Wednesday, August 17, 2005 :)
WOO HOO! Finally. Finally. Finally. My. Piano. Exam. Is. Over.
Really relieved. I kinda screwed up the exam.. wait, I did screw it up. Real bad. But I still came out smiling like an idiot. It's such a heavy load off my tiny <3, you know? Haha. Came out and told me dad 'DIE DIE DIE. -hand chopping, finger dying action- DIE DIE DIE' with a retarded grin on my face. The typical retard-marianne grin. How ironic. Anyway, for the fun of it, let me describe how bad it was. =P Seriously, everything that could POSSIBLY went wrong did. Ow.
Lets see, I'd expected my scales to pull me up, really. Like hey, FOR ONCE!? Just ONCE it was gonna be my saving grace. Practised it like SIAO. At home, in school. Perfected everything. Well, almost everything for that matter... Screwed it up horribly. -grabs hair in frustration- Somehow I wasn't really very nervous (yay.), but my hands were cold although I wasn't. Worst thing was: BRAIN FREEZE. Like, totally forgot my scales. Eb harmonic minor a sixth apart. I remember practising it like mad cos I kept getting it wrong.. (practised just before going into the room on my invisible piano, mind you) Went in and totally forgot again -_- zzz.. got lots of mistakes for my scales. AHH. And the last one? I played the dominant seven arpeggio instead of the DIMINISHED seven arpeggio.. only realised it midway but didn't say anything.
Stupid me. First time I tried scales first before my pieces so... -sighs- supposed to help me with my pieces but.. apparently didn't, aiee?
So went on to my pieces. First one was a mess. REALLY a mess. The piano was so.. stiff. Keys were really hard to press (even the invigilator outside told me the piano wasn't good) So how? DIE. Gabra-ed more arpeggios.. and my page-flipping got in the way! blocked me from striking the keys which almost couldn't be struck la? Lol. So that piece, I'll probably fail it. Second was all right. Third too. Not that great really. Just passable? Mmm.
I think the examiner must've felt some sorta pity for me.. gave me an easy piece to sight-read. Which kinda relieved me, until I started playing it. They cut down the time from a minute to HALF a minute.. TERROR! The first part was totally messed up.. The middle was slightly better cos I got say, 2 notes in the bass clef right? -_- and I ended on the wrong chord. Go Marianne. So far so good.. going according to plan...
My last ray of hope. Aural. I guess it wasn't that bad? Cos I got my sight-singing totally right. PERFECT. PERRRFECT. Pretty shocked myself. And I realise the only time I naturally sing airy-ly/airily/air-e-lee/whatever, is during piano aural tests. Even with my teacher. Nervous kiaesaurus-rex right. But got it all in tune and on the right notes at the right time. YAY! Then he played a short extract, supposed to sing the bass line. Couldn't hear it. (as usual) I sang something which really wasn't anything he played (started and ended on the same note, that's probably all that was right) and watched in horrid fascination as confusion darted out of his eyes. Hmmm, looks familiar, I thought to myself. Exactly the same thing happened to the examiner last year. HAHA =D Mmm, missed a chance at the modulation! Got the subdominant minor part right, then he asked what key it was. From F minor to? C minor. C minor? Er.. B minor? B minor? -thinks hard... should be Bb minor, but there's no such key!?- Err.. ya, B minor.. -insecure giggle- It's Bb.. -cunning eyes- Felt like kicking myself. Kinda difficult really. How'd you kick yourself!? Mmm.. Now that's something you should go try aiee? =P
Sigh. So the exam really sucked, but I'm still really happy. Went to eat xiao long bao after that =P we were at the Paragon la? wahaha. I guess it's not time to worry... YET.. results in say a month or so. Possibility of failing.. but I'll just leave it in His hands. No regrets. Cos I seriously practised like siao. LIKE SIAO. (For 2 days, that is -_-) but it seemed like forever. Honest. So yeah, I'll just take whatever comes my way la hor? =)
And a BIG thank you to all who've been praying and encouraging me. All the JIA YOUs and YOU CAN DO ITs. Even from Mr Ng (the young, non-balding one) which really was encouraging. Thanks all you guys =D Love ya!
Think I'll give you guys a break. Eyes sore yet? =P Shall blog about the week's events soon enough. (Or so I say) Well if there's an overwhelming demand -WHOOAA, like that would happen- maybe I'll blog. Oh yeah, haven't told you guys bout the house in Sydney, aiee? MUST make you guys jealous. MUST. MUST.
But until then. Love what you have =) before you lose it.
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