Tuesday Syndrome

Tuesdays are i-hate-me days. I work my butt off practicing an aria about 100 times in a week, then go to my lesson and totally mess it up! Man, opera is freaking hard. There's everything technical, then there's emoting. I personally, humbly speaking, find it very hard to emote in a language I don't speak! It's too easy to forget what you're singing.

And my teacher totally coddles me! She is very unmean! But I still feel like crap.

On a different note, see an absolutely AMAZING Eponine here. "One more day all on my own! One more day with him not caring!" Original Broadway cast of Les Miserables. Kinda scary Marius and Cosette (why does Cosette have to wear the ugly black dress with lace collar BTW?). Everyone else is beyond brilliant. I've watched this video like 15 times.

Paris

My husband surprised me with a trip to Paris over thanksgiving so we went for 5 days!! It was fun. We went to see all the touristy stuff. France is so craaazy I could've taken a thousand pictures. Like all the ornamentation on the buildings, those boggle my mind. Fashion-wise, there was a huge trend of wearing your boots over your pants, I guess that's kind of an 80s comeback. And it is very strange, there are really no fat people in Paris. But I must say their subway is really disgusting; I've been spoiled by the MTR in HK.

Shot of the river:

A store window with a fancy castle:
PRINCESS MONONOKE!!! (At the Louvre):
Notre Dame:
Crepes:
At Versailles. Since we went in the winter, Versailles wasn't looking its best. This fountain was sooo cool though, the bottom tier has four merfolk (split-tail style, like the Starbucks logo), then cherub mer-kids above, then fish, then lobsters on top. HOW COOL:

Self-explanatory. I am thankful that a steady-handed tourist girl walked by at this moment: