Milky Jade

And purposely. I have a really horrible song stuck in my head and I'm trying to cure it by swapping it with this:

Tonnes of years on electric guitar, some on clarinet, piano, viola, one year on horribly rusty acoustic behold my nails making noises http://vocaroo.com/i/s1EAPlasXEDx all the noises

@@Nine, Telling apart teas is a discipline I'm not too shabby at. Aside from, you know, tisanes.. because to hell with them? As for matcha, I'm very finical with the amount of water. Sure, thick koicha is probably considered the "best", but I think that if you blend it with usucha (it provides a strong taste), and get the blend right (break the lumps carefully) you can use that with a little bit more water and grin like a Cheshire. Yeah.. you gotta be mad as a hatter these days if you want to drink matcha on like.. a daily basis.. I personally don't even go above once or twice a week. It'd require a phase of ebullience that doesn't even come once in 6 months. The only thing I can really drink on a daily basis is Tiě guān yīn and (obviously) Milky Jade Oolong.

@Nine That's pretty much agreeable. I'm not yet at the point I could discern 2nd from 1st flush by taste alone, but my general experience is awarding 2nd with first place. About sencha, let me read that tomorrow.. The thing I'm currently hot about is matcha. Matcha matcha matcha. You like it?

White is good. I'm not committed to a single tea type, but you know, if I had to.. it would probably be white or oolong. Now your job is to find some white Darjeeling and Ceylon. If there is no other way, order it.. First over second? Now that's a bit silly! Well.. I take Avongrove and Imperial for 2nd flush, Jungpana for 1st. Darjeeling is a bit like.. my bread-and-butter, really. I think I do prefer 2nd flush, but I don't think in terms of 'strictly better'. Tea is really a mood thing, isn't it.. Refer me, if you will.

It's pretty much in the name. I also think fondly of Ceylon (silver tips), Darjeeling, Houjicha, Assam, and good old Earl...

People at the railway station. Personally, I advocate for traffic rules in stations. People see a shop or a thing, and immediately dart towards their destination with no regard for.. other humans which might exist around them. And thus, pandemonium reigns. It often becomes impossible to board your train on time without arriving early. Trolleys will cut you off, people will run into you (remember, they're not actually aware that you exist until the moment of collision), form walls with their entourage which plows through the masses like a swath of destruction (this is also the case in shopping streets, malls et c.), among many other horrible aspects. My old physics teacher once said that masses of humans tend to behave like water molecules. That is to say, find the shortest path and arrive as fast as the medium allows. I however think that this is not taking into account the random interactions, bumping-into's and swirling around's of a good 99.999...9% of those molecules. Big things just always.. move slowly. That is why I propound regular traffic rules for stations, and in addition, no idling. Just like the weakest link determines the strength of a chain, the slowest person on their way down the stairs determines the speed of the human grapevine behind them. And that blows. To further understand this point, imagine road works on the motorway. It's 3 kilometers long. You draw level with a lorry which is driving on the right lane at 60 km/h and you proceed to drive on the left lane at 58 km/h. Right at the very end of the construction, check your mirror for the face of the person in the car behind you. That's... humans.

I reckon some peace and quiet after graduating is the reward I'm looking forward to. There's places I want to go and things I want to do, but all of them are contingent upon that..