** Musical Performance Involving Singing Is So Not My Thing
So,
I had my practical examination for keyboard, vocal and guitar. Yes, vocal - singing. Keyboard was okay since I play the piano and guitar was slightly okay too but vocal. Gosh. Just thinking about it gives me goosebumps. I was terrible! Told them I am not good at singing with eyes looking at me and there are three pairs of lecturers' eyes! Goodness. Although I was singing with Nisaa, I was literally sweating my palms away! I screwed up the whole vocal practical examination. ;( Now i have to work harder on the aural test and the final examination in order to keep my grades. Sigh.
Anyways,
Three days ago (24th September), we (the whole orchestra group) went to the place we're performing in next Tuesday. Honestly, the external didn't really amuse me. What amused me was the internal of the hall. It is so opera-ish. You know, with the balconies in the hall, the chandeliers, the decorated ceiling, the lights and the drapes. When we entered the hall, we were still in a sleepy mood (we waited for the bus since 6.30 morning and you can imagine what time we woke up) but someone from our group suddenly said that there's actually a grand piano backstage. We froze for awhile and ran to the back and voila! THERE IS A GRAND PIANO covered with dust as if it has been there for years, untouched. We music students, of course, did not hesitate to open it and play it and gosh. Eventhough it is untouched and not tuned for meybe years, the sound is AMAZING. So graceful, elegant, bizarre, remarkable, exquisite, you name it! The sound of it literally blew me off!
Soon, we were called to start our rehearsal and we rehearsed for two to three hours and my fingers were so pain! Although I have been playing the cello for almost three months but my fingers are still soft. WHY AH!?
:(
Rehearsal was okay. I managed to play the running notes for some songs. ;) Then, it was lunch time. We literally gobbled our lunch cz we were so hungry! Haha! After lunch, Stef and I decided to explore the hall. The hall was kinda eerie especially when it was so quiet and both of us went up to the balcony ourselves. The stairs to the balcony is the spiral type? And it is so small that we had to tip toe up the stairs. I have to admit, going up was no problem at all but coming down was suffering! It's like you'll fall ANYTIME. Anyway, when we were at the balcony of the hall, we kinda had goosebumps cz first, the place is messy. Second, it is quiet and third, it looks like some place where people would avoid. Stef and I were quiet the whole time but I managed to break the silence when I look down and saw Nisaa and asked her to take a picture of us. :)
Soon, we heard someone playing the piano and went backstage and saw Ronail, the prof ;) playing it so we sang along! Alva came and he opened the cover (not sure what it's called *smiles*) of the grand piano and I saw signatures somewhere near the strings. At first I thought to myself that those are grafities by some mischievous kids but when I see clearly, those are actually signatures of people who played that grand piano years ago and there's actually dates below each of the signatures. There's 1986, 1987, 1988, 1992 and the latest is 1997. Tha grand piano is already there before I was born! Somehow, I feel that I'm lucky to be able to play that piano which had been played by several great people. Although I don't know who are they but they are all angmohs by reading their names and somehow I always feel that angmohs are really good in music so I assume that they are someone great since they're asked to sign on that piano and I don't think that they'll sign people's piano suddenly right? ;)
Here are some pictures I took while we were not rehearsing. :)
Backstage's mirror with Rebekah, Stef and I :)
This is the grand piano I was talking about and this is Ronail playing Time Of My Life (Dirty Bit) by Black Eyed Peas. ;) He's an awesome pianist!
I even told Stef and Ronail that anyone who play that piano might be haunted since it is so old and dusty and it seems like no one has touch it for years. Haha! As a joke of course. Three of us are still alive and healthy. :)
The view from the hall's balcony! :)
Looks eerie right!!!
*goosebumps*
This is the ceiling of the lobby before entering the hall.
Awesome ceiling/mirror so we ended up taking pictures of our reflections. :) That's Nisaa and I!
I'm obssessed with chandeliers. :)
*crick crick crick*
B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L
Valentine, Nisaa and I!
This is my throne.
This is where we are going to perform!
Can see the balconies anot?!!?
er....?
Miss An Nisaa Binti Yusop
Attempted to look like a pillar with hands and legs.
The Pillar Of Liberty?
Peace y'all!
No idea what was I thinking but I love how my shoe look here so I posted it. What? Have to embrace the beauty of your surrounding okay! Eventhough it's just a shoe.
:)
The pillar is cold okay!
While waiting for the bus, all of us went for a walk.
Embracing my big face.
Whatever.
This is something like the Putrajaya in KL?
Except it's not as beautiful as Putrajaya and not as big as Putrajaya.
This is where we're going to perform next Tuesday!
Attempted to pose as if i'm cutting the roof but failed. @.@
*Oh! Something's wrong with the cello and lecturer is trying to fix it by tomorrow. Crossing my fingers so that the cello will be back by tomorrow! There's a tiny performance tomorrow. ;(*
Quote for the day: Sometimes it's good to not know than to know.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012.
** Meat Or Poison?
Assignments
1. Music (Romantic Era)
2. Music (Compose a kid's song)
- Coursework
- Presentation
3. Music (Popular Music: P. Ramlee)
- Coursework
- Presentation
4. English Language Proficiency (Academic)
5. English Language Proficiency
- Coursework
- Presentation
6. Bahasa Melayu Akademik
7. Bahasa Melayu Kontekstual
8. Basic Mathematics
- Coursework
- Presentation
9. Kemahiran Emosi
10. Pengantar Pendidikan
11. Games: Softball
Assignments are almost done!! *excited* These few weeks are mainly about assignments and with orchestra practice almost every night, I'm pretty worn out by the end of the day.
As some of you might already know, I'm playing the cello in the orchestra. Yes, I know that I've started learning it just for two months and am I crazy if I'm saying that we are going to perform in front of the chief minister of Sarawak and other ministers and all 27 directors from all the institutes? Apparently, our lecturer thinks that we (Ronail and I are the only cellist) are capable of performing since we both have high grades in piano. -.- Hello? I don't think that both of them are the same thing. Sigh. The pressure is seriously on man.
Anyway, I wore cheongsam to class today. The cheongsam isn't like the traditional ones. It doesn't have any splits, neither super short nor long and it has sleeves unlike the traditional ones which has either no sleeves or really short sleeves. I don't think it is inappropriate for class so I wore it after all the rule book said that you can wear traditional attire for classes right. I went to the canteen/cafeteria and someone literally "OI" towards my friends and I and RUDELY called out, "AMOI! YANG PAKAI SPEC! MARI SINI! PUAN ____ PANGGIL." I was like wtf. I have a name and even if you don't know my name, DO NOT FRICKIN OI ME! Apparently, this lovely lecturer of mine said that my cheongsam is too sexy and is not appropriate for class. I was totally speechless. For me, the attire is just nice and just right but for some other people, it is considered as too sexy and inappropriate. One man's meat is definitely another man's poison. -.-
Quote for the day: One man's meat is definitely another man's poison. (too important that I have to re-write)
Friday, September 21, 2012.
** Expect The Unexpected
Sometimes in life, you have friends who do things that you might not like or agree on. This is what happened to me. Landy (the name is changed)
is was a really quiet girl when we first got here. She kept everything to herself and she can hardly open up to the others. When I first saw her, I was thinking what's wrong with this girl? There must be something going on with her life. The first semester of foundation year has always kept the newbies busy for the big event they had to do by the end of that particular semester. So, there will be a lot of practices as we were assigned to perform.
This girl, Landy, she skipped practice over and over again until I couldn't stand it and wrote her a note and told her not to skip practice anymore as what we really needed was practice to make our performance perfect and not to mention, to get marks. She received that letter and came to me, spilling out EVERYTHING and her 'everything' is A LOT to take in for me. Since that day, I felt so bad for not being her friend as what she really needed is a friend. What WE really needed is friends when we're away from home. Friends are important. I started invited her to everything and anything I was doing. (Healthy ones in case you're wondering -.-)
All of a sudden, this girl told me about a really big problem. I offered to help. There's no one who's willing to help and I HAVE TO help her out of it. It's now or never. Wtf. Anyway, while helping her with that problem, I was afraid and called few of my friends in the campus for back-up (kononnya -.-) but none of them asked me to stay and help her but they asked me to go back to the campus. I was really in a dilemma. Despite the things my friends had said, I stayed and stood up for her.
We had some really memorable momments and fun experience. I cherish them all. Eventually, we became really good friends just like Nancy (name is changed also) and I and apparently, Nancy doesn't really like Landy and a huge conflict happened between the three of us. Nancy said that I have Landy and I don't need her anymore. The fact is that I really didn't now that me being close with Landy and having Landy with us is so not okay for her. At last, both of them become distant from each other and I'm in the middle wtf.
Well, that was a few months ago already.
Landy isn't as close to me as she used to be anymore. She found her new friends and she doesn't need me anymore. She even talked behind my back. Oh well. If that is what she wants. I'm hurt because I treated her as my really good friend and have no intention to so called "pakai buang" her. AT ALL. No matter how many times she said sarcastic things in front of me to poke my heart, I'm still there for her. Sigh. Mom is right. If she really understands me and treats me as a really good friend, she will have faith in me. It is already proven that she doesn't cherish me at all and she doesn't even trust me.
So true.
Goodbye Landy. I'm sure she doesn't need me now. At least she isn't lonely now.
Quote for the day: Never play with anyone's feeling because karma's a bitch. Sunday, September 16, 2012.
** Irresponsible People
Yes, I do send my clothes to the laundry and yes, I'm lazy to wash my clothes so what? This doesn't mean that the laundry can mess up with my clothes! It's my property and i thought their job is to clean and wash the clothes only? Since when do they destry people's clothes? Wtf.
The other day, I sent my clothes to Port Laundry where I usually send my clothes to and the next day, one of the employee called me and told me that one of my kurung is ruined and by ruined, i thought that the strings are coming out which is bad enough cz strings coming out will literally destroy the shape of it. So they asked me to go to them and discuss what we should do about it. So I was like okay, fine. I'll go and see but this better solve the problem since going out is quite hard for me. No car okay!!
So i went and i saw my kurung with freakin holes! Not one but 4 or 5!! Major WTF! I was stunned and for a minute i was speechless, holding my kurung, looking at the damn holes and mouth wide opened. They (employees) were smiling at my reaction (WTF so irresponsible!) and the only thing they said was "tunggu perempuan dari pihak atasan ya." Iwas like okay but you better be quick or i WAS expecting them to be quick since i am the customer but hell i was wrong. I waited for like 10 minutes! TEN FUCKING MINUTES!!! When the so-called pihak atasan came, she smiled and asked me what should they do. Are you fucking kidding me? She is seriously so stupid that I was attempted to yell at her ears. Wtf.
They promised to look for the same cloth for the kurung and i was like fine. I thought it was over until when i gpt back to my room, i found out that my tracksuit is gone. Wtf. When i was going to make a complain, i found out that 3 of my other kurungs are ruined too. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE! This is the worst laundry shop i've ever been. People, DO NOT go to that laundry shop.
Quote for the day: Fight for you rights. Thursday, September 6, 2012.
** Back Stabbers
Now playing - Don't Dream It's Over by Sixpense None The Richer
Hands down, i totally agree with the fact that no one's perfect except for God. Altho i agree that no one's perfect, i don't think that anyone should take advantage of this point. What i'm trying to say is that you don't go around, make mistakes, say sorry and repeat the same thing over and over again right?
Anyway, that's not my purpose of this post. There's this person whose name shall not be revealed is trying to get on my nerves. I stood up for you frequently. When everyone chose to leave you behind, i never give up on helping you. I'm seriously very disappointed in you. Fine, you've chosen to treat me this way so i'm not going to kneel down or whatever they usually do just so that you're the friend i used to have. It's your choice and i'll respect.
You have no idea what's my feeling when you did that to me. I'm disappointed.
Anyway, this week or the previous week has been a really stressed week for me. Assignments due the end of this week, orchestra practices till midnight which minimizes my time for my assignmentsssss and the ssss here means ALOT of them. Plus i played the cello for almost a month and i'm expected to play not only a song but 15 songs. Wtf. I haven't even master the fingerings of the cello. I know i'm grade 8 in piano but hello? I don't see how the cello is similar to the piano. Wtf man. AND! We're performing next month. Super wtf! What am i? A genius?? Gosh.
Monday, September 3, 2012.
