Saturday, September 27, 2008
With all the changes taking place in Singapore now, she's sounding increasingly exciting and somewhere I really want to be (thanks to facebook stalking). The arts scene is exploding; imo the performances and exhibitions that are being imported puts her on par with some of the most metropolitan cities. And what with F1 racing... ... The whole country is prob going thru massive facelift and I only wish I could be tehre to witness the change.
The flip side to this is hopefully, when I'm back I get to miss all the roadworks and construction (probably won't though, Singapore will just keep changing and changing and changing)
My favourite area of Singapore is the financial district, the Singapore river, and the city centre just because I love walking amidst the glass and concrete skyscrapers but also wind through the small alleys created by a maze of shophouses. I like to marvel at how far we have come. Also, walking through city centre is nvr boring as there are always random sculptures, different people, shopping malls, en route to wherever my destination is.
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
9:39 PM
# # # Thursday, September 25, 2008
This is my night: tailrecursiontempesttailrecursiontempesttailrecursiontempesttailrecursiontempest
i love my minors moremoremore than my majors.
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
5:05 PM
# # # Wednesday, September 24, 2008
For some unexplained reason I'm deriving all the joy in my life now from practicing tempest over and over and over again. For one, walking into the music school gave me some unexplainable sense of pleasure, listening to the mish mesh of instruments (as well as voice) whilst walking through the maze of (unsoundproofed) practice rooms. Trumpets, violins, cellos, voice, pianos, harps, marimbas e.t.c. The instruments certainly don't make up nice melodies as each practices his own, differing in periods (Chopin, beethoven, gershwin), pieces (scales, or actual pieces,or just tuning), timbre (voice, brass, woodwind, strings), and so on. As a matter of fact, the whole floor is filled with sounds of discords and dissonance, but listening to them all at once makes me feel good somehow.
I don't think tempest is any easier than any of my previous pieces, in fact, its harder then most, but somehow I don't feel sian playing the same passage over and over and over again (and the progress is amazing). And for once, I don't struggle to fill up an hour of practice. As a matter of fact, I can go on and on and on for 3 hours until my back is aching but I still don't realize it. (Of course, it may partly be due to the fact that I chose the piece and its the only piece I'm playing and tempest is just fun) I have no qualms going up to the music school at 10 pm and staying till 2 just to play and play and play the same page over and over again. Totally unexplainable, and it came entirely too late (imagine the wonders this kind of diligence could have done for licentiate) Pity its only a 2 credit course out of the 18 credits I'm doing. But I figured I should play and play while the passion lasts, master the piece well, lest the more strnuous parts of my current subjects come in and take over my life.
More than I ever did in the past twelve years, I wish I had my own piano at home.
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
1:13 PM
# # # Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Every event just drives home the same point over and over again. I have a painful lack of social skills. Maybe the next course of action should be to quit bschool and hole up at home and talk to people i like on the phone until they get sick of me. Then I'll dig a hole and bury myself in it. End of story.
I should stop thinking otherwise and try to go for this kind of stuff, thinking that the past gazillion pieces of evidence pointing to "lack of social skills" are mere coincidences. Cos every time I do the point is just driven home deeper and deeper and deeper. (The next best explanation, I guess, is bipolar disorder (I don't deny its kinda plausible).) And I keep getting tormented with my very own thoughts and paranoia. One day it may even come to the point that I'll find it hard to even deny that I'm really inflicted with a mental disorder. So for the sake of my own sanity, maybe I should just keep to my own comfort zone.
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
1:12 PM
# # # Monday, September 22, 2008
Oh forgot! Last week was cedar poitn! home of the world's best roller coasters! I used to look at the scariest ones at disneyland and tell myself: siao ah, who wants to take those. but after cedar point those are pretty lame hehehe. Ranked in order of favourites (those that i tried only):
maverick:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDqCvwb6e2k(world's best coaster of dunno what year, but certainly lives up to its name! 95 degree drop, i.e. even more then vertical and this cwierdcorkscrew thing)
oh look here's a better video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfdKaLrh9qU&feature=relatedmillenium force:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVPHGIoMdXI&feature=related(extremely large drops!)
magnum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Si_xOp_crc&feature=relatedthis is more fun than scary
raptor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcYj8d8d35wthis also more fun than scary!
mantis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwwo45MsUAU&feature=related
(looking at this i still wonder how i took it)
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
12:18 AM
# # # Sunday, September 21, 2008
Some people's lives are too mundane for me to bother with. But I will still poke and prod around cos it gives me a mean satisfaction in gloating at their immaturity, the trivialities of their lives, the predicability (not that I'm very matured, but its good to know there are peers so much more immature than me *contented smile*)
Went Birch run today and had a veryvery happyyy shopping spree. leather suede jacket ($24, slashed from original 120 bucks), casual jacket (30 from 60) ck jeans (40 from 60)... ...
shit and i'm so tired now.
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
12:44 PM
# # # Tuesday, September 02, 2008
5 days of bliss are over =(
Ann Arbor is filling up and I don't really like it. I feel unused to having to hang around so many people again. againagainagain =(
Looking at all the freshman activities I'm prettyyy glad I'm no longer a freshie. So much social events going on you have to go for them to mix cos otherwise u'll be left home along with nothing to do too.
felt homesick for awhile, all of a sudden. cos someone from a long time ago came talking to me after all these while and it reminds me of those times, when I was younger, when i eagarly looked forward to the end of the year where it was gathering after gathering. i <3 meeting my family friends and relatives, where the boys will introduce me to new games, and/or game with me on the computer.
the closest was prob one of my mum's cousin who is a yr younger then me. i remember him always being the earliest at my place for gatherings. um, i rmb watching him play pokemon and tht was my first foray into rpg. there was this other game, megarace, where we finished. cards was common, esp when everyone else arrived too. when we ere even younger everyone would play tag tgt.
or i'd look fondly upon those few trips my family would take with my daddy's friends. somehow, younger people have more fun. there is less caution, less holds, less barriers. as people grow older, there are more considerations. and people have less time for memories and nostalgia.
i don't want to grow old.
tis xmas, plz stay wit me..
xx
2:26 PM
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