Bourgeois Shangri-La is quite a catchy song.
It makes me feel like dancing to it.
And I don't dance.
holidays ending soon. :(
don't want to go back to school! :(
exams in term 4! :(
anyway, i was just reading people's statuses.
one of them was-
why are they rabbit satays? they're so cute!
i say: well chickens and cows are cute too.
anyway, there's this website i found- it's got lots of shocking and weird facts.
read it.
believe-or-not.blogspot.com
http://believe-or-not.blogspot.com/2009/09/chinese-farmer-grows-baby-shaped-pears.html
and i've mastered nocturne in c# minor since like 2 weeks ago if you're wondering.
don't play much of it these days anymore.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
so, there is no law & order uk next week- instead there'll be ncis behind the scenes next week. :(
i want law & order uk! hopefully it will be back the next week.
so i'm bored.
i didn't end up practicing much of nocturne in c#minor today. i'm up to the start of the second page.
and really slow on left hand.
i was going to water my sunflowers but there were poo?
and i haven't read much of night either.
i am currently up to page 22.
i also want to learn the revolutionary etude also by chopin.
listening to it sends chills- you can feel the emotion while he was composing it, as it was composed right after the war. so you can feel all the dramatic emotions, and it's an amazing song- it has lots of emotions listeners can feel and imagine what it was like.
Chopin is amazing.
Is he becoming my favourite composer?
♫♪♬
i want law & order uk! hopefully it will be back the next week.
so i'm bored.
i didn't end up practicing much of nocturne in c#minor today. i'm up to the start of the second page.
and really slow on left hand.
i was going to water my sunflowers but there were poo?
and i haven't read much of night either.
i am currently up to page 22.
i also want to learn the revolutionary etude also by chopin.
listening to it sends chills- you can feel the emotion while he was composing it, as it was composed right after the war. so you can feel all the dramatic emotions, and it's an amazing song- it has lots of emotions listeners can feel and imagine what it was like.
Chopin is amazing.
Is he becoming my favourite composer?
♫♪♬
Sunday, September 13, 2009
The Pianist
I just finished watching 'The Pianist' by Roman Polanski, based on the true story of Władysław Szpilman. Władysław Szpilman was a famous Polish musician until he and his family were deported to a Warsaw Ghetto due to the German invasion of Poland. He had a friend who worked for the Nazis, hence when all of his family members were going on the train, his friend pulled him and said to save himself.
"Szpilman never saw any members of his family again. The train they were on took them to Treblinka. None of them survived the war." (from wiki)
[The Pianist is a memoir written by the Polish musician of Jewish origins Władysław Szpilman. He tells how he survived the German deportations of Jews to extermination camps, the 1943 destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the 1944 Warsaw Uprising during World War II. (from wikipedia)]
It's a truly amazing movie, depicting such cruelty us human beings can be, yet we must not be stereotypical as there are bad people and there are good people. It's a sad, touching yet a story of hope, not only a story, but a true record of what had happened- a true story of survival and hope. Could it be that his music was what helped him get through- hence the name of the movie- 'The Pianist'?
Anyhow, it's a truly amazing movie- I now want to read the memoir by Wladyslaw Szpilman. Just reading the words from his book on wikipedia sends me the chills, and my eye teary.
Wladyslaw Szpilman is my hero.
I am now inspired and motivated to finish reading- "NIGHT" by Elie Wiesel, and practice Chopin on the Piano, and try to find the memoir 'The Pianist' by Wladyslaw Szpilman to read for this 3 week holiday. :)
♫
"Szpilman never saw any members of his family again. The train they were on took them to Treblinka. None of them survived the war." (from wiki)
[The Pianist is a memoir written by the Polish musician of Jewish origins Władysław Szpilman. He tells how he survived the German deportations of Jews to extermination camps, the 1943 destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the 1944 Warsaw Uprising during World War II. (from wikipedia)]
It's a truly amazing movie, depicting such cruelty us human beings can be, yet we must not be stereotypical as there are bad people and there are good people. It's a sad, touching yet a story of hope, not only a story, but a true record of what had happened- a true story of survival and hope. Could it be that his music was what helped him get through- hence the name of the movie- 'The Pianist'?
Anyhow, it's a truly amazing movie- I now want to read the memoir by Wladyslaw Szpilman. Just reading the words from his book on wikipedia sends me the chills, and my eye teary.
Wladyslaw Szpilman is my hero.
I am now inspired and motivated to finish reading- "NIGHT" by Elie Wiesel, and practice Chopin on the Piano, and try to find the memoir 'The Pianist' by Wladyslaw Szpilman to read for this 3 week holiday. :)
♫
Thursday, September 10, 2009
tired
whee there's a cake with a candle next to the B- the blogger symbol thing. is it blogger's birthday? happy birthday blogger!
i am really tired and my legs hurt. :(
hence i have a day of resting at home today.
thank you for understanding father.
these 2 previous days has been quite eventful, not really.
human relations with scotch was such a bore.
not fun.
just awkward.
and weird.
but after that was good cos on the tram i was updated with some juicy gossip!
then the next day, i had to wake up early too, and my legs were sore but i still wanted to go, so i endured the pain and i got on a train, got off at parliament station and climbed those grand steps of the parliament house, boy do i feel important!
the building was magnificent! it had huge pillars, inside and outside, and there was a statue of our majesty the queen, and there were paintings of royalty and premiers- including steve bracks.
and just whoah!
the unya conference itself was interesting as well. first we had a guest speaker called tom- who was/is the young australian of the year. he spoke about having passion, vision and action. passion- something you really love about, vision- what you want to see, what will happen, what is the perfect world you want to see, action- "be the change you want to see in the world"- mahatma gandhi
he didn't really say that quote but he was basically talking about it.
he talked about the rwandan genocide and how he went to visit them. there was this man called peter and this man called james.
james had killed peter's family, yet they were still sitting next to each other and they were neighbours. tom asked peter why, and peter basically said that if the whole of rwanda won't forgive those who killed their family, then how can we make peace? and that's when i remembered mahatma gandhi's quote- "be the change you want to see in the world". peter wanted to see peace and forgiveness, so he was the first one to forgive james- sat next to him, and live next to him.
then we were shown a presentation of the global poverty project.
then it was recess, then we re put into groups of our goals- since there were 8 main goals to improve poverty. and my group was group 2- that was education. we had discussions, then it was lunch time.
we had pizza and we socialised.
then we had another discussion- we were given a scenario of south ossetia wanting to break apart from georgia, what would you do to resolve it.
then we got free smiggle pencil cases if we wanted to sign up for the unya mailing list.
then we had a model un debate.
then we had to leave early for music roundabout.
tiredddddddd!
i am really tired and my legs hurt. :(
hence i have a day of resting at home today.
thank you for understanding father.
these 2 previous days has been quite eventful, not really.
human relations with scotch was such a bore.
not fun.
just awkward.
and weird.
but after that was good cos on the tram i was updated with some juicy gossip!
then the next day, i had to wake up early too, and my legs were sore but i still wanted to go, so i endured the pain and i got on a train, got off at parliament station and climbed those grand steps of the parliament house, boy do i feel important!
the building was magnificent! it had huge pillars, inside and outside, and there was a statue of our majesty the queen, and there were paintings of royalty and premiers- including steve bracks.
and just whoah!
the unya conference itself was interesting as well. first we had a guest speaker called tom- who was/is the young australian of the year. he spoke about having passion, vision and action. passion- something you really love about, vision- what you want to see, what will happen, what is the perfect world you want to see, action- "be the change you want to see in the world"- mahatma gandhi
he didn't really say that quote but he was basically talking about it.
he talked about the rwandan genocide and how he went to visit them. there was this man called peter and this man called james.
james had killed peter's family, yet they were still sitting next to each other and they were neighbours. tom asked peter why, and peter basically said that if the whole of rwanda won't forgive those who killed their family, then how can we make peace? and that's when i remembered mahatma gandhi's quote- "be the change you want to see in the world". peter wanted to see peace and forgiveness, so he was the first one to forgive james- sat next to him, and live next to him.
then we were shown a presentation of the global poverty project.
then it was recess, then we re put into groups of our goals- since there were 8 main goals to improve poverty. and my group was group 2- that was education. we had discussions, then it was lunch time.
we had pizza and we socialised.
then we had another discussion- we were given a scenario of south ossetia wanting to break apart from georgia, what would you do to resolve it.
then we got free smiggle pencil cases if we wanted to sign up for the unya mailing list.
then we had a model un debate.
then we had to leave early for music roundabout.
tiredddddddd!
Monday, September 7, 2009
we, as human beings are often too absorbed by themselves that they do not know what is going on around them.
what we have been learning about in science is comsmology, and we now know that when you look up at a patch of sky- you can only see that it's blue and there are white clouds, so what, but actually there are lots of galaxies, stars, and planets, beyond that, and we can't see it so we don't care about it.
this is what me and the awesome unis was talking about in re, and she said something about being in a fish tank and you don't care.
then after school, on parer street there was this person in front of us in his/her car in the middle of the road, waiting for his/her daughter, in the middle of the road!
not caring about people behind, creating a traffic jam?
people are often too absorbed by themselves.
what we have been learning about in science is comsmology, and we now know that when you look up at a patch of sky- you can only see that it's blue and there are white clouds, so what, but actually there are lots of galaxies, stars, and planets, beyond that, and we can't see it so we don't care about it.
this is what me and the awesome unis was talking about in re, and she said something about being in a fish tank and you don't care.
then after school, on parer street there was this person in front of us in his/her car in the middle of the road, waiting for his/her daughter, in the middle of the road!
not caring about people behind, creating a traffic jam?
people are often too absorbed by themselves.
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