THE UNPLUGGED NIGHT 2015

Weeks ago I wish that this event will come sooner because I'm so the excited!! And now, it had just finished.

Yesterday Nek informed me that I'll be assigned to the food counter. I was like NOOOOO YOU ASSIGNED ME TO THE WRONG DEPARTMENTTTTTTTTTTTTTT. Because I'll be busy eating the food instead of helping to distribute the food YOU KNOW!

Ehem. Food aside.

Let's start with our last minute rehearsals which we couldn't do it a day earlier because there was no PA system to be there for us to test sound system.

You know what's the most important thing that a pianist need? A comfortable seat! The moment I sat on the chair the cushion sank so low and I instantly became few cm shorter. -.-

Wei Harn laughed at me (as if he never stop teasing my height) but when he sat on the chair it was my turn to laugh at him because it was too low for him as well AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

In the end everybody need to sit on a double chair ngehehehehehehehehehehehe.

Chairs aside.

PA system came very late and we kinda rush everything. The stars keep dropping and the deco team rushed to stick them on the staircase instead. When it was my turn to rehearse, the moment I sat down, I immediately felt a sharp pain on my legs and for a second I thought I won't be able to do anything tonight.

By 5.30pm, we were asked to drop everything and be prepared for the night.

Then! As I was about to wear my lens! This Gorgor! Entered the crew room! Shouted my name! And said! Lei lou mou lei jor!!

I was like huh? With a blank mind. Nek said your mother came already ah! The event haven't start and my mum came to fetch me back already? Err what? So the funny one? Then only Gorgor said your lou mou from Teesside came already. -.-

I almost wanna throw something at her. -.- Mama came early because he thought the event will start at 6pm. But we couldn't let him in first so he needed to walk around SEGi first. Sorry Mama. :( Papa couldn't make it last minute so I felt bad for Mama to come alone la. :(

Then as I just successfully wore my lens, just about to throw the plastics, someone shouted my name again (somemore with my surname -.-). And it was Wei Harn because there was a bit problem with the water dispenser so I was asked to take care of it. -.-

So Azri and I managed to solve the problem, fast forward, I had very little time to makeup and even change. So Nek did my makeup as usual, but compared to my makeup during White Night, this makeup is nothing la okay hahahahaha!!! I don't care whether I'm performing or what, just some eye shadow plus eyeliner is all I need. I didn't even put on lipstick so I think I looked pale as usual. :P

Then I got pressure out of sudden because YinHao and Hez arrived and I needed to pass them tickets collect their money and I needed to help out at the food counter AND I NEEDED SOMEBODY TO HELP ME SPRAY MY FRINGE!!!!!!

Nick and Wei Harn kinda noticed my state because they told me to stop being stressed so I calmed down and went back to the crew room, found the hair spray, but the only two persons in the room which is Felicia and Ashton didn't know how to spray hair and I got stress a bit again.

And that was when Ken came in!!!! I was like KEN YOU KNOW HOW TO SPRAY HAIR RIGHT?!!!! Of course yes he knows so he helped me to spray my fringe OMG I was so thankful because I didn't want to pin my fringe but if nothing was done I KENNOT see my music notes. HAHAHAHA.

So, fast forward to my first performance, which was to be a flowerpot for Wei Harn because last minute he asked me to help him flip his music scores. Then after that song immediately was my blues, which I did not do well at all. TT At least I didn't stop, and I successfully connected the part where I almost stopped because I played the wrong part. It was just a song with 2 pages. I KENNOT accept why I KENNOT play it flawlessly. :(

Anyway as I left the center and passed by Valerie, I kinda felt sad and told her that I messed it up and she kept on assuring me, no no, you did well, now you should go and change. Her expression and tone kinda made me feel better, so I just left my disappointment and rushed off to change to the SUMC Tshirt for opening performance, which was smooth, and we enjoyed ourselves. :D

After opening performance I rushed to change back to dress again HAHAHA, and prepared for the accompaniment for ballet. Again, it was a smooth performance and I was instantly relax when it ended.

Then I was like a wild horse roaming free, here and there. I couldn't really remember what I did after that. Hahahaha! Probably took selfies with people, chatted with them, feeling hungry looking at the pizzas etc.

I was really grateful that Nick, YinHao and Hez came. Especially Hez! Who purposely woke up early to work for the morning shift so that he can end his work early to attend this event. Those who know him knows how lazy he is and how difficult it is for him to wake up early. :P

And of course not to forget Qing. I'm so happy to have her here with us, and after the event we missed each other immediately because we won't be seeing each other every week already. :(

During our vocalists' performances, half of our crew opened the flashlight in our phones and waved it left right as if we were in the midst of a concert. Very nice effect hahaha!

And we ended with our closing performance, which I'm so glad because this is like the first event I got to be involved in the group picture after the event ended!

David, Brad, Mel and Jason~

The YA Group! Krystle the oh so great vocalist! ;)

Pattern liao liao with Khang Le haha!

Ken, Jo, Ryu Ven and Mama

Gorgor, Shun Ling, Azri, Wei Harn

Felicia, Barbara, Josh, Takeo

Darren with his gf, Vanessa. Hehehe.

After the event, I realised that... I didn't selfie with Angel and Letitita and Valerie and Megan and Nancy and Qerene and Wendell and Jamie and MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL I didn't selfie with NEK and QING (OMG I KENNOT BELIEVE IT) and YINHAO and HEZRIN and NICK(who disappeared halfway,  didn't even get to take a group picture with him).

I KENNOT BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED. I REALLY KENNOT!!!!!!!!!



Oh well.

I'm very blessed that I had the chance to not just be a photographer/videographer/supporter/cheerleader for my friends in an event, but a performer as well. It will definitely leave a huge footprint for me as I graduate and leave this place. Really thank God for every moments with every single person that I met throughout this year. It made a significant memory for me that will not be forgotten ever. :')

CAN WE DO IT?!!! YES WE CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!
PC: Nek

Blues and Blacks

I'll just take back the phrase when I said "I had lots of fun seeing them torturing themselves and the one next to them" YESTERDAY.

Because today I joined them to self-torture and torture the one next to me. -.-

I don't really mind torturing the one next to me because it's NEK! Who always want me to massage her here and there. Ha! This will be my chance to massage her. *evil grin*

And I didn't really get it when they said it hurts until I went back home and started to feel the sore. Which is practically added up from the amount of zumba plus closing performance practice plus self-tortured activity. Yeap, all these pretty sum up and got a total of sores.

Though I couldn't complain much because the rest are much more tired than me especially those who are dancing and involved in doing the after-work when everybody has gone home.

So yeah, it's just sores, and I pretty much walk like a robot now hahahahahaha.


During the rehearsal, the duet song between me and Q was so terrible that basically we had no idea what were we supposed to do and... we decided to cancel it off. It was quite a pain for me because this is a rare opportunity for me and Q to play together and we really put much effort to create the introduction and bridge and ending and discuss our parts. But we agreed to err, let it gooooo because we don't think that it's good enough to perform it. Oh what a sacrifice. :'(

And my blues. Haiyayayayayaya. Such a disappointment. Super disappointed with myself. First of all, I had no idea why the pedal kept on slipping from my foot. It happened when there's a carpet on the floor and it happened again when there is no carpet on the floor. Perhaps it's due to my habit of not stepping on the pedal with my whole foot and just with my toes. I don't know what's my problem because others don't seem to have this problem. :( So we kinda stick the pedal to the floor with chewing gum. Yeap, chewing gum. :P

So, pedal problem solved. 

Next try. I STOPPED when I almost reached the end. I know no matter how bad I play, I can never ever stop LIKE THAT. Music students had been trained to never stop halfway during a performance or exam. But I did. I felt like crying. :( Darren gave me that serious face and told me that I cannot stop and for a second I felt like he's my piano teacher. Hahaha. I know I know.  I promise I won't stop during the performance. :(

BUT. I got an encouragement from a guy that I barely know, and he asked me what's the song name that I played alongside Darren because it's very nice, thought it's a bit short, so it'll be nicer if it's longer. I was like, thaaaattt soooonggg? It was so messy and I stopped halfway and you said it's nice?!

Then he explained that 95% of audience doesn't know anything about piano (okay maybe I should help him to decrease it to 70%) and they won't know whether I have any mistakes or not. The remainder 5% will be.. our internal members I guess? That's why he thinks it's nice because he belonged to the 95%. Ahaha.

A lot of people say that it's a nice song and with that feedback, I'm trying very hard to make it flawless because... it's such a nice song right?! I wouldn't want to ruin the song! *drawing circles on the floor*

Next is the ballet song which is by far my proudest part. Because it has the least mistakes and I think I did quite okay la.

The funniest story of the day was the candid shot of Gorgor and the same guy who said the song is nice from Josh. Too bad my phone was spoiled, I wanted to put the whole Thinking Out Loud lyrics in our Whatsapp group where the picture was uploaded. Especially the part where Ed Sheeran sings people fall in love in mysterious ways~ maybe just the touch of a hand~~~ You'll know what I mean if you watch the MV of this song.*wink wink*

Speaking of Josh, he made me realised that without sleeping for a night will make you super hyper the next day. Basically he's too tired that's why he was super hyper today and couldn't stop doing crazy and annoying stuff, which will make you feel like asking him are you okay? Hahaha.

And and! I forgot to mention that Nek and I kept on cat fighting with each other! Hahahahahaha!!! OMG SUPER FUNNY!!! It's supposed to be firm 4 slaps on each other's hands, but when we learned, we thought of Minions when they fought with each other, like cat fight with each other and screamed tatata balatu!!! (I hate you) Moral of the story: We should not watch any Minions-related movie because you have no idea how much is their influence on us. HAHA!!!



I ciao at 5pm, headed towards K.L, found the shop to fix my phone, and guess what? There's no problem for me to press anything! So I was able to enter my password and use my phone like normal!!! Thank God the trip to K.L wasn't intended to just fix my phone. If not we'll be wasting time because the phone recovered by itself! Otherwise, I need to wait for 2 weeks to get it fixed. -.-

When I reached home I realised that I have a blue black on my palm. Wow. I never knew that palms can get blue black also. Because it's full of meat. I mean flesh. Hehe. Not like knees or elbows you know.

Can you see the blue black at the center of my palm?!!

Honestly saying, I felt happy to get a blue black on my palm hahahahahaha!!!!! Because I never had blue black on my palm before! It's like achieving something BIG lol I must be tired until super hyper like Josh also. Hahahahaha.

Wednesday faster come! Can't wait for you to come!!!!!!!!!!!!

What A Day

Arrived a bit early than usual, so I went to SA to check whether the keyboard is still there, and sure it is! (though there was a bit drama between me and the keyboard but I'll just skip that part bahahaha) So me and Gorgor managed to practice for a little while before I headed to YA where Mike Constantine was invited to speak to us.

Look at the nature, look at the things surrounding you. Who do you think created all these stuff?

It's like asking the chicken comes first or egg comes first question. Or flower comes first or seed comes first question. We learned that atom is the smallest element in Chemistry. Who then, created atom?

It'll just go round and round and round and you'll left with only one answer: GOD created all.

God can hide from you but you cannot hide from God.

Maybe you don't know God, chose not to know God, don't have the chance to know God, but God knows you. And he knows everything about you. :)


So after YA, I went back to SA and started to ask people whether they know what's wrong with my phone or not BECAUSE IT JUST DROPPED AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IT DROPPED ON THE FLOOR AND I RESTART IT BUT I CANNOT PRESS SOME OF THE KEYS SO BASICALLY I CANNOT UNLOCK MY SIM CARD AND CANNOT CALL/TEXT/WHATSAPP/INSTA/FB PEOPLE.

Sorry I just need to caps lock everything because I never tried having a spoiled phone after ONE careless drop. -.-


Jason said I had similar situation with his old phone and that the touch screen and keypad were spoiled. I asked him whether he knows how to fix it, he was like no, engineers don't fix phones. If you ask me to fix a car I'll throw the engine to you.

HAHAHAHAHA! I heard that students studying engineering (chemical/civil/mechanical) are so fed up with people thinking that they know how to fix everything that is spoiled in the whole world because that's not what they are meant to do. Aiyo laugh die me. xDDDD

And seeing the others practicing for opening performance. More like performance for self-torturing because they smack themselves to produce beats so I had lots of fun seeing them torturing themselves and the one next to them. HAHAHAHA!!!!

Me and Wei Harn waited for Q to come and fetch us to their house otherwise we'll be going there by car and Wei Harn needed to carry the keyboard back home which shouldn't be a problem for him. :D But we were kind and allowed him to tumpang tumpang sikit. xD When an instrument name keyboard and its buddy, the cello sit together at the backseat, basically you don't have any space left for any humans to sit. But it's okay for that fella because he's thin enough to squeeze and I didn't really care whether he became a sandwich or not because I was busy playing Q's radio hehehehehe.

Sam Smith oh Sam Smith! His song just appeared whenever I felt like listening to it. :')

So they practiced first and due to the useless phone ngehehe, I had nothing to do other than having my late lunch and reading the MYC! magazine.

I basically treated their house as mine. At first I sat very polite. Then I crossed my legs. Then I sat horizontally leaning against the side of sofa with my legs spreading across the sofa straightly. Then I almost slept on the sofa. -.-

Because the songs that they were practicing are emo slow songs (though very nice) so I was getting ready to snooze off while reading the last page of the magazine when.... a clothes peg was thrown and hit the page that I was reading. And made me jumped up.

Apparently they were finished with practicing and called me to ask me practice but I was half reading and half going to doze off so.. yeah. That was rude because they called me all sorts of names excluding my real name. -.- Thank God the clothes peg didn't hit my head or else I'll faint on the spot. HA!

Practice was okay, but just okay.

Darren kept on taking pictures especially when I looked the worst. Reminded me of that Kangaroo when he still exists in my world. And Wei Harn kept arguing with me. Basically both of them are super annoying and remind me of Kangaroo. -.-


Reached home around 8 something, realising that I was able to survive without a smartphone in 8 hours plus and am still surviving. Don't need a challenge, don't need to make up my mind, I just did it as if it's the most natural thing to do. Peace yo. If I need to choose, I'll choose Whatsapp as the only app that I cannot survive because anything is conveyed to me through Whatsapp. But I still survive anyway. Anything my dear Nek will just text me. Otherwise people will just call me if it's really urgent. And no, whatsapp me with CHECK YOUR WHATSAPP IT'S URGENT is NOT urgent AT ALL.


So basically this was how I spent my day. Juggling between YA and SUMC. Can't wait for next Wednesday.:')

The Singers

Since YouTubers are getting more and more famous nowadays, we can't help by comparing them with the original singers and many of us will be like, he/she sings better than the original singer okay!

Hahahahaha.

I love it more when they cover the oldies. The same song, brings back the memories, but different feeling.

Here's the list of YouTubers whom I like to listen to:
Tiffany Alvord
Sam Tsui
Kurt Hugo Schneider
Jayesslee
JJ Heller 

And the funny/super super geng ones! WOW I TELL YOU, everytime I listen to their covers, I always have goosebumps. SERIOUSLY. Their a capella, WOW. Just WOW.
Pentatonix
Walk Off The Earth

Of course, the instrumental part. But so far I only know these guys, who are really really really geng!! Like super!!!!
The Piano Guys

The only Vlog that I followed, Sonia from Jayesslee and her husband, Andy andddd their little one. :D
Andy met Sonia

Not to forget, Christian singers:
Hillsong
PlanetShakers

For Christian songs, I can't remember the times when I'm NOT touched everytime I listen to them. Especially slow songs. The lyrics just flow into my heart and... it just can't be explained through words.

Hillsong's Hosanna will always be the one that touched my heart the most. :')

Since I'm relating to YouTube, might as well help Nek to promote her channel hehehehe.
Kyedance

FYI, I also got my own YouTube channel! :D But I hardly use and it's for my piano videos only. So no need to promote it hehehehe.

That's for all! ;)

Moon River

This post is not about this song, just a little bit related only. Because I'm listening to this song so I'll just put it as title hahaha.

On my first day of sem break I met my highschool Chinese teacher, Pn Tan at McDonald's! Such a long time since I saw her and she was with her son who is already 4 years old. Wow, time sure does fly fast. :)

So today we had our third practice and this time I brought our cellist 101 to meet the rest of the people. :D

Turned out that.... just a combination of cello and piano of one song need to insert so many things. What to play for introduction? What to play for bridge? What to play when piano is the accompaniment? Left hand play chords, right hand play what?

Right hand takes a rest la. Always do the hard work. xD

And my singing aiyayayaya still so flat.


After the practice Nek said she wanted to tell me something and I felt that it's quite serious because she wanted to call me to tell me the stuff.

I asked is it something bad? She said kinda.

My heart skipped a beat. No, I think my heartbeat stopped for 3 seconds.

First thought: Is it related to....him? O.O

I told her I was having dinner with my parents I cannot cry lea. :'( Just incase it's something that I cannot accept. :'(

And she assured that it's not related to him so I felt relieved. Hahaha.

Obviously it's about my part for our practice and she told me the feedbacks that she got from other people which I already knew.

Scared me wei. Feedbacks are meant to be good thing, not bad. They help you to improve. Not harm you. Hahahahahaha.

I know that a lot of people out there who are only willing to listen to positive feedbacks, and I learned that if I'm willing to accept negative feedbacks or failures with an open heart NOW at this age, I'll not suffer that much when I work in the future. Or anything related to improvement. If I'm not willing to lose, I can't afford to win.

It may be hard, especially when people just tell you straight at the face, but still the old saying, need to open your heart. Hahahaha. And always thank them for telling you the truth instead of saying yeah yeah not bad not bad when what they meant is actually you suck. :P

Though today my brain seemed to be very not cooperative because I just couldn't understand instantly what the others were trying to teach me. So the very blur. They practically want to kimchi-slap me over and over again. :| Even Q who just know them in person also joined in the crowd. So full of lovesssssss. :\\\\\\\\\



So just now from CSI, I learned something.

"You don't choose to live with someone that you know you can live with, you choose someone whom you think you cannot live without."

And I thought of LeAnn Rimes' How Do I Live Without You. Hehehehe.

From another drama, I also learned that sometimes it's not the person that you think will be with you forever, had changed. It's just that from different perspective of people, the characteristic of that particular person is different.

Like the guy in the drama. He is so talented when it comes to sketching. But his ex girlfriend thought that it's just a waste of time sketching unnecessary stuff and instead he should just find a stable job and share the responsibility. He's not caring and he's irresponsible as a man. In the end, they broke up.

3 years later, he met another girl who admires his talent of sketching and framed all his drawings on the wall. And because he knew that he already let down a girl, he learned from his mistake, so he changed to be a caring and responsible man when he's with this current girlfriend.

The same characteristics, from different people's point of view, becomes different and most of the time is the opposite feeling. You may dislike him for this habit but another person may cherish it.

In the end it's just about whether you really understand the person or not. :')


Suddenly I feel like doing some drawing and colouring during this sem break, other than practicing my piano and singing. All the arts-related stuff. Hehehehehe.

STUDY STUDY STUDY WEI!!!!!

Like seriously!!! Once I check my WhatsApp, I'll just glue to my phone especially when the members are all so active at night. Cannot stop giving ideas and talking crap. CANNOT START STUDY.

We are all so excited with the event next month, but me, Nek and Gorgor are the only ones who need to study because it's just us who haven't finish exams! So torturing you know! So excited but need to study!

So how? OFF WIFI OFF DATA LOR!

And why I'm here blogging? Because I need to online to find some revision stuff and here I am. -.-

Sam Smith's voice appears in my mind telling me that I'm crazy. OH HIS VOICE. *faint*

At the very least, my mission is accomplished by dealing with the someone. Hehehehehehe. No need to keep checking my FB message to see whether he replies or not. Like finally. Made me emo sometimes somemore ish.

So yeah, great to have you here and I'm done with my emo-ness while somebody else is starting her emo stage. Baby don't cry~

Ciao ciao ciao!!!!!!!

Well Hello.

After two days of not using laptop to do anything formal, like assignments whatsoever, I feel goooooodddddddd. Never like to use gadgets non-stop. During sem breaks I even ignore my phone till late afternoon.

And soooooo I'm back! Just to check some emails and update a blog post.

Have been quite excited lately, due to the event coming next month, so I've been busy practicing piano nowadays.

First time in my life sitting in front of the piano not for the purpose of sitting for exams! Phew the burden. I can still remember.

It's going to be fuuuuuunnnnn! But look at the date! I've been hearing plans since April I think, and now is already mid-May.

And I've been waiting, no, stop waiting for one week and another for someone to reply my message, so there it goes, another week is gone.

The more excited I feel for the upcoming event, the more I'm reminded that time is running out and soon, half of the year will be gone.


But if slow means steady, I'll take it.


Dear Lord, may I, for the joy set before me, endure with patience the hardship of the trail. When my journey is over, I will see You face to face and live with You forever. 

The Pianists

After meeting Angel that day and proposed our ideas, we immediately created a WhatsApp group for discussion and so I set today as our first meeting.

The venue is Darren/Wei Harn's house at Cova suites so that they don't need to carry the keyboard all the way to main campus.

Our discussion became gossips at the end though hahaha.

But it was great, having  pianists gathered together like this to share our experiences in playing piano, moreover the experiences that we had are accumulated for years so I just felt excited each and everytime someone contributes ideas in our WhatsApp group.

Fun facts of the day:

1) Melissa finally found someone whose fingers are shorter than hers, that is me. Though         her pinkies are still shorter than mine. 
2) Me: why are you here?!!
    Christopher: .......Zhe li shi wo de jia. 
    Turns out it's Darren/Wei Harn/Christopher/Jo's house LOL the SUMC house! xD
3) Barbara is our Clueless Barbara because she lacks of general knowledge. Hahahaha!           We almost wanted to smack ourselves with the questions she asked. :P
4) Darren and me had fun teasing Wei Harn with Qing hahahaha consequences of being           single for too long? 
5) Chatime Matcha latte very nice!


You don't need to fall in love to get your adrenaline started and to get your heart thumping faster than usual. You just need to start doing what you really love with a group of people. :)


Can't wait for the night to come!!!!!!

I kinda miss the old you because now whenever you appear, I feel like you have a motive behind whatever you do. I almost can't feel the sincerity in our friendship anymore. 

Lord, we know that You are good and long for us to come to You in prayer. Thank You for caring about every aspects in our lives. Help us to wait patiently and accept whatever comes from Your hand. 

你的愛是唯一讓我 堅持的理由

Today when I was playing piano, I thought why not I try to learn Leehom's latest song, 你的愛 through playing by ears.

So I started to play around, fumbling through the keys for the right ones, and the chorus appeared! Hehehehehe. I had no problem in doing so for mid range keys but lower range keys seem to be a problem so I've decided to look for the piano sheet.

Anyway, my mum wasn't around when I was playing piano and when she came, I told her that I had managed to compose a song and I played for her.

You have no idea how hilarious I felt when I saw her reaction HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Her eyes almost popped out and her mouth was hanging there halfway hahahahahaha.

Then I said no la, it's Leehom's latest song.

And she gave me a cold stare and continued with what she was doing. Bahahaha.

Anyway, on a different story, me, Ah Min, Poh Ah Poh, Ah Kian and Ah Er had difficulties in deciding a suitable time and date to get together but in the end I didn't manage to join in so Ah Min called and we agreed to Skype after Poh Ah Poh's exams.

We also chatted for a while, and I certainly missed those times when we called each other right before exams to tell how anxious we were because we weren't fully prepared etc.

No doubt I missed those times but I still look forward to, well, look forward. Hahahaha.

Can't wait to Skype with all of them! ;)

Vocal & Guitar.

Friday classes had ended, but me and Gorgor still came to attend vocal and guitar classes.

Vocal was taught by the president of Music Club, who had undergo formal training herself.

Ways to warm up:
- body stretching
- helicopter lip twist
- dog breath (hahahaha)
- gas leaking
- aeiou

The whole 45 minutes we were just doing warm up practices hahaha.

And the guitar class, my guitar was examined by our instructor (who is also a student haha) and said that I need to change the strings.


Ohhhh. We learned Chord C and D today, things that we can learn by ourselves.

But at least I know what's wrong when the chords are not played smoothly.

Determine to learn it well! If I can do it for piano, why not guitar? :D

Jayesslee

Heyyyyy it's already 1st of December! How fast the time passes huh.

So I'm still doing my L & M assignment, and at the same time watching Jayesslee's videos especially about their babies ooohh aren't they cute? And the AndyMetSonia videos too! Such a great couple!

Jayesslee (Gosh I really need to be able to spell this name without the need to check with Google) is one of the 2 reasons why there's a YouTube tab opened in my internet browser. Glee being the first of course. And no, I don't watch MVs. Hehehehe.

So I was scrolling the comments of one of their videos, and I saw comments like "Are they a les couple?"

Err, like whaaaatttt? I know couples do look alike due to facial expressions, but they are waaayyy toooooo alike to be one of them.

THEY ARE TWINS. 

It was one of the funniest comments but hey, it did entertain the rest of us hahahaha.



Sometimes I do watch videos by YouTubers but I get SO annoyed with the vulgar words they use I can just click the big X on the top right side of the browser.

I rather watch covers but mostly by Jayesslee (ooops spellcheck again). They are devoted Christians and I learn from them about Christ as well.

Do you know that Andy and Sonia met in a cell group? And hey, I think their wedding video was the one Nick asked me to watch back then. Like 2 years ago.

Just incase you never watched it, or you wanna rewatch, here's the video! A dream wedding for many of us. Yeah, including me. :P

 

I think it's so cool to get married and give birth almost the same time period as your twin. I mean, their babies are just months apart! How cool is that!

Since I don't have a twin (maaaaannn I don't even have a sibling hahahaha!!!!), maybe the similar situation will happen between me and Farrots.


Bahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Youth Ablaze + Music Club

Youth Ablaze, the Christian Fellowship in SEGi, was discovered by me on the Friday where me, Nek and Ah Gong went to main campus to do some discussion on an assignment.

It's held mostly in the VCR and I never join it on Fridays. Such a shame.

And well, Friday classes have come to an end, left just the presentations. So I still went to uni and joined Youth Ablaze, very ashamed to realise that it's the last day of fellowship for this year.

But it was great to know Christians in SEGi, able to worship God and pray together.

It ended with appreciation by Ms Vicky to those who served and participated in Youth Ablaze, and to her surprise, students too gave appreciation speech to her, for her dedication towards them, and passion in spreading the Gospel. 

And well, we had a late lunch in canteen, which to my surprise, the existence of an Onigiri restaurant.

After that I headed to a classroom upstairs where the Music Club Recruitment had started, and Gorgor and Ah Yi were already in there.

Wanted to join this club since last year with Gorgor because both of us have guitars but no idea how to play it well. I really want to learn, especially plucking.

So, let's hope that we'll have an active year ahead, since it'll be our last year in uni.


Feel so old right now. Hahahahahahahaha.

Do You Wanna Build A Snowman?

Pianoboy did a cover for this song which I had no idea what song it was till he played it.

It's a song from the movie Frozen, which I remember Andrea wanting to watch it so much haha.

The way he played it is so beautifulllllllll. 


Maybe you won't believe that there's a guy, who doesn't smoke, at the same time doesn't drink, at the same time doesn't SWEAR, exists.

But I tell you, it's possible to have guys like this. It's just a little bit too bad that they don't appear in front of me.

I may not know this guy personally, but from his FB, the way he writes about God almost everytime as his status, I know that God is definitely in his heart and he will have Him, in his heart always.

He is just exactly someone that I'm looking for. 






Just maybe someday, I'll find someone like you. 

It's The Big Big D

There was the frog, mini lil frog, trying to leap up the stairs but failed to do so and it was making me and Mummy crazy because of the way it leaped.

Told Kypo, in return she said: "IT'S PAPA!!!!" -.-


So, after the crazy frog scene, I went back to my revision, and received a call from my (ex) piano teacher.

I was quite nervous because first of all, I thought result will be out next month, and usually if she wanna inform her students about their result, she will notify them through sms.

I answered the call, and I heard it.

"Congratulations Jasmine!!! You got a Distinction for your exam!! Very good!!!!"

It was UNBELIEVABLE I tell you. I straight away jumped up and down (yeah yeah yeah, just like the frog, but not as high as how the frog jumped -.-) to the living room to inform my parents.

My reaction was almost the same as what I did when I got my SPM results. If you were there, you probably still remember the crazy girl who jumped up and down while screaming and forgot her home address when told to write on the paper.

BAHAHAHA.


Almost like that, but slightly lesser excited as the time I got SPM results.

I did daydreamed about me getting a Distinction but I didn't dare to dream that much ahahaha. But I was really really happy because I didn't expect it.


Ahem, I would like to propose a toast.

1st, is to God. It was Him who gave me the calmness that I needed and blessings and guidance, all that I needed to make it succeed.

2nd to Mummy, who never ever failed to urge me to practice piano everytime I had the time. If not for her, I might feel lazy to practice piano and didn't have enough discipline. And also for giving the chance for me to learn piano by asking me whether I want it or not when I was small. Hehehehe. Thanks a lot Mummy.

3rd to Daddy (and also Mummy lah hahaha), thanks for paying the piano fees for all these years, and yes! Since I got a Distinction, according to the so-called rules, I don't need to pay them back the fees bahahaha. I literally got exempted from it. xDDD Your money worth it all. =]]]

4th of course to my piano teacher(s). Okay, so I'd changed a few piano teachers and all of them contributed to my piano skills, but for G8, it'll be my last piano teacher of course. Thanks for the patience. I know that I started with very slow progress but in the end, it worth all your energy and time.

4th, muahahahaha. To my college and uni mates. Thanks for being patient (though sometimes annoyed) because I had to reject all your yumcha invitations just to rush back and practiced piano. I know you were very sien with my 'go back home practice piano' phrase. And for giving me the support that I CAN DO IT.



Can't wait to get my cert. It'll be my 1st and last cert with a big D for my practical exams.

Such a perfect ending it is. =')

Last. But not least.

I just realised that I hardly update bout my sem 2 life. Because it's just MPW subjects, so not much to mention.

Anyway, it ended on the 25th of July, with the mini celebration of our class rep's b'day.

Indirectly I've 2 months of sem break, but because there are, I mean were, exams in the middle, and me going for a holiday, so, pretty much it was used up just fine.

I think?

Anyways, I finally finally finally (to the infinity) finish the final grade of piano practical exam this morning, which I used one year and 4 months to prepare.

I did terribly bad for Aural. Argh. Not my best section. And my supposedly greatest strength, Scales, screwed up by me, a bit.

Oh never mind, just have to wait till around 2 months before the result is released. Actually I think I can just know the result by today itself. I mean, it's not required for the exam to be brought to UK and send it back, like the Theory exam. The examiner gave marks on the spot.

I should just walked up to him and ask for my result. But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Do. That. Ngehehe.

For the past 1 year and 4 months, my friends had been listening to my "Cannot eh, have to go home practice piano" till they wanna kill me dy. Hahahaa.


Not gonna touch the piano for a few days first hahaah. After that, start to learn the new song that someone who is so brave, to ask me to play for him. Though I do need longer fingers to play the whole song. :\

Quite challenging, but hey, I'm a G8 graduate. Nothing is impossible.


MACAM YES LA. =P


Though the lessons of piano already finished, same for the exams, but I won't stop playing piano. Never. Because, it's just me, and piano had played its role as one of the biggest part of my life.

So, yeah. Cheers, for being able to finish this journey. It's the beginning of something else now.

Lady look. Duh, of course. xD

0404

One word: ASSIGNMENTS.

Make it two: AND PRESENTATIONS.

All cramped out in 2 weeks. ><

Pressure going up, but with excellent teammates like... KYPO, not a bad thing actually. :3

I believe with God's guidance we'll be able to finish everything off with, eccellente. ;D

Spending almost every night in front of the laptop just to do assignments and do research. AND visiting YouTube to find any videos regarding Leehom's concert in M'sia just recently.

I can't believe that I didn't blog about his concert though I didn't go. :\

3 more months to go for my practical exam. And I'm still, stuck.

Especially aural. Tell you what, that day I did aural with my teacher's help, and I was having trouble breathing.

Because of the singing part and sometimes I just couldn't reach the notes and was singing down the slope. So, yeah. It ain't a myth that you can keep fit by singing. :3

Went to Pianoboy's FB just now (long time didn't stalk his profile dy ngehehehehe :3 ), saw one of his statuses, and think that it ain't no harm for me to share it here.... gua? O.o

He wrote: Gotta practice with a purpose, it is a big time investment for the future. The mark of a musician is not how long one can last practicing their instrument, but by having an aim, a purpose which motivates one to keep practicing relentlessly, effectively and intentionally. Discipline is the key, tough indeed, but the training and perseverance will bear much fruit, not just in the area of skill, but character as well.

If you know him, hush hush. =P

Investment for future because he's a soon-to-be musician, that's his career. But other than that, the words just make sense. Have to key into my mind whenever I practice piano. If not I'll be just suffering. Thanks Pianoboy. =]]]]]]

FIGHTING!!!! ;)

Got a mild gastric on Tues. Felt a lil bit gastric in library, ate something, but felt pain at the stomach part when I was in IT lab. The pain got worse when I went back home and had dinner. It was so pain till it kinda 'pierce through my bone'. And yeah, I was too weak to even move.

Thought it was appendix, but thank God the pain was gone before I went to see the doc. If I went to the clinic during dinner time, I'll be shouting non-stop when the doc pressed my stomach cuz it really really hurt.

Cham lor. Once you have this stage of gastric, it will follow you like, forever. Therefore, I cannot fast. Cannot be left hunger at the roadside. TT


Rumour's getting worse nowadays. No chance to avoid it, no way to avoid it.

Peeps are making us more awkward day by day by saying you-know-what-I-mean stuffs. 

But being someone who was involved in this kind of situation before, I just can say.. I'm very sensitive. Really. 

If losing a good friend is what it takes to avoid misuderstanding and spoiling relationships, I would rather do that. I'm sorry.

Where are our boundaries once upon a time? :\

YEAHHHHHH~~~~~

Finally finished my theory exam of the last grade today. What a struggle. After I stopped piano lessons for 1 year, I kinda forget almost everything that I’d learnt before. Imagine trying to catch up with the questions, argh.

Last year I kept bringing my theory homework to college to do. 

Kypo will be shaking her head and said “Theory.. again....” Kangaroo will be like, “Aiyo you ah, remember don’t bring this thing (homework) out you know? Later scare people off, you know?” = =

And Kypo was a bit frustated with me ‘cause everytime she asked me to go cheong k with her (let’s say there is extra time) I’ll say two words, and always be those two words: PRACTICE PIANO.

Then Kypo will go rolling her eyes. Muahahaha.

Anyway exam was, aaaaaarrrrrgggghhhh. Don’t wanna talk ‘bout it dy.That was at first.

But then I reconfirmed some of the stuffs with teacher, hmm, I think should be no problem. (Y)

And after checking the Italian terms that came out during exam,  thank God it was correct! And thank God that I didn't waste my time memorizing ALL foreign terms hehehehe.

I immediately did a lil bit ballet on the spot.

What? Ballet not hard what. Just tiptoe a bit, turn 360 degrees, and finished it by holding up the ends of your imaginary tutu, then bow down 90 degree.

Ta-taaaaa~!

Kypo's driving test on Monday!!! Wish her all the best!!!!!!!!! =D

亲爱的钢琴男孩

After one year of quitting piano and re-start learning it now, I've come to a point where I realize that, my passion to piano has been decreasing tremendously. 

Where's my musical sense!!!!!

It's like practicing the same 3 songs everyday with no improvement at all and have to stick to them for another 9 months or so and with the disappointment expression by myself over and over again makes me having doubt, that, is it a wrong choice that I continue the lessons? Am I wasting my time and money learning it but still gaining almost nothing at all?

But then again, I'm already here, the G8. Suddenly, I'm not doing this because I love it, but because, I'm already here. That's the fact.



What I can say? 还是得咬紧牙关撑下去。


所以，亲爱的钢琴男孩，请你把你对音乐和钢琴的热诚的十分之一捐给我好吗？ =(

Holi-Holi-Holi DAYS

The 2 major things that revolve around me during this holidays.

Piano, and novels.

Ah, my 1st piece was commented as "here and there", that means it's ok. My 2nd piece, meanwhile, had my feelings which are so so so so fragile as my main meal is glass when I grow up hurt because of one sentence from my teacher.

"You seriously don't know how to be gentle."

TT

Haven't start playing the 3rd piece to her yet, but feel a bit disappointed as I have to give up a jazz piece due to the not-long-enough-ness of my fingers. ( Pardon me, I refuse to use the word "shortness". Ooopps, I just used it. == ) I'll be facing a lot of difficulties of playing the chords huge SIGH. I missed the chance of playing Low Side Blues for G7, and now, history repeat. Can I use extended fingers? If there's any of them, I mean. =D

And play by ears. Trying a few songs like Ding Dang's Qin Ren（叮当-亲人）, Lee Jia Wei's Jian Ao(李佳薇-煎熬）, Adele's Someone Like You, and even try Shayne Ward's No Promises, which SOMEONE suggested to do a duet last year ( me, the piano and him the guitar ), which failed, obviously the plan.

The weird thing is when I play the 2nd piece, I felt some familiar feeling. In the end, guess what? I end up with Song From A Secret Garden hehehehehe. Same thing happens to Ding Dang's Qin Ren（叮当-亲人）.

Have to thanks Pianoboy a lot indeed. Because of him I try to play by ears. Back then I never can understand how my then-piano teacher can play a pop song without referring to any notes, but now I understand.

Oh, speaking of Pianoboy, I saw him last Sunday! As usual walking to his bookshop ( yes his parents own a Christian bookshop in the church) while waiting for Dad to come, suddenly saw him at the counter haha. He was smiling to himself with the sheepishly grin, not sure whether anything great happen to him lately or, because he saw me and recognized who I am ( because I asked him for the piano sheets of What Are Words last year ).

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

So cute la him, got dimples. =PPPPPPPPPPP

EHEM, anyways, back to the topic, 1st week was gone for the Johor trip. FYI, there are 11 JASMINE rice advertisement boards along the highway from KL to Johor. It's a knowledge that you must know.

2nd week, trying to finish 2 things, the novel "The Lovely Bones", which was converted to a movie last year I think, or early this year, a splendid one. And a 500 pieces of jigsaw puzzle. Mum couldn't stand me for doing it, saying that it's very tedious, but in my mind, Jason Mraz's I Won't Give Up appeared, so, I'm not giving it up either. Hey, this girl loves nothing but challenge! Except the fact that the 2 opposite sides of the borders are NOT BALANCED. It's like doing Accounts and you can't have the amount of Assets and Liabilities balanced.Oh wait, I got it balanced already hahahahaha.

Once when I was busy doing it, Mum came up to me and said, I guarantee you can't finish the puzzle.

I didn't look up while squealing don't pour cold----

I was going to say don't pour cold water on me la then I looked up, oh, she was holding a piece of the puzzle which I'd dropped in my room, and she asked, what did you say? while taking back the piece.

Haha, nothing nothing thank you thank you. =P

Anyway, I realized that out of 4 movies that I watched this year, 3 of them are 18PL movies haha. But The Expendables that I watched in Johor was, well, I thought that it was more like a comedy than an action pack. And poor Jet Li. He only appeared for 5 mins. OUCH. 



3 of my college mates are off to Taiwan for a 10-day trip, hope that they can catch a glance of Leehom and bring him back for me. =DDDDDD

随缘

那天学琴，第一首考试曲子弹到一个 trill，问老师这要弹几个音？

在这 2 拍里( minim )可以弹几个音？

还没等老师答我的问题我就自己答自己的问题。

“噢，随缘吧。”

我看笑死老师。

嘿，至少我没说随便弹啊是不？

只所以会说随缘，因为还没练到指定的速度，所以在慢拍子和快拍子间所能弹的音不同，慢时可以弹多几个音，快的话就不能了。

所以我才说随缘嘛。

能弹多少就多少咯，不是咩？


好过我说随便弹，那还得了哈哈哈