Flute Exam date Fix

it's on the 17 of September. It seems like my teacher is free on that day, so there's no need for me to engage another pianist. ^_^

Exam pieces chosen, for part A - Greensleeves

Part B - Hot Chilli

Part C - Study in F (Solo)

Venue wise, I had yet to be told.

Random Update

Just to let you guys know I'm not dead. Actually, I'm not really in a mood to blog ... but well ... I felt the need to rant.

Have about 50 bks on hand from shop ^^;; (On rental) ... dozen of animes to watch, already going through some if not all of them. Exams coming too ... and I haven't even touch my books at all =_= Probably should do some last minute crammed up study on sat (upcoming) since I'm on off ...

4 Aug - Performance Mgmt Exam (Should be able to pass, even if I were to just randomly go through the book on sat) - cause only few chapters involved in the module.

14 Aug - Audit Exam ... This one, dunno leh ... Must try to memorize ... Shall see what I can do about it.

17 Aug - Financial Mgmt Re-Exam. This one, die lah ... Haven't study for it, and lots of things to memorize ... T.T If fail again, must re-module liao le ...

For my Flute Exam, its' coming along fine ... Have gotten part A of my selected pieces 90% done, Part B initially had already chosen a piece ... but Ms. Wee says the piece required a lot of coordination with the pianist ... so she's going to take another look at Part B. Part C, I had finally manage to choose the piece - C2 (Study in F) its' a solo piece ... so I'm practicing my C Major now in order to get my high notes out.

C2 is coming along, I'm left with the last 4 bars of the piece to master. Since there's a total of 8 bars in all to master for each piece ...

P.S. Did an estimated count of my pay check for the month of July, should have about 800 bucks ... if nothing goes wrong with my calculation.

Among vexing matters and others ....

Just realized I had forgotten to credit an entry in my personal bank accounts - thus, amt. in actual bank statement does not equal to my own personal accounts. Nevermind, shall amend it tonight ...

Finally bought the Grade 1 exam pieces book and started my official grade 2 theory lesson today. For today, its' still Ms. Wee whom taught me theory ... as there's some re-arrangement of schedules timing for the new theory teacher whom's going to be teaching me soon ... =_=

Right, I should probably start deciding on my 3 pieces soon enough ... For Section A, its' either A1 or A3 ... Ms. Wee told me to go back and practice all my high notes - especially, A, B, G & F ... somehow, i can't get them all sound 'right'.

She says, if I can get these above notes right ... then we will do A3 for the exam. If not, we'll do A1 - which is 'Greensleeves' - which includes slurs in the piece.

she also suggested for me to practise and use the Chromatic Scales as warm-up exercises ... had to memorize the fingerings for all the sharps. So far I only remembered the 'F-sharp'... and also have to remember/revise my short fingering of B-flat.

Grade 2 theory wise ... more italian terms to remember/memorize. Also, had to start learning the notes on ledger lines and to draw them out >.< (Real troublesome if you ask me ... cause' I take double the time for notes on Base Clef ... )

Had to pay bills soon, and update my passbook too ... Waiting for pay to arrive too ... wondering when it will be given to me, this month. Today, I really spend a lot of money ... the exam fees $138. Grade 1 Exam Book - $15.50 (the one without CD), Grade 2 Theory ($8.80) ... then Flute Beginner Practical - $90 & Grade 2 Theory - $70 (increase by $10 - lucky I got additional cash on me, Ms. Wee forgot to tell me the increase in pricing). So total, spend $322.30 on flute lessons ...

T.T

Increase my working days too, starting tomorrow - I'll be coming in on Monday as well. Then for June holidays - starting 27 June to 29 June, I'll be covering shifts for Jamie as she wanted to go KL for holidays. Not to forget this month end, 28 March (Sat) - I had to cover for her as well, as she had taken the day off as part of her annual leave.

In order to get myself familiarize with the fingerings for chromatic scales, and also to practise my high notes. Looks like I really had to find time for practises - most probably I'll do them on Wednesday afternoon or on Saturday. Perhaps, on Friday afternoon over the next few weeks when there;s no classes. Maa... shall see what happened when we go along.

right, gotta get back to work.

Flute, projects, work and exams...

Seems like I'm rather lazy to blog these days, except when I'm utterly stressed out or frustrated about something. Anyway, just an update to let you people know that I'm not dead - yet ...

The projects that are piling up on me is literally killing me on the slow side ... especially the Financial Management project ... Up until now, I think I still had at least another 60% to go ... before completion and that is not all ... thing is, its' due on the upcoming friday =_=

Hopefully, Xinhui and I will be able to finish it by wednesday so that pauline can compile it =_= ...

That aside, my exams results for last sem is out ... scored both 'C's like Xinhui did - this time around. So I pass my financial accounting paper ... and thus, I owe her sis a meal treat to Subway ... seems like have to put it on hold though ... since we hardly have time that match one another's schedule.

Right, moving on to the idea of flute classes today. I am finally approaching the end of Grade 1 theory, and starting next week - my teacher would be getting her colleague to start grade 2 theory with me as she had something on after my flute class (current timing - 9.30-10.30 am ...) but she had something on at 10 am ... so ...

Anyway, she asked me today - whether I wanted to try for the grade exams. I'm supposed to let her know next lesson, so she can submit my name for the exam if I wanted to try it out. She asked me if I want to go for grade 1 or try grade 2 ... but after we looked at the exam pieces book - her decision was that we tried grade 1 exam first.

I've just finished F and G Major scales, and left with the 3 minor scales ... and so if I were to go for the exams, it will most probably be the september exam. I had yet to get the scales and appegios book since its' still out of stock at many places ... =_= and thus I had to rely on my memory for now ... and hopefully, the book will be in stock soon, cause I simply cannot remember so many scales ... without referring to the book.

Right, and so ... I'll probably say ' yes' to the exam thing next week when I see her ... Right, now its' time for me to go back to work again.