Happy Valentine's Day everyone! :)
I had my piano lesson with Miss Sim this morning. It was kind of nerve-wrecking, seeing as from the scale of one to ten, my piano-playing technique is probably a negative something =.= I was so bad that Miss Sim decided to change one of the pieces I was supposed to play to a shorter piece xD
Everything I played felt and sounded so flat compared to whatever Miss Sim played! Just any single note sounded different when Ms Sim was playing it! She's a genius, I tell you, a genius! She knows exactly what each note should sound like and exactly how to play it and what props to use to get the feel of how to play the different techniques!
Yes, I said props, because I don't know what other word to use xD For example, rubber bands, erasers, glue, and actually I think that Miss Sim can use anything within her reach to teach her students (especially the really really cacat ones like me =.=) to feel the different techniques.
Today was the first time I had to think before playing every note because every note and every phrase and everything is supposed to be played differently, so that the sound that comes out of it is full of colour and doesn't sound flat, which is, sadly, how a lot of people (including me, I now realise) always play (especially for exam pieces!). I'm really glad I finally decided to go ahead with the lessons because I just know I'm going to learn so much under Miss Sim!
There's this one problem, though. I was trying to figure out how to register for the diploma exam and so I visited the ABRSM (The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) website. I was checking whether I can register online and then I saw that I can't register for diploma exams online. Only the graded music exams registrations can be done online.
So I clicked and clicked and clicked until I found the page where I can download the diploma entry forms. I was thinking that I was pretty smart for finding the way to register for my exam and then I realised that I do not have the slightest clue about what diploma exam I'm going to take =.= There's a "Music Direction", a "Music Performance" and a "Instrumental/Vocal Teaching". So which one? Aaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!! Diploma is so confusing!
Ok! Ok! Enough about the serious stuff! haha, I had a nice lunch with my cousin Ming-Ming :) At first we couldn't decide where to eat (Indecisive me to be blamed xD) and so Ming-Ming brought me to Siglap and we ended up eating at The Cafe' Cartel :) The food was quite good. Ordered 2 set meals to be shared among the two of us. The set came with free flow of bread, which was really nice, especially with the mushroom soup :D Too bad I didn't bring my camera, the mushroom soup was presented quite nicely! xD
Hmmm, what else? Oh, yeah! I don't know if it's my imagination, but I keep smelling Flurry (the dog)!
mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
Buh-bye, people!!!
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