Traveling is difficult at times. As long as I can move, I am determined to see more of the world each everyday.
On what I walk to see...
"Objects do not have any intrinsic meaning- that meaning is conferred on them by us- and that different people, and the same person at different times, may confer different meanings on the same object." (Hammersley, 1989, p. 135)
I made it to see Andrea Bocelli in Central Park on Sept. 15.
It was windy and rainy that night.
Not to mention that I was psychotic almost at the institutionalizable grade-- and it was not really too much a good idea for me to be amongst "a lot of people" (apparently, more than 70,000 people- and can you imagine feeling thinking all 70,000 of them have you in their mind- of course, NYPD included). Yet, since I was not yet institutionalized, I could walk and I got the free ticket, I made it to get to the concert to see Andrea Bocelli in Central Park
The wait on the outside was long, time-wise but the path towards the great lawn once passing the check point was even longer.... man oh man... all those slopes. At the same time, I also had to deal with the delusional facts that everyone knows me, including Andrea Bocelli, and they were talking about me.
Go figure....
But-- ain't no nothing was gonna stop me especially when I was not behind the gated door-- which one can check in voluntarily but not getting out in the same fashion.
I was determined to see Andrea Bocelli in Central Park.
Regardless, my friend and I made it to the concert before it ended.
Would have been great if we had the front row VIP seating. Unfortunately, we were so far back that we could hardly see Andrea Bocelli on the stage... Yet, we did spot him once every so often as some small white figure up there. lol
Regardless, Andrea Bocelli in Central Park on Sept. 15, 2011?
I was there, I lived it and I have my own clips to prove it! :-D
The Prayer: Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli
VIP section version
From where I was
New York, New York
VIP Section version
From where I was...
Time to say goodbye: Andrea Bocelli and Ana Maria Martinez
VIP section version
"How do I tell this slow rat that the rain is pouring down in no time?"
After the first "videography" gig in my life, I decided to take the remaining of my walk along Riverside park at around 5-6 o'clock.
It was getting a bit cloudy though the weather seemed to be relatively fine still...
Then, I saw this gentleman filming something with his camera... also... a red-tailed hawk hanging out on the nearby tree...
When I got closer, I stopped for the big bird and tried to take a clip or two before it eventually flew away...
It was at the same time when I heard the sound of "rain" although I didn't feel the rain drop yet.
Just when I was watching the big bird landing on another distant tree while wondering to myself, "Am I hallucinating the sound of rain?"-- that gentleman who was then back on the bench asked me, "Did the hawk fly away?"
So I replied, "Yes. I think it heard the rain..." while huge raindrops finally started falling on my arms.
In my imaginary world, this was what happened from that gentleman's perspective...
So I asked that woman with a cane, "Did the hawk fly away?"
She looked back at me with this response, "Yes. I think it heard the rain." as she looked down on her own arms.
I remained seated, thinking to myself... "Strange woman... what rain is she talking about? She must have disrupted the hawk and now the hawk is gone..."
It was then when I felt raindrops coming down.
Since we were by the exit of 108th street, all of us near by tried to get out as fast as we could at our own top speed.
As for me- without an umbrella and unable to run- all that I could do is keep walking on....
The rain eventually came down to Broadway from Riverside Park as I was arriving at my building... just so happened... quite a few heavy drops caught me but I escaped the heavy rain.
So I thought... I would have kept on going along the park should I have not stopped for the big bird...
The big bird saved me from getting all trenched from the pouring rain...
The rain brought forth by the same storm causing all the havoc...
