Last minute rush!!

Just finished technical exams myself, didn't do very well i guess, but did my best so...its up to the judges, Dr loo and Dr chan to judge :(

I myself am gonna be free till after raya where i have to present my orchestration O3 and and also orchestration on scoring for wind orchestra..should start work now i guess :p

Anyway for my coursemates things are not going too well, they just finished technical exams yesterday, then have to rush for tmr's presentation. Thank God i'm only taking the course next sem :)

The H4 room in which we usually use for relaxing was converted into a temporary cyber cafe


all we lack is some people playing dota ( which we usually do as well but today is super packed so we opted not to :p)


Nevertheless....we still love fun. Catherine's birthday was last week, decided to celebrate today. So all of us, left our work stations and....

Yup, as much as we can work hard, and study our brains out and practise our fingers off, we still enjoy having fun :)

Now everyone's back to work and i'm...in a holiday mood :) yeah!! no more work till next week :p

week 12 sem 1 08/09

Week 12.....exam week again....this week...analysis and technical exam...
This is what you'd expect from UPM - Universiti Perperiksaan Malaysia
Week 12 out of 14 study weeks....2 exams in 14 study weeks, not counting finals after the 14 weeks...seems like i never got out of high school :)

Caught some pics of my course mates and juniors...would be nice to say that the reason for these pics were because of the exams, but i can't lie can't i :) they were from last week. For some reason, these were the only postable pics i found on my camera. (being a new blogger, have not gotten into the habit of snapping at everything :) )



Yeap it suits the exam theme very nicely :)

looking forward to next week, which is a one week holiday due to hari raya celebrations. The local unis are very good to adjusting mid sem holidays in accordance to festive holidays, which mean we wont have 1 or 2 days more holidays...good thing is no need replacement class..bad thing is ....no extra holidays..sob..

Plans for next week....sleep...sleep....sleep...oh yea..and assignments..and practice....and....well there goes my holidays....haha

Technical exam is tmr....gonna get blisters on my fingers...scales scales scales....good for skills, bad for flesh..

Its hard to train a technique when you've got a slight "kecacatan" c if u can spot what is different from your hand :)



Answer: shorter last finger...

Its hard to play when you can't reach....but still its not impossible... One of my teachers said that its possible that it may grow longer...that was few years ago. Not that i've measured it, but still it looks shorter than its supposed to be :)

Its almost 4 pm...gotta go prepare to go uni...gonna have a long afternoon...

Thank God for public holidays !

17 September 2008...Selangor public holiday...Yay!!!!

Its been a long time since had a break from classes on a weekend, so all my coursemates..well not exactly all...some of my coursemates and i planned a day out. Most of them wanted to go shopping for evening gowns for the upcoming MPO concerts...of course, that was not why i was there with them hehe..not a chance guys..sorry..at least not now yet :p

Anyway had to wake early to send vivien back to uni, yes she spent a night at our place coz the uni internet connection a bit cacat vista cannot connect so she asked if could come to our place to do her report. Cut the long story short...went to uni and saw this


Seems that the unit keselamatan has been busy...actually the car was clamped the night before already...then well today i dropped by and it was still clamped..meaning that its been 2 days since the owner has driven it..poor car...


Back to my story...sent vivien back to uni then went on my way to Sg Wang...for one thing...Sing K.. haha...yeap thats wht i enjoy doing when i'm stressed out..plus it helps keep me updated with songs too (getting old d lo...haha) oppss..better stop at a gas station first...since the gas went up..this has been something that i see quite frequent




Finally in Sg Wang..initial plan was to park at KTM station then later go back to collect the car before going for the next item, which was lunar mooncake festival celebrations at music house for music department students (since we're all chinese...well at least 99% so we have a celebration every year) but Audrey told me she may need help with transportation for the ukm student outing so i drove to Sg Wang. Reached there at 1020am..Sing 11 am session..so had some time to do some shopping...well window shopping for me, but for the rest...i think they spent most of the time choosing which wallet to buy (don't think all of them bought in the end though)




Since last sem, I have been going quite frequently to karaoke outlets with my coursemates but its been about a month since i last went..kinda lost touch with the songs and, this time was qutie quiet, but we enjoyed neverhteless :)



Halfwya thru, Audrey called and said no need my help to fetch the ppl...my first thought... parking... there goes my $$ well.. at least i can go window shopping..


After hours of walking around the stores, my coursemates bought heaps of stuff, shoes, clothes, accesories...then we went to Madam Wong's for dinner...




After dinner, it was back to UPM for the celebration. It has been a tradition since our batch that hte juniors entertain the seniors for this event. So..all of us were kinda anticipating what the juniors had prepared for us. It turned out to be quite fun..games, food and lame jokes...one lame joke at least...too lame for me to share hehe....






Well, thats it...i guess...nice break from normal routine of mundane classes and assignments...next week will be exam week though....but still i wouldn't miss this break even if its exams tmr :)

Orchestra Memories

Our music department has an orchestra performance each semester.So far, i have been in 5 concerts. As our department is considerably small (esp the last 2 years after the seniors have graduated) we are considerably small orchestra so we have guest players who come and help in the orchestra each sem...well at least for 2 sems now :)

This kinda reminds me of my first orchestra performance, back in first sem...didn't really know much how to play the trombone, went in and tried anyway. Day before performance, the conductor asked me try not to play if i wasn't confident of the tone (which was almost every tone :P) but it turned out well.

hehe those were the days.

Anways fast forward...till recently...the sedaya performance on 12th august (remember it coz it was my mom's b'day hehe).Though played only like 18..or 19 notes, it was cool coz got to meet new people, got to hear new music and well though the organizing college was UCSI, i guess all of us performers feel something when we hear a missed part :P I guess for all of us who went to perform for that concert we have gained something if not just more experience. For me,well 19 notes is quite insignificant, but hey, when you're not playing you learn to listen. And for a musician, listening is as important as playing agree,fellow musicians?


It has been..as Guy Sebastian sings "a long and winding journey" . Now, playing the solo part for Peer Gynt Suite No.2 3rd movement is not a problem for me ...though its just 12 notes of solo but hey at least now 80% of wht mes out from the trombone sounds as it was written :) Transiting from just a mere player to someone who is involved in the organizing comittee. Its something that not everyone can experience. The next concert is like one month away, and now we are only like 30% ready haha...the adrenaline rush will be comming no doubt for all involved, performers, conductor and organizers. But without a doubt, i know that all of us will work hard to make it a success, and that surely the audience will enjoy the performance :) coz unless you're a trained professional musician, most of the time you wont be able to recognize the mistakes :p


Note to self: take more photos of next orchestra

Its august!!

Its august so soon....august...month of first exams, birthday of mom,aunt( they actually have the same birthday but not twins though, i think 2 years apart) and of course not to be forgotten my cousin kim :) not to mention church camp next week, orchestra presentation last week and hmm..what else...well soon it'll be september.

Yesterday went to aunt's house to celebrate mom's birthday. We had pizza, yong tau foo and chocolate fondue. IT was great for the younger ones coz the older generation did not appreciate the chocolate fondue so we had all we could eat hehe..Love family meetings where we can "gossip" about each other :P

Was cool to see my other cousins (who are like 2 yrs old and 4 yrs old) talking jumping around and playing. YEs they're a bit spoilt..but well at that age, most things they do are quite cute hehe. hopefully its just a phase or if they're still like tht when they grow up...i'll disown them hahaha

WAtched the badminton olympic finals. Was quite wasted we lost, but well, at least we got a silver medal :) Go for it malaysian shuttlers!!we can definitely get more medals in the future.

weekend well spent

Almost everyone i know, looks forward to weekends. Everyone's ideal weekend, on the golf course, in the swimming pool, out at the mall with friends, or even just staying at home, locking yourself in the room with the air con on full blast with a cup of hot chocolate(or milo in Malaysian terms) and a good book.

I haven't done all those for a long time, (except for the reading book part) but still my weekends are times i look forward to. How do i spend my weekends? I spend it at church...Yea i can imagine the looks on your faces when you read that, but trust me, its not that i have no life that i wanna hide in church all weekend, you obviously do not know me..hehe

Anyway, i'll just start my story from monday. As usual, monday was just like any normal day in uni, morning 8am class ( i hate 8am classes esp on mondays... :( ) analysis assignments given out, then last class orchestra. Quite uneventful except for the phone call from Hannah which asked me to preach on Saturday. Without thinking much, i just agreed. Then, tuesday and wednesday, also quite normal didn't do much.

The hecticness started on Thursday. Let me recall...10 am class ended at 11, then went to Subang to help Uncle Stanley, he said he needed to rush a job, so had to go.Then after that, met up with Pastor Reuben to discuss my message. Then rushed back home to get my bass (had some time to play with charrise :P) then went to K2 for "family gathering" for the hostel students. After that came back to uni to have my bass class, then haha...went out for a midnight movie. My first actually hehe watched till 4am, then went to my coursemate's house to sleep, didn't want to freak my mom out.

Friday morning, supposed to go to class, then realized, the work that Uncle Stanley passed to me I was supposed to pass to Elliot on Saturday.That gives me like one day to work on, which i dont have becasue i have to go to CF, then go for a performance at klpac. So rushed home to do the work. Then at 12pm went to fetch Paul to go to CF, there was a massive jam, obvouisly something happened in front but nothing would prepare us for what we saw...bad accident, made headlines the next day...

Imagine the scrap of metal on the right side used to be a van....2 people were killed and 5 critically hurt...God bless those who are involved in the accident...

Back to my story, we went to CF and then after that got a call to help scout for a new dvd recorder for the church so went to harvey norman to get price quotations. Then after that went to Serdang to fetch some of my coursemates then went to the performance, a really awesome performance it was. Then reached home at 1+ am.

Saturday, woke early to finish the part of work that i could before passing it to Elliot then went to meet Jason, had a last follow up coaching session with him before handing him to Stephen. Then had a musician meeting. Then met with pastor Reuben, then waited for my turn to preach. This time unlike the previous time, i felt totally confident and also felt that i was in full control of the session felt real good preaching haha. After that had to go home, coz i have yet to finish my analysis home work and orchestraition homework. After 2 days of fun, would have to get back to earth and do work. There were 3 main homework that i was supposed to hand in on monday, plus having guitar class on monday had to practise, time was precious, couldnt afford to waste any minute. Slept at 1 someting as well.

Sunday, finally, had to wake early also coz was going to have breakfast with family before going to church at 830am so dragged myself up..well the rest of the day was quite usual as well, but unusually skipped a meeting. Would have attended if not because of the homework...went home and stayed in the room till12+ couldnt stand anymore went to bed.

Well it was quite an eventful, busy, full packed, and well got to impact lives in the youth and cf, and also had fun really nice haha...

Bad Luck Day

Yesterday, as my friend said, was "bad luck day" coz it seem that few of us in the same course had a bad encounter that day. That friend hurt her finger while getting off a bus, another friend was almost finishing an assignment he had worked on for few days when someone switched of the power to his laptop causing him to the final part of the work he had done (yes had not saved) and i slightly scalded my hand while cooking maggi mee for supper.

Thinking back, yes at that moment it really felt that all of us had "bad luck" yesterday, but looking back, actually its so easy for one bad event to ruin the whole day. We always remember the negative side of things, and not look at the positive side.

Like the story where there was a king who went hunting and lost one finger. He had an aide whom he always brought wherever he go to advise him on matters. When the king lost his finger, the aide said "it could have been worse". This angered the king so he threw the aide to jail. The next day the king embarked on another hunting trip, on which he was captured by cannibals who was preparing to cook him for their meal. While preparing the meal, they discovered that the king had lost his finger. They let him go because it was their tribe ritual to only eat perfect people. The king went back to his kingdom and immediately set the aide free from prison. He told the aide the whole story and again, the aide said "it could have been worse". The king was surprised by his comment and asked "what could be worse?" and the aide replied "if i wasn't in prison, i would have followed you on the hunting trip."

In leach situation there are many ways to view it. how you view it, its totally up to you. :)