Just a quick update as I skip around doing nearly everything that's to be done:

• Holidays have arrived, as of last Friday. I can't wait for the real holiday spirit to hit, though. I haven't really felt any Christmas vibe around. I've been hurrying back to poly to handle an assignment where studio time is mandatory for a grade. Unfortunately, being the arranger/producer/lyricst of the group had burned me out.

  I had to pig out on a Japanese hamburger lunch to get some life back into me today. This had to be one of the hardest studio days I faced. The piano and drums went out of sync and repeated tries to mend it met failure. I don't think I can catch a power ballad with what we're doing, but at least a fusion song. And that's still something.

• Monsoon season has arrived. News of floods keep popping out, especially of the florist area near my home which (most unfortunately) was on low-lying area. I saw Christmas trees floating into the backs of trucks and cars, guided by the workmen of the shops. Orchids and flowers that survived were quickly moved out, but some were really gone. The floods were also bad to the traffic - a cab ran a little too far ahead in the aforementioned florist area and got stuck in the drain canal! I also noticed fishermen flocking to flooded areas and catching carp and other kinds of fish. Talk about taking an opportunity.

• Sound crew work is still going on. It seems to me that the other guy has all but dropped himself out. I'm the only one behind the mixer now, if you don't count the commentator.

• DJ Club is finally in full swing, and today I touched the black shiny record. I was surprised to find that you have to touch the disc lightly to move the heavy turntable. Rubbing and scratching did not start easily for my classmates and I was not going to make a fool of myself on my first time on the set. I took mental note of all errors and good points made by my classmates but after a very short time of experimenting, I did not kill 50 Cent as badly as my classmates did. However, the teacher made it a note that we should not go too fast with learning and the sets - he must have known that I was too eager.

That's it for now. *pop*