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Will be updated...?

Posted in: 2023 posts | blog images | Blog Meme | Forty Winks and More | In Zombie Mode | Tweets | Twitter

7.50am
Hey *got interrupted*

8.19am
Good morning~ It is me who is lacking sleep again. Oh, it's fine, I'm fine. I spent the time I'm supposed to be sleeping reading. Probably going to finish "The Silent Dead" today (yay). Pretty sure I'd seen the TV special adaptation (if I remember correctly) before, judging from the death, and I don't remember much about the case. Yay for not having the best memory in the world.... I can read and/or watch stuff like it's the first time! 

No, no.. I don't feel sleepy yet...

8.27am
*published this post*

10+am to 1 or 2pm
*long nap* (the only way to feel less zombie *sigh*)

6.34pm
Saw this on Twitter:

Here’s this meme with ALT text for sharing accessibly.

Also my number is zero. Bite me, youths. pic.twitter.com/ylX7tvtlNP

— brian j. white (@talkwordy) February 17, 2023
Mine:
Never done...
☑ Used a rotary phone
☑ Listened to music on a vinyl record
☑ Sent or received a fax
☑ Had a MySpace account
☑ Had an AOL email address
☑ Paid for something with a paper check
Vague maybe-not ✔ for: 
-Sent a postcard (might have done, don't remember)
-Owned an encyclopedia (does family-owned counts?)

9.39pm
This episode is a potential favourite....!
KYAAA











...

Time: 2023-02-18T08:27:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2023 posts , blog images , Blog Meme , Forty Winks and More , In Zombie Mode , Tweets , Twitter


Status Refreshed

Posted in: 2021 posts | blog images | My Worrying Side | Tweets

Vaccination Status in MySejahtera
It's finally updated!

Exactly 14 days later. The day after those 14 days. Phew.

Your vaccination status will be shown in white (partially vaccinated) if you have only received one dose of your vaccine or if it is less than 14 days since you received your second dose. pic.twitter.com/tw8eD1ZeuF

— KKMalaysia🇲🇾 (@KKMPutrajaya) September 6, 2021

Well, they did say it will be that way on Twitter. Seeing some of the replies to the tweet: there are those who are still not updated...? Fortunately, mine turned out okay. 

So why this is important?

This means I can go out now (while observing the SOP).
 
Two main places I want to go: Book stores and Daiso :P


*sigh*
I want to go out but I'm still feeling scared though. 

Time: 2021-10-15T09:42:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2021 posts , blog images , My Worrying Side , Tweets


Positive Pessimist

Posted in: 2021 posts | On This Day | Reading | Tweets

Still feeling the reading fatigue thing last night but I made myself read a chapter of "The Last Lecture". Sigh. Just started reading and tears had already been shed. Making it the last book to read is a good decision. Read a bit of "Fire and Hemlock" in the afternoon.

Today's post will be a semi On This Day post because there was something important in the 2010 post that I have to remind myself again.

Failure is not something to be ashamed of. I can learn more from failure than success. To do that I have to acknowledge the failure to myself.

Currently, I'm not really in the state of mind that will say I fully think this way but... I do think I'm more accepting to failure, 11 years later. I might sound like a defeatist - maybe it is like that - but I don't think I am. I'm more of a positive pessimist. I also keep an experimental attitude (if you can call that a thing).. I guess it's not a stretch to say that I live by trial and error, a method that forces you to learn from failures. Or I'm just plain stubborn. 

I'll never learn. I always fail at giving up things. I keep finding myself trying again the next day... until I get what I want.

— Ruth (@RuYanda) April 17, 2013


Time: 2021-05-18T22:44:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2021 posts , On This Day , Reading , Tweets


Hurt

Posted in: 2021 posts | blog images | My Dark Side | My Do-S Side | My Salty Side | Online Shopping Bag | Reading | Reminiscences | Tweets

This will be a post full of random things again. Just like usual.

I'm embedding some tweets I found in my Twitter timeline today.

*continues to scroll*

— John Wolfe (@JohnWolfeYT) March 11, 2021

Haha I don't think I'm very active in my social media accounts lately but that scrolling thing is so on point. So many times have I find myself continue scrolling even though I don't feel like reading anymore. 

Just a reminder that everyone is still going through things you may not know about.

Be kind when you follow up about problems or missed deadlines, replies, or meetings.

— Grammar Girl (@GrammarGirl) March 11, 2021

This reminds me of the post I did in the past (which was also mentioned again in an "On This Day" post).

≣≣≣≣≣★≣≣≣≣≣

Received the metal book holder today. Seems sturdy enough. 


I'm actually quite excited to start using it! Have to get used to the thing holding the pages at the bottom. 



≣≣≣≣≣★≣≣≣≣≣

What do you do when you feel hurt?

I don't know how this came up but I was thinking about it before I go to sleep. When I started posting here again, I mentioned about healing in at least two posts. The truth is, I was feeling hurt after I quit my job. I don't remember when but I was told how something happened that led to me getting transferred and I eventually quitting. I feel betrayed by people I thought I can trust. 

I still feel the hurt now but it's not as intense as before. I still feel like I can never forgive them. I guess this is the thing. Few days ago, my mother was watching something on the TV which [I overheard &] prompted me to say "You can't force someone to forgive you!" This is why I say I hold grudges. Passively, I think. Because to me, it's just a matter of giving a status (label?) and then move on with life. They don't occupy my mind all the time.

I do believe in forgiving when you're ready. I might find that one moment where I feel serene and I finally write it in my diary to acknowledge it. I know because I experienced it before. There was a person I nicknamed Akuma in this blog before. For a period of time, I was so, so mad at him. I will always give him the stink eye during his classes at uni. One day, all of a sudden, I felt serene (I think this is the perfect word to describe it) and I forgive him. 

This is why I get so triggered when I hear/read people asking to "just forgive them" because who the heck do you think you are? If they are not ready to forgive, let them be. Don't give advice like that just to make everyone but that person [doing the forgiving] to feel calm & in peace. 

Have I mentioned that I hold grudges? 

Time: 2021-03-12T16:01:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2021 posts , blog images , My Dark Side , My Do-S Side , My Salty Side , Online Shopping Bag , Reading , Reminiscences , Tweets


Meet the Cowl

Posted in: 2021 posts | blog images | Knit/Crochet Stuff | My Fangirl Side | Seiyuu Love | Tweets

Just opened Twitter and saw Anos' seiyuu quote retweet about his character song (included in the anime's DVD).
Suzuki-san, you sound so good ❤...

聴くがよい。
この想いに偽りはない。

裏話↓
(PVはスタッフの愛情と熱意でできた、本来なら作られることはなかったPVです。是非見て欲しい…!)#魔王学院 https://t.co/XqXS95hjPi

— 鈴木達央 (@ta2hisa_suzuki) March 3, 2021

Super fresh reaction lol

⋱⋰ ⋱⋰ ⋱⋰ ⋱⋰ ⋱⋰ 

This is my progress on the cowl. Been months since the last time I do a knitting project that required the seed stitch. I think I do better now...? Before, I kept transforming them to 1x1 rib stitch... although there's also the fact that I did it using single point needles at that time...

This colour looks closer to the real thing (compared to the close-up below).





Time: 2021-03-03T15:03:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2021 posts , blog images , Knit/Crochet Stuff , My Fangirl Side , Seiyuu Love , Tweets


Take This

Posted in: 2021 posts | blog anniversary | Tweets

Blog anniversary!

It's so funny how I never blogged about this blog's anniversary in my early years of blogging. I probably don't care...? I just started posting about this last year (and I made a label for it!). I don't know what I want to do today 'cos I don't really feel special today. In fact, I'm feeling a bit down for unknown reasons. Hmmm. 

What I feel strongly today... I want to do some digital clean-up. Like unfollowing Twitter accounts and unsubscribing to Youtube channels. Tagging my evernote notes properly and organize the notebooks. ... updating my other blogs (Erm..).



To end this post, here are five eight random old 2009 tweets from yours truly XD

Now I miss tweeting like before (even though I sound cringey at times too lol)~

Challenges attract me all the time even though I may not have the skills nor knowledge to brace them.

— Ruth (@RuYanda) July 17, 2009

No expectation is good expectation.

— Ruth (@RuYanda) July 19, 2009

Never assume that you can know someone by their music tastes. Do that and you'll risk jeopardizing the friendship.

— Ruth (@RuYanda) July 19, 2009

Which do you prefer? Beautiful, sweet lies that can make you happy OR honest, painful truths that will upset you?

— Ruth (@RuYanda) September 8, 2009

Focus on what I can do NOW. Worry ONLY when it involves life and death.

— Ruth (@RuYanda) September 28, 2009

Always believe that someone else is better than you. It will help you try your best with less pressure.

— Ruth (@RuYanda) October 29, 2009

Being happy doesn't always mean I don't care. Being depressed doesn't always mean I care.

— Ruth (@RuYanda) December 15, 2009

If I want to change, I have to accept changes. My changes. Other people's changes. Changes that I can't control.

— Ruth (@RuYanda) December 22, 2009

Time: 2021-02-05T16:05:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2021 posts , blog anniversary , Tweets


適当

Posted in: 2021 posts | About Blogging | Personal Translations | Tweets

*sweep sweep*

I'm looking at my draft posts and *sigh*... there are five of them. One of them will remain as draft because it's a masterlist post... which reminds me, I haven't made much progress on my archiving thingy. Oh well. Let's get rid of the other four first.

2013 draft - "??# New Things I did in 2012". Deleting this one. The stuff mentioned there is outdated. No point in posting them now.

2019 draft - Two posts. One is about "13 Things I Still Collect and Keep in My Room".. it's supposed to be posted as part of the Thursday 13 blog meme but I never got around to it. The list isn't complete. The other one was about my experience with watching youtubers...? I guess it's supposed to be a follow-up post to this. Yeah... ermm... I don't remember what I want to talk about anymore so.. both these posts are going into the bin.

2020 draft - A post I meant to publish in September... Ah, I'll include this one today:

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Draft from Sept 30th, 2020
Stumbled upon this tweet yesterday. Liked & retweeted. Also felt like blogging about it.

一生懸命じゃなくていい
一笑懸命でいいから

強くなくていい
弱くていいから

今を生きよう

テキトーに

大丈夫。

— 香取 慎吾 (@ktrsngofficial) September 28, 2020
My loose translation:
===============
It's fine if you're not giving your best for dear life, 
Doing your best to smile is enough.

It's fine if you're not strong,
Being weak is alright too.

Live on, now.

Live the way you want to.

It will be okay.
===============

I'm sure there are other ways to interpret the tweet better but this is how I saw it for the first time. The tekitou part was a bit hard though. It's not really like "live freely" IMO... In local slang, it's probably close to cincai... but I want to see it in a positive way. 

Well, it's really nothing big.. but what he said sounded like something I posted in the past. 

-End of draft
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Tweeted by Katori Shingo (who used to be in SMAP). Well.. it's not like I think it was a life-changing tweet or anything. It piqued my interest at that time so I'll just throw this part in this blog just for the sake of it.

Time: 2021-01-05T20:18:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2021 posts , About Blogging , Personal Translations , Tweets


Something Something

Posted in: 1st post | 2020 posts | Art Stuff | Books | Interest: TV | Seiyuu Love | Tweets | Twitter

I totally forgot to post in June!

Oh well, there aren't much to talk about anyway.

Some updates:
  • Finally received the book I purchased via Bookurve at the end of February last month. My Dijun crush has died down now although it might rekindle again since apparently "Eternal Love of Dream" is going to be shown on 8TV this week. In June, my mother suddenly joined me in watching "Love and Destiny" and after it ended I really wanted her to see Feng Jiu & Dijun again.
  • Tried out Google's video call services(?) with my bestfriend. Lol.. honestly I won't have much opportunity to use them (except with my family) so I took advantage of that and tried all. I used a desktop computer and my phone as the "camera". I'm fond of Meet (for now)... Hangouts' should be okay but I don't really like to hear my voice echoing after I say something (I already muted anything like when I use Meet). Duo was okay too but I can't use it on the computer (no camera).
  • One of my favourite seiyuu (Konishi Katsuyuki!) opened his own Youtube channel where he streams his gameplay. I got super excited when I saw him playing "Death Stranding" although I just realised the existence of his channel a month later. He was super low-key about it! I happened to see his tweet about going live so that's how I knew. If I remember correctly, in one of his DS playthrough, he was asked if he's finally becoming a youtuber [as in making it a career] and he said he didn't think of it that far. He just wants to play video games together with his audience. 
    • While he plays, he talks about a lot of things so watching him is kinda relaxing haha... He's quite attentive too [I'm guessing this is because of the nature of his work?] - he often sees the chats left when he's livestreaming and he will make some comments on it.
Some thoughts:
  • Art.. The urge is back! And since I talked a bit about it with my bestfriend.. I feel like painting something recently.
  • Been thinking about adding more photos in this blog. That would make it easy to post something in the future.
  • Also, recently I've thought of compiling my old tweets here [for my own benefit] lol.. so hard to navigate to the oldest (although it's easy to make a twitter search) now. The idea came when I checked my Twitter archive and found interesting tweets from the past. It was fun to see them again. 



Time: 2020-07-01T21:43:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 1st post , 2020 posts , Art Stuff , Books , Interest: TV , Seiyuu Love , Tweets , Twitter


Beyond My Twitter

Posted in: 2019 posts | blog images | NaBloPoMo | Spotify | Tweets | Twitter

I did this before in a post from 2010.
Analysis from Analyze Words.























Not really surprised that my recent tweets have a depressed tone to it. I'm pretty sure most of my tweets when I was still working were me being salty all the time.

A few days ago, this happened:
Twitter's trends list is broken. I hate it. I don't care what's trending locally. Give me back what I've set it to. Give me back Japan trends. #dontgiveadamn
— Ruth (@RuYanda) December 4, 2019
...and well the next day I saw #SpotifyUnwrapped trending which got me curious. I didn't use much Spotify this year but what I got for mine was pretty cool. This was my top played song so can you imagine how majestic my Spotify Wrapped played through until the end?


Bwahahaha. It's like I got outed as a Jay Chou fan. I was pretty meh (do love some of his songs) about him in secondary school because I tend to avoid popular things at that time. But last year, I suddenly got into listening his songs so this might be why he's my "Artist of the Decade" on Spotify. I just started using Spotify last year though.

I played his songs mostly at work. It helped me went through bad days at work. I was extremely fond of his non-ballad, weird/unique songs which I found suited my [dark] mood during work.

Time: 2019-12-08T21:48:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2019 posts , blog images , NaBloPoMo , Spotify , Tweets , Twitter


Analyzing Your Tweets

Posted in: 2010 posts | Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) | NaBloPoMo | Tweets | Twitter

I usually use TweetPsych... but today I found a new site. Analyze Words. Haha... I love these kind of things. They might not represent accurately but it's still something.

I got this.


I'm a bit concerned seeing that "worried" as my 'emotional style'. I don't mind "depressed" though (what I really want is "upbeat" but that has the lowest count - not like me, really).

There's also a site that analyzes your sleeping time. http://www.sleepingtime.org.

Mine, which is quite true (average time) :


---
An update of Wordle (without @replies)


Last time I did this I got :

Time: 2010-05-13T23:58:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2010 posts , Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) , NaBloPoMo , Tweets , Twitter


Zero~

Posted in: 2010 posts | Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) | NaBloPoMo | Nonsense | Tweets | Twitter

Twitter bug.

See:
"Twitter Bug Lets You Control Who Follows You" (Mashable)

Too. Funny.
The rest.

  1. Ian Schafer
    ischafer Maybe Twitter's "0 Following 0 Followers" bug is actually a commentary on just how unimportant those numbers actually are. 10 May 2010 from TweetDeck
  2. ashton kutcher
    aplusk twitter is being hacked by some turkish hacker. haha I have 0 followers. 10 May 2010 from Brizzly
  3. Adib Hidayat
    AdibHidayat Biarkan followers 0 & following 0. Latihan untuk mengingat nama teman Anda. Mampus yang namanya pakai akun Twitter aneh-aneh... :p 10 May 2010 from web
  4. they call me kate.
    hockeydarling lol at everyone FREAKING out over their 0 followers. 1) breathe 2) calm down 3) get a life. 10 May 2010 from web
  5. Branan Cooper
    brananc 0 followers and 0 following; guess it's proof that I am,indeed, talking to myself. fortunately, I like me. 10 May 2010 from web
  6. mlbroadcast
    mlbroadcast Why does my Twitter account show 0 for following and followers? Is there a Twitter snafu I am unaware of? 10 May 2010 from Tweetie
  7. shane_54
    shane_54 HA! Everyone has 0 followers on Twitter. HAHAHHAHAHA!
    I hope they never get them back :)
    #fail
    10 May 2010 from web
  8. OMG Wisdom
    OMGWisdom 0 followers and 0 following! Yes, we are all the same, God reminds us! :) 10 May 2010 from CoTweet
  9. David Kaplan
    DEKMinn According to @twitter, I currently have 0 followers and am following 0 people. Did I piss off all 600+ of you or something? Sorry... :-( 10 May 2010 from HootSuite
  10. Majd
    majdtweets Totally luvin' that on my 1st twitterversary, I have 0 followers, LOL! 10 May 2010 from web
  11. Karsten Wade
    quaid ZOMG! Followers 0! Following 0! ZOMG! ZOMG! The Twitter world is ending and I don't know how to use the web to search out why!!! 10 May 2010 from identica
  12. iamdiddy
    iamdiddy I feel so lonley!!!!! Lol :) come back soon. I can't live without yall!!! :( can somebody send me some followers pls lol :). Let's go!!!, 10 May 2010 from UberTwitter
  13. demetria lovato
    ddlovato What the heck... My twitter says I'm not following anyone? 10 May 2010 from Twitter for BlackBerry®
-- this quote was brought to you by quoteurl


It's back to normal now. But wow. It happened before my very eyes. I just retweeted a tweet by @Mashable, when after I reloaded the page, "0 following 0 followers".

Live feeds/updates <3.

Had a really good laugh. Worth losing the sleep I should have had hours ago.

Time: 2010-05-11T02:10:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2010 posts , Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) , NaBloPoMo , Nonsense , Tweets , Twitter


Dec 9th at random

Posted in: 2009 posts | at random | Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) | Tweets | Twitter

Just when I was getting bored with The Sims 3…
DSC09765

this came via mail last week.
Lol. I had fun travelling & I haven’t met a mummy yet.
 


===

Are you still using Internet Explorer?
I’d always had problems with that internet browser. I’m the kind of person who opens so many ‘new window’ till the computer freezes (Used Windows ME at that time)… then I tried Firefox & Netscape… & then I found Opera. Loved Opera. I’m using Google Chrome now but I can tell you, if Chrome doesn’t exist, I’ll still be using Opera. I prefer Chrome because I use many of Google’s services. I google. I use Gmail. I blog on Blogger. Greader. Gbookmarks. Well, you get the point.
Today, I found Google Chrome Extensions. Before, I did wonder if Chrome will have something like Opera widgets or Firefox add-ons in the future. Now, it’s here! (Still beta version though). Been adding those I think I’ll use often.
myextensions chromedtweets
Haha. I think “Chromed Bird” sounded kinda cool. There’s other extensions for Twitter out there but I’ll stick to this one for the time being.
Other then using the ‘web’ Twitter for tweeting (&  ‘mobile web’ Twitter or just texting when I’m using cell phone), I use Twhirl/Seesmic when I’m busy working on the laptop (love the pop-up thing whenever there’s a new tweets, @replies or direct messages. I seldom use Brizzly anymore. Chromed Bird is useful when I’m busy browsing the internet (& reading articles/blogs/forums).
 
===
Today’s laugh from FMyLife…
triplets
Yeah. I read sites like that. Haha.
===
Aww…. “Pushing Daisies” ended yesterday on 8TV… Gonna miss the cute pie-maker. (But “Ghost Whisperer” is back!)

Time: 2009-12-09T18:04:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2009 posts , at random , Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) , Tweets , Twitter


Wordle Weekend

Posted in: 2009 posts | Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) | NaBloPoMo | Tweets | Twitter | University: Year 1

Playing around with wordle and TweetStats.
My Tweet Cloud (without @replies)
twitter_wordle
My Tweet Cloud
twitter_wordle@
November’s Tweet Cloud
twitter_nov

Time: 2009-11-07T11:46:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2009 posts , Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) , NaBloPoMo , Tweets , Twitter , University: Year 1


Of Blogging and Tweeting

Posted in: 2009 posts | About Blogging | blog | Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) | Interest | NaBloPoMo | Personal Thoughts | Tweets | Twitter | University: Year 1

Instead of choosing October or December, I chose November as my NaBloPoMo month. I’m totally new to this but there’s always first-times for anything! Hopefully, I’m doing it right. Why November? Hmm… It’s actually a part of my BoP plan which I’ll blog about later after I thought deeply of the matter. Anyway… I thought it’s a good way to get to know other bloggers around the world (I do read some of those on the blogroll). It’s also a way to bring more readers here… though I don’t really have much to offer other than the stories of my life and my opinions. But I love the NaBloPoMo site, it’s a really nice place for bloggers to get together and discuss about blogging. I haven’t participate much on the site though (commenting etc), but I plan to do so during my semester break.

Also, starting from this post, I’m using a new kind of commenting system. DISQUS. Other than being attracted to the comment form interface, I had always wanted a comment system that enable readers to use their Twitter account to comment.

Twitter and tweeting… I still do it daily and recently I dragged another friend of mine to tweet! She had a good start… though she was a few weeks late to follow Miley Cyrus. Oh yeah. That name reminded me of something I just read yesterday. Apparently a fan of hers (or several? I didn’t take time to read through the original site) threatened to eat her/his cat, Fuzzy, if Cyrus doesn’t return to Twitter. My first reaction was this. Nasty, nasty fan(s). And bad influence. Sorry, @Neylev if you’re reading this. I’m really not a fan of hers. If she brings such influence (animal cruelty?)  to her fans then it’s better if she stay away from Twitter. Anyway. I’m more concerned of the cat actually and I don’t blame Cyrus entirely for this.. the fan(s) should’ve thought of better ways to reach out to her if they have brains to think.

 

Leaving that pathetic issue aside…  What do you think of re-tweeting someone whose twitter account is private/protected? I do RT some of my friends when they tweeted something interesting and suits my current thoughts. But one of those cool tweets belong to a friend with a private account. Evan Williams (Twitter CEO)’s tweeted :

retweet What if the protected tweets are about something very important that I think the world should also know about it?
Can I say that it depends on the protected twitter user?  Maybe some of them are okay with re-tweeting some of their tweets as long as it’s NOT ALL of them.

 
*sigh* To the friend I’m talking about, if you think I shouldn’t RT certain tweets (or all of it… though you know that my fingers will itch to re-tweet that cool, funny or interesting tweets of yours ;-D )  tell me so and I’ll stop.

Time: 2009-11-02T17:57:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2009 posts , About Blogging , blog , Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) , Interest , NaBloPoMo , Personal Thoughts , Tweets , Twitter , University: Year 1


So… I turned 21 today.

Posted in: 1st post | 2009 posts | Birthday | Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) | Family | Friends | Me. | Tweets | University: Year 1

THANK YOU, as always!!!!
bday1 bday2

--------------< After this line : drafted yesterday… so I sounded a bit erm..forlorn. >
Happy birthday to me?

Haha. I don’t sound very excited about this, do I ?
*sigh*
It happened like after 3 weeks of agony – the silent tension between my ex-group members and me and the fact that they are ignoring me now… (Erm. Let’s not get there 1st.) - *BIG sigh*.. yeah. I don’t feel like being excited…
Anyway. I do admire the date.. haha. I mean it’s the 1st day of Sept! It’s such a beautiful date, don’t you think? Easy to remember though there’s not much events (at least those I’m familiar with) on this day.
Okay… like last year, I’m putting a chronology of my blog. An update, to be exact. (Last year’s is here.)
┏━━━【2008】
┃
┣━「Sept 10」 A teacher/uncle of mine just passed away.
┃
┣━「Dec 13」 In KL. Went to Kinokuniya and MPH.
┃
┣━「Dec 16」 From KL to KK. Home sweet home.
┃
┣━「Dec 31」 A post to show my appreciation on the last day of year 2008.
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┣━━━【2009】
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┣━「Jan 5」 Finally had the ‘courage’ to meet a dentist.
┃
┣━「Jan 10」 My maternal grandma passed away on January 7th.
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┣━「Feb 26」 New layout (Color Paper)! Coincidentally, an old form 5 classmate started using the same layout few months later. Awkward.
┃
┣━「Mar 7」 KPP. Few more steps to learning to drive.
┃
┣━「Mar 20」 My black cat, Kuro, died a tragic death. SAA 8694 J killed her.
┃
┣━「Mar 24」 Still coping with my Kuro’s death. She likes to listen to music - when we play the piano, she will sit beside us. =(
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┣━「Apr 7」 New haircut. Front hair!
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┣━「Apr 15」 Why I tweet? … & started real driving lessons.
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┣━「Jun 10」 Failed driving test.
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┣━「Jun 22」 Second driving test – PASSED! Also, received university offer letter.
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┣━「Jun 29」 3 days of dorm experience.
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┣━「Jul 6」 I’m hating my university orientation.
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┣━「Jul 15」 First week of classes.
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┣━「Jul 19」 My experience - ABRSM Piano practical exam for Grade 1.
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┣━「Jul 30」 Passed my piano exam… with good marks!!!
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┣━「Aug 16」 What I think of my courses/subjects after 1 month.
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┣━「Aug 21」 Totally no chemistry between me and my [ex-]group members.
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┗━「Sept 1」 21st birthday. This post.
Awww.. Typing this post reminds me of my cats. I miss my black cats!!!! (I had another one, Akira, but she died too… dunno why the shots they gave her weren’t doing its job…)
“…”

Time: 2009-09-01T18:51:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 1st post , 2009 posts , Birthday , Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) , Family , Friends , Me. , Tweets , University: Year 1


My First Piano Practical Exam (Grade 1)

Posted in: 2009 posts | Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) | Life | Me. | Piano | Piano Exam | Tweets | University: Year 1

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Piano [practical] exam – July 16th, 2009.

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I already had my GUILD music theory exam last year. But a practical exam is scarier because I’ll be communicating with the examiner!

I really don’t know how good (or bad) I am at playing the piano. I just depend on my teacher’s recommendation… and I don’t know if the examiners good words were for real or just to make me feel better because I made little mistakes here and there. During the last [practice] recital, the principal of my music school didn’t comment much on my pieces other than my untimely tempo (fast song played slow and vice versa)… Oh. Gosh. I really don’t know my level.

Anyway. I think I did the best I can do. It can be hard when other people have high expectations… so – regarding the piano – I insist on having fun. I’ll sit for exams but I don’t want to score high. I just want to have fun and improve myself along the journey.

Okay, back to the story. The examiner was really friendly (& seems to like chocolate.) He went  into the waiting room during tea break to get some chocolates and asked the “steward” to put one in his coffee. He offered us (the examinee, there’s also another girl waiting) the chocolates and I readily took it (lol) because eating chocolate helped lessen my nervousness. I thanked him and he returned to the exam room. Then more exam-takers came… The principal also came (maybe to give us moral support…). I was the first to come in after the tea break was over.

Nervous! Nervous! Even more nervous when he himself came in the waiting room to bring the next student (me!). Oh. Gosh. Then I adjusted the bench before sitting down, opened my book at my 1st piece… and he asked what I want to play first. I started with scales… & when he asked me to play broken chords for F major, I misheard him and played F Major scales instead. He stopped me when he realised my mistake. I said sorry and continued playing the broken chords.

Scales over, now it’s the 3 pieces’ turn. I played my 1st piece with a bit mistake but I kept on playing (as my teacher told me to do). Then 2nd piece, a slow one (I tried improving my tempo at home with the newly-bought metronome)… Okay-lah, I think. Then, the 3rd piece! I paused before starting. For your information, this piece is my most problematic piece among those three. During lesson, whenever we reached this page, I would gasp and my teacher will sigh, “Oh, no. That again.” The thing is, I always play this piece too fast, too slow, too unhappy, or not too springy. I kept got corrected by my teacher. *sigh* So, I played my 3rd piece, it sounded different from the one I always played because I kept in mind to make it more jumpy/springy. When done, I think I did okay. Whatever. Then it’s the examiner’s time to comment. “That’s the best version (for that piece) I’ve heard from KK.” (referring to my 3rd piece… and I may recalled what he said wrongly.) “Huh?” I thought. He approved of my problematic piece? That’s so sweet of him! I guess he’s just being nice because I’m an adult beginner (I’m so old!) taking a Grade 1 piano exam…

After that it’s sight-reading. I was lucky. I got a piece without flats and sharps! Then aural test. Clap. Clap… okay. I’m never good at that guessing the beat part. Then singing (I love this part!). I messed a bit with the last parts… to identify changes of rhythm and melody in pieces. Then, it’s the end. I thanked him and went back to the waiting room. The principal asked me how was it and I answered her wrongly because I was still recovering from my nervous state.

That’s it.

My first piano practical exam.



Update : Results.

Time: 2009-07-19T00:30:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: 2009 posts , Delayed Rebellious Phase (Cringeworthy) , Life , Me. , Piano , Piano Exam , Tweets , University: Year 1


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