Life of a violist

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Friday, November 26, 2004

Feeling Frustrated and demoralised

Sometimes, i feel that i have wasted my 8 years of learning the piano. I have not achieved anything during my 8 years of piano pracitising. Seriously, i have learnt rubbish in my past 9 years. I am afraid i have to relearn the piano under my current teacher, i am getting frustrated with my amateurish style of playing the piano, my previous piano teachers has guide me the wrong way... how can i become a good pianist with my amateur style of playing.

I have a lot of bad habits when it comes to playing the piano, too much hand movements, i am still caressing the piano, didnt play deeper, still have to be reminded of the tempo, rhythm... everything that i have learnt in the past 8 years is gone. I am frustrated that i didnt do well for my grade 7 and 8. My playing is deproving... i could not even handle a fugue voice properly... i am so frustrated and rather demoralise now...

Worst of all, i do not have much time left... THanks to the NS.. it shortened my life and youth... maybe i should be an unromantic war writer. Right.. i dont agree with Henry Fleming in the Red Badge of Courage, going into army doesnt change the person to be a man. It is a stupid rite of passage.. it's a waste of time. How i wish i can be excused from NS. NS just sucks!!! It just made male slower than female by 2 years. A waste of time.. i just want to concentrate on my music.. improve on my amateur style of playing....

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Wednesday, November 24, 2004

I have seen the light

Seriously, some pointers i have learnt in life... which i will briefly summarised.. dunnoe why my blog is so screwed.. cannot blog this few days.. so i ask for your pardon if i have not blogged for days.:

1) Always use the metronome to practise music... Why? metronome actually sets a target for you, even though u complain that metronome doesnt follow you. The fact is, You should follow the metronome. if u cant follow the metronome, reset the metronome at a slower pace, then practise. As u get familiar with the piece, increase the tempo. U will find that u play better with metronome, it helps slow down ur racing heart beat.

Yeah. It may seem a short blog, but then it will affect my entire life. :) Cheers.

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Wednesday, November 17, 2004

What a day

All right... Today has been a terrible day for me...

I woke up at 7.30am today, go to school and meet Shaozhen at the school gym at 9.30. DId workout for 1 hr? Met the cross country people.. They are selling brownies... they keep pestering us to buy.. so i bought one.. which i give it to Shaozhen.. dont really like to eat brownies though.. then met Lucas.. and he again pester me to buy....

Went for Strings committee meeting today... the meeting was terrible... Firstly. the meeting start one hour late. Heard Cindy, XE and wayne got busted by the madams... thank goodness.. didnt go to the music office with them or else i will get busted as well for something which i have not done... sighz... the meeting was quite tense at first... The teachers are in bad mood today... but as the meeting progresses.. i think the tension was relieved... Oh well... we learnt something about communication between exco members.... what to do...

today is really an unfortunate day for me.. keep meeting sugi in school... in the heritage cafe etc.. sigh... argh... better get going...

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Monday, November 15, 2004

Back after rest

Ok.. as what enqi say, my blog is stagnant... hopefully this time, blogger dont play with me again.

Lol.. it is the public holiday today. Thanks to the malays festival yesterday. lolz... I have been trying to kill time off today. I went to my cousin house to visit my aunt who is sick. and of course, i wont be so nice to visit my aunt if my cousins are not there. Yep. I played playstation with my cousin too, Star Wars. Lolz, childish right? lolz... oh well.. it's good to be young.

Ah well, how's life so far? I had strings camp, with ACSI and Mgs and the camp ended with a concert. WE have been slogging throughout the camp, Tchaikovsky serenade, Debussy Claire De lune, PEter Warlock Capriol suite and for other people, JS Bach Double Violin Concerto in D minor, with guest players Chan Yoong Han and Chan Si NIng. We nearly died. Imagine we have only 16 hours to put everythign together, so that means an average of 4 hours for each piece. HOw can? Tchaikovsky serenade 1st movement is so hard... lolz... ah well.. we just did our best (i hope).

Nearly died for piano lesson yesterday. Got killed by Mr ku. sighz. i didnt really prepare for the lesson yesterday. Have been working hard for strings camp. as a result, piano is being neglected for a while... ah... cannot give excuses. Sigh.

Life still goes on.

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Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Sigh.

So many things happen within these few days which I didn’t blog. Don’t know why. My blog seems to be problematic. I cant post anything up there. If you see this blog, it is posted by Enqi. Thanks a lot.

Ok, I had a class outing last Friday at Leslie’s house. Hmm, it’s quite crowded. Almost the whole class turn up. I played fifa 2004 with Augustus. Lolz… and I beat him using Arsenal. He choose Real Madrid. Lolz. The full time score is 1-1. My Henry scored the first goal before his Zidane scored the equaliser. However, I thrash him in the penalty shootout. He didn’t even score a goal in the penalty. Cant blame him, my Goalkeeper is good. LoLz. I walked out with Fong Chi to the bus stop and went to Orchard Mrt to return home.

I had strings today. Too bad cannot go back to dhsse today. I had sectionals. Oh well, how fun can sectionals get? Haha. Sectionals is always self practice. Never had a proper sectionals where the section play together. Lolz. Miss the sectionals in DHSSe. Sigh

Hope to visit dhsse soon.

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Wednesday, November 03, 2004

Some things about life

Life after during the school holiday is really bored... especially when ur life is practically playing all day long. I have been visiting my cousin's house, playing with his CM 03/04. Frankly speaking, it's rather cool, especially if you watch the 2D match, it's better than my old CM 01/02. I got CM4, however, my computer cannot load the game, coz it's a very very old computer (pentium I) lolz. :)

Well, how is life this 2 days, i have been playing the computer for the past 2 days.. JC life is tough man and also faithfully practising my piano, now currently learning Schumann's Fantasie Pieces op. 12 no.4 "Whimps", still trying to figure out the chords... Frankly speaking, i am beginning to like Schumann pieces. It's very nice. Maybe this is the first time i am exposed to such intensive Schumann pieces. Oh ya, talking about Schumann, i find it hard to believe that his op. 12 no. 1 "Des abends" is actually a next year grade 7 exam piece, where i am learning it as a DipABRSM standard.. wow... so that means i have to play better than the grade 7 standard.. lolz.. craziness.

Another thing, sometimes in life we shouldnt read too much into lines. I am going to tell you a story. I had a misunderstanding with this person, a girl of course. We had a quarrel the last time, quarrel in sms. I remember saying to her " I hate bitch(es)" but not "you are a bitch"... however she misterpretted that i scold her a bitch... and now someone else is confronting me on her behalf for that... oh well, yes... i apologise for the misunderstanding caused, but not the words said.. coz i clearly didnt scold her "bitch". You may continue to interpret the other way and find faults against me.. but this will be my line of defence, there is nothing in the sentence "I hate bitch" that indicate " you are a bitch"... Just something to ponder about: If you are not one, then why must u react so greatly to it?? fine.. girls are sensitive people. I must admit, but i didnt mean to scold u a bitch when i said i hate bitch! If u know you are not one, then y should u bother aboout it right?

I have realised that i have become quite entirely a different person that i was in Dunman. I am becoming more straightforward, much stronger, couldnt tolerate any more backstabbing... Oh well, thanks to some people in my present school, you have change my entire life. I am becoming more stronger and immune to those ugly comments that u have made about me. Oh well, God has eyes to see things. Those people who have made fun of me got retain.. and i am still glad about that. Sad to say, I have learnt to be very mean to those people. haha. sounds sadistic... oh well, just say some people dont deserve to be nice to... u remain netral to them, they backstab behind u, what i cant stand is that you pretend to be friends with me, but u have also made ugly comments behind my back... So, is this your "friend"? I have realised that i am much more bonded to the guys in my class now... They just offer me another perspective of life. Thanks, kok for your advice during PE last thurs. Frankly speaking, I used to have a very bad impression about sports people.. somehow, i have been in the class since sec 3 where there are many sporty people in the class. Those people in my secondary school doesnt leave me with a good impression somehow, maybe because of the cultural difference. JUst imagine, u were in a fully music (mep) class in sec 1 and 2, where the people you find mixing with only talks about music stuffs, rarely sports and the following year, u find yourself being detach from your new class, cause there is nothing in common to talk about... U have also found yourself to be in a active class, people who tries to "disrupt" the class by their actions, and never fail to make people laugh. Seriously, i have learnt to accept this disruption, but just want to say is that there are times to be serious and not. A fair mixture of jokes and serious work in class is good, or else the class will be sleeping all day long.. lolz. I must say, the sports people in my class really change my life alot, thanks people and they really impressed me alot, their determination and everything.. THanks 1AA3'04.

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Monday, November 01, 2004

PW OVER!!!

HOORAY.. . I AM GOING TO TYPE THIS BLOG IN CAPS K? NOTHING CAN STOP ME FROM FEELING ELATED, HAPPY, SO FREE... BECAUSE PW IS OVER... THE TORTURE IS OVER!!! NO MORE GROUP MEETINGS, NO MORE DISCUSSION... NO MORE BRAINSTORMING!!! HAHA AND NO MORE TELLING LIES...

seriously.. what have we learnt in PW so far...? we have learnt how to tell lies.. we have learnt to crap... really... it's a really redundant subject... a waste of time... hope the MOE officials will read this (oops.. no better not)... haha...

however, not all good things will have a good ending.. this is not a fairytale... where the protagonist will "get married happily ever after".. lolz... oh well, this is because we have a screwed oral presentation...

Hmm.. got ms Toh for our pw op. and another dunnoe who teacher... why screwed? it's because of our group contradiction in our answers during the Q and A session.. goodness.. she asked me and joel the similar question. sigh.. about our group's defination of beauty...

nevertheless.. i am glad it's over... lolz.. no more lies, pw, crap etc...

haha

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