Triplestops

Don’t lose your pen. Here’s why:

lose your pen = no pen
no pen = no notes
no notes = no study
no study = fail
fail = no diploma
no diploma = no work
no work = no money
no money = no food
no food = skinny
skinny = ugly
ugly = no love
no love = no marriage
no marriage = no children
no children = alone
alone = depression
depression = sickness
sickness = death

Moral of the story: Don’t lose your pen.

Then again, according to today’s standards in society, people don’t regard skinny as ugly. And there are lots of kids born out of wedlock anyway, so no marriage doesn’t in any way imply that you won’t have kids. And not having a diploma doesn’t necessarily mean it’s completely impossible to get work/money in some way. And in the first case, if you lost your pen…just buy another pen?

Okay, so what was the point of me posting all that crap up there again? Haha. Just for laughs, I suppose.

Guys, guys. Guys. I don’t understand. What is so hard about pushing that button or handle down after you take a volcanic dump? Doesn’t seeing what you just excreted make you grossed out? Apparently it doesn’t gross you out enough to want to flush it and get rid of it.

Seriously.

Home’s fine, am recovering from a nasty bout of flu (funny how it’s such a common sickness but it can make you feel totally shit) with a pretty awesomely deep voice (think one octave below middle C), just too bad my left hand is still being retarded…am still almost maxed out at 45min of playing. :(

At least I’ve got my kindle to entertain me, yay. Re-reading the hunger games.

Also – I can read an entire chapter in English in the same time that I read a page in German. Isn’t that sad?

Dinner soon! Am craving for kway chap…how odd it is that I come back to Singapore and crave pig entrails.

Won’t be seeing some people around school next year. Oh well…maybe I should’ve tried to get to know them better. Not sure why I randomly thought of this suddenly but yeah.

Went for SSO concert at SOTA today. Got supremely annoyed by this rail-thin woman (late 30s to mid 40s, guesstimation) who couldn’t stop fidgeting. Checked her iPhone. Took a picture with her camera – and she forgot to turn off the camera sound. And of course, the sound would go off during a brief pause in the music, lol. Passing remarks to her neighbour while the music’s still playing. Damn gurl you couldn’t have more respect for what’s going on stage. The kids in front were fidgeting too, but that’s fine cuz they’re doing what kids normally do. And anyway it was actually pretty gratifying to see them listening so raptly, it made up for their loss of attention in the parts that were less interesting (to kids anyway).

Anyway…SSO. Huh. Not sure why the last few stands always look like they have not much life in them. The CM also messed up some bowings and notes here and there. Hmmm. As far as I could observe of the violin 1s, it seemed like the only person who was truly 100% involved in the music was CYH. I could literally feel his excitement. Too bad it wasn’t enough. I guess Mendelssohn No.4 is tricky though. Some parts are really transparent…chamber-like…any small fudging up stands out a lot I suppose.

I wondered if the orch members felt more informal because it was an outreach concert. Still, though, I was disappointed at the lack of precision at times. Or maybe I’ve been listening so much to BP that I’ve gotten attuned to it.

I shouldn’t criticize like this though, seeing as my excerpts are in no great shape, if Juliana’s comments to me are anything to go by. Lol. Speaking of orchestra…WHY ARE EXCERPTS NOT UP YET? (Not that I’d practise it right now if it were up.) Blah.

Managed to get a kinda-teaching/supervising gig helping a grade8 kid from Ms Lim’s studio. Yayy for experience and money. Hope I’ll be of some help lol… (Actually, no, I’d better be of some help.) >.>

Throat still sucks. Yayzors. Reminds me of Tristan’s comment “if you say ‘raise up lights’ really quickly over and over, it sounds like you’re saying ‘razor blades’ in an Australian accent”.

Ha.

Berlin Phil…Haffner Symphony…YES.

Not that I want to be a pain in the ass complaining or anything, but I am being driven nuts faster than my hand is recovering.

Got the news today, not able to participate in scholarship audition… 1) it’s apparently only for entering students (how this detail escaped me I have no idea) and 2) I. Can’t. Play. Anyway.

Good grief.

On the other hand, I’m listening to BP’s Mahler #5. I’m not normally a Mahler fan, so those on the Mahler bandwagon will excuse me – I find him too excessive sometimes. But BP sure did a super great job. Or maybe it’s just that my previous experiences with #5 weren’t exactly…um, stellar. With the BP – wow. Everything is so precise, so tightly meshed, things make sense. If you have an orchestra with fuzzy technique, it won’t be able to bring out every single detail with clarity, and the result is a legendary mess. The feeling you get when listening to it can be likened to a rider forcing an injured horse along at top speed at the edge of a cliff.

…or that’s what I felt anyway?

I think I know how to play Vieux #5 opening by heart already. Just cause of the number of times I’ve heard it…

Don’t fall asleep…don’t fall asleep…don’t…fall……asleep…

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40min of violin today. Hoping to get it upped to an hour by next week.

I am so freaking tired. KO-ed at 9pm last night, woke at 5-ish and ended up going for an early morning cycle at 7, which wasn’t too bad I suppose. Though I gotta say, cycling at home sucks because you sweat so fast and so easily. You don’t even have to try.

Teaching…is interesting. Kinda sad that those who posses a keen ear are too lazy and couldn’t be bothered to practise, and those who are less talented work so hard at it. $93.10 for 5 students, 45min each. I could do worse, I suppose. Like working a desk job which pays $8/hour.

Off to read Sherlock Holmes. :]

For you I stripped half-naked and took a picture so that I could put it on facebook.

Ok, sorry, I know that’s not the point here – but really. =.=

Ok I feel weird saying this but I don’t know why Korean and Japanese girls/women are so pretty/cute!? Seems like they took the best of the Asian genes, ahaha. Another thing that was cute was the flight attendant, who said to me, “Have a wonderful fright!”

I don’t know why that was funny to me but it was.

Also – why are my parents bringing me to the hot spring tomorrow?! The whole of Singapore is a bloody hot spring…