My grandfather died on friday, but i don't really feel anything since i've only seen him 3/4 times in my life. My mom got sick after coming back from the funeral-thingie and she's still sick. So sick that she didn't go to the funeral today and she has been sleeping 24/7. She's so tired that she doesn't wanna say much. Don't think she's really that depressed or whatever since she didn't really know her father too. I'm getting very irritated by the fact that she has spoken less than 5 times to me since i got home from CO and she doesn't wanna tell me how my grandad died. Heard that his hands turned black or something before his death. Freakkky.
Shihui is mad la. I borrowed from her this book full of erhu scores so i could find a song for the music exchange. Saima sounds really nice and the book had it so i asked her how hard it was and she said 'it's easy'. was trying it out and this part sounded odd to me so i asked her how to play it and she said 'it's pao gong'. WA LAO. the front part was rather easy but pao gong???!! eEp my pao gong is so half-past-six, i'll think i'll screw up if i play that in during the internal music exchange. Pah, think i'm better off with this weird song about melons.
Man, some people are so desperate.
This guy who i added on friendster recently added me on msn. After asking me what school i'm in he asks me out to watch the maid. So what if i know him (so he claims. though i don't have an inkling of who he is). I decided not to be my mean self and said that i had cca. He doesn't get the message, and asks me which day i'm free. i get annoyed and give monosyllabic replies. He still doesn't get the vibes and continues to pursue the matter. I was playing Conquer at that time, and i absolutely loathe it when people interrupt me when i'm at it. Got so irritated so i typed 'Do I even know you that well?'. He replied 'Lol... Wa lao...'. I didn't bother replying and a while later he was offline. Heh. Finally made him emarrbassed enough to go offline/block me.
Had this speech by two sec4's about the O' level oral examination during assembly.
Passage reading was kinda boring (isn't it always?) so i wasn't really listening, though the girl's (shu lin is it? i dunno) pronounciation was nice.
Then came Thomas Kwang (who wouldn't know him? /=) doing the picture discussion. Was bombarded with ultra-cheemnologised words like 'cameraderie' and 'paraplegic' he even hao-lianed a bit and used the word 'quasi-paraplegic', while us people with small minds use simple words like 'chemistry' and 'partially disabled', or even 'bai ka' (lame/spastic). Bet hardly anyone in the hall understood what he was talking about, could see the blank looks.
The speech by shu lin was really dramatic, really interesting but there were people who kept hooting whenever she drama-ed the animals behaviour, how irritating.
Was playing with Yongmei's erhu when i realised that...
My erhu is so damn soft.
I've no idea why, maybe it's not seasoned or something but the volume is really pathetic. The new bow i've got makes it worse. Bleagh.
Anyhoo, i used to like full orchestra, but now it just seems oh-so tedious. It's annoying having to wait for everyone to settle down between parts of songs. Everybody seems to be treating the practices as time for socialising, chittering away when the conductor is asking other sections to play, taking ages to quieten down before we play. And the percussion seem to have problem organising themselves. There's always either that missing clash of the cymbals, the kwaang of the gong reverbrating through the room or some other instrument. So we have to start over and over again just because of that one missing part. They must have weak bladders too because i seem to see some of them slinking in and out of the door regularly.
A certain member there really has an attitude problem. The conductor is speaking to you and there you are, talking to someone else or living in your own little world, completely oblivious that he's speaking to you. Seriously, you're the only one holding on to that instrument, of course he's referring to you. And even if you do look at him, it's with that kaopei look. Maybe you don't mean to give him that look, i don't know, but even i get pissed of looking at you. And i'm not even the conductor. Seriously, it's not as if you play so well, you're in percussion and you can't even count your beats properly.
So have a guess, who am i referring to? (((((((((=
Went to the school dentist the other day. Can't stand it when dentist's speak to you while they're doing up your teeth. How are you supposed to respond with so many things sticking out of your mouth? I really don't fancy the idea of having my mouth widen by another six inches. The dentist insisted on offered to redo a filling for me and took out this syringe filled with a blue liquid and jabbed it into my mouth. Tasted horrible. Suddenly he said 'Relax, don't be so tense'. Then he stuck this HUGE device into my mouth. Would've screeched wa kao if i didn't have that thing sticking out of my mouth. Bloody hell, how not to feel tense. He knocked something over and went 'oOps!' hahaha how cute. Thank goodness he didn't bend over to pick the thing up and leave that device stuck in my mouth.
You know...
- you've done too much science homework when you start using words like 'increase', 'decrease' and 'thus' when answering your english comprehensions
- you've exerted too much strength while writing when your index finger cramps up suddenly and you sit there blankly wondering how you're gonna copy stuff when Mrs Koh is speaking so fast
- you're terribly uncreative when all you can come up for the noticeboard is four pieces of coloured paper with the words 'Swiss Cottage Chinese Orchestra' (hint hint* i know lots of you read my blog but dont tag. Now give your suggestions please)
- you've been speaking too much Mandarin when your English sentences don't make any sense. not even to yourself
- the music on Singapore radio sucks when you choose to listen to 'Crazy Frog' on repeat instead of tuning in to the radio when you switch on your mp3
- you've never had a proper childhood when you start watching shows like Yugi-Oh, the Justice League and the Fairy Oddparents (oh yeah, i just love the Fairy Oddparents! (((= )
- the person you're talking to is incredibly thickvisual when you say 'You're momma's so fat, when she walked past the tv.... I missed my episode!', and the only response you get is
...a blank stare
- you shouldn't nod your head so much (especially in Mdm Tang's class) when it only makes your group have to do a presentation waaaaay it's your turn
- the reason why you avoid asking Ms Seah questions even though she seems to be speaking in another language during lessons on 'Oxidation' when you see her lose her temper whenever the guys ask questions
Changed my bow on Wednesday. Used it for ten minutes, gave up and changed it back. Apparently, i could hardly pao gong with the other bow. Guess i'll have to live with the scraping noise from my Shanghai (oh wait... is it Beijing?) bow. Got reminded about the Music Exchange again. eEk. I get the jitters even when Erhu II is asked to play together. Wonder how i'm gonna be able to play then.
Wing San wasn't so shy today. She even initiated a conversation with me haha. Even though it was about nothing in particular (so inane that i forgot what we chatted about hahaa), it's better than nothing. Got kinda freaked out when i saw that the side of her erhu had split. She seemed to be worried about having to pay for it being damaged so i just a whole load of crap about expansion and contraction causing it to crack. Obviously, i've no idea why it cracked. Seriously though, i was wondering if she prances about at home, waving the erhu around wildly.
Her bowing is still kinda whacked up despite having copied the directions onto her scores. Weird. Seems that she doesn't look at her scores when she plays. She seemed so pressurised when Mr Chua asked her whether she knew how to play. I was like uh-oh i haven't taught her that part yet(cos i was trying to teach her the earlier part) but she said 'yes', so was I kinda surprised. Wonder if she really knew or she was just trying to help me cos i really couldn't hear her play and her bowing was wrong again.
Oh, i am not happy. This part of 'Chun' got changed by Mr Lee during full orchestra cos we couldn't play that part. Even though it's a very small part, i think it sounds ridiculous. Just because lots of people didn't try it out on their own, it got edited. Bah.
WTF. Got 24/50 for the chinese test. Bloody Hell. Could've gotten outta remedial if i had gotten one more mark. Was supposed to get 26 but this answer got changed. Arghh. Oh well, at least Joyce failed along with me so we can go for remedial together again heh.
Oh and Vanessa, You Study! *points accusatory finger* well either that or you copy Meryl's work hahahaha how come you get so high only when there are the filling-of-the-words-with-hanyu-pinyin-given type of questions? Hmphhh. Why didn't you let ME copy? wahahaha just kidding.
LMAO. This guy just called asking whether i'd been to restaurants along Lucky Beach. Now where the hell is that? Anyhoo, he suddenly realised that i wasn't 'Ms Wong'. Bet he'll never try to call a girl like that again. Guess he either dialled the wrong number or the woman didn't really fancy him heh.
All this controversy surrounding television programmes aired in Singapore, what a load of bull. We complain that Singaporean viewers prefer unintellectual television programmes. Well to hell with that. Why all the fuss now when we've already been subjected to so many seasons of 'Phua Chu Kang'?
Anyhoo, life is so unexpected. My dad's acquaintancefriend (only given that title by my dad after passing away. Odd.) just passed away. And you guessed it, it was cancer. now i'm not gonna go on about that crap about having to spot cancer early (unlike a certain television serial) I really have no idea who that guy was but it just seems sad that a young guy (ok, so maybe 50+ isn't that young) can kick the bucket just like that. Death seems to bring out the hypocriteemotions in many people though. I've seen so many people sad after someone died even though they hardly speak to them in real life. Some blame it on the busy society we live in today. I don't think so.
Oh man, Jonny Depp has just ruined my image of Willy Wonka being a kindly old recluse. I really couldn't help wondering about Willy Wonka's sexual-orientation. It was so freaky seeing him with that pasty face, weird hair, and the nose which is related to a certain popstar's. His constant giggling (yes, GIGGLING) didn't help either. It was really freaky watching Michael Jackson Willy Wonka together with those kids. Had this feeling that he was gonna do a Michae.... oOps! now i didn't say anything! Anyway, the film left me horribly traumatised and my impression of Willy Wonka really tainted.
