Wednesday, December 31, 2008
photo by ashin
每個孤獨天亮 我都一個人唱
默默的讓這旋律 和我心交響
就算會有一天 沒人與我合唱
至少在我的心中
還有個尚未崩壞 的地方
孩 子 一樣
不 肯 腐壞 的 土壤
再唱再唱再唱再唱再唱
7:32 PM
Sunday, December 28, 2008
couldnt sleep last night so i stayed up to finish
郎朗's autobio( finally!). he's really the best evidence to prove that you reap what you sow. at least six hours of piano a day (that's what i do for a week!)! but i've to admit he's the perfect combination of talent+hard work. he knows what he' playing when he practises. he understands tchaikovsky's romantic sad mood, rachmaninoff's tricky pieces...and he has been through obstacles. like having to leave his mum when he was just a child and moving from Shenyang to Beijing so that he can find a better music teacher. father and son had to squeeze in a tiny apartment when they got there. and trying to crush his fingers against the wall just because his dad suddenly went crazy- really crazy, he asked hin to jump off the building-because langlang didnt seem to listen to his teacher's instructions.
being one of the greatest pianists in the world at the present age of 26, his life's not totally about piano either. to him,
“生命中没有钢琴也是可以继续的”. he made an effort to instill in kids and interest for music. his collaboration with the company of Steinway pianos resulted in the "Langlang Piano" where a small whiteboard is attached to the piano to enable kids to draw or scribble their ideas. he has been to AIDS villages and is currently an ambassador of the UN.
i just hope to gain some motivation from him. when he described the pieces that he plays, i dont know them but i can feel as if the music is flowing in my mind. it's like having a master's class from the book. after reading i think i understand my black and white keys better:)
9:18 AM
when three girls go out, they go shopping. but when mantou, morbid and freak go out, where do they go? national museum! that's what i did with m&m yesterday...we just love being historic people:)
and we chose the right day to go too! it was open house week for the museum and the exhibitions are all free! without that students have to pay 5 bucks for the entrance fee( it was pretty good news for me who's only left with 40 bucks to survive for the rest of hols!)
and for the four hours-it's the longest that i've stayed in a museum-that we spent there, we only managed to view three-quarters of the history gallery! actually i sort of finish looking at the whole thing as i listened to only those that i find interesting. too bad i dont have time to go back next week:( the open house lasts till jan 4.
at night, mom, dad and i went to fiona's and dominic's house. too bad bro couldnt join us:( ehh i'm not sure whether having longer hair at the back is the in thing for guys now-i'm clueless about fad-cos dominic has a similar hairstyle to hjh's. and me and fiona laughed ALOT about sch stuff. one thing i'm sure is that i will miss having sch. especially when jan 1 comes and i've to start paying for the adult price. it's like what
琬仪said
：“ 读书时就想要工作。 工作时就想要读书 。”
9:04 AM
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
my legs are breaking after two consecutive hours of 'nightminton' at bishan with a few family friends and i want to sleep:p so just a short message for christmas:
my biggest wish, that my bro can return home for christmas, will be fulfilled when we see him tmr! and thanks to all who sent me those lovely cards and wishes! merry christmas everyone:)
10:21 PM
Monday, December 22, 2008
we are the champions!
man united ends year 2008 with a wonderful finish- beating liga de quito 1-0 yesterday at the finals of the Club World Cup and taking away the championship crown. not forgetting being the champions of uefa champions league 07/08 and barclays premier league 07/08:)
and ronaldo's not leaving for at least a season. watch your backs -temporary- top two clubs of the epl for the red devils!
8:51 PM
Sunday, December 21, 2008
jiaqian and wanling came over to my house yesterday. i felt like a pig during lunch; the amount of food they ate pales in comparison to mine. this is what happens when your friends are not there to spur you on *looks at shum and kath. and we played monopoly. i hadnt touch that for years. and thanks to yeechung who breaked the monopoly board into three pieces last time, our game pieces constantly felt earthquakes... and i got a free ride back home when aunty and uncle fetched qian!
to the museum we will go, to the museum we'll go, hi-ho-the-merry-oh to the museum we'll go!
9:16 AM
Thursday, December 18, 2008
went changi airport with kath yest evening( fourth time this year)--to meet farenheit! kath, of course wanted to meet wu zun! i'm not considered a fan of them la but cant deny that wuzun has good features so my main aim was to see whether he will be as good-looking in real life:)
answer? indeed he was! we saw him really close up too! the flight was scheduled to arrive at 645 and we arrived early around 5 as we thought there would be a big crowd. surprisingly there wasnt and we managed to stand right in front. we took our time to choose our location (hah kath said i chose the strategic spot and the strategic thing which she never do in the end) and we sat ourselves right at the bend. and we had lots of fun before that imagining what we are going to do.
boy did their fans scream when they arrived. me and kath didnt:) wuzun wore this white cap and jacket-which kath managed to touch a bit- and they moved like super fast. they didnt even shake hands and took only some of the fans' gifts for them. i didnt even have the time to snap a pic! but at least he turned around and say hi!
we ran to the entrance-with a lot of others- when they passed us. the whole thing finished in less than 10 mins, i think. and i was super dazed after that. by both the group and what the fans can do.
and kath asked me whether i would do the same thing for mayday and jay chou. after a long thought, i think no. though jay chou likes to show off-and he has the stuff to show too- i think maybe he would prefer to just arrive at the airport quitely. he's quite a
独行侠 sometimes. mayday...not that they are not good-looking (in fact i think they are getting more and more
耐看!) but what i first like about them is their music. so i would prefer seeing them on stage.
anyway congrats to qian for getting into nchs and becoming my bro's and wanling's junior!
2 more hours to work!
11:02 AM
Monday, December 15, 2008
to all who wanted me to be on facebook: i've just done it.
first impression of fb: SCARY! when i logged in for the first time, there were so many things to do! like who to add? what to put for my profile and stuff? personality tests, keeping a pet (apologies to wanling for rejecting it)... no wonder rui en panicked when she first got onto facebook. i think i sort of did too. not really my type of thing ( i'm not a very sociable person yet, as you can see from my very few blog links. i still cant figure why some people want to break the 500 friends-barrier and keep pets online) maybe i'm slightly claustrophobic. but i shall try this for once:)
to kath: very-suits-kath add! i will help you with the stuff when i can!
goodbye to ashin, stone, monster, masa, you on jan 4:(
but yesss! i'm going to watch joseph cheng for 3 hours on jan 30!
4:13 AM
Saturday, December 13, 2008
yea! no work today! no lah it's not that working's a bad experience but after standing and walking about for so many days it's time to take a break right?
met xinyu for lunch today at cp. i kinda miss those days when we took bus 159 to sch together. we had a longggg talk that we didnt realise we sat in yoshi without ordering any extras for one and a half hours. and apologies to anyone there if we talked um, really loud. she really look a lot like her bro( and she thought the same thing with mine too) but both of us deny it. hope she comes tj:)
random question: to what extent should we feel contented? how much is considered enough?
ehh this is not for a gp essay. just that i suddenly feel maybe i'm a bit over-contended.
teachs' comments : huishian works hard towards her goal. well i do put in effort( i guess) but the problem is, what do i wrk hard for, what's my goal? i realised i've never had one in mind. psle: just let me get enough to get into xinmin. o levels: when the adam khoo trainers ask us to put down our goals for the exams , i remember i wrote: less than or equals to 10. and my friends said, " you can get 6! write it down!" but all i thought was, " that range is enough".
and even now, as i see my friends knowing what they want to do in the future, fine arts, bio, reporters, bankers...i've to admit, i've no idea what i want to do. furthermore, i hadnt thought about it-as i thought i would- since a levels.
我觉得我已经迷迷糊糊，懵懵懂懂地活了18年。not all of it of course but some things are really wasted. i figured that the main reason i took such a long time to reach the grade 7 piano prac exam was because i took 7 years to realise i actually love the piano ( in other words, i spent 7 wasteful years hating it). then another 1.5 years to give up piano for something else which i realised i shouldnt have.
我现在已成为名副其实的钢琴老顽童/ah ma 了！
虾会咸阿虾会咸：人生不能过两次，要挑水还是砍木柴，要弄清楚！
4:13 AM
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
at the start of
海角7号， when the soft melodious background music started to play and the big ship started to move further and further away with the beautiful sunset as the background, i felt like crying.
i knew from the start that it was going to be a great movie.
it was
魏德圣's first movie. and i think it is easy for the audience to see that too. some rough handling of shooting techs here and there, a bit unclear about what he really want to express ( though movie-goers will still be able to get it themselves in the end).
putting the little errors aside, this is the first movie that made me want to cry from the beginning till the end! and cry and laugh ( esp when
茂伯appears! he's truly the
国宝！)
and the concert by the beach! i found myself rocking and singing and tearing along to
无乐不做and
国境之南.
van was and still is a good singer. i prefer his rocky hairstyle now. mom says he sings better than
周董. well i've to agree but
周董still has better talents:)
hope
海角7号can climb up from no.7 in the box office.
i had a whopping time at changi airport with my cousins! actually it should be "cousin" as there were only me, my bro and jiaqian.
apologies if the random photos below doesnt tell you much about the airport. you wont believe we walked three terminals by looking at these:)
me and qian at the same christmas tree which i saw in t2 at a different location 2 years ago.
our *secret* new "victory" pose when bro was AHEM*looks at jiaqian
one of the few photos that bro was willing to take with us.
i cant believe we could have a long( and more serious, heartfelt) talk with our 6-7 age-gap-difference cousin. all along we get along fine and have fun with each other but we've never really talked. i think it's another shuping thing--where age doesnt make a difference.
i really do hope that she can stay with us if she studies in nchs next year. besides the fun part, i'll make sure she doesnt eat her meals for TWO HOURS!! and let her play psp, of course:)
and the outing was THE DAY WHEN I DID THE MOST IDIOTIC THING IN MY LIFE THIS YEAR
1. mistook a girl for jiaqian as the girl's voice was so much like hers.
2. grabbed the wilber pan cd from the unknown stranger and exclaimed "hahh, why you like him?"
3. took me few secs after the stranger turned her head to realise that i got the wrong person.
4. shocked. walked off, jaw dropped forming this BIG 'O' and forgetting to apologise.
well. at least it made a stranger laugh.
4:44 AM
Friday, December 5, 2008
happy 33th burstday
阿信！
went to watch
徐克's 女人不坏 with brother yesterday. was qute excited as both zhou xun and kwai lun-mei are in it.
but guess what the st movie critics rated for the movie? 0.5 star. not even 1! and guess again how many people were seated in the cinema with us during the first screening day--not more than 15! and it doesnt help that a guy who was supposedly a gay screeched at the start of the movie. yes, i mean screeched. i have nothing against them( unless they harrass people with the same gender) but he could have sound lots more nicely female-like.
but i'm glad i stayed on. the film was great, lame but hilarious. and meaningful. and the organisation of the plot was neat, how 3 women became linked to each other when they were complete strangers in the first place. by pheromones (费洛蒙).
zhou xun switched from acting as ancient beauty in many drama serials to this doctor who wears a mushroom hairstyle, nerd glasses and cant find a man to love her. and kwai lun-mei, from the sickly girl in secret to boyish rocker cum boxer.
and during the outing, i managed to get one important thing done for the hols: visit moey. 3.5 years since we last saw each other. i was half-expecting to see this white-haired wavering old lady walking out to meet us but boy, was i relieved to see her look as young( for her age) and as prim, proper and ladylike as i can remember her to be.
i'm glad some things don't change:) i had this overwhelming feeling as i walked past the security entrance to the apartment where she stays, remembering the days when me and my bro walk down the same path under the hot sat sun to learn piano from her.
it wasnt easy to do the same thing for 9 years:)
12:33 AM
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
prom was...not bad. i cant say that it was awesome, that i love prom ( it's impossible given my personality) but it was better than expected (due to friends i suppose). though i broke most of the traditions if wearing contact lenses, doing make-up and hair.
anyway here's some advice from a person who has not wear a dress for 9 years and heels for 6 years( basically that's describing me): choose a bra of appropriate colour if you are going to wear a revealing dress. what i did was to wear one that is on the other extreme end of my dress. without shum's observant eyes and kath to help me i think i would be ehh revealing the wrong thing?
surprisingly me and kath werent full at the end of the dinner. and i went home with the i-feel-like-eating-cup-noodles state of mind. luckily me and sarah caught the last train and lrt home.
didnt sleep straight away as i thought i would. many random thoughts till 3am. yupp surprise.
three best buds:)
sijie loves to pose!
an all-girls class:)
jon and anan. guyyys *shakes head
cold plate! uh is that a correct translation?
shawn ex-2107 mate!
and this is the laksa that i ate day after prom. looks more appetising ba? but unhealthy heh. yummy! i love cockles!
sending shum off tomorrow. no "AH MA AH MA AH MA!" for three months. it needs some getting used to (like that time bro went to tekong and i cry like an embarrasing idiot) but i'll survive.
我很喜欢韩剧《宫》太子李信对彩静说的一句对白:"没有你，我会活下去吗？结论是没有你应该也可以活下去的……但是应该会非常想念……会空虚。"
i guess we as humans will always need to try and adapt. we may think that we cant do it at the start but gradually and unknowingly we're learning to cope. many of us would not have seen ourselves finishing jc life but look where we are now?
but to-you-who-call-me-AH MA: till we meet again, i'll miss you lots.
4:28 AM
photo by ashin
couldnt sleep last night so i stayed up to finish 郎朗's autobio( finally!). he's really the best evidence to prove that you reap what you sow. at least six hours of piano a day (that's what i do for a week!)! but i've to admit he's the perfect combination of talent+hard work. he knows what he' playing when he practises. he understands tchaikovsky's romantic sad mood, rachmaninoff's tricky pieces...and he has been through obstacles. like having to leave his mum when he was just a child and moving from Shenyang to Beijing so that he can find a better music teacher. father and son had to squeeze in a tiny apartment when they got there. and trying to crush his fingers against the wall just because his dad suddenly went crazy- really crazy, he asked hin to jump off the building-because langlang didnt seem to listen to his teacher's instructions.
we are the champions!
goodbye to ashin, stone, monster, masa, you on jan 4:(
but yesss! i'm going to watch joseph cheng for 3 hours on jan 30!
at the start of 海角7号， when the soft melodious background music started to play and the big ship started to move further and further away with the beautiful sunset as the background, i felt like crying.
me and qian at the same christmas tree which i saw in t2 at a different location 2 years ago.
our *secret* new "victory" pose when bro was AHEM*looks at jiaqian
one of the few photos that bro was willing to take with us.
happy 33th burstday 阿信！
three best buds:)
sijie loves to pose!
an all-girls class:)
shawn ex-2107 mate!
and this is the laksa that i ate day after prom. looks more appetising ba? but unhealthy heh. yummy! i love cockles!