Anticipating

I really can't wait to pass this week.

Wednesday is the day to submit my Arranging for Horns- a super tedious assignment. It looks to me as if it's never ending! But it'll end... I really want it to end soon.
On Friday, it's my group's turn to present some "stuffs" (topics I can't recall from the e-mail) in Western Music History class. Gaaah, I haven't done any of the research yet, and we haven't discussed anything at all and I totally can't remember what are the topics we're supposed to talk about.

And...
Tribute practices.
I look forward to it. It's fun and tiring.

After this week, especially Friday, I'm gonna watch movies from my hard disc like the whole day! And enjoy the last few days of tribute practices before Tribute the day comes.
And then... more practice teehee! Here's the promo video :

Tribute to Bee Gees

An Evening Walk

So, today is Tanglung Festival. Mom actually bought us colourful paper lanterns. This brought me back to my childhood. Reminiscing what we did when we were young with all our neighbours :

-lit up the tanglung and walk around the 'taman'
-lit up candles around our walls and gardens
-took 2 bricks and Milo metal cover tin and the 'masak-masak' began!
-we played this little game of catching 'bad people' in the dark and just run around and laughed so hard. I don't even know what was so funny about it but we just had a great time together :D

I missed my neighbours :) Without them, I wouldn't have had a memorable childhood.

My family and I walked around the neighbourhood. Dad took a picture of us with his BlackBerry. Kinda bad lighting though hehe.

I feel like a child today again :)

Hello.

Just felt like writing something here.. :P

Think again

If you think that I'm a goodie goodie Christian, that I'll always help you, do you a favour and do all your s*** , and plus, if you didn't ask me in a polite way and take me for granted, you be careful of who you're dealing with. I am not subjected to you, neither am I your servant. I serve only one Master and when I serve, I definitely make sure that I'm doing it with my whole heart.

I am not letting anyone pushing me around to do their stuffs.
I used to give in and thought that someone had to be the "peacemaker", but that's not the way.
I'm not a dumb dumb anymore.

Another New Toy

Mommy bought me a v.i.o.l.i.n. today!

I'm all so excited with this new instrument.
I really am.
You have nuuu idea how much I've already long for a violin since... when I was a kid. I have always love violins. Back then in Mentakab, my BFF neighbour took up violin as her second instrument and I used to think how nice if I get to play the violin. She graduated recently with a diploma! :D

Violins are easy to carry around. They have beautiful warm tone (if they are played well) that gives me goosebumps. Although they are a small and handy instrument, they are difficult to be played in the technical part.
It sounds scary sometimes. The thought of "Will I give up half way?" and I told myself that I will persevere. But it's a dream come through for me though (Yes, this sounds cliche, but it is really like a dream come through today *smiley!).

I think violins are pretty, mysterious and... sexy hehe :P
My first violin lesson is coming soon and I'm all so eager about it, it's the same feeling as my first day of music college.

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I believe that this is a new season for me- exploring season. So many new things popping up like fresh mushrooms- new opportunity, new work, new toy to learn, new mindset, new strength, new music area to explore, new choices to make and so much more. They are all coming in so fast and I'm excited and overwhelmed. My heart must be still and discern which is to take and choose wisely, nevermind I know when I ask HS, He will tell me. Updates coming up soon because I gtg now. Why? Where? I'm dreading for teaching tonight. Urghh, replacements replacements. Seriously?! Some of your terms and conditions don't make sense to me.
PS: I'm quitting on this teaching centre end of this month. It's a workaholic environment over there with no mercy and a kind pay, and I'm really upset about it. But, I'll be still teaching in the other music centre.

The 3 Things

I once came across to a friend of mine who put this as her 'About Me" on FB :

"You can't get to know me on FB."

I second that!

3 Things:

One: I can relate more when I talk to a friend in person.

Two: I don't post what's personal to me.

Three: I rarely update my statuses and photos on the net.

Ignore the grey arrows hehe!

To me, I'd rather talk face to face to a person than having conversations through FB, Twitter and Blogs. It's more meaningful to have a friend spending time with me in person. It feels more real to me rather than us chatting in an internet chat space. UNLESS... The practical side, that is, my friend is living in a far far away land and that's necessary to use social network to connect. Or it's something urgent that we need to talk over the net. 

I also wouldn't wanna write my personal stuffs in any of those social network and tell them in public. There's a thing I use regularly and it's called the "Journal" (Tadaa!:) ), where privacies and secrets are kept in it, where only the author alone knows. All my experiences, personal insights, thoughts and feelings, I do not update them in my FB and Twitter statuses, including Live.Laugh.Learn.Love.

Even normal events about what I've done, where I've been, photos taken, what I ate and every single thing that I'm doing, I don't do much updating in my statuses. I guess I'm not as gung ho as my other friends who took the initiative to 'beautify' their profiles with pretty wall papers, uploading nice pictures, pen down insights and statuses and all.

...

It's never ending! :P

So, stuffs that I write on social networks are just stuffs to share with friends, and I've already made sure that it's alright for me to write them in public. FB is considered as public to me! Therefore, I only limit a few friends in my Twitter (it's still public to me heh..)

Yes, you can't get to know me on FB, Blogs and Twitter. Maybe a little.

:)
Have a good day tomorrow!

Another child prodigy loh

When I was 4...

I was playing Mary Had a Little Lamb and Jingle Bells.

...

There are plenty of children like him out there. Parents should know what's best for their kids because of their incredible ability.
The title of this vid may seem a bit offensive, but my attention is only on this little kid.
PS: I don't really understand canto. Anyway, just watch the little fingers swift on the piano lah! Don't think so much! :)

Brian Tyler, Film Scoring

Thank my friend, he told me about Brian Tyler.
So I googled search him in HERE.
He plays like 50 instruments, UCLA and Harvard grad.
I was just watching all his tutorial vids on youtube. I'm gonna watch the 9 youtube vids and just listen to his composition on the linked page.
I'm also checking out another guy soon, Michael Giacchino, because bro is watching Super 8 now and I heard the background music.
This Michael guy, Juilliard grad.
Man, these guys all are inspiring me with their compositions.

Treble Clef, anyone?

Today, I've realized that music students are one of the interesting people on earth.
When I entered music college, I thought that these students all play music on fresh green grass (there ain't pretty green grasses in ICOM...) eat music, and sleep music. They probably are all happy-go-lucky-ians which turn all their problems and sorrows into lyrics and melodies. Plus, I'd thought that music students hate studying books that's why they study music because Maths and Biology became their enemies.

But you'll soon find these kids highly intellectual and sophisticated, slightly more sensitive and emotional human beings than the rest of the kids who don't study music. Just because we kids didn't want to grow up working in offices and departments, doesn't mean that we're slackers, retarded and weird. We're just being a little creative and imaginative with our thoughts and views about life, people and everything. Surprised, you may get when you find a 'him''s parents both are doctors and he ended up as a musician. Or another whose father or mother is an engineer or a dentist. I met a couple of friends who were almost similar with me, thinking of studying in med school before making a risky choice to pursue after music.

Risky?

Yeah. Musicians do not have much stable pay compared to a lawyer, a dentist, a teacher, an engineer and a vet. We may be looked down by society, where some may think we're less useful to the world because we don't give services like doctors and finance consultant all, where they think we're not really good with our studies because only half the side of our brains are working, and that we're so emotional we may act like a freak when we perform and express our thoughts and feelings through music. Well, it takes a lot of courage, boldness and... lots of thinking to do first for someone before stepping into this field. Even parents are skeptical in sending their children to study music. I thank God both my parents trusted my decision because we know God is at hand.

So. Since music school is ranked as the second most expensive course ever (I guess Med school is the most costly one), I will make sure my parent's hard earned money not go to waste. I will also make sure that God's talent in me will not just sit there and do nothing, but to serve others with it. Music is easy. Your head, my head, their heads and everyone's heads. Well, maybe it is slightly easier, coz' we don't have to do lab experiments, reports, thesis and test papers full of fun facts and theories from the great noble inventor and founder of something great. But we do have tougher parts too like practicing, working with a band, working on improving our playing and techniques, getting jobs bla bla. It's a musician's world. We all strive to survive. We work while we're studying. Age is not a matter. Gaah so many things.

Nothing is easier than this or that. Everything has something to work on this and that.

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My dad mistaken me as my sister, thought I owed him >rm700++ in his credit card. Scared the cwrap out tha' me.