illness and music
Sunday, December 25, 2005 (6:21 PM)
these 2 probably don't sound like they are even close, let alone be relevant but because of illness, i have been spending more time with music for the past few days. the internet seemed to have met joe johnston's honey i shrunk the kids equivalent, thus, the amount of time spent in front of my pc is shrinking proportionally. but i don't really have much to do with those instruments i have at home and all i do is keep playing the same old pieces that i already know. mxtabs has revamped to sputnik or something to that extent where all i could find was reviews. probably coz i still have no idea where they shifted the whole tablature thing to. at least i still have more things to do with my guitar. train for speed, memorise scales. these 2 alone would take lots of time and i'm not someone who would spend 4 hours on my guitar. the most i would spend is probably 2 hours straight then i'll move to my keyboard, play the same old beethoven, mozart, brahms, kiroro and finally turn it off. i'm not even good at any of these pieces. and don't be amazed when i say i play brahms, because i'm playing lullaby. so i decided to find something else to play. i managed to get kevin kern's sundial dreams score, but being a lousy side-reader, i decided to procrastinate a bit since my brain isn't that fresh for me to strain it at score reading for the time being.
i told myself that going through the music theory book once would not be enough. but having gone through once, i'm kinda lazy to go through it again. i'd probably get a few past year papers to try it out, see which areas i'm weaker at then work on that. it'd be easier, wouldn't it? plus, i already know which area i suck at anyway. whoever invented writing pauses in compound time? the book was funny though. it seemed to suggest that bach is a really outdated musician, whenever it mentioned about him.
sweelee is having a sale on 29th and 30th dec, promotion of up to 50% and 'everything must go' according to the marketing poster. if rg1520 goes at 50%, it'd be only $900+ and if pgm300 goes at 50%, it'd be only $700+. i might be going down on friday after work though i might not be getting anything, but somehow, window shopping has an unexplainable effect on human being. and the indescribable pleasure of purchasing is a fetish that people call 'retail therapy'. let's face it, it's a fetish.
i hope to get my desired modules for the coming semester. i'm going to throw 800 points down for the science of music. and see if i'm lucky enough to still get japanese5 at 1 point again. oh ya, results are out. thank god i managed to pass all my modules. surprisingly, i managed to get a cap of 3.1, which i had expected to be lower. then i met farhana online. she said her results are not good but managed to pass. then she asked how i fared. i said i'm pretty satisfied with my results and told her the grades, hesitantly (because she said hers are not good, i thought i'd hurt her ego if i said it too direct). but it turns out, she got a cap of 3.7 and then she realises she shouldn't think her results suck. while i'm doing this, another friend said her cap is very bad - 3.2. -___- the expectations of jc students... then jx, who got a cap of 2.5, said he can continue slacking next semester because, in his words '(he) didn't study still can pass.' he said he would work hard if his cap falls below 2.0. now you see the difference between jc students and poly students.
this coming thursday, i would be taking off for cors bidding and i'm afraid i'd need another day to bid for the breadth module unless science of music opens for bidding in round1a. after that, if i threw all my points down by 5pm, i'd probably join guang at soma's (school of music + arts) trial class though i'm not going to join them and i wasn't invited, but who cares? i will turn up anyway!