Update 27 | 06 | 2015

Right now, I'm taking a break from piano practice because my hands hurt and I feel like crap. All I keep doing is screwing things up, and I'm worried if I'll be able to carry out a good performance tomorrow. 

On with the updates.  

1. School started 2 weeks ago, much to my displeasure. I've been sleeping late ever since due to homework and well, laziness to complete them before 10 o'clock. I'll be honest with you, these past 2 weeks have been rough. It isn't easy to survive on 4-5 hours of sleep everyday, for your information. What's worse is that the school has this "champion-group-study-thingy" going on every Wednesday in place of our co-curricular activities so I can't take naps on Wednesdays anymore ( that is, unless I skip it ). For this week's Wednesday, I had to wake up early to steam rice and fried chicken for school because we only had half an hour's time to eat before the champion-group-study-thingy started. It was a tiring and frustrating process as a) I didn't have enough sleep and b) I didn't know how to steam food. 

2. I have a performance tomorrow but for some unknown reason, my hands are refusing to co-operate at the last minute. I was fine before today, but now I can't stop screwing things up. Whether it's playing the wrong notes, or messing up the beat, I just can't not go wrong. It's quite upsetting really, and all I can do right now is hope that I'll be better tomorrow, as late as it is. 

Anyway, the concert I'm performing in is held by the boss at the piano centre I'm attending. The theme of it is "movies in concert", pretty interesting isn't it? I've been attending rehearsals at the centre for a few months now, and they were pretty fun even though I didn't know who any of my fellow performers were, and you know how awkward I am around strangers (internal sighs). One of them even told me that when I was around them, I had a poker face on, but once I see my friends I have this huge smile on my face. Yup, that's how awkward I am. Everyone's friendly though, so it's all good. I can even say that I'm not as distant around them as I used to be when we first started rehearsing.

When I went to the rehearsals in May at a famous primary school somewhere nearby, I had the opportunity to see the performances beforehand. Needless to say, I was blown away by them. Even if there were some mistakes here and there ( including mine ), it was still an enjoyable rehearsal. It's a pity that I didn't get to watch them until the end because I had to leave early. Oh well, I can do that tomorrow, I suppose. 

The best part is that 2 of my friends are performing too so I won't be alone tomorrow :D 1 of them has a solo, and I think she did a pretty darn good job. I wish I was as good as her too, but then again I'm not as interested in playing the piano as she is so maybe that's why I'm not that good. 

May things go smoothly tomorrow.

3. I PASSED PHYSICS. PRAISE THE HEAVENLY LORDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.

4. Last week, my English teacher asked me to write an article for the school magazine ( which I'm quite hesitant to do because let's be real here, nobody reads the school's magazine ) and although I did manage to write a short story last Sunday, I just couldn't bring myself to hand it in because I felt like it wasn't good enough. Nay, it IS NOT good enough. My friend said it was too negative, but I don't care about that ( that isn't to say that I wasn't bothered in the slightest because I was. I mean, what's so wrong with writing a "negative" story? Suicide isn't a positive topic, ya' know. Whatever ). What I care about is that the storyline isn't what I'd wanted it to be. I imagined a more dramatic telling of the events that had transpired, however due to the page limit the school magazine has for each student, I had to reduce it to 3 pages, resulting in a VERY short short story that isn't detailed enough. It felt bland, like spaghetti without seasoning. I'm thinking of writing a more detailed version just to satisfy myself.

As for the one I'll possibly submit, well, I'm going to have to write another story then. Hopefully this time, it will be as good as I want it to be.


/I'll add more updates for the month of June later if there are any/