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Frieren Orchestra Concert in London: A Melodic Journey through Time and Nostalgia

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Yesterday, I traveled from Durham to London to attend Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Orchestra Concert with a friend of mine. Held at OVO Arena Wembley and performed by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra (RPCO), the Concert took us from episode 1 of Frieren to season 3's teased Golden Lands. From the slower welcoming tunes of Journey of a Lifetime , to the heart thumping and blood rushing Zoltraak , and finally, the romantic and touching melodies of Mirrored Lotus , the concert was indeed one to remember, and incredibly gratifying for fans from all around the world (including me). I am by no means a professional critic nor someone well-versed in acoustics, but I nevertheless wish to share my fangirl ramblings semi-disguised as a review. Pacing To start, I really appreciated the pacing and broadly chronological order followed by RPCO. Going through the soundtracks from the beginning of season 1 was a nice throwback, and reminded me of all the feelings I had stumbling up...

Introduction

  Hi! I’m currently a postgraduate research student at the Department of Geography in Durham University. In this blog post, I introduce myself, the reason why this blog was started, and why it is called ‘messy and happenstance’. Migrant & Geographer I was born in Hong Kong, but I migrated to Singapore when I was just three and became a Singapore citizen a couple of years ago. I’ve spent most of my life in Singapore, having grown up in the little red dot and graduated from the National University of Singapore with a major in Geography. I begin with this introduction to emphasise two aspects of my identity – as a migrant, and as a geographer. These two aspects greatly shape the way I see, experience and approach life. As such, emphasising these two aspects are important to you, my readers (if any), because they are the reasons why I began this personal blog. I want to write about various topics I’m interested in, and much of what informs my interests, writing and thinking, ...