looking forward to christmas, but not after that
My hand is healing! I'm so happy. Although it still hurts when playing with my pinky, at least I can bend it now! I can clench and unclench my fist, no problem! I can't wait to play Mendelssohn!!!
I love the holidays! I am enjoying my holidays more than when I was in secondary school. I'm really glad I discovered photography. It is a great way to pass time. On Friday and Saturday, I went to Marina Bay to photograph the area. My first attempts at panorama photography were successful! I shall not talk about photography too much because that belongs to my other blog!
Actually, my main purpose in going to MB on Friday wasn't for photography. I wanted to watch a live jazz performance by the Summertimes Big Band at the Esplanade Outdoor Theatre. As you know, I'm very interested in jazz. I'm currently self-learning jazz improvisation, but I plan to learn it at a music school after I graduate (which is... 3 years later). I attended all 3 sets of the performance. It was amazing! Some songs were unfamiliar to me, but I totally enjoyed the performance (because it's jazz). And of course, with Christmas around the corner, the band also played jazz arrangements of Christmas songs. Jazz arrangements of holiday classics are my favourite ever. What's more, they played my favourite Christmas song, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, four times! I was a very very happy kid at the end of the 3 sets.
Right Hand, hurry up and heal quickly! I'm dying to borrow all the jazz books from the Esplanade library...
I went back yesterday for more panorama photography, and to listen to another big band, the Tanglin Rose. Half of their members are from Summertimes, haha. I met my friend there, and we had fun taking pictures of the beautiful cityscape. He had just bought a Holga and was playing around with it.
I had wanted to go back this evening for the Summertimes Jazz Orchestra's performance. It would include strings players too, and I wanted to attend so badly. But I couldn't because I had my own performance. It was at my CCA instructor's music school's Christmas party, and we, as a quartet, would play some songs at a corner while everyone feasted on barbecued food. Now normally I would be glad to have a chance to play with my senior, but I would've passed up today's performance to attend the jazz orchestra's. But hey, some students even came back just to watch us play, and I'm grateful for that. However, I feel bad for not doing a good job. After all, one of them is a cellist, and he's much better than me...
Was pleased to have performed my Christmas medley! Although it sounded a bit weird, according to my senior... (I think it's alright though..!)
The feeling of not needing to do anything... Wait, I think I have at least 4 projects to do! Oh no! 2 of them are COMISS projects, and they're a BITCH!!! I hate formal presentations! DUDE!!! One major presentation is enough already, but one more 'small' project due on... the second week of January?? OH NO!!! D: Suddenly my holidays don't look so fun anymore.
Sigh. You know, I'm actually starting to accept the fact that I may not get my scholarship renewed next year. What a joke I will be. What a let-down to everyone who believed in me. And the 15-85 remains a distant dream...
You know, during times like this I like to play Bejeweled Blitz to try to block out the bad thoughts from my mind. But my mouse just died :( And being ashamedly addicted to Bejeweled Blitz is extremely unhealthy. But it's the best way for me to be momentarily cut off from reality. It's just like how some people drink to forget their problems. And even though we know it's bad, we still continue doing it. I've tried looking for other ways to destress, but haven't found one. Because nothing demands my total attention more than Bejeweled Blitz. And just like drinking, after the initial high is gone, I'll crash back into reality and discover that, on top of a splitting headache, my problems still have not been solved.
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