Hello March!

Can't believe March is here. By early February, I'd whipped out five entries, which is a breakneck speed by my blogging standard since moving to Blogger in June 2009. Now I seem to be lagging again.

Thesis madness has really come in full swing. I've just passed the proposal oral defense, and the crazy thing is that I've agreed to have my thesis defense in late April, as opposed to the normal late June or early July. Long story, just wish me the best of luck.

Off topic, I think YouTube sensation Sam Tsui and tiger cub Sophia Rubenfeld (daughter of "Battle Hymn of The Tiger Mother" author Amy Chua) really should date! They have so much in common. Sam has just graduated from Yale, Sophia is currently attending Harvard. Sam is a talented singer and pianist (don't tell me you haven't checked out his videos!), Sophia is a talented pianist. Last but absolutely not least, they're half Asians. Together they'd create a whole new breed...

Just stopping by

I was listening to Diana Yukawa's Snow Globe when something crossed my mind. For those uninitiated, Diana Yukawa is an Anglo-Japanese violinist whose mother is Susanne Bayly, a ballerina and artist, and father is Aki Yukawa, a Japanese banker who died in a plane crash about three weeks before Diana was born, in 1985. Diana has an older sister, Cassie, who's a pianist and one half of the famous Yukawa-Chan duo.

Now I'm sure everyone's heard of Amy Chua, Yale law professor and author of the uproar-causing book Battle Hymm of The Tiger Mother. Her two daughters, just like Yukawa sisters, are also talented musicians. Chua's eldest, Sophia, plays piano and her youngest, Louisa, plays violin.

So what do Amy Chua and Susanne Bayly have in common? They have two half Asian girls, the eldest girls play piano and the younger ones play violin, plus the two sets of sisters are respectively four years apart in age.

Ok, singing off. Gotta get back to assignments.