a day in the life of piano monkey

please, meet the beautiful, proud, diverse men who knows how to truly appreciates what we should all look up as beautiful and aesthetically sound examples from the western arts world: from left top, clockwise: richard morrison, michael church, rupert christiansen, andrew clements, all highly-qualified, uber-intelligent and so influential that they get paid to write personal judgement on women's appearance instead of musical reviews. could not find an appropriate jpeg of andrew clark, writing for the financial times. may be there's a reason. unsightly? so recently, five delusionall-powerful white male music critics (can we say stereotypical?) wrote their heartfelt review of the rosenkavalier at the glyndebourne festival, saturday night. hey, it's opera, obviously, we NEED to look how the women looks? after all, fat men can still deliver beautiful music, but women... no, their physical beauty must comply with each individual man's dream list (whatever it m...

illustration: cathy wilcox, http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/misogyny-its-still-all-greek-to-male-chauvinists-20121011-27fv3.html today i was at the LCBO on king and spadina .  on a quest to find the magic whiskey to celebrate the end of the year, was my friends were coming over for dinner- had soda water, ice, just... whiskey! (we have a healthy stock at home, so yeah, this really was the magic unicorn chalice chase) so i thought this would be a good branch to walk into. hmm. may be. as a  young-ish small asian girl, i waited for the floor helper to approach me. he (in his 50s i guessed) went and served a gentleman in his 50s.  okay, we walked in at the same time. i will wait. then he went over to another man, in his early 40s, talking in great details about the 'premium' stock. as he was making a pass to a third man, he asked the obligatory question: did you find everything? are you looking for a gift? i was quite a bit shocked. ...

http://youtu.be/dt1q2Z1s5p8 tis a grey spring day in yyz and things are finally slowing down- which often means letting one's own guard down; when things are busy, often i cannot afford time to be emotional (in name of efficiency).  so with extra time within the day, i dwell, rethink and formulate those feelings that may have been caged in for a bit. on 16 april 2014, a korean ship sank into the brutal water.  there are many speculations how the situation couldve been handled, but at the end, 23 days later, there are still over thirty people missing. undercurrent speed reaching up to 4m/s, divers are trying to find the bodies through 'feeling things through,' as visibility is poor. following the news update daily, i tried to not look into it as much as i can, as month of april was still rolling on full-steam. i eyed 26th and tightened mentally, the day of my younger brother's death, now four years ago. on 01 may, i completed a particularly difficult recital...