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went for GENUS concert. =) i thought it was good in general. technique wise they are very strong, despite some mistakes they pulled off some amaaaazing running notes at amaaaazing speed, and their tone is just ..WOW. when I hear the sound of their guitars i can only think of water... because that's how CLEAN and CLEAR their sound is. =|

i liked their choice of songs better than last year's concert, maybe because i recognised more songs this year and it was easier to enjoy them.

their dynamics was also good i think, the ensemble responded to the conductor's instructions well. =) but i dunno why, although their performance had all the tone colour, the dynamics, the articulation, basically everything you would expect on an SYF score sheet...even though they had all that, i cant say it was a reaally really great concert.

i was impressed, but not touched.

sometimes when you hear something, or you play something, that is so full of feeling and touches deep inside you, it gives you goosebumps. almost as if the music is sucking you in so deeply that the body shivers in response. =D well i just didnt feel that tonight. not even the slightest sensation. but i guess that was the only disappointment i had. =)

they played the jay chou song Ju Hua Tai, which came out reaaaally really nice thanks to the added flute and guzheng. it was really very beautiful. =) ok maybe i just like the song. haha.

oh and they did a rendition of Bridge Over Troubled Water too, which is one of the pieces we are doing for syf. judging from technical aspects they are definitely superior, and we really need to work on our tone! but i think we have more Feeling. more..soul? i dunno, but whenever we play bridge it makes me think of all the trouble we went through, at first we couldnt even get past the first page, and now WOW our only main issue is tone production. and maybe that feeling, that soul is captured in our playing somehow, because we feel more for the song (even though the emotion in question may be hate, etc HAHA) while for the more experienced nus pple it was more like..effortless sight reading. haha.

i dunno.

syf in 3 weeks! i hate thinking about it. its so scary. its not about not winning the desired award. its about feeling scared about not giving off my best. in the end i think my greatest fear must be of Regret.

hmm anyway.

we got back chem paper today! i have yet to get an A for chem (which is really the only subj i have any confidence in) but i did better than JC1 CT and promos, so im pretty proud of that. =D anyway most of my mistakes were careless, i had a minor case of blank-out during the exam which was just fantastic haha since it was org chem which is mostly regurgitation. im so glad i never took bio, since my brain obviously isnt equipped for memorising a lot of things. =|

maths, econs and gp left. but umm since i have 0 confidence in these subjs i will just hope for a pass so i wont have to attend any remedials. =D

ok anyway now my hair isnt so wet anymore so i can stop trying to think of things to write and go to sleep yay =D sleepsleepsleep. i missed prisonbreak yesterday yeaha. just goes to show how important sleep is to me heh =D.

... i feel stupid nowadays cos im getting paid tuitioning my brother for his eng PSLE this year and yet my GP is so blahh. i used to feel better about it cos at one point my brother actually claimed that my help had been...helping him (haha, what a powderful range of vocab) and that was encouraging, but apparently his recent test marks are pretty shitty so i really DONT KNOW.

its like, im already stuck thinking of ways to improve my own gp marks and now im also stuck thinking of ways to improve someone else's eng. wth. but i just keep telling myself im getting paid, im getting paid. haha. welcome to the Material World.

talking about money, im a bit broke right now... because i just spent 30 bucks on a tuner and MR DANIEL WONG STILL HASNT RETURNED MY 7 DOLLARS 35 CENTS YET. well technically im not really that broke, but after paying $10 for gp i will be... and considering i have to make the money in my wallet last until april.. so im surviving on mostly bread that i bring from home and 50-cents redbean/greenbean soup from the dessert stall.

yeah and when i think about how pathetic it is i feel like i cant wait until april. and THEN i will remember that syf is on 19 april and i start having this dilemma of whether i want april to come sooner or not.

everything seems to come back to syf, i really cant stop thinking about it haha. today's pract was quite good though and rather enjoyable too. =)

but i digress. i think i was talking about going to sleep.
ok. sleepsleepsleep =D

2007-03-23, 11:48 p.m..
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