening when Helen mentioned making pretty snowflakes, which inspired me to make this:



not exactly a pretty snowflake, but I was still happy :D

Used to make similar stuff all the time when I was little :)

Some of you may be familiar with thefacebook. Well, I was randomly browsing the other day and came across Emily Smith, a muso at Clare College Cambridge, who was a soloist for my orchestra last year (Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1, for anyone interested...). And the first thing that came to my mind was: "Wow! This must be what Emmie will look like in few years time!"





I was going to put a photo of Emmie here for comparison, but can't seem to find any suitable ones right now... So in the mean time, try to imagine Emmie inside the rectangle below :)

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Oh, and apologies to Emily Smith for randomly using your photos, just in case you do ever come across this post :)

Oh, I still have a blog do I...?

Hmm, has it really been 3 months already since my last post?? Maybe it was just a long long sleep...

Anyway... straight to the business... This is what I look like when I'm feeling posh :)


And sometimes I like to wear hats...


Just to make up for the fact that I'm doing this so long after everyone else... Here's a bonus photo! Back in the days of my pop career... :)


Name: Fan Yang
Age: 21, nearly 22 I believe, unless people lied to me about my birthday...
Height: 6'1 ish
Weight: *weighs self*, 83kg, just over 13 stones I think.
Hair colour: Black, with slight hint of black.
Hair Style: 2 months short, 2 months long(er), comparable to hedgehogs at times.
Eye Colour: Greyish black
Blood type: B
Status: *waves at Helen*
Build: Average I believe
Siblings: There might be another me inside me, does that count?
Pets: One cat, and she's very cute :) also likes to leave scars all over me :)
Pro-life or pro-choice: choice
Right or left: Erm, a wall on my left, and new computer on my right, I think it's an easy choice :)
Favourite food: your nose? not really...
Favourite beverage: the stuff that's bad for you
Chosen degree subject: Computer Science, hmm that was fun... :)
Chosen Unis: King's College, Cambridge, have I graduated for 10 months already??
Personality: Have been accused of being too nice, but no ones knows my evil side, mwahahaha!
What I like about girls: they are not guys?
What I like about boys: they are not girls?
Music tastes: Classical, late-romantic orchestral music mostly, and anything violin related obviously. Reel Big Fish, REM, Green Day, stuff, stuff, stuff...
Film tastes: Funny is always good. It's normally a good sign if I manage to stay awake for more than half of the film :)
Tv shows: Family Guy, Coupling, Black Books, Yes (Prime) Minister, Blackadder, Frasier, you get the idea...
Hobbies: spending time with Helen, sleep, breaking computers, sleep, violin, sleep, MSN, sleep, illegal activities, sleep
Nationality: recently British
Heritage: Chinese. Born in Urumqi, which is apparently the most inland city in the world...
Favourite colour: Blue. No wait, Green. ARgh, can't choose.
Favourite metal: Wax (Wx)
Favourite non-metal: Wood (Wd)
Dislikes: huge blood blisters on my finger
Pet type: Am I expected to know this?
Pet age: Well she was about 1 month old 3 years ago, you do the maths
House: near Bellingham in SE London, moving to a different house near Bellingham in 2 months...
Parents still married?: ...
Intelligence: IQ 135 last time I tested, not as intelligent as Helen though...
Gender: Unknown
Sexual orientation: Straight. Stop trying to seduce me Toby!
Homophobe?: No...
Anything else-phobe: metal scratching noise
Been on a boat?: Yah
A plane: Many
A hovercraft: What are they?
Town of residence: London
Best mate?: Lots, but I won't name any in case other people get upset :)
Lonely?: Nope.
Feeling towards exams?: *does the I-do-not-ever-have-to-do-an-exam dance*
Do I like you? As long as you don't try to eat my cat.
Any skills?: Breaking computers without touching them? Playing the violin badly.
What would you do if in command of all?: Surely you know already, sleep of course :)
Thoughts of future: see previous question
What's that?: flying pig!
Cock size: the pig was flying too fast, I didn't see...
Favourite sport: Many would say table-football isn't a sport...
Favourite real animal: Cats.
Favourite mythical creature: flying pig
Date of birth: 22/05/1984
Star sign: Gemini
Chinese year: It's also 2006 in China as far as I know... Rat.
Happy?: Yes, and shiny :)
EMO!: You will get hit by an invisible boat.
Then what are you?: not flying pig and not my violin, that much I know.
Errr...: Did you see Toby and the penguins?
Fine: Fine to yourself
Religious: apparently Jesus is Chinese, according to Stewie...