shameless self plug!
Okay guys... This post will be the most shameless self plug that I've ever published, so forgive me for not holding back some things! :D
Today we had Sports and Wellness football tournament... and it started off badly, with rain falling heavily in the morning. Thank goodness it stopped early and we could start playing footy. The guys got the big field while we girls were relegated to the nearby netball court --" We were divided into 6 teams that were named after World Cup-winning countries. Well, 5 of them (Germany, Spain, Brazil, England, Italy) are, don't know why Holland was included. For some reason my group was named Spain.
And Spain won the tournament!!!!!!!!! We won 4 games and lost 1. And I scored some goals! Finally! My teammates are so awesome! Especially us from SO42! We scored a lot of goals among us! And we also got to know other football mad people like us. What's more, people from the footy team wanted us to join their CCA! But I'd said so many times that I wanted to join but couldn't because the training times coincide with Strings'.
I had cello lesson after footy, and I had thought of skipping it. But my heart won my brain in the end and I trudged to class. Then halfway during cello lesson Mr Kong the violin instructor and the SSO assistant leader came to me and asked me what piano grade I had. I replied 8. Then he asked how much I got for sight-reading (the first time anyone asked me this question), and I said full marks (don't think he heard me though). Then he said he had brought the piano part for Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor (it's a great concerto - go listen to it!) and he wanted me to play with him. ("It won't be a problem, since you can play Rachmaninoff!" - his exact words, and yes he did hear me play Rach 3 before - not very good though.)
And so I did. I sight-read the whole thing at full speed, with Mr Kong driving the engine. He tossed away cascades of notes like nobody's business. And as for me, well let's just say that I performed admirably. For the first 2 movements that is. We didn't stop at all. Well, actually I did... but Mr Kong kept going on and I had to skip some bars to catch up with him. Oh and I finally found out that a tune that had been stuck my head for years but didn't know where it come from was from this concerto. Then came the 3rd movement. And that's where my sight-reading skills failed me. We paused a while for me to take a breather, and we played it again. It was marginally better but as the movement progressed it became clear to me that I was never going to sight-read the thing. But I could sight-read the right hand part. So it was with great regret that I ended up playing the rest of the concerto with my right hand. Except for the coda, where I felt it safe for Left Hand to come in.
After the last note, my cello teacher shouted 'Bravo!' and Mr Kong said 'Bravo!' to me too. And he lent me the score to practice so we could play again next week :D And he said that my piano playing was better than grade 8 standard!!!!!! :D
Wow it was damn surreal, playing with one of the best musicians in Singapore... I'm so honoured!!!!!!
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Wah... The first week of the new term is almost over, and so is the World Cup... And yet I am falling asleep during the 2.30 matches! Even when the teams were playing well... Take the Spain-Portugal match for example. I fell asleep at half-time and woke up just in time for the goal. Then I fell asleep again and woke up way after full-time.
Sigh... It is with great regret that I announce that Team Bravo Sierra is now #6 in Predictor Challenge, despite guessing the result of the Netherlands-Slovakia match correctly. I predicted a 3-0 win for Argentina, but the buggers let me down and let in a goal... And why must Brazil score 3 goals? I had betted them to win 2-0... T_T
And Spain... They wiped out 4 players from my fantasy team... It's my fault though. I bought a bunch of Portuguese players during the transfer window, forgetting that they were about to play Spain... I am such an idiot!
Moving on to other things, I am happy to say that I got my scholarship!! I really didn't expect to get it as I had forgotten to bring my results to the second interview. So I thought I had screwed up the whole thing. But thankfully it didn't affect anything! But the sad thing is that I have to maintain good results for the whole year (top 10%), an unenviable task. And I have to have at least 12 ARLS (Achievement, Representation, Leadership and Service) CCA points each year. But I'm sure it won't be a problem, as the CCA I am in is the best in the world (see previous posts).
Coming to poly is one of the best decisions I've ever made. Not once have I regretted my choice. :D
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