7th Songwriter Showcase
Two days after graduation, I went to Cal Poly Pomona to check out the Songwriter Showcase! Thinzar’s a big part of it, backstage and on stage, this year, and I went to it last year, too, just about the same time. Thank goodness that Thinzar had her camera because really, stupid me forgot the bring the battery for my camera! You see, I had my camera ready to go and even brought it, but I found out I didn’t even bring my battery. *headdesk* Anyway, the Songwriter Showcase was very enjoyable. There was not one that I didn’t really like, and everyone is so musically talented. I kind of wished I took more photos of Thinzar and Claudia performing, but then it was my very first time listening to a song that Thinzar personally wrote, so I paid attention to that more. Perhaps I did the better thing, haha. Well, hope you all enjoy these photos. I’ve had to get used to Thinzar’s Cybershot, but they’re not bad, I think…
Vocal Percussion Radio
Random things like the CSUN’s acapella group Vocal Percussion Radio performing in front of Manzanita Hall are one of the littlest things I would miss about the university. I was out of my last JOUR498 Tutorial class (and my last class ever with Professor Blumenkrantz … so sad), and they were just performing outside! How cool is that? I stayed for less than 15 minutes since I thought I had class afterward, but it was worth watching and listening to their music.
March 4 “Day of Action”
Yesterday was the statewide “Day of Action” march, protest and rally all through California, and I decided to check out the day portion of the event since I was on campus getting my laptop checked for some internet connection issues. There were hundreds of CSUN students, and they went everywhere around campus. They even entered classrooms in Manzanita Hall to tell the students to “walk out” their class and join the protest. They also went and blocked the Nordhoff/Reseda intersection, which is one of the busiest intersections in Northridge. Cops came to tell them to get off the streets. I left around 3 p.m., but I hear the march, protest and rally got even more crazy later at night. A professor and a couple of students even got arrested.