Maple Leaf Rag and Heart Murmur

I love this! Last Thursday in my physical assessment class, the instructor used this music to ask us "guess" what kind of heart murmur could symbolize this music. Everybody in the class was probably as confused as I was. "Are we in the wrong classroom?" "Wait, is this Music 101?" But after she played the song I loved it right away with all my hear and eager to google on the Internet to find out who Scott Joplin was and what ragtime is.

Maple Leaf Rag was the most popular fall music back then and even now. The music is very happily jumping into my heart and I learned that ragtime music is also considered "pre -Jazz". No wonder I love it!! Here are the Internet link for the music and the meaning of ragtime. Scott Joplin seems to be a great legend in the American music history. They call him "King of Ragtime."

Listening to the music makes me think of Texas too. I think this is music of the South. Or maybe it is just about time for me to go back to Texas for a visit again. As for the heart murmur, I think I will figure it out later... but no promise.

http://www.scottjoplin.org/biography.htm
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Bayou/9694/music.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag_(music)

Chicago means stinky water

Architecture tour on boat

Chicagowa was a word that native american used couple hundred years ago indicating Chicago River. What it really meant was "Stinky Water". This is the most intersting thing that I learned from the Chicago River architecture boat tour. It was really a educational tour and I enjoyed it a lot despite noisy chinese tourists behind me. They seemed didn't really care what the tour guide was saying.

The most impressed building is the oldest building along the river. The building was original a food storage and was converted to apartment. The tour guide said that it took them almost a year to melt the icy hourse hair that was used as insolation. When it was finally meltted, it was rotten.

Chicago Bear was playing on Sunday. How lucky we were bump into thousands of audiences that were flood out from the soilder field colecium on our way to Shedd Aqurium. People were cheering the Bear's winning and we were the only people walked in the oppsite direction. What is so fantacy of FOOTBALL. I would never understand.

Navy pire was ok though. A lot of people and it was hot that day in Chicago! It was really hard to believe that Richmond was flooded and we were in Chicago enjoyed the sunshine. First night was Shushi night. The town that I stayed was called "boy town" (you know what it means!) It's near Lincon park, a pretty nice neighborhood. Most of the asian restaurants were owned by Thai. The area has quite a Thai population. I shopped at some stores. They have a lot of small shops selling different things: art, cloth, pottery, coffee and tea, pet shop and more. One of my shopping trophy is that I bought a Bally skir for $8. I was pretty happy. I shall be shopping Queen one day.

Oh, the bridal show was fun too. I learned a lot about bridal business. Some retailers has very private booths because they don't want others to copy their designs. Some mass market their products. We got a lot of little gifts and free candies. One booth even served the liquor chocolates. It was a very nice experience. I think there were total 400 booths. Well, I think Chicago is fun to visit in Fall after all. (The first time I went it was as cold as hell and no fun...)