Overseas visitors, Monash Uni music concert, a surprise lunch and a curious find

People are interesting, there are so many different kinds of people. They all process information differently, express emotions differently. That is why psychology was one the most frequently taken up subject in university (from my survey among my limited circle of friends). Everyone wants to be understood and to understand. But not everyone understands. As a result, there are estrangement, disagreements, detachment. Why all this spill, you ask? Just get to the crux of the story, right? Ok, ok.. Someone in the family disagrees with how a cousin was treating their sick spouse by travelling overseas to visit their daughter and having a family holiday. Mind you, the cousin is also sick so it could well be their last opportunity to travel long distance. So the person did not want to meet the cousin who had travelled 8 hours to Australia, nor speak to them unless they called first. The person also forbade anyone else in the family to meet with the cousin and was spreading news of the perceived ill treatment of their spouse to other extended family members. Who is right, who is wrong? Is there a right or wrong? Let those who is without sin cast the first stone. 

We do not know, nor do we want to be involved. We did meet with the cousin, and had a chinwag at a nearby restaurant. They liked the assortment of cakes we got - a coffee eclair, berry tart, quintessential Australian vanilla slice and lemon curd croissant ($37.80)

Earlier, we were at Monash University's Day of Play where students from the Music Faculty performed various concerts. There were acapella singing, instrument ensembles, digital music. I learnt about sound bathing during acapella singing where the students moved around the stage keeping the same notes. It was different good, and made me think that people should experiment with music like that more often. 

There was also a stage performance where students read out lyrics of a song in a theatrical voice, and sang the rest. The final song where everyone sang was U2's song Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of. It was really meaningful to me, because during the week I was feeling really down. There are some things happening in the background with family, some putting down and guilt tripping exercise (not my own) and some matters that seem so 'end of the road'. Even when I am typing this, I cannot stop the tears that readily spring to my eyes. 

I'm not afraid
Of anything in this world
There's nothing you can throw at me
That I haven't already heard

I'm just trying to find
A decent melody
A song that I can sing
In my own company

I never thought you were a fool
But darling, look at you (Ooh)
You gotta stand up straight, carry your own weight
These tears are going nowhere baby

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And now you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

I will not forsake
The colors that you bring
The nights you filled with fireworks
They left you with nothing

I am still enchanted
By the light you brought to me
I listen through your ears
Through your eyes I can see

You are such a fool
To worry like you do. Oh
I know it's tough
And you can never get enough
Of what you don't really need now
My, oh my

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
Oh love, look at you now

You've got yourself stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

I was unconscious, half asleep
The water is warm 'til you discover how deep
I wasn't jumping, for me it was a fall
It's a long way down, to nothing at all

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along the stony paths

And if, and if the night runs over
And if, the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along this stony paths

It's just a moment
This time will pass

It was actually a song Bono wrote in response to his good friend Michael Hutchence's suicide. Having been touched by a suicide (Gary's friend and best man at our wedding), it added another layer of meaning when I heard that song today.

This was one of the exhibits in the Monash Performing Arts auditorium. I loved the performances by the students, they really are so talented and innovative. This was one of the exhibits in the Monash Performing Arts auditorium. I loved the performances by the students, they really are so talented and innovative. 

Later, we stumbled on a new sushi place called Pika Sushi. They were having a soft launch and we were happy to receive a BOGOF meal! 

Just to add another light note to this post.. this is a curious find.. two bottles of a creamy pasta sauce but the contents of one was white, and another yellowy green. Would you buy the jar with the yellow green creamy sauce?