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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 i rmb i switched on my com and listened to shui mo. i dun know exactly why i listened to it. but yeahh, i was going thru my daily routine - checking mail which has totalled up to 1285 mails. @.@, then check soccernet to see if arsenal did any acquisitions in the transfer market. i thought that took quite long, but shui mo hasnt ended. ohh my. i have to admit, it did sound nice initially, but playing that piece for soo many times makes me feel sick about it. it's actually the first song that i found bored while playing it. can imagine how the audience felt while we played it. >< aye but that's not the point. the pieces that hcco played were all nice =) *ahhaha self-delusion* had concert comm aar today at serene centre macs! pointed out all the areas that can be improved and areas that we did well in. =) overall it was good! like there were no MAJOR screw-ups. ahhaha. ohh my aside from that. SATs! im totally dead for it. it's this saturday and i feel so unprepared for it. anyway i dun even know how to prepare for it. must thank peizhi for helping me borrow it from the school library because i was not wearing full sch u! =) okays it's 11.34pm now. im supposed to be packing my room now. i told myself today im gonna sort out all the sheets of paper that has been lying around in my small lil room by today. rahh shall do so in a while! *** shall continue from where i left. aye that part wasnt impt. i just knew it was such a sudden turn of events that even myself did not believe it. i started to like what i was playing. confidence grew. my teacher still gave competitions to us small lil kids, to test our skills and stuff. there was once she tested us to see if we are good enough to buy our own instruments, and i managed to pass =) those were the nice things. but i guess the bad memories still overshadow the good ones. i rmb vividly like, there was once, we din play up to our teacher's expectations. our teacher then made us stand under the scorching afternoon sun in the sch field, with our instruments held high in the air. there was once where she even made us stand in the canteen with the same pose, during the afternoon session recess time, with all the students walking past laughing at you. it was really bad. i was a rebellious kid i rmb. i talked back to my tcher many a time. i rmb she scolded me, and i just shouted back at her. like totally rude, but i felt i was right cos she was just a meanie. it was so serious that she told my parents she din want to have such a student like me anymore. but yeahh, my parents hoot me real bad and i apologised to my teacher and everything went bad to normal. i rmb a similar case like that happened again in p6, but yeahh everything was okay in the end. my first syf experience was in p4. that time syf was held at nanyang girls' high sch siew mei auditorium. i kinda forgot how the whole experience went. but rosyth co played the set piece, which was 遍野春花 and our choice piece 春节序曲. yay we got gold. and that time it was still that the format where they selected the top 5 schs, and had another round of competition to choose the top pri school co. we got 2nd that year, our first year competing in syf. lost to ngee ann primary school i rmb. i rmb ppl like junkai, wenqi, yongjie were all in the same co last time. hahaha. its amazing how we ended up in hcco! hmm mebbe i shud talk abt private lessons. because at that time, most of the co ppl in my pri sch were having private lessons with their instructors alr. i wasnt. i was like okay okay with everything that i have. contented, yeah. =) even my fellow peers playing the same instrument as me were having private lessons then. it was such an IN thing. lol like a privilege to have it. i was like shocked when my tcher told me that i shud have private lessons under her. kinda scary actually. i rmb the first lesson i went, she gave to me a wang hong yi liuqin cd. it is still with me today, and the first piece in that cd is 江月琴声! the piece i played for hcco concert. really amazing. haha. but thats not the point. the first lesson she also handed me this imba long 练习曲, or whhat u call an "etude" to prac. it's like 2 pages full of semi quavers. and im supposed to prac using the metronome, slowly progressing in tempo. i heck care abt it, din prepare at all for the second lesson. i watched tv rather than practised my instrument. i did not even bother to lian4 that etude she gave me. whoa then guess what. after the second lesson. she made my stay at her house until i could play the entire piece once without stopping. my father came to fetch me after 1hr of lesson, but my tcher asked him to go home and only come after receiving a call from her. i was super traumatised then. i was just a p3-becoming-p4 student, then had to be detained at her house, like being in jail that kind of feeling. i rmb i cried. cried really badly, cos i wanted to go home. my lesson was like early in the morning, and i could only go home when the sky turned dark. truly horrible experience. subsequent practices i was told to prac using a faster tempo, my target was 160 on the metronome. i nv achieved that anyway. but i feared being scolded before i attended every lesson. then during lessons i would try to cut down the time i have with my teacher by acting as if i got stomachache and need to use the toilet. rather lame leh, to think of what i used to do in the past. aye but the main point is that the most scariest thing on earth then was to be scolded by my teacher. i wouldnt know what punishment was waiting for me the next time round. yeah im tired alr. it's 12.14am now and i still need to pack my bag! shall continue my little story again soon! =) Monday, June 02, 2008 <<天籁回音 之 疏桐流响>> WOOHOO! HCCO CONCERT WAS A SUCCESS! =) thanks to those who came down to support! every one of you! hope it was a meaningful concert and you guys enjoyed yourselves! it was probably my last concert in a school chinese orchestra and your presence meant a lot to me! really thank you all very much! now that concert's over! i have to settle down my emotions and get into the mugging mood alr. wish me luck! (: i realised i had taken home my liuqin. oh my this was the first time i took home my liuqin for at least a year. i had left it in mph since the start of J1. my dad watched me perform ytd and commented how black the wood looked, and how weird the liuqin sounded, esp the 3rd and 4th strings. mebbe it's because he hadnt seen in a long time. and i realised how lucky i was to have that liuqin. that day i saw jun hui's fingers with many scars on them and a plaster. he had practised so hard with the school liuqin, and that didnt stop him from continue practising. it made me felt so bad, and ashamed. ashamed because i thought of how in the past i used to find excuses not to practise my instrument, even those very lame ones. *** hai.. and this concert truly marks the end of my 10 year affection with co. it might continue some day, but i dun think it will be in the near future. i woke up today at 1pm, thinking of how the day before went. abt how the entire concert took place. everything is so dreamy now. it can only form part of my memory. how i wished it could take place once again, to live thru that memory once again. i rmb i didnt actually knew i was going to join chinese orchestra. it was in primary 1, my music teacher told the class about musical group ccas that are available in the school - the choir, the band and chinese orchestra. i din know what orchestra meant at that time, but the fact that it had a word that i didnt know made me want to go check what was it about. i went to this music room at the corner of the sch compound. it was rather big, and there was this long queue of students waiting to be attended by a teacher. i rmb i met yongjie there, and i asked him what instrument he wanted to learn, and he said dizi. and walah he is the dizi player he is today. seriously, i had no idea why i was there, i havent even visited the other ccas, but i somehow ended in the queue. apparently the teacher looked at each student's hand and asked what instrument he/she wanted to learn, before making a decision which instrument to assign that student to. i dun even know what instruments were available at that point of time. i saw the yangqin, and thought it was rather cool, cos i dunno what the player is hitting on, and there's actually sound coming from nowhere. soon it was my turn, the teacher took my hand and looked at it, and then she asked me which instrument i want. i said "that thing" -points to yangqin-. she hesitated for a while, before telling me that she's assigning my to liuqin. hahah i dunno what exactly that is then, but i just felt so happy, and skipped across the room. that teacher who assigned me to liuqin ended up being my liuqin teacher, the one who developed my passion for co. that felt like what happened in Hogwarts you know, like placing that hat thing on ur head and assigning you to the 4 different houses. mebbe it was fate that got me into co. i was so blur then, willingly accept anything that comes to me first. the first cca i visited was co. if i had visited the other ccas first, perhaps i would end up in first aid club or band or smth else. i got a shock when i went for the first co prac. there were 9 ppl in liuqin, and i was the only guy. we get to play the school liuqin then, it was brand new somemore, because the co was newly set up. we were supposed to borrow it home to prac on our own. being young and blur, i totally did not know what it means to prac. to me, at that time, practising meant taking the instrument out, and strum it for like 3 minutes or so. hmmm perhaps even lesser. i did not even know how to tune the strings. during the sch prac, my teacher asked the 9 of us how long we prac. i rmb i was the first to be asked, i said 3 minutes. she gave a horrified look, then the others said like "1hour, 1.5 hours, 2 hours", and it was my turn to gave the horrified look. 2 hours on this instrument? no way! if so, how am i gonna find time to watch my power rangers, digimon, ahh whatever tv shows they have? so this led to me being the worst player in my section. my teacher likes inter-student competition a lot. she ranks all of us all the time. like "老大" (eldest), all the way to "老九" (ninth). and yeahh u guessed it, im always the "老九". being the only guy in the section, and being the worst player was a truly saddening experience. i hated the instrument i played. i kept asking myself how i landed up in this mess. i told my dad i was in co, then he told me that it was a good choice for a cca. he told me he used to play dizi in his sec sch days. i rmb faintly that he brought me to this co performance at some park, and there were ppl playing instruments and ppl dancing to the music. most imptly, there were ppl playing the liuqin. i guessed that really showed me how a liuqin shud be played, and how nice a liuqin could sound. i went home after that, took out my liuqin and tried to replicate what the performers at the park did. i wasnt sure if i practised very hard, but i know i tried. the following practice, my teacher tested us on our 基本功(basic skills) again, i rmb it was on 弹挑(strum forward and backward). and the next thing i knew, was that i became "老大" for once. like totally unexpected. i dint exactly know what happened, but i just managed to impress on that day. and then... *** oh my i realised i wrote damn long, and this is getting boring. please tell me if i should continue writing ><