Friday, December 5, 2008.

ok seems that i do need to post.

1. i got the RA call, and got chemaff. but that's not the point. seriously. the point is

a- there are 87 slots for both chemaff, so some people who claimed that they screwed up/thought they found it too difficult even when they're from ra and go for some national competition WILL get in i assure you. if you don't get in i'll camp outside rjc ra office tmr with you with my jap textbooks =D

the 2nd point, and the happiest point, is that they will be adopting the standard RI way of grouping classes. There will be the ABCD classes (just that it's more), and within the ABCD classes will be the RA peeps + the godly non-ra peeps. WHICH MEANS, 4B'08 won't disappear! =D=D=D=D=D

ok i'm mad.

2. i see that this long post of mine below (read please!) has garnered quite a lot of views and comments. that's nice. anyway the point was that I have tried out some certain forms of music, and personally I chose classical since I saw weaknesses in pop music, some of them too much for me to bear. Anyway note that many classical pieces are absolute music, meaning that they have no other meaning OTHER than music, so a lot of them don't have love in it (in fact very few have it, besides the odd schubert and schumann etc.).

Just recently got addicted to vaughan williams' symphonies (i love his 5th!) and I read this comment VW had to say with regards to some people's comments that his symphonies had an extra-musical meaning in them:

He says, in the preface to the score of his 6th symphony, that "it never seems to occur to people that a man might want to write just a piece of music."

so, in short, many pieces of classical music have no extra-musical association with it, which indeed pulls people off. but i beg to differ.

case in point #1 - brahms.
look at him, the eternal classicist that believes that liszt and wagner's idea of tone poems/music dramas were crap. he wrote absolute music, or so he said.

now raise your hand if you don't like A SINGLE PIECE OF BRAHMS' MUSIC.

i'll feed klieber's symphony #4 and/or oistrakh/klemperer's violinconcerto and/or gilels/jochum's pianoconcertos and/or oistrakhrostropovich/szell's doubleconcerto to you and see whether you still say no.

i'll feed you to the pigs if you still say no.

=D

to be honest, all forms of music evoke feelings. even if they don't portray something extra-musical (which was supposed to be the case till liszt had to come, but thank him for Don Juan and the Ring =D), and it's just i hear the SAME BLARDY FEELINGS IN 90% of pop music.

i'm sorry nearly every of them talk about love.

whereas in mahler's 9 alone you hear billions of stuff. how life goes to death, then rebirth, then death again, then sardonic humour, then ghostly music, then tender outpouring of love, then acceptance. within that 70+ minutes you hear something you CAN'T ever hear in pop.

that's just clarifying matters.

anyway more healthy discussion please! i'm bored of mugging jap. and anyway DON'T WORRY YOU PEEPS I EXPECT TO SEE YOU IN RA NEXT YEAR OR I WILL COMMIT SUICIDE AND NOT TAKE JLPT ON SUNDAY =D

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