Thank you for the music

A supposedly good concert with a world renowned pianist in a state of the art concert hall: expectedly the best birthday gift I’ve ever received, was disappointing to say the least. But the great people I sat with and spent the rest of the night with made the concert worthwhile, and the birthday special.

Thank you everyone for coming, especially the last VIP surprise guest Liu Xi: it was great having you around tonight. Tonight really made me feel special.

“LC” or not, I think it was a great decision to drink simple wines in styrofoam cups at our usual spot on the rooftop terrace; it was better than the best ambiance that any bar can provide. Thank you for staying out late with me, I enjoyed the school stories, reminiscing the lab mishaps, “apparently annihilation” and all that jazz, ahem* classical, about Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Handel and Hadyn.

You may think I’m drunk to say this, but who cares about the bad acoustics and prickly grass, it really is the company that counts, and I’m glad no, ecstatic, that I have you.