Argh my phone spoil! Argh i sound like some whiny teenage girl but...argh my phone spoil!
Oh well i didnt expect it to last more than 90 days though :) is my old N80...it was like a total regression into total epic failure. now i cant even read msgs i get, or make phone calls lasting more than 2 min even with full battery charge (eat ur heart out u supernormal profit making nok**!!) So if im daoing ur msgs or calls or whatever...its nok**'s fault! ive alrdy apologised to some ppl in person heh...
and thanks jk for letting me use ur trusty, iphone-damn-hard-to-type-ripoff Samsung omnia ii to send msgs that are totally covered under your 500 free msgs heh :) hopefully i'll get a new phone soon.
Promos result back! Quite depressing...its so hard to get A meh? its like only a 3.6.....rite. must work harder next year lor. maybe take econs h3 who knows. But H3 is like the in thing leh...but prob i just dun have the capacity for hard work.
Doing a damn tough balancing act now. PW OP, HCL Os, Exam, Comp, tryiing to run faster, trying to swim + skate (epic fail i suck!) all coalesing into one hell of a stressful post-promos life. oh yeah and those stinky tutorials are back. Argh. Mugging hard is def easier said than done :) i can hardly understand alkenes. Though its quite comforting to know that im only the second most lost person in class, eh JK? :):):)
aiyah dunno whether to take LRSM next yr. damn lag, 18 then take LR. i'll prob take though and see my schedule clash with my mugging . hurray stresssss yay! but thankfully playingda samepieces for LT and LR. hopefully can get distinction...eyer my seniors set such a high standard liao. where got pppl get 82/100 for LT one? but i'll try haha
oh LT = Licentiate of *insert name of music sch here*, not lecture theatre
aiyah want to post some fail blog pics but laszy la. go check out failblog urself, my no.1 humour source! (actually its my only one for now). And the sch banned fmylife. too many RJ students posting there? Go figure.
Random: Listening to Beethoven's 9th Symphony (again). Its really da greatest symphony ever! Just read forums with passionate advocates arguing for their thoughts on the greatest symphony ever. While Mahler 9, Bruckner 8 comes close...Beethoven 9 is just simpler (WAY simpler), but pure genius. My favourite symphonies shld now be in this order (Changes every week)
1. Beethoven Symphony No. 9 2. Mahler Symphony No. 9 3. Schubert Unfinished (gosh its a great work!) 4. Mahler Symphony No. 6 (arghhh the heartbreak) 5. Brahms Symphony No. 1 (gosh i'v discovered how great this work is...AFTER the performance =.= =.= )
Concertos
1. Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 2. Brahms Violin Concerto (deeeep) 3. Sibelius Violin Concerto (new favourite : Mutter ) 4. Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 (heh the last mvmt rhythms are to die for) 5. Idk..mendelssohn? bruch? overplayed sia.
Showpieces
1. ZAPATEADO 2. all musically insubstantial....the usual basket of showpieces i guess
wow just finished watching the Phantom of the Opera movie directed by Joel Schumacher.
Wow, it brought tears to my eyes. Damn surprising, cause im the most un emo guy u or i can think of (srsly)...thus implying the show was really touching. I don't think it was really good or particularly did justice to Webber's brilliant BRILLIANT numbers, but yeah i guess the music alone was kinda enough to make we wanna curl up in some corner and cry. ok that was too melodramatic. Spillover effects (ha externalities) from the movie?
There are some pretty fast guys at Tampines Stadium. How does one reel off 1:10 laps one after another? Hopefully I'l have the answers soon. Oh yeah time to hit the gym soon. Stonewalled considering our sch's gym only opens at 2pm. Yeah i wentat 830am and told a PE teacher in his face "Huh i thought the gym open 24/7". Srsly. Then again upon further reflection, theres no huge orange "7" sign and the greenishlike words "Eleven" plastered across it on top of the gym doors. So i might have been mistaken.
and WOW borrowed a violin from Ambercraft....I think i gained 20% of technique playing on it. Not very expensive, but control is superb and it draws a wonderful mellow sound over the G to A strings, but kinda gets nasal over the higher registers of the E string. Considering using it for the Happy Birthday concert on Tues, since performing well actually garners (jennifer!) good marks for it. Hopefully when i get my real violin back it'll respond as well as this one. The Havanaise running passages are chicken to play on a responsive violin heh :):)
Musing over Lance Armstrong, the World's Greatest Champion by John Wilcockson now. Its quite insightful. And some Star Wars books. Haha im def getting affected by a certain English teacher's claim that all fiction books are useless. Well its true from a GP point anw. An overactive imagination isnt gonna get u far in GP, unless u have zhiyi's imagination and a particularly sympathetic essay qn. Case in point: read his KS bull essay on the revelance of media. couldnt help spelling that way as many pronounce it so.
Btw Wanjiru took the Chicago course record at 2:05:11. Thats around a 7 min 2.4 for 42 km. Just when u thought ur 2.4km timing was ownage.... ....
well its a TV show. Just blew 40 bucks on the second season. Must get the first season to get coherence i guess. but it still sucks! argh! i think 24's too good liao.
finished 1st season of prison break. that sucks too! lol! cant believe they take one whole season
on a ok not so simple prison escape plan. then still not resolved by season's end!!
ultimately 24's still the best.
and I have a !@#@#!@ busy nov/dec ahead of me, finished up nicely by the jan mahler 1 concert.
then school will have started. back to mugging for an alltoimpt jc2 common test 1.
on a brighter note, my fitness is coming back :) its really 80% work, 20% talent i think. actually its sort of like conditional probability. Cause if ur damn talented u will train more. if u suck (like me) then u wont feel motivated to train. Cause u hit this wall of physiological capacity. but dammit i will not get overtaken by random guys on tri bikes at ecp again :)
k this was all typed in around 3 min. going tampines stadium tmr. got two new training partners, for my two fav sports :):):):):):) yay.
PROMOS OVER YEAH. YESSSSSZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. ECP is my new home :):):)
Late night thoughts on listening to Mahler's 9th Symphony
I have officially fallen in love with the Andante comodo of Mahler's ninth symphony. (after 1 1/2 years of trying)
deleted this post cause i dun think im near half qualified to comment on Mahler's monumental work "his last, and greatest achievement- Klemperer", or the great men who have crafted his masterpiece into reality and committed them to disc.
neither am i qualified to comment on Gebrselassie or Bolt heh. Anw the new biography Lance Armstrong- The World's Greatest Champion is out. I'll grab a copy at my local lib heh.
Juxtaposing Hahn's, Perlman's, Rabin's, Shaham's renditions of the fearsome double harmonics section of Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major.
Go listen! Not posting the vid here as it'll screw up my text window. Btw i rmb recalling Rabin being the most perfect! but on this he sounds like some douche bag! Must be a diff rec...or altered sonics.....
on a completely unrelated note, Primrose, the undisputed Heifetz of the viola, playing Paganini Caprice No. 24 in a nifty viola/piano arrangement. Viola suanners,go smash ur violins (or whatever other sacrilegious instruments) over ur knees.
and thanks to RJ's hectic insane lifestyle im losing fitness. like a hell lot of it. wouldnt be surprised if my vo2's dropped to 40 or worse.
yay now im damn unfit
on a side note, probably damn lag but Bolt's broken the WR for 100m and 200m again with a .11 sec improvement over both from Beijing. Bottom line: this guy has done what his predecessors took 17 years to. Clean? Another Ben Johnson? Well we know that dopers are miles ahead of their testers, esp with stuff like MISCERA on the loose. so....well hope he delivers those sub 19.3 and 9.5 performances soon. At 22, and with the maximum tailspeed allowed 2m/s (hope he gets lucky on his next WR attempt eh), he sure has a bright future. Sorry Powell, ur time is up.
butbut the Bolt of distance running has to be Bekele for sure. bekele bekele bekele. Google news his name and you'll see how Bolt has put him in the shade. Everytime i watch a youtube vid of this man, I just wanna call it quits. Someone who can run 9600m then turn in a 53 sec final lap at an average of sub 2.30 per km. CAnt wait till he moves to the marathon. predict he'll shatter gebrselassie's WR by 30 secs at least, given that hes beat him by 2sec over 5k and 5secs over 10k by now. cant wait for his 5k record attempt soon.
k back to mugging, general mood : depressed.
my cardio is horrible.
but my new idol: Kenenisa Bekele. I'll prob go into Armstrong-fanaticising soon. (Radioshack!!)
final note: love M9 now. Must really thank Pierre Boulez and his Chicago Orch for presenting such an objective view! Really touched me unlike the distortions of say a Bernstein. Many great writers and musicians of the 20th century have said M9 foretold cataclysmic events in the 20th century. Go listen, 80 minutes of great music.
Argh this is the second attempt at a new post in...3 days? shall narrate da fail happenings.
Attempted to blog in a library. i mean the library. the rj one. Happily ranted, bitched about (whoops thats for girls only), moaned, grumbled, launched into a tirade against all sorts of things and people (least of all the impending teachers day celebration that was gonna take up 1h of my life. not that it wasnt good. i wouldnt know. whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopsssss xd). Then happily clicked "publish post". whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopsss (second one).
the com screen happily (i would guess so) displayed some runtime error thing. or some other error. bottom line, my post was gone. and this one didnt autosave post unlike my trusty homecom!!! so my heartwrenching, heartfelt 500 word post was gone. moral of the story?
nope its not dun blog in library. its dun blog on an imac in the library. isit a coincidence that the windows coms get snapped up way before the imacs do? oh wait thats why i managed to land an imac after wasting 30 min in canteen talking to random ppl eh....
Anw, didnt blog for a long time....yeah was feeling quite pissed off over a trio thing (some collaboration with rjpianoensemble the piano pros) cause it was gonna get cancelled over clashing with an econs test =.= i understand the rationale, but our stellar and inexplicable music department made it sound like this thing has no precedence whatsoever cause we're not representing the school. OKFINE we're not a sports cca. so?
that being said, I have nothingnothing whatsoever against sportsccas. Music ppl forgive me, but i understand now what sports ppl go thru to get their medals, compared with musicalgroups just exercising fingers and arms for glory once every two years lasting a full 7 minutes on stage (those arent my words). Sports demands a lot from mind and body, music comps to me (well at this level) simply depends on whether an individual wants to turn up for rehearsal or not. and oh yeah whether he/she can be bothered to practice ensemble pieces at home just once a week (honestly, i cant). So...*respect*
That being said, I still love RJchamber more than ever :) but everytime the efforts of our good batch seems to be getting stonewalled. Its like we are damn enthu about a concert than we rush up and grab our instruments and we....hit a stone wall. yeah stonewalled. Wats wrong with having an outside sch concert for just once in our measly two years in RJ? Whats wrong with us putting up a concert in an SYF year? We cant cope? Please, we train once a week. Well, if u can call that training. And some sports groups have two seasons a year. or more. And they certainly train more than once a week (not some of my sports friends though......whoops pon). So whats this about us not being able to cope or whatnot? Thus, I have drawn two conclusions.
1. Not trying to point out the obvious, but maybemaybe just maybe (a tinnylittlemaybe) someone high up and mighty doesnt view music ccas on par with sports? (again this is a JUSTMAYBE)
2. Someone more close to home is invidiously stonewalling us. (yes speculate on this urself. hint? errr that person is kinda old enough to be equivalent to the life of my favourite tree planted outside my beloved hdb block).
That being said, I have two other damn pro music groups, equally pro as RJCE which kicks ass. YO and OMM. Thus I am still getting my musical "training" and "experience" elsewhere. that being said, im still a horrible player, but im improving. How about other ppl just in rjce! hopefully our gallant exco can do something abt this eh. at least lets have one concert outside sch next year eh =) not that I hate the PAC or anything (old PAC joke by nichsien pops up "where do u find corn in the PAC?????
......the corner!!!" ok insert a dramatic pause somewhere and that might actually be funny. oh yeah and insert fake laughter too please. ok backontrack (yeah love running) but err if u have to choose between performing in the PAC and in the NAFA whateveritiscalled concerthall....err only the person who-is-as-old-as-the-tree-outside-my-beloved-hdb-block will choose PAC. oh yeah and two other random people. dun get it, theres always two random people choosing to kiss ass. ) and finally disclaimer...all names implied in the abovementionedpost are err...fictional and invalid? all products of my sick imagination. darn that reminds me of enthalpy change of reaction...its sum of enthalpies of formation of products minus sum of enthalpies of formation of reactants. Yep im mugging chem energetics now for those who are dim witted enough not to realise.
K need to get back to mugging. shall post abt the TWO omm concerts (in five days), us getting the HSBC youth excellence award (YAY WOOT XD XOXO) *btw anyone knows whats XOXO* and err my piano trio thing. and my love life. k bye!
(Disclaimer 2: the love life thing was purely fictional and was merely intended to arouse ur sleeping minds after reading that long post. that being said, no failblog pics today to cheer ya up! cant be bothered. alternatively, u can go there urself at failblog.org. promise loads of fun, laughter, err peace and joy there!)
bye.
(FINAL FACEPALM ADDITION: AHHHHHHHH REALISED THE LIBRARY POST IS BELOW FACEPALM ROLLING ON THE FLOOR FACEPALMING MYSELF). Ok i srsly didnt notice before typing this. BUTBUT the com srsly displayed some error and my post was gone!!!!!!!!! OK I guess I owe RJlibraryimacs an apology eh.....ok....sorry but i still prefer windows. so no apologies :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))