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Well I was late cos we had to report early and I was still tying up some loose ends. I'll never forget the feeling of uncertainty when the freshies entered the lt and I was sitting there wondering which ones were mine. Anw it was not very hard to spot cos they were all wearing yellow. I had prepared yellow arm bands for all of them initially, but they didn't come to use in the end. Anw, the first day was spent playing games, and awkward silences. I should have thought of more cheers beforehand, end up our og only got a few cheers while other og got so many cheers. Anw had dry games and night games on the first day, then slept in the super cold lt, until I woke up at 3.15am and couldn't bear it anymore, I decided to take a walk outside to warm up.

Labels: holidays2012, School

Spent the afternoon at cfa doing matric fair poster and flyer with partner! Ended up watching documentary about lions while waiting for the rest to finish their meeting so that we can go dinner tgt. Lions are v cute! Anw it was the first prac for cp tonight, and I'm in guitar 4! Well, I wouldn't have chosen this part cos I need to down tune the last string to D, and that messes up the fingering on the last string, which adds onto the chaos and panic that I'm feeling inside cos I can't read bass notes very well. But I thought it is a challenge and very good exposure cos I'm only playing bass notes for one song only, so if I don't like it, it's still one song only. Considering that my aim is to try guitarron (not likely to materialise) in the future, in addition to the fact that this part seem "easier" than the rest (Idk for sure, I just feel this way), I'll just give it a shot!

But the prob lies not in the bass notes, the score is manageable (not so many chords) but there doesn't seem to be a distinct tune or melody :/ I thought it sounds a bit messy, hmmm, not like the other songs we play in ensemble. Maybe that's the composer's style, I'll google him when I'm free.

While waiting for my hair to dry, I've typed so much above. But, the main purpose of this post, is to put into words, how grateful I am to be able to join a musical group with ZERO music background, in UNIVERSITY. It suddenly dawned on me, that all the other juniors who were accepted into guitar, be it workshop or not, have some music background. They either play other instruments, or have already experimented with the guitar. Most of those who don't have any music background are rejected. I'm one of the lucky few who got in. All thanks to WH (I think).

I rmb the wait aft the audition, at first I was kind of indifferent towards being able to get in or not, but it turned into anxiety after WH got her acceptance email. Cos we wanted to get into the same cca. And I was wondering if they will take in a beginner like me :/ who has a phobia of reading musical scores (lol I think I still have a lil bit of it) I was overjoyed (and relieved) when I got the acceptance email, anxiety gone, and ready to take on the realm of music! Haha no, I've always wanted to play in an orchestra (I still do), they sound so majestic! But I'm scared of reading complicated scores haha. But I don't want to keep reading simple scores only, make me feel like a beginner, no, more of like a noob (worst than beginner). So I contradict myself lol. Anw, now thinking back about it, I'm really lucky to get in! Since I don't have any music background (cannot count the primary school recorder experience) I most likely will get the boot, I think it could be due to WH (wa great influence haha). I was joking about the influence part, but I think maybe A thought WH was a good player and wanted to keep her, so he should keep her friend (aka me) too, so that WH will stay on or smth. Idk if it's true, it's just my guess, but I think God brought me here. I wanted a change, away from drama, I wanted to join a musical group (or sports group haha, anything but drama). For a beginner like me who has only picked up the instrument that same year, and still not very good at it, chances of getting into the cca at university level is probably as slim as an underweight person (can't think of good examples at night). So I'm very happy and grateful where I am now. Guitar has fulfilled many dreams of mine: To be part of a musical group, to be part of the comm (I've always wanted to be in the comm during my drama days, but sadly never got in, which contributed to the disappointment in the earlier drama), to make friends and feel really happy and proud to be in my cca (a feeling that I've never had since very long ago ;( ) and feel like I really love my cca (yea I really love guitar now, can't imagine how my life would be without it <3). Thank you God for bringing me here, thank you WH for teaching me guitar (if not I can't even get in -.-). I really thank my lucky stars that I got into uni and got into this cca. I really hope that it will not follow the path of drama, and end up becoming the reason for my tears. And to think I almost decided not to stay, after WH left the cca. There were many times when I felt like leaving, like most of the time I'm alone, like many times I can't play well and others have alrdy mastered the whole song. So tempting to quit becos I don't want to feel inferior. "Give me 5 years, or 6 years, and I'll be like them too." was what I thought to myself many times. But if I quit, then I'll just be delaying my own improvement, I probably won't be so motivated to practise, maybe even give in to procrastination (cos no concert pieces to practise). I'll also be giving up the chance to play together with others, back to square one with regards to my orchestra dream. I'm glad that one day I might fulfil this dream, becos of my decision to take up an additional instrument.

Anw my hair is somewhat dry now, so I'll conclude this post. Tmr still need to do a lot of things to prepare for the camp, some moments ago I was still very panicky and insecure, but now I feel more prepared and more confident. Believe in yourself! I need to feel more confident in speaking and socialising, more confident in guitar playing, and more confident in my academics and abilities. Go for the mods that I want to take! Go for the the events that I want to go! Go for the things in life that I'm after!

Labels: guitar, holidays2012, thoughts about my life

Went for ls prep camp last mon and tues. Haiz regret not gng for scamp or union camp now! Anw it's not like I expected a lot from this camp, but oh well. Hmm I don't think the total number of people could form one og, maybe can squeeze out a small one haha. But anw it was ok la, I especially like to travel arnd NUS at night haha, be it night games or bathing. Like to explore the dark side of my schools (which reminds me, I haven had a camp in tj yet! Overnight camp I mean) but oh well it's too late! Ok enough talking abt regrets, anw I'm the only ogl for my og, which has 10 ppl as of now. Gotta go think of ice-breakers to last for 3 hours!! Gosh. Anw must try for scamp or uc next year, at least once before I grad! Hopefully doesn't clash with internship or anything I'm gng to have then.

Have loads of things to do before gng for the camp: matric fair stuffs and other guitar stuffs (gonna take up the bulk of time), module planning (time to think of how to have enough time to overload and study and get my desired cap, and balancing all my other commitments), practising cowbell cos the 15 jul gig is coming soon (hopefully can fix my rhythm, don't wanna ruin everyone's playing cos of my lousy playing; I do want to try percussions in the future), ls camp stuffs like designing the og logo, thinking of cheers and ice breakers, blah blah (this the first time I've come across a camp that require the ogls to do so much, and thrs only 1 ogl per og). Tbh I feel inadequately prepared for this, I don't wanna appear flustered and end up giving the freshies a bad experience. There doesn't seem to be enough time to do an identity too, haiz I'll see what comes along. Damn, I should stop regretting my decisions and just pull through until the next time I need to make a decision agn, then I'll consider carefully. And stop being so easily influenced!!! Argh I hate this trait of me. So easily influenced. Regretted so many things because of this. ARGH!!!!!!!

Anw, away from sad things, there're my instruments! <3 Progressed to slurs in violin lesson today, I think I'm doing ok so far, but still far from expectations cos the sounds I produce are horrible and I wouldn't really consider them music. But hey, my fingerings are more accurate without looking! ^^ The sound from my teacher's violin and my violin are really miles apart. Looking forward to having my professional violin one day (but that's gng to be expensive so not in the near future I guess). No violin lesson next week, thankfully, cos I'll just break camp on sat and prolly gng to guitar aftwards (should I go? But I'll be tired and din really prac a lot lol), so thrs prolly not much time for me to prac my violin too. Switching frequency to guitar, I think I need to prac more and start to train my muscle memory, especially for WC, since it's mostly chords. And then thr's the comm piece, whr I'll be playing bass. Zomg! Bass!! Haha sommore nid to down tune guitar. Prolly cannt sightread alrdy haha. Sevilla is still giving me headaches, must quickly resolve before other songs come, and juniors come in. Oh ho! Matric fair! Haha kinda looking forward to it. Looking forward to welcome tea too, hehe. But not looking forward to bidding lol. I hope I get my psych mods, if not I will fight till the end for them!!!

Ok, better start using my time wisely now. No time to lose!!

Labels: guitar, holidays2012, School, violin

It's July already! My fingertips are hurting and peeling from sectionals haha. And it hurt so much when I tried to practice violin just now. So fast it's July already! Means matric fair is coming! Haha looking forward to meeting new juniors! And I'm kinda excited for the ls camp too hahaha.

Sectionals today, but started the day with assembling our road signs and ended up late for sectionals :x oops haha. Received new score WC today. So many chords!! Hahaha almost the entire score is chords la haha how to sightread. Progressed quite a lot for Sevilla haha, but I'm still lagging. And talking about lagging, I was lagging for the cowbells :( And went through Spring as an ensemble today, can't really hear myself, can only hear the altos. Lol, maybe cos I'm sitting next to them. Dunno to be sad or happy that I'm not in alto this sem. Haiz just can't help but think about this issue every now and then. Haiz. Hope it will go away soon and who knows, I may find greener pastures in prime lol.

After practice stayed back a little to do matric fair stuff. Poor B is sick, hope she gets well soon! And then went to eat dinner with pres and vice pres at utown italiano haha. I think utown italiano is a nicer name. Haha, anw, ordered some bolognese thing even though I don't like tomato. Turned out dry and tomato-ish, had a hard time trying to finish it up. Left most of the meat in the end and ate the pasta haha. Don't like the meat. Should have just ordered my pizza right. Next time I will do just that. Despite the pizza being more expensive than the pasta and to me the difference is not justified. But I should eat happily rite. After that went to order ice cream. Caramel! <3 So sweet but yet some parts taste/ smell plastic-y. Still prefer the caramel and biscuit or smth from HD. It shall be one of my motivation to work hard and earn more money. Haha.

Ok finished talking about today, oh no, it's "yesterday" already lol. First day of July will be spent on violin, packing and getting ready for ls prep camp. And sending the matric fair collaterals to the relevant ppl for their opinions. And thinking how to hand in the matric fair forms. And hoping I can prac my guitar a little before going off to camp. WC! Haha I love cats ^^ Meow!

Finally submitted the form to indicate my interest for an accommodation in school next AY. Was pondering whether I should stay in school, since I have violin now and I would be putting a lot of things on my plate. But it's a once in a lifetime experience that I once yearned so much for, despite being so expensive lol, and probably not worth it if I look at monetary terms. $2k for 1 sem! Plus travelling costs cos I have violin. Should I stop violin? But I don't want to put it off le. And sommore I want to overload, clear my mods so I can take psych minor. Plus that gem that I s/ued. And guitar pracs! And pub stuffs! Hahaha. I guess excellent time management is the answer. I'm not confident of that, I've been procrastinating lol. Well, no harm trying. We'll see if I manage to get in and what plans God has for me. I really hope to be able to get in! Preferred one pls. Haha.

Labels: guitar, holidays2012, School, violin

Started my first sectionals with the primes last sat. So little ppl haha! And both the sls were not there. Well, I feel that the songs next sem are more difficult than the ones last sem, and if I were still in alto1 I would not be able to survive the auditions. That said, prime parts were not that easy too. Notes for Spring were ok for me to handle and for once I could sightread and play slowly with the rest! Haha very happy but I'm not that easily contented lol. Not for sightreading like that at least. My inability to count was actually the biggest problem, esp for Kiko, and that is the thing I'm gonna tackle when my sightreading improves a bit. Haiz. I think my phobia with reading music score is more of counting. Forever cant count :(

Labels: guitar, holidays2012, SSB, violin

Couldn't slp after waking up at 1 plus just now, so I thought I might as well do something useful of the time rather than tossing arnd in bed trying to slp. The past week has been rather slack, only went out of house on tues for prac. Can't really keep up with the rhythm throughout the entire song. It's so hard to be a percussionist! Haha I better keep up with my instruments. Speaking of which, sectionals gonna resume this sat! And I haven really picked up my guitar yet. Haven look through the scores too. Arghhhhh.

And I'll be having violin lesson this sun. And I haven really touched my violin for this week. Haven even cleaned it yet, oh no I'm getting lazy. Must set down to prac it and clean it ltr before I get out of the house. To meet partner to do up matric fair publicity. And haven gotten present yet! Haha shall go scout for one tmr before meeting partner.

Oh I suddenly wanted to go for camps, like those bigger scale ones, cos I nv go before and I wanna go before I grad (if not then there'll be no more), but union camp prep camp has passed and actual camp clashes with ls camp. Lol thr doesn't seem to be enough seniors for ls camp, so I'm not sure how it will turn out. Must be more enthu and friendly to keep the freshies and make new friends!

Oh and I have decided I am gng to overload next sem and hopefully be able to take PL1101E although that would mean I will be fighting with the freshies over the bell curve, but bah! I'm gonna do my minor in psych hopefully. If not then I'll have to take special sem next year. Damn, should have planned more properly. But no, nobody is going to influence my decisions agn. I will probably overload for next year, but most imptly, is to get my cap up to at least 4 by next sem. I've been slacking since forever and this is not acceptable! This is Sparta!! Lol, there is gng to be much to juggle next sem, overloading; practising guitar; publicity stuffs; violin; and hopefully I'll be able to get a tuition assignment or two, in case I need to take special sem next year, so need to save up. And I should consider dropping violin if I really cannot cope, cos I can't drop anything else other than violin lol. But I think I can, if I get my act together and stop slacking. NOW. This is Sparta!!!

There! My two most impt goals for next sem:
1) Get my overall cap up to at least 4, which would mean I probably have to be a dean lister next sem
2) Be able to sightread fast for guitar, this prob has been plaguing me forever and it's high time I eliminate it

I seem to be more angsty and fiesty these days, can't seem to control/ contain my anger properly. Sigh, feel like I'm on the road to high blood pressure :( Accelerated by the fact I haven been exercising and am growing fatter. I'm in the 50s range now! Arghhhhhh no cannot do. Must start living healthy. I shall start planning my timetable so that I can live healthy next sem (means slp enough), prac guitar often until I can achieve goal #2, study enough (more than that) so that I can achieve goal #1 and declare a psych minor by sem 2, if not by special sem next year, prac violin so that I can be proud to call myself a violinist (excited at that prospect!), and build good and long-lasting relationships with my friends (cos I feel I haven been keeping friends). Yup, different goals to achieve, so that I can fulfil my ultimate aim of living life meaningfully to its fullest and being happy.

Hoho I think that should be enough for now. Still don't feel slpy yet. Arghhhh why. Then tmr I will wake up in afternoon argh no that shalt not happen. Shall force myself to relax and slp. Off to update my calendar!

Labels: holidays2012, random, School

Another violin lesson ystd! Started gng into the 2nd position on the fingerboard and my lousy sightreading was exposed! Argh no idea why I feel very nervous. Better tackle it before the other notes come in!

Accidentally fell aslp last night while doing proposal :x could be due to the flu medicine. Anw I feel better now, at least my nose is not blocked anymore. Yay! Ohh but still haven't finish proposal yet. New ideas, come to me!

To be honest I don't know what is the purpose of this post. Not much happening in my life now. Proposals, matric fair stuffs, practices. Then not much le. No violin lesson for the next week, now I'm still contemplating if I should change my lesson time :/

Labels: holidays2012, random, violin

This post is meant to be posted on 3/6/2012, but I forgot to post it before midnight lol.

Had my 3rd violin lesson today! WH had some issues with her teacher and she might not be continuing in the school :/ Well, I do have some issues of my own too, but not much major ones. Like changing time or day of lesson. My teacher has been good so far, and finally today I've started learning notes! No more the days of only being able to play on open strings! Haha, she helped me tape my violin with golden finger tape for positions 1 and 3. She said she'll give me a year before taking off the tape. Better start training my hearing! Oh and she kept correcting my right hand position lol, esp the little finger. Till now I still am not concretely sure about the correct position to hold the bow.

Oh and the teacher also said she is free on friday mornings from Aug onwards. Hope that my timetable will be able to accommodate that, hopefully friday's a free day for me!

Oh, had a meeting yesterday at cfa to discuss about naf. I was early ok! Haha shall try to keep that up. Oh yes it was pouring on that day! Super big rain, was fighting the rain to protect my precious laptop. After that was the SL crash course, I am no SL or ASL, but went because everyone else was going and I didn't have anything else on, it's useful too! Received 3 scores and looked through but couldn't figure out which one was the prime 1 parts lol. And it's so stressful to be a SL, gotta sacrifice practice during sectionals, must be able to keep time and listen for errors, must be able to teach and lead section members..... etc etc. I kept being reminded of hejing and how hard and headache it must be for her to have me in alto 1 lol. Gotta teach, guide and look after me who can't even read notes lol. Reminded of the time during music camp, it was the last sectionals I think, and she taught me one-on-one. Haha, glad that I'm not the ASL too, I don't think I can handle the job. Gotta take care of my own playing first before I can teach others. When I first got the score, I tried to read it, still very slow, but hey, so much better than how I was the same day one year ago. Still cannot sightread properly, sigh. And felt intimidated when everyone else was so pro, when in the end, almost everyone started playing guitars, and I couldn't cos I'll most probably be embarrassing myself. Can't deny the fact that my pride is rather strong lol.

There will be an engagement on 15 July and I'll be playing the cowbell. A bit glad that I'm not playing the guitar (to be honest I'm not confident of my playing, reminds me of what shu hann mentioned during the crash course), but I'm a bit worried about playing the cowbell cos I'm worried about my sense of rhythm, and I'm prolly the only one on the cowbell lol, so there's the pressure of playing "solo". And I'm very afraid of disappointing CC cos if I can't do it, he'll have to find someone else, like giving him more troubles lol. And then it would seem like I'm very useless lol, guitar cmi, percussion also cmi. Haha. Shu hann said smth like, one may not be the best player, but the most hardworking one. I shall try to be the hardworking one, need not be the most hardworking, but hardworking enough to reach the goals that I have set for myself. Shall start practising and trying out the scores to improve my sightreading. It is still the thing that I feel most embarrassed about, being unable to sightread fast.

Ok, so what's in store for the next few weeks?

Tmr will be meeting my partner to make the matric fair boards. And then should be free this week, haha then one day go eat ice cream, cos I got 8 coupons lol and they expire by 13 June! Shall try to get dad to bring us out to finish up the coupons. And then nothing much alrdy, tuesdays going to prac the cowbell, and then sectionals going to start in 19 days. And having violin lessons. My days will probably be filled with guitar and violin pracs, or doing guitar stuffs haha. Oh and maybe going for rag lol.

Time passes so fast, its June already! May 2012 is gone and will never come back :( Anw Hebe's concert is in 5 days! And only Cat 4 tickets are left! Wish her all the best for the concert! Although I can't go cos it's too exp. Maybe next time when I'm earning my own income (then I'll be learning the cello too hopefully!)

Labels: guitar, holidays2012, violin

Last week is quite a happening week, considering that I mostly rot stay at home during the hols. Hey I'm not rotting ok! I have stuffs to do hehe, just maybe not as much as other more hapz ppl. I prolly din deserve my break now, cos today (or ystd, as it has become) the results just came out. And it was horrible. Ok maybe not that very horrible, cos I managed to get the exact same cap as last sem! Lol, don't know if it's a good or bad thing. Ever since A lvls I've been getting B average. Last last sem like this, this past sem also. Except for the extreme dip in CM1401 and this sem's GEM2900. Who said GEM2900 was easy huh!!! So far all my frens that I know of got the same result as me lol. And I got the same grade for CM1401 and GEM2900. So my grades are "doomed" to be all Bs, be it B+, B or B-, and then one D+. A good thing is that I can SU the gem, so my cap prolly has a chance to increase, but not a lot I guess. Argh that CM1401 cannot be SUed! But then I would have used up one of my SUs. So gotta be careful in module selection and mugging from now onwards.

How surprising pleased I was for LSM1202! I thought I screwed it up badly and would prolly end up with a C or D. Ok with LSM1104, my core, what can I say (dun get me wrong I like all my core mods). And the profs are quite nice to us alrdy I think haha. Prof Ip!!! :DD Then there's SSA1201, ok la haha. A bit uncertain for the essay part, but I thought I did quite gd, but I am quite contended, maybe with a + at the back would be better. A bit disappointed with LSM1103, but maybe cos it's open book so the bell curve may have a greater influence on the final grade. And the botany mcqs during finals arghhhhhh. Till now I still dunno what is neoteny (which came out in the prac exam). A google search suggested that it may linked to paedomorphism. Oh goodness!!! I know what is paedomorphism lol. Damn could have guessed the correct answer. Argh! Definitely not the frog, hope I din put yes for the frog (oh but its over:((((( ) Ok, I should snap out of this talking to myself thing cos it's all over and I can't change my results. Bad result for GEM2900, but sort of expected. Din even finish most of the paper, and whatever I wrote I was certain they are all gibberish and I would definitely get 0 for this mod. Maybe the CAs helped me a bit. Oh and the bell curve too. Just a bit sad that the MCs couldn't be counted towards graduation and this means I don't have a GEM! Means I gotta overload next sem most prolly (and I'm still thinking of taking a psych minor, afterall it's what I wanted for so long, to study psychology).  I don't mind spending the rest of my UEs on psych mods, thrs nothing else I'm dying to take alrdy (other than psych, must at least take PL1101E and abnormal psych before I grad) -.- Even if it means having to overload and "waste" 6 of my UEs on a psych minor, I still feel strongly that it is the way to go. I have decided that either I'll try to do double major for psych and ls, or in the event I can't, I'll take either as a major and the other as a minor. I hope that I still can study psych in the future, like a Masters or smth, if I ever one day decide that I'm not cut to be a biologist and is simply misguided all these years into thinking I loved biology.

Okok stop all these serious thinking, this post is supposed to be light and relaxing before I turn in for the night. Had my violin lesson ystd (or more like the day before cos its tuesday now) and worked on switching the bow on different strings, up bows and down bows, bowing for different note values. Need to improve on my sightreading. I'm really glad I have a bit of experience reading music in guitar, if not I would be a total newbie with a phobia of reading notes and then I would progress really sloooooow. Well, I hope I can continue with violin and not have to disrupt it halfway cos I can't juggle between my commitments: guitar pracs, guitar comm, studies (might be overloading), violin, other commitments I might be taking up like tutoring my cousin and my sister more, or taking on tuition assignments. Really hope I can continue with learning violin cos I feel it would be a beneficial relationship in my learning of the guitar and the violin. I can apply what I have learnt in violin in guitar, I really hope my sightreading and theory will improve. Both are stringed instruments with the need to keep one's left hand nails short. Haha, I guess I have been affected ever since that day, the PDP exhibition for the J1s. I rmb I was sitting in the black box with other drama members, relaxing cos thr was no J1 in the black box, and then suddenly I heard string ensemble and guitar ensemble playing a tune tgt. I think it was a violin-guitar duet (I think!) and I fell in love with it! So nice! And then suddenly I wondered what am I doing in the black box instead of doing such cool stuffs like playing nice music. Ok, enough reminiscing, so I am indeed very happy that I'm on my way to become a violinist and guitarist. Esp since nus guitar has been so awesome haha.

Went on early Sat morning for meeting in cfa. Lasted till abt 4 smth, or 5 plus (I can't rmb), which resulted in us not having enough time to eat a proper dinner. Went to the venue hastily haha. Sungha Jung was amazing!! So cute! Haha, thanks to hanwen we were able to take pictures with him! So super cute, better looking than how he was in the youtube videos. Skinny legs! Preston Reed was cool with his techniques at playing the guitar, but I guess contemporary and popular pieces attracted the audience more than cool techniques but not very memorable and sound alike tunes. Both are unique and great guitarists in their own way though, to each his own! And the concert has certainly motivated me to up my guitar playing standards, esp I'm a senior now and cannot rely on other pro players to help cover up my mistakes anymore. Just some thoughts, couldn't get enough of Sungha's playing and I thought he was given a rather short time (maybe cos I gt a bit bored at Reed's segment, sry Reed) Haha but Reed was quite humorous and he came in a T-shirt and berms lol.

Last Wed went out with TJ clique to sing k at NTUA. Was feeling a bit fiesty and angry lol, prolly cos the time of the month is nearing. Got 3 (and a half) blisters after climbing up the hill, which added on to my angry mood lol. But was a fun day singing k, and I managed to pull off Zhang Shao Han's Bu Tong! Haha I can't hear how I really sounded, but I think I didn't go out of tune ba :/ Quite pleased with myself lol haha and actually this is the first time I went singing with TJ clique. First time singing Hebe's songs in public also lol (^^) After that went for dinner at Clementi mall ichiban! Ate a very salty chicken with egg. Very nice to go out with frens once in a long while! ^^ I think my angsty mood died down at the end of the day but it restarted on the train home agn lol.

Tuesday went for ls car wash. Washed 7 cars (6 actually cos the others were alrdy washing one car when we arrived) and got a horrible sunburn! >< Pain! I din realise I got sunburnt until the end of the day. Maybe the reflecting surface of the cars contributed to the horrible burn. Mainly on my arms and a bit on the legs. And I got distinct slipper marks now lol. Lucky I din wear watch if not I will get watch marks too lol. Must get sunblock for Sentosa!

Ok I think that's all for this long post about the past week. Project a little on the coming week.....

Will be SUing my gem ltr during the day, and meeting my partner online to do the marketing proposal for sem 1 concert. I need more bright ideas! Heh feel excited about the fb page! Erm... then I cannot think of anything else for the next week le. Maybe do MF stuffs?

Labels: guitar, holidays2012, School, violin

Ok, suddenly guitar got a lot of engagements, which reminded me to update my calendar before something clashes with something. Practised a bit of violin today, got icky scratchy sounds when I tried to play notes. So now I can only play open strings lol. And the mute doesn't seem to work :/

Tmr gng to help with the life science car wash, from morning till late afternoon. Then having an outing with TJ clique on the day after. Then might be tutoring my cousin one of these days. Then going for a concert on saturday. Then violin lessons again. This week has been fully booked!

Seems like I'm quite free on the last 4 days of May, and June too. Let's see, nothing much in June, 23rd will be the start of weekly Sat sectionals. Ok, gotta do Matric Fair decorations, boards, banners and all that. Or I can try to take on tuition assignments. And start to think about publicity for sem 1 concert.

July should be the busiest! School will be starting!

May: All booked except for last 4 days
Last 4 days: design matric fair flyer hahaha

June:
Before 23: Prepare matric fair materials and publicity for sem 1 concert
23 and every Sat following that: Sectionals

July:
Early July: Submission of matric fair docs
2-3: Prep camp
3: An engagement?
12-14: Actual camp (Sectionals at 2?)
15: An engagement
16-22: Case competition
23: Decoration day
24-27: Matric fair (not sure if I'm going down everyday)
Late Jul: CORS bidding

Aug: Start of year 2 sem 1
11: An engagement

Oh yea, and forgot about rag lol. Speaking about rag, I should get a cleaning cloth to clean the dust off my violin after playing, currently I'm using tissue/ toilet paper lol -.-

Oh yea, I accidentally broke a strand of hair from the bow lol. Heart pain ><

And I've decided not to go for Hebe's concert. I would be very guilty to spend so much on a performance esp since I'm rather broke now and the opportunity cost is too high. Wait until I'm richer when I'm older ba.

Ok end of this calendar post!

Labels: holidays2012

Before I blog about my violin lesson today, I'll like to spend a paragraph on yesterday. Went to help out at the LSS booth at Science open house. Most memorable thing was that I was talking to ppl to call them join the camp, then I approached this group of 2 adults and a young girl. I couldn't figure out who was the one entering uni, so I asked and it was the girl. I rmbed thinking she seemed too young to be entering uni. Turned out she was only O lvl!! Haha, I excused myself and went away.

Labels: holidays2012, violin

Done the first draft for MF2012, gonna post about ALR now.

Morning, didn't keep up to my planned timetable and thus was unable to reach the venue by 9am cos the bus C won't come!! Lol. I missed a D2 cos it was in front of the A1 I was in but the D2 always drove off before A1 stopped. So I was stuck at YIH, sweaty (no idea why) and waiting for C. Finally C came and alighted opposite UCC. Met MH on the way and it turned out she's from dance smth (I forgt, ensemble or synergy?) Anw, we wore our genus shirt!! Hehehe. Went to register and got a huge bound book with all the SOP, a file with all the notes for the talks later, a nametag and a shirt. Haven really taken a good look at the shirt yet, but from what I saw it's quite nice. Anw we had morning tea! Just drank a cup of tea cos I ate alrdy. Then we went in to UCC Theatre, and then came out for games, the first one where everyone was given a word and we had to form a paragraph. Haha not easy cos there were words like "and", "the"..... Could fit anywhere. I took "opportunites"! Haha. Then we were split into groups and started the cross the river with the materials you were given game. I was in group A. Haha. Saw a fellow group mate from mazarin camp last time. How coincidental, she was from dance ensemble. Then we went in for the talks... And then some random games of knowing each other. Haha made a fren xiangyun from CO. Cool, but then I wasn't staying for the entire duration so probably we will forget each other as time passes :( Then had a tour around UCC, went to Hall, Theatre and Dance Studio. Learnt many things about the venues, I hope we can get the Hall for our next performance or smth. Didn't manage to get to go up to the cool catwalk. All those technical terms reminded me of drama, speaking of which, TJ Drama gt a GwH for SYF. Haha, knew they could do it. Haiz, maybe I'm just not suitable for drama. Nvm, I'm very happy in guitar now <3

Then it was lunch! Haha, after that we went in for more talks and more games again. There was a game where we had to write down some issues pertaining to the next NAF's theme. Nice time brainstorming, but the markers no ink lol :( Then there was an afternoon tea and then it ended off with a few talks.

And we got to submit our NAF proposal by June/ July (can't rmb when). Quite early considering NAF is March next year. And then there's Matric Fair coming up soon. Suddenly there seems to be a lot of things to do! *Panic mode on*

And I'm still thinking whether I should go for Hebe's concert! Cheapest $88 and I worry I don't have enough cos of violin which takes $100++ from me every month and I haven't secured employment. Should I? http://www.sistic.com.sg/portal/dt?dt.isPortletRequest=true&dt.action=process&dt.provider=PortletWindowProcessChannel&dt.windowProvider.targetPortletChannel=JSPTabContainer/sEventsCalendar/Event&dt.containerName=JSPTabContainer/sEventsCalendar&dt.windowProvider.currentChannelMode=VIEW&dt.window.portletAction=RENDER&contentCode=hebe0612

Labels: guitar, holidays2012

Wanted to post an update about yesterday's retreat, but have been procrastinating, so I think I'll post it later. There have been changes to my calendar recently:

WH suddenly smsed me that we are not gng amanda's concert anymore, so ok, tmr I'll just be out meeting anita and beatrice. (Makes mental note to charge lappie to full batt)

Suddenly received an email saying that I didn't get into the venus transit volunteering. That's funny, lol. (Makes mental note to ask A&B about it tmr, or ask CC)

There's a recce to sentosa this fri for the ls camp. They also told us that we might be needed to help wash cars and raise funds. I wouldn't mind, of course, if I'm free. (Makes mental note to save money for prep camp, camp, ls shirt, o shirt)

And not to forget, I was supposed to go engin rag with JQ. Dunno if she still rmb not haha. Feel like going to science rag too, to know more science ppl, but have to see if I'm free or not :/ ALR threw me into a state of panic, for there will be looming datelines coming soon! This reminds me of the datelines part in the pubsec role description and something abt a pubsec's job being never ending all round the year (HJ, 2012). And this reminds me of the need to get the hang of photoshop quickly. PS learning PS.

I should start planning my holidays carefully to make sure I spend my time fruitfully.

Goals this holidays (so that I will fulfill my main goal of spending time fruitfully):


1) Learn the basics of photoshop (bare minimum so that I can create publicity material for MF)


2) Practice my instruments (at least try to improve my sightreading for guitar and keep up with my violin lessons)


3) Think abt my plan for the next few sems (like what modules to take, if I want to go SEP, shall I change major to psych, or do a minor, my specialisation in ls, future career path etc etc)


4) Get to know more people, seniors juniors peers alike (get to know more ls ppl through ls camp, know more ppl through rag)


5) Have fun with friends! (outings!, know comm and other fellow members better, and I think there are quite a few june/ july babies)


6) Get a job if can (save money for violin lessons or buying birthday gifts or shopping for chocolates or just having a lot of money in my bank hahahaha)


7) Clean and tidy my rooooooom (self-explanatory)


8) Calligraphy! Lol ok if I'm in the mood for it

Well, I'm sure there are other things that I have/ want to do but didn't list it here. If I were to list everything down it would take until december to do so lol (unlimited human wants). This list is not exhaustive anyway. Just wanna remind myself that there are things for me to do and not to sit and stone in front of the com everyday, which is the opposite of what I want to achieve for this holidays. Wanna get as many check-offs as possible on this list. Gonna be a senior when school reopens :( old liao.

I'm long-winded indeed, even a random post also can talk so much and make until so looooooong.

Labels: holidays2012, random

I've bought a violin! And signed up for lessons! Haha ok it's not a high end violin, just a beginner's, or maybe it could be a VSO, or maybe a little more than a VSO cos I thought it sounded ok. But haha, I love it cos it costs $200+ and it means another dream close to being fulfilled! ^^ Can't wait to try it, but I'm exhausted now from running all over the place today. Morning orientation meeting in sch, then go to PP, then go to kovan, and then to marina sq to buy the violin. Oh man, spent nearly $500 today on violin-related stuff! Going into extreme money saving mode. And there's still Arts Leaders Retreat tmr. So maybe I'll try out on the violin on wed? Looking fwd to the first lesson! ^^

Labels: holidays2012, violin

The exams are over and the holidays start! Actually my last paper was on 27th Apr and I'm pretty satisfied with what I wrote, just hope the bell curve will treat me well :/ I'm prepared to s/u the gem, and I'm probably never going to take a maths/ stats mod again (but I still gt st1232 next year as a core mod!!! and I haven fulfilled my faculty requirement yet :( so means I might be suffering at the hands of maths/ stats/ physics again! And I can't s/u these mods!!)

Anyway, I 'll do a module review some other day. This post is supposed to be about the upcoming 3 month holidays that I'm having, and I really want to make it a meaningful one. The irony is even though I want to enjoy my free time and do things that I want to do, I probably can't find enough things to last me 3 months, or won't bankrupt me :/

Should I get an internship? Well, of course. But damn, I missed out on the TIP!! Totally forgot about it. They probably wouldn't accept me cos my grades aren't very good. Should I get a job? Definitely, but I hope I can find something that is related to my major so that I have an idea of what I can do when I graduate (time flies, I'm gonna be year 2 already!!) I'm in a dilemma cos honestly, I don't know what should I do in the future. I like Science, and before I was in JC I wanted to be a teacher. But now, seems like I'm easily influenced by people around me saying that being a teacher is not very good. It does carry some truth though, and I want to spice up my portfolio/ resume so that I can land the dream teaching job in the future. (If I can find work in a relevant industry and further my studies, I might be able to get to that.)

Let's see, what is in place for me this summer?

May:
7 (tomorrow, or rather, later): Orientation meeting in the morning in school, and then going to look at the music school and shop in the afternoon (I'm still undecided :/)
8: ALR
10: Watching RV Choir's concert (Makes mental note to save 7 bucks for this)

Plus gotta come up with a plan for matric fair. Like, I've forgotten about matric fair, lol. Suddenly reminded that it's coming soooon! Haha, I'm somewhat excited to meet the new freshies! I'm no longer a freshie :(

And I think I'm going for a guitar concert this month, somewhere in May. I've forgotten when's the date, I think it's towards the end of the month. And I still owe pq money! (Makes mental note to save 50 bucks for that)

June:
First few days (can't rmb when ><) going for an astronomy event volunteering in school haha. Sounds cool!!  Astronomy!! And then I think I got nothing else in June le. Lol. Empty. Maybe I can get a job/ plan outing with friends during this month.

July:
Sounds busier cos school's gonna start soon. Hmm, let me try to recall, I think there should be more guitar stuff, like matric fair, planning for the next concert, might have pracs :/ And the orientation camp. (Makes mental note to save some money for the camp, like... $60? Enough??)

Now, what's with the making mental notes to save money? Cos I'm thinking of learning violin. And I'm not working, so that's gonna eat up a huge chunk of whatever I've saved from my past allowances, which is not a lot. The instrument itself is expensive (or else you won't get a good one) and then the monthly fees is another thing. I'm still deliberating about it, not just due to the money issue, but also time. Do I have the time? Studies + practicing guitar + comm stuff + practicing violin?? Studies are top priority cos I gotta push up that cap so that I can get into Hons or else employment might be harder to secure in the future. And comm stuff are on the same level as studies, cos I've committed myself to it and should do my best (And I've never regretted putting this commitment on my plate :)) So I shan't disappoint the seniors, my peers, the incoming juniors, and of course, myself. And then there's practicing guitar, I'm not very good at it, and there will be juniors coming in, so must not be too lousy or rusty if not got no face hahaha. And I don't know how prime's like, haha, sounds "easier" than alto generally, but is it really so? Haha, gotta train myself in chords and reading multiple notes at once. I'm still stuck with reading simple single notes lol. Really want to see improvements, currently I'm still stagnant. Thinking of getting books to prac (needs $$ too).

So how? Very scared I can't cope financially and with my time. And if I can't cope financially means I would have to get a tuition job or something. So the time available decreases even more. This reminds me of a picture I saw on FB:

Teens: got time, got energy, but no money
Working: got energy, got money, but no time
Old age: got money, got time, but no energy
Moral: Enjoy every stage of your life, cos you can't have everything at once

How true. Haha, and I've been wanting to learn violin/ viola cos I want to be in an orchestra. Haha. Now that I'm in guitar ensemble, I think this dream can be considered fulfilled? Really happy to play in an ensemble, playing with many others haha. Or the better players (which is like everyone) can cover my bad, wayward playing, hahaha. jk la, I really like to play tgt ok!

Suddenly had an image in my head, I'm working in Cadbury's factory and everyday I go to work with the aroma of chocolates welcoming me and surrounding me as I work; everywhere I go I'm surrounded by chocolate; every breath I take has a tinge of chocolately smell in it. Haha, best is if I'm working in the manufacturing dept, or something that can allow me to see the chocolates and smell them in the air (I sound like some predator). All these spell B-L-I-S-S. Haha, how wonderful will that be. But just a dream :( Singapore doesn't have Cadbury factories, the ones that manufacture chocolates I think.

In summary, my holidays = comm stuff + prac guitar + LS orientation (hopefully doesn't clash with guitar) + going for concerts + outings (1 as of now, will have more, if not I will plan, haha got bdays coming!) + get a job/ internship (subject to availability cos I'm on money conservation mode now) + adhoc stuffs (caligraphy cos I bought the paper alrdy; learning PS; packing my room and blah blah) + learning violin??

Looking forward to a meaningful hols!

PS Saw somewhr that Hebe's gonna have a concert sometime this year (forgot when). Feel like going! But subject to availability of money ($88 cheapest). And I feel like going for the next SHE concert (with approval from my wallet again) cos very long nv see them tgt and nv go this kind of concert before. Haha. Start saving/ earning money!! And scouting for people to go with me hehe. (Makes another mental note)

Labels: guitar, holidays2012

Well I was late cos we had to report early and I was still tying up some loose ends. I'll never forget the feeling of uncertainty when the freshies entered the lt and I was sitting there wondering which ones were mine. Anw it was not very hard to spot cos they were all wearing yellow. I had prepared yellow arm bands for all of them initially, but they didn't come to use in the end. Anw, the first day was spent playing games, and awkward silences. I should have thought of more cheers beforehand, end up our og only got a few cheers while other og got so many cheers. Anw had dry games and night games on the first day, then slept in the super cold lt, until I woke up at 3.15am and couldn't bear it anymore, I decided to take a walk outside to warm up.

Labels: holidays2012, School

Spent the afternoon at cfa doing matric fair poster and flyer with partner! Ended up watching documentary about lions while waiting for the rest to finish their meeting so that we can go dinner tgt. Lions are v cute! Anw it was the first prac for cp tonight, and I'm in guitar 4! Well, I wouldn't have chosen this part cos I need to down tune the last string to D, and that messes up the fingering on the last string, which adds onto the chaos and panic that I'm feeling inside cos I can't read bass notes very well. But I thought it is a challenge and very good exposure cos I'm only playing bass notes for one song only, so if I don't like it, it's still one song only. Considering that my aim is to try guitarron (not likely to materialise) in the future, in addition to the fact that this part seem "easier" than the rest (Idk for sure, I just feel this way), I'll just give it a shot!

But the prob lies not in the bass notes, the score is manageable (not so many chords) but there doesn't seem to be a distinct tune or melody :/ I thought it sounds a bit messy, hmmm, not like the other songs we play in ensemble. Maybe that's the composer's style, I'll google him when I'm free.

While waiting for my hair to dry, I've typed so much above. But, the main purpose of this post, is to put into words, how grateful I am to be able to join a musical group with ZERO music background, in UNIVERSITY. It suddenly dawned on me, that all the other juniors who were accepted into guitar, be it workshop or not, have some music background. They either play other instruments, or have already experimented with the guitar. Most of those who don't have any music background are rejected. I'm one of the lucky few who got in. All thanks to WH (I think).

I rmb the wait aft the audition, at first I was kind of indifferent towards being able to get in or not, but it turned into anxiety after WH got her acceptance email. Cos we wanted to get into the same cca. And I was wondering if they will take in a beginner like me :/ who has a phobia of reading musical scores (lol I think I still have a lil bit of it) I was overjoyed (and relieved) when I got the acceptance email, anxiety gone, and ready to take on the realm of music! Haha no, I've always wanted to play in an orchestra (I still do), they sound so majestic! But I'm scared of reading complicated scores haha. But I don't want to keep reading simple scores only, make me feel like a beginner, no, more of like a noob (worst than beginner). So I contradict myself lol. Anw, now thinking back about it, I'm really lucky to get in! Since I don't have any music background (cannot count the primary school recorder experience) I most likely will get the boot, I think it could be due to WH (wa great influence haha). I was joking about the influence part, but I think maybe A thought WH was a good player and wanted to keep her, so he should keep her friend (aka me) too, so that WH will stay on or smth. Idk if it's true, it's just my guess, but I think God brought me here. I wanted a change, away from drama, I wanted to join a musical group (or sports group haha, anything but drama). For a beginner like me who has only picked up the instrument that same year, and still not very good at it, chances of getting into the cca at university level is probably as slim as an underweight person (can't think of good examples at night). So I'm very happy and grateful where I am now. Guitar has fulfilled many dreams of mine: To be part of a musical group, to be part of the comm (I've always wanted to be in the comm during my drama days, but sadly never got in, which contributed to the disappointment in the earlier drama), to make friends and feel really happy and proud to be in my cca (a feeling that I've never had since very long ago ;( ) and feel like I really love my cca (yea I really love guitar now, can't imagine how my life would be without it <3). Thank you God for bringing me here, thank you WH for teaching me guitar (if not I can't even get in -.-). I really thank my lucky stars that I got into uni and got into this cca. I really hope that it will not follow the path of drama, and end up becoming the reason for my tears. And to think I almost decided not to stay, after WH left the cca. There were many times when I felt like leaving, like most of the time I'm alone, like many times I can't play well and others have alrdy mastered the whole song. So tempting to quit becos I don't want to feel inferior. "Give me 5 years, or 6 years, and I'll be like them too." was what I thought to myself many times. But if I quit, then I'll just be delaying my own improvement, I probably won't be so motivated to practise, maybe even give in to procrastination (cos no concert pieces to practise). I'll also be giving up the chance to play together with others, back to square one with regards to my orchestra dream. I'm glad that one day I might fulfil this dream, becos of my decision to take up an additional instrument.

Anw my hair is somewhat dry now, so I'll conclude this post. Tmr still need to do a lot of things to prepare for the camp, some moments ago I was still very panicky and insecure, but now I feel more prepared and more confident. Believe in yourself! I need to feel more confident in speaking and socialising, more confident in guitar playing, and more confident in my academics and abilities. Go for the mods that I want to take! Go for the the events that I want to go! Go for the things in life that I'm after!

Labels: guitar, holidays2012, thoughts about my life

Went for ls prep camp last mon and tues. Haiz regret not gng for scamp or union camp now! Anw it's not like I expected a lot from this camp, but oh well. Hmm I don't think the total number of people could form one og, maybe can squeeze out a small one haha. But anw it was ok la, I especially like to travel arnd NUS at night haha, be it night games or bathing. Like to explore the dark side of my schools (which reminds me, I haven had a camp in tj yet! Overnight camp I mean) but oh well it's too late! Ok enough talking abt regrets, anw I'm the only ogl for my og, which has 10 ppl as of now. Gotta go think of ice-breakers to last for 3 hours!! Gosh. Anw must try for scamp or uc next year, at least once before I grad! Hopefully doesn't clash with internship or anything I'm gng to have then.

Have loads of things to do before gng for the camp: matric fair stuffs and other guitar stuffs (gonna take up the bulk of time), module planning (time to think of how to have enough time to overload and study and get my desired cap, and balancing all my other commitments), practising cowbell cos the 15 jul gig is coming soon (hopefully can fix my rhythm, don't wanna ruin everyone's playing cos of my lousy playing; I do want to try percussions in the future), ls camp stuffs like designing the og logo, thinking of cheers and ice breakers, blah blah (this the first time I've come across a camp that require the ogls to do so much, and thrs only 1 ogl per og). Tbh I feel inadequately prepared for this, I don't wanna appear flustered and end up giving the freshies a bad experience. There doesn't seem to be enough time to do an identity too, haiz I'll see what comes along. Damn, I should stop regretting my decisions and just pull through until the next time I need to make a decision agn, then I'll consider carefully. And stop being so easily influenced!!! Argh I hate this trait of me. So easily influenced. Regretted so many things because of this. ARGH!!!!!!!

Anw, away from sad things, there're my instruments! <3 Progressed to slurs in violin lesson today, I think I'm doing ok so far, but still far from expectations cos the sounds I produce are horrible and I wouldn't really consider them music. But hey, my fingerings are more accurate without looking! ^^ The sound from my teacher's violin and my violin are really miles apart. Looking forward to having my professional violin one day (but that's gng to be expensive so not in the near future I guess). No violin lesson next week, thankfully, cos I'll just break camp on sat and prolly gng to guitar aftwards (should I go? But I'll be tired and din really prac a lot lol), so thrs prolly not much time for me to prac my violin too. Switching frequency to guitar, I think I need to prac more and start to train my muscle memory, especially for WC, since it's mostly chords. And then thr's the comm piece, whr I'll be playing bass. Zomg! Bass!! Haha sommore nid to down tune guitar. Prolly cannt sightread alrdy haha. Sevilla is still giving me headaches, must quickly resolve before other songs come, and juniors come in. Oh ho! Matric fair! Haha kinda looking forward to it. Looking forward to welcome tea too, hehe. But not looking forward to bidding lol. I hope I get my psych mods, if not I will fight till the end for them!!!

Ok, better start using my time wisely now. No time to lose!!

Labels: guitar, holidays2012, School, violin

It's July already! My fingertips are hurting and peeling from sectionals haha. And it hurt so much when I tried to practice violin just now. So fast it's July already! Means matric fair is coming! Haha looking forward to meeting new juniors! And I'm kinda excited for the ls camp too hahaha.

Sectionals today, but started the day with assembling our road signs and ended up late for sectionals :x oops haha. Received new score WC today. So many chords!! Hahaha almost the entire score is chords la haha how to sightread. Progressed quite a lot for Sevilla haha, but I'm still lagging. And talking about lagging, I was lagging for the cowbells :( And went through Spring as an ensemble today, can't really hear myself, can only hear the altos. Lol, maybe cos I'm sitting next to them. Dunno to be sad or happy that I'm not in alto this sem. Haiz just can't help but think about this issue every now and then. Haiz. Hope it will go away soon and who knows, I may find greener pastures in prime lol.

After practice stayed back a little to do matric fair stuff. Poor B is sick, hope she gets well soon! And then went to eat dinner with pres and vice pres at utown italiano haha. I think utown italiano is a nicer name. Haha, anw, ordered some bolognese thing even though I don't like tomato. Turned out dry and tomato-ish, had a hard time trying to finish it up. Left most of the meat in the end and ate the pasta haha. Don't like the meat. Should have just ordered my pizza right. Next time I will do just that. Despite the pizza being more expensive than the pasta and to me the difference is not justified. But I should eat happily rite. After that went to order ice cream. Caramel! <3 So sweet but yet some parts taste/ smell plastic-y. Still prefer the caramel and biscuit or smth from HD. It shall be one of my motivation to work hard and earn more money. Haha.

Ok finished talking about today, oh no, it's "yesterday" already lol. First day of July will be spent on violin, packing and getting ready for ls prep camp. And sending the matric fair collaterals to the relevant ppl for their opinions. And thinking how to hand in the matric fair forms. And hoping I can prac my guitar a little before going off to camp. WC! Haha I love cats ^^ Meow!

Finally submitted the form to indicate my interest for an accommodation in school next AY. Was pondering whether I should stay in school, since I have violin now and I would be putting a lot of things on my plate. But it's a once in a lifetime experience that I once yearned so much for, despite being so expensive lol, and probably not worth it if I look at monetary terms. $2k for 1 sem! Plus travelling costs cos I have violin. Should I stop violin? But I don't want to put it off le. And sommore I want to overload, clear my mods so I can take psych minor. Plus that gem that I s/ued. And guitar pracs! And pub stuffs! Hahaha. I guess excellent time management is the answer. I'm not confident of that, I've been procrastinating lol. Well, no harm trying. We'll see if I manage to get in and what plans God has for me. I really hope to be able to get in! Preferred one pls. Haha.

Labels: guitar, holidays2012, School, violin

Started my first sectionals with the primes last sat. So little ppl haha! And both the sls were not there. Well, I feel that the songs next sem are more difficult than the ones last sem, and if I were still in alto1 I would not be able to survive the auditions. That said, prime parts were not that easy too. Notes for Spring were ok for me to handle and for once I could sightread and play slowly with the rest! Haha very happy but I'm not that easily contented lol. Not for sightreading like that at least. My inability to count was actually the biggest problem, esp for Kiko, and that is the thing I'm gonna tackle when my sightreading improves a bit. Haiz. I think my phobia with reading music score is more of counting. Forever cant count :(

Labels: guitar, holidays2012, SSB, violin

Couldn't slp after waking up at 1 plus just now, so I thought I might as well do something useful of the time rather than tossing arnd in bed trying to slp. The past week has been rather slack, only went out of house on tues for prac. Can't really keep up with the rhythm throughout the entire song. It's so hard to be a percussionist! Haha I better keep up with my instruments. Speaking of which, sectionals gonna resume this sat! And I haven really picked up my guitar yet. Haven look through the scores too. Arghhhhh.

And I'll be having violin lesson this sun. And I haven really touched my violin for this week. Haven even cleaned it yet, oh no I'm getting lazy. Must set down to prac it and clean it ltr before I get out of the house. To meet partner to do up matric fair publicity. And haven gotten present yet! Haha shall go scout for one tmr before meeting partner.

Oh I suddenly wanted to go for camps, like those bigger scale ones, cos I nv go before and I wanna go before I grad (if not then there'll be no more), but union camp prep camp has passed and actual camp clashes with ls camp. Lol thr doesn't seem to be enough seniors for ls camp, so I'm not sure how it will turn out. Must be more enthu and friendly to keep the freshies and make new friends!

Oh and I have decided I am gng to overload next sem and hopefully be able to take PL1101E although that would mean I will be fighting with the freshies over the bell curve, but bah! I'm gonna do my minor in psych hopefully. If not then I'll have to take special sem next year. Damn, should have planned more properly. But no, nobody is going to influence my decisions agn. I will probably overload for next year, but most imptly, is to get my cap up to at least 4 by next sem. I've been slacking since forever and this is not acceptable! This is Sparta!! Lol, there is gng to be much to juggle next sem, overloading; practising guitar; publicity stuffs; violin; and hopefully I'll be able to get a tuition assignment or two, in case I need to take special sem next year, so need to save up. And I should consider dropping violin if I really cannot cope, cos I can't drop anything else other than violin lol. But I think I can, if I get my act together and stop slacking. NOW. This is Sparta!!!

There! My two most impt goals for next sem:
1) Get my overall cap up to at least 4, which would mean I probably have to be a dean lister next sem
2) Be able to sightread fast for guitar, this prob has been plaguing me forever and it's high time I eliminate it

I seem to be more angsty and fiesty these days, can't seem to control/ contain my anger properly. Sigh, feel like I'm on the road to high blood pressure :( Accelerated by the fact I haven been exercising and am growing fatter. I'm in the 50s range now! Arghhhhhh no cannot do. Must start living healthy. I shall start planning my timetable so that I can live healthy next sem (means slp enough), prac guitar often until I can achieve goal #2, study enough (more than that) so that I can achieve goal #1 and declare a psych minor by sem 2, if not by special sem next year, prac violin so that I can be proud to call myself a violinist (excited at that prospect!), and build good and long-lasting relationships with my friends (cos I feel I haven been keeping friends). Yup, different goals to achieve, so that I can fulfil my ultimate aim of living life meaningfully to its fullest and being happy.

Hoho I think that should be enough for now. Still don't feel slpy yet. Arghhhh why. Then tmr I will wake up in afternoon argh no that shalt not happen. Shall force myself to relax and slp. Off to update my calendar!

Labels: holidays2012, random, School

Another violin lesson ystd! Started gng into the 2nd position on the fingerboard and my lousy sightreading was exposed! Argh no idea why I feel very nervous. Better tackle it before the other notes come in!

Accidentally fell aslp last night while doing proposal :x could be due to the flu medicine. Anw I feel better now, at least my nose is not blocked anymore. Yay! Ohh but still haven't finish proposal yet. New ideas, come to me!

To be honest I don't know what is the purpose of this post. Not much happening in my life now. Proposals, matric fair stuffs, practices. Then not much le. No violin lesson for the next week, now I'm still contemplating if I should change my lesson time :/

Labels: holidays2012, random, violin

This post is meant to be posted on 3/6/2012, but I forgot to post it before midnight lol.

Had my 3rd violin lesson today! WH had some issues with her teacher and she might not be continuing in the school :/ Well, I do have some issues of my own too, but not much major ones. Like changing time or day of lesson. My teacher has been good so far, and finally today I've started learning notes! No more the days of only being able to play on open strings! Haha, she helped me tape my violin with golden finger tape for positions 1 and 3. She said she'll give me a year before taking off the tape. Better start training my hearing! Oh and she kept correcting my right hand position lol, esp the little finger. Till now I still am not concretely sure about the correct position to hold the bow.

Oh and the teacher also said she is free on friday mornings from Aug onwards. Hope that my timetable will be able to accommodate that, hopefully friday's a free day for me!

Oh, had a meeting yesterday at cfa to discuss about naf. I was early ok! Haha shall try to keep that up. Oh yes it was pouring on that day! Super big rain, was fighting the rain to protect my precious laptop. After that was the SL crash course, I am no SL or ASL, but went because everyone else was going and I didn't have anything else on, it's useful too! Received 3 scores and looked through but couldn't figure out which one was the prime 1 parts lol. And it's so stressful to be a SL, gotta sacrifice practice during sectionals, must be able to keep time and listen for errors, must be able to teach and lead section members..... etc etc. I kept being reminded of hejing and how hard and headache it must be for her to have me in alto 1 lol. Gotta teach, guide and look after me who can't even read notes lol. Reminded of the time during music camp, it was the last sectionals I think, and she taught me one-on-one. Haha, glad that I'm not the ASL too, I don't think I can handle the job. Gotta take care of my own playing first before I can teach others. When I first got the score, I tried to read it, still very slow, but hey, so much better than how I was the same day one year ago. Still cannot sightread properly, sigh. And felt intimidated when everyone else was so pro, when in the end, almost everyone started playing guitars, and I couldn't cos I'll most probably be embarrassing myself. Can't deny the fact that my pride is rather strong lol.

There will be an engagement on 15 July and I'll be playing the cowbell. A bit glad that I'm not playing the guitar (to be honest I'm not confident of my playing, reminds me of what shu hann mentioned during the crash course), but I'm a bit worried about playing the cowbell cos I'm worried about my sense of rhythm, and I'm prolly the only one on the cowbell lol, so there's the pressure of playing "solo". And I'm very afraid of disappointing CC cos if I can't do it, he'll have to find someone else, like giving him more troubles lol. And then it would seem like I'm very useless lol, guitar cmi, percussion also cmi. Haha. Shu hann said smth like, one may not be the best player, but the most hardworking one. I shall try to be the hardworking one, need not be the most hardworking, but hardworking enough to reach the goals that I have set for myself. Shall start practising and trying out the scores to improve my sightreading. It is still the thing that I feel most embarrassed about, being unable to sightread fast.

Ok, so what's in store for the next few weeks?

Tmr will be meeting my partner to make the matric fair boards. And then should be free this week, haha then one day go eat ice cream, cos I got 8 coupons lol and they expire by 13 June! Shall try to get dad to bring us out to finish up the coupons. And then nothing much alrdy, tuesdays going to prac the cowbell, and then sectionals going to start in 19 days. And having violin lessons. My days will probably be filled with guitar and violin pracs, or doing guitar stuffs haha. Oh and maybe going for rag lol.

Time passes so fast, its June already! May 2012 is gone and will never come back :( Anw Hebe's concert is in 5 days! And only Cat 4 tickets are left! Wish her all the best for the concert! Although I can't go cos it's too exp. Maybe next time when I'm earning my own income (then I'll be learning the cello too hopefully!)

Labels: guitar, holidays2012, violin

Last week is quite a happening week, considering that I mostly rot stay at home during the hols. Hey I'm not rotting ok! I have stuffs to do hehe, just maybe not as much as other more hapz ppl. I prolly din deserve my break now, cos today (or ystd, as it has become) the results just came out. And it was horrible. Ok maybe not that very horrible, cos I managed to get the exact same cap as last sem! Lol, don't know if it's a good or bad thing. Ever since A lvls I've been getting B average. Last last sem like this, this past sem also. Except for the extreme dip in CM1401 and this sem's GEM2900. Who said GEM2900 was easy huh!!! So far all my frens that I know of got the same result as me lol. And I got the same grade for CM1401 and GEM2900. So my grades are "doomed" to be all Bs, be it B+, B or B-, and then one D+. A good thing is that I can SU the gem, so my cap prolly has a chance to increase, but not a lot I guess. Argh that CM1401 cannot be SUed! But then I would have used up one of my SUs. So gotta be careful in module selection and mugging from now onwards.

How surprising pleased I was for LSM1202! I thought I screwed it up badly and would prolly end up with a C or D. Ok with LSM1104, my core, what can I say (dun get me wrong I like all my core mods). And the profs are quite nice to us alrdy I think haha. Prof Ip!!! :DD Then there's SSA1201, ok la haha. A bit uncertain for the essay part, but I thought I did quite gd, but I am quite contended, maybe with a + at the back would be better. A bit disappointed with LSM1103, but maybe cos it's open book so the bell curve may have a greater influence on the final grade. And the botany mcqs during finals arghhhhhh. Till now I still dunno what is neoteny (which came out in the prac exam). A google search suggested that it may linked to paedomorphism. Oh goodness!!! I know what is paedomorphism lol. Damn could have guessed the correct answer. Argh! Definitely not the frog, hope I din put yes for the frog (oh but its over:((((( ) Ok, I should snap out of this talking to myself thing cos it's all over and I can't change my results. Bad result for GEM2900, but sort of expected. Din even finish most of the paper, and whatever I wrote I was certain they are all gibberish and I would definitely get 0 for this mod. Maybe the CAs helped me a bit. Oh and the bell curve too. Just a bit sad that the MCs couldn't be counted towards graduation and this means I don't have a GEM! Means I gotta overload next sem most prolly (and I'm still thinking of taking a psych minor, afterall it's what I wanted for so long, to study psychology).  I don't mind spending the rest of my UEs on psych mods, thrs nothing else I'm dying to take alrdy (other than psych, must at least take PL1101E and abnormal psych before I grad) -.- Even if it means having to overload and "waste" 6 of my UEs on a psych minor, I still feel strongly that it is the way to go. I have decided that either I'll try to do double major for psych and ls, or in the event I can't, I'll take either as a major and the other as a minor. I hope that I still can study psych in the future, like a Masters or smth, if I ever one day decide that I'm not cut to be a biologist and is simply misguided all these years into thinking I loved biology.

Okok stop all these serious thinking, this post is supposed to be light and relaxing before I turn in for the night. Had my violin lesson ystd (or more like the day before cos its tuesday now) and worked on switching the bow on different strings, up bows and down bows, bowing for different note values. Need to improve on my sightreading. I'm really glad I have a bit of experience reading music in guitar, if not I would be a total newbie with a phobia of reading notes and then I would progress really sloooooow. Well, I hope I can continue with violin and not have to disrupt it halfway cos I can't juggle between my commitments: guitar pracs, guitar comm, studies (might be overloading), violin, other commitments I might be taking up like tutoring my cousin and my sister more, or taking on tuition assignments. Really hope I can continue with learning violin cos I feel it would be a beneficial relationship in my learning of the guitar and the violin. I can apply what I have learnt in violin in guitar, I really hope my sightreading and theory will improve. Both are stringed instruments with the need to keep one's left hand nails short. Haha, I guess I have been affected ever since that day, the PDP exhibition for the J1s. I rmb I was sitting in the black box with other drama members, relaxing cos thr was no J1 in the black box, and then suddenly I heard string ensemble and guitar ensemble playing a tune tgt. I think it was a violin-guitar duet (I think!) and I fell in love with it! So nice! And then suddenly I wondered what am I doing in the black box instead of doing such cool stuffs like playing nice music. Ok, enough reminiscing, so I am indeed very happy that I'm on my way to become a violinist and guitarist. Esp since nus guitar has been so awesome haha.

Went on early Sat morning for meeting in cfa. Lasted till abt 4 smth, or 5 plus (I can't rmb), which resulted in us not having enough time to eat a proper dinner. Went to the venue hastily haha. Sungha Jung was amazing!! So cute! Haha, thanks to hanwen we were able to take pictures with him! So super cute, better looking than how he was in the youtube videos. Skinny legs! Preston Reed was cool with his techniques at playing the guitar, but I guess contemporary and popular pieces attracted the audience more than cool techniques but not very memorable and sound alike tunes. Both are unique and great guitarists in their own way though, to each his own! And the concert has certainly motivated me to up my guitar playing standards, esp I'm a senior now and cannot rely on other pro players to help cover up my mistakes anymore. Just some thoughts, couldn't get enough of Sungha's playing and I thought he was given a rather short time (maybe cos I gt a bit bored at Reed's segment, sry Reed) Haha but Reed was quite humorous and he came in a T-shirt and berms lol.

Last Wed went out with TJ clique to sing k at NTUA. Was feeling a bit fiesty and angry lol, prolly cos the time of the month is nearing. Got 3 (and a half) blisters after climbing up the hill, which added on to my angry mood lol. But was a fun day singing k, and I managed to pull off Zhang Shao Han's Bu Tong! Haha I can't hear how I really sounded, but I think I didn't go out of tune ba :/ Quite pleased with myself lol haha and actually this is the first time I went singing with TJ clique. First time singing Hebe's songs in public also lol (^^) After that went for dinner at Clementi mall ichiban! Ate a very salty chicken with egg. Very nice to go out with frens once in a long while! ^^ I think my angsty mood died down at the end of the day but it restarted on the train home agn lol.

Tuesday went for ls car wash. Washed 7 cars (6 actually cos the others were alrdy washing one car when we arrived) and got a horrible sunburn! >< Pain! I din realise I got sunburnt until the end of the day. Maybe the reflecting surface of the cars contributed to the horrible burn. Mainly on my arms and a bit on the legs. And I got distinct slipper marks now lol. Lucky I din wear watch if not I will get watch marks too lol. Must get sunblock for Sentosa!

Ok I think that's all for this long post about the past week. Project a little on the coming week.....

Will be SUing my gem ltr during the day, and meeting my partner online to do the marketing proposal for sem 1 concert. I need more bright ideas! Heh feel excited about the fb page! Erm... then I cannot think of anything else for the next week le. Maybe do MF stuffs?

Labels: guitar, holidays2012, School, violin

Ok, suddenly guitar got a lot of engagements, which reminded me to update my calendar before something clashes with something. Practised a bit of violin today, got icky scratchy sounds when I tried to play notes. So now I can only play open strings lol. And the mute doesn't seem to work :/

Tmr gng to help with the life science car wash, from morning till late afternoon. Then having an outing with TJ clique on the day after. Then might be tutoring my cousin one of these days. Then going for a concert on saturday. Then violin lessons again. This week has been fully booked!

Seems like I'm quite free on the last 4 days of May, and June too. Let's see, nothing much in June, 23rd will be the start of weekly Sat sectionals. Ok, gotta do Matric Fair decorations, boards, banners and all that. Or I can try to take on tuition assignments. And start to think about publicity for sem 1 concert.

July should be the busiest! School will be starting!

May: All booked except for last 4 days
Last 4 days: design matric fair flyer hahaha

June:
Before 23: Prepare matric fair materials and publicity for sem 1 concert
23 and every Sat following that: Sectionals

July:
Early July: Submission of matric fair docs
2-3: Prep camp
3: An engagement?
12-14: Actual camp (Sectionals at 2?)
15: An engagement
16-22: Case competition
23: Decoration day
24-27: Matric fair (not sure if I'm going down everyday)
Late Jul: CORS bidding

Aug: Start of year 2 sem 1
11: An engagement

Oh yea, and forgot about rag lol. Speaking about rag, I should get a cleaning cloth to clean the dust off my violin after playing, currently I'm using tissue/ toilet paper lol -.-

Oh yea, I accidentally broke a strand of hair from the bow lol. Heart pain ><

And I've decided not to go for Hebe's concert. I would be very guilty to spend so much on a performance esp since I'm rather broke now and the opportunity cost is too high. Wait until I'm richer when I'm older ba.

Ok end of this calendar post!

Labels: holidays2012

Before I blog about my violin lesson today, I'll like to spend a paragraph on yesterday. Went to help out at the LSS booth at Science open house. Most memorable thing was that I was talking to ppl to call them join the camp, then I approached this group of 2 adults and a young girl. I couldn't figure out who was the one entering uni, so I asked and it was the girl. I rmbed thinking she seemed too young to be entering uni. Turned out she was only O lvl!! Haha, I excused myself and went away.

Labels: holidays2012, violin

Done the first draft for MF2012, gonna post about ALR now.

Morning, didn't keep up to my planned timetable and thus was unable to reach the venue by 9am cos the bus C won't come!! Lol. I missed a D2 cos it was in front of the A1 I was in but the D2 always drove off before A1 stopped. So I was stuck at YIH, sweaty (no idea why) and waiting for C. Finally C came and alighted opposite UCC. Met MH on the way and it turned out she's from dance smth (I forgt, ensemble or synergy?) Anw, we wore our genus shirt!! Hehehe. Went to register and got a huge bound book with all the SOP, a file with all the notes for the talks later, a nametag and a shirt. Haven really taken a good look at the shirt yet, but from what I saw it's quite nice. Anw we had morning tea! Just drank a cup of tea cos I ate alrdy. Then we went in to UCC Theatre, and then came out for games, the first one where everyone was given a word and we had to form a paragraph. Haha not easy cos there were words like "and", "the"..... Could fit anywhere. I took "opportunites"! Haha. Then we were split into groups and started the cross the river with the materials you were given game. I was in group A. Haha. Saw a fellow group mate from mazarin camp last time. How coincidental, she was from dance ensemble. Then we went in for the talks... And then some random games of knowing each other. Haha made a fren xiangyun from CO. Cool, but then I wasn't staying for the entire duration so probably we will forget each other as time passes :( Then had a tour around UCC, went to Hall, Theatre and Dance Studio. Learnt many things about the venues, I hope we can get the Hall for our next performance or smth. Didn't manage to get to go up to the cool catwalk. All those technical terms reminded me of drama, speaking of which, TJ Drama gt a GwH for SYF. Haha, knew they could do it. Haiz, maybe I'm just not suitable for drama. Nvm, I'm very happy in guitar now <3

Then it was lunch! Haha, after that we went in for more talks and more games again. There was a game where we had to write down some issues pertaining to the next NAF's theme. Nice time brainstorming, but the markers no ink lol :( Then there was an afternoon tea and then it ended off with a few talks.

And we got to submit our NAF proposal by June/ July (can't rmb when). Quite early considering NAF is March next year. And then there's Matric Fair coming up soon. Suddenly there seems to be a lot of things to do! *Panic mode on*

And I'm still thinking whether I should go for Hebe's concert! Cheapest $88 and I worry I don't have enough cos of violin which takes $100++ from me every month and I haven't secured employment. Should I? http://www.sistic.com.sg/portal/dt?dt.isPortletRequest=true&dt.action=process&dt.provider=PortletWindowProcessChannel&dt.windowProvider.targetPortletChannel=JSPTabContainer/sEventsCalendar/Event&dt.containerName=JSPTabContainer/sEventsCalendar&dt.windowProvider.currentChannelMode=VIEW&dt.window.portletAction=RENDER&contentCode=hebe0612

Labels: guitar, holidays2012

Wanted to post an update about yesterday's retreat, but have been procrastinating, so I think I'll post it later. There have been changes to my calendar recently:

WH suddenly smsed me that we are not gng amanda's concert anymore, so ok, tmr I'll just be out meeting anita and beatrice. (Makes mental note to charge lappie to full batt)

Suddenly received an email saying that I didn't get into the venus transit volunteering. That's funny, lol. (Makes mental note to ask A&B about it tmr, or ask CC)

There's a recce to sentosa this fri for the ls camp. They also told us that we might be needed to help wash cars and raise funds. I wouldn't mind, of course, if I'm free. (Makes mental note to save money for prep camp, camp, ls shirt, o shirt)

And not to forget, I was supposed to go engin rag with JQ. Dunno if she still rmb not haha. Feel like going to science rag too, to know more science ppl, but have to see if I'm free or not :/ ALR threw me into a state of panic, for there will be looming datelines coming soon! This reminds me of the datelines part in the pubsec role description and something abt a pubsec's job being never ending all round the year (HJ, 2012). And this reminds me of the need to get the hang of photoshop quickly. PS learning PS.

I should start planning my holidays carefully to make sure I spend my time fruitfully.

Goals this holidays (so that I will fulfill my main goal of spending time fruitfully):


1) Learn the basics of photoshop (bare minimum so that I can create publicity material for MF)


2) Practice my instruments (at least try to improve my sightreading for guitar and keep up with my violin lessons)


3) Think abt my plan for the next few sems (like what modules to take, if I want to go SEP, shall I change major to psych, or do a minor, my specialisation in ls, future career path etc etc)


4) Get to know more people, seniors juniors peers alike (get to know more ls ppl through ls camp, know more ppl through rag)


5) Have fun with friends! (outings!, know comm and other fellow members better, and I think there are quite a few june/ july babies)


6) Get a job if can (save money for violin lessons or buying birthday gifts or shopping for chocolates or just having a lot of money in my bank hahahaha)


7) Clean and tidy my rooooooom (self-explanatory)


8) Calligraphy! Lol ok if I'm in the mood for it

Well, I'm sure there are other things that I have/ want to do but didn't list it here. If I were to list everything down it would take until december to do so lol (unlimited human wants). This list is not exhaustive anyway. Just wanna remind myself that there are things for me to do and not to sit and stone in front of the com everyday, which is the opposite of what I want to achieve for this holidays. Wanna get as many check-offs as possible on this list. Gonna be a senior when school reopens :( old liao.

I'm long-winded indeed, even a random post also can talk so much and make until so looooooong.

Labels: holidays2012, random

I've bought a violin! And signed up for lessons! Haha ok it's not a high end violin, just a beginner's, or maybe it could be a VSO, or maybe a little more than a VSO cos I thought it sounded ok. But haha, I love it cos it costs $200+ and it means another dream close to being fulfilled! ^^ Can't wait to try it, but I'm exhausted now from running all over the place today. Morning orientation meeting in sch, then go to PP, then go to kovan, and then to marina sq to buy the violin. Oh man, spent nearly $500 today on violin-related stuff! Going into extreme money saving mode. And there's still Arts Leaders Retreat tmr. So maybe I'll try out on the violin on wed? Looking fwd to the first lesson! ^^

Labels: holidays2012, violin

The exams are over and the holidays start! Actually my last paper was on 27th Apr and I'm pretty satisfied with what I wrote, just hope the bell curve will treat me well :/ I'm prepared to s/u the gem, and I'm probably never going to take a maths/ stats mod again (but I still gt st1232 next year as a core mod!!! and I haven fulfilled my faculty requirement yet :( so means I might be suffering at the hands of maths/ stats/ physics again! And I can't s/u these mods!!)

Anyway, I 'll do a module review some other day. This post is supposed to be about the upcoming 3 month holidays that I'm having, and I really want to make it a meaningful one. The irony is even though I want to enjoy my free time and do things that I want to do, I probably can't find enough things to last me 3 months, or won't bankrupt me :/

Should I get an internship? Well, of course. But damn, I missed out on the TIP!! Totally forgot about it. They probably wouldn't accept me cos my grades aren't very good. Should I get a job? Definitely, but I hope I can find something that is related to my major so that I have an idea of what I can do when I graduate (time flies, I'm gonna be year 2 already!!) I'm in a dilemma cos honestly, I don't know what should I do in the future. I like Science, and before I was in JC I wanted to be a teacher. But now, seems like I'm easily influenced by people around me saying that being a teacher is not very good. It does carry some truth though, and I want to spice up my portfolio/ resume so that I can land the dream teaching job in the future. (If I can find work in a relevant industry and further my studies, I might be able to get to that.)

Let's see, what is in place for me this summer?

May:
7 (tomorrow, or rather, later): Orientation meeting in the morning in school, and then going to look at the music school and shop in the afternoon (I'm still undecided :/)
8: ALR
10: Watching RV Choir's concert (Makes mental note to save 7 bucks for this)

Plus gotta come up with a plan for matric fair. Like, I've forgotten about matric fair, lol. Suddenly reminded that it's coming soooon! Haha, I'm somewhat excited to meet the new freshies! I'm no longer a freshie :(

And I think I'm going for a guitar concert this month, somewhere in May. I've forgotten when's the date, I think it's towards the end of the month. And I still owe pq money! (Makes mental note to save 50 bucks for that)

June:
First few days (can't rmb when ><) going for an astronomy event volunteering in school haha. Sounds cool!!  Astronomy!! And then I think I got nothing else in June le. Lol. Empty. Maybe I can get a job/ plan outing with friends during this month.

July:
Sounds busier cos school's gonna start soon. Hmm, let me try to recall, I think there should be more guitar stuff, like matric fair, planning for the next concert, might have pracs :/ And the orientation camp. (Makes mental note to save some money for the camp, like... $60? Enough??)

Now, what's with the making mental notes to save money? Cos I'm thinking of learning violin. And I'm not working, so that's gonna eat up a huge chunk of whatever I've saved from my past allowances, which is not a lot. The instrument itself is expensive (or else you won't get a good one) and then the monthly fees is another thing. I'm still deliberating about it, not just due to the money issue, but also time. Do I have the time? Studies + practicing guitar + comm stuff + practicing violin?? Studies are top priority cos I gotta push up that cap so that I can get into Hons or else employment might be harder to secure in the future. And comm stuff are on the same level as studies, cos I've committed myself to it and should do my best (And I've never regretted putting this commitment on my plate :)) So I shan't disappoint the seniors, my peers, the incoming juniors, and of course, myself. And then there's practicing guitar, I'm not very good at it, and there will be juniors coming in, so must not be too lousy or rusty if not got no face hahaha. And I don't know how prime's like, haha, sounds "easier" than alto generally, but is it really so? Haha, gotta train myself in chords and reading multiple notes at once. I'm still stuck with reading simple single notes lol. Really want to see improvements, currently I'm still stagnant. Thinking of getting books to prac (needs $$ too).

So how? Very scared I can't cope financially and with my time. And if I can't cope financially means I would have to get a tuition job or something. So the time available decreases even more. This reminds me of a picture I saw on FB:

Teens: got time, got energy, but no money
Working: got energy, got money, but no time
Old age: got money, got time, but no energy
Moral: Enjoy every stage of your life, cos you can't have everything at once

How true. Haha, and I've been wanting to learn violin/ viola cos I want to be in an orchestra. Haha. Now that I'm in guitar ensemble, I think this dream can be considered fulfilled? Really happy to play in an ensemble, playing with many others haha. Or the better players (which is like everyone) can cover my bad, wayward playing, hahaha. jk la, I really like to play tgt ok!

Suddenly had an image in my head, I'm working in Cadbury's factory and everyday I go to work with the aroma of chocolates welcoming me and surrounding me as I work; everywhere I go I'm surrounded by chocolate; every breath I take has a tinge of chocolately smell in it. Haha, best is if I'm working in the manufacturing dept, or something that can allow me to see the chocolates and smell them in the air (I sound like some predator). All these spell B-L-I-S-S. Haha, how wonderful will that be. But just a dream :( Singapore doesn't have Cadbury factories, the ones that manufacture chocolates I think.

In summary, my holidays = comm stuff + prac guitar + LS orientation (hopefully doesn't clash with guitar) + going for concerts + outings (1 as of now, will have more, if not I will plan, haha got bdays coming!) + get a job/ internship (subject to availability cos I'm on money conservation mode now) + adhoc stuffs (caligraphy cos I bought the paper alrdy; learning PS; packing my room and blah blah) + learning violin??

Looking forward to a meaningful hols!

PS Saw somewhr that Hebe's gonna have a concert sometime this year (forgot when). Feel like going! But subject to availability of money ($88 cheapest). And I feel like going for the next SHE concert (with approval from my wallet again) cos very long nv see them tgt and nv go this kind of concert before. Haha. Start saving/ earning money!! And scouting for people to go with me hehe. (Makes another mental note)

Labels: guitar, holidays2012

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Play in an orchestra <:D
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Jul 2012
15: An engagement*
16: A case competition
20: Photocopy day
23: Decorating for MF
24 - 27: Matric Fair 2012*

Aug 2012

* Look forward to updates!



Aug 2011
09: NDP 2011
11: Start of school (A new chapter!)

Oct 2011
09: Guitarras Expresivas

Nov 2011
19 - 28: Sem 1 Finals
30: SSB Outing to Punggol #

Dec 2011
02: NDP11 YPC BBQ
05 - 10: Guitar camp #
11: 19 and unaccomplished night outing #
20: Release of Sem 1 Results

Jan 2012
04: Guitar chalet
05: Ikea trip
06: YPC lunch
07: Guitar prac
09: Start of school Sem 2
14: LPG2012 (Which I can't go)
23 - 24: CNY

Mar 2012
11: NAF12: Asian Waves #
13: Guitar Recording
24: Guitar AGM and Annual Dinner
28: Hall Application Results

Apr 2012
02: LSM1104 CA2
21 - 27: Sem 2 Finals

May 2012
07: Orientation meeting, going to see music school
08: Arts Leaders Retreat #
20: First violin lesson!! #
26: Sungha Jung and Preston Reed's concert #
28: Release of Sem 2 Results #

Jun 2012
12: Practising cowbell
21: Do matric fair publicity at partner's house
23: Start of sectionals #
24: Elva's birthday lunch #
30: Sectionals #

Jul 2012
02 - 03: LS Prep Camp #
10: Prac for cp #
12 - 14: LS Camp #

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