Friday, November 2, 2007.

past 2 days were a blast.

we pulled off some crap for octet and yet managed to sound great. I was certain my tone was sucky, I bet i missed a few entries here and there, and after our item all 8 of us were like "we gg, we screwed up". Yet we actually sounded good! maybe we can do shostakovich octet someday eh?

Alliance Française auditorium is CRAP. We pay a lot for rent, get only 236 seats, suffer from either hand/finger-numbing aircon or lack of aircon. Furthermore, their dressing room (note: 1 dressing room only) is small, their unused wooden furniture still remains in like a part of the hall, their acoustics suck big time (apparently this place was picked for National Piano+Violin Competition cause the acoustics here reveal mistakes easily) and worst of them all, THERE IS NO BACKSTAGE. so all the basses and stands+stand carts as well as other instrument cases+bags had to be left on the stairwell+whatever we had left of the backstage and dressing room.

gpa wasn't exactly pleasing, but well. 3.88 isn't really good since i wanted 3.92 and could have gotten that if not for SS EOY Question 2A. come on, 6/15 is like sure 4.0 gone. and as usual japanese and chinese are the 2 culprits (and an unexpected SS culprit). anyway it is a big improvement, although i think i'm like 6th in class. 3.88 isn't that bad lar. heck, i was failing math in april, and now i got 100% for EOYs, and i didnt exactly revise for maths (i recall slacking in front of the com for 3-4 hours). But for all the effort put in, i think i didnt deserve it. i should have gotten less, but i'm half happy half sad. oh well.

science symposium @ HCI was great. we were teasing barry for quite some while. the nobel laureate had quite a cool movie, and the 3 other speakers were great (although i couldnt understand the 2nd speaker).

at the bus-stop barry decided to be dumb and called me, thinking i went missing (when i was merely in front).
barry: hey where were you? I couldn't see you.
HY: speak for yourself lor.

HY and Vincent were like "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." There were very funny stuff about that, and it was ridiculous and funny.

When walking to another bus-stop i saw this sign which read "Elmira Heights" and i went LOL. Guess only people who listen to Shostakovich Symphony no. 10 will get it. In the 3rd movement, the solo horn plays the mysterious Elmira theme (E La MI Re A, otherwise known as E A E D A).

Fun tomorrow at cbw's house! Hope i don't fall down again.

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