I am now listening to my 5-year-old brother-who-is-going-to-be-six-in-five-months'-time squeaking the highest E note on the piano - and he can actually do it, mind you - while i am trying to reconcile/save my blog from utter desertion from it's writer. Namely, me.
I do not know why i chose this time to write again. Well, maybe i do (thanks to May Zhee's writing after i read hers), but i simply do not have the time to write anything but those bloody program notes - which i'm supposed to be doing, like, right now, or i'm screwed, badly. In case you don't know what that is (i'm sure you don't unless you're taking or have taken the Trinity ATCL or LTCL piano & violin examinations), it is part of the exam and you have to write about the pieces you are playing for the examiner. Long and tedious work, but it involves writing, so you may say it is quite pleasant. For me, that is. Like i said, i enjoy writing and editing. A hobby which i inherited from none of my parents, since they don't even like reading, much more writing (a thing they always wonder and asks me, like i would know as their daughter. I should be the one asking them).
So after such a bloody long time, you may wonder where i have gone/disappeared to. Or maybe you don't. I don't really care, i'm just gonna tell you anyway, if you're reading this, which you obviously are if you're reading this.
I have been friggin' busy preparing for my ultimate exams for both my violin and piano (a good excuse for not writing, but still an excuse nevertheless *slaps myself*).
It is tough work with all the practicing and all, and i don't particularly like it. It's not that i don't enjoy music (are you kidding me?! I friggin love music and i am planning to do that as my future career!), no, but it's kinda boring doing classical stuff when i'm wholly exposed to the world of pop/R&B/rock music. It's sort of like... hmm, let's see. It's sort of like reading your school textbooks when you know there are other better and more brilliant novels out there where you enjoy more, and you clearly know that textbooks are your foundation for your education in your school life so you are forced to complete your studies and get good foundation to do whatever you want to do in life. There. I dunno if i made any sense at all. But. It's something like that. But of course, classical music is always better than school textbooks. No comparison there. Gee. Not even compatible. But it's just an example and a picture of how it is. So, you get the idea. Boring, but very useful. Not that textbooks are useful for me, since i ain't gonna be a doctor/engineer/scientist or whatsoever, but you understand. I assume you would understand.
Four more days till the big day. Big day = Exam day. I have to pass my exams. I just got to. I have to! It's compulsory. I want to go to Berklee with full scholarship so badly i would die for it. Really.
Sheesh, no pressure there.
And until then, i shall stay at home like a good little 16-year-old-teenage-girl-who-is-turning-17-in-three-months'-time(OLD! but get to drive around. YES!) and practice as hard as i possible can. Which is saying something, really, since i don't practice much at all last time. SIGH.
I feel like i'm getting more longwind-ish now (like old people kind of long wind). Maybe it's because i haven't written anything in a long time. Yea, that should be it. It is it. *comforting myself about getting older by the second*
I'm not trying to cramp everything in one post after not having to write for so long, but i really have to share this person with y'all out there now (who doesn't know who Charlie McDonnell is). Charlie McDonnell, otherwise known as charlieissocoollike in his youtube channel, is an online vlogger, blogger and musician (he plays the ukulele, the harmonica, the guitar and he sings). He is funny as hell and is insanely creative. And he sets great examples too, for teenagers like you and me. He uses his time awesomely by creating crazy vlogs in youtube instead of vandalizing the society with his friends, which he possibly could, come to think of it (as an example). And look at where he is now! He earns money from youtube (as a job!), he is one of the top subscribers in the UK, he gives lectures to other people about his channel (he's only 20 for goodness's sake!), he gets invitations to coolio places like where they make Toy Story & Finding Nemo cartoons, and he gets to fly to the states for ComicCon and so on! If that ain't enough for a 20-year-old teenager (who some of you don't even know what you are going to do yet), i dunno what is.
This is one of his videos that i cannot stop watching, among 112 of his other videos.
And not to mention, as a teenage female audience and viewer, he is considerably quite cute in our book of boys (: And he talks really fast. Like, really fast. Which made him all the more cuter/hilarious!
I think he is better than the Peter Chow bullshit that people are watching nowadays. Hey, just spilling out my opinions. At least Charlie is doing/talking about something good/useful/entertaining (he does charity!) and doesn't talk like a retard. If you think what Peter Chow does is entertaining, then you have a weird sense of what entertainment should be. And that is my opinion of you.
Do watch Charlie's videos. It'll be fun. I promise, nobody's paying me to promote his videos. I genuinely adore him.
That is all for now. I shall have to visit the gym and prolly practice summore when i get home. BTW, i drove a car yesterday. Bloody scary, but super fun! Yeah, it's just a small car, a mini minor only in fact, but it's so darn cool already. Not to brag, but it's quite simple as well. Driving. Hopefully it helps when i'm getting my license next year.
xoxo, Jo
