The best of times
May 1st, 2007 by MrLuxuryFashionGuruI am not ready or willing to leave the excitement, the richness of resources and the very comfortable community that I’ve grown accustomed to here.
And that’s part of why I’m so busy all the time now. I’m rushing to enjoy the opportunities that I’ve complacently taken for granted for years now at the College, the University and the Boston area. The photos below offer a selection of these opportunities from the last couple of days (lots more photos on Flickr):
Today I went to an open brown bag lunch discussion at the Kennedy School with Kishore Mahbubani, currently the Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS (and for over a decade previously the Singapore ambassador to the UN). The three of us seniors (Shi Ming, Xin Wei and myself) all arrived late from different places and settled for various nooks at the back of the room.
Another random but cool opportunity – on Monday the Food Network was filming a tangentially Harvard-related episode so whoever wanted to go to the filming could enter a lottery to go into Boston. I made Ryan sign up with me and while at the venue we recognised another half dozen of our friends in the crowd of about 90 Harvard affiliates. Those were some fantastic sticky buns they made!
Here we are with the stars of the episode. From left: Ryan, Joanne Chang (of Flour Bakery and Cafe), me, Bobby Flay (one of America’s Iron Chefs!), Tiffany.
Here I am playing tourist (after four years of living here!) right outside the Old State House in downtown Boston, which I’d never seen before. We accidentally came across the building while walking from the filming to the Harvard Club of Boston at One Federal to Macy’s at Downtown Crossing; I’ve always loved the compact-ness of Boston. Ryan (who took this picture) tells me that is the very balcony from which the American Declaration of Independence was first proclaimed in 1776.
I was struck by the incongruous discovery that part of the building now houses the State Street subway station (on the orange and green lines).
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Can you see why I don’t want to leave? Sigh.
Tomorrow evening (Wednesday) I will be presenting my senior honors thesis as part of the series of informal “Senior thesis desserts” (implying the free Finale desserts which will be served). Quincy House SCR, 7pm in case you’re interested. Which also means I now need to go and re-read my thesis for the first time in weeks and prepare some slides and speaking notes. What an anxiety-inducing task.
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