Monday, April 25, 2005

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it's been almost a week since i last posted! waha~ i'm slackin'!!! work's is soooo busy today! never been this busy at the office ;P kee hee~ i'm tired already ^^ this weekend was uber buzy....lotza time spent on going from one place to another...friday, when going to benita's farewell, i got lost.....twice! ;P haha, yeah, lost in ottawa ^^, first, i was suppose to turn left on carling, but somehow i missed it ;P and when i wanted to do a U-turn, i was too scared....so i turned into a residential street to turn, but a big sign that says "no u-turn" blocked me =(((( so after, i ended up doing a three-point turn further down the road...and bumped into a tree/bush ;P haha, i got to greek suvlaki safe tho ;P kee hee~ the dishes are soooo huge...one of those could probably last me 6 meals ;P haha~ and inevitably, i got lost again on my way back...i missed a left turn...so i had to go stright...and all these signs that says no u-turn and no left-turn came up =((( and when i finally was able to do a left turn i saw signs that points to riverside....;P hahaha, i'm a horrible driver ;P i'm gonna get a chuffer(sp) in the future to keep me from mischief ;P kee hee~

so saturday was busy busy busy...taught piano in the morning, went to my own piano lesson (an extra cuz it's a day before my recital), then went to mandarin worship practice~ then at nite, farewell semi-formal dinner at fellowship~ (mark says i actually look my age that day!!!) tho, i'd have to say, the highlight of the day is after dinner and the "amazing race" ;P we got to jam a little bit ^^ and it was awesome ^^ and the reason that i was so awesome is that i got to play the drum again!!! ^O^ a-ha~~ and for the first time, i experineced what it meant to "just hit"~! whenever i ask pple how to play, they always say "just hit it" and i never quite know which one to hit...haha, but today ;P i just hit....hitting whatever that comes to mind ;P and it didn't sound THAT bad!!! =D (even tho karl did give me a few wince here and there when i hit something really wacky...or come in at the wrong time...hahahaha) but i'm learning!!! =D

sunday...after church, i went home to practice for an hour for my recital.....but i still stalled during the real thing.... i mean...i never get that bar wrong..but for some reason...i did on sunday =( and there was this bar that i couldn't remember for the life of me =( ....booooooo....i don't like recitals...=( ....tho...i was pleasantly surpirsed....before, there're a few pple that always seem to play so well, and i always admired how they can play so well even during recitals....but sunday, some of them played something that i've played before...and man! they make mistakes too! the only thing that they do different is they kept going like the mistake never happened! ...granted, for those who knows the song and studied it will know it's a mistake but for those who's never heard the music, it sounds absolutely marvellous!! now, i'm not laughing at their mistakes...they're still really great piano players...but seriously...i always get really upset after piano recitals cuz i never really play anything perfectly...especially in front of a crowd...and it always upsets me more cuz everyone else seem to be able to do it except me...but but...but now i know =P now i know i'm not the only one ;P (is this what "misery likes company" mean? ;p haha) anyway ;P i still suck at performing...but now i don't feel as bad ;P and i need to work on not stalling when i make a mistake.....still gotta practice more tho...blah...when i listen to myself play, everything seems so slow...but when i listen to other pple play...their fingers always seem to glide over the keyboard at the speed of light... ;P is it just me? phooey....anyway, i'm just rambling...don't mind me =P

2 Comments:

Blogger notasparrow said...

same thing with every instrument.. don't stop/pause when you make a mistake

some ppl become good to the point of being able to incorporate the mistake into the piece by modifying it...
guess i'd have to learn to play an instrument first huh?

8:35 PM  
Blogger Andrea said...

Haha, no worries Rita. It was hard for me to cover up my errors gracefully when I performed. Recitals were NOT my thing and I found that the more I was trying to play my piece perfectly, the more stressed I would get up there and the more likely I would make a mistake. Just go with the flow!

10:15 AM  

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