Where is it from??

            I slept very soundly throughout the night, it was such a great weather. I woke up this morning after my first alarm rang. And then I heard water dripping down from the top, as if someone is using our shower. I ignored it. It was quite loud though. It continued until I finally woke up after my second alarm rang. I open the door and I found that the water was flowing from the small hose sticking out from our bathroom ceiling. Weird. I can't find any reason for it to have water flowing out. It can't be the rain, can it? This happened before, but It's only for a few minutes. It finally stopped when I took my shower this morning. What is actually happening??

21st century flute music

            I have done my assignment, finally! I went out to print the assignment at a shop opposite our campus just 30 minutes before class starts. Luckily I was in time. We were told not to do things like that, but we did anyway, Haha.. Our lecturers had a concert at UPSI Panggung Budaya featuring flute and electromusic. The pieces played were 21st century music. There was a piece that requires her to change flutes every few notes and there's another one which we can hear lots of bent notes and bird chirping effects from the keyboard. Somehow I don't get what they are playing. Yeah, there are few unique techniques but the melody line is really... erm... I can say not my kind of taste. I find those pieces boring. I tried to listen with all my heart, but still I can't understand the music. Not only me, my coursemates also feel the same. We thought that maybe we still live in the 1900s. Haha...

Holiday?

            Holiday? No, not for us. Kampar's MUF came over to our church for a combined fellowship this morning. I had to wake up early to go to the market to buy some food for them. Thank God I have a someone to drive me there. Bought some food and went to church to prepare the things. I had quite a handful of things to do. I have to prepare the food and at the same time I have to prepare the songs for the praise and worship session. I didn't organize things nicely. I forgot to ask some other people to take over when I was busy practicing songs. But thank God our brothers and sisters are very helpful, they helped out with the job. What supposed to be 25 people from their MUF became more than 30 and what was supposed to be in the afternoon, became morning. I didn't have enough food prepared. Sigh. I got the lesson today. I will me more organized next time when I do things.

Childhood.

            I don't know why, but images of my childhood experiences flashed pass my mind today. I remembered how my elder brother and I used to play around at our uncle's kampung house. We were chasing chickens, ducks.. cats... I know, I'm quite a kampung kid. But to me, that's the best childhood I can ever have! If I have the chance to choose my childhood life, I would still prefer animals and nature rather than iphone, ipad and computers. I miss those days as kid. I have nothing to worry about. But now I'm still thankful that I don't really have anything to worry much.
            I'm still busy with my assignment. Planning to burn the midnight oil tonight to finish up everything. There are things to be done tomorrow and I want my attention on those.

Stressed

            I... skipped Taekwon-do today. It's just because I want to rush my assignment and... I don't like taekwon-do. At least I got to do quite alot of pages. 2 more pages for essay and 4 more chapters for summarizing the chapters. I want to get those done by Monday!! Quite stressed out with this assignment, but I'm more stressed for the upcoming fellowship tonight. My leader is not around and I have to take over the activities for tonight. I hope I can do it. Pray that God will guide me through it. Just got to know that the Taekwon-do instructor was checking through the attendance this morning, and I wasn't there.

Busy?

            As the kemuncak Seni is coming nearer and nearer, our faculty's final year students and lecturers seem very very busy. I can always see them walking around preparing props and costumes, and some busy painting backdrops for the stage. Those involved in kemuncak Seni are also not excused from the busy schedule. Practicing sessions for dances and ensembles are done every now and then, up till night. Preparing for it is really a hard work. I hope that the final results will be good as not to waste our effort. People say that even though it's only one minute on stage, but it requires years of hard work.

Tonal Harmony

Tonal Harmony. I find it quite interesting at first, but I find it quite hard to understand when I reached Tonal Harmony II. I had Tonal class this morning, and I think I have only got less than 50% of the information. I didn't do quite well in the mid-term for this paper. I'm quite worried that I can't get a satisfactory result at the end of this semester because there are quite many subeects that can't score. EDU papers. Sigh.

So grateful to have them around!

            I have only half day of classes today. Seriously, I miss Dr Pat. I don't know... I just prefer her way of teaching. She's coming back soon anyway. Yay! Since I had only half day of classes, I went back home after lunch to continue my assignment. We have to do a portfolio which includes the summary of every chapter, a 15 pages essay based on a topic and forums, which we did every week. It has to be handed in next Tuesday and I hope to get it done as soon as I can. It's quite a big task for me. I just can say that I'm really not suitable for doing anything involving too much words and thinking.
           
             When I was prepared for dinner, I rode on my bike and I realized it can move. It's only then I know that the chain came off. I had to borrow my housemate's bike to go for dinner. After dinner I told my housemate that I need help to fix the chain as I can't do it alone. She was going for supper when I told here that, so she said she'll help me out after that. I continued doing my assignments and was unaware that they were back. I went downstairs to fill my bottle with water and she told me that my bike is fixed! My housemate and another of my housemate's sister helped out with the fixing when I was busy doing my assignment. I was so touched! I'm really really grateful to have such people around me. This is such a blessing!

Lecture, or singing class? Hmm..

As usual, we had another of student's learning and development class this morning. Our lecturer came in and said, hey! let's have an open book test! Whoa.. It's like all of a sudden, without warning. Well, at least it's open book test. I had another quiz which most of us totally don't know about last week. Our lecturer didn't inform us about it directly, but she posted in myguru. Guess it's our fault we didn't log into it so often. These two tests really came as a surprise. It's like they are saying:"Surprise~~~". Gosh.. That's one thing. Another thing is, We had this open book test for an hour, and the other hour he asked our classmates to sing in front of the class. What's the point man?? Wasting time. Come to think of it, even if he didn't do that, he would also waste time by talking nonsense in class. No difference.

Scores

I had practice session for the coming Kemuncak Seni last night. They gave me new scores, again. This time the score is in a lower key. And the worse thing is, the range written is so out of my playing range. It happened before. What I did was transposed it an octave higher. I didn't mind that because that was only a few bars. This time, there are so many parts. When I asked our producer, she just said:"Oh, Is it? Just transpose it an octave higher if you can't play it." Hmm.. Okay... That's what I did, again. Lot's of pencil marks here and there. I was thinking, is it so difficult to understand that my lowest playing range is middle D? How can you write a middle B flat for me? Arranger was sitting next to me during practice. The question kept swimming in my head and I had the urge to post this question to him. Well, at last I didn't.

I hate Mondays.

It's Monday again. I hate Mondays this semester. I think I wrote about it before, but never mind. I still hate Mondays. I know that in order to be a teacher, I must take EDU papers. That's the requirement. But I really, really hate those papers. It's like.. so... boring.. And what I had is two EDU papers in a day. I didn't have that before. It was always only one a day, and two days a week. Suppose I have to like those subjects even though I hate them. I'll try. I really will. Duh.

Christmas is coming!

Christmas, it's about a month away from today. We had our church decorated with the help of our senior who designed most of the decorations. After church today all of us helped to decorate. We made stuffs out of recyclable items such as bottles, newspapers and clothes. All of us sat together in few different groups. Some did the sewing, some did the colouring and some did the decorations. We had quite a fun time together. There was laughter and christmas music was heard. The results of the decorations are satisfactory! Thank God!

Oh! The Sun!!!

When I was having my breakfast, one of my housemate came back from Taekwondo 1. She told me that some other people are using the gymnasium, so they had to have their practice at the field. So I quickly told my housemates to bring along their sunblocks just in case we have to go under the sun too. Alas! We really have to sun! Gosh.. Not again? I was sun burnt the other time.. I won't be that stupid anymore. I applied some sunblock, and I practices only for 30 minutes. I can't stand the heat, because I have not totally recovered. Felt a little dizzy.  Oh please.. No next time... I want our gymnasium back...

Ahem..

I took some cough medicine after dinner yesterday, and the effect will last up till 4am then I will start to cough again. That's what happened during Wednesday night. Well, this morning I can't take it anymore. At about 4am I started to cough again. I went downstairs, made some drink and ate some biscuits. After that I took the cough medicine. It's only then I can sleep well without coughing. Why didn't I do that the previous night? So stupid. Should have done so. At least I learnt my lesson. Haha

Black and white... Useless??

We have a system here in Music Faculty: If you want to use an empty room, book the room in BLACK AND WHITE  before you can use it. Well, that's basically what we did. This afternoon my friend booked the room from 2pm to 6pm. Somewhere between 3pm to 4pm one of our lecturer came in and say: " I asked my student to come here for classed and I planned on chasing all of you out." Why, That's just like so not fair... We have black and white and you don't. Fine. It's ok. We still have lots of other rooms to use. It's just that whether it has a piano or not. Is Black and white not important anymore?

Totally sick

I didn't sleep well last night. I coughed the whole night, I can't really have a few hours straight of sleep. The medicine I got from the clinic is not much use. I felt so tired that I skipped a class today. I went to Kilinik Nabilah for checkup. It's kind of useless. But at least I can have a try on the medicine. Consultation is like, super useless. What can you expect? Free of Charge. I seriously need to have my sleep. Seriously.

Clinic

My cough didn't get any better. During class this morning I coughed quite alot. Well, finally went to the university's clinic for treatment. Actually I don't think it's going to help much. At least I have some medicine to take. LOL. It's more or less like NS clinic. Not much advice. I told her, I have flu and cough. Ok, I give you cough drop and flu medicine. Remember to drink plenty of water she said. That's it. Somehow I feel like it's different from those doctors outside, which we have to pay for. Haha..

Back to class!

It's the end of the holidays, again. We had one week's off for Deepavali and now semester break. Holiday or not, it's already over. We have to get ourselves ready for upcoming tests and quizzes. What's bothering me now is not the exams, it's my health. I had been coughing since last Thursday. Today I felt a little flu coming up. It's really torturing to cough like mad. I feel like my stomach and throat are going to tear apart sooner or later!

Ooops!

I was the pianist for this morning's praise and worship. Something went wrong, or actually it's also considered my fault. The last song's key was lowered, without my knowledge. We have buttons to transpose the keys higher or lower without changing what we are playing. I felt something's wrong when I hit the first few chords. Gosh, it's lower than usual! Then I looked at the bright red light on the left of the board. It's lowered. I can't do anything but to continue playing. Partly it's my fault because I should have raised the key first because it's a request from the singers.

Cough

           Last few days I had sore throat. When it finally recovered, cough started to attack me. I think it's the result of not drinking lots of water during those few days in Penang. The weather in Penang was quite hot, unlike Tanjung Malim. I had been resting at home these two days. Gosh.. I think that's a really long time since I really put everything out of my mind and rest completely with only a little small talk and net surfing. Well.. That's my way of resting. I can't sleep too long or just lie down do nothing unless I'm really really sick. At least I didn't use my brain for anything that needs alot of thinking.

11.11.11?

         11:11, 11.11.11. I see it posted almost all over my facebook homepage. All 1s. Haha.. It's not every time we can see something like this huh? People like to place their important days such as marriages and engagements on these days. To them, it's a easier for people to remember and for chinese, we love 8.8.08. In cantonese, 8 is pronounced as "bat", which rhymes with "fat", which means prosper in cantonese. It's just like a sign that we will prosper if we use the number 8. Anyway, that's just a misc.

Rush!

      Rush, rush, rush! That's basically what we did today. We got ready at 8am and took the hotel van for a tour to Bbukit Bendera, Kek Lo Si, Toys museum and Perarakan. We got up and down the hill within an hour. Went up just for taking pictures as we have only 4 hours to play before rushing to get the 12.30pm ferry and the 2pm KTM back to Tanjung Malim. For me, I think that the toy museum is somewhat quite uninteresting, and it costs me RM10! It's really not worth the price. The place is not as organised as you think it is. You can see some cracks here and there. We didn't have enough time to get in to the perarakan. What a waste.. I really have to visit the perarakan next trip. I rather have my RM10 paid for the perarakan than to the toy museum. People out there, if you are reading this, remember, do not go to the toy museum!

Penang

         We have come to the last day of the camp. We have half day of activities today and we will head off to our homes respectively. I realize that I had sore throat first thing in the morning. Probably because I didn't drink enough water. It became worse and worse. I can hardly talk in the afternoon and I feel very tired and dizzy. After we checked out from the apartment, we went out to find a hotel to stay and we and up in Tunes hotel. The room is seriously small, and the design was like, what in the world the architect is doing?? It's so... Unreasonable to design it that way. Come on! It's small, but you still can design it to be a wider place. You could make lots of people get hurt! Well, at least that was only my friend and I got hurt. But it's really too congested. Ok, no more of that. I went a different way with 2 of my friends because I think I can't stand the heat outside. So we went to Perangin mall to shop. At least it's cooling inside and I can rest a while there. Thank God I didn't get sick so seriously.

If.. Life has a chance to take 2

            If life has a chance to take 2. This is the theme for the camp. As usual, we had praise and worship, workshops and games today. Today pastor Wong talked about Ruth, where he explains the whole book. It's about how Naomi and Ruth made their decisions for the unpredictable future they have and the faith in God that Naomi has. Making a decision is just like opening a door. If you opened the wrong door, close it, and open another door. God will make a way for you. Life, with Jesus, has a chance to take two!

Off to Penang

             A group of 16 people took off from Tanjung Malim to Penang in a 12.20AM KTM. It took us 7 hours to reach Penang. What a long journey! I didn't really have enough sleep. The coach was so cold! It was as if I was sitting inside a refrigerator instead of a train. That kind of kept me awake. Finally we reached there at about 7AM. We had to take a ferry over and from there we took a bus to USM, where the committee members will be waiting for us to pick us up to the apartment. 

             We were so tired when we reached there. I was so tired I wish that I can skip the day's activities just to sleep. We put our stuff in our rooms respectively before lunch. I was so not-in-the-mood during lunch that day. After that we had praise and worship, games, workshops etc. 

             Bible verses of the day: "Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him when he is near." 

                                                                                                                                                 Isaiah 55:6.

       

         "What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?" Matthew 16:2

Camp

I will not be able to go online from Monday to Thursday as I am going for a church camp. I won't be updating my blog for those few days but I hope to catch up everything after I come back from the camp. I just had a bad news last Friday. I was told that I have to stay back for practice sessions end of this week. I was planning to go home and I have not chosen a song for the solo part.

Saul

Tonight's fellowship talked about the story of Saul in 1 Samuel. I think that I was a little like him, the previous me. Saul was jealous of another person for being better than him and even intended to harm him. I had that kind of jealousy too, but not till the extent of harming people. I will think that I am no weaker than other people, why do I get lower marks than other people? Somehow I still take it as a room for me to improve and to find out the reason I got lower marks. Maybe I didn't do what the lecturer wanted and because of that my marks was cut off. Until now, if I have this kind of thought, I will pray and ask for forgiveness. Jealousy kills. So, stay away from it!

Tired

I didn't have enough sleep recently. I'm a very light sleeper and I think that it's really a nuisance. I wake up if I hear any noises, no matter soft or loud and I need complete darkness to be able to sleep. Sometimes I just admire those people who can sleep anywhere and anytime they like. I have to get back my sleep as soon as possible, if not I think I can't take it anymore. I was very sleepy this morning but I had no choice but to go to class. Well, what can I do?

Steamboat

My senior invited my friend and I to her house for steamboat today. I was quite shocked at the amount of ingredients she prepared! There was only five of us there and she prepared the amount enough for eight people! The steamboat was very very spicy. According to her it was their culture at Yunnan to have such spicy food. We ate and ate and ate. It's just too much, we didn't manage to finish all of it. Thanks to her I don't feel hungry at all last night. I was very very full, and I bet all my friends are too!

Quizzes and mid-terms

It's week eight and quizzes and mid-term exams are coming up one by one. I have a mid-term exam first thing tomorrow morning and I haven't started revising. I wonder how am I going to sit for it. Guess I have to burn the midnight oil tonight. I have orchestra practice tonight, so there's not much time for me to revise. Hopefully I'll get in every information I can from tonight's study.

PIano

After a long week's holiday,I have finally make myself practice my piano pieces which I had neglected since the past few weeks. I think that my teacher would not be so happy to listen to my pieces which have broken into many pieces! I better start practicing smart before I lose all my skills in my pieces. Beethoven's Pathetique sonata I was playing didn't have much of an improvement at all. I still have other instruments and subjects to tackle. Well, good luck.