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130: Recap 2011

2011-12-30T23:00:00.001+08:00

25 hours before the new year.. It's time to do some recapitulation on what happened for this year.

January: Started my internship job at RTM. Meeting new people and supervised by Leonard, my first teacher when I started studying in UCSI. Basically working everyday, but we had a lot of off days from performance and etc. At least I got the chance to see the behind the scene for shows, no matter how lousy it is. (Seriously, act-playing on the instruments but use music playback at the background???) And I found out my nephew's wife is working in RTM too. End up, all the other chinese colleagues call me 'Biu Sok' as well. ><

February: Chinese New Year. The usual celebration. But I still remember the dinners were nice. I got the chance to chat with my coursin who plays and teaches Er-Hu outside. I got an assignment from my supervisor: to arrange a particular song for 2 vocals with any accompaniment of choice. And I failed miserably. And that prompt me to study more on orchestration. I watched a lot of youtube videos on that.

March: 11 March, The day I accidentally fell down and hurt my elbow in the toilet. So I had a day off with MC. Later that day, Japan had a major earthquake. That weird feeling that I can't forget. I composed Malayan Rhapsody, a small orchestra piece with hidden sarcasm inside. I started recording it so that I can finish my internship.

April: Last month of internship, I finished with the recording. I learnt so much during the process. Now I know that as a project leader, I need to keep my ear sharp. Any small problem in the original recording will be big afterwards. Luckily I got to work with a good sound engineer. He helped me a lot. And soon, I finish up my internship report and wait for the result.

May: I passed my internship, which means, I need to start looking for job now. I submitted my resume in JobStreet and look for jobs everywhere. I the mean time, there's KLPAC symphonic band audition, but I skipped it, I heard that KLPAC standard is low from my friend, so I didn't go. Another reason is.. I was prepared. XD And there's KL Youth Jazz Orchestra (KLYJO) audition too. I gave it a go and now I'm in the band. I'm very excited with it. Finally, a big band!
Ok, back to jobs, I was hoping for a job in KLPAC but they don't need anyone now. And the job requirements for job in MPO needs at least 2 years of experience in events. And at the end, I found the job for a teacher job in Cempaka. I submitted my application and got a call from the boss soon. And quickly got through the audition. I can start the job next month!

June: Started with my first full time job. The pay is quite good. I'm planning to buy a car after I save until I can pay the first installment. Although I'm based in Damansara Heights, I had to go to their Sheras HQ for work because they were doing a musical - Suessical the Musical. It's the first time I got involved in a musical production, I'm pretty excited. My colleagues are nice, some are not as nice though. Soon, I got to know their personality more. I'm playing the alto saxophone part in the orchestra for the musical, there's some clarinet part too. Soon, I had been informed that I need to teach clarinet for the primary school students. And so, I had to pick up that instrument in 2 months. You bet there's a lot of squeeks sound I had made.

July: The last month of the production. I found out there's 3 other new colleagues coming in with me (but they all started a bit later from me). However, the rehearsal for the musical is becoming more and more dull. It's almost the same thing every day. Maybe because I'm in the orchestra side, that's why I don't need to do that much as compared to the sound, or stage team. At the end, the show was a blast. I got to admit, Cempaka has a lot of talented students. Did I mention that the drummer at KLYJO is from Cempaka? So, I was literally see him everyday. His name is Caleb Choo, and he's only 13 years old. I really hope he will continue on being a successful musician.

August: The production ended, back to the Damansara branch. I was nervous about teaching the kids. We doin't have a actual office for ourselves. My workplace is the recorder studio, where I teach recorder and clarinet. It's a small room, but it's good. It's facing a swimming pool. The pleasing and calm water sound always there. And I can see the kid (and the coaches) swimming. We were required to wear formal, as we were wearing production t-shirts and jeans during the musical. I was quite troubled with the transport. The bus from KLsentral to Damansara Height is soooooooo rare. I had to wait a long time, In the end, I had to tumpang my dad's lorry every morning. And my dad always prepare my lunchbox early in the morning. That saved me a lot of money.
Since my workplace is near to Max's place, I got to stay over a few times and he fetched me to work~
He got a little shocked when all my busybody colleagues looking, wanting to know how my dear dragon looks like.

September: I bought my first car! A new Myvi. Learning back how to drive is a bit tough. But I got the chance to practice during the holidays for Hari Raya. Now, I dont need to trouble my dad so much for fetching me, and trouble my colleagues to fetch me back or to train station too.
I'm getting used to the working life here in Cempaka Dmanasara. All the colleagues here are nice. We go out for lunch together most of the time whenever there's chance.
And I get to go to Max's place after work for gym. Finally, I'm getting back to working out. However, the gym is.. not that good. Well, it's 2 ringgits per entry, I couldn't ask for more.

October: I got into my first car accident! DX
Stupid motorcyclist, I never forgive you! And so I ended up having transport problem a bit again. And it's the first time I need to deal with all the procedure to report the police. I'm glad that Max helped me a lot that day. I was supposed to go to his place for gym that day. I'm sorry that I was being ridculous a bit that night. I really had a trauma, I didn't know what to do. I'm glad he was there with me.
As for work, we began to work on the Primary Concert. The theme was Pop Songs. I arranged Lady Gaga/Cee Lo Green Medley for the instrumental ensemble. During the Deepavali holiday, I followed my colleagues to visit Malacca. I can't imagine how much we ate that day.

November: The Primary Concert was a success! Everyone were very happy with the result, although it's very tiring. I was in charge of lights that night. I didn't know how to set up the lighting equipments. I'm glad that my boss and other colleagues helped a lot.
After that, I could focus on the performance for UCSI Contemporary Music Festival, for both KLYJO and my lecturer's band. I really had a lot of fun practicing and performing on stage. Max finally finished with his final project and now can spend more time with me. Now he just need to focue on losing weight. I really hope he stick to what he planned. Hopefully.

December: Holidays! I spent a lot of time with Max, staying over here and there and lots of shopping! Now, I feel a bit sad that the holidays are almost over and school is starting soon...... I want to sepnd more time with Max... Well, it's never going to be enough for me anyway.
And so that's 2011 for me. Hope everyone had a good year and a good year ahead too!!

129: Winter Soltice

2011-12-23T00:45:00.001+08:00

It's that time of the year for Tong Yuen again! I was making them with my mom last night. Every year, I always helped her in this dessert. This year, we tried mixing the mixture with durians! In the end, the Tong Yuen has some durian smells in it.

We made 3 different colours. For the soup, my mom used the Gula Melaka I bought from Malacca. In the end... The smell of Gula Melaka covered the smell of durian, and the Tong Yuen smells like dodoi... ><

Oh well, maybe next year, we'll just use a different method if there's durians again.

128: Shopping

2011-12-22T13:19:00.000+08:00

Hehehehe~ Happy! Very happy!

I had been hanging out with Max a lot for the past few weeks. And we went shopping a lot. Most of it is for Chinese New Year's new cloths. With me working already, I can buy a lot of things. But still, I need to save some money for future purposes.

Here's what we bought as well~
My workout gloves!

Since I'm going to get serious with working out, I decided to buy one pair of these. It's comfortable. But my hands still seems a little small for these. Hopefully it won't wear out so fast.

And I bought a pair of new shoes. Running shoes actually. I didn't expect Bata would have these kind of design. It's nice and it's my favourite colour! I'm only waiting for Max to buy his sport shoes so we can go jogging.

Other than these workout equipments, we bought.. Undies. I'm not going to post the pics here. It's only for me and Max~ We were both very excited about what we bought - Skinwear undies. Skinxwear products are so comfortable!

After some shopping, we had our lunch in MidValley's food court at the top floor. One of the counter is called Pepper Lunch Express. I cann't simply put into words on how good it taste!

It's a hot plate with rice, meat, sweet corn and hidden butter inside.
This is Max's order. Chicken Pepper Rice or something. He added Japanese Curry Powder.

All of the order comes with a bowl of soup by default.

This is my order. Same as Max but added with egg and mushrooms.
I'm gonna try to add cheese, mushrooms, and egg nexttime, it's cheaper that way.

Here's how to eat it. When it's out, it's hot and sizzling. Stir it first so it will cook evenly, and then add in the sauces. There's brown honey sauce and ginger soya sauce (and chilli sauce as another choice). By now, you will smell how good it smells~

Stir it to cook well summore. And now it's ready to eat! Yum!

Other than chicken, there's also salmon and beef to choose from. Anyway, this Pepper Lunch Express is a must try!

Ok, I'm hungry now. Going to have my lunch now.

127: B-day

2011-12-10T13:10:00.001+08:00

Happy birthday to me!!
This year, I only wish for one thing.. Good Health.
With good health, everything will fall into good places. Health is the most important asset one can have after all.

I've been getting weird sickness after I started working. I had HP bacteria few months ago. And then a couple of months ago, I got infections in my urine tract. I went through the treatment, things are getting better (i really hope so).. now, my balls feels weird. I hope it's nothing. I just wish all these problems can vanish through this birthday wish..

126: Back to Gym

2011-12-08T22:35:00.001+08:00

Finally after so long of hiatus, I'm back in to working out in the gym with a friend that just came back from New Zealand for a short break from his study.

To me and Max's surprise, he slim down a lot already, and shape of muscle is starting to appear. He even became so knowlegable in exercises. Giving various tips and advices on working out.

Working out in gym was quite fun today. Having our friend as the temporary trainer and the time we when in to the gym, there's no one inside! We basically can any machines or spaces as we want!

Learning so much from our friend, I've decided to challenge myself again. In one year's time, I want to race up with my friend and see who improve more!! XD
I better start drinking mass protein or whey protein. @_@

125: From Being Dormant

2011-12-06T18:26:00.001+08:00

It's been a really long time since I updated this blog. Many many many things happened: Sickness, up and downs, colleague relationships, going out with Max, staying over at his place, events, performance and so on.

Now I guess I'll start fresh again. Write about life, love and music.

124: Reaching Another Checkpoint

2011-09-03T18:59:00.000+08:00

Its been really long since I updated. Been really busy and not really busy somehow.

Done with the Suessical the Musical, lost my phone, started with teaching, dealing with kids never been easy. There were this Commencement that I need to help out. It was in their Sepang branch: Cempaka International Ladies College.

Big place, right? I didn't manage to tour the whole place because it's so big. It has horse stable, ice rink, futsal court and etc. But I was enjoying the food there very much, it's in buffet style!

After the commencement, my colleagues and I had to organize some performance for the Merdeka Raya assembly. At the same time, I need to prepare exam songs for the students, since their exam is in 3 weeks' time. After that, we will be organizing the Year End concert for the Primary students. I bet we will be pretty busy again.

Work aside, I had been taking public transport to Cempaka Damansara now, and I don't like it. The RapidKL timing is so bad. Instead, my dad fetch me every morning and in the afternoon, I ask my colleague to fetch me back. On Wednesday to Friday, I stayed over at my dear's place. It was really nice of him fetching me around.

Now, I can afford to buy a car and the best part is.... My car is here!! I've been practicing with driving this week. Hopefully I can manage it when everything goes back to normal next week.

This week, Max stayed over at my place for 2 nights~ We had some fun watching Zookeeper at first. Then we go walk around I bought a water bottle. And Max bought himself some Croquette. He likes them very much. And then we went back. I bring him around a little bit as I practice driving. And then next day, I drive him to Metro Prima Jusco. We buy our dinner and walk around. He wanted to buy some gashapon but too bad there's no gashapon that he wants there. Anyway, we back at home and eating while watching tv. I enjoy the time with him and now I miss him a lot...

Now, it's only 1 day left for the holidays.. *sigh* time flies so fast...

123: Half empty glass of water

2011-06-26T15:17:00.000+08:00

It been more than 3 weeks since I started with my full time job at Cempaka. Although my job post is music instructor, but I haven't being assigned to any classes. It's because all the full time staffs are involved with the musicial they are doing this year. It will be performed in the middle of next month. I'm currently playing Alto Saxophone and some minor Clarinet part. Funny that the instrument that I'm used to play is Tenor Saxophone and I'm playing totally different instruments here. It's a good learning experience. Next week onwards we are going to rehearse in the Hall.

By the way, I will be expected to teach Clarinet in the school after we finished with the musical. So, I'm learning up Clarinet at the same time now. And everyone is concerned with me travelling so far everyday using public transport. Now, I really need to buy a car. With my current salary, I can afford to buy one in 2 months time. But... what should I buy? A lot of my friends suggested Myvi, and a few of them said Viva. I definitely need more than RM5000 for a Myvi. Because if I'm getting a Myvi, I want the cd player in the car is able to play music from USB. Yes, Myvi is spacious, heavier, harder and looks cooler, but... if I'm buying the new one, it takes some time for it to arrive here, and my big bro just told me that usually the first batch is not that good. And then, one of my colleague said the Viva is more stable and smaller, meaning it's easier to park.
So I don't know...

Let's wait for next month then I'll decide.
For now, I have to rely on the public transport and other people a lot. I don't like it..

Today, I just came back from the rehearsal for the KL Youth Jazz Orchestra. We are still a small group currently. What I experienced in the rehearsal today doesn't make me feel very good. I've been told about my tone again. Have to get a better mouthpiece... I have been saying that for more than 2 years and I haven't be able to do anything about it. Life been so tough... especially when you're a musician and when your country is not keen in supporting arts. All they want is money, censorship and superiority.
Anyway, I also need time to practice my saxophone, but I don't have any time to do that! After work, I'm tired and sometime I need to teach piano at night. And what I'm earning is not really enough to spend on my saxophone. I need a good mouthpiece, good reeds, saxophone stand, saxophone case, and in the end, a better saxophone. Or I will be needed to buy clarient for teaching purposes...

Life is tough and sad.. It's tougher when you are not able to meet with your loved ones. I've been so busy recently, I work full time on weekdays and saturdays I have to teach piano, and then sunday I have rehearsal with the jazz orchestra... No time to spend with Max. Both of us are quite bitter on this.. I'm hoping that after I get my car, I'll be able to drive to his place and meet him more often. Or hopefully I can join up a gym with him and both of us workout together, it will be great.

However, for now, I'm stuck in between a rock and a hard place. Hopefully time that flows in between, can save me.
Life is nothing but always a half-empty glass of water.

122: Transitional section

2011-05-31T21:41:00.000+08:00

While still being busy with the Charity Concert. I'm going to start working at Cempaka Schools tomorrow. Hope that it goes well.

I need to learn the clarinet quick, because I'm required to teach it. Oh gosh, I just watch the instruction videos in YouTube, it seems about the same with saxophone.. except the mouth embouchure and fingering is totally different!! That's the hardest part. And one more pressure point, how to clean the instrument... ><
I'm not good at taking care of instrument, as you can see what happened to my Tenor Saxophone after 3 years..

Anyway, I heard that I will be helping the Musical production at their school first. I wonder how will it be.

By the way.. I GOT INTO KL YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA!!!!!!!!
YAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!
I was so nervous with the audition back then... *ahem*
Ok, I got the 2nd Tenor Sax. position, I must work hard and learn a lot from the professionals there.
Max and my family are happy for me, though my family was kind of worried about it. About me being able to coup with it or not. I shall do my best!

Now onwards, I shall be more discipline and work hard for my professionalism in my career!
(Never been able to follow my timetable fully until now...*ashamed*) Need to plan what to do!! ><
Life as a endless pursuit of goals.

121: 5 Years

2011-05-30T18:27:00.000+08:00

5 years ago, I was still certain that there's hope that Malaysia can change. Now, I don't really believe that anymore.

5 years ago, I was a closeted gay. Today, I have no problem telling people that I have a boyfriend, and we had been almost 5 years and a half and still staying strong! And he is my first!

5 years ago, I was choosing in between Multimedia and Music. Today, I'm going to be Music Teacher while being a performer from time to time.

5 years ago, I was teaching tuition to kids. Soon, I will be teaching kids in a private school.

5 years ago, I thought that I can survive without a car. Now, I'm planning to invest on one.

5 years ago, I was less than 50kg. Now, I'm almost 65kg. (talking about it, I should eat some snack after I finished with this)

5 years ago, I wouldn't consider performing as a choice. Now, I want to be on stage more to publicise myself more.

5 years ago, I might vote for the current coalition party incharge of the government. Now, no way.

5 years ago, I think that I don't need to go overseas for my pursuit of study. Now, I realized I could have done something better with my result. Too late now. I'll just continue on.

5 years ago, I would consider continue staying in Malaysia. Now, I'd rather go Taiwan.

5 years, 5 years..

120: Panda and the 29 Ways

2011-05-30T18:04:00.004+08:00

Yesterday, I went out with Max to watch Kung Fu Panda 2.

Despite a little miscommunication at first, we both enjoyed the show so much. And we both agreed that we hope it doesn't come out with a sequel after seeing the ending. This sequel's soundtrack, story and animation are much better than the first. We both almost burst into tears in a few scenes, and of course, a lot of laughing scenes. XD

Later we go eat the ShiLin's Oyster Mi Shua, Max didn't like it because of Oysters. And the amouth is quite small. It wasn't really enough for both of us.

Then, later we went to the Annexe Gallery at Central Market for a event called "29 Ways Towards an LGBTIQ-Friendly Malaysia"

We both was new to these event organized by Annexe Gallery and PT Foundation. We enjoyed it very much in the end. Meeting new people here and there.We received a small freebies and a paper with a description on it, upon the registration. And we were told that it is going to be used for an ice-breaking session. Max eyes actually goes O_O a bit. XD
We were early there so we walked around the galleries. And then come back when more people has turned up. We sat down awhile and then everyone was told to find their 'partner's according to the description paper. We all had to match the description with another people. And the whole place goes hectic. XD
People were shouting "number 23! number 23!" after reading the 'answers' on the projector screen. Mine was 15, and found my match after awhile. But poor Max was saying "Number 17? Number 17?" and couldn't find his match. Soon, he heard someone else shouting his number. He eagerly look around where that voice come from. Soon, he found his match.
We talked to our own match a bit while waiting for the others. My match was Ian, frong Subang. 19 years old and studying Public Relation in Taylors. While Max's match was Michell, a old timer for the events. Max even told her that his boyfriend (which is me) brought him to the event. That's not like him for calling me boyfriend. XD But I'm happy with that.
And so, everyone found their match and sat down, with some of the people being standalone, unable to found their match. We all were shown a documentary first about the LGBTIQs rights movement around the region.
Later, we have some of the local activist talked about their experience in a conference held in Jarkata. And followed by some confessions from ex-homophobes. We ended the event with reading out the 29 ways, which is those description we got at first. And... Lady Gaga's Born This Way!

The board they use to paste our thoughts on this event

Me and Max had fun there. I'm grateful (as well as him) that i brought him there. When the event ended, Max told me he is very hungry, because the MiShua is totally not enough for him. So he took one curry puffs served for everyone in the event. I didn't want any of it because I really dislike indian foods. ><
Later we walked out to the Station together. So happy~
From now onwards, we both will fight for our rights. And attend other talks if we both are free.

119: Ending May Day

2011-05-26T11:42:00.000+08:00

Updates! I finally officially not a UCSI student anymore. I'm just waiting for the result. (and do a site visit for completing the whole Internship stuffs' sake, but that's not my part, it's the lecturer's part.)
But still, I'm still have the Japanese Music Concert to worry about. It was a bumpy road to start with.. None of us know how to organize an event, and we all learnt it the hard way. It all started from September last year. Where I finished with my grad and start planning to do something with the SMSA club. At that time, I was looking for bands to perform at the concert, and have total no idea about how it should be organized, logistic and publicity wise. But I was helped with Ling Yn the Public Relation of SMSA last time, she knows a lot of contacts and could do a lot of things. However, soon, she was occupied with her job and studies at the same time. We wanted to do the concert in March, but I was going to be in the Internship program soon, I couldn't do much. So, I let the juniors to deal with it. And then, I was informed that there's one club that wants to do a Japanese related event as well. ITSA. And I met with the ITSA advisor and we talked about how we can cooperate. And since we have almost the same goal, it's best to cooperate (since I didn't know how the process of organizing an event goes). Things get a little slower there, I hear no news about it. I only able to hear a little about the progress. I didn't know that they reselect the committee members, and they put the music students, the juniors are the top 2 position of it. Just because of the ppl from SAO, Bryan, ask them to do so. (Oh, wait, I thought we were going to do it under the umbrella of ITSA?) So, that gave the juniors, particularly, Ling Yn and Weng Sum, a lot of trouble rushing the ppl at the other faculties. The proposal was coming out late, even when we postponed the event to the end of May.
In the middle of Jan-April semester, Juan was particularly harsh on the juniors, plus the fact that another bad-tempered lecturer came in to teach, Eric Li. Ling Yn had enough of it and left UCSI for Aswara. Leaving the project alone to Weng Sum. Since the response from ITSA and the other clubs was really inactive, she decided to cancel off the big event and do the concert ourselves. And then the Bryan ask her to include Animac to do the cosplay thing, at least it will show the other clubs that they should be more active in doing events. And so, we re-group the committee again and delayed the event date again. We were doing fine until they come out with the proposal at the last week for submission. Juan, the SMSA advisor looked at the proposal and say he need to have a meeting with the committee. In the meeting, he mentioned that there's a lot of details missing in the proposal, but we can fix it in the following weeks. So, we listened to him, thinking that he knows better. Later, next week, the committee was informed that SAO won't accept our proposal anymore, consequencely, we won't be getting fund from them. And we got a big crisis. It appears that Juan and Bryan work really differently. And now we had to bear the consequences. The committee agreed to keep together to make the concert happen. We were able to do the event under the name of School of Music, not SMSA. Having lesser time to spare... And now the designers are really late with the design and now only get it to print. And we haven't get sponsors. We are doing the concert without money.. And the committee members are starting to lose faith in the project.

Disasterous.

Oh well, we'll see how it goes.

By the way, I got through the job interview from Sri Cempaka Schools. I'm still waiting for a offer letter from them. I just got a call this morning, Andrew from Cempaka (actually my boss if I confirmed to be working there) will confirm with me.
Last Sunday, I went for an audition to KL Youth Jazz Orchestra in Bentley. Still waiting for the callback.. I have no confidences that I will be able to get in. There's more capable saxophonists out there than me.
I have sent my work to a Call for works from UiTM's New Music Ensemble. No news until now.
I'm tired of waiting.. every single day.

Though, I havent been writing any music at all... Shame on me.

I need to set my goal for my life... what I want to do, what I want to archieve...

118: Mayday

2011-05-03T00:23:00.000+08:00

It's really been a long time since I updated my blog. I guess I was busy with helping out other's Graduation Recital and I didn't have much time to write.

Well, I finished my insternship, along with the requirement essays and what not, except that the lecturers need to go visit me and talk to me and my supervisor, Mr. Leonard about the internship. I'm expecting it to be this week, but I just heard that Mr. Justin is having a holiday or something. I heard that he cancelled all his classes tomorrow. Oh gosh, I want to get it finished! Hmm, at the same time, I'm starting to miss College/University life. The classes, the classmates and so on.
I guess I just need to move on and start looking for job now. Hopefully I get a good one. I don't know what to expect though. I'd do anything to get my monthly income above 1000. (Yea, I know it's a little low but I've been living with less than 500 a month for the past 5 years! Except when I was working as a tutor. ^^;;)

Graduation Recital were fun and hectic at the same time. Imagine I was helping every single of them in the last day. I had to change my cloths for every single show. At least, some of it is fun. I've seen the most creative Graduation show in my whole enrollment in UCSI. It's Ai Jia's grad. I had been working with her on the duet for the Japan Concert performance, and she told me she wanted to perform one of the song in her grad. Sure why not? Throughout the time, she did show me the piano solo piece she's working on - The Sesame Street Theme (actually a Theme and Variations). It's an exciting arrangement on the theme. Aside from that, she showed me how her programme notes look like. And everyone told her that it's too plain. Printing on A4 pages and black and white only. It's... dull.
Until on that day itself, her assistant, Hooi Ching plugged the computer to the projector and a video begun to play when the show starts. It is a puppet hosting the show. Immediately I tell myself, "Wow, this is the first time anyone would do like this in their grad!" And the slide show that go along with the Sesame Street, it made a lot of audience laugh (in a good way). Well, everyone had a lot of fun watching her show. It's really fun! She may not be the best pianist, but she succeed in showing her creative ideas! Well done!
(plus, she gave everyone involved in helping her a Pudding + sweets + thank you note. Yes, everyone. And it was DELICIOUS!!! Next time, whenever there's a chance, I'd collaborate with her without second thought. No, not for the pudding, it's because she's creative! XD)

Derene's grad were quite fun as well, as she focus on broadway musical style more. So, there's a lot of acting involved. Linet's last minutes is quite alright as well.

After all the shows, I finally got a time that I could do anything I want. So, I meet up with Max quite a lot. I'm feeling we are closer and closer more and more. Although he can't visit me because of the 49 days rule, that doesn't stop me meeting him at various places. However, I just want him to finish his final project and start working out. I don't want him to have any excuse for it. I like the way he is, but I don't want him to continue on.. expanding. He changed a lot from the first time I see him. Mmm, talking about him makes me miss him very much.
By the way, I told my mom about me and Max, and she doesn't seems to be bothered about it. Until now, she didn't even bring it up and try to change me. However, I don't really know how she really feels about it. Well, you never know.

Now, it's May. I shall start working on more composition, practice more, draw when I don't feel like doing those I mentioned, and go to the gym more. And stop sticking in front of the computer so much. Facebook is getting boring. I just use it to check out status and updates and communicate with the Japanese Concert team.

Tomorrow I shall send in my resume to the companies... hopefully I get employed well.

117: Internship Week 12

2011-03-25T16:12:00.001+08:00

Resumed recording: Recorded the Oboe, Bassoon on Wednesday. Found some mistakes with the timing for the flute part. So, I need to re-record it again. Next day, I did a few editing with the recorded parts to fix some of the timing issues. Then, I did recording on Tambourine and Clarinet. Worked out some issues with the engineer. And then, I asked the flutist to record her part again. And then, did more editing with the recording, and have a rough mix of the project.

Friday, asked the flutist to record her part again. It went well. And I did a rough mix with the engineer.

Nowadays, it's so tiring. I can't wait to finish my internship. I don't want to be here anymore. There's nothing for me to do anyway. However, I did learn a lot of things here. Especially handling Recording sessions.

116: Internship week 11

2011-03-14T16:04:00.000+08:00

Week 11:
Finally back to the office, thinking of resuming my recording session. Realized that some of the woodwind instruments players are not around. So, I had to just record what I have for now. Recorded Flute, Trumpet and Trombone part for the day. Decided to use my programmed Timpani sound. Realized a few part in Trombone need to be altered. I should have written lower and slower part for Trombone. The most problematic part of the project is still at the accelerating part. The tempo changes is hard to archive in recording. But the situation is much better, at least I know how to handle the situation now.

115: Internship week 9-10

2011-03-09T10:00:00.002+08:00

Week 9:
Back to work. Some of my colleagues asked me when am I finishing my 'practical'. Well, it's only 1 month more for my term. Can't wait for it to finish, but I had to finish up my project first. On my way to finish it thoug. From chatting with other people, I found out that the concert in conjunction with DBKL on mid of March has been postponed. Realizing that, I had a epiphany to finish my project as quickly as I can.

So, I quickly rush my project and finally got to finish it on Tuesday. Too bad that my supervisor was on leave. I asked that I want to let him check my project first. In the end, he came on Wednesday to office because he had to sign some contract as well. So he checked my project and a lot of comments were given by him. I realized that I still hvae so much to learn about orchestra, and remind myself that this is the first orchestra piece I ever done.

Fixed my project, I printed the project and ask the admin for booking the studio. So, I'm going to do recording in RTM for the first time. I'm really nervous.. ><

Week 10:
Monday, nervous with the recording. I went to the admin office, and the admin told me that I can't do the recording today because the orchestra is needed to do some sound test in the Auditorium Perdana, and I'm involved too. The recording session has been postponed to Wednesday. The sound test was quite boring, I'm only play 1 song. But I'm still glad that I'm sitting in the orchestra, not outside.
Tuesday, same thing. But the Concert master told me that she cant do it on Wednesday because she had to do medical check up for her pregnancy. Oh well. And the Conductor told me what I need to improve... which is my tone. Everyone tells me about my tone. But to do that, I need to do long tones everyday, and still, I don't really know what I should archive. Hmmm... I rather get some new equipments and see how I can improve my tone.
Later in the evening, I went to my uni to practice. Practicing with my friends was great.
Wednesday, didn't get to record my project. The others had to go for a meeting. And the meeting took almost the whole day. I wasn't involved. I just stay around the office, testing my reeds. I really need to get new reeds already. Time to move to size 2.5. And then, after double checking the schedule, I realized I need to do some programming and sequencing for the recording session. I need to give clicks for tempo and guide tracks for the instruments. And I used Reason 5 to do it. After I cambe back home, only I finish up the sequencing process.
Thursday, recording day. I was blur there, not knowing exactly how to react when there's anything happen. The concert master helped me a lot, she emphasized on a lot of details in the performance. Thanks to her so much. At the end of the day, I just recorded the strings part. We need to do strings dubbing to make the ensemble sounds fatter. Learned a lot today. I need to count in for engineers and musicians to punch in some part to fix a few measures. The tempo changing parts are confusing, it needed to be treated with care. When the passage is fast, I don't need to give subdivisions for 6/8 meter.My ears need to be sensitive to the sounds also, as soon as there's problem, I need to stop the recording and re-do the part. Recording is a stressful process, I need to keep away from getting frust. Well, at least the project is half done now, I just need to record the blowing instruments one by one.
Friday, intended to continue the recording, but unfortunately, I slipped and fell down when I was exiting the toilet. The marble tiles were slippery and I couldn't get balanced and so I fell. It hurts a lot. Calming myself down and check for injuries, I found a cut, a bit serious with skins open apart, I quickly wash it and went down to show my parents. My mom put some medicine on it to kill off the bacterias. Later, she took me to the clinic. My dad thought that at least 3 stitches were needed for my wound. Instead, the doctor cleans the wound a bit and use a special stickers to keep my wound closed. Took a MC for the day. I just stay at home online and practice piano a bit.

114: Internship Week 7-8

2011-02-24T22:51:00.001+08:00

Confusion. Disappointment.

RTM Orchestra was preparing for a show for the Anugerah Seri Angkasa. Seeing the list of instruments include a 2nd Tenor Saxophone part, I was really excited. Thinking that I might be playing for a show! After asking Leonard about it, he confirmed it with a confident voice. Later, realized that I didn't called or receive any message about practice. It makes me confused.

Tuesday, Rehearsal day, although it's a public holiday. I came for 'work'. Asked the admin, she said, she actually asked outsider for the part. Confused, I ask Leonard again, he said, he's sure I'm playing. Though, later, the outsider did came. All I do that day is just help a bit and watch the rehearsal. Half way through, I just went back. Feeling unfair. And disappointed. And useless.

Come to think of it. The show is really big, and for a amateur to perform for it, they don't have enough confident to give me any roles. If I did something wrong, there goes RTM Orchestra's name. Plus, I'm just there for a few months. They wouldn't care much about me.

Still having these thoughts, I went for the Rehearsal at PWTC. The stage is already set by the time arrived. Beside wasting time watching them rehearse, watching behind the scene live, and wasting time there, I was also spending time hanging around with the musicians. (though I was there so I could just write it down as something for my report)

But, after that day, I decided, not to follow RTM for shows so much already. It's time wasting and not worth it. If I were to go, just 1 day is enough. At least I could experience something I don't usually get. For now, I just need to focus on my final project (and a pending re-work of Leonard's assignment after I finished with the composition), get it recorded, and that's it for my internship.

Anyway, Friday is an off day. So, I went to practice with Ai Jia. Had fun with her way of arranging a song. I must say, the chords she reharm for the Aka-tonbo mash up is really really nice.

Saturday, I didn't follow to the ASA show. Just stay home and watch from the TV. I cancelled all my classes earlier (because of the misunderstanding) and I don't regret it. I need some time to get away from works. So, I went to gym and back. Watched my cousin playing Erhu for RTM orchestra in the ASA show. Funny that I know exactly what are all the presenters are going to say, everything was scripted. Getting to listen to what they define as good arrangement is good too.

Week 8 Whole week off.
Yes, our boss, Dato' is very very kind. He always give 'book off' whenever there's a big show for the orchestra. I guess this time is really big, so he gave 1 whole week. (I wonder the biggest, which is their MPO concert will results in how many off days)

So, I took this week to do my stuffs. Practices with Ai Jia. Go gym. Rehearse song with Sharon Lihan for the first time. Had a outing with Phil. And checking out how is the progress for the SMSA events.
Apparently, the Japanese concert @ UCSI's Matsuri is postponed to 14th of May. Not our fault, our collaborating clubs' faults.
And Arranging concert has no directions yet. (The postponed Jap concert pushed this concert to the top priority now) Time to do something about it!

Since I've already decided that if there's nothing I can do in RTM, I will be going to Uni to do stuffs. Even if Leonard mentioned that I shouldn't be handling any of those, I'm technically a RTM ppl now. If I don't feel like I'm a part of it, why should I pay so much effort to get their attention?

But first... My Rhapsody need to be done as soon as I can... ><

113: False hope

2011-02-15T23:03:00.000+08:00

Today should be a holiday for everyone, but not for the RTM orchestra. The orchestra had to rehearse for the upcoming Anugerah Seri Angkasa awards night. During preparation for this event, I saw the list of instrumentation includes a Tenor2 part. I thought I'm involved in playing it. So I went around asking. Most of them don't know, but Leonard said I'm playing for the show. So, I take it as it is.

Yesterday, I asked the admin about it, and she said she's not sure, need to ask from the arrangers. Well, Leonard is one of the arranger and he keep saying yes, I'm playing (until this morning).

And so, I came for 'work' today. And just to get into confusion. And now the admin told me that they hired outside player for the performance already, but not confirmed, she said. And then, I went back to Leonard, telling him the same thing, and he still thinks I'm going to play. Later he asked me to extract parts for his arrangement.

After I finished with the extracted parts, and went up to the studio. I notice the hired saxophonist there already. Which means 1 thing, I'm definitely not playing. Upset and disappointed, I just went back myself after I deal with the parts score.

Decided since I'm outside, I went to gym as well. (luckily I brought extra cloth) On my way, I told Max everything and found that he's in MV as well. So, I went to see him a bit. He was with his mom and brother. Just seeing him made me smile so much. He just made my day brighter.

Just a very very brief meet, just hi and bye, I went into Jusco to walk around then only go to the gym for a workout. Still happy with the fact I could just see Max a bit.

112: Internship Week 2-6

2011-02-14T22:51:00.001+08:00

Week 2:

I followed RTM orchestra to the Malaysia Book of Records night in the ballroom of Sunway Hotel & Spa. I seldom go to Sunway area, it's really been a long time. It makes me want to bring Max here too. The things here seems so nice.

And so, we had the rehearsal in the afternoon, and the Orchestra were Miming. Meaning that they are moving they fingers and action-ing but the actual sound coming out of the speaker is pre-recorded. That's a big disappointment. Well, it's Malaysia, what to expect?

It was the first time I get so close to people you see on TV. Lai Ming the oldest actress in M'sia, and our sportsmen and sportswomen of our country. And of course, Bad-awi.

Basically, I have nothing to do there, other than running errands. However, I get to know more people in our line. Getting to know more musicians in this field is good.

During the show, we heard Ryuichi Sakamoto's Rain. Everyone were transcribing it in our mind, and even discussed about which key it's in (and debated on it, yes, we were bored). So I decided to arranged it for a String Quintet with an Oboe.

The show lasted quite late. Anyway, after the event everyone get a book off (their term for holidays or free leave) As for, me I was brainstorming about what I should compose.

Week 3:
Arranged the Ryuichi Sakamoto song, but haven't found the time to gave to the musicians to play.
Went to work as usual, no much work to do while the Orchestra went to have a photo shooting session for their 50th anniversary coffee table book or something.
I just went with them and found that, nothing to do. Go back myself.
After that day, I observed a rehearsal session for the Orchestra's album launching performance. (ah, they are going to do Miming again). It was Thaipussam, everyone had a holiday but not us. My cousin who plays ErHu was in this performance. We chatted a lot because it's been a long time since we last met. (the last time was CNY last year!). Although we had to work, but I'm ok with it since I get to learn a few things and heard a few thing around. (Office politics)
At the end of the week, I helped out a bit with the album launching event and press conference. Though, I left earlier.

Week 4:
A few day offs were given by our Boss, the Dato'. And later in the week, Leonard gave me an assignment to do. I need to arrange "The World's Greatest" by R. Kelly for a vocal duet. Other accompaniment instruments is up to me. It's due after Chinese New Year. It's a great challenge to me since I rarely arrange for Vocal music. I work hard on it.

Week 5:
1 whole week of holidays for CNY!
However, I still have the arranging assignment from Leonard. I sent the final draft to him but no reply. Well, I understand that he is in Holiday now, probably in vacation too.

Week 6:
Had the idea to compose a Malayan Rhapsody, to impress the bosses, and because of where I'm working at too. Why Rhapsody? Well, i just found that most Rhapsody is written with a national theme one. Like Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody,

Bohemian Rhapsody (for Bohemianism),

Rhapsody for Orchestra by Yuzo Toyama (for Japan),

Rhapsody in Blue (American Jazz)

Romanian Rhapsody,

and Another Romanian

As you can see there's a lot of it. Even Korean and China.

Anyway... Leonard checked my assignment and... I was devastated with what he said to me. To sum things up...
1. I jumbled up too much in the arrangement. Too eager to use up all my resources.
2. No climax in the arrangement, no story.
3. Everything was distributed through the section. Try more combinations please.
4. Too many ideas.
5. Consider functions for the instruments.
6. Get more experiences by travelling, go read a book, watch a movie. More Life experiences for more matured writing.
7. Put more of my identity into my arrangement.

This video will explain much more:

Have fun with this long post!

111: Digimons

2011-02-13T23:36:00.001+08:00

Here's an stupid update, since everything stranded here. More updates coming up!

These are digimons too! XDDDDD
Salmon
Simon
Common
Daemon
Demon
Solomon
Pokemon
Sermon

110: Internship week 1

2011-01-07T13:36:00.000+08:00

Just starting my internship at RTM this week..

And I start to hate this place already. Things going better and worse at the same time. I really hope that 3 months will pass really quickly.

I was so confused with what am I supposed to do here. Well, the only thing to do here is to practice and wait for assignments/projects from the boss. I just given 2 tasks from Leonard this week. Both done, one is to extract out the parts for his score, and one is to transcribe 2 songs.. "Mengapa Kasih" by Sheila Majid and a traditional song, "Itik Gembo-gembo".

I had so much trouble in making the lead sheet for the songs, especially "Mengapa Kasih". The chords for this songs is... so hard. I guess it's been very long from the last time I really transcribe a song.
I'm just feeling down facing so many challenge here. I feel it's hard for me to fit in here too.

Let's see if things get better next week.

109: 2010: Another year passing through

2010-12-30T23:15:00.001+08:00

From post no. 71 to no. 109.. In total, 39 posts in a year. I admit that I didn't post that much as I used to. There's plenty of stuffs that I didn't put into words. Perhaps words can't describe them all. ^_^

Let's see what happenned throughout the year...

- The year of Arranging classes... Managed to finish it in a year! For those who are taking it next sem, good luck with the new Korean lecturer!
- Stayed at my aunt's place for awhile. Still can't forget those oily food she made.... Ewwwww
- Been Choir President, then SMSA President... Looking forward to pass my throne next year. Doing event is fun, but it is not fun when you need to deal with all those passive people.
- Used a Smart Phone the first time in my life, but it is a Fake iPhone from China.
- Drank Snake Soup (My dad cooked it)
- Song Writing concert: I helped with doing the sound, I remembered Eekee praised me, saying that she liked the concert's sound that day. *happy*
- My mom knows that I'm in a relationship.. *gasp* But she still don't really know who it is .... Hope that she will be willing to accept it when the day I open up to her...
- What 'Wong SiFu' said last year: I will be very frustrated. (True, because of all kind of things, like SMSA) Have trouble sleeping at night (False) I slept well and I slept quite early (as compared to everyone else la).
- Commissioned to do arrangements for Cellos ensembles.
- My dad had an accident and broke his leg. And he wanted to recover the old chinese way.
- Anyone remembers a lecturer who throws a chair and a laptop?
- Cats and Dogs at schools. And Rabbit for 1 day too.
- Watched Chucho Valdez concert! XD
- Kapustin, Pat Metheny, Brad Mehldau, Yarod Herman, In C Remixed, Rweski, Soil 'N Pimp, Quasimode, Schostakovich, Alva Noto, Medeski Martin n Wood, McCoy Tyner, Maria Schneider, m-flo, Herbie Hancock, Casiopea, Yellowjackets
- First time in Jazz Choir! Zalina is a very very fun instructor!! I never had so much fun singing. ^_^
- Nice to meet Joe Loy. A really friendly lec.
- New facilities for Music School. Nice, but meh, we want a real concert hall, please!! XD
- Music Business, I never been so businessman before.
- Juanophobia, Cinco, Of Feathers and Chapters
- GRADUATION PROJECTS!!!! and I PASSED!!!!
- Dean List Awards
- LAST MBE!!! Had fun with you guys! Fourification!
- BEST MBE concert ever had!
- New Elvis Presley at Tropicana Resort. Max, do you still have the pic?
- Unifi, Fast! but worth it? And my home modem changed after a long struggle with the old router.
- Changed my cacat smart phone for my new phone now. I love my new phone~ (though the resolution of pics sucks)
- Workout is being effective! YES!
- Tried RM1 Burger, WORTH IT! XD
- I'd say my relationship got better. So, now, Max, please finish your project please~? I've finished mine, now your turn! =P
- Did my first carolling with some Dithrym..bic Singers(ok, I give up spelling it) It's fun.
- Done with Student Orientations for next semester. It was tough, now it's fine. I really value those who helped me. Thanks..!! (Thinking of a good way to repay them)
- Unsettled Intership Applications, RTM's Orchrestra's boss is not back until new year, so... I'll wait and see.
- Japanese Music Concert coming up.
- A few more events to deal with before I step down from Presidency.

That's it. I shall work hard for the next year!! and have a lot of fun being with my dear~

108: Picture post #2 and all that busy

2010-12-15T00:09:00.000+08:00

Home made dinner. Nothing better than this.

I always love the ABC soup, the one at the bottom-right corner. The best thing about it is the onions! XD

I'm really grateful that I have my father who cooks delicious food for us everyday. He was a Chinese Restaurant chef anyway. Still remember the time when I was young, I used to follow my parents to their working place - the restaurant. I used to play with my cousins there and play my cousin's video game too. Haha!

Many things has happened. I never contact my cousins anymore. All because of their parents who selfishly proclaim my grandfather's property as his. And there goes what you usually see in those TVB or any family-crisis drama show. Just that I'm a super minor character in it.

My dad doesn't work as the chef there anymore, now he delivers seafoods around KL. And that business is gliding down too. All because my uncle who owns the business... doesn't know how to promote his product and services nicely. My dad just waiting for retiring in few years more time...

...and that gives me pressure..

... must get working as soon as possible.

Anyway, nowadays everyone is doing their carolling. 80% of music students are in part of the carolling, either going down to Singapore, or Genting, or just around the town, in the mall you usually go. I'm trying to join one too. All because Kun Ming suddenly ask me. His boss is asking for more people because there's lack of people in the company. Let's see how it goes.

And I'm been busy dealing with SMSA stuffs. Looking for people to perform for the Student Orientation. Either band or/and percussion group.

I'm also being a major part of the Japanese Music Concert I'm planning. Not much people wants to be a VIP in the organizing teams. Perhaps they are afraid and clueless about what to do in these kind of positions. Ended up, this concert is now a part of a bigger event.. Daigaku no Matsuri. A Festival organized by joint collaboration of different clubs, like ITSA(Information Technology), MSA(Management), AniMac, Kendo(pending) and SMSA.
We are still in planning stage. Hopefully it will be a good collaboration.. (Management has man-power, accountants(from MSA) can get sponsorships very easily... and these are the things I sucked at. XD)

107: Picture post #1

2010-12-11T22:24:00.001+08:00

I'm going to post a picture everyday taken in this year and write about it. So here goes...

The 'Exit A' of my School's academic block, Block C.

I still remember the time when Music Students hang out in 'Exit B'. Which there was a wooden table and benches. I was still a junior that time. I didn't dare to mix with the senior then. I'm a timid person, I admit. Until when I started to go into degree, I only start to mix with them a bit.
I still remember celebrating people's birthday there. With creams that made a mess in our school. XD

Now, since the place to wait for bus changed to 'Exit B', we moved the place to hang out at 'Exit A'.
Which makes Everett says: "Exit A: A for Auntie's Store; Exit B: B for Bus Stop." *swt*
The Auntie at the shop (or more like a Kiosk) is very nice and friendly. Although the food there is a little pricey, but we still like to hang out at 'Exit A'.

Last time, the doors wasn't automatic, we had to push the door to open. I do remember there's time where some of my friend banged themselves in the head to the door accidentally. I have seen Penny banged into it with my own eyes. When I wanted to go and ask her is she ok, she start to go walk like nothing happens. Later, I found out from her that she feel ashamed and just act like there's no problem. But the truth is, it does hurt! >< (Penny don't force yourself to act like that la.)
After UCSI levelled up to University level, they started to do all these fancy automatic doors. Honestly, we Music Students want our own building more than an automatic door.

Oh well, UCSI... as I told someone before, it's... Under Construction Sedaya International. Always under construction. Now they even abolished the front gate to build a parking lot, or so I heard.

Now, even that I'm going to graduate from the school already, I still treasure all these memories I have in my school...

106: December

2010-12-10T18:04:00.000+08:00

Memories...

2 years ago, I celebrated my birthday with Zu and Penny. They gave me a pair of drumsticks as present.
1 year ago, I celebrated my birthday with Max, Zu and Quinnie. Had a great time with them.
This year... I don't know.

2 years ago, I was helping out Yon Ting's brother's wedding gig. Arranged songs and perform in the Golden Palace.
1 year ago, I was doing part-time shop keeper for my music centre.
This year... I'm doing some carolling under Kun Ming's lead. Hope it will goes well...

105: Kesha Tik Tok (Simpsons Version)

2010-12-08T17:45:00.000+08:00

During Max's stay here, we watched an episode of The Simpsons. When the show starts, we were surprised by this special sequence of opening of The Simpsons.
We both heard of this songs from the gym before. Anyway, it's a nice sequence. XD

104: The stay 2

2010-12-02T22:32:00.004+08:00

Max came to my place and stay over again~! We went to the cinema and watch Megamind. We had a great time watching it. The minion is so cute!!! XD

After the movie, we were deciding where to go, head home, lunch or Jusco Kepong. In the end, we decided to go back since it's going to rain and we were hungry. So we went to our usual favourite - Jawa Mee.

While on our way, we encountered a few things. Max Car Plate!! XD

It was raining that day. We had to share a small umbrella while walking. We got wet at our sides. We even saw dogs.... doing their stuff. ><

And... Dangling ball under a car. Looks funny. XD

And so we ate our noodles. We had to sit at the other side which is very dirty and wet. We quickly finish our meal and head back.

At night we went to pasar malam, finally. It was drizzling a bit, but then it stops. We got so much food... Nice Foods~~!! We got ourselves Fried Chicken Nuggets, Cheese Sausages, Muazi, Fried Kuey Teow, Takoyaki and Jelly Drinks!

Watching Enchanted and enjoying our feast~! My parents and other family members were not at home that day. We just relax together~ We were so full that day. I never had so full for a long time already. In the mean time, Max couldn't decide which one should be the last to eat. He wanted the taste of the best food to last in his mouth. It was so funny to see him struggle. XD

The next day, we were playing with the chipmunk again. The little fellow looking at us. So I decided to feed it.

The chipmunk were so attracted to the kuazi. It even reach out its claws to grab it. It was really amusing to feed it. X3 Watch the video!!

103: The stay 1

2010-11-21T14:17:00.007+08:00

Max came to my place to stay over last week Sunday. Finally, after so long he never came here. ><
I went for gym in MidValley then wait for him to show up in 11am. I thought he was going to show up on time.. mana tau... he was late. So, I was like... ehhhh... I thought I was the one late. So anyway, happily meet up and went Kepong Sentral straight away. He wanted to go to Kepong Jusco, Metro Prima (mainly because of Gashapon XD).

So, we took the train back and took a bus to the mall. We were checking out cute guys on our way. :P Max keep prompting me to take a pic of the guy secretly, but I don't want. Well, I was further away from the guy and it's hard for me to capture la.. Anyway, we get to the 'playground' side of the mall and check out the gashapon. after a few tries, Max didn't manage to get the one he wanted in the end. I guess the purple colour one is rare. Or the toy company make it rare to make people wanting to buy more token for it. Haizzz, I know, business or marketing people are evil. *shrugs*

Continue from there, we go and look at the arcades. We were shock to see.... this...

An grandfather playing... Gundam Simulation game? Max was like OMGWTF!! Old Amuro?? And this made Max wanted to play this game. XD So we went to buy tokens.

I was playing Taikujin while Max went and try on the simulation. I failed in the first time. "There must be something wrong with the drums sensor" So, I try another time and did better. XD While I'm playing, Max stopped playing the Gundam Simulation. He failed the mission. It's too hard to control, I think. In the end, he tak puas hati la. However, the odd feeling seeing a old man playing the simulation stuck in our mind.

Exit from the arcades, we walk around the mall. We came across the KFC with people singing at their entrance. Since when they do this kind of things? I never see any other KFC does this. And then we came across a bakery shop. Max's favourite bakery shop. There's donuts showing there, with a promotion price there. Something like... RM2 for 1, RM 5 for 3 and RM 9 for 7, I think. I was looking at it and get confused. Max was asking me to buy them, with "X3~~~~" showing in his expression. Well, because of the chocolate toppings. It's true that it's cheaper than Big Apple or KrepeKream. Hmmm.... In the end, when Max said that Im paying, I straight away said no. ><;;

After looking through clothes in Jusco, we went back to Bkt Maluri for lunch - Jawa Mee, Max's favourite.

It was a hot day and we were sitting at the side of the shop. So Max's arm got 'burnt' a bit. XD
Anyway, we feels that the price for the food is rising so much. It was RM3.50 for a regular Jawa Mee, now it's RM4 something! In few years time, it will reach RM 10 for a Jawa Mee like this. Gotta hate inflation ><
We were eating and heard the child near us said. (In Mandarin) "I don't want~~ It's so spicy" The mom said, (In Mandarin) "Eat la, no chili one". ~~And Max made a yellow joke out of it "She don't like La Jiao, but she likes Lan Jiao"~~ Ok, bad jokes that will tersinggung people. ><


the side of the metallic table. Shiny..

We went back to my place right after finishing.
Walking back we saw...
"Bonsai!" I said. Max quickly corrects me, "This is not Bonsai la!" Max likes this kind of plants, he said.

And we saw a shrinking Poskod. Looks kind of eerie.
Max: "I don't remember these word in Orange color"
Me: "It's always been this color what."

And near my house...
Colourful flags in houses.
We both have no idea what these flag means.

Max: "This car owner must like Koi a lot, until his car also got Koi fishes"
Me: *swt*

Back to my place, we rest until night fall. Max didn't feel well with running nose and headache. Seems like he got an ulcer back in his mouth. I let him rest for the day. Later at night, it rains. We wanted to go to the night market but oh well... We waited and went out after dinner. It was still raining a bit, but not as heavy as it was.
However, when we reach there, it was...

All the stalls are closing up already. "Sorry!!" I said to Max while Max keep poking me and said "It's your fault for not coming out in the evening." Well, we manage to buy Takoyaki.... with wasabi by accident. In the end I eat the parts with wasabi sauces although Max were joking that I have to eat the wasabi parts.
We also bought Pandan ...something something kuih. I finish them after Max said he can't finish them.
We were watching Taiwanese Variety Show while eating. Max doesn't seems to enjoy the show. So, as soon as I finished with the food. We went to to my room.

I showed him my Internship forms and go through them.

But Max just play around. (No, this is not actual punching. It's an optical illusion XD)

Beside my piano is the cages for my sister's chipmunk and hamsters. Max just likes to scare them. So bad of him.

Later, Max had to go back early. So we chat with each other a lot. I'm happy that came by and stay over. X3
Too bad we didn't get to do anything much. Next time, when he is coming, we are going to do much more. >=D

Happy~~

Got to Work Harder

All Pictures taken by Max

102: First week of Holiday

2010-11-08T23:50:00.000+08:00

I went to my friend, Tommy's newly opened Advertising Studio at Puchong last Friday. I went there with Max. It was the first time I ever go around Puchong area. When Tommy told me it's around IOI Mall, the only thing appeared in my head is a Square-ish building with a plain "IOI MALL" words on it. That was my impression when my parents drove us through that area a few years ago.

So, at Friday itself, I went for gym and meet up with Max to go together. I gave my apology gift to Max because of something bad I did to him. He accepted it. I'm really happy about it.

Arriving at Puchong by bus (wow it was a long way), I called Tommy. And three of us went to have a lunch first. It was a kopitiam, which is also newly opened. Then, we went and get Max a phone credit reload before we go into Tommy's studio. Tommy studio is really new and there's not much furniture yet. I guess it's because it's really new. Like what I learnt in Music Business, everything started small.

We chattered for a long time there, and we go back at 3.30pm. We don't want to interrupt Tommy with his work. It was a nice trip. Hopefully I can go visit him next time.

As for the last 2 days, I stayed over at Max's place again. Helping him with his project's soundtracks. We were doing the temp tracks and looking through possible sources. Nice sweet time with him.

101: It ended?

2010-11-03T23:01:00.002+08:00

The Sept-Oct 2010 semester has ended?
With the Arranging 3 recording session, we ended the semester with a long day. We really had fun playing each other's work and record it at the end. Arranging Concert next sem? Spoiler? Who knows?

Anyway, to summarize things up again... though not much to do since I dont have much classes.

Counterpoint elective, I was the only Contemporary student who took the course, while the others were struggling with memorization works for Music and Film. It's amazing how different each part of the department thinks, yet there are so many similarities. There's always jokers in class, lazy bums in the class.

Music Business 2, the last core subject I have to... wait... it's the 2nd last. The last one will be Internship that I will be facing next year. It was really diffucault for me at first because I don't know anything about business and accounting. I manage to pick up with Seong Seong's help. In the end we all screw up with the "supposed-self-added" Net Profit. It was an unbalanced sheet. Website went well with me, and the events went really well despite the fact that we faced a lot of troubles. But it's alright, we made it and everyone did a good job!

Arranging 3, it was fun to have our Juan less uptight than usual. We got to listen to a lot of music and watch some nice films. The only down side is the short semester, lesser time, and a super early class time. This is probably the last class I ever have with Juan already. I'm kinda on my own in composition after my graduation. And there's so much more to learn! I guess I have to explore it myself.

SMSA events is still going slowly. I organized a Composer Forum but we only had 5 ppl attending. However, we had a really good chat, I'm looking forward to do another one next semester. I don't mind it to be so little people, the forum can be less formal that way. Currently we might do organize some other stuffs. There will be a semester-end clean up. ...and there's so many stuffs I wanted to do at school, I shouldn't just let the chance go. They are...
- Play 'In C'
- Organize a Music Fest/Concert
- The Musical
- Make a Song Circle or Percussion Circle flashmob

So many things I want to do.. The only thing keeping me away from doing it will be other people's reactions to these. "We already have enough stuffs to do, practice, assignments, projects and all that, why do we need to do all these?"
Sometimes, I do wonder how strong is the music students' passion is... I mean, you can go out shopping, cinema and hang out, why no time to do these? What do you learn from doing those? Perhaps, that why I often feel lonely at school, maybe because I don't see anyone as passionated as I am...
... Well, as Zalina told me before, "if you want something, you gotta push for it!" She's really a great teacher in our uni. That might be the best advice I ever get during my studies in UCSI.

That's all folks!

100: 100th Post, What happened in 1 single day

2010-10-07T01:16:00.003+08:00

9:00am: Woke up, running nose still there. Turn on the modem to online a bit. Found out about the RM1 Burger promotion at Burger King. Decided to give it a try.

10:00am: Take breakfast, and went out for gym. Running nose is slightly better after I took a shower just now.

11:00am: Reached MidValley for gym. Prior entering the gym, I was told that I have my outstanding fees, which is true, I was waiting for my salary pay. Unfortunately, the counter told me that he will not allow me in if I don't pay up by the next time I go to the gym. Oh well... I told him I will pay by next visit. And so I got in.

12:00pm: Finished workout. My running nose seems to be cured from doing all the workouts. Oh! I have 1 misscall from Joey (our school's event coordinator), and 1 message from Max. Can't reply him... I phone credits has expired. Went to ATM to take out some money. Went to pay up the gym membership fees.

12:30pm: Went to the Burger King, there was A LOT of people lining up for the promotion. One Ringgit Burger Craze! Despite all the people, I line up too. And, I manage to buy it, at 1:15pm though. But still, it is totally worth it. Just need to pay for a drink and one ringgit burger, which is usually more than 10ringgits in Burger King.

1.30pm: Take the train to Bandar Tasik Selatan for the shutter. Seong Seong messaged me to ask me to get some plastic spoon because we are going to give out our dessert samples in class later.

2pm: After a little discussion, I went to the 99speedmart to buy the spoons as soon as I finish my worthy lunch after I reach school.

3pm: Music Business 2 class. Midterm marks were given out. I did well, although I didnt write much for the essay. I must photocopy important parts of the textbook already. We gave out the sample a little. I don't think I should say much about them. Well, a good effort on them.

5pm: Class ended. Went to host the Composer Forum. Unfortunately, it is still the same. No one is interested to come except Me, Everett, Justin Ang, Rei and Desmond. While waiting for 'more' people to come, Joey came by and tell us that SMSA can help manage the Chopin-Schumann Tribute Concert on 22 Oct. Well, a good chance to give music students to earn more ECA points then. I do wonder will that volunteer themselves. Later, we continue with dicussing the topic we wanted to talk about among 5 of us. It was a fun talk, kept going off topic. But that's the best part being so little people, I don't need to be so formal. We were just plain chatting and exchanging knowledge. Everyone learnt a lot too. Despite the lack of participations, I'm happy with this session.

7pm: Go around to look for Derene for her Graduation practice. Passed by Midi Lab and check it out. Joe was inside with some students that are doing their projects. So, I went in and hang around a bit. I saw the Cajon there. It was Zalina's, I asked permission and played with it awhile. Taught Joe a bit on how to get the bass sound out of it. I wish I could get one...

7:30pm: Went for Derene's practice. Helped Linet a bit when she was learning the chord progressions for Virtual Insanity. I analyse this song before so I roughly remember how this song goes. Continued on with the practice. Been a replacement pianist because the Pianist can't make it in time.

8.30pm: Was outside of Exit A. JiaWen told me they are practicing at Jam Room1. So I went in for the practice, although I didn't bring my Sax.

9.30pm: Finished with the practice. We went to Nelly's to eat because we haven't had our dinner yet. And I'm tumpang JiaWen's Car to reach the train station.

11.30pm: Train arrived and it a quiet journey home, with mp3 in my ears.

The way back home...

12am: Reached home and greet Max online.
1am: Goodnight everyone!

99: SMSA

2010-09-20T01:10:00.002+08:00

I can do this!!!

YES! Definitely!

Yosh! Ikuzo!!

98: Raya

2010-09-12T23:19:00.000+08:00

A little updates.

Spend the whole 3 days with Max, staying over his place. We agreed that this year onwards, we are so close to each other, well, mentally or romantically speaking. Perhaps after so many obstacles and seeing others with relationship problems, we finally get into this relationship more effectively.

I'm so happy and grateful with him. We try to be the best for each other. Now, seeing him changed a lot with his bad habit, (or at least seeing his efforts), I decided to change some of my vices too.

From now on,

No more ridiculous time-wasting FB games.
Spend more time with productive stuffs.
Stay healthy, drinks a lot of water no matter what.
Go back to my extreme time-keeping self.
Be more organized.
Workout more effectively, eat more.
Spend less than RM15 a day.
Do some bookeeping with my money.
Use the free time to practice or do arranging or assignments.
Draw?

Ok, ten things at a time. I shouldn't push myself too much too.
On my way to a better lifestyle!

97: Help

2010-09-01T01:51:00.000+08:00

I need help! But I guess nobody could help me...

*lonely*

96: Uneasy

2010-09-01T00:09:00.000+08:00

School is reopening in soon and I'm start to have an uneasy feeling.
Max is having problems with his Unifi, without him online, I feel kinda lonely here.
Then this feeling of not belong to anywhere starts to come around.
My phone is going to die from running out of battery because of its charger is malfunctioned.
I'm really in a "OH NO!!" situation with this. I would like to buy a new phone but.... there's always a but....
... I planned to buy it later this month but...
... I got to pay my 500++ Medical Card...
... and I haven't got my salary for last month yet...
... and need to pay the gym membership as well...
... to tell you the truth, I'm pretty scare of buying the phone alone... I guess it's because it's something I never do before in my life...

*sigh* I hate getting old and all these respondsibilities came sooner than I thought they would.

95: Max

2010-08-30T21:51:00.000+08:00

The last 2 days is probably the most sweetest day I have with my dear. As usual, I'm staying over at his place.

Well, I went for gym in the Sunday morning first. It was a nice day although I was running a bit late that day. After that, I wait for Max to arrive to MidValley and he told me that his mum wants him to buy the washing machine balls. So, we went up and down Jusco and Carefour to look for it. The result was not something we expected. There's one that looks like some smartshop advertised product, which is extra expensive and weird looking. And we could not find it in Jusco at first, but we soon found that the item had a damaged packaging. So, we decided to ditch it.
And we saw this..

'Magic Carpet'. I suppose it could fly eh? XD

After that, I asked Max to go into MPH with me for a while. I wanted to check out the books there. I'm currently self-learning Japanese. I think I'll need some book as a guidance. Internet reference won't be enough. Then Max start making jokes about the books in the section, which we found a Panjabi language book. Too much 'Goodness Gracious Me' frenzy for him la. (But, it's really a nice comedy!)

Exit from MPH, we get to Carefour for his mum's quest. Instead of buying the balls, which was really really china cheaply made, he bought 3 pieces of cake. Happily showing them to me. After that, we went back to his place with his family's newly bought Myvi. He complains how ordinary is the silver colour for the car, but I still don't mind the colour. That's kind of.... "colourist". XD
His mum drove us toTropicana to have lunch. It's my first time there. It's a really really high class place for me. Anyway, we saw a Elvis Presley look alike there with his hair a bit messy, sitting at the table near us. We were laughing about it for a long time. Wow, Elvis Presley reincarnated. haha.

Apart for all that, I'm really happy with meeting Max these 2 days is because we talk more and understand each other more. Now, I'm back at my place, I'm gonna miss him...

Do well in your project, dear!

94: How was my holiday spent?

2010-08-25T20:58:00.000+08:00

Well, last weekend, I had a blast with Max staying over for 3 days. I bet he like the pasar malam here a lot. We watched a really funny comedy show titled 'Goodness Gracious Me'. We went out to get my first external hard disk. Well, to put it simple, we had a lot of fun. But we promised each other to go walk outside a lottle more next time he's here.

And, Tuesday, I organized a gotong-royong at school through my school's student association. Jam rooms are tidy up, broken equipments are repaired or sent out to be fixed, mics and cables are labelled and tested, and tables and chairs are moved. I'm glad that we were able to finish everything fast and went out and have a lunch.

Wednesday, today, I went to school for rehearsal/soundcheck for orientation's performance. The MPH hall's sound is worse than our Recital Hall. Every single sounds bounce back from everwhere. We basically spent the whole morning there until 3pm. We did have a lunch break, but we need to go back quickly. I planned to jam 'In C' by Terry Riley, but I cancelled it since everyone is tired and no one seems to show up for it.
However, I just get back my hard disk from Juan, he wanted to pass me some nice music. Indeed, there's a lot of them.

93: End of the Climatic Moment

2010-08-20T22:31:00.000+08:00

It's time again for me to conclude or summarize everything happened.

- Yay! Jazz Choir!
- Audition and got in!
- Music Business seems tough...
- Last MBE for us!
- Recital goes volunteering
- New equipments for Jam Room!
- JAM ROOM 3! NEW!
- Jam rooms clean up day
- Midi Lab goes more and more CC-ish and rubbish starts to gather...
- Juanophobia in the Library got Talent!
- It's scary to see some of us get drunk.
- I'm the new SMSA president, although I didn't run for the presidency...
- Doing my Graduation this semester and been through a lot of hell
- Watching the uphill parking space invading to the back of Block D
- New Audio Engineer/ Music Tech lecturer! Nice guy!
- Late SST classes and extra day to record for our final project
- Learnt how to use Cubase, though still sucks at it
- Adil's departure
- Conduction? seriously? Conduct(ing Improvisa)tion?
- New Ensemble room.
- We're going out to studio outside to practice even if it's not modern band final yet.
- Juanophobia performing at Convocation
- First-class honour? Can I?
- Lots of break ups and weird combinations
- Out photoshooting for my program notes with my dear
- Sign back to gym because of some serious reason
- UCSI concert choir Taiwan trips, made me wants to go Taiwan badly
- Early Jingle Writing classes
- Junior sound crews... A huge place to improve
- Really bad sound system at Recital Hall, time to urge a change
- Finally got to use the recording studio after studying so long here
- Replacing my blur ID Card
- Hectic Modern Band Finals.Scoldings and sounds
- Fun doing Music business final project aka. recording videos
- Stressful day of graduation rehearsal, at the same time, modern band concert day + doing my job for music business. Reached boiling point, and I cracked.
- Themed Graduation Recitals. Congrats to everyone!
- I'm sure I left out a lot of things. Please kindly remind me about it.

That's a lot!

92: The day

2010-08-17T09:30:00.001+08:00

Today is the day...

Though I have to submit some final projects and have the music business exam in the morning. I'm ready for the graduation performance.

It's a good thing that I kept being positive the whole day. Good things will come. However, I was really nervous before the show.

Here's some pics.

91: Wrong

2010-08-14T08:54:00.001+08:00

Screw up... I screwed up...
My graduation is not coming up well... I took extra time to continue rehearsing at recital hall and made everyone wait and made everyone hungry throughout the MBE concert because of the delay...

Right after my graduation's rehearsal... I went to the toilet to cry... Is it the pressure? Is it that I'm not good enough? Or should I blame it to the musicians? Or should I blame myself for spoiling the musicians for their exams and project and cancel my practices? Why?? It's almost time and this has to happened? I already told them the rehearsal time and they suddenly say cannot come at the last week?

Im going to fail...faill.... FAIL!!

And thanks to those who cared about me and saw my red eyes. Thanks for those who doesn't even care and make me realize how harsh this world is.

Yea, everyone is selfish anyway... I regret calling them 'friends'... I never have any friends anyway... This all is just pure fiction. None of it is true. Sorry for being a jerk, but it's true anyway... I'm such a jerk that annoys every single person. Nobody would care, nobody would even want to care. I'm just a trouble for everyone! Every move is a mistake!

Who cares even if I got into the Dean's List!? I'm going to be a loner anyway... Who cares if I got the First-class honour!? What's the point of making it easy for me to get a Master if I don't have the money to go take one! Nothing really matters anyway...

When the Jazz Choir performed Boheimian Rhapsody, I was on the edge of crying again... I could relate to the song too much... This sem is really too much for me... but it's not over yet. I still have the final judgement day to wait...

Too late, my time has come,
Send shivers down my spine, body aching all the time.
Goodbye everybody, I got to go.
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth........

90: The Hardest Month

2010-07-15T21:12:00.000+08:00

I finished my Graduation pieces, now what's left to do is my poster, program notes and portfolio.
And practices too.

Hopefully things goes well.

Well it seems that most of us that do Graduation this semester is doing Concept Recital.

Me: Journey
Vivian: Orange Doomsday
Kai Sing: One Night Only
Shunmin: Black n White

That's what making our grad performance our own.

However, I still have bands, Jingle writing, Studio Sound, and Arranging project to deal with.

That's all for now.

89: Time to start engine again

2010-07-04T21:21:00.000+08:00

Thanks for being intimate with me these 2 days!! I really needed it.
From waiting for me while I was doing the recording to accompanying me to go metro prima and look at ainmals in the pet shops together. Thank you~~

Now's the time for me to start the engine again and complete my tasks!

*hugs*

88: Bad

2010-06-13T20:11:00.000+08:00

Ok, I feel really bad now.

Perhaps all these years I didn't become a better person, instead, I have become the most insensitive person you'd find.

Maybe I am indeed a bad person, a selfish, ignorant, taking things for granted, stupid, ugly, full-of-himself person and nothing but a shame!

I think all these years, every problems that appeared is my fault. Every single failure, every single arguments, every disappointment... All of it! It's me!

I guess, I'll just fail my grad, ruin my first class honour, throw away all my positions and shove myself into a big black hole. Simply because a person like me doesn't deserve it all.

87: Up down up down

2010-05-31T22:30:00.000+08:00

It's an other up and down time for me. Been busy with stuffs. Being elected as the School of Music Student Association president. And my committee is still trying to settle down the paperworks and starts the engine for the association. Bear with us.

Drojak.net is extremely quite these day. I guess this forum doesnt work that well since everyone refuse to post anything up there. I probably need to suggest admin to create a leisure section as an attraction. And we need to try competing with facebook. Try to make them talk in the forums instead of facebook.

Im still working on my graduation project. I should have done all the songs by now, but no. I only got my Fugue for String Quartet almost done. Finishing the Exposition section of Journey (which means, I still have the Development and Recapitulation section left. Uggh huge work!) Waiting for the Arranging 2 midterm project so I can coincide it with my Boleh-land. A song is still in the air, I havent have time to write a lyrics for it, though I got an idea how it will go in the chorus. It goes "Helllo~~ Hello~~~"

Jazz choir is still fun until now. Though difficult songs are coming up. Eddy wants us to help him in his graduation recital for his Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" song. And that song is HARD! But it's nice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe9PSliDG4M

Music business 1 is hard. Suddenly having a class which requires so much studying is really difficult for me. I have no clue how the industry really goes. And there's so much memorization works to do.
While me band is not doing that well either, at least we can get along well la. But still, I think we are moving too slowly.

My relationship with Max went up and down as well. I guess we just miss each other too much. We all know that we got our final graduation project to focus on, but we just can resist missing each other la. Yesterday, we meet each other at MidValley and talked about a lot of things. We ate Ramen Zanmai for lunch. Max were complaining that the food there is too expensive. And I told him that eating expensive stuff once in a while if ok. Well, we both still prefer Nando's~. Then we walked around aimlessly. We went into a phone shop because I'm still looking for my right phone. (I seriously need to get rid of this piece of china phone) Maybe me and Max will buy phone together~~ yay~

After going out with Max, I went to the Library at the e@curve to watch Juanophobia performs. I'd say the whole place is packed with UCSI School of Music students, haha. Even Victor was there to cheer for them. We all drank there and some of them getting drunk, which includes me, but I'm still aware of what happening around me. We screamed so much until my voice is so deep today. Now, I'm thinking whether I should join them to cheer for Juanophobia winning the contest or not. Well, at least it was an eye-opener.

Alright, enough typing folks...

86: New Sem - Graduation Sem gasp

2010-04-29T20:22:00.001+08:00

The timetable is finally up now. And I bring you the news now.
Don't read if you don't like spoilers.

- Jazz choir is for real! But you need to audition to get in. Zalina will be conducting the class.
- Arif is going to be full time lecturer next semester. He's going to teach, World Music, Aural 1, Introduction to Popular Music History, and of course, Saxophone.
- Choir 1 and 2 switched conductor.
- There's going to be Recital Hall 2 and Jam Room 3!
- New Lecturer for Music Tech related sucjects! He's quite a nice person. Somehow he seems to be... like 'that'.
- The latest class history made in UCSI! Studio Sound Technique: 7-9pm. Yes NINE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT! (when I approached Juan with this matter, he just said there's not other time, all the time before that has classes going on. Oh well...)
- Masterclass is no longer on Friday 10-12pm, it's 12.30-3pm. After that will be Modern Band class.
- Dr. Png is going to teach in a lecture class! It's Performance Practice. Nothing to do with me though.
- Guess what? HAMM3 is conducted by Willy and ET3 by Juan. Improvisation Skills by Willy too. But Juniors you're lucky you have Justin teaching CPS class now.
- Dr. CT is going to teach Intro to Music History again. For those who think they failed, be prepared.

That's about all. Other that that will be pretty much the usual stuffs.

Ask my personally if you want to know the specific class time.

85: Bye Degree Sem 6

2010-04-19T19:04:00.000+08:00

Time to summarize things up for the last semester. (Oh well, I consider that my holiday has started since there's nothing I need to do other than helping for scholarship stuffs and attending the Modern Band Concert this Friday)

Crazy lecturers. We get a Hitler throwing a laptop and a chair just because his road is blocked. And an auntie that don't know how to teach. She just doesn't care about the students at all. And she even threatened a Accordion player. And our Juan tortured us for being lazy in class.

Pet zones. We have a seriously cute dog. But this lil' Andrew pee and poo at the wrong places and it seems that it has a special interest towards expensive stuffs. And we have this black furious cat that bullied the dog said eariler. Well, it's great that we have pets in our school to relieve our stress.

Drojak.net is open! The forum unofficially made for our shcool of music. But so far. No one goes there and people makes fun of it and doesn't contribute much. It just looks like the students like to complain about the subjects and the lecturers but don't dare to do so in public. Or is it no one in the world likes to share stuffs anymore?

Being a Choir President of such a large group. I think I'd quit next semester if I get selected again. But in fact, I cant get chosen, next semester is going to be my last semester of choir. I have been so fed up with all the jobs I need to do for it.

Those who stopped studying, or are they? Well, the trumpeter @ the heavy metal singer quit music suddenly along with his gf in the beginning of this semester. He was supposed to be in the same band as me but not. He couldn't afford it. At the end of Choir Concert, I only found out from quinnie that his parents don't support him studying music from the start. And now he turned 21, his parents thought that he should be affording the school fees himself, since it's his own choice anyway. As for the gf, her parents thought that since she's 21 already, she should be start working and not studying anymore. And so this happened.
And there's another guy in our shcool that doesn't go to class frequently and doesn't do much works. He's at the edge of getting throw out by the school. But still, he's actually a nice guy, but yet still so mysterious.

Zu's suffering. She's having a lot of problems in her study and her life. Mainly because of her relationship and her parents. And the new major teacher she's having now is a big problem and she is going to meet another fail for her jury this semester, which she can't afford. She wants to quickly finish studying and graduate, but all these stuffs are dragging her down. I'm worried about her...

Anyway, we had a couple of nice concert before the semester came to an end. There's this Songwriting Concert which got a nice write up from newspapers and websites. And there's Juan's Astor Piazzolla concert, featuring our lecturers and students. And I went to MPO for a concert of Chucho Valdez. It's very enjoyable concert.

This semester, although without Victor and getting chosen to the concert, I got some fun with modern band. Having Eddie Wen as lecturer aside, we did a lot of stuffs together as a band. And to say the least, we didn't try to go for the "importing a lot of people" approach. The most set up for our songs is 7 people at the most. Doing our own arrangement for songs are fun. Hope I can get more fun next semester as my last semester.

The composer forum starting this semester is very interesting. We analysed and listen to a lot of pieces. And our main topic of the semester is counterpoint. As I discovered Kapustin's Jazz Fugues. And then, I finally got my hands on Pat Metheny's The Way Up's full score.

This semester is going to be the last of my HAMM and ET. If I pass, of course.

That much is I could think of now. Porbably add on more later.

84: Empty

2010-04-03T19:25:00.000+08:00

I came back from my piano lessons, looking at my dad lying on the sofa watching shows. He still recovering from his lorry accident last week. His broke his leg. My house is so quiet without the television noises. My mom have to deal with some function somewhere with her catering crews. My sister went to Jelating with her boyfriend. My eldest brother just came home and went into his room, close the door and play his psp, I assume. My 2nd brother is still working as a photographer, I guess he has a major project to do these days. I switched on the lights.

Then, I got a call from my mom, asking me not to go anywhere and take care of my dad, she will be back late for her job. After the call, I started to think... Does my home feel as warm as it was? I feel guilty as well. Being most of the time at my aunt's place, to let me have a more easy way to go to my university. Im only at home for 2 days. And now I have so many works to do, yet I need to take care of my family now, well, kinda feel like it.

I do wonder why am I writing this while I have my Arranging project to do. I guess I'm exhausted from all this. Choir concert to deal with (contact Music Business group, manage the choir members, pleasing Vincent Kang etc. etc.), Ear Trainning practices, HAMM project & assignments, CPS2 final exam, Arranging final project, Modern Band practices, Scholarship works etc. (although I gave the others some works to do)
And I still have a relationship to keep at the balance. And Max is being very good and supportive. Thanks to him, I get to relax and breathe after I reach home. There's just too much that happen in just 1 day.
And I didn't touch my composition one bit. (though Juan wants me to focus on my arranging project for now, but still...)
And I have a forum to look after, and it's not doing quite well, to be honest. Not much students went there and post stuffs.
Don't forget that, there's students that I need to teach every Saturday. And managing them is such a headache.

Anyway, it's getting late, and nobody is cooking dinner. There's leftover porridge in the kitchen. My dad just tell me to wait for my mom to come back to cook, if anyone is hungry, eat the porridge.

These days things just went crazy aren't they?

83: Going up the way

2010-03-20T00:26:00.000+08:00

Really really busy with school works and real works these days.
I really need to figue out how to keep myself motivated for all these...

- Recital coming up and it seems that I only be able to do 1 practice for it.
- No Arranging final project but now it's HAMM4 final composition project.
- Keep practicing EarTrainning4
- Teach teach teach
- Handle Choir Concert
- Deal with request for dvd video of previous concert at school. (Emmanuel wants, XiaoRong wants it urgently)
- Band quizzes, assessment and then final with coming really soon
- All those and my composition been halted in the middle, not to remind myself that my grad is next sem which is coming real soon too. (Heck it's course selection time already!)
- A Big project of analysing Pat's works.
- Commissions from Razef for his Cello Quartet.

Hmmm... how to make myself back to my workaholic sefl?

82: Feb

2010-02-27T18:24:00.000+08:00

Long time that I left this garden untouched. I guess there's a lot of things were in my mind and I seems to forgot to update this. Oh well, SUMMARIZE!

- CNY usual stuffs
- Eating in a expensive seafood restaurant.
- Arranging midterm project
- Ear Training Midterm
- Choir stuffs here and there
- Listen to a lot of new music
- Band stuffs
- Love life and stuffs.
- School's unofficial forum development
- Up coming events and concerts

That's all.

81: Before CNY

2010-02-12T22:59:00.000+08:00

My family told me what the 'Wong Sifu' said when they went to his place.
Said I very frustrated, have trouble sleeping at night because of thinking a lot of thing, said that I get angry easily, fired up a lot, need to drink a lot of 'cool' drinks, and avoid eating fried food.

Question is... How am I going to be so calm when there's so many things that annoy me a lot?

Though I can sleep well at night. And drink 'cool'' drinks almost everyday.

80: Updates

2010-02-01T22:30:00.001+08:00

Busy with school works as usual. Ear trainning exercises, modern band and all that.

Had a great annual dinner with the staffs from the music centre I'm teaching in.

Chinese New year is near by, and mom keep bug me to clean my room.

Everyone is getting sick in school one after the other. Fever and all that. Even someone got infected Flu A. Now, my turn to get sick. I got my sinus. Not that periodical sinus, my sinus is always... heaty body + catch a cold = sinus. Uggh... drink more water.

Had fun hanging around Max throughout the weekend.

Fixed my phone's memory card problem. I can be a cam whore now. And I can annoy those people who turn on hiphop or rock music with their phone loudly in public. Oh yeah, heavy jazz/classical/electronic music.
But that doesn't stop me from planning to buy a new phone.

Changes going around our school again. Not performing a recital and being the crew will fail your recital attendance, not downgrading your major instrument's class mark. Found out some weird activities in the Jam room and Juan decided to restraint our personal jam room booking to make space.
Funny to hear that the Parking space in my uni have the same peak hours as the commuter. While listening to drivers complaining, I was thinking, isn't this what I was facing when I have to travel everyday? Hopefully they all understand how it really feels to wake up 2-3 hours early to go to university or else you will face the late problem.

I have the urge to join orchestra now, since it's made available to contemporary students.

My mom just asked me whether I got a gf or not since I've studied in uni for 3 years. *shock*

And that's all.

FoonG is... *sniff sniff sneeze*

79: lol

2010-01-29T19:25:00.000+08:00

omg, Zu is mis-recognized by the reporter. One of the pic is zu but it says Sim Ni. lol
http://www.ucsi.edu.my/media/press/2010/compose.asp

78: Soup

2010-01-24T22:18:00.000+08:00

Has anyone drink snake soup before?

I have. Today. Wow... I feel weird.

My dad cooked it. And he is going to cook the soup again during chinese new year.

~FoonG is speechless...

77: Studying music in the right mindset

2010-01-17T23:48:00.000+08:00

I have seen and heard quite some cases where music students in my uni get so cranky with marks. Yes marks is important in our study, but not until the extend where you bacame so picky whether you get an A or not. Some other just simply wish to pass a subject.

In the core of education, marks doesn't mean anything. The most important thing actually is, whether you learnt anything from it. Pass or fail or 'A' just tells you whether you study hard enough or not. What makes everything different is your view in studying. Some just think that passing every single subject is sufficient. Some thinks that getting higher marks than everyone else will put himself/herself in a higher rank compared to other students. Both way of studying i just mentioned, I garantee that, after you graduated, you will forget everything you learnt in uni. Like how most of us did in our secondary school years.
It's a shame that we learnt so much during our school and yet we come out forgeting what we learnt.

Learning how to apply the knowledge we learnt in uni is the most vital part of studying (taking one step further to being creative and use the tools in different ways), and the other hard task would be hardworking on practicing. I rarely see any music students that willingly transcribe a song out. Yes it a pain listening to a song again and again, trying to figure out what note combinations it is. But heck, if you've done those, Ear Trainning or Aural would be much easier. The best part of transcribing is putting both listening and music reading into one. (I mean reading what you've written down and try playing it to check it). It's such a disappointment listen to stories about a junior kept asking for scores to play in the band, while he actually could have transcribe his own part or look for the scores himself.

Going into a history class might be boring. In my opinioin, it's exciting myself to learn about what styles or interesting music was going on in that era. And sometimes, you learnt about interesting facts about composers outside the class. Eg. Beethoven thought of commiting suicide before, Schumann with him fingers, Gary Burton is high profile gay, Some other musician you least expected was a alumni of Berkeley etc. etc.
In my opinion, Music History is much interesting than World History where you need to know what conference what signing who when and why. History subjects will be easier if you kept asking why.

"I don't believe that word 'shy' anymore" quote our faculty Dean. Everyone can act so normally out of class, but when everyone is put into a position where that need to be in charge or just called out to perform (whether in EarTrainning or Band or Improv class), they became so... inrespondsive. It's not even a Do or Die situation. This happens everytime for the sessional leader issues. No one wants to be in charge. What? Is everyone going to hate you for being incharge? Being incharge of a big group of people just make you learn how to communicate with them, that's leadership skills. It happened as well the day we were doing the choir comittee election. Being on in front of people and talk or sing for so many semester. I didn't face any problem introducing myself, while I can hear the stutter or soft voices from the other people. It just seems that everyone is suffering from the 'fear of losing face' (quote Willy). What is it that you going to lose just to being placed in front to sing or play or talk? In eartrainning class, just go and do your stuffs even if you didnt practice. Trying to sing it = 10 (or you might get 20 or 30) out of 100, not even trying = 0. Even for me, I don't care about sounding funny when I reached high notes anymore. Who cares if I don't care?

I know I'm writing this with a lot of pride. But this is what im thinking about. We know that our lecturers are not talking gibberish. They actually mean something. Hopefully us seniors can show those fresh juniors what is studying music.

~FooonG is trying make studying meaningful.

76: Materialistic Reality

2010-01-16T22:53:00.000+08:00

My slippers now is fully 'decomposed'.
My phone's charger is dead.
A few cloth are is spoilt but I'm still wearing them. Everyone can see that my 1 year old bag is getting spoilt as well.
I dont want to use my mom's phone at school either. Using a 'China iPhone' is really embarassing when I'm surrounded with those that bought Mac products. Besides, the phone sucks!
My Computer Hard disk is getting full. Either I need to get a External HD or I get a way to clean them up efficiently.

Can I really keep to my money saving scheme? Which is only allow myself to buy things when I save up to the doubled ammount of the item's price. It doesn't seems to go very well.

~Finiancial FoonG

75: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE THESE DAYS!!!!

2010-01-10T01:09:00.001+08:00

read the title

74: Changes

2010-01-04T20:46:00.000+08:00

Wow, now our choir is splited into 2 by SATB and SSA(Girls only) choir. It's all a mess today. I thought I could Get someone else to do the secretary job, instead I got 'promoted' to become the president. This gotta be wrong. It was a mess calling up roll call, and I expect to do a lot of stuffs.
Official Choir time for us, the Choir 1 (SATB) is now Monday and Wednesday 5.30pm to 7pm. That makes we all need to wait for the Choir class for a long time on those days.

Other than that, I've decided not to take Live Sound Design. I can't go back in time if I take it. Besides... I only need 20 credit hours for elective subjects. What I have finished are...
- MIDI2 - 2 credits hours
- Principle and Analysis of Audio- 3 credit hours
- minor lessons - 6 credit hours
So I have 11 credit hour now, I need 9 left. Normally elective subejcts are 3 credit hours. I already decided to take Arranging 3, Fundamental of Orchestration... and one more. Hopefully They can make Music and Film available. If not, I have to take Counterpoint then (this subject is provided quite often).
So, there you go. I don't find Live Sound Design any good since it just involve mixing live music only. Other people go take it la, since Max complaint a lot about the loudness of the music from the last Band Concert. I've already learnt a lot about sound engineering when I'm working on Masterclass's audio as well as Recitals. In the future, I probably take a short course of audio engineering if I want to learn about that. I rather choose something that helps me on what Im going to do next time.

That all.
FoonG - being 'promoted'.

73: Back to study

2010-01-03T13:50:00.000+08:00

This always make me sigh. Classes will be starting from tomorrow. I will be staying at my aunt's place for roughly 3 months and 3 weeks.

The complications regarding the Live Sound Design class time is really bothering me. It's now scheduled 4-7pm on Fridays.

If I add this subject in, I won't be able to make it back to Kepong to teach at 8pm. Unless someone is willingly to fetch me back, which I doubt it will happen. It's going to be jam at that time.

If I don't take this subject, I will only have 12 credits hour for this semester, which lack 3 credits to fulfill the credit hour requirement. Unless I can ignore the requirement and go on the semester.

First dilemma of the year. Sigh.
Oily food at my aunt's place. Sigh.
Internet restriction. Sigh.

FoonG ~ *sigh*

72: Nu sem

2010-01-01T23:33:00.000+08:00

Followed by the New Year celebration is our School opening. And I have to resume teaching tomorrow, doing what I need to do to earn. I'm still saving money to get what I want.

I checked my school's Timetable at my school's noticeboard.
It seems..

Choir still splited into 2, but now named Choir 1 and Choir 2. Don't worry, Concert Choir still exist.
Choir 1 - Tuesday and Thursday 6 - 7.30pm
Choir 2 - Monday and Wednesday 4 - 5.30pm

Hmm... Different days? Not only that, it seems Vincent Kang is coming back to conduct as well.

MBE, Friday 12 - 4pm as usual.... Wait, where's our Recital time?

Harmony Analysis of Modern Music 4, Monday 10 - 11am, Wednesday 3 - 4pm
and our Mr. justin_limfy is going to teach us. Yes!

Ear Trainning 4, Tuesday 11.30 - 12. 30pm and Thursday 10.30 - 11.30am.
Morning tortures...

Comtemporary Playing Styles 2, Monday 1 - 2pm. A relatively new lecturer will be teaching us.

Live Sound Design (LSD?) Monday and Wednesday 11 - 12.30pm, we will be getting another lecturer with name started with A.

Arranging 1 Tuesday 1 - 2pm and Thursday 3 - 4pm, Juan is teaching us! Yay!!

Guess what, there's some weird new subject appeared... For the new program, not us though. It's called... University Life... What the... I wonder what's all that about. All the answer we can find will be in our Briefing in our First Friday of the sem.

That's all folks!
~FoonG: "start of another hectic year"

71: Nu

2010-01-01T23:18:00.000+08:00

Happy New Year everyone!

This is the first post of the year. Let me start off with how I spend with my x'mas and new year. Both being with Max.

The most happiest things to do when celebrating any occasions is being with your loved ones.

On X'mas day, we went around KLCC, Pavillion, Times Square. We found a Mameshiba cooking cook at Kinokuniya, we didn't buy it though. First, because I don't know how to read Japanese and second, I know after I buy it, I will put the book somewhere and don't bother about it for a long long time.

Max bought his Magazines, which added with bonus stuffs. And that day, we went into Petronas Art Gallery too. It was showcasing some Sculptures which emphasized a lot with the body structures. It was fun.

Although the Petrosains were showing some "Science and Music" themed stuffs, we didn't go have a look because it was crowded with people. And so, we walked to AvenueK to have our lunch - MiniWok.

And then, during New Year, Max came over my place to stay over for a few days. We went to The Curve, Cineplex and 1U. And we watched Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 there. We saw there's some Japanese food to buy, so we went and have a look. There's this funny look Koala that moves awkawdly. Max recorded into his phone. It was so funny until we still laugh at it while watching from Max's phone.

Later, we went and buy a Japanese curry to try to cook it ourselves. And we did, for the next 2 days. Back at home, I have a little party with Max eating and watching movies.

I'm so happy for these few days. I wish everything sail smoothly in this year.

70: Rows and Columns

2009-12-29T18:53:00.000+08:00

The timetable for our new semester is out. Of course, tomorrow is Orientation Day! Tomorrow I'm following my mom (or is it my mom following me?) to school to pay up my fees though. Expect a long queue. >_<

And this is something I did today. A Transcribed score for a solo piano piece by Osamu Kubota. , Avant guerre. It's one of the song on my playlist up there. So I just put it up here.

Now, I really need to take my bruxism seriously. I hope it won't affect my eating habits. *sigh* When can I go to a dentist and put up braces?

Anyway, I been playing some PS1 game on emulator. I really missed playing them. I rather have a game that is long enough for me to stay with, instead of short nds game that I could finish in a couple of days.

69: The last 7 days of 2009

2009-12-25T02:43:00.001+08:00

Merry Christmas everyone, though I'm not a Christian myself. Christmas became a popular culture through globalisation anyway.

Time to review back this year... since we only have 7 days more for the 2009 year. So that we know what to use wisely our last 7 days of 2009.

Big news: (not listed in any order)
- June 11, Influenza A
- August 31, 1 Malaysia
- June 25, Micheal Jackson's Death
- January 20, Obama
- September 26, big typhoon at Ph
- July 22, Longest solar eclipse
- April, Red Vs. Blue at Thai
- Earth Hour
...for more? here.

More Localized news:
- WTF! Seatbelts!?
- Disgusting images on cigarettes
- Riots near Masjid Jamek to protest the use of English in the teaching of Maths and Science.
- Najib reigns
- Perak State Assembly in chaos
- Building collaspes
- Crime scene at Anti-corruption Building
- 1 September – French "Spiderman" Alain Robert was arrested after successfully scaling Petronas Towers, in his third attempt on the nation's tallest structure. (From Wiki) (I didnt know that!)
- Flash floods
...and here.

Music that I checked on so far: (from the newest)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto Discography
- m-flo Discography
- Dimitri Shostakovich Works
- Gustav Mahler's symphonies
- Dido Discogarphy
- Bach (always come back to him)
- The Very Best of Christmas Jazz (v.a. album)
- The Very Best of Fusion Jazz (v.a. album)
- Bemani's Artists (too bad I can't go back to the site and download anymore)
- Brahms's Piano Concerto
- Earth Wind and Fire's The Very Best (listen again)
- Joshua Redman, Brecker Brothers: Elastic, Pilgrimage
- Dave Matthew's Band: Groogrux King
- The Classical Masterpiece Collection
- Beethoven String Quartets
- Quasimode: The Land of Freedom, Mode of Blue
- Jazz for Goodnight (v.a. album)
- Joe Hisashi Discography
- Soil 'n Pimp: Pimpoint, Pimp of the year
- Pop'n music Cafe Selection
- Stravinsky: Rite of Spring, Synphony of Psalms
...more I can't remember the earlier ones, partially because I lost my laptop.

Personal events: (Summarized from the 3 semester, with follow ups)
- A trip to Singapore
- An annoying foreign music student > a band with civil war inside > A repetitive blues song
- Music sharing
- Lovers, couples popping out of nowhere > Some stayed, some did not
- A caring lecturer > who became bald > then get fired for carelessness
- The frustrating transportation > Moved to my aunt's place > Stuck in station more than 6 hours
- Fun Midi Project > Song Writing classes
- UCSI SemFest, 60 Earth Hour,
- So what if you changed your official name > Construction craze
- A lecturer who like to show off > resign and teaches part time
- A funny lecturer > who teaches both classical and comtemp programs
- The extreme attitude of selflessness > one failed presentation >learnt and did well in Song writing presentation
- Helping too much will get a blood rush into your head > helping Zu's friend at Aswara (man, their composition sucks!) > Help classical saxophone-piano chamber music, why do I have to find the scores? > playing gig, food poisoning the next day
- A breakthrough to myself > didn't sleep for 1 day
- Friends from far away paid a visit
- The breakdown before the exhibition > which is solved in the end > Dasein asked again, rejected
- Fun Concerts after one and another > The longest MBE concert > Chaotic Choir concert
- Ghost in our university??
- A messy relationship > solved and re-live the excitements
- Jury 2 and craziness > passed aiming for grad
- New lecturer and confusions > and still confusing, plus not giving any assignments
- ET became Choir and HAMM became Improvisation Skills > Tougher Ear Trainning and it seems to be tougher next sem
- Banning system in MBE (everyone banned twice) > Banned borrowing items at school
- Jeju trip (which in Juan's language, seizures) > Influenza > kept and idle > back but things changed
- CC in midi lab > FB games addictions
- Lost my Wallet > lost my laptop
- Interesting Masterclasses (mostly contemp) > Music school's exploration to the new wing
- A life with less internet and then.. > Freeloading at an unknown connection
- Failed Masterclass and Appeal and Passed
- Pasar Malam
- Stepped into Angkasa Condo for the first time in my life.
- Electrical outbreak at school
- Playing a hard saxophone-piano modern cliassical piece for ppl's CME
- Cooking with Max
- Music school bands playing for various occasions.
- A whole Brass band in the stone.
- "In my life EveryDaaayy~" > Ridiculous composition(?) student recital
- A Fusion song in a short semester, Successful!
- My cousins have English name! One has the same name as my mate and one has the same name as my previous piano teacher > Ate at my coursin's restaurant! Yummy! El Cerdo
- 10 days without parents and my aunt
- MPO > Chamber concert > MasterJam In C
- Getting saxophone fixed > teaching saxophone > research about corossion for sax
- Choir Tresurer > Secretary
- Go gym > Stop gym > Wish to go gym (without the motivation)
- The feeling of unable to fit in > has a group of people who I can chill with > Make a new friend > Overused the relationship? > where's the connection now?
- Surprise award > turn out to be nothing
- Shaping my graduation recital

Now, it's your turn to recall what happened to you on this year.

68: Round

2009-12-23T00:48:00.000+08:00

It's winter soltice. The day that a family reunite and eat tang yuan together. Not too much of the reunite though. Everyone is grown up and have their own life. Most of my brother and sister came home late. I mean, late as in after 8 or 9pm. My 2nd bro too, just came back to have his dinner then go back to his studio for a rush for a project.

Ok, back to thise morning, I woke up and find that my mom is not working today. I went down to the kitchen only to find that she is almost finishing making the tang yuan already. She saw me and ask me to finish up for her. I never thought I have the chance to make those small little sphere shaped thing, as my mom was working hard for her company during this "gourmet festival" going around, plus my dad did said he will buy the ready made packages. Which he did not. My mom used no extra colouring to the tang yuan. She used all natural sources, like yams, japanese cucumber, and so on.

Then, later in the afternoon. I helped preparing the food for the dinner. Learned how to use the chop knife correctly. Too bad I didn't help the cooking part too. Then, I could learn how to cook the dishes I like to eat. Well, I suppose that's enough for one day.

The most important part is... get into helping and talk more to my parents. Connect back to my parents, I think that's what one of the important things in Winter soltice.

That's all folks.
...Next episode... X-mas.

67: Much better

2009-12-11T23:31:00.002+08:00

Today, Quinnie, Zu and Max were celebrating my birthday in 1U.
The cake was nice. Though they didnt be able to kena me with the birthday candle trick.

Thanks for everything guys.

66. Birthday

2009-12-11T01:41:00.000+08:00

Worst birthday of my life.

I decided not to go school today. I want to give myself a free time, having nothing to worry about. Then everything changed.

The unlce from the music centre called me. At first asking me tomorrow got teaching or not. Of course I'm teaching, there's 2 students for tomorrow. Then, he said tomorrow I can teach in downstair's room. Then he explain that the girl at the counter couldn't work for the week, could I replace her for the moment. I was in shock. I wanted a relex free time tonight, but this? Who is going to look after the shop if nobody is there, the owner are not around. Which means, that I have to say yes though I wanted to reject.

Being a kind person has its downside. Being bullied or what you want to call it. The uncle then said there won't be much collecting for fees tonight because it's the 2nd week of the month already. So I said ok la...

I don't know why I couldn't reject this uncle. I guess he has been nagging me about the piano fees from last time since I learning there, until I'm scared of his nagging.

Then I went to work. There were a lot of fees collecting. I hate the uncle now. Until I got a little mother and daughter drama in front of me. The mom tries to investigate why her daugther's ballet class fees are so expensive. The daughter actually did double class, so everything doubled up. So, they both were shouting a bit.

It's not that I always wasting time looking after the shop at night. I always brought my laptop there and do my work there. It's just a bit annoying when kids come looking at your screen, or start touching your touchpad, or ask for games. I still be able to do my work though.

It's an coincident that one ballet teacher at the centre had the same birthday day with me. She ended her class early today and ask someone else to replace her later class, while she go celebrate. And well... Look at me who didnt need to work on my birthday and ended up needing to work on my birthday. Pathetic. Just because I can't say "No" earlier. Regret a lot. Then someone came to tell me that I should have go have fun on my birthday instead of working there. I felt even down.

Sad enough when your own family doesn't celebrate your birthday. Yea, my birthday is just like any other day. Normal people also work on ther birthday date what. Just a little difference is their colleague will celebrate with him a bit. But I got nothing but stress!

I really feel regret. Why didnt I reject earlier? Probably I haven't change that much. I'm still timid towards people, especially older people. I'm so stupid... I don't deserve any birthday present anyway. So what it's 21th birthday? It's like any other day. Why would a pathetic person need a present or a birthday cake?

I hate myself...

65: Counting down

2009-12-04T17:34:00.000+08:00

Counting down the season's holidays, but I'm full with things to do. Which includes, Going out with Max. xD

Went to meet Max again today. We had a good time walking around sitting down chat and eat for a few times already. Today we went and have some dessert. He has his Cendol and I have our Banana Split. Mmmmm... Ice Cream. x3~~

Well, finally done some decoration with my blog. It definitely looks brighter now.

Just some updates. Well then.
Checking out.

~FoonG
Anxious for the next 7days

64: Mameshiba

2009-11-30T13:06:00.007+08:00

Not a bean, not a dog. Though some of you already that I'm frenzy over them. More information about them here.

At first it's these videos that really captured my attentions...

They're so cute!

Well, me and Max found the mameshiba keychains because we both were so addicted to them. xD When you press them, they will light up! xD

Anyway, Max and I have 2 extra Edamame keychain, we would like to sell it RM8 each. anyone interested?

And this...

63: Shook

2009-11-27T00:29:00.002+08:00

The worst day of my life.

Trapped in KTM for 6 hours... I will tell about that later. But first...

I went to school today. I got paid for doing the commission and had a good chat and lunch with Razef. Seems like he's going in to MIA soon. All the best in looking for new place to stay and good luck to him. He seems very eager to move out. Who can blame him if you have 3 stinky housemates. (and Cat poos and Dead rats).

After that I went to have a class session with Juan. Before we settle down with our analysis. Elliott came by and surprise! Seems like he's going to teach Pop History. And Major changes will befall on our school of music. But all the changes will apply to New Students only, which is those who start from Degree 1st sem next year January. We all old students have to continue and complete our own syllabus.
The Big changes are...
-No CPS, combined with Modern band
-No Improvisation skills, combined with Major instrument lessons
-No Arranging, combined with HAMM
-New subjects... Intro to Pop Music History, (Pop1, Pop2) then (Pop3) Music and Popular Culture.
-In Final year, students will be able to choose their direction. Major in Musicology(writing a Thesis Paper), Performance(Which will require student to take Jury 3 then Grad Recital), Music Technology, or Event Management(If I remember correctly)

Wow... And that's for the 'software' changes. For hardware changes, I already see that we have new paints around our school. I bet you will get a shock when you see the practice room to be so colorful. Imagine each room having different wall paint colour. Don't forget about All the new infrastructures, New Library look, Renewed Block A.

Anyway, after the class and I head home. It's expected to be a lot of people since tomorrow is public holiday and everyone is balik kampung-ing. I took the train from 6 something. When I almost reach Bank Negara, "BANG!!!". The whole Train stopped and the electricity starts to go off. Everyone is so hot and irritated and start generates heat by fanning themselves. We all waited for anything good to happen. Until someone is frustrated, he forcefully opened the door to let the fresh air in, but nobody went out of the train though. So it's still hot inside. We waited and looking at trains passing by and we are not moving...
Until 7 something the train starts to moved again. Still no electricity though, it's another train came and pull this train to Bank Negara station. Everyone got down there. We all waited for the next train. After awhile the train did came, but I couldn't get on, it's too pack to go in. And then The same train moved back. Unfortunately the rail track between Bank Negara and Putra is spoiled. Wow, more people stuck here now. All the destination's train is going to use the one and only rail track available. Everyone waited and waited and waited. Imagine that the whole platform is fulled with people waiting for the train. It's like a assembly already. I don't even think that 2 train can fit everyone inside. Waited until 9 something...
I called my sis, asking where she is. She's at MidValley, coming back from work, and she just notify about the incident. So we were wondering if we should call our dad to pick us up. (I'm still at Bank negara though, no way I can get to MidValley because there's no train coming by also) Ended up... My dad went and fetch my sis, then she called me saying that my dad doesnt want to pick me up because KL was very very jam. He asked me to take a Taxi instead. No, I won;t take a taxi, it's dangerous and pricy. So Idecided to wait.
And I took a train to KL Sentral to increase my luck on getting on a train back home. No use, because all direction had been hauled down. I waited blankly... till 10 something the train came, but it stopped for a long time. I start to wonder is it taking so long to configure the railway to works. it's tiring to listen to the same notice being played by the anouncer again again again and again. Announcing everything but nothing about when is the next train coming.
When I got back it's 11 something already.

I;m really tired. Crazy day.

62: 2nd week of holiday

2009-11-13T23:31:00.003+08:00

1. Start working part-time as a 'customer service' in my music school. Though they hired a new girl for the job already, but I'm shifting with her, then later only out of the job.

2. Work on analysis on Beethoven's quartet, listen to Mahler's Symphony no. 6. Reminded me of Sephiroth's theme in FF7 a lot, but both is a different thing. I prefer Mahler. Hm, it's like Juan is hinting me to something in Sonata form.

3. Planing my graduation project with the theme, Lost and Found. A story with the main character took off in a journey to look for something that he couldn't recall. But he can't pretend as nothing happened, as the emptiness bugged him a lot, so he just depart for a journey of a lifetime. Yes, gonna work around this story as the flow of my recital. Hopefully someone can help me to improve this storyline.

4. Went to MPO alone for a 'MPO happy hour' concert, listening to 'In C'. Too bad the orchestra didn't have enough lower register player, and all of the player seems confused. After some investigation, I found out they all thought the pattern fragments were supposed to play in the written register only. They didn't know they can transpose it lower or higher. Talk about misunderstanding the piece, huh.

5. Went back to school on Thursday. The construction for the Library is almost done. It's so new. And I went to school on the wrong day, I was expecting Juan but he was away in Putrajaya for some conference. Oh well, do some video converting job for Ms. Chin then.

6. A proper date with my mate today. I'm so happy we can just sit down and talk for a long time. Gotta love Java Chip. My mate met his old friend today, it was interesting. We were looking for Mameshiba GaShaPon in MV today. Couldn't find it, I gotta interrogate my sis again.

7. Start teaching saxophone. I don't really have much materials to teach, but just wait for her to learn all the keys first. No point giving all the etudes to her or start teaching Jazz standards or even Classical themes.

8. Going back to Kuala Kangsar tomorrow evening, for my aunt's birthday. Why? I really want to get myself away from internet awhile and think about my graduation more.

9. Hopefully I can get to talk to Juan next week. Gotta ask him about new lecturers, which will lead to the availability of new subjects, Inquiry about the modern band policy. Next week is course selection! And there's some new policy for major classes, at least for the composition majors. We are going to have a composition forum every week. Each of us gotta present something in the forum.

10. I didn't realize the commission for Razef was still going on. I got 2 more arrangments to do I guess. Hopefully I can get my pay soon. Done with Adious Nonino and Libertango previously. Gotta work on Oblivion and one Chopin soon.

Enough playing already, gotta get into work!
Holidays and school days doesn't make much difference anymore I guess.

~FoonG
Approaching winter solstice with works.

61: Year end of 2009

2009-11-02T14:31:00.004+08:00

Time pass so fast. 10 more months I'm going to have my graduation recital project. So far I haven't done anything to it. So, I probably plan it and write something for it during this holiday.(and indulge myself in MMORPG)

Before that, let me conclude last semester...
- Moved into my aunt's place near North Wing.
- Our University is crazy all over constructions now. (Automatic slide-open door WTH!)
- A life with less internet and then...
- Freeloading at an unknown connection
- 2 Lecturers gone from the Contemporary Department.
- Not a successful band.
- Failed Masterclass and Appeal and Passed
- Max's parents.
- Chaotic Choir Concert Day
- Yvonne starts talking a lot of mandarin
- Pasar Malam
- Tougher Ear Trainning and it seems to be tougher next sem
- Stepped into Angkasa Condo for the first time in my life.
- Electrical outbreak at school
- Playing a hard saxophone-piano modern cliassical piece for ppl's CME
- Cooking with Max
- Music school bands playing for various occasions.
- A whole Brass band in the stone.
- A Wedding gig and got food poisoning the next day.
- Dirty Recital Hall.
- Found out some juniors are quite ridiculous.
- "In my life EveryDaaayy~"
- *Bam* *the Blues rock song*
- Ridiculous composition(?) student recital
- A Fusion song in a short semester, Successful!
- My cousins have English name! One has the same name as my mate and one has the same name as my previous piano teacher.
- Ate at my coursin's restaurant! Yummy! El Cerdo
- 10 days without parents and my aunt

During this time I shall...
- Plan for my graduation recital
- Compose!
- Arrange!
- Practice!
- Analysis assignments from Juan
- Exercise myself without Gym (because membership expired)
- Go watch 'In C' in MPO myself
- Learn piano songs, for the sake of learning
- Train my ear and singing, ET4 is going to be tough.
- Have some meet with friend if possible, but I'm still passive...
- Decorate this blog
- Notechart if I got the chance to
- Teach, teach, teach and earn.
- Save up money... for a lot of things.

60: A post by Max

2009-10-24T01:32:00.008+08:00

Hey peps, I'm here tumpang-ing my dragon to post of my previous semester stuff. :P Hope you don't mind ya Dragon~ X3

I have my reasons why I don't want to post it on my own blog instead..

A review of events... (not in chronological order)

1. A messy relationship, but things were all alright in the end.
2. Knowing one special friend, or would I say, WOLF. Fun & daring omg.. lol. A friend who is just simply AWWWW to the max. PLUS.. a lady who is sweet too. "Please shave.." :P LOL
3. Holding stuff that are dear to me, even more closer,tighter than before, and I'm afraid of losing them as well.... ,_,
4. Paying visits and watching Live Performances with life in it. Band was...so-so only..very OST-ish [KERINDUAN ROCKS!!]
5. Stress..
6. Frequent outings to Pasar Malam~ But...had to stop.. .....
7. Unwanted consequences...
8. Being more open, bit by bit. <3 Thanks guys. *hugs*
9. Tough semester..
10. Blardy-Stupid-Retarded-Head of management [who believe that you only manage money business, pussy.. = = blardy sissy guy.. = = ;;; ]
11. Clashes / Cross swords.
12. Switching UP and DOWN..
13. Doubts.. [some cleared and some not...]
14. Academy going back to old location in Subang..
15. Not bothered about the juniors as they are all quite snobbish, the Girl is ok.

AND from here onwards will be what I did in my holidays, including my extended holidays. (not in chronological order)

1. Drawings [finishing up some old request]
2. Colouring with more passion and experiments
3. Tested out how a marker works [and they really stink until they gave me a real good headache..]
4. Outings
5. The most AWW part is staying over and being able to help out with so many stuff, plus doing alot of stuff together and understanding each other deeper.
6. Reunion with furry buddies and SUBway-ed with them. :P
7. Money spent.. But got products which were worth the money. <3
8. Have not started on doing my research for my final project LOL XD
9. Knowing some people more.
10. Worrying...
11. Can't wait to see what is going to hapen next sem... and last but not least..
12. I wish to be able to be closer to the peps I know, and also be better with my dear Dragon. Love you dragon~ Mmmmauckss~ X3~~~ <3<3<3

未来を見上げて。
愛に関係なく無限ですがどこにいる。
俺は, 俺の龍を愛です。永遠に。

59: Really?

2009-10-12T09:31:00.003+08:00

There were no electrical outbreak...

And is it my fault to get sick so frequently?

58: Mid-Autumn Leaves

2009-10-03T23:32:00.004+08:00

It's the Full Moon Day again.
Kids around my area are all cheering and yelling. And me, sitting here writing my composition for my recital.

Happy Mid Autumn, not so...
My eldest aunt just passed away yesterday. It was stroke.
I didn't go to the ceremony, that's why I'm stuck here with my works.

I feel really down with things that happen lately.

No salary yet, because one of my student didn't pay up her fees yet. So, I don't have money to spend at the moment... perhaps for 2 more weeks. I had to take money out from the ATM machine, which is something I really don't want to do. I want to save money, now it's a total opposite of what I want to do. How guilty I feel now.

Plus, today, my mom asked me... "How much money do you have left on your bank account?"
"erm... I don't really remember."
"Didn't you check how much you have left when you take out money from ATM machine?"
"I don't really check."
"Do you have 3000 left there?" "No."
"2000?" "No."
"Thousand something only?" "Yea, why?"
"Nah, I just want to borrow some money from you. But, nevermind la."

Even my mom wants to borrow money from me. Which means, she have less money than I?!
I don't want to think further already. How am I going to pay my next semester's fees? My parents is going to China in October, which means they will spend a lot of money.
Oh no... Don't tell me...
We are THAT poor...

I can't rely on my family already... I really don't know what to do...
I don't want to rely on Max either. I already felt guilty when I know that I can't pay him back the money he used to buy reeds for me. I don't want to create problems for him too.

... I really hate to spend money already...
No more pasar malam.
Use phone credits wisely.
Spend less for lunch.
Go out less.
Accept any job I can do.
Shrink my budget as much as I can.

...I guess those were the reason I didn't want to get my saxophone fixed so soon, back then. And the same reason I use the same reed over and over again...

I own a few people money too...
...Guilt...

~FoonG
...is playing Moonlight Sonata 1 Mvt in his heart...

57: [Rant post] Give me a slap

2009-09-25T18:35:00.003+08:00

For not focusing in studying so much and lazying around.

Everyone else's bands are doing well... I don't feel my band is secured. I don't think there's anyone want me to whine about that, that's why I'm putting it here, as I need to spit it out somewhere. My band is not really functional. I can't communicate! I don't know what to do!

First of all, people thought I really got into the dean list, but i did not actually. Being in the dean list, means being the top student. Well, I'm not a top student. Yea, you can say I score high marks in certain subjects, but I totally sucked at performance. I just improvise like shit.

Yea, being the only Tenor Saxophone player. Advantage? No, I just received a comment from Arif saying. "People says you can really play, but his tone..." Yes, I can play, but I just sound bad.
I feel so useless now.

The ear trainning 3 midterm earlier today. I screwed up. The melody was just a simple A minor, and I can't sing it well. Can't go on in the 3rd bar of the total 8 bars! Went in nervous, prepared myself. But can't perform with a clear mind. I actually answered "Rhythm first" when I actually think of "melody".
I failed myself.

My recital that is coming in 3 weeks time. I'm still totally unprepared. I don't know what to do also. Thinking of composing something Fusion, but can I do it? Thinking of combining it with my band, Can we do it? I doubt. Deeply.
And my band doesn't have much practices. We don't go outside practice also. I don't know how I should survive.

I haven't practice for the Classical Chamber Music ensemble yet. It's going to be hard piece. Really regret I promise Shawn for his class. It's not my class! What was I thinking? (and Max, if you want to scold me for ranting about this, please do so.)
Razef commissions, I was thinking I can do it at night in my aunt's place, since I don't have internet connection there. But most of the time, I just slack off.
It's all laziness! I failed myself over and over again.

I don't know what I'm actually doing anymore or what I should do. Just give me a slap!

56: It'll be different...

2009-09-20T00:07:00.005+08:00

Bad night, bad day, rainy days.

~FoonG
whatever you choose to call me...

55: Emerges

2009-09-14T10:44:00.007+08:00

Suddenly I get so many call for help. It's not a bad thing, just that, they appear together at once. It's surprising.

Helping Stephanie for her band, for "Drive Time".
Helping Joy for her wedding gig in 25 October. (Yay, I will get paid for it)
Helping Sim Ni's Recital and Jury. Again.
Helping Shawn's Chamber Music Ensemble class.
Still doing Razef's commissions for his 4 cellos ensemble.
Might be starting to teach Saxophone at my place next 2 months.

I really feel like my career is somehow starting already. But I don't think I have time to compose. >_>
I suppose I should make full use of my free time for that. For now, all I have is ideas. Nothing is written down yet.

~FoonG
Must work hard!

p/s: We're ok already. Thanks for anyone who is worried about us. We're fine.

54: A few moments

2009-09-11T21:43:00.003+08:00

Just some updates.

Last Thursday, Juan came into class and said, "I have some good news. Congratulation for Mr. Lee Voon Foong and Tan Yi Fen! You two is in the Dean's List!"

When I heard it, I thought I did something wrong until my name is passed to the Dean. Like everyone else, I was... "Huh..?" (What did I do wrong?)

Later he explained it's a prize given for students that kept their average marks at 80 and above. "And hey, there's money given too." (OMG, money!)

When we all were talking about this... "Hey, I got into the Dean's List in Bekeley, you know! I got 20,000USD at that time..." And suddenly it all turned pitch black.

The electricity broke down, and we spend our Ear Trainning class in dark. Literally just training using ears. We listen to tons of chords. And later, all the classes were cancelled, especially Band Practice and Band Couching.

Well, we found out soon, it's TNB's fault for that. And I just found that, I'm going to appear in Awards Day, which is soon in this semester, for the Dean's List award.

FoonG
~oh my gawd...

53: Getting slow at 2nd week

2009-09-09T10:10:00.002+08:00

It's the second week of the semester, short semester. And... I feel things are going very slow. The practice room sign up is just only decided to be held tomorrow and the next day. It's too slow. The Recital list and crew list is not out also. I can't really work without estimating when my recital is. I need to decide whether to write and perform a new piece or use the previous semester pieces.
I haven't get the notice about getting the new semester scholarship student work sheet. Can't really settle down with everything else is floating on the air.

Now the space in my timetable is filling up by practices and all that. I didn't touch much on my composition and arranging as well. ><

I gotta get serious with things already. No more playing playing mood! Work Work Work!

~FoonG
the workaholic

52: Back here again

2009-09-07T18:46:00.002+08:00

Well, this is the start of the 2nd week. Funny how things turned around as compared with last semester.

Things are busier than I thought, having to help someone's Chamber Music Ensemble. But now I have problem looking for Classical pieces for Tenor Saxophone and Piano, especially some modern one. All the one I found is not free and I have to pay to get them. It's hard as people wants to earn from selling music scores as well. (I myself might go into that route anyway)

So far so good for Ear Training class. No 'quizzes every class' yet. And Juan actually come out with a proper study timeline, for the first time. Tomorrow is going to be melodies, I really not confident on it.
It's 2nd week already and still no news about practice room sign up. The practice room now is hiatus. Can't find a room to practice, even in the evening!

With Alex gone in uni, who is teaching all those subjects like World Music and Pop Music History. *sigh* He's now moving his belongings out from the office. I wish the best out of him.

I have Max online here but seems that he's not around the computer. Well, I planned to practice in the evening, which is now, but I don't feel like doing it suddenly. My band's song is not really settling down, I need to transcribe the part. Really need to listen the song over and over again.
And Band 11 is here in the room near me, practicing. I can feel the stress suddenly.

What am I doing now? Better start making myself busy. Need to buy a reload for my phone later.

Till then.

51: Day 4

2009-09-05T17:48:00.003+08:00

My cousin brought us to the restaurant he's working at for dinner. It was omg... That was the fullest I ever get in my life, partially because my aunt and uncle keep forcing me to eat more. Anyway, the food there is AWESOME! Pork Ribs, Pork Legs, Seafood Risotto~
And it's the first time, I'm eating in such a real Western styled restaurant! Feel so high class.

Masterclass was ok, faster than ever. It just took 1 hour. With a small incident that I have to poke the projector for turning it on.

Modern Band class was same. Lucky that we only need to prepare 6 songs. Being senior bands, we need to prepare 1 Standard Jazz, 1 Latin Jazz, 1 Fusion Jazz and 3 others up to selection.

Hmm, I'm helping Shawn in his CME. So, need to play some classical stuffs now.

...

Back at home, now I feel so comfortable. Haha...
And I just collect my Saxophone from fixing just now. Happy that everything is fixed now.

Tomorrow going to get some stuffs. Till then.

Goodbye, Alex. We will miss you.

50: Day 3

2009-09-03T16:28:00.000+08:00

Yea yea, Day 3.

Classes were fine. With Juan missing the class in the morning because he thought it was supposed to be in the afternoon, from the computer error. And for the Choir class, finally I can get rid of the respondsibilty of a Treasurer, now I'm a Secretary. Now I had to go calling out the names and take care of the lecturer's scores.

After Class, I met up with Max and Steven. Then we go to the pasar malam with Yvonne, Seong Seong and Karen. It was fun.

Now, most part of the timetable is done. Settled with Arif's Saxophone class, Juan's Major composition class. Band class list is out. I'm not very sure how my band is going to do this semester.

Juan know about my masterclass result from my add/drop. He said I should write a letter and appeal for the it. Well, I was helping out a lot but I fail it. Kinda not fair.

Tomorrow is academic briefing. Wake up early to set up the system again. Remember about the ID.

Was going to mamak with yvonne they all but stuck here replying tons of instant messages. Half an hour already. Nevermind la, they already finish eating, must be. Oh well, going back at 6 to have dinner back at the temporary home.

Not that much of a happy day.

49: Surprise?

2009-09-02T10:27:00.002+08:00

Day 2 of staying at my aunt's place. I finally met her 2 sons, and her husband's brother. Didn't talk much, just say hi and bye. After yesterday's ear trainning class, I went to practice room first. Tried to online, but no connection. Seems like the place with best connection is our O' Exit B.
It didn't rain today, but the weather is cloudy, good weather still.

Back to practice room, to practice those new Ear trainning melodies. My dragon messaged and I straight away go chat with him online. After done with that, I went to buy some stuffs before I go back. Dinner with my aunt, bath and practice rhythms. My uncle suddenly asked me to listen to some Beethoven Piano Concerto, and I did, willingly. My aunt and uncle asked a lot of questions about my course, I wonder they really understand how the music scene goes after my explainations. And, yes, my uncle and aunt thought I'm studying Classical. Well, I suppose they don't understand what's the difference I guess. My unlce just likes to listen, that's all.

Enough listening, I go back to my rhythms, and Yvonne called. Asking me what does "U" stand for in Masterclass. From there, I knew from her that the results is out! But I'm can't go online and check. Damn. Yea yea, sure I get high marks, but it's still a blank spot in the result section in my mind! Though Eager to know, I reject a good friend's suggestion to check my results for me. Well, back to practice, then re-arrange Libertango. (I don't know why all the sibelius files disappeared after I change a little preference in the options)

And so, I'm here in the next morning. Finally get to know my results. Surprisingly, I failed my Masterclass. Yes, I attended all the Masterclass but I didn't pass up my Student ID because I'm too busy dealing with sound. Nevermind la, I still have one more year to wait for Music Business 2 anyway. Despite that, I did well in the other subjects. Not going to tell my marks here, I don't really remember my marks anyway.

10 minutes to class, I better prepare the ear training stuffs again. Later, I need to go print out some documents, meet up with Max~, lunch with him~, go for Choir, Then... Pasar malam with Max and Steven~ x3~

Ok la, That all for today~

48: Year 2 Sem 2

2009-09-01T10:17:00.002+08:00

Day 1 of moving and staying at my aunt’s place. It’s 8.45 in the morning. I woke up earlier but too scared to move around the house. The house, after all, is unfamiliar to me.

My room here is something like my own room back in Kepong. It’s an extra room extended from the balcony. Technically, I’m sleeping at the balcony. There are racks of magazines in my room, a desktop computer, a mirror, and posters of movie, a table and my bed here. There are 2 doors at the corner. I need to go through her son’s room to get to the stairs. Just can’t get use to it. The bed through is comfortable.

One thing that terrified me a lot in this house is… there’s no internet! Or wireless broadband, so to speak. So, I’m unable to online when I want. The only place I can online is school! I guess I’m staying at school more often than I expected.

My aunt has 2 dogs. White in color, and they are very cute. Hopefully they won’t bark at my angrily to this ‘stranger’ when I go out.

Soon, I need to go have my breakfast – those biscuits I brought from home, and go to my school. Too bad it’s still raining heavily. My original plan was to go my school and check out some stuff first, then go take the shuttle and commuter to MidValley for Gym. Then I should come back for my first class in the semester – Ear Training 3. Perhaps, after the class, I will go find a place to online or get some inspiration. I figured out that, since I don’t have any internet here, I just become a workaholic then. It’s better for me to be productive now since I need to prepare for this semester’s recital and my graduation next year. I don’t feel like using my jury 2 pieces for this semester’s recital. It’s a bit sickening that I’m using my old stuffs for recital while everyone is playing something new every time?

The rain is not stopping yet. I’m going dress up a bit and go have my breakfast. Maybe read the newspaper while waiting for it to stop. This is the new start for me. Hope I will survive this.

p/s: I wrote this back there and posted this from school.

47: Ready? Set? no.

2009-08-30T10:42:00.002+08:00

A couple of days more to the opening exposition of next semester.
What did I do in my holidays? Well, I'm still stuck in KL. Didn't even exit the city for one step. Lucky that I have him and him around. It's been fun being with my dragon, and the wolf that stalk around too. xD
And Completed a cute game for the holiday.
Seems like I've been all play, no works this holidays. A bit disappointed, but I did install Finale, watch the tutorial videos, install Audition and did the commission.

Soon, I'm moving to my aunt's place near the university. So, I don't need to worry about missing buses and trains. Able to stay at school as long as I want. More time to practice I guess.
I really need to settle food myself or my aunt will do that, I'm not very sure. Internet connectivity is a problem too, because I'm not sure there's internet at my aunt's place. Don't even start talking about wireless connections. If there's no, I think I HAVE TO focus and do my stuffs.
Ear Trainning 3 ain't gonna be easy.
Later today, I probably will follow my parents to yum cha with my aunts and uncles. Better for me to ask and paying some respects.

Well, we still doesn't know about our results for last semester yet. Only 2 came out. B for both subjects.
But the subjects timetable is out. Having Junior Choirs singing before us, I don't know how our conductor going to do it. It's 2 days of 4 hours straight stress. Unless...

Anyway, now I'm having sore-throat and a little fever-ish. The fever has ceases after last night. Being sick before school starts... uhh, bad luck. Hopefully It will cured very soon.

46: End of May-Aug '09 Semester

2009-08-17T23:26:00.002+08:00

A review of events... (not in chronological order)

1. A messy relationship.
2. Jury 2 and craziness
3. The longest MBE concert in UCSI history
4. New lecturer and confusions
5. First time spending the whole night without any sleep
6. ET became Choir and HAMM became Improvisation Skills
7. Banning system in MBE (everyone banned twice)
8. Jeju trip (which in Juan's language, seizures)
9. CC in midi lab
10. Playfish games addictions
11. Losing my 'properties'
12. Interesting Masterclasses (mostly contemp)
13. H1N1 in our school?
14. Banned borrowing the school's equipments
15. (newest) a Bald lecturer

45: Half way through

2009-08-12T23:20:00.003+08:00

It's half way through the exams. I just finished Music History exam today. Both Paper and Listening exam is held in the same day. The exam in the morning was quite unexpected. The questions were quite hard. But, It's not the evil hard that can kill everyone staright away. Luckily one of the Opera Composer I read this morning came out in the essay section. If not, I faint lo.
Listening exams were moderately easy. Because some of the students couldn't recognize 2 questions about our set works.

Finally, I get to finish off all the History subjects. No more histories!

After that, I kept waiting to record my improvisation final project. Only found out that we are only doing recording at 6pm in the evening. So I waited. Reading manga, go facebook during the time. Well, I did go and have a little practice in between those. Although having some minor issues with the recording, I finally finished it!

Hungry, but I chose to go home straight away. Dennis fetched me to the train station. It was 8pm already. Relaxed from a day's work, but I started to plan a bit of my graduation recital. It's not going to be easy.

Reached home, eaten, bath. Max messaged me. Exhausted, I tried to make the best out of myself. Just want to check on some stuffs, don't want to do any real work.
Quarrel...

I'm really tired. Tomorrow is the CPS exam. My band just realized and call for a practice 1 hour before the exam.
Planned to go gym tomorrow though...

Just heard that Everyone have to go for Modern Band Concert rehearsal.
Oh, my band is not selected for the final. Kinda disappointed. Good side is, I don't need to bring saxophone around anymore, until next semester. (better get it fixed too)

*sigh*

44: The shock

2009-08-08T12:13:00.001+08:00

One said foolish thing in the exam.
One did foolish thing in the exam.
The other three became the victims of the consequnces.

They shouldn't have done that.

43: The concerts and finals period

2009-08-07T14:36:00.003+08:00

I'm now typing here in the Recital Hall. Modern Band Final Examinations is going on now. This is the second session. My band was in the first session. So, I am free to do anything I want here. I'm just staying to help some band to play. That's why I can online here and type this post.

Things have been really busy for me. It's a hectic semester. Oh wait, this is not the time to conclude the semester yet. I must wait. XD

Just have recorded my jury compositions, but I still have stuffs to do - to compile everything, photocopy, burn and put them into an envolope.
Crossing fingers for everything goes fine.

Back to Modern band, Anthony is here singing for Band 3.
This semester has produced a few good quality bands. I'm pretty happy how my band did. Everyone is doing quite well. I should anticipate for the next semester.

...

Last Tuesday was Song Writing Final Project submission. I submitted it on time, but spend 1 night without sleeping to sequence my song. Result is, good arrangment, bad singing. Ok, I confess, I can't sing. Even how much my family members and Max said my voice is ok, I still think I can't sing.

After the recording I cancelled my plan to join Concert Choir. Well, I started to hate our usual choir as My Bass sectional is getting smaller and smaller. Especially this semester, I don't have the time to take care of sectionals and sitting the position of Treasurer. Well, Last night was the Choir Concert. Max and Steven was here. It was really fun to have them around the school. Most of it goes to Max. x3

...

Next, I got to settle my composition jury, Practice and record for Improvistion Skills final project, Intro Music History's final exam (though being sour by people as I got the highest marks in the class), Ear Trainning final exam in the morning and afternoon then Modern Band Concert at night, then Harmony Analysis exam.

Till then.

FoonG
~Critical moments

42: The outing and inspiration

2009-08-02T00:31:00.002+08:00

Three of us went to Pikom PC fair today. For me, I need to search for my new working station. Max needs to get some accessories, either for himself and his dad. and... Steven-maru is joining us and checking out 'stuffs'. hahaha...

That was a fun day going out again. When Max talking about seeing the stars in the park. It reminds me of the song I'm writing for my final project.

(No details here. Ask me personally for that.)

After saying goodbye, I had to wait for a long time for the bloody train to come. (as usual) So, I took out my score and work out the difficult rhythm for the song. (yes, it's THAT song). The guy who sat beside me, eating his McD, saw all the brochure I got from the fair. He asked me permission to take a look and so I did. Later, we started to chat about things. He was watching a dance performance tonight. And I took a glance on the performance notes. Seems like he's a dance (art-dance) fans.
We started to talk about things like performance art scenes in Malaysia and its region, music, cultures and opening our heart to music. One thing that he said to me was really make me thinks. "To learn music, we must open our heart and listen to it. You won't get anything from listening just by ear. When you already feel the music in your heart, using our senses, you can easily learn it. It's a gift everyone has. They just need to open their heart."
I really respect this guy, although he's a total stranger to me. He made me clear my mind on what's my direction in my field. He gave me an advice in my composition. He suggested that I go travel and experience the different culture in the world and feel their culture. That's a good inspiration to compose. It's because my composition need to be something really personal for me. Something I feel dearly with. Just like my dragon. I want to write music that can touch people's heart, let them understand the way I feel about things.

~FoonG
Given a peace of mind, either literally or metaphorically.

41: Secret #3

2009-07-28T01:11:00.001+08:00

I'm a little too sensitive sometimes. And I always make assumptions, gambling my own trust with reality.

40: They're back

2009-07-24T21:33:00.003+08:00

... from the place they been stuck with for the past 2 weeks.

It's good to see them back here safe. Things were so critical, and now it's still not a time to relax. It's the end of the semester and final exams are near.

Time for catch up, like those catch-up episodes in those TV shows.

Things will go well, things will go well!

Somehow... I feel that it's weird that he still can have all those fun although so many unhappy things happened. And we, those that still staying at Malaysia, felt the same unhappy incident, yet we still stuck in our problems. And the problems stacked up.

We felt for them, We kesian them. Ended up, they dont need us to kesian them, they're having fun. While we all here worrying...

P/s: I know you guys are talking about me, in a bad way especially. I can see it from your eyes. But who are you to judge me? I'm happy with my life now, don't you dare making assumption on what my intentions are! You don't even know me for starters. Can't believe you guys are that 'open-minded'.

39: Just scribbles #1

2009-07-20T18:53:00.002+08:00

First time playing on piano in the improvisation class, I sucked.
Played piano in theory class, it was... ok.
Surprised that my jury deadline is at 3pm 11 August, meaning later than anyone of the other jury 2 ppl.
2 cellist came and told me that they can't play my 4.4 degrees higher. I felt like the world turned upside down.
No history class leading to long lunch time and chat time. We ended up moving to the MIDI lab later, to online and air-cond. But, I left at 4 somthing.
KTM bullied on me. getting all small change from buying the ticket. At BTS, it said they train will be late, it's at Bangi. Soon, the limited-destination-train came, I just get on it, decided to take to Kepong sentral then Kepong. Reach Kepong sentral, it said, train to seremban is delayed 30 minutes. WTF! waited. The limited-destination-train came first, didnt get on, cant reach kepong with that. Next, a train to P.Klang??? 20 minutes later... finally get on the right one.
Back home, it's 6.15pm.

38: The number "3"

2009-07-19T23:32:00.003+08:00

3 of us went out yesterday. Was really happy to going somewhere, just sit at places and chat.
It made me realized something... it's ganas.

3 of them kena the influenza. Everyone in the Korea is quarantine. And 3 of them get the privilege to online first in the National Hospital.
Really need to find substitutes for my songs already.

37: The weirdest week of the semester

2009-07-13T22:21:00.003+08:00

Well, this week is going to be quiet in our music school.

First of all, Good Luck to all those that going to Jeju Island, Korea. Have fun and take a lot of photos and buy some nice merchandise too~! And be careful with all the disease that is going around nowadays. And don't be absent-minded while being in foreign country.
Just have fun!

And that means, no choir classes this week.

2nd, Due to us not reporting to our lecturers about those broken, spoiled instruments and equipments in the Jam Room, we all Contemporary students are now banned from using the Jam Room for 1 week. Kind of unfair, because we didn't even realize those equipments were even spoiled! Until that day of smelly incident...
No Band practices, No jury practice. So quiet... And despressing as well, how are going to practice our jury!?

3rd, seems that Juan and Willy went to Penang. Penang Jazz Fest? They going there without us?
This means this week no Hamm and ET?

A bunch of free time that we can use to do anything else but band practice. Cruel.

FoonG
~Quiet

36: Getting back

2009-07-12T22:09:00.003+08:00

Back from a happy day. A day I finally meet my dear after so many weeks.
Although I was kind of late in the beginning of the day, but I just can't start telling how happy I was.

I can't describe how much I miss the time I look at his face so close.
I can't describe how much I like hugging him.
I can't describe how much I miss his smell.
I can't describe how happy I was talking out things with him.
I can't describe how sweet he is. (and tasty)

We made a little promise with each other. Hopefully it will come true one day.
(And I say it again, I don't care how you look when you do that)

Let's work hard! We both have assignment left not done yet!

FoonG
~will do anything for him

35: Crazy Japanese Jazz

2009-07-11T21:45:00.002+08:00

While doing research for J-pop presentation for song writing class, I stumbled onto the Japanese jazz that Penny had already discovered long time ago.

Highly energetic and crazy. Nice~!!

Soil and "PIMP" session: the super energetic band with a pimp with a loudspeaker.
Playing a lot of Latin-fused jazz.

Pe'z: the very japanese band. (for minor-key songs) Sounds very anthem-ish in Major-key songs.

Shiina Ringo

Of course, Tokyo Jihen

Sadao Watanabe

Hiromi Uehara

34: Secret #2

2009-07-08T21:04:00.002+08:00

I'm in the Furry fandom. So what?
I'm a green dragon and I don't care.
Max the blue dragon didn't care as well.

33: Secret #1

2009-07-07T19:34:00.001+08:00

Sometimes, the real monster is not the one with ugly sharp teeth and big mouth. Instead, it's the cute one.

32: The Wall Crumbles

2009-07-05T16:23:00.003+08:00

Went to gym today, for the first time after so many unfortunate things happens.

I feel really happy now. Feels like there's nothing that can stop me now. Who cares if I just reveal all of me?
Probably that's why I shared all my memories written in my blogs here. It's all part of me. I'm not afraid of being myself. I have people that I care and people who cares about me.

I'm going to be myself. Just hope that everyone doesn't go too surprised.

... I'm actually surprised with myself. Being so happy when I think about the fact they are together. Until I'm start to believe that I'm crazy. But the matter of facts, at least they reminds me how much I love Max back then. And I will continue to do so. Thanks to them.
Make me missing him only, haiz~
Must quickly finish up compositions and assignments so I can meet him! GAMBATEH!!

p/s: I'm really sorry to you. I know how it feels to get the most important day screwed up. I don't know how I should pay back.

31: Nostalgic

2009-07-04T22:34:00.005+08:00

Finally, the mist cleared itself. I don't feel emo about it anymore. I wishes the best for them.
I feel really happy that, I don't need to keep me inside so much in front of him anymore. He has his, I have mine.

And I stepped into my previous blog.

The one the ranged from 'Time before I enrolled into UCSI' to Last year
Days, Weeks, Months, Years: http://foong.livejournal.com/?skip=100

After SPM:
FoonG: Anthro-dragon: http://foonglee.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_archive.html

Secondary school years:
Sekool Lifu~: http://34foong.blogspot.com/

I missed the Super Medley I did back then... My first ever Midi Project. (it's in Sekool Lifu~)
I missed the music eduacational part in livejournal...
I missed all the love I have back then.
As well as the sad part...

Prepare yourself for the first picture posted here...

The time I first moved into my own room. The Ikea table. My bro's Midi Controller. My melodica and my big water cup.

Just imagine my Laptop is on top of my melodica case. And that's my Workspace back then.
Now? it's a big mess! xDDD
I will take a pic if I can.

And I'm not afraid to reveal my past. Feel free to read through.

And to wrap this up, I will do what I used to do... Write a signature...

FoonG,
~feels like monochrome photos now.