the cow jumped over the moon

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

HELLO!! Yay, tuesday's over!! Next is wednesday, then thursday then friday!! Today, I had a really fun PE lesson. Netball! Besides, nothing much happened. Just posting pictures taken yesterday! And today.

Went to ze's house to cycle around the houses. Isn't it cool? It was 8.15pm.

Presto!!

Adorable?

This is the place where I wait for ze every morning. That day, we were quite late.

This picture and the following later on are taken today while waiting for ze! There rest were yesterday. :)

I lik this picture. It makes me feel like I'm in a dystopic society. Look at how the car flies!

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Sunday, July 27, 2008

My blog's now in public!! (: I hope it's not a bad decision. Anyway... I have a new pet in my petmily!!! And the new member in PRESTO THE MAGNIFICENT HAMSTER!!! I had no intentions of buying a hamster at first. But Presto was sooooo cute!! And innocent! But I realise that he's also the naughtiest hamster I've ever met. It's impossible to catch hold of him! He's like lightning.. wow! ohwell, I've got to do my work now. ): There's school tomorrow!!

Somtimes, I regret naming him Presto. Cause he really fits his name.

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Saturday, July 26, 2008

What a wonderful day.. I had an amzing experience really really really early in the morning! Then I went for lesson with professor which again, was amazing. Cause I learned some stuff. :) And then.. I went roller blading with milo and sari! Then... I went home and started practising violin. Well, that's all. Maybe it's not that wonderful after all. :)

And I got bitten by an ant.

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Friday, July 25, 2008

aww... today was founders day and we had our veryvery last performance and rehearsal with the sec 4s... just before we started playing our piece, something amazing happened.

Joanne Loo started crying!!! awwwww!!! Then tricia started crying, then nat, then jiaying then alot of other people!! I looked it nicole and she was tearing too. It felt so bad!! For a moment, I had a flashback. I still remembered six years ago when I met Joanne Loo in handbells. The first piece I played with her was exactly the same piece the secondary handbells played today. I looked at ahma while they were playing that and I saw a tear. Six years of music together... really is very special. The tears I saw, touched me deeply. I myself was about to burst into tears too. But I couldn't do that infront of the principle and all. I'll never forget my seniors and their contribution to strings. Just in a short time, it'll be my turn to cry. What happened today, last wednesday and last sunday.. will be very memorable to me.

2007 commitee members

violin 1

mgs strings ensemble

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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

what a wonderful afternoon! I'm really glad that all the last minute preparation for the farewell turned out really really really well!!! First, we had a 45min rehearsal, then we played a mass hide and seek!! Which became really fun. (: And meanwhile, ze and I ordered pizza for everyone. When the game was over, all of us went back to the mep room to watch the farewell video. It was so touching!! However, I couldn't catch the faces of the sec 4s.. I was so worried, calling mr chan since he was late. While waiting for him, I decided to make Joanne do an impromptu speech!! And luckily!! Mr Chan came just in time when she was ending. Phew!!! He presented the lovely cards to the sec 4 and we had a feast after that! We ordered pizza, mrs chna brought sweets which made my teeth yellow and mr chan brought 72 dohnuts.

Basically, I'm glad that everything went out smoothly and it was actually quite fun. (: It was the first task I had as president and I think the committee executed the farewell really well. It's so sad that the sec 4 had to leave. I"m going to miss joanne so much!! Knowing her for 6 years and being in the same cca as her for 6 years, we had much experience together. Everything that happened today was so meaningful. I'm going to miss my seniors soooo much!!!!!!!!!! Hope they were touched today by our actions!!!

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Monday, July 21, 2008

Yes, the worse birthday I've ever encounted. :( I'm sososo depressed!! Maybe I shouldn't have had my violin lesson on this day. Anyway, yesterday's strings concert was definitely very memorable! :) It was the last concert the sec4 performed in. :( I'm really really going to miss all of them! And also, I'm really very satisfied with my solo part for the last movement of Grieg. I've never played that smoothly before! I know it wasn't very fantastic but.. still.. satisfying. :) And relieved. :)

Before the concert, I was backstage, waiting for the vip to come in. Hehh... I was soooo nervous. Nervous about walking out. And before I knew it, I was walking out very shakily to my seat. I took a short bow, shook hands with mr chan and sat down. Phew. Just after a short while, it was time for my solo movement. I enjoyed it very much with Joanne, and had lots of fun! :) Then, the whole piece ended. wow. Time flies, so fast.

The second item, dvorak, was hmmm... not too bad I hope! But what touched me was the birthday song strings played for me. :) When Mr Chan was announcing to the audience about my birthday, I was wow, so shocked!! I had no idea that such a surprise was coming!! And I can't believe, they did that surprise infront of the vip, my principle, my teachers, and friends! Hehe.. wow.

Well, the concert had to come to an end. That was the part I was really not looking forward to. Sigh. I had a entertaining car ride back with ze and tham and when I reached home, I realised the number of messages I had in my hand phone. People were wishing me happy birthday and so on. :) And mr chan sms-ed me to thank me for the concert and my cool learship. I like the word cool!! That's about all, the day ended.

And today's my birthday. Sadly, I'm another year older. About 1/5 of my life is gone. I have to treasure the rest. Chapel today was really good. It just seemed like God sent an Angel to comfort me. Though I don't exactly feel very good now, those words are stuck in my head. God's word that said, "When you are weak, I am strong." Those words mean so much. I know with God's strength anything is possible, but I have to have faith in Him. Followed by, was chinese lesson. Everyone was telling my teacher about the surprise they gave me during the concert and then they sang a birthday song to me in Chinese. Hee. My teacher was asking me if I was very touched, and of course, I was. After that, was math. Mr Lee came in talking about the concert too. From what he said, I think he finally knows why we're so busy. Then, my class sang a birthday song again. Social studies was then the period which spoiled my whole day. Mr Seow wanted me to redo my assignment!!! How horrible. He said it was too short. But!!! I wrote exactly the same thing as some of my friends and none of them got scolded!!!!! Then he started asking me to smile and not be so angry. Worse still, during my co-op duty, he came in the room and gave me a birthday present. And while everyone walked out and LEFT ME ALONE with him, he started talking to me one to one. How frightening. He was explaining to me that he's not targetting me and kept repeating that I have to smile more cause I look prettier that way. What annoyance. I never get Tham for this reason. All this time, I was walking around the room trying to stay really far away and waiting for someone to rescue me!!! I'll forget about the details and move on to how I got my revenge by slamming the 20cent coin infront of him. Hehehe. That's my anger! Well, the rest of the day went on with one more birthday song and yes, end of school.

And VIOLIN LESSON!! Ahhhh!!! I don't even want to talk about it. Basically, it was the first time where I was almost in tears, dying to go home. I'm so troubled, WHY MUST I PLAY THE 3RD MOVEMENT OF TCHAIKOVSKY!! Why! Why! But I have no choice now. Really, no choice.

I am so upset, so troubled that I'm blogging. Things are just not right! Nothing's going well for me. Competition, competition. Studies, studies... this is my birthday, yet, I realise that I've never really been so troubled before. I don't know what I'm going to do. I really don't.

Well, may God be my light through the difficult times.

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Friday, July 18, 2008

I have no idea why I am sooo stressed and upset. It really seems like I hve partial depression. Practise, practise, practise. I have no mood to do anything!!! I'm just sooo tired.

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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Hello. I celebrated my birthday on tuesday too!! Hehe... my miserable miserable birthday since my dad won't be in Singapore on my birthday. :( He's leaving tomorrow... he's going to Hong Kong! So I had to enjoy my ice cream cake 6 days before the real day. :) It doesn't matter anyway. And yeah. I cut my hair with Tham today!!! My current look is.. very different. :)

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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

What a horrible horrible day. I just experienced one of the worst string rehearsals ever!!! Not because of the conductor or the people... but the environment!!! Today we were practising in the hall and someone switched off the air con!! Since none of us knew how to on the air con... we had to suffer. :( Everyone became in a very very bad mood. So bad that we weren't even talking. Everyone felt soo irritated. It's not cool to be sweating and practising!!! Phew, at least that's over.. :)

Besides that, school was terrible too. Lessons were bad and I didn't learn anything.

Bad day, bad day.

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Monday, July 14, 2008

I'm not happy. Notnotnotnotnot happy!! Let's talk about the concert I went to watch last friday.

(pictures taken by my phone)

Well, I had no idea that I was going to wath president's young performers concert. Since my dad had 2 tickets, I simply followed him to esplanade. And soon enough, I realised what I was going to watch. Which was very shocking to me!! The first shocking thing was realising that Albert Lin was performing. Having an impression of him, I was really really really shocked. Then when I entered, I realised that the president was sitting 3 rows infront of me!! WOW. I think I've never seen him in real life that close.

The first piece "Musical Toast"by Leonard Bernstein played by sso was quite fun. :) I remembered the part where the sang a phrase "welcome to the concert" almost at the end of the piece.. hehehe. Very shocking too. After that item was Erich Wolfgang Korngold violin concert in D major played by Lee Shi Mei. Woww.. I loved that piece!! It's a concert I've never heard before.. something like a hollywood concerto!! Followed by was intermission. I was trying very hard to dodge away from the people I know cause I didn't feel like seeing or talking to anyone. Heh.. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov piano concerto in C-sharp minor played by Albert Lin was not bad. Actually, I was already half a sleep by that time so I didn't really pay much attention. The last piece was my franz liszt les preludes played by sso. It was sososo cool!! Cause I've never heard a recording of it before!! And the piece was wonderful!! Supersuper!! :) Finally, the concert ended. While I was walking out, I saw someone!! ohno, someone whom I was dreading to see!!! Someone!! Someone!! I can't say who but I can give a clue that that person is a he who is an adult. AHHH!! Why!!! I shouldn't have responded to "Rachel"... and what was my response when I saw him? I gave a quick smile and RAN. As fast as a could. Away. I ran!! I can't believe it. I ran!!

It's not my fault, that person gives me the creeps and bad memories. It's a really complicated feeling. Even was I was sitting in the car, I saw him staring at the car while I was peeking out to see him too. I just feel so sorry.. so guilty. I just can't face him anymore!!! I just want to start a new life and forget about 2007. Horiblehorrible 2007. But the past is the past, it's still history and I can't change it.

Anyway, I'm not in school now! I'm actually at home, resting and doing work. Since my flu hasn't gotten well.. my parents thought I shouls stay at home too! At least I finished strings stuff and cambodia stuff. All I need to do is catch up with my emath and physics and practise violin.. AND VIOLIN!!! AHH! VIOLIN!! I'm suppose to practise 3rd movement of tchaikovsky!! Bad memories, BAD MEMORIES!! I don't want to be reminded of the past!! Why must I play it? I'm playing this piece cause my dad promised me something. He promised to make my dream come true. So yeah, I'll have to practise for the sake of my dream!!

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Thursday, July 10, 2008

you know what? I really really really want to quit music now. After a horrible violin lesson, I have now no more confidence. Why is it that I play so differently infront of my teacher? Am I scared? No! Why I is that my notes get out of tune everytime? Did I not practise those parts hard enough? No! I mean, I don't think so. It's just so different! While I was going through Mendelssohn today, arghhhh. I just wanted to quit violin. Just so sudden. I can't play the first part of Mendelssohn! Maybe I'm not used to practising in living rooms. So now, I shall practise in te living room and on my aircon and stand up throughout. I really hope there'll be an improvement on monday. I'm sure it's just psycology.. I hope.

Now, I'll stop talking about music. How about school? Hee. I no longer owe my math teacher anymore homework! And yesterday, I went home halfway during chinese lesson cause I was down with a flu. So cool! And yeah, I have a new phone!! Yayy. Ohyeah, maybe my horrible playing was due to my flu? :( Tomorrow's school will be horrible. Tests and homework, stress!

Let's move on to strings. Yesterday, there was an election for a new string commitee. Well, I've been given the responsibility of the president of strings. Is it a good thing or not? I'm just soso worried that I'll let strings down! I really want to make a difference. But how?

Sometimes, I wish I could end my life like how people in the dystopic society do. But no, I'll face every problem, every challenge and conquer my fears. And God will be with me, throughout this journey. (:

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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Hi! Just had piano lesson. And I think I caught a flu. (: Once again, I was doubting myself about music. I once heard an old saying, "If your child is not intelligent, do music" isn't that very insulting? This phrase can have 2 meanings: the first of course means that musicians are not intelligent.. well, this fact can apply to some musicians. Sometimes, when a person's not good in studies, music is their last resort and their only hope. I guess I am one of those. If I can't study well, I'll run to music. (: While the other means that music can make someone smart. Which is soooo true! I had a professor who taught me piano for a year when I was 10, and I topped the level for math after that. hehe. But not anymore. Soo.. I guess I'm done with what I wanted to say. And I'm off to doing my work and practising very miserably.

I am veryveryvery worried for the upcoming competition. Very.

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Sunday, July 6, 2008

How disappointing... How could I produce such a low standard! Especially for my dear Bach!!! Depressing. Bach's going to haunt me tonight. I am so guilty. I've never made so many slips before!! Sigh, I shall not talk about this anymore.

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Saturday, July 5, 2008

Hello. My skin is different (: . This picture was taken by me in Batam, super cool right! Well, I'm here to talk about my concert so that I won't forget the places I performed in and the experienced I gained.

1. YMS-- (:
2. Talent time -- It's really an honour to be Lydia's accompanist!! I sure learned a lot more about pop and accompanying! And I hope Lydia's will do well in the future, she is such a talent!

3. Húiyu's voice concert-- heh. Last minute work isn't cool. But getting the chance to accompany great singers is yet another honour. (:

4. MEP concert (coming soon)
I had rehearsal today! And I made 3 mistakes in Bach!!! Sigh, I'll post about the outcome of the concert tomorrow.

And yes, I've been very very busy, confused and unhappy these few days. Maybe it's part of my growing up. (: And I'm 157cm!!! YAY.

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