The Flying Leaf is doing work ): | Aly Faith that men burn curry says:
*HALP.
*I'M GOING MAD.
treehugger mugwump supreme. says:
*WHY.
*WHY FAITH WHY.
The Flying Leaf is doing work ): | Aly Faith that men burn curry says:
*I'M SO BUMMED OUT.
treehugger mugwump supreme. says:
*WHY.
The Flying Leaf is doing work ): | Aly Faith that men burn curry says:
*I FEEL LIKE PRINTING TICKETS AS BUSINESS CARDS.
treehugger mugwump supreme. says:
*SO YOU SHOULD.
The Flying Leaf is doing work ): | Aly Faith that men burn curry says:
*SO INSTEAD OF GIVING OUT TICKETS FOR THE CONCERT, WE GIVE BUSINESS CARDS OUT.
treehugger mugwump supreme. says:
*WHAT BUSINESS CARDS-
*OH.
The Flying Leaf is doing work ): | Aly Faith that men burn curry says:
*BECAUSE I CAN'T FIND A TICKET PRINTER.
*I'M SO ANNOYED.
treehugger mugwump supreme. says:
*THAT SOUNDS AWESOME.
The Flying Leaf is doing work ): | Aly Faith that men burn curry says:
*AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
*IDK.
*I THINK THEY'RE CHEAPER ANYWAY.
treehugger mugwump supreme. says:
*I HAVE A FRIEND WHO IS PRINTING TICKETS FOR MY VOICE CONCERT.
The Flying Leaf is doing work ): | Aly Faith that men burn curry says:
*OH.
treehugger mugwump supreme. says:
*THAT SOUNDS AWESOME.
The Flying Leaf is doing work ): | Aly Faith that men burn curry says:
*WOULD YOU LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOUR FRIEND?
treehugger mugwump supreme. says:
*NYJC CHOIR PRINTED HUGE THINGS ON CARDBOARD FOR THEIR CONCERT.
*AND THOSE WERE THEIR TICKETS.
The Flying Leaf is doing work ): | Aly Faith that men burn curry says:
*I WOULD NOT LIKE TO PRINT BUSINESS CARDS BECAUSE WE'LL HAVE A NIGHTMARE NUMBERING THEM.
*OH.
treehugger mugwump supreme. says:
*IT WAS VERY CUTE.
*YOU CAN HAND-NUMBER THEM.
The Flying Leaf is doing work ): | Aly Faith that men burn curry says:
*BUT I WILL DIE WRITING THEM NUMBERSS
*454 TICKETS CHERYL!
treehugger mugwump supreme. says:
*SO DON'T MAKE YOURSELF DO IT.
The Flying Leaf is doing work ): | Aly Faith that men burn curry says:
*WE ARE SO AMUSING BTW.
treehugger mugwump supreme. says:
*MAKE EVERYONE ELSE DO IT.
*I KNOW.
The Flying Leaf is doing work ): | Aly Faith that men burn curry says:
*I'M ACTUALLY SMILING. :D:D:D:D:D:D
treehugger mugwump supreme. says:
*WE ARE TYPING EVERYTHING IN CAPSLOCK.
*:D:D:D:D:D
*I WAS SMILING A LONG TIME AGO.
The Flying Leaf is doing work ): | Aly Faith that men burn curry says:
*SAME HERE.
treehugger mugwump supreme. says:
*THIS IS A SUPER AMUSING CONVERSATION.
*:D
The Flying Leaf is doing work ): | Aly Faith that men burn curry says:
*GOD I LOVE TALKING TO YOU.
treehugger mugwump supreme. says:
*I AM NOT GOD.
The Flying Leaf is doing work ): | Aly Faith that men burn curry says:
*YOUR SCREAMING VOICE IS ALSO IN MY HEAD AS I READ WHAT YOU SAY.
treehugger mugwump supreme. says:
*YOUR SCREAMING VOICE IS IN MY HEAD TOO. :D
The Flying Leaf is doing work ): | Aly Faith that men burn curry says:
*WHOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
treehugger mugwump supreme. says:
*THIS SHOULD GO ON MY BLOG.
The Flying Leaf is doing work ): | Aly Faith that men burn curry says:
*I AM GOING DEAF IN MY HEAD.
*YES PLZ.
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Jobs and work
Random: I'm still obsessed with makeup, as usual. And I'm still completely in love with my makeup palettes from eBay :D
It's about 1AM on Wednesday, March 10, year 2010. I realise that the more I work as a (private) teacher, the more fulfilling I find it. It's still not something I'd do full-time as a career, I still don't think I was meant to be a teacher. But it is something I really wouldn't mind doing on the side, at all - like once school starts in August, I'll shift all my private tutoring jobs and things to the weekend, Sundays and Saturday mornings. I counted the hours I work as a teacher, and this is what I got:
Sunday: 1115-1200 beginner piano; 1330-1530 English and Lit tutoring
Monday: nothing
Tuesday: 1730-1815 Grade 1 piano
Wednesday: 1300-1430 Conversational Chinese; 1600-1730 PAP phonics
Thursday: 1930-2015 beginner piano
Friday: nothing
Saturday: nothing
I work four days a week, for a total of about 6.5 hours. That's not bad at all. I get to travel so I'm not stuck in some office, and the pay really isn't bad. I get to meet lots of different people and interact with kids, parents, be a teacher and a student at the same time - you're always learning, right? - my schedule is ultra flexible, I spend two whole weekdays with my mom and gran, Thursdays I get to spend the day too because I only work at night. I get to sleep in to about noon almost every day except Wednesdays when I have to be awake at 11AM to give myself time to prep for the Chinese thing. It's great :D
Today (well, actually yesterday, seeing as how it's past midnight) my Grade 1 piano student's mom told me that she recommended me to her friend who wants to get piano classes for her two daughters. Sounds like a pretty darn awesome thing to me. Teaching piano is pretty darn lucrative, but money aside, it's nice to see your students learn their pieces well - even if they still hate the technical work like scales. Come on, everyone hates practicing scales, me included.
Still though, I'd be pretty excited if that other mom calls me and asks me to teach her two kids. Let's see if I can get her to come over to my place on Sunday mornings at 9AM then I wouldn't have to move about that much of my schedule once August hits. Wish me luck!
I'm not doing my Sunday morning admin job anymore, since now I'm teaching at the music school instead of doing admin. Don't tell my boss, but I think I'll probably take that student with me once school starts and I'll try to do everything from home as much as possible to cut down on travel time but maintain my pay. XD Hey it's good to have a steady source of income even when I'm schooling, yes? Set aside one day a week, maybe about 10 hours total, to just teach everything at one shot. Sounds doable to me. :D
I'll also be stopping my ballet pianist position with Crestar once this batch of ballet students goes for their CSTD exam on Thursday. I'll miss seeing all the cute little girls in class - Rae, Ashley, Chloe, all those itty bitty little tiny ballerinas who Joan is forever screaming at to remember their footwork properly. But they're always so adorable they make me smile. I'll miss them :/ Oh well.
Okay now that talking about work and work is done, I shall end this post. I still refuse to go into teaching as a full-time job. Certainly not classrooms, I have enough problems as it is projecting my voice across the conversational Chinese classroom. Private is probably as far as I'll go because I don't have to scream and shout, and only one day a week aside from a full-time job that isn't teaching. It's interesting the different perspectives work puts you in.
Until next time, guys.
It's about 1AM on Wednesday, March 10, year 2010. I realise that the more I work as a (private) teacher, the more fulfilling I find it. It's still not something I'd do full-time as a career, I still don't think I was meant to be a teacher. But it is something I really wouldn't mind doing on the side, at all - like once school starts in August, I'll shift all my private tutoring jobs and things to the weekend, Sundays and Saturday mornings. I counted the hours I work as a teacher, and this is what I got:
Sunday: 1115-1200 beginner piano; 1330-1530 English and Lit tutoring
Monday: nothing
Tuesday: 1730-1815 Grade 1 piano
Wednesday: 1300-1430 Conversational Chinese; 1600-1730 PAP phonics
Thursday: 1930-2015 beginner piano
Friday: nothing
Saturday: nothing
I work four days a week, for a total of about 6.5 hours. That's not bad at all. I get to travel so I'm not stuck in some office, and the pay really isn't bad. I get to meet lots of different people and interact with kids, parents, be a teacher and a student at the same time - you're always learning, right? - my schedule is ultra flexible, I spend two whole weekdays with my mom and gran, Thursdays I get to spend the day too because I only work at night. I get to sleep in to about noon almost every day except Wednesdays when I have to be awake at 11AM to give myself time to prep for the Chinese thing. It's great :D
Today (well, actually yesterday, seeing as how it's past midnight) my Grade 1 piano student's mom told me that she recommended me to her friend who wants to get piano classes for her two daughters. Sounds like a pretty darn awesome thing to me. Teaching piano is pretty darn lucrative, but money aside, it's nice to see your students learn their pieces well - even if they still hate the technical work like scales. Come on, everyone hates practicing scales, me included.
Still though, I'd be pretty excited if that other mom calls me and asks me to teach her two kids. Let's see if I can get her to come over to my place on Sunday mornings at 9AM then I wouldn't have to move about that much of my schedule once August hits. Wish me luck!
I'm not doing my Sunday morning admin job anymore, since now I'm teaching at the music school instead of doing admin. Don't tell my boss, but I think I'll probably take that student with me once school starts and I'll try to do everything from home as much as possible to cut down on travel time but maintain my pay. XD Hey it's good to have a steady source of income even when I'm schooling, yes? Set aside one day a week, maybe about 10 hours total, to just teach everything at one shot. Sounds doable to me. :D
I'll also be stopping my ballet pianist position with Crestar once this batch of ballet students goes for their CSTD exam on Thursday. I'll miss seeing all the cute little girls in class - Rae, Ashley, Chloe, all those itty bitty little tiny ballerinas who Joan is forever screaming at to remember their footwork properly. But they're always so adorable they make me smile. I'll miss them :/ Oh well.
Okay now that talking about work and work is done, I shall end this post. I still refuse to go into teaching as a full-time job. Certainly not classrooms, I have enough problems as it is projecting my voice across the conversational Chinese classroom. Private is probably as far as I'll go because I don't have to scream and shout, and only one day a week aside from a full-time job that isn't teaching. It's interesting the different perspectives work puts you in.
Until next time, guys.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
You are my sunshine
SILOSO BEACH AT SENTOSA WAS FREAKING AWESOME OMG.
So at about 10AM-ish (give or take a few, Char and I were late) yesterday, I met Vivienne, Sarah, Lisa, and Charmaine at Vivocity's Giant to buy loads of groceries and stuff so that we could escape the overpriced Sentosa food. O level musicians woot! We were on the monorail to the Beach Station by 11AM, and before you knew it, it was "Hello Sentosa!" Mind, I hadn't been to Sentosa for about six, seven years before this so it was pretty darn exciting. Can you say the day was absolutely BEAUTIFUL?
Most of they day we were just walking around the beach, playing beach and sea volleyball and frisbee. I discovered just how lousy a volleyball player I was LOL. But it was all in good fun though. Floating and talking in the sea with Vivienne was brill - it's so much easier to float on denser salt water than in the chlorinated pool water. Just that the taste of seawater in the mouth is pretty darn gross, but otherwise it was fantastic. :D
Of course, we had Phish Food at Ben & Jerry's just off the beach, which was fantastic. Chocolate, caramel, marshmallows, and fish-shaped chocolate bits, together with brilliant all-girl's company, what could possibly be a better combination for mid-beach snacking? :D Lovely food omg. It's completely become my new favourite Ben & Jerry flavor. The only little problem was when it started drizzling halfway through Phish Food - passing cloud, and we went back to the beach to protect our belongings from the potential wrath of the rain - but other than that, it was brilliant :D
Hmm. Ben & Jerry's. Reminds me of Aquamarine - that scene in the bathtub when Aqua was eating ice cream while trying to get over her boy trouble with Raymond. LOVE that show!
Vivienne, Lisa and I were forming the most ridiculous choir trio in the middle of the sea, singing "You are my sunshine" like there was no one listening XD I swear, that song completely became our anthem of the day. Plus the impromptu harmonising and trying to turn our melody-and-harmony into a three-part song, that was hilarious too :)
And of course there was the spastic learn-to-be-a-cheerleader thingy that Viv and I had going on, trying to teach Char, Lisa and Sarah how to do simple cheerleading stunts like shoulder sits and pyramids LOL! Haha the initial trying to shoulder sit on Viv was utter fail for me, because we did it in the water (too afraid of falling on the sand) and the waves kept pushing me off, as well as the fact that Viv's feet kept sinking into the sand HAHA. In the end we managed to get a few pyramids up, with Sarah and Lisa flying :D And we even managed to get our shoulder sits done right!
Everyone wound up with sunburns though. Mine are completely red all over - shoulders and chest, it itches and it burns :( Pretty awful. I've been spamming all sorts of moisturisers (except Vaseline, which is petroleum-based) and aloe vera gel, which is supposed to be good for sunburns. I haven't started peeling yet, it's too soon to tell if I'll peel or if I'll go into a tan. It feels like a peeling sort of sunburn though. Sigh. So much for all the sunblock that I slathered on. It was pretty expected though - the skin around my shoulders and front was pretty white and melanin-less before the beach. The beach was probably a good idea for that, though - get a little bit of a tan, haha, even if some of it did wind up becoming a burn.
And when everyone was packing up and going home, we just lazed by the edge of the water, back to the sand, and fell asleep with sunglasses over our eyes as the waves washed up around our feet and the setting sun worked its magic on our tanned (and surnburnt) skin. <3
When the sun was just about to go below the horizon, we decided to go grab our things and bathe. Because we'd been laying in the sand for so long (an hour and half I think), sand was all over my hair - I had to wash my hair and face twice and bathe my body three times, just to get myself reasonably clean :/ And even after all that I could still feel the smallest grains of sand on my body!! Ugh. Although I do have to say that the showers at Sentosa are impressive, with a dedicated shelf to put our bags and a pretty large cubicle for a public shower. :D Feeling the jet of water on my sunburn was a little less lovely, though. Afterward I had to spam moisturiser on myself to soothe the burns. Oh well.
We had the remainders of what we bought from Giant for dinner, LOL. Cuttlefish, peach jellies, fish crackers, stuff like that - the Doritos were all gone by dinnertime. Interesting dinner yes? We saw the Resort World Sentosa out the windows on the bus ride back to Harbourfront, and omg it is FANTASTIC and it is HUGE. I am so going there. Can't wait for everything to be open, and the five of us are going back for sure!!
Fantastic day at Sentosa, fantastic company, and fantastic place. I can't wait for the next time we go to Sentosa :D I shall leave you off with a classic secondary-school-style (woot KC!), cliche photo of toenails.
So at about 10AM-ish (give or take a few, Char and I were late) yesterday, I met Vivienne, Sarah, Lisa, and Charmaine at Vivocity's Giant to buy loads of groceries and stuff so that we could escape the overpriced Sentosa food. O level musicians woot! We were on the monorail to the Beach Station by 11AM, and before you knew it, it was "Hello Sentosa!" Mind, I hadn't been to Sentosa for about six, seven years before this so it was pretty darn exciting. Can you say the day was absolutely BEAUTIFUL?
Most of the time, we were playing frisbee and volleyball and slathering on sunblock (although we all ended up with sunburns in the end anyhow) and trying to fend off foreign workers with camera lenses that were perpetually pointed toward us.
(Rant here before I continue with the rest of my blog post.)
I SWEAR THOSE FUCKING FOREIGN WORKERS COMPLETELY RUINED OUR OTHERWISE-PERFECT DAY. They descended upon us in SWARMS - ten to twenty groups OF ten to twenty - it was like an infestation. Okay I don't care that they're foreign workers. I care that each and every single group of them had people with cameras out - phone cameras, compact cameras - with lenses that were pointed in every direction except toward their friends or landscape images. No, all the lenses were pointed toward GIRLS.
Kid girls, teenage girls, twenty-something adults. If they didn't have a Y chromosome, their lenses were focused on them. FUCK. Women in bikinis, kids in bathing suits, everywhere I turned there was a foreign worker with a camera focused on some woman, and us five girls weren't any more let off. It gave me a whole new reason to love the water - other from the fact that it's really cool inside it, the water was murky enough that cameras wouldn't be able to capture pictures of our fronts while in the water.
There was this one particular foreign worker - Chinese, mind, so it wasn't only Indian foreign workers, in a gray shirt - who was following the five of us around the entire beach from the very beginning. The more we tried to ignore him, the more he started taking pictures, even coming closer and closer toward our group (he'd been going on for about half an hour, mind) until I had to shout at him before he scrammed. Then of course he denied anything that he'd done wrong before running off.
If I hadn't been in a bikini and been a little scared that in a tussle the string of my top might've been pulled off, I would've gone up to him, snatched his phone, thrown it into the sea, and plucked his balls off him like grapes off a vine. It sounds funny now that I've said that, but any girl in my position would probably have felt like doing the same. I was so fucking pissed.
Even when we were staring right in their faces, they continued staring at us and pointing their camera lenses. When groups were walking past us, their cameras were there. Even once they'd walked past of what would be considered peripheral view, they turned their heads back to face us even while they continued walking. Oh, and cameras? Ever-diligently focused.
Seriously, if you are so fucking sex starved, don't come to Sentosa. People here genuinely want to have a good time out in the sun, sea, sand, wind, and landscape. Yes most of us girls are in bikinis, that's because we're trying to prevent uneven tans and we don't want to wear stuff that uncomfortably tight or unbreathable given the hot sun and the humid weather. We don't mind being in bikinis because it's become socially acceptable in environments like beaches. But that doesn't give you the right to ogle at us.
We don't need people like you to ruin our entire day and make us have to spend all our time looking out for people like you, and make sure that whenever we spot a camera lens we have to keep our backs turned because we don't want you to capture our fronts. If you need boobs, Geylang has plenty of them. We'll pay for part of your ride there, how about that? Just get the hell out of my face. And your camera lenses too.
More than anything, I'm so fucking pissed off by the fact that I know that there will be foreign workers who are jerking off to images of the five of us and all the other girls who were on the beach. According to Viv the problem isn't usually this bad, it's only cos of the public holiday that the foreign workers became like a swarm even though there are usually a handful around the beach. But if I go there again and there are still people taking pictures, this is going on STOMP once I get pictorial evidence.
(Rant over. Damn pissed.)
Most of they day we were just walking around the beach, playing beach and sea volleyball and frisbee. I discovered just how lousy a volleyball player I was LOL. But it was all in good fun though. Floating and talking in the sea with Vivienne was brill - it's so much easier to float on denser salt water than in the chlorinated pool water. Just that the taste of seawater in the mouth is pretty darn gross, but otherwise it was fantastic. :D
Of course, we had Phish Food at Ben & Jerry's just off the beach, which was fantastic. Chocolate, caramel, marshmallows, and fish-shaped chocolate bits, together with brilliant all-girl's company, what could possibly be a better combination for mid-beach snacking? :D Lovely food omg. It's completely become my new favourite Ben & Jerry flavor. The only little problem was when it started drizzling halfway through Phish Food - passing cloud, and we went back to the beach to protect our belongings from the potential wrath of the rain - but other than that, it was brilliant :DHmm. Ben & Jerry's. Reminds me of Aquamarine - that scene in the bathtub when Aqua was eating ice cream while trying to get over her boy trouble with Raymond. LOVE that show!
Vivienne, Lisa and I were forming the most ridiculous choir trio in the middle of the sea, singing "You are my sunshine" like there was no one listening XD I swear, that song completely became our anthem of the day. Plus the impromptu harmonising and trying to turn our melody-and-harmony into a three-part song, that was hilarious too :)
And of course there was the spastic learn-to-be-a-cheerleader thingy that Viv and I had going on, trying to teach Char, Lisa and Sarah how to do simple cheerleading stunts like shoulder sits and pyramids LOL! Haha the initial trying to shoulder sit on Viv was utter fail for me, because we did it in the water (too afraid of falling on the sand) and the waves kept pushing me off, as well as the fact that Viv's feet kept sinking into the sand HAHA. In the end we managed to get a few pyramids up, with Sarah and Lisa flying :D And we even managed to get our shoulder sits done right!
And when everyone was packing up and going home, we just lazed by the edge of the water, back to the sand, and fell asleep with sunglasses over our eyes as the waves washed up around our feet and the setting sun worked its magic on our tanned (and surnburnt) skin. <3
When the sun was just about to go below the horizon, we decided to go grab our things and bathe. Because we'd been laying in the sand for so long (an hour and half I think), sand was all over my hair - I had to wash my hair and face twice and bathe my body three times, just to get myself reasonably clean :/ And even after all that I could still feel the smallest grains of sand on my body!! Ugh. Although I do have to say that the showers at Sentosa are impressive, with a dedicated shelf to put our bags and a pretty large cubicle for a public shower. :D Feeling the jet of water on my sunburn was a little less lovely, though. Afterward I had to spam moisturiser on myself to soothe the burns. Oh well.
We had the remainders of what we bought from Giant for dinner, LOL. Cuttlefish, peach jellies, fish crackers, stuff like that - the Doritos were all gone by dinnertime. Interesting dinner yes? We saw the Resort World Sentosa out the windows on the bus ride back to Harbourfront, and omg it is FANTASTIC and it is HUGE. I am so going there. Can't wait for everything to be open, and the five of us are going back for sure!!
Fantastic day at Sentosa, fantastic company, and fantastic place. I can't wait for the next time we go to Sentosa :D I shall leave you off with a classic secondary-school-style (woot KC!), cliche photo of toenails.
Monday, February 01, 2010
Birthdays.
Happy 15th birthday Kiki. :D
HAHA. I think my wonderfully edited photos of our faces on top of a random GettyImages picture is quite amusing.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Twitter and Tennis.
geolowrite Da Boss's just told me that she watche tennis matches only because she finds the players' antics funny.
about 4 hours ago from Echofon
geolowrite And there I was, thinking that I had taught her to appreciate the game.
about 4 hours ago from Echofon
Bicko_ @geolowrite She finds their grunts and noises amusing?
40 minutes ago from web in reply to geolowrite
geolowrite @Bicko_ She finds the girls funnier in that aspect. She gets a thrill watching people like Nadal and Murray scamper around the court.
29 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to Bicko_
Bicko_ @geolowrite She should watch djokovic when he's in a funny mood then.
22 minutes ago from web in reply to geolowrite
ravebeat @Bicko_ @geolowrite I agree that Sharapova in particular is very amusing in the noises and grunting. The Williams sisters are hilarious too.
22 minutes ago from API
ravebeat @Bicko_ @geolowrite Especially when either of them starts throwing tantrums - I've lost count - and make a fool of themselves on court.
21 minutes ago from API
geolowrite @ravebeat And their outfits! God!
19 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to ravebeat
ravebeat @geolowrite Remember when Serena Williams wore that all-white trenchcoat thing? I thought it was almost as bad as Bjork's swan dress.
15 minutes ago from API
Bicko_ @ravebeat TENNIS != FASHION SHOW >:[
13 minutes ago from web in reply to ravebeat
about 4 hours ago from Echofon
geolowrite And there I was, thinking that I had taught her to appreciate the game.
about 4 hours ago from Echofon
Bicko_ @geolowrite She finds their grunts and noises amusing?
40 minutes ago from web in reply to geolowrite
geolowrite @Bicko_ She finds the girls funnier in that aspect. She gets a thrill watching people like Nadal and Murray scamper around the court.
29 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to Bicko_
Bicko_ @geolowrite She should watch djokovic when he's in a funny mood then.
22 minutes ago from web in reply to geolowrite
ravebeat @Bicko_ @geolowrite I agree that Sharapova in particular is very amusing in the noises and grunting. The Williams sisters are hilarious too.
22 minutes ago from API
ravebeat @Bicko_ @geolowrite Especially when either of them starts throwing tantrums - I've lost count - and make a fool of themselves on court.
21 minutes ago from API
geolowrite @ravebeat And their outfits! God!
19 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to ravebeat
ravebeat @geolowrite Remember when Serena Williams wore that all-white trenchcoat thing? I thought it was almost as bad as Bjork's swan dress.
15 minutes ago from API
Bicko_ @ravebeat TENNIS != FASHION SHOW >:[
13 minutes ago from web in reply to ravebeat
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Faith the wonderful.
Faith Yap says:
*MY CONDUCTOR IS INSANE.
I asked him to introduce me to a cake with a heck lot of nuts. He decided to introduce me to the world's best Fruitcake. So I was like, fine fine. Apparently I should've asked earlier because delivery took a month or so.
*I was wondering why in the world it took so long.
*Went online to check.
*THE SHOP IS IN TEXAS.
Keita Cheryl Ang says:
*........
*Wonderful
Faith Yap says:
*TEXAS.
*I'M LEIK.
*HELLO.
*X_____X
Keita Cheryl Ang says:
*OMG LOL TEXAS
*Won't it spoil on the way here?!
Faith Yap says:
*It's fruitcake!
*It lasts for like.
*a year before spoiling.
Keita Cheryl Ang says:
*Oh.
*Okay.
*MY CONDUCTOR IS INSANE.
I asked him to introduce me to a cake with a heck lot of nuts. He decided to introduce me to the world's best Fruitcake. So I was like, fine fine. Apparently I should've asked earlier because delivery took a month or so.
*I was wondering why in the world it took so long.
*Went online to check.
*THE SHOP IS IN TEXAS.
Keita Cheryl Ang says:
*........
*Wonderful
Faith Yap says:
*TEXAS.
*I'M LEIK.
*HELLO.
*X_____X
Keita Cheryl Ang says:
*OMG LOL TEXAS
*Won't it spoil on the way here?!
Faith Yap says:
*It's fruitcake!
*It lasts for like.
*a year before spoiling.
Keita Cheryl Ang says:
*Oh.
*Okay.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Wise words from a flying leaf.
"It's like having a mountain of dirty laundry at your feet. You just don't think about it, do it and very soon, you'd find that most of it is gone."
Thank you, Faith. :3
Thank you, Faith. :3
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Gooooooood morning!
This morning's the latest I've been up in a long time. It says 4.24AM on my clock right now. And it's all because of stupid SEAB, A levels, and extended vocal techniques that I spent four hours - four FREAKING hours - on Sibelius 5.1 trying to notate. But, I am proud! In the end, this is what I got:
If you're thinking "Are those lines and squiggles and arrows and boxes on a musical notation stave?!", you're absolutely right. If you think this is bad, you should have seen the original that I put down on paper. It was about as messy as messy gets - erased markings and the slightest hints of pencil all over the place. Which is why Darren Sim forced me to go do this up in Sibelius, I suppose.
Four hours with the monster that is Sibelius trying to get that stupid piece of music down on software has finally made me realise exactly how Eric Whitacre feels about Sibelius - he blogged about it and you can read it here. Now it's all very well when you've already got music down on paper like I did, and all you're doing with Sibelius is simply to make it look neater.
But what happens when you're actually writing music for the first time? When you've got a melody that just doesn't come out fast enough on the computer? Then, I have to say, I'm very sorry Sibelius but that's when I'd be ditching you for good ol' pen and paper. Sometimes when music is easy to write - normal, standard simple meters and rhythm and nothing too fancy - Sibelius is about as easy as easy gets. But when you have squiggles and lines like so many composers of modern music do, Sibelius doesn't quite cut it to get your ideas down fast enough.
You've got to go through clicking on this tab, that tab, opening this box, configuring that property - and by the time you've done all that, you'd probably be like "Okay, so what was it I wanted to write again?" And that's about the worst thing that could possibly ever happen while writing music. Which is why I don't really like Sibelius when writing for fancy, modern notation stuff. Just doesn't work.
Alright, granted that once you've got it done once it becomes a lot easier the next time. It's practice makes perfect, really. But that doesn't quite overcome some of the cumbersome problems with Sibelius and modern notation.
Oh well. But I suppose every composer has his or her own personal style and preference. I suppose I won't be ditching my Sibelius any time soon, of course. I still love it for the wonderful music notation and it's brilliantly easy to use if you're writing really simple things. But once you get to doing different sorts of work, you're not going to exactly be writing simple things like 'do-re-mi' and presenting that as an A level standard composition, at least.
I suppose there can only be one real answer for composing with modern notation. Especially when a nice harmony or progression comes into your head - but flies out as soon as it flies in. And this happens to a lot of composers, I know, and it's such a common problem. Something good and musically brilliant may just as easily go as it comes.
Give me a pencil and paper, any day.
If you're thinking "Are those lines and squiggles and arrows and boxes on a musical notation stave?!", you're absolutely right. If you think this is bad, you should have seen the original that I put down on paper. It was about as messy as messy gets - erased markings and the slightest hints of pencil all over the place. Which is why Darren Sim forced me to go do this up in Sibelius, I suppose.
Four hours with the monster that is Sibelius trying to get that stupid piece of music down on software has finally made me realise exactly how Eric Whitacre feels about Sibelius - he blogged about it and you can read it here. Now it's all very well when you've already got music down on paper like I did, and all you're doing with Sibelius is simply to make it look neater.
But what happens when you're actually writing music for the first time? When you've got a melody that just doesn't come out fast enough on the computer? Then, I have to say, I'm very sorry Sibelius but that's when I'd be ditching you for good ol' pen and paper. Sometimes when music is easy to write - normal, standard simple meters and rhythm and nothing too fancy - Sibelius is about as easy as easy gets. But when you have squiggles and lines like so many composers of modern music do, Sibelius doesn't quite cut it to get your ideas down fast enough.
You've got to go through clicking on this tab, that tab, opening this box, configuring that property - and by the time you've done all that, you'd probably be like "Okay, so what was it I wanted to write again?" And that's about the worst thing that could possibly ever happen while writing music. Which is why I don't really like Sibelius when writing for fancy, modern notation stuff. Just doesn't work.
Alright, granted that once you've got it done once it becomes a lot easier the next time. It's practice makes perfect, really. But that doesn't quite overcome some of the cumbersome problems with Sibelius and modern notation.
Oh well. But I suppose every composer has his or her own personal style and preference. I suppose I won't be ditching my Sibelius any time soon, of course. I still love it for the wonderful music notation and it's brilliantly easy to use if you're writing really simple things. But once you get to doing different sorts of work, you're not going to exactly be writing simple things like 'do-re-mi' and presenting that as an A level standard composition, at least.
I suppose there can only be one real answer for composing with modern notation. Especially when a nice harmony or progression comes into your head - but flies out as soon as it flies in. And this happens to a lot of composers, I know, and it's such a common problem. Something good and musically brilliant may just as easily go as it comes.
Give me a pencil and paper, any day.
Friday, September 04, 2009
Two months.
Dear Kiki, I still miss you. But I miss you less and less every day. Not because I'm forgetting you, but because I grow more and more certain that all you've done is gone and misplaced your physical self but you're with us. And it wouldn't make any logical sense to miss someone who's always with you. So the only logical conclusion is that I don't miss you. <3
Of course I miss hugging you and hearing you yell whenever I do. And then you'll think I've gone mad and ask if I need to be checked into Woodbridge. (We do a lot of the same things, don't we?) Ah well. And whenever I need to laugh, I just open up one of the vids we took of you doing stupid things like yelling into your wardrobe. Of course then I'll be mixed in between laughter and crying. But that's okay.
Or in my case, until I get to you. Which is true, really. Every second, every step I take, it brings me closer to you. We're dying from the day we are born - and I'm not afraid to say it anymore, even though it hurts, but I'm not afraid. It's true, really. Our cells are dying all the time - and they're also being renewed. Which is really strange.
I just hope that people from Summerland/Heaven get to see and visit the souls who are in purgatory, even if the souls in purgatory don't get to go straight to Summerland/Heaven. So that I get to see you first. ^_^ I say Summerland/Heaven to please my doubly-religious, Druid-Catholic nature. Both are basically the same place anyway. At least the way I see it.
I think I'm going to have to serve purgatory. I'm not too sure if God (or the Goddess, for that matter) is still angry about that time that Huimin and I blew up the microwave, years back.
This is from Ivor's blog:
That's true, of course. There's never enough time, because the way I see it, time only exists on Earth. After this, I don't really know what happens, if there's time in Summerland/Heaven, at all. I don't know if the vast rolling hills and grass are eternal, or if they end somewhere. I don't know if time passes the same way there as it does here. I don't know anything. But I can believe.
Even if we can't finish learning everything here, we will keep learning in Summerland/Heaven. After all, we can just ask Mr Einstein and Mr Faraday. :3 Plus there's Mr Jackson there to show off the moonwalk - so it can't be all that bad, can it?
Summerland.
The only downsides are that I'm not sure if we can still go bungee jumping in the Grand Canyon in Summerland/Heaven. (You guys already know that I think Heaven, Mortaldom, and Hell are all on the same physical plane, even if they're not on the same metaphysically. Maybe in Heaven/Summerland, we can flit between this physical plane and those vast rolling greens.) I'm not sure if there still is gravity or if we all sprout feathery wings and start flying. In which case I think the wings would provide too much resistance to make it feasible to go bungee jumping properly.
I love this view on death and dying. It's peaceful. It's not scary. I suppose stuff like this is the sort of stuff which the first time it hits you, it's frightening, until you realise there's nothing to be scared about. The Pagan and Catholic views on death are basically the same, really. People aren't gone from existence, we're only changed. In that same way, death isn't dying the way we would normally think about it. Death is change. Death is a painful, suffering, torturous, beautiful change. It's painful for those who are left behind. But it's a cycle, it's a beautiful cycle, and it's nothing more than a passage that each of us will go through. It's not a question of if we will. It's a question of when we will.
And we will meet, one day. Some day. /|\
Of course I miss hugging you and hearing you yell whenever I do. And then you'll think I've gone mad and ask if I need to be checked into Woodbridge. (We do a lot of the same things, don't we?) Ah well. And whenever I need to laugh, I just open up one of the vids we took of you doing stupid things like yelling into your wardrobe. Of course then I'll be mixed in between laughter and crying. But that's okay.
Or in my case, until I get to you. Which is true, really. Every second, every step I take, it brings me closer to you. We're dying from the day we are born - and I'm not afraid to say it anymore, even though it hurts, but I'm not afraid. It's true, really. Our cells are dying all the time - and they're also being renewed. Which is really strange.
I just hope that people from Summerland/Heaven get to see and visit the souls who are in purgatory, even if the souls in purgatory don't get to go straight to Summerland/Heaven. So that I get to see you first. ^_^ I say Summerland/Heaven to please my doubly-religious, Druid-Catholic nature. Both are basically the same place anyway. At least the way I see it.
I think I'm going to have to serve purgatory. I'm not too sure if God (or the Goddess, for that matter) is still angry about that time that Huimin and I blew up the microwave, years back.
This is from Ivor's blog:
Time is short. There's NEVER enough time to finish EVERYTHING. Let us just fully make use of all the time we have, and not let a single second be wasted. (:
That's true, of course. There's never enough time, because the way I see it, time only exists on Earth. After this, I don't really know what happens, if there's time in Summerland/Heaven, at all. I don't know if the vast rolling hills and grass are eternal, or if they end somewhere. I don't know if time passes the same way there as it does here. I don't know anything. But I can believe.
Even if we can't finish learning everything here, we will keep learning in Summerland/Heaven. After all, we can just ask Mr Einstein and Mr Faraday. :3 Plus there's Mr Jackson there to show off the moonwalk - so it can't be all that bad, can it?
Summerland.
The only downsides are that I'm not sure if we can still go bungee jumping in the Grand Canyon in Summerland/Heaven. (You guys already know that I think Heaven, Mortaldom, and Hell are all on the same physical plane, even if they're not on the same metaphysically. Maybe in Heaven/Summerland, we can flit between this physical plane and those vast rolling greens.) I'm not sure if there still is gravity or if we all sprout feathery wings and start flying. In which case I think the wings would provide too much resistance to make it feasible to go bungee jumping properly.
“You warriors, here your battles are over, You workers, here your tasks are done. You who are hurt, here find healing, You who are weary, here find rest, You who are old, here grow young again, For this is the Shining Isle, the Land of Youth, the Isle of Apples, Here, what is remembered lives...” (From Reclaiming’s Spiral Dance ritual.)
I love this view on death and dying. It's peaceful. It's not scary. I suppose stuff like this is the sort of stuff which the first time it hits you, it's frightening, until you realise there's nothing to be scared about. The Pagan and Catholic views on death are basically the same, really. People aren't gone from existence, we're only changed. In that same way, death isn't dying the way we would normally think about it. Death is change. Death is a painful, suffering, torturous, beautiful change. It's painful for those who are left behind. But it's a cycle, it's a beautiful cycle, and it's nothing more than a passage that each of us will go through. It's not a question of if we will. It's a question of when we will.
And we will meet, one day. Some day. /|\
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Satan helms Microsoft.
It took me 8 emails to get the formatting for my IS right. I was so frustrated at fixing one thing and happily sending off the email to Mr Wong, only for him to reject it 'cos something I didn't notice decided to happily go wrong. This is the last email that I sent him, in a (rather frustrating) Gmail conversation:
And this is his reply. Very apt, I might add.
So yes. Satan helms Microsoft.
Keita Cheryl Ang to Wong 5:36 PM
D: How did that happen? Darn Microsoft Word! I'm really really really really really really really really really sorry. Formatting is $#&^$@!$#%#&% I'm sure you agree.
And this is his reply. Very apt, I might add.
Wong Yew Leong to me 5:47 PM
Thank you for fixing the problem. It looks great now, so please print a hard copy for me.
I once read a comic book (Hellblazer, if I remember correctly, the one with John Constantine as the main character) which had the following sequence:
Two men were talking in a pub about God and Satan using earth as their playground and humans as their pawns in their struggle for dominance over the other. One of the men said that Microsoft must be one of Satan's creation, because it usually works, and it gets out to more than 90% of all computer users, but every now and then it screws up and makes you really really mad and you will curse and swear and probably throw a few things, and so a little at a time you edge ever closer to hell. So the Devil is all about subtlety. All the big horrible things - natural disasters and stuff - probably not Satan.
So yes. Satan helms Microsoft.
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