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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 chos...

Evelyn Birthday Celebration in Advance - 25 July

Just went to read Evelyn's blog and got a scare of my life. Didn't know she had such a bad day on the day before her b'dae celebration day. Poor Eve ... Anyway, am glad that the outing managed to cheer you up and that, you like the present that I gave to you too. Seeing as my gift to you were kind of a 'pick' at random, :P I didn't even bother to remove the price tag cause Takashimaya ppl pack it so nicely in a bag liao XD (meant the notebook and the pen) XD The comic, on the other hand, was pick out on the day itself prior to our meeting at my work place seeing as I had to go Boon Lay and collect the Hong Kong Comic for my colleague before heading over to meet up with you girls. And Dunno what to say about XH sia ... Can get too excited due to swimming and forgot all about Eve's gift and the fact that I'm going to pass her 2 bks on that day =_= ... Anyway, went swimming at the sports and recreation centre at Pioneer/Jurong West St 63. After that, we...

Headache ...

Dying soon, had no idea how to get started on the projects ... =_=() For performance mgmt, wanna start also don't know where to start ... can't find operating cost online, have to do estimation ... but then, grp members no time to meet also ... how to do?! Then for the audit case study ... there's 2, I've read the questions and knew what to do with them. It's just, have to go read textbook leh ... =_=();; Maybe I'll work backwards, read the chapter 15 one first and get Case study 2 out of the way. The grp exercises, how to do without the original report/website to refer?! Stupid school ... =_=();; Then think of work only, wanna die liao >.

Moody Week ...

Yep, an update finally... no, unfortunately I am still alive much to my chagrin =_= work work and more work ... this is my current lifestyle ... have not been given day off since last tuesday... and friday does not counts as it is a public holiday... tomorrow have to work until 7.30pm too ... lucky wed no need go work. but wed got school ... me dying lah ... have a few new fics in progress, details check my fic blog ... so what am I doing during work? serve customer, do orders do until siao! fax book list fax until fed-up cause' sometimes the customer never open their fax machines ... email things, check email for new orders ... wait for fax order to come in ... photocopying services for customers, restock drinks in fridge ... make ice-blend, staper hong kong comics, check customer's account status, call them if books overdue. do reserve list for customers, sms customers if their books arrived ... stock check, arrange books on shelves for sale and rental, attending to call e...

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...

Wary of boss at work ...

I told my boss another 'lie' today ... well, not exactly a lie since I am not the one whom mentioned anything of the project sort - he mentioned it, I'm simply too lazy to correct him. I woke up once this morning to discover a miss call from my boss late last night ... been too tired, didn't bother to call him back. Just now, about 15 minutes ago ... I woke up again to check my phone only to realize my boss had called again. =_= So this time around, I called him back. He asked me if I'm working today - 'red alert mode on' ... I answered 'No.' Then he asked me if its' possible for me to work today - I was going... 'Boss, you playing a joke on me right? ' He then said, 'that's why I'm asking you whether you can or not mah ...' Then, of course - I said 'no.' I said, telling me at very last minute would never work ... cause' it would be hard to switch the schedule around ... or rather my plans for the day. Ac...

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 o...

The irony of life ....

Earlier on, when I was back at home ... I was commenting about feeling lazy on my facebook status ... Now I finally know why ... I'm feeling lazy earlier on ... =_= My 'period' came today ... when I'm in the midst of busying myself with work ... Lucky I had one pad available in my bag ... else ... =_= Anyway, flute lesson push forward to Saturday ... cause' sunday - ms.wee is busy with something else (for this week). That alone, never mind - had to keep switching plans and schedule today. Initially, the plan was to do project at my place with XH on Sat before she go for work, and I for my flute lesson. Then today, I was told that the books will be arriving on Sat instead of Friday. So I change plan with XH, and I am going over to her place tomorrow for the project meeting and at the same time, to deliver her order of 'Skip Beat - bk 1-20' . (Of course, she paid me - after placing the order with me on wed, and so lucky that we have a set of it available i...

Short Entry This time

Haven't been practicing my flute recently ... should really start =_= ... Told Ms. Wee (Flute & Theory Teacher) that I intended to buy the Scales & Appegerios Bk but can't find it anywhere recently. She told me that she will keep a look-out for me, and inform me if she managed to get it ... since she needs to buy for some of her other students too. Apparently, the stocks at my school also runs out =_= ... left with the sight-reading and Piano bks only ... Too bad, I had bought my Sight-Reading bk already ... but haven't really go about practising it. Should really start over the next few days ... since I had not been practising much over the past 2-3 weeks due to the busy schedule and my laziness at work. Need to find time for projects work also ... so XH - can I assume that this upcoming tuesday is fixed or? Get back to me soon, can? 4 Feb - Management Accounting individual project Due 18 Feb - Management Accounting Group Project Due ...

New Year Resolution among the midst of slight annoyance, irritation and others ...

Today is the 4th of January, 2009. Year 2008 had come and passes by, without warning - starting a new year, a new day for me. Year 2008 had been a year of significance and memories for me ... In March 2008, I started working for AZ comics on a part-time basis while enrolling myself in PSB Academy. School started in May 2008, and the semester started out well - with foundation studies in English and Maths. My grades for the 1st sem is quite satisfactory as well...scoring a B and C respectively for each subject. Sem 2 subjects consisted of Financial Accounting and Economics - and the results would only be out, next month. This sememster, I'm taking Management Accounting and Financial management. For the projects, Xinhui and I decided to base them on our ITE Events Management and Marketing projects - by modifying them to suit our current subjects contents. Anyway, for the year 2009 - my new year resolution are as follows. 1) Score well for exams, both in music and academic. 2) Lea...

Frustration or Blues ?

Am at work now, feeling absolutely frustrated today ... though I had absolutely no idea just why I'm feeling frustrated ... Well, anyway ... am feeling better now, perhaps because Jamie had called me back and answered my few questions to her this morning. I'm relief that I keep my tomorrow time-slot free, as I would have to work full (most probably, unless boss say otherwise) ... and thursday, I won't need to be here as Taiwan is also having holiday. I'll work full on sat, as the books are arriving that day - so I'm not going to be here on friday. As usual, sunday is my full work day ... Wed - I'll be working half-day and afterwhich, I shall go home to have a shower and quick change of clothes, before heading over to XH place for sleepover ... dunno what they intend to be doing on new year day though :P Right, have to get down to work now ... Ciao!

Update on X'mas Celebration & others ...

I'll have to spilt entries into 2 ... this is the first part, containing happy stuff and memories ... I'll have another update in a while's time for today ... On X'mas eve, 24 dec - went over to Shuhua place for sleepover party which had now become a routine every year, without fail :P Didn't get Eve another gift, as I had already spend a lot on the sewing machine which I shared with Shuhua and XH. The delivery man came at 7.30pm ... and had a lecturing session on the sewing machine for like 1 & 1/2 hr before he finally call it a day. So poor eve, whom was too lazy to come up to shuhua place to meet up with us - had to wait for us all, at ichiban sushi. Poor Eve ... Anyway, we made it to ichiban sushi at 9 pm or so ... and managed to get our food order before the last order of the day was served. After which, we proceeded back to Shuhua place by taking LRT as Eve did not drive (as it's on a weekday) ... so eve had to leave her sewing machine at shuhua pl...

Memories of the past & ramblings ....

As you people knows ... recently, I'm obsessed with facebook and all ... Have been busy friending ppl like siao in there =_=();; Although, I must really says ... facebook is a really good tool to use ... found a lot of my long-lost 'friends' in there ... Among them, including teachers and students alike ... Over the past few days, I've managed to find back my primary school mates aside from my secondary school pals. Although, neither of them were in my best buddies grp back in our schooling days - together. Its' still nice to be able to find them, and do some catching up online with them. My primary school mates surprised me most with their changes in appearances ... makes me go @@ all the time ... I thought, Alfred and Matthew were bad enough ... until I saw Yong Kun pictures on facebook. Jason's look didn't change really that much, since I can still recognize him from some pictures - mayhaps, due to the angles of the pictures being taken. Irene and Kimb...

Special Thanks to XH's Sis - YZ

Yep, you see it right ... ^^;; recently, we both (XH & me) often hang out at her place whenever free XD Why - simple! ... We need urgent tutoring help for our Accounting Subject (Financial Accounting 1) ... cause' the teachers' teaching style was really so "special" that neither of us can understand. So what we did - (exams coming up soon ... last minute went to grab hold of whomever/whichever kami-sama that we can get hold of ...) Her sis just happened to be one of them ... While her sis was unable to help us with anything too challenging, she at least, managed to "teach" us the foundation chapters - such as Trial balance, Profit & Loss (With Trading) & 50% of the Bank Reconciliation Statements. Although, we learnt these topics way back in our secondary school years but as too many years had gone by without us using those skills. WE had literally forgot everything about them ... thus, had to be constantly supervised and reminded by YZ as we t...

X'mas Shopping for Eve

XD As Eve gave me the flute & flute book earlier on for my birthday, her X'mas gift had to be 'bigger' ... Since both XH and I had no idea what to give her, we took a look at her wish list and eventually decided to take a look at the sewing machines. So we went to Toa Payoh, shop for 'Singer' sewing machine ... XD XH mom paid the 100 bucks deposit, and I shall pay the remaining 99 bucks when they delivered the machine to SH home on X'mas Eve ... At first, that was what we decided ... so afterwards - we went to Orchard, XH msg SH to call her once available. We were in Kino when the call came through, so XH started informing SH on the plan. SH reaction was: Oh ... at first haven't fix the day for celebration, but since you guys had already told the guy to deliver on X'mas eve, we shall made the celebration on the eve itself. How much is the sewing machine? XH told her if she had yet to purchase Eve gift, then maybe she can chip in on the machine t...

To take or not to take Grades Test/Exams?

Recently, I'm debating whether or not to take grades test/exams when the time comes around for it. XH says, I probably should - since I spend that much already on lessons ... and my mom was like: no need to go for exams lah, just know how to play a few songs can already ... personally, I hope to attain a cert eventually ... but I am not so confident of myself. Last night, I was comparing between Trinity and ABRSM Exam syllabus again ... Eventually, I come to the conclusion that if I were to attain a cert - I might go for ABRSM. Why? - Simple, first of all ... their directions/instructions are simple enough. Trinity seems more complicated ... Second, you can get information and stuff (such as exam pieces) more easily - as compared to the specified pieces for exams from Trinity. Right, anyway - its' still too early to be thinking about the exams - since I'm only at the stage of the beginner. Well, I'll blame it on XH - since she was always talking about the grades ex...

X'mas Gifts settled & I'm broke ...

Yep, went out again with XH today ... This time, for the x'mas gift hunt for the rest of them. Seeing as I had already bought XH's gift, XH - on the other hand hunted for Eve and my gift (rather idea of what to give me ) ... Can't reveal very much on the gifts stuff, else there's no surprise in store for them liao :P Anyway, kinda spend the first part of the trip with her mother and her mom's friends. Apparently, one of them was celebrating her birthday, so me & XH joined in the fun :P Instead of birthday cake, they had birthday fruits tart instead. :P The tart was damn nice lor XD ... After which, we went to Orchard - forget to mention, was at Toa Payoh earlier on. Right, XH booked a room at Cash Studio Family Karaoke at 4.30pm. We kinda still have time, when we arrived at Orchard ... So we went to Takashimaya Kinokuniya to do some window shopping around. At first, I wanna buy Jamie's birthday gift too ... but can't find the pen that I would like ...

Passport Collection, Flute Practice & X'mas Shopping ...

Went to collect passport this morning, XH went with me XD We meet up at Clementi MRT then took train down to Lavender ... So now, the passport holder that Shuhua gave me have some use XD Took my lunch at one of the hawker centre there, while XH waited until she reaches home. After which, we took bus 175 back to Clementi - as its' raining. At first I didn't realized the fact that bus 175 passes by my ex-work place (office work) ... until the bus arrived at Jalan Bukit Merah ... then I started to find the buildings getting more and more familiar looking ... Then suddenly, found myself staring at the HP building and the blue and white building of the JTC ... I was like 'WTF?!' Isn't this the bus-stop thats' outside 'Sanmina-SCI' - the company that I was working for, prior to switching jobs. @@ then the bus took the route leading up to Habourfront - before traveling up to west coast then, finally to Clementi. After which, we switch to bus 184 and went ...

First Flute & Theory Class ^_^

Alright, today's my first day at Do-Re-Mi music school ... XD Reach there about 9.25am ... actually, was much earlier but I loiter downstairs ... eat breakfast XD Journey from home to the school took only 10 mins ... XD When I went upstairs, the teacher is still having breakfast with someone else. Probably her partner ... ^^;; btw, her co-worker/colleague/partner (?) is a guy XD Anyway, paid the balance of 85 dollars today ... and I bought the theory book as well. It cost me another 8.80 dollars XD Am so nervous the first 5 minutes, took a long time to get the sound out XD Ended up learning the slur, when it should have been the tongueing first XD Like the slur better XD finally managed to hold the note for 4 beats, but anyway, have to go back home and practice more ... (e.g. look myself in the mirror when practising ... so I know if my positioning of the mouthpiece is off ... ) Finally, know the correct way to hold the flute and support it while letting go of some of the note...