Ohmygosh. I have to breathe.
Yesterday was downright hectic, but it was quite interesting and not to say, fun! I spent most of my day in Lasalle making tags for the people so that they could get into ResortsWorld when they present that card. And to think that Cristabel managed to complete like a hundred of these with only Ziying and Emilia. They are SUPER WOMEN luh.
The process was so LONG and tedious and require much fussy work. First there was a whole stack of paper to cut according to the lines for the front and the backing and at first glance, it seems like it would never finish so that easily frustrates people. But luckily I had Marcus and Farouq to help me snip those stuff, as well as the frequent help of Cristabel! Then we had to paste the two pieces together so that th card has a front and a back, then snip the edges so that hey could look tidy. This too, was pretty fussy and long. Finally, we had to laminate the two together and the laminating machine was a mini one, so it took an uber long time to do that. Sounds pretty easy huh? It's not when you're doing a few hundred over pieces of it, with a dateline which is like, the end of the day, no 11.59(s)!
After the whole long day, we had a briefing and then we went back home. After that I thought that there would notbe anything to do until Cristabel called me and I realised we had to split among ourselves and call like the whole orchestra to ask them a question. That took one hour plus and it was equally frustrating seeing that some did not pick up and stuff and there was a long list of names. Ahwell, it went fine in the end!
Hectic. I never knew a CIP could be this...hectic.
BUT IT'S FUN! =)
Busy week ahead!ARGH. Almost everyday, from morning to srsly night, I'm gonna be rushing here and there and busying myself with the orchestra rehearsals for ChildAid. Plus side is that it is quite an interesting experience to be a chaperone especially for such a massive group, I get to step into ResortsWorld @ Sentosa before any other group does and kinda watch the behind the scenes and even help out in it for the first performance ever, and I get CIP hours! Furthermore, I get to make a few new friends throughout the experience and learn how to solve on the spot problems.
I must say it's really worth it to help out. This goes out to the Straits Times pocket money fund and the Budding Artist Fund, some organisations that I really had in mind that I wanted to help out in some way or another. I think I'm really lucky to have volunteered for this opportunity, I learnt quite a lot too, even in terms of music.
What with watching Yahui of YST conduct, finally recognising the sounds of the woodwinds in the orchestra, watching sectionals and knowing with better clarity where which instrumentalist sits in the orchestra. Yayyy xD
Alright, gotta go get some rest.
REALLY BUSY WEEK(S) AHEAD!Oh yes. My brother has just enlisted for army for BMT. That means he's already botak and enduring all kinds of crazy physical fitness regimes in order to make those fats of his vanish and let sturdy muscles take their rightful place in a guy. Hopefully he doesn;t scream and jump when he wakes up to see a giant moth perched silently next to his head in army, he certainly wouldn't want a blanket party. ;D
Shoujin.
Close your eyes and think about who you are first
Before you finally decide on a disgustingly biased thought
And resolve to make that a fact.
Think about whether you have the position to do so or not
Or think about whether all these disgraceful thoughts are true
Especially on good people.
And when it is the time to admit,
DO IT.
Admit that you are inferior to others and stop being a bitch about it
Be happy for others cause there is continuity in the pool of talents in Singapore
And start to do some good and hard soul searching
And maybe it'll be the most useful thing for you to do now
"Sometimes you have to take a step backwards to continue forward."
Dad, sometimes I wish that I had listened a little harder to you. Somehow you are always right and I would choose to listen to other sources just to boost my own little bit of confidence left. I'm sorry, I'm really am, but maybe it's a tad bit too late now.
Yes, yes.
Everything I do and no matter how damn hard I try,
It's always never enough for you.
And you always never see how hard I'm trying.
Not a word of encouragement,
Just ten thousands words of criticism,
Enough to kill all the joy that I've had before you even spoke,
Enough to make me sick about what I'm doing,
Enough to let me think about whether doing this was a great deal or not.
Yes, yes.
I'm always a disappointment to you,
Haven't I?
But no,
I'm not going to believe only in you.
I'm not going to do this for you anymore.
I'm going to do this for myself.
One day when I'm up there,
I'll make you sorry for always looking down on me.
I'm gonna make you so damn sorry.
All of the sudden, I feel inspired to join a sports CCA once more. But I'm confident that these lousy inspirational spurts in me would die off sooner or later like one hour later. Or maybe I should convince myself that I should be glad to be in a performing arts one cause not only is it much more comfortable to sit in an air-conditioned room and spend time trying to hit the right keys of the piano, the sound that comes out of the piano is also much more pleasant as compred to the shouts and screams that come from the sports arena.
And in performing arts, things hardly get ugly between two competitors. I mean, you don't normally see two competing pianists trying to hit the lights off each other after a competition as compared to the scenes we see quite often on the soccer field. Also in a competition, it is terribly impossible for a musician to try to ruin the chances of a fellow competitor on stage cause
1. on stage, there is only one musician and it is horribly conspicuous for one to climb up the stage and cut the strings off the piano or something
2. there is nothing you can do to the other competitor cause the opponent would probably have memorised the score and so you can't destroy the chances.
But hey, on the volleyball field or something, one can creep there the night before the competition and plant little landmines or water bombs under the field so that the opponent would be well, at the disadvantage. Or again in the soccer match, one can pretend to trip and kick the skin of a mighty opponent and get a red card in exchange for that mighty opponent. You never know.
Additionally, it is quite unlikely that drugs could hype up the performance of a musician in action. I beg to differ otherwise for the sports arena. We've all seen athletes taking drugs before a competition to give them the "highness" and the burst to win a race, have we not?
All in all, after a short few minutes, I am suddenly not inspired at all to take up a sports CCA. But we all say that every matter has its pros and cons, right? Or we student can call it, the "balance" in our essays in order to not provide a purely biased viewpoint on a subject matter. I'm not biased, hence I will provide a balance.
In my opinion, the triumph of winning a sports competition is definitely more exhilarating as compared to winning a music competition. I say this with the reason being that training for a particular sport requires alot of sweat and sometimes even blood and not to say, determination to push on even when you're really exhausted and stuff. Yes I agree that for music competition, one has to have the determination to play the piece properly, but I would like to reinforce that sports require more physical effort, therefore the triumph of winning a sports competition would be much, much more phenomenal, should I say.
Anyway, phenomenal or not, I've just realised how damn screwed I am. I just realised that I have alot of stuff to learn by December on the piano and that my sightreading is really bad, so...
I'll find a way. ;D
I sense a really busy December month, what with ChildAid's CIP and Piano Ensemble stuff in early December and OGL matters at don't know which part of December. I'm gonna have fun trying to juggle all of these as well as my own music/academics stuff and give a nice prelude this time to transition to JC1.=) Sounds exciting! =D
Not. Really not. Dx
Well, I just have to pull myself together and enjoy the last days of happy frolicking freedom that is enough to crack my brains and make me so super bored. Dx And one irony: just when my schedule starts to get hectic, my brother is finally free from all the tiring and heavy chains of JC. No wonder he looks happier and more radiant with each day that passes. =\
HAHA BUT PLUS POINT: ARMY LIFE FOR HIM IS APPROACHING.
HAHAHHA! xD
And I owned a dishonest photocopying uncle today. I wasn't being mean, he was just being impossible and extremely irritating. First he tried to procrastinate in letting me check the pages of the scores that I wanted to photocopy and went to attend to two China girls when he could have passed me the scores and let me check them while he attended the two girls. I had to tell him nicely twice and he still refused, before finally exploding and half shouted at him to let me check the scores.
Turned out his hesitation was justified. Two of the pages of my Mozart score was cut off and the notes couldn't be seen. So after telling him nicely after cooling down to bind one of the books, I turned to the Mozart score and this was what happened thereafter:
Me: And ah,I can't see the notes for this score you know.It's cut off, so can you please redo it for me.
Owner: [not looking at me in the eye and with a fake firm tone] Huh, can see what!
Me: [gave him diao look] See what see?! You see and tell me what note this is lah! It's cut off!
Owner: Aiyah aiyah can one lah...
Me: [shouting cause I completely lost my temper] ITS FOR A VERY IMPT EXAM OKAY. PLEASE REDO IT.
And after that, my brother came and saw me fuming. He asked me how was it and I squeaked at him about the incident cause I was so pissed. He was trying to jilt me cause I was a tiny girl compared to his size!
And he just didn't realise how loud and angry this tiny girl could get. Geez I'm damn proud of myself. xD
***
sometimes i really really wished
that i had never taken it up
This girl holding the box with a cake resting in it is called Chung Jiayi. And Chung Jiayi just turned sixteen as she was holding the box of cake! YAHOO. =)
Happy birthday Jiayi [20th Nov]! I really hope you've had a pleasant surprise from Jiali, Mak and me, and I really hope that you'd enjoy eating this cake that we three made together for you for your special day. =) Thanks for being there for me almost everytime literally and thanks for sticking with me through thick and thin, my dear padawan! xD We all love you, and once again, may you have had a wonderful and happy first-breath-first-cry day! =)
