17 Sept 07

have you ever wondered how it feels like to fill your water bottle up in the water cooler and yet, the bottle remains dry? i.e. no condensation takes place. ha-ha one of the privelleges of living in a cold country.
temp now is abt 16degree celsius. this is not included like strong winds and stuff. my my a cold rochester ishere..
hmm. other interesting points to note include seeing ROSES, pink ones just growing out from the soil like some random grass. wendy and i were like OOOOHHHHH haha tropical inhabitants indeed. .
so..some reflections as a music performance major at Eastman! meal conversation topics are mostly about THEORY homework (haha) and basically music stuff..topics that when brought up in singapore, you'll get shot in the head for being an elitist. heh heh and well everywhere you can hear ppl singing, be it vocal majors trying to exhibit their awesome array of techniques or more "low-class" non singers trying to describe some music piece (christina: 5-5-5-5-5-AHEM-5-5-5 or her infamous sung version of mendelssohn's violin concerto). In theory honors class, ppl shout out like bombastic harmonic stuff haha (i try very hard to shout some things to..like act enthu hohoho) perhaps the thing that needs to get used to is the fact that homework is no longer about pen and paper. haha you need to piano (for theory homework and sightreading..we are currently playing alto and bass clef together) you need CDs you need manuscript papers. Many times while trying to do my theory homework in my dorms the room is so quiet that I feel like playing background music to make my brain relax a little but heh. I open Windows media player and then realise that I no longer have the privellege to do so since I'm doing my harmonic homework and the music will confuse me. Sadistic rhythm excerises are worse. I have to practise abt 4 lines worth of rhythm. Each line has 3 staves. ok so i sing "ta-ta-ta" on the top stave, middle stave..right hand and bottom stave left hand. These are SO SO SO psychomotor that soon you realise that you cant clap both hands together no matter how hard you tell them to. Before each time of going -through you tell yourself that HEY i must SING this here and tap this there but nope at the fifth time you still CANT do it. hahhaa so well the trick is..try again tmr. hahahhaa.
alright.i have to go off to write beethoven symphony synopsis. hahha SYNOPSIS for symphonies...I only heard of synopsis for drama serials. oops =X .
wendy has inspired me to write more abt sadistic rhythm exercises. so basically we tap really soft on our thighs first...then it gets increasingly louder and then we go like pIAK PIAK PIAK PIAK smacking ourselves into minced meat cos we cant do it. musicians are quick=tempered, determined and perfectionistic. hahahahaWHOEVER said those psychomotor tests involving both hands like one hand thumping on your thigh and the other hand sliding across your thigh is difficult. ha-ha-ha ..