For someone who percolates as much as I do, maybe letting a blog sit and fallow for a long while would not be good for his/her mental well-being.
Putting it down straight, I've had too many ideas on what I wanted to blog about. I also partly blame the strange hours I've been returning home from polytechnic for the past week - evening/night time. I rarely do that - it's detrimental to my physical well-being - but it happened. My brain shorts out at night, and hence I feel hardly inclined to bl
The wooden door swung open to reveal an empty room, much to her delight. She had a most tiring day, dealing with her music assignment with it blasting her ears off twice after both lecturers adjusted the volume of her headphones to unbelievable intensities.
After her ears were 'boxed', the music assignment done, she found herself with enough time to complete her assignment. Taking the advantage, she settled herself at the Mac and proceeded to work on the report that was to be handed in with t
I refer to the poor Epic Critics Club Thread.
Or the club as a whole.
Two-Two has REALLY vanished! So have the other critics!
This does make for great RPG material, being that Jedi Gali and I look like the only living ones. We'd grab swords, shields and shoulder armour and go looking for our missing comrades!
But, yes. The current status of the ECC is not looking great. Someone get a resuscitator and pump her good.
And on life, I had a good time at CCA week today. My print-out
So the count goes...
T: +3, -6
Things:
REMT (Recording, Editing and Mixing Techniques) = 3/4 done
MIDI (MIDI and Synthesis) = DONE
EIC (Effective Interpersonal Communication) = DONE
MUST (Music Theory) = 1/8 done
ET (Ear Training) = DONE
ACTS (Acoustical Science) = yet to start
CRS (Critical Reasoning Skills) = DONE
SS3 Entry (You should know what this means!) = An idea blooms.
Electone Exams Practice = Sight-reading is down the drain.
There's PROGRESS!
And... *points
Hohoho, what has taken a hold of me the past few posts? It looks like I'm on a Sad Keanu roll, but it seriously is depressing. XD
Right, time to plaster a huge smile on my face and be HAPPPYYY!!! And I kid you not, I'm mostly sugar and spice all the time, not Ms. Josey Raincloud.
I've met a share of people who seem to have immovable smiles. They're what I call 'sunshine boys and girls', and I'll throw in laughter - very strong and addictive laughter - in for good measure. How they get
NOT going.
Reason being: I don't think many people would like to fly out of the country for a week or so and fly back, costing more than your regular arm and leg, and you know that there will be cheaper and better options if you wait till next year. I'll be sticking around for Summer in Berklee next year, which means I'll stick around in America, and that means BrickFair 2011 is a much much higher possibility.
Right now, I'm back home in Singapore, for about a month now. 2 more months
The Epic Critics have gone AWOL, so I've been doing the reviews of late. Sadly, our curator has been AWOL for too long a period of time. I'm thinking about a renewal of topic and *gulp* me becoming Curator.
Putting that aside, if I had any complaint to make, it was either of authors saying that 'i need a review becoz i lack reviews' or 'i am in desperate need of a review!!!'
No worries, I solved that problem. The fact that such a problem existed was also fine by me, but the idea of treatin
I finally batted away the music theory monster. T'was tiring, but I did it! And finally with some time on my hands, I came back to see what happened to BZP. I recalled it being down for a while.
First thing I saw when I entered the Library section: Hey, the envelopes are back!
I recall that these envelopes were used during my first year here, when I wrote my first epic. Then the server changed, I think, and the old icons were gone.
Now they're back! Hee!
Maybe Hapori Tohu and Survou
I have good reason to panic.
You see, this is the month where a really big performance is going to happen. Our entire music course has been roped in to perform at the Graduation Concert - not a formal concert, but a background music crew as everyone eats cheap tidbits catered free to the participants and everyone takes photos of their classmates in graduation garb, yadda and dadda.
They forget what goes on behind the scenes.
Our cohort is the only cohort creating gigs for this performan
I'm only in here for a breath, because I forgot remembered what special time of the year it was.
To all who do chance upon this (I'd say all BZPers, to all the how-many-thousand-or-million, yet I know that in reality, I can't shout loud enough to so many ears!),
*takes a deep breath*
Happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy...
Happy (belated) Christmas, Boxing Day, and Birthday to all members born on those dates!
And, in the non-distant future,
Hap
To make myself feel good about today:
T: +4, -5
Things:
REMT (Recording, Editing and Mixing Techniques) = DONE
MIDI (MIDI and Synthesis) = DONE
EIC (Effective Interpersonal Communication) = DONE
MUST (Music Theory) = 1/4 done
ET (Ear Training) = DONE
ACTS (Acoustical Science) = yet to start studying
CRS (Critical Reasoning Skills) = DONE
SS3 Entry (You should know what this means!) = An idea blooms.
Electone Exams Practice = Sight-reading is still down the drain.
If you did a
The lark may as well have been the closest companion to my body clock.
At six-thirty, still in the dark of the morning, I awoke, and went back to sleep again.
When I woke up once more, it was seven-twenty, and the sunlight peeped in at the corners the curtain failed to cover.
Sunlight. Seven-
BREAKFAST!
Trying to get about the hotel room as quietly as I could (since the second occupant was still resting), my fumbling hands and hindered eyesight (thanks to triple-folded eyelids, a
I realised a folly I did back in the holidays.
Actually, a folly of not doing.
I didn't watch two movies, namely Music and Lyrics and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, that I could've watched during the holidays!
Now, school has started, and those two movies no longer play in cinemas.
Other than that, I'm trying to make it up. I'm going to watch 'Play! The Video Game Orchestra' - hopefully am going to watch it - in June, a while after my birthday. My good friend who introduced me to vi
Credit a DJ for his hard work the next time you enter a club.
They have a hard job.
Joining the CCA just proved how hard it could get.
For at least three weeks in the course, I’ve been the under-performer from the DJ class. I could throw in the pitch on the dot, but pairing the same instrumental together was too tough for me. When I stood up and heard very few skips in the piece, my mind blanked out.
What was the difference? Was the edited piece faster, or slower? How do I change it?
I have successfully completed ALL my assignments - all those music-composition assignments that chased me up, down, and all over the walls and ceiling - they. are. COMPLETED!
Furthermore, I honed my prowess in HTML reading - a good friend of mine mentioned upon prompt that her blog was so dismally plain that she had long ago discarded it.
Upon resurrecting it, I assisted her in giving it a total makeover -picture slideshow, music clip of her own music (how awesome is that?) - under an
1) Against the Machine
Today was a big day for me (What a way to start a blog post. ); I was going horseriding! In a place of scarce land and resources, owning a horse was a real luxury. Furthermore, it was really expensive to get the horse itself. I used to go riding for a while, but when my favourite horse died and the prices escalated, I stopped and forgot about it.
So when a holiday course, subsidised to a fair amount by the polytechnic, was offered, I hopped at the chance.
But fir
Just a quick update as I skip around doing nearly everything that's to be done:
Holidays have arrived, as of last Friday. I can't wait for the real holiday spirit to hit, though. I haven't really felt any Christmas vibe around. I've been hurrying back to poly to handle an assignment where studio time is mandatory for a grade. Unfortunately, being the arranger/producer/lyricst of the group had burned me out.
I had to pig out on a Japanese hamburger lunch to get some life back into me today. T
From HH's blog, months ago, but still fun to revisit and try. I will have weird answers - trust me.
Le Soundtrack of a <dd> movie -as told by Windows Media Player-: Opening Credits: 'Trash The Camp' - Phil Collins & N*SYNC, OST Tarzan (A very quirky way to start the show, and very creative use of syllables. ) Waking Up: Nocturne - Secret Garden (Now we wake up in the middle of the night?!), Father Christmas - OST Chronicles of Narnia (Now this is more I like it! I love the movie's
I received an SMS from Kevin - right after my Grade 8 exam - about him having a free pair of movie tickets for that night, two days ago.
It was an apt time for him to send that message over - the exam had killed my mood for the day. Imagine having to adapt a piano score to an organ score on the spot - something I've never done before - and receiving your first aural test as a 5/4 piece. It was daylight murder.
And along came a chance of saving the day from being a poorly one.
I may not
School hasn't been lenient on me. It's the start of a two-week break - and a heavy mugging with 7 assignments due when I return!!
Yet, I really do miss doing all the stuff I did on BZP. Blogging's one of them, and it's been sporadic. Writing - I haven't touched a thing for two months. I've a record of only one critic review for the past 2 months.
So... rather than stuffing myself to death with the assignments, I plan to do a little visit and actually do something here. Sometime soon. When
I'm never, ever, going on stage with sweaty palms again.
I think that was one of the excuses I could bring up to explain why 'Eternity' was not played at its best. What most musicians (not the professional, MusicIndustry-based ones that we all know, like Linkin Park, Norah Jones, and whathaveyou) say was true: In practice you're perfect, but that doesn't count on performance day.
But that did not apply to ALL the groups. There were some that were flawless, some that were mostly flawless,
“Oh, that one out of stock. Will come in only next week."
It was not much to ask people to speak proper English.
Ah well. This is, after all, the Little Red Dot. No where in its name did it say it was an English-speaking Red Dot.
And the acoustical music textbook would have to wait.
With a mumbled word of thanks, I left the store.
That was a bummer. Today's classes were only from eight to ten in the morning, and now it was approaching eleven. I had not intended to make the trip
Well, not quite. It's just that the Chinese have turned it into cake.
If you all know what a mooncake is, then good. If not, go to Wikipedia. At least the information there is quite valid.
This past tool of war - haha - is now a token part of the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, and the Mooncake Festival. (I don't know if there're any more names for this.)
But, what Wiki didn't say was that another way to participate in the festivities is to make mooncakes and le
I really do mean that.
I found out today that Lucky has a sweet tooth. No wonder his teeth were going beyond gone!
I discovered this when I had a better look at his food bowl. I found grains of sugar all over his chicken.
He downed them all at an alarming rate.
It was a relief to see him back at his eating self after a spate of apathy towards eating, but this was the reason that contributed to his weight problem. He's now overweight.
Lucky, sugar puppy, if you weren't so 'dumb
