Music in the streets, Obama wanted to be an architect and addiction

1) Since around the age of 19, I started to abandon any portable music devices. The reason being: I find the sounds in the streets create a mood that fits the streets more so than any other music that I possess. And as a foreigner studying abroad, it is easier for me to understand and sync in with the rest of the crowd by observing and eavesdropping.

And so I was in line queueing up in Baguette express (a more authentic healthy alternative choice to Subway) and overhead two students talking.
The girl asked, "So what do you study?"
The guy replied, "Architecture, and you?"
The girl replied, "Anthropology."

And that made me into thinking how similar the two disciplines actually are. At least for me, Architecture is the study of urban rituals and create a building to accommodate such rituals. Anthropology is the study of rural and urban rituals and understand social trends through such rituals.

To me urban rituals are performances with us being either the audience or performer (which are non-exclusive), they are also performances which gives us joy and a sense of togetherness with those around us.

This then lead me to think of what urban rituals are to us city dwellers.
- friday night clubbing (it always puzzles me when people think that staying at home on a friday night means you don't have friends)
- drinking
- movies
- shopping
- public holidays
- work from 9-5, given you like the work

Perhaps I'm not such a bad kid after all, when I go out drinking and clubbing, because I am merely performing an urban ritual to fit in with the norm.

2) I came across this article that mentions Obama's 50 facts you might not know article. Sorry I'm a big fan of him, the last time I turned a big fan of any politican was when Clinton patted the shoulders of then Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat. Here's a nice picture of the love between the three great men.
Anyways, I found out that Obama's alternative choice of occupation to being a politican was being an architect! So I told a friend of mine and she asked me this question.

"What's the difference between an architect and a politican?"
I responded, "They both lie."
And she said "they both have projections for a future."

It would be interesting to see what Obama would've created if he was an architect.

3) If you had to choose one thing that was the most addictive thing on earth, what would it be? I gave an answer that probably has to do with the current mood I am in. But still it was close enough. The 'official' answer is here.
Oh yeah, my answer is the word above and beyond Arafat's head, slightly to the right. Still don't get it?

Love.