Dear Milo,
Promos is over and I have a real short time to play as a result of the dread Chem O test! So here I am in English again! Gosh, the Promos have been a real roller-coaster ride with ups and downs (though there were more downs than ups), but I'm real glad that I have managed to escape unscathed.
"Cloudy with a chance of meatballs" was an excellent movie. It had a good mix of humour and action, and it was certainly one of the better movies that I have watched. The basic plot is as follows: An inventor, named flint, invents a machine that can turn water to food. One day, he releases the machine into the atmosphere by accident, and it starts raining food. All is well, until one day, the water molecules "overmutate", resulting in deleterious consequences....
I find the "hydrolytic mutation" very amusing. It seeks to alter the genetic material of water, and in so doing, convert it to food. The overmutation also resulted in the production of sentient foodstuffs that actually had minds of their own. That was cool. I can totally understand why the movie got such great ratings.
Alright then. I shall go play some LF2 first. Afterwhich, I'll go play PS1, then PS2, then X-box 360. A crescendo in complexity and graphic quality will maximise the time I am entertained.
For now, goodbye!
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
The Temporary Reprieve
Dear Milo,
The worse is over, and it feels like the holidays have come already! A long weekend lies ahead though, and I decide that I should take a short break today.
This day, I have fallen in love with Brahms 16 Waltzes. They are unbelievably short, but unbelievably nice. One song that struck me was Brahms 15 in A flat, a short 1 min plus song that is often played solo though it is a duet. Need to find some time learn such songs.
Of course, I'm still trying to figure out what's wrong with my Sonatas. It never sounds right. I wonder about many things: whether my touch is too heavy, whether my touch is unequal, etc. until it gets all so exasperating that I just end up playing Chopin, Rach and Liszt again.
I must really take my hats off to all those Sonata experts. I used to look down on Mozart Sonatas for their simplicity, seeing them as inferior to much harder songs like the Transcendental etudes, Hungarian Rhapsodies, or Chopin's etudes. But I was terribly terribly wrong. The sheer accuracy and sheer simplicity of the piece make it all too difficult to play. Darn...maybe I should have taken a Beethoven Sonata...that way I might still be able to get away with my errors...
Wow, it's already 10:17. I don't really feel like studying today so I had better go to sleep. Till the next time we meet!
Cheers.
The worse is over, and it feels like the holidays have come already! A long weekend lies ahead though, and I decide that I should take a short break today.
This day, I have fallen in love with Brahms 16 Waltzes. They are unbelievably short, but unbelievably nice. One song that struck me was Brahms 15 in A flat, a short 1 min plus song that is often played solo though it is a duet. Need to find some time learn such songs.
Of course, I'm still trying to figure out what's wrong with my Sonatas. It never sounds right. I wonder about many things: whether my touch is too heavy, whether my touch is unequal, etc. until it gets all so exasperating that I just end up playing Chopin, Rach and Liszt again.
I must really take my hats off to all those Sonata experts. I used to look down on Mozart Sonatas for their simplicity, seeing them as inferior to much harder songs like the Transcendental etudes, Hungarian Rhapsodies, or Chopin's etudes. But I was terribly terribly wrong. The sheer accuracy and sheer simplicity of the piece make it all too difficult to play. Darn...maybe I should have taken a Beethoven Sonata...that way I might still be able to get away with my errors...
Wow, it's already 10:17. I don't really feel like studying today so I had better go to sleep. Till the next time we meet!
Cheers.
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