I had my first piano lesson for at least 2 months yesterday. Well, it wasn't the best experience. When I played for my teacher, I did not know why I was so nervous. I couldn't play any thing properly. To add on to that, I suddenly realised that I have not been playing the piano at all. I was hitting the piano instead of playing the piano. Maybe now I can understand why when some people cannot play properly or rather, cannot play their best when I listen to them. Maybe I should learn how to overcome this.
Wednesday I had band practice. We played mainly the same pieces again, but it was still not very properly done. There can't seem to any silence in the band room. I wonder why everybody has so much to say. Friday's band practice was a little better, not because we could sight read The Phantom of The Opera, but the sound was slightly better. Saturday's sectional wasn't very much productive to me. During the combine with the winds, there was a lot of other things that could have been corrected. I won't say more.
On thursday there was an inter batch basketball match. I wasn't able to stay till the end of the match but I really enjoyed myself. It didn't do much good for me though, to play basketball. My legs were still aching from Monday's PE lesson which involved doing a lot of half squats in a minute. The conditioning PE lessons are torturous.
There was a workshop at Mus Art on Thursday evening. I was almost late for it and I had to take a cab to the community centre from Chinese Garden MRT station. The short journey cost me $5.50. I could have easily taken a bus from there, but I was running late. The cabby wasn't very good either, choosing to take a slower route there. I was not very familiar with that area so I did not dare to ask him to use another route, in case I was wrong but there was a faster way there. I have used it once. When I reached the community centre, I had to gobble down a double cheeseburger. I think I did it in record time. I finished the whole burger while walking up 3 storeys to the rehearsal studio. Luckily I wasn't late yet. I really regret not refilling my bottle before leaving school because I did not have anything to drink at all. I couldn't help it but drink the tap water from the toilet. Anyway the water from taps in Singapore is very clean. I did not get any stomachache the next day for your information. Anyway, we worked on Iris during the workshop. On Friday, the whole band worked on Iris. The trumpets did not really sound good. Mr Hardy Mertens said that the bass clarinets were louder than the tubas. How can I ever learn to listen and play accordingly? I really feel bad. Later, we went through Impressions of Japan and the third movement of Rebirth. I really like Impressions of Japan. Rebirth is also very nice. I like the part where we have to sing.
I ran out of mood to continue updating.
