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Profile zhiguang 270490 nus med CO.liuqin.ruan i like hotcakes, waffle crisps, chocobabies. and i really like the music of chopin and rachmaninov (: Tagboard Exits alvin chao tong charmaine chong chen christopher chun hui dao teng davin douglas gim thia grace han lin harry pan jessly jia hao jian ting jian tong jonathan justin keng wei kevin lionel magdelene michael michelle minhui minzhe rachel samuel sean seryang shi ling shiwei shou hao shu peng siew boon song sim szu an ting feng xuan yi yee jiunn yijing yi xiang yuan yin yu guang yun heng zheng you 07S7E! Archives February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 December 2005 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 May 2008 June 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2010 February 2010 Credits ©Glamouresque.	Wednesday, February 03, 2010 i know i really shouldnt be here because i have managed to pile up my work over the past few weeks. a month has passed since school restarted and i have barely gathered the momentum to study and keep up with the lectures. but since i have made an effort to revive my blog, i should continue my story from the entry on 03/06/08. (: WOW. i just realised. it has been 2.5 years! i was talking about lessons with my teacher. i have to say that i have never ever looked forward to any lessons with my teacher. One of the reasons was that I was never really prepared for any of them. It's either her expectations of me are too high or im just simply too lazy to practise. when i was P4 she wanted me to take part in the national chinese music competition that took place at the end of the year. with that i have to practise 6 to 8 hours a day. she drew up a timetable for me indicating how long i should be practising and what i should be practising. that was how my holidays got burnt during my primary school days. it was literally like wake up 8am - brush teeth and then start practising. what's worse is that i need to obtain the signature of my parents and record them in a notebook as evidence to show my teacher. hahah those were the days. that year the set pieces for the junior category were 旱天雷 and 达姆达姆. i guess i was still very young and small so i couldnt play the zhongruan yet. so she chose for me a liuqin choice piece 欢腾的天山 to be played on the gaoyinruan. the preparation was very intense. i had to play the pieces over and over again at home. then i have to rehearse how to enter and leave the stage. i have to learn to bow to the audience, and also emergency procedures, like for example what to do when my string breaks. for the competition, my parents even ordered a tailor-made chinese suit. hahah back then had to go thru so many things just to prepare for a competition. i remember vividly that back then the competition was held at some ulu drama centre. it was a very old building, and i think it might have been demolished by now. it has been a decade since i last went there. (oh man so old alr!). there was a preliminary and final round. i was lucky to have made through the preliminary rounds. then during the final rounds. i recall, my string broke. i have played quite a part of the piece before the string broke. but luckily i was taught to remain calm, so i went in to get a new instrument. and played the piece again. that year rosyth co also sent its ruan ensemble to take part in the competition. it was a good result because all of us put in our utmost effort! i dunno why i cant seem to recall anything that occured during P5. hmm mebbe this signals the end of this entry! will write again soon!