2005-08-19
at 8:11 p.m.
ILNE
I love you too Jane! <3.
I ponned chinese tuition today. I needed some time to recover from the lit pt, piano exam, chinese pt, french orale and the seemingly endless things we have to do for SMP. I'm permanently sleep-deprived and people keep asking me what's wrong with my eyes. I have these huge eyebags (I'm scarred for life! ): )
But onto happier things. After my piano exam my mum went to buy ben&jerry's new york super fudge chunk to celebrate! But it's so brown, everytime someone takes it out to eat she says she always mistakes it for a pile of poo. But I swear it tastes NOTHING like poo. And the piano exam was okay I guess. But I LOVE LOVE LOVE my examiner. He looks like Santa Claus - old, white, beard-y, fat and all hohoho. He wore a white shirt with this really gaudy pink and purple paisley tie. And he kept cracking jokes throughout the exam! Like when he let me practise aloud for sight reading and sight singing he was like "I'm closing my ears now! I'm not listening!" with this gigantic grin on his face. And he got the books on the piano confused and he was like "this is mine.. this is yours.. this is mine.." and after I played my third piece he looked really happy and told me that he played the same song for his grade 8 piano exam too. "But it was a very long time ago. VERY VERY long time ago.." then he looked really sad about his age. FINE it doesn't sound all that funny here but it really was! And then for aural he let me face the piano (!!!!!) I was wondering why because then when he played the chords I could see exactly what he was playing. So because I'm so honest and morally upright (HAHA.) I tried to refrain from looking. But it was really quite obvious what he was playing. (and it helped ALOT because I am quite tone-deaf. I can blame it on my dad. Oh my god. You should hear his so-called singing) So when it reached the last question where we have to describe the piece that he played, I suddenly forgot how to say 'dynamics'. So I was like "There is little variation in terms of..." I paused for a whole 8 seconds waving my hands around maniacally trying to find the right word then I blurted out "in terms of loudness and softness" and then he started laughing and politely reminded me that it was dynamics. I must have looked really stupid. But he was really nice so before I left I thanked him and wished him a nice day. He was even nicer than my grade one examiner! My grade one examiner looked like santa claus too, but he wasn't even so jolly even though I burst out in tears and refused to go into the exam room. And last year's examiner was the worst on earth. Also I distinctly remember my grade three examiner because he wore too-short pants, socks and sandals.
I know my last post was about how wonderful charlie and the chocolate factory is. But I've already watched it 3 times since, and my family wants me to watch it with them on saturday O.O Well that's because they don't know I've watched it so many times, but that's besides the point. On Saturday I will either die of boredom or fall asleep straight after Augustus drowns. I only made it through the last movie because evelyn was laughing like a maniac at the weirdest parts ever and I was laughing at her. And then sarah and I got so bored halfway through the movie we snuck out of the cinema and went to the supermarket to buy schokolades. We brought it up and used our handphone lights to read the flavours off the wrapper ._. That day I felt extremely short in comparison to everyone else. OH and the cool starbucks barista at lido on wednesday afternoons makes really good coffee.
Hopefully I can find some way out of that Saturday night movie.
I'm SO GLAD that our Chinese presentation is over. I can't believe everyone thought our demonic airplane-sock puppets of the little prince and the king were cute. Like hello? I thought they looked like voodoo dolls. And no, I do not intend on becoming a chinese news broadcaster. My life would be boring and all bleah and my hair will turn as grey as the newspaper. Unless newscasters earn heaps of $$$, which they don't.
HOHO I CANT WAIT FOR THE DECEMBER HOLIDAYS. But in the meantime, I can't wait for my hair to dry so I can go to sleep.