Wednesday, March 01, 2006
he is good
just returned from mr sze's house. phew. what an experience.
i arrived at 8.18pm. (i was scheduled for 8.30) so i rang the doorbell twice, no one came o.0 so decided to give him a call. and he smsed me at the same time. he would be late for a few minutes. wait a while. so okay. i sat down on the corridor. and fell asleep xD
and ended up having a completely numb leg when we started. and my fingers were like so stiff. and i screwed up scales, as usual. and he didn't seem too pleased... not at all. then we started lessons. of cos, i had lots of technical problems. i will need time to correct them, and hopefully, i can do so before september when i go for the exam. or the tone will simply be horrendous and the overall sound quality's gonna be seriously affected.
mr sze really does have very high standards. maybe it's cos my current teacher is slack. but is just that he makes u play that phrase over and over and over and over again, until u can play it in your sleep lar. and he expects me to grasp it the 1st time round. that is simply quite hard for me, as my previous teacher used to be damn slack. like i can completely bo chap rhythm or wadever, and he doesn't really care. but mr sze's so much stricter, which i think iss realy beneficial, especially wthin such a short time frame of 6 months which i have to prepare for the exam.
i was damn slow in my progress throughout. he can say "sharp!! sharp!" like 3 times then i finally change it. and i could see at some points he was getting really pissed. and that jus spurred me to perform better. hmm. somehow, i work better under pressure. so generally, my 1st lesson has been really enriching. yep! =D
so about 10 minutes after the lesson, he talked to me about the plans he have lar. he'll be registering for viola grade 7 which will take place in september. and so he'll really have to push me and therefore, i have to leave my precious violin to collect dust for a few weeks... and he has mentioned his intentions of me taking grade 8 violin in next year. >< and that is really unnerving. i completely doubt my capability to do that. well, i brought up my worries and his reply was "well, we still have almost 2 years! why not?" and i was like "wow". then most likely i'll be taking grade 8 viola in sec 4!!! =D wo0t!
but that's still so far ahead. i should just focus on improving on my basics. and hopefully achieve a distinction for grade 7 viola 1st. i really want it, and i will really work hard for it...
the weather's rather hot recently eh? so i think i might start having nosebleeds again. my health condition has really improved. i used to nosebleed so frequently. and once i had a nose bleed in the middle of the night. i thot it was just runny nose. until i found the liquid flowing out my nose, err. warm. i found half of my pillow dyed red. nothing to worry about much lar. in fact, i think stress will cause the "heatiness" to increase and cause even more frequent nosebleeds.
we should all try to take things in our stride and not get stressed out by all the obstacles we might face. it's tough, but we'll ultimately overcome them, if we work for it. jus like i'm working very hard to overcome grade 7 viola now. and hopefully, an even more challenging grade 8 violin next year.
ultimately, jus take things easy. dun take things too hard. life's never perfect, yea?
yay... today no homework! so time to sleep!!!! =DDD yay!