WeirD!

It's 3 48pm , Friday 2nd February 2007... and i'm sitting down here as usual , on my pc doing nothing where tonnes of work are waiting for me to get them done . I don't know what's got into me , but i've become very lazy ever since Jan 13 and i really meant holidaying this time for my term break! HAHAHAHA

Mad me... oh yeah , this post is going to be about some weird choices i've made for my next semester's electone repertoire ... I've borrowed 5 Electone Stagea books from C.H and took them home to photocopy .... they are not all my favourite pieces nor my favourite electone arrangers' book (IN FACT I FORGOT TO BRING HOME MY ALL TIME FAV'S BOOK!aarrrrghh!!!) nor they are any famous songs i particularly like .

They're just books and songs i've not known or heard before except some pieces ... where i have the mp3 ....

So yeah , i took home these :

1) Izumi Takada (Windscape girl)
2) Reiko Kashiwagi (Some old lady who composes and arranges only slow bossa nova pieces!)
3) Daiju Kurasawa (have not heard of him , but his book title attracts me - JAZZ i2)
4) Junichi Matsumoto - Classics (this guy is CUTE with a cute front cover! BUT the whole book is all about Classical music .. EEEUUU??!)
5) Yukiyo Nakamura (never heard of her , but she looks elegant and totally have not heard her songs.. was just forced to bring this book back because he said IT's NICE)

Brought home the books without the data though .. which means i can't test the songs on Mon when i go back to school for practice . But it's ok , i think it's better to just focus on my 2 songs for the all-important scholarship audition coming Friday! Arrgrhhh ... not thinking about it ..

Tested some songs in these books , unfortunately i can't really imagine how the whole song will sound like from just playing the melody and half the piece roughly by sight reading , which means also that the song also has stops in between .

The only familiar songs i know is from Izumi Takada's book because i have the mp3's while i also FORGOT to bring back that DAiju guy's Jazz book mp3 from him .. ARRGHH!! We talked too much that we forgot the important things!

And then it was a mistake to brought home my thumb drive with just 2 songs in it because i wouldn't have a chance to practice it before Mon ... which means , he could've gave me the data plus mp3's by tomorrow ... ARRGH!! (coz initially he wanted to give me and leave it in Ampang and i collect it tomorrow when i'm there)

STUPID of both of us... bad idea . So yeah , will just have to wait till Tues when i get to meet him and do it in his house .. (I HOPE SO!) But i've chosen a few songs to play for next sem's repertoire.. and might just start practising now before i get all crammed up again when school reopens ..

I chose 1 song from each book and they are :

1) Izumi Takada - Elegy (super challenging to play in terms of expression but i love the melodY!) (was tempted to play A-Live but the arrangement can kill! So decided not to suffocate myself again after Windscape last sem)

2) Reiko Kashiwagi - Dream (hah! if it was arranged in Bossa Nova i wouldn't play it coz it's a Classical piece composed by Debussy)

3) Daiju Kurasawa - Satin Doll (aahhh finally a familiar jazz piece.. Swing it babe! well shall see if i'd choose another one from here after listening to the mp3)

4) Junichi Matsumoto - Symphonic Journey (this is the WEIRDEST decision of all .. choosing one piece from here is already amazing ... ahhaha.. decided to take up the challenge to play this because he composed it and it really sound good! Like Jap game soundtrack..)


The point is .. i'm feeling really weird for making challenging decisions ... i don't know why , and don't know when .. i'm starting to like to take challenges and risks! Since i started studying in Academy , i noticed it has been happening every semester ... Last sem was the drums and jazz piano on concert day .... This sem , trying Classical music on electone!? hhahahaha .. although these pieces are not purely Classical music but they are still contemporary music that uses Classical elements .. and therefore it's very challenging to play because

I AM NOT GOOD IN EXPRESSING CLASSICAL MUSIC AS WELL AS NOT BEING "FLIRTY" ENOUGH IN MY PLAYING! (ahahaha he said that)

But i really enjoy taking up these challenges ... and knowing that in the end of the day God helped me with it . I don't know when i've become so courageous but it must be all from God .. though i'd never want to touch books from Mozart or so .. but i hope to learn from these pieces and see ... what comes next . I realise that being a good electone player i can't just be playing those noisy and jazz pieces while being handicapped in Classical music .

Though i despise Classical music ,but i'm trying to learn for the sake of being a good electone player! SIIGGGHHH ... ahahhahaha

After browsing through these 4 chosen pieces , i realized they're all now slow and not noisy anymore ... ahhahaha ... hopefully i do'nt fall asleep practising them or bore my audience to
death when i play in exam next sem! arrghh ...

11 56pm :

Mum came back after i finished this sentence so we went to mamak for tea .. before i went off to work ... then i came home hoping to finish this post but the electricity went off so yeah .. just took a VERY COLD shower and went to work .

This week is all about learning to be lazy and learning how to swerve myself around the roads of Cheras , KL ... EEEEUUU THE PLACE I DISLIKE TO GO MOST IN THE WHOLE OF KL...

Just came back from Pastor Ronnie's house from cell group ... though i reached only at 9 15pm and every discussion was almost ending , i had fun praying for them and chatting along in the mamak afterwards ... though most of the boys i do not know .. hahahaha but it was pretty far to go to his place after Melawati ... and i don't think for sure i can remember the road to his house because it's pretty deserted ... sigh

Anyway , yeah ... getting lazier and lazier which is SO NOT good ... will wake up tomorrow to pack clothes to sis house .. i'm also very lazy to go for tomorrow night's dinner although we don't have to pay a single cent and still get to enjoy some interesting vocal concert and fellowship with Ampang people .. (eeeu actually don't really want it) .. sigh but you know .. Like what Shiyan said is true ... our future is more important ... so before LS gives me a long lecture i better just give her face and go for the dinner .

Just think of it this way :

I'm part of the big LS MUSIC family !

Whatever ...

Oh dear Lord .. please give me the wisdom and strength to teach well tomorrow afternoon , and have a good fellowship with Shiyan and gang .. so that i won't feel bored and still be able to learn to grow up in the working environment through Your grace ... whatever i do , i commit them into Your hands and may Your blessings pour over me to enjoy the dinner and not dread myself to work again . I thank You i had a wonderful time in the CG just now ... and also thank You for this holiday .. may Your wisdom be upon me to give me the motivation to start thinking about my JMC students' graduation concert singing item ... give me the wisdom and creativity to do the arrangement .. because i do not know what to expect , i am just going to go by Your grace and submit it into your hands . And oh , thank you so much for answering my prayers regarding Jabir's case! Whether or not it's just temporary , i am thankful enough at the moment there's a comfortable solution for this problem and it just shows that Lord , you are almighty and REAL! heheheh ... in Jesus' name i pray , AMEN!