Salute

Just came back from meeting a great great friend/senior/sifu. Hmm. If you still remember, she's the one that introduced HOCC to me. My erhu sifu + music mentor. Grateful.

I think she's born with some special cells in her. She has great skills not only in erhu, but guitar as well. I was just excited watching her play guitar just now. Salute. Hmm. If you have a blog or website I'll definitely add it into my 'Salute' list there. Ha.

Conclusion of the day: I still have a long long way to go. Hahaha.. Need to work very very much harder.

p/s: Really thanks for everything.

The night without Score

Just came back from the small performance.

What makes it special enough for me to update my blog after left it idle for so long is that Jo didn't bring her scores (I always rely on her scores, coz I don't have any :D ) So we just played without any scores tonight.

It's been so long since the last time she didn't bring scores. Surprisingly I found that playing without score allows me to be more concentrate on what I'm playing, what to add. Salute to my very great partner Jo for her great yang-qin skill as well.

Nice one. Enjoyed it very much.

p/s: Still unable to play like this all the time. Too bad the songs we know are still very limited.

剛完成了小小演出。
能讓我有充足的能量去update我的blog的事情一定不簡單。哈。今天的演出是在沒有譜的情況下完成的。佐沒帶譜子，而我也從來沒有什麽譜子。就這樣兩人就在沒有譜的情況下完成了今天的小小演出。雖然這不是第一次，但距離上一次也已經很久了。依然還是會令我興奮。

發現自己在這樣的情況下能夠更專心。（犯賤)當然也是因爲有著一位很棒的揚琴手拍檔-佐。

很享受今晚的演出。

p/s:也不能每一次都不帶譜，會的歌曲還非常的有限。哈哈。。

Music @ Malaysia

幾個月前自己在外頭租了房子，第一次擁有自己的空間，就興致勃勃地從家裏搬了一箱子自己從中學時期到現在所買的的CD。話説回來，看到那一箱子，還真的‘投資’了不少錢在裏面。了解爸爸從前看到我們買CD邊搖頭嘆息的樣子是爲何了。哈。沒辦法，買CD帶給我的‘快感’是永遠多過買了什麽名牌衣服，或日用品。

哦，今天的重點不在那一箱CD。這幾個月就慢慢的從那一堆CD裏選了一些CD再重聼，（不好意思，很多的CD都被冷落了一段日子。）包括現在我在聽著，被感動著的這一張----何芸妮的《Who》。不少人標榜著“我愛音樂，音樂萬歲！”，卻只聼外國著名樂團，就算是愛好獨立音樂也只聼外國出了名的獨立厰牌。其實好的聲音，好的音樂是不分國界的。很慶幸的是我們這裡也有不少讓人感動的聲音，也有不少人在為真正的好音樂默默努力著。希望好音樂會繼續地出現。知音人也會越來越多。

p/s: 本日推介--www.610t.com

p/s II : 被left out的感覺還真滿難受。

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p/s III : 請不要抱有太大的期望，那其實是一個很小很小的箱子。。哈哈。抱歉之前誤導了大家。哈哈。

Management

Hong Kong, Hocc Concert trip, Oct 2006

Management is indeed a very tough thing to learn. Especially managing a very limited resource which you always wish you have more. Currently I'm trying very hard to learn how to manage 2 of very limited resources of mine -- time and money.

Everyone has the same number of hours per day. I didn't realize how time flies until I have only a few hours per day doing things I want. Sometimes I even have to plan the time needed to take my bath, eat, and what other things I can do at the limited time left. Pathetic. I guess this is where time management comes in. Have to do everything in the most EFFECTIVE way, like those wise people says. Sometimes it's just so tiring to race with time. Suffocated. Hope there will be some space to take a deep breath in the midst of the crazy chasing time. The good thing about this is that it forces me to learn to plan things ahead, which I never did in the past 22 years. Ha.

The same goes to my money. Limited resource. Ha.. MONEY~~~~ I NEED MONEY~~~~ hahaha.. I will manage you too, Mr. Money.

I will survive.. Spend wise, and plan wise. (Hybernating myself again) I'll grow stronger :D

[Evolving to another version of Musyanic mode]

Wohooo!!

My first post from home! Phew, finally, after > 5 months of working-without-broadband-at-home life. That's a disaster man~ Finally I can do my own stuff at home now. :)

Good news eh. That's why I'm still here although I should go to bed now :D

Happy New Year

Planned to have a post before 2006 ends, wanna conclude my very own year 2006. I tried very hard to squeeze out some time but in the end I only managed to draft 50% of what I wanted to say. Thought will have time to at least finish it by first few days of 2007.. but just SUDDENLY realized half a month has passed.

Why time flies so quickly? I want to do many many things, but I have only so little time. If you ask me how's my 2007 doing so far, I really couldn't remember what I did in the past half month other than sleeping, rushing to work, and work, work, work. Pity. I really hate such long working hours. Haiz. Hopefully this rushing period will end very soon.

Don't want myself to be affected by this stupid working life. There are still some plans I hope I can achieve in this year. Hopefully by the end of this year when I look back at this post, there're at least 50% things in the list can be checked.

- continue to "upgrade" my zhongruan skills by joining concerts.
- improve my musical knowledge and get closer to my dream.
- buy myself a guitar, as a gift to myself.
- resume my drum lesson.
- earn and save more money to chase my dream.
- buy 1 CD per month, listen and approach more music.
- improve my communication skills
- improve IT technical skills
- wake up early, start my day with a warm breakfast and some readings, hopefully self-review as well, before going to work.

Will add in more when I can think of things to add. Haha.

The thing I hope most now is I can have more personal time to do my own stuff everyday. Pray hard.

p/s: Although I'm half a month late, still wanna wish all of you a very happy new year. Guanima bless us all.

無題 Untitled

獨自一個人拖著疲憊的身體回到靜悄悄的房間，隨機播放的Media Player很識趣的播了蔡健雅的"yellow"。這是少有的幾首讓我逢聼必想哭的歌。原唱者Coldplay也沒這種功力。蔡健雅的聲音總是很容易侵入我平日很努力建立起來的防護堡壘。

引用一句最近影響我很深的一個人說過的一句話：成長是痛苦的。沒有人能夠幸免。

我也不能幸免，但我知道我會挨過去的。

加油！

Returned to the lonely room with a very tired body and hollow mind, my shuffled media player just knew how to make me cry, it played Tanya Chua's "yellow" out of so many other songs in the playlist. It's one of a few songs that will make me feel wanna cry whenever I hear them. I never feel so bad even when I listened to the original version by Coldplay. I'm just so vulnerable to her voice.

A quote from a person who has recently influenced me a lot：the process of growing up is never easy, and it just seems like nobody is lucky enough to be excluded in this process.

Neither do I, but I know I will go through it.

All the best to me.