Merry Christmas everyone.... a little late, better than never.

Coldplay 05

We went to the Coldplay concert at Earl's Court last night. It was truly a transcendent musical experience. The gigs started pretty much on time with Richard Ashcroft opening as the supporting act, and as he put it, "best, f**kin' support act in the f**kin' world". He started out with a few new songs off his forthcoming album, interspersed with the Verve classics like "Sonnet", "Lucky Man" and the ubiquitous "Bittersweet Symphony". It must have been slightly disappointing for him when the audience only seemed to respond to songs from back in the Verve days. But that being said, on the buzz, in front of tens of thousands, should pretty much quell any inadequacies.

After a short half an hour intermission, Coldplay literally burst onto the stage with "Square One" from their latest album, "X&Y". His vibrant stage presence and interminable energy worked the audience up into a fervour. I have to say that the director for the displays, lasers and lighting played a huge part in building up the mood of the evening, and complemented the songs perfectly. I hadn't gone in with huge expectations for Coldplay's performance, seeing as their performance at the Mtv Europe Music awards was hugely lacking in vocal ability. Maybe it was the

Unhappy DNA monkey

Well, regarding that previous post about how I've sorted out my DNA woes, well, no, I haven't. The darn bastards. I completely should have bought the Invitrogen Gigaprep kit just because it was on sale. I mean, darn it, it's completely not turned out the way I expected it to. Basically, I've transfected the cells with the previously said DNA, I got PATHETIC efficiency, we're talking 10% here. Oh the trials and tribulations of the research world.

Anyways, been stuck on all the work for the past few days. It's been totally hectic. I did manage to pop down to Borough Market yet again last saturday to pick up a rack of lamb. It was awesome. Went to C's place to cook. I guess I had to make up for the shitty lab results somehow. Somehow, devouring dead animals seems to help. I wonder how the vegetarians take it. I can't.

The wife (soon to be) is in Thailand on her mission trip. I'm sad, I miss her. Not being to call her as and when I wish is really annoying. Didn't manage to call her for 3 days, because I had lectures from mon to wed at the time she could use the phone. That totally didn't help with this week.

At least I've finally managed to finish writing the paper that's been stewing in the works for a year. SO the week hasn't been all bad. Been so packed up I haven't even had to time to check up on the blogs I normally read. It's been too mad.

This is sad, I've taken to drivveling about my mundane scholastic life. (As opposed to monastic). I wonder if monks blog, if so, what about.....