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chu_totoroToday was rather eventful.
per2orchFran was actually fun. Because Boitz was there for the most of it, instead of Francisco, and we did American Journey. *sparkles* No more Tallis! I like Tallis, I do! But being C10b (the absolutely LAST chair) I get all the bottom lines. And they're pretty, and essential to the music, but they're generally much easier and I've GOT the hang of them a long time ago, so while Francisco makes us play and replay that section (because the top part can't count triplets), we, who don't have triplets, sit and feel dumb.
I actually ended up playing with the top line, because I was bored out of my mind, playing the bottom over and over again just to accompany the top. No one noticed except my stand partner, who looked at me kind of sulkily. (I did tell him "You could do it too, if you wanted to!" and he DENIED. So it's not my fault...)
I wish I hadn't screwed up my seating audition. >> It makes things immensely boring.
Anyways, today was American Journey! And that means B seating!!! Yay! Much fun. ...Grace and I got picked on as an example because, quoth, we played with "spirit." >>;; Confidence, maybe? Hell, the Int. Orch. sure lacks confidence. The piece isn't hard or anything. Now that we've got the hang of it, we should play louder (instead of quietly kind of following along)! It can be fun, y'know. Had lots of fun today, at least.
Also having much fun screwing with Adv. music at home. Big chords!
Tutorial majorly shortened. Had an assembly on Domestic Violence in which I was shoved about and squished and wished that I had the sense to come a bit later and NOT sit on the bleachers. Saw some entertaining skits, and heard a very sad story from the guest lady. The assembly also meant that all other classes were slightly short, as well.
Did CPR on dummies in Health. oO;; Slightly disturbing...
Lunch was late today because of the assembly. Dammit, I was really hungry by then. And my flimsy piece of toast didn't really help. Oh well.
Now, per6engSutt... the class was cut short halfway through by an announcement. The entire school had to immediately evacuate to the field... teachers were to look at an email for instructions. Sutton, being Sutton, yelled "BUT I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM!!!!" and the whole class laughed and laughed. We went down without her, and later she arrived and took role.
Hahaha our English class is the most awesome ever. Guess what we did?
We played Duck Duck Goose!!!
Hahahahahahahaha~ Anyways, after much time they let us back in and the English test was delayed.
Did a semi-interesting lab in Bio. Already done it last year so it wasn't as cool... yeah. Then school ended and that was that.
Oh yeah!
....you guys know the sweet and sour game? Where you wave at someone and if they wave back, they're sweet, and if they don't, they're sour? Well, today I was feeling kind of hyper and random so I started to wave at everyone I knew the name to in SHS.
...only Tiff, Tiff, Josh, Brian, Yang, Emily, and Dorothy waved back. >> the rest of you SHSers are ALL sour, you losers!
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Edit: Compiled a general list of everybody I waved to, just for the heck of it and because I want to procrastinate piano. Look guys, LOOK. I waved to like a million people. And how many of them are sour? >>
Tiff Lin, Tiff Tseng, Tiff Wang, Tiff Hu, Risa Naka, Clara Wang, Michael, Yang, Brian (from orchestra), Brian (from English), Mr Francisco, Alice (the freshman), Felicia, Paulina Tsai, Kimberly, Steven (the asian one), Steven (the other one), Dennis, Johnny, Jamie, Emily Hur, Sukai Chen, Duke LeTran, Deborah Lee, Shirlene Wade, Grant Fukui, Stacy Ku, Raphael, Grace, Sean Chen, Shanna Wu, Jeff (freshman), Jeff (senior), Dorey, Adeeti, Nancy, Alvin Chu, Josh, Erica Kumala, Ryan Pak, Jennifer, Thomas Wang, Anastasia, Carol, Justin (from Jap), Justin (from Orch), Chris Chin, Fred Hwang, Austin Chu, Vikky, Adam's unnamed friend, Shanna Wade, Alex Yan, Jason (from PE), Elizabeth (the short one), Elizabeth (the other one), Tejas, Joyce, Ashley, Alice Ling, Joseph, James, Julia, Derek, Jenny, Megan... eh, there's more, can't remember, must go to class.
Not including the people that waved TO me, since that doesn't really count. I think about half of these people might not've seen me, but still...
...you're sour, folks. You're sour. >>
Edit: It's Friday! It's Friday! And piano class is over! And I'm hyper! And I think I'm going to be typing a lot because I don't really HAVE to do my hw today! YAAAAY~
At piano I saw Brian Tang~ He takes classes from Vitali, my piano teacher's husband. And guess what, he's section leader of second violins in the intermediate orchestra! But it's sad. Because he totally deserves to be in advanced. There wasn't enough room, so they just decided that all the 9th graders would be in intermediate. That's so unfair. (Thomas only got in because he started fighting like.... early. And there was the fact that he's a genius and thus his academic schedule has problems, and w/e and all that so he managed to make it. And not to mention he's actually a good violinist.)
Brian is GOOD, though! He deserves to be in advanced, or at least FIRST violin section leader. But guess what? He's section leader of the second violins because Boitz has to at least somewhat respect FRANCISCO's opinion. >>
Okay, okay, there was this one day? Francisco was drilling the first violin section on this part in Tallis. It was supposed to be LOUD. Grand. An arrival. And they couldn't do it. Everyone was too insecure and afraid of false notes and they just couldn't play loud and they got better but it wasn't like he wanted and it was... sad.
The second violin part of that is somewhat similar to the first violin part. Some differences, mostly the same. So Francisco was like "Okay listen to these two play" (these two being Brian and the other guy; basically first stand of second violins) and you know what? The two of them were louder than the ENTIRE FIRST VIOLIN SECTION. (No, I'm not being opinionated. The entire orchestra agreed.)
...is that pathetic or what?
And I can't say much better for the cellos. Not the intermediate orchestra. Intermediate orchestra just... well, we're INTERMEDIATE, dammit. I should really thank Mrs. Kim for drilling me in technique and high contact point and all that, because from my previous teacher I've gathered that "average" teachers... don't focus on that. Because the other cellos don't seem to pay attention to it. Michael, my A seating stand partner, got told off by Boitz today as having his bow almost up to his chin.
...you AREN'T supposed to play on the fingerboard, guys, y'know that, right?
Not like I paid any attention to it, until I switched to Mrs. Kim and she was like "You're TERRIBLE."
Still, after you get the hang of the notes, you COULD play loud, at least? I mean, okay, so Tallis I have the stupid bottom line and you guys have top. (Okay, so it's not stupid) And never mind that I screw around with your top part when I'm bored because it's not my part anyways and I'm probably not playing it properly. But American Journey. That's easy. And we're ALL playing the same stuff, no divs, really...
Hey, I'm supposed to be last chair. Maybe in B seating I'm not, but they've evaluated me as last for A and I am officially the worst.
I don't know. Maybe I'm being irrational and I really do suck, but to me it seems like the lot of you aren't playing very confidently. At least, not the way Boitz asked us to. They specifically told us to play loud and be sure of ourselves, and fix false notes LATER? Not all of you, granted. (Go Grace! XD And get more sleep, all-nighters aren't healthy.) But anyways YES I'm going to act like an arrogant jerk here because I feel like I AM playing damned louder and the other people AREN'T. And it IRKS me.
Okay, maybe my skill level isn't there. Maybe I can't play certain chords or whatever or read treble clef well (like we need to) but y'know when there's an EASY piece that we can all play why is it that you guys aren't any better than me? Am I NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THE WORST?
So it boils down that my skill level might not be there but dammit my BASIC technique is better than most of yours and it doesn't make me want to gloat it just makes me sad because well it just DOES. How do they evaluate best and worst? How do these things WORK? I don't trust Francisco anymore, anyways, since (to my mind) he has proved his terrible judgement with his placement of Brian.
No confidence, no confidence, they've been ASKING us to play with confidence never mind if we miss notes just play with confidence and we DON'T have confidence. Or maybe we're just shy like that. Alvin's section leader, isn't he? How come he can't play and set a proper EXAMPLE for us when Francisco asks him to? He gets nervous and screws up and all because there just is that lack of confidence and andandand...
*sulks* Intermediate sucks. I'm so aiming for Advanced next year. I'm going to make that my personal goal and if next year I DON'T SUCCEED I shall throw a tantrum at home and feel stupid afterwards.
Hey, on a better note, today my piano teacher was extremely pleased with my playing. She was so happy that she decided to nominate me for the recital on the 22nd. >>;; I... don't like recitals... but it did make me feel loved. ^^
Edit: Nyaaaaaaaaaa!!!! >< Only one seating audition per year. Information hast been confirmed. Waaaaa~ Okay, so at the time of the audition I couldn't really vibrate, was playing the crappy school cello for the VERY FIRST time EVER (and it was out of tune, too), played out of tune, and didn't bow well because there was no rosin on the stupid bow.
Well now I CAN vibrate, okay? I vibrate a hell lot more than the other lazy people who don't enjoy the music for the sake of the music or just don't think that way. And I'm more used to that cello now. And the bow has been rosined. And it's still not very well in tune because my ear isn't sharp enough and I haven't used a tuner on it, as of yet, but generally I play a hell lot better than I did at the time of the audition? But NO it's too late because I missed it and now I'm stuck last chair. Foreeeever. For the entire school year.
EVIL EVIL EVIL
I can put all my worth into it and ever time you drill and make us replay it I can keep on trying my best. And I love the music, I do, and every time you make me play the bottom line I'll PLAY it and do my best to play it well and set a foundation for the top part. I mean, I will do it, every time. But...
Iunno, you can love the music and do your best and listen and play and enjoy the sound every time, but at the same time it can still be incessantly dull.
...I'm not sure I'm describing it right. It's hard to put into words. It makes perfect sense in my head, at any rate.
I have no idea how it connects to what I said before.
Whatever. Now I feel resigned. What an evil fate. I swear I'll make it into advanced next year. I swear it!
-looks up- Hell, that was the most... "pure ranting" that I've done in ages.
per2orchFran was actually fun. Because Boitz was there for the most of it, instead of Francisco, and we did American Journey. *sparkles* No more Tallis! I like Tallis, I do! But being C10b (the absolutely LAST chair) I get all the bottom lines. And they're pretty, and essential to the music, but they're generally much easier and I've GOT the hang of them a long time ago, so while Francisco makes us play and replay that section (because the top part can't count triplets), we, who don't have triplets, sit and feel dumb.
I actually ended up playing with the top line, because I was bored out of my mind, playing the bottom over and over again just to accompany the top. No one noticed except my stand partner, who looked at me kind of sulkily. (I did tell him "You could do it too, if you wanted to!" and he DENIED. So it's not my fault...)
I wish I hadn't screwed up my seating audition. >> It makes things immensely boring.
Anyways, today was American Journey! And that means B seating!!! Yay! Much fun. ...Grace and I got picked on as an example because, quoth, we played with "spirit." >>;; Confidence, maybe? Hell, the Int. Orch. sure lacks confidence. The piece isn't hard or anything. Now that we've got the hang of it, we should play louder (instead of quietly kind of following along)! It can be fun, y'know. Had lots of fun today, at least.
Also having much fun screwing with Adv. music at home. Big chords!
Tutorial majorly shortened. Had an assembly on Domestic Violence in which I was shoved about and squished and wished that I had the sense to come a bit later and NOT sit on the bleachers. Saw some entertaining skits, and heard a very sad story from the guest lady. The assembly also meant that all other classes were slightly short, as well.
Did CPR on dummies in Health. oO;; Slightly disturbing...
Lunch was late today because of the assembly. Dammit, I was really hungry by then. And my flimsy piece of toast didn't really help. Oh well.
Now, per6engSutt... the class was cut short halfway through by an announcement. The entire school had to immediately evacuate to the field... teachers were to look at an email for instructions. Sutton, being Sutton, yelled "BUT I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM!!!!" and the whole class laughed and laughed. We went down without her, and later she arrived and took role.
Hahaha our English class is the most awesome ever. Guess what we did?
We played Duck Duck Goose!!!
Hahahahahahahaha~ Anyways, after much time they let us back in and the English test was delayed.
Did a semi-interesting lab in Bio. Already done it last year so it wasn't as cool... yeah. Then school ended and that was that.
Oh yeah!
....you guys know the sweet and sour game? Where you wave at someone and if they wave back, they're sweet, and if they don't, they're sour? Well, today I was feeling kind of hyper and random so I started to wave at everyone I knew the name to in SHS.
...only Tiff, Tiff, Josh, Brian, Yang, Emily, and Dorothy waved back. >> the rest of you SHSers are ALL sour, you losers!
Edit: Stole this from
cougarfangYou have a total of 19 friends
You requested to guess 19 entries.
2 was skipped due to invalid content (surprising?).
You made 17 guesses.
You got 15 correct.
Doing the math for you, that means you got 88% correct
Edit: Compiled a general list of everybody I waved to, just for the heck of it and because I want to procrastinate piano. Look guys, LOOK. I waved to like a million people. And how many of them are sour? >>
Tiff Lin, Tiff Tseng, Tiff Wang, Tiff Hu, Risa Naka, Clara Wang, Michael, Yang, Brian (from orchestra), Brian (from English), Mr Francisco, Alice (the freshman), Felicia, Paulina Tsai, Kimberly, Steven (the asian one), Steven (the other one), Dennis, Johnny, Jamie, Emily Hur, Sukai Chen, Duke LeTran, Deborah Lee, Shirlene Wade, Grant Fukui, Stacy Ku, Raphael, Grace, Sean Chen, Shanna Wu, Jeff (freshman), Jeff (senior), Dorey, Adeeti, Nancy, Alvin Chu, Josh, Erica Kumala, Ryan Pak, Jennifer, Thomas Wang, Anastasia, Carol, Justin (from Jap), Justin (from Orch), Chris Chin, Fred Hwang, Austin Chu, Vikky, Adam's unnamed friend, Shanna Wade, Alex Yan, Jason (from PE), Elizabeth (the short one), Elizabeth (the other one), Tejas, Joyce, Ashley, Alice Ling, Joseph, James, Julia, Derek, Jenny, Megan... eh, there's more, can't remember, must go to class.
Not including the people that waved TO me, since that doesn't really count. I think about half of these people might not've seen me, but still...
...you're sour, folks. You're sour. >>
Edit: It's Friday! It's Friday! And piano class is over! And I'm hyper! And I think I'm going to be typing a lot because I don't really HAVE to do my hw today! YAAAAY~
At piano I saw Brian Tang~ He takes classes from Vitali, my piano teacher's husband. And guess what, he's section leader of second violins in the intermediate orchestra! But it's sad. Because he totally deserves to be in advanced. There wasn't enough room, so they just decided that all the 9th graders would be in intermediate. That's so unfair. (Thomas only got in because he started fighting like.... early. And there was the fact that he's a genius and thus his academic schedule has problems, and w/e and all that so he managed to make it. And not to mention he's actually a good violinist.)
Brian is GOOD, though! He deserves to be in advanced, or at least FIRST violin section leader. But guess what? He's section leader of the second violins because Boitz has to at least somewhat respect FRANCISCO's opinion. >>
Okay, okay, there was this one day? Francisco was drilling the first violin section on this part in Tallis. It was supposed to be LOUD. Grand. An arrival. And they couldn't do it. Everyone was too insecure and afraid of false notes and they just couldn't play loud and they got better but it wasn't like he wanted and it was... sad.
The second violin part of that is somewhat similar to the first violin part. Some differences, mostly the same. So Francisco was like "Okay listen to these two play" (these two being Brian and the other guy; basically first stand of second violins) and you know what? The two of them were louder than the ENTIRE FIRST VIOLIN SECTION. (No, I'm not being opinionated. The entire orchestra agreed.)
...is that pathetic or what?
And I can't say much better for the cellos. Not the intermediate orchestra. Intermediate orchestra just... well, we're INTERMEDIATE, dammit. I should really thank Mrs. Kim for drilling me in technique and high contact point and all that, because from my previous teacher I've gathered that "average" teachers... don't focus on that. Because the other cellos don't seem to pay attention to it. Michael, my A seating stand partner, got told off by Boitz today as having his bow almost up to his chin.
...you AREN'T supposed to play on the fingerboard, guys, y'know that, right?
Not like I paid any attention to it, until I switched to Mrs. Kim and she was like "You're TERRIBLE."
Still, after you get the hang of the notes, you COULD play loud, at least? I mean, okay, so Tallis I have the stupid bottom line and you guys have top. (Okay, so it's not stupid) And never mind that I screw around with your top part when I'm bored because it's not my part anyways and I'm probably not playing it properly. But American Journey. That's easy. And we're ALL playing the same stuff, no divs, really...
Hey, I'm supposed to be last chair. Maybe in B seating I'm not, but they've evaluated me as last for A and I am officially the worst.
I don't know. Maybe I'm being irrational and I really do suck, but to me it seems like the lot of you aren't playing very confidently. At least, not the way Boitz asked us to. They specifically told us to play loud and be sure of ourselves, and fix false notes LATER? Not all of you, granted. (Go Grace! XD And get more sleep, all-nighters aren't healthy.) But anyways YES I'm going to act like an arrogant jerk here because I feel like I AM playing damned louder and the other people AREN'T. And it IRKS me.
Okay, maybe my skill level isn't there. Maybe I can't play certain chords or whatever or read treble clef well (like we need to) but y'know when there's an EASY piece that we can all play why is it that you guys aren't any better than me? Am I NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THE WORST?
So it boils down that my skill level might not be there but dammit my BASIC technique is better than most of yours and it doesn't make me want to gloat it just makes me sad because well it just DOES. How do they evaluate best and worst? How do these things WORK? I don't trust Francisco anymore, anyways, since (to my mind) he has proved his terrible judgement with his placement of Brian.
No confidence, no confidence, they've been ASKING us to play with confidence never mind if we miss notes just play with confidence and we DON'T have confidence. Or maybe we're just shy like that. Alvin's section leader, isn't he? How come he can't play and set a proper EXAMPLE for us when Francisco asks him to? He gets nervous and screws up and all because there just is that lack of confidence and andandand...
*sulks* Intermediate sucks. I'm so aiming for Advanced next year. I'm going to make that my personal goal and if next year I DON'T SUCCEED I shall throw a tantrum at home and feel stupid afterwards.
Hey, on a better note, today my piano teacher was extremely pleased with my playing. She was so happy that she decided to nominate me for the recital on the 22nd. >>;; I... don't like recitals... but it did make me feel loved. ^^
Edit: Nyaaaaaaaaaa!!!! >< Only one seating audition per year. Information hast been confirmed. Waaaaa~ Okay, so at the time of the audition I couldn't really vibrate, was playing the crappy school cello for the VERY FIRST time EVER (and it was out of tune, too), played out of tune, and didn't bow well because there was no rosin on the stupid bow.
Well now I CAN vibrate, okay? I vibrate a hell lot more than the other lazy people who don't enjoy the music for the sake of the music or just don't think that way. And I'm more used to that cello now. And the bow has been rosined. And it's still not very well in tune because my ear isn't sharp enough and I haven't used a tuner on it, as of yet, but generally I play a hell lot better than I did at the time of the audition? But NO it's too late because I missed it and now I'm stuck last chair. Foreeeever. For the entire school year.
EVIL EVIL EVIL
I can put all my worth into it and ever time you drill and make us replay it I can keep on trying my best. And I love the music, I do, and every time you make me play the bottom line I'll PLAY it and do my best to play it well and set a foundation for the top part. I mean, I will do it, every time. But...
Iunno, you can love the music and do your best and listen and play and enjoy the sound every time, but at the same time it can still be incessantly dull.
...I'm not sure I'm describing it right. It's hard to put into words. It makes perfect sense in my head, at any rate.
I have no idea how it connects to what I said before.
Whatever. Now I feel resigned. What an evil fate. I swear I'll make it into advanced next year. I swear it!
-looks up- Hell, that was the most... "pure ranting" that I've done in ages.
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Date: 2005-10-07 04:16 pm (UTC)For orchestra, are you just like stuck at that seat for the rest of the year? Because if so, that must suck.
Sometimes people are busy and don't notice you waving! Or, they can't wave because of what they're doing. It doesn't necessarily mean they're sour. >>
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Date: 2005-10-07 06:31 pm (UTC)I don't know. I think seating auditions are yearly, but I don't actually know... I could IM some senior orchestra members, but I don't think they'd know.
No! They're sour! The rules of the game says so. >> So you are ALL sour, people. ALL OF YOU.
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Date: 2005-10-07 07:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-07 09:32 pm (UTC)That's kind of stupid. People change during the year. Some slack off or don't have enough time to practice and therefore get worse, whereas others improve, so leaving everyone in the same chair...will lead to like less productive-ness. Not like I can change anything though. >>
Well..the rules should accomodate for circumstances. >>
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Date: 2005-10-07 10:12 pm (UTC)Hmm. Usually I don't wave back to people I don't really know; I've done that before, and it turns out that I wasn't the person they were waving to. Those were embarrasing. I figure they could just call out my name...
Anyways..yeah.
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Date: 2005-10-08 09:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-08 04:09 pm (UTC)hehe..jkjkjk. :D
I normally say it with vibrato as a verb ^^