Had my violin Grade 8 exam on Tuesday. Strangely I didn't feel like super nervous. As in ya lah, I was nervous, but not until like my Chinese O Level. Which should've been the case, given that the preparation period for this was twice as long. Do badly ah, wah jialat liao. But yeah, the actual thing went ok... pieces and scales went fine. Sight reading, surprisingly, almost smooth, though I did ignore thw dynamics. Aural was a bit disappointing. Chords, screwed up as expected. But sight singing was... *facepalm* haiyo... modulations.I think my 2nd one might've been wrong. Description was the only smooth one :P So yeah, hoping for a distinction. Results out in 2-3 weeks...
Last Saturday was disappointing... but that's it then, I guess. A wake up call... not to have such a high opinion of ourselves. It's almost karmic how we lost really badly to some of the schools we were virtually laughing at. ACSI Sea, for instance, got a lot of potential. The improvement from last year to this year was tremendous. Imagine 3-4 years down, what they could achieve. Bedok View also, this year already rivalling YTSS and HCI in all but choreography. So that's that then... just have to learn from our mistakes and support tmr's FSD with all we've got. We have a real chance at it I tell you :)
Wednesday went to watch Wicked, which was like awesome! You don't get this kind of soul-touching moments too often. The things it makes you think about are really causes for our own self-reflection, hoping we can strive to be a better person. Definitely worthy of the standing ovation it received.
So yeah, I guess sometimes we are really just too caught up in the hustle and bustle of everything. Now holidays cannot relax also. But like, must always be aware of not just of what goes on around us, but inside us also. Like letting everyday change you from your original self. Snapping at others because you're too stressed and annoyed or using some poor innocent to vent your anger because of some injustice done to you. So yeah, we just have to let all this go instead of bottling everything. Then we can stay ourselves, instead of having someone say ''You've changed'' and you dread the reason why they said that.
Good Night
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