Archive for November, 2005

finally, last paper tmr :D

Monday, November 28th, 2005

yay! seriously, i’m in my holiday mood already. ok, gotta get a few things right. gotta arrange or compose stuff for clarinet and glockenspiel, gotta do my art work, gotta get my diploma pieces fixed, gotta meet up with my teacher more, gotta teach more tuition etc. think i’ll have a great holiday! haha.

today’s paper is strange. i dunno whether it’s good or bad. anyway, it’s subjective, so how should i know whether it’ll turn out well or not? just wait for my christmas present, aka the exam results. whatever the case, that’s not gonna stop me from enjoying the holidays :D

and if u’re reading this right now, whoever u are, as long as u know me, please post a comment for my previous blog post. THANKS. haha.

something different for once :D

Friday, November 25th, 2005

If - (memory)
If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don’t speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want, either good or bad. I promise not to come after you with a sharpened pencil or anything dangerous (myself included) either way.

When you’re finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people remember about you.

argh… exams…

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

i don’t know whether it’s because of exams or because of anything else. i just can’t seem to sleep well every night. tried to sleep early but i can’t. and i couldn’t seem to get to sleep even though i’m very tired. is it because of stress? or is it just because of my late nights? i don’t really know, but i do have to get that fixed. it’s not good for me.

not entirely ready for my paper tomorrow, but i have to get it right anyway.

very mentally draining! i wish my exams will end soon. at least my last 2 papers are so much less tough. i’ll be able to do more things after tomorrow’s paper. have got to practise for the upcoming concerts! have got to practise my exam pieces too. and i’ve gotta start planning for christmas. christmas! it’ll be great. can’t wait for christmas.

gambatte for the exams first.

exams start tmr :S

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

sheesh. it’ll be really really hectic until 30th. actually, i’d be alright after thursday. just hope that the exams will turn out fine. and i need LOADS of good luck. gambatte!

great, my leg’s healed! for now :P

waste of my time

Friday, November 18th, 2005

if you cancel tuition, do it in advance. i don’t take 15 minutes to travel to fort road; i take an hour. so instead of just saying sorry, do the right thing by informing me in advance. i could’ve saved my time and my money. and i could’ve spent time studying instead.

and if you don’t want to even practise properly, i’m not going to help you anymore. i don’t even have time to take care of my own matters anymore. because i spend time waiting for you to go to the piano and i spend time travelling to fort road to teach. spend? i mean waste.

spare me the trouble, please. i have my studies to take care of.

and if you don’t appreciate that i’m not having an easy time earning money for myself so that you can have more money for the family, fine. just don’t take it out on me. and don’t expect that i have the energy to do so many things at one go. i’m human, after all. and i’m also your son. if you don’t appreciate my efforts in music, then maybe i should’nt be helping him out in his piano exams.

what’s wrong with me?

finally, some work done

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

ok, i finally finished 2/3 of my readings for monday’s paper. after spending a few hours in bras brasah mcdonald’s, i finally finished up most of the readings. a few more chapters left! i’d want to finish them tomorrow. hopefully before i go for tuition. i’d wanna start on thursday’s paper’s readings asap! i haven’t touched any of it the entire semester. sometimes i really wonder what i’m so busy about. so busy that i’ve neglected a large part of my studies. maybe it’s just the FASS culture to leave readings to the last minute. or maybe it’s just me. but i do know that giving tuition is mentally draining, especially because my kid lives quite a distance away from me. what to do? i need the money for survival.

and i still have a long way to go before i finally can play the mozart clarinet concerto’s first movement properly. by properly i mean hitting all notes cleanly and not breaking down. i’m far from even reaching that. and i’ve gotta start lessons with my teacher in december. how am i going to face him, i wonder? i’m determined not to waste my time and my money.

and i really really hate my crooked teeth. makes many things inconvenient. especially playing the clarinet.

i wonder how much i can continue to contribute to the household. earning enough for myself, studying, guiding my brother for his piano exam while trying to cope with my own exams in school, what more can i do for now? nothing. i’m dead beat. and they’re not doing anything for me. not that i should ask for anything in return. i just need enough privacy to study, that’s all. and i don’t really want to have to worry about my brother’s piano exam just because he cannot be bothered to even worry about it. my own responsibilities are enough to kill already. i don’t need more responsibilities.

travelling is killing my brain cells.

shitty, unappreciative people

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

well done. organised so many group meetings, brought so much props, carried the damn table to and fro temasek and eusoff hall, burnt all the hell bank notes by myself. so what? it’s not gonna get me more marks. it’s not gonna get me more recognition. what seems to be the group’s responsibility became my own. and yes, i know it, my acting sucks. i cannot act for nuts. that still doesn’t give you the right to take everything i do for granted. you guys are not the only ones upset over the poor assessment we were given for our performance during the practical. and you guys didn’t even have to burn any of the hell bank notes. and nobody bothered to pay back any money.

and now i cannot do my work because i have to concentrate on what my bro’s playing on the piano. he was practically banging the piano just now. destroying the music. destroying what i hold so dear. i gave him a piece of my mind and at least now he’s putting in effort in practising. but i’m still frustrated. my chain of composing thought has been disrupted. i could’ve finished the project before going for mus’art! now i cannot carry on. i cannot be hearing some music and still try to compose. it just doesn’t work. and what seemed like perfect inspiration was completely torn apart by the initial banging of the piano by my bro.

thank god i can still type. so i can still complain while listening to what he calls practising.

and thank god for her presence. otherwise i’d be torn apart from stress already. so many things going on at the same time. earning money and studying at the same time isn’t easy at all. i figured that out long ago. but still, i carry on. i bite my lip and struggle on. accumulated all the stress. but thank god i have her. she waved all the stress away. and once again, i’m happy. then again, i’ve never been upset for long since i know when.

cannot carry on working already. time to prepare for mus’art. sharks.

but still, life is good.

everything must turn out fine

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

so much work on the production! everything must turn out fine on saturday man. so far everything’s under control. just that two of us need to memorise our script completely. nope, i’m not one of the two. surprisingly i got my lines down rather quickly. ha. that still doesn’t show that i can act. the fact is, i cannot act for nuts! i understand the stanislavsky acting system, but i can’t seem to do it. must push myself harder!

internet’s been down since god knows when. finally it’s back up again!

i’ll have to force myself to study hard for the finals. it ain’t gonna be easy. i think i’m taking it far too lightly. grades are at stake! wake up, wake up! sheesh.