停留在6/17 父亲节很久了 呵呵， 父亲生日快到了呢， 想想已经两个多月了， 这中间当然发生了不少事， 我人在boston 和纽约，很多时候都有冲动要写东西， 往往太累 跑去睡了， 其实是有动笔写了一些，只是都没写完， 以后会慢慢补上
对了回来后有一件 事 很重要需要宣布一下
有人说我胖了！ 我以为我只是黑了
事情是这样的：
我见到这个人就说你看我是不是黑了， 他说。。恩， 他忽然间想说又说不出来的样字， 你是不是。。x 了，我听不到那个字。。。看他嘴型好象是说。。’pang‘ 了！ 哗 晴天霹雳。。。他可能也惊讶所以没把字说出来。。。我乐得很
“可是你不是说那里食物很糟吗？” 他一脸不解
“可能糟所以胖了吧， 再加上生活有规律定时吃。。而且我吃很多的， 因为一直在饿
”可能只是因为你黑了所以看起来胖了。。
“不是越黑越瘦吗。。
”可能黑看起来。。。健康。。。
哈哈让我胖一下不行哦
然后妈打来， 他照惯例一定问我有没有胖， 我说有人说我胖了， 他说哦真的吗真的吗。。。那多重了！ 我很懒 得站起来， 可是他坚持那我就去站在体重机一下， 没有我想像中的多。。。结果还是据实报上去。。
“什么？ 这是瘦了才对吧
”你以前不是 xxx 的吗？“
”你记错了吧。。。而且是三年前了。。。何况那个磅秤一直都怪怪的。。。
真是空喜一场
8.14.2007
7.20.2007
night off
cant believe this is the next time i write again after writing about my departure more than one month ago
there were many days that i really felt like writing becuz of things that happened, but i was too tired
maybe i will talk about them later/ fill up the missing days some time later
i have jazz combo concert today, basically my second jazz concert after the first official one in OKC...as expected i was very nervous about it
ppl were so nice and supportive though, that they cheered even before i completed my solo when i did a pattern
right after that we had piano ensemble concert, we did an 8 hand piece ...an arrangement of the prelude in c# minor by rachmaninoff
we played in the big theater, it went well! ppl liked it !
Dr. miyamoto suggested that we met today to go over the student's composition that i will be playing the next day. i learnt so much, not in term of the piece, but how to approach a fresch new piece and get comfortable with it quickly....musicians are smart i think....i mean....musicians like him
it is my night off...
there were many days that i really felt like writing becuz of things that happened, but i was too tired
maybe i will talk about them later/ fill up the missing days some time later
i have jazz combo concert today, basically my second jazz concert after the first official one in OKC...as expected i was very nervous about it
ppl were so nice and supportive though, that they cheered even before i completed my solo when i did a pattern
right after that we had piano ensemble concert, we did an 8 hand piece ...an arrangement of the prelude in c# minor by rachmaninoff
we played in the big theater, it went well! ppl liked it !
Dr. miyamoto suggested that we met today to go over the student's composition that i will be playing the next day. i learnt so much, not in term of the piece, but how to approach a fresch new piece and get comfortable with it quickly....musicians are smart i think....i mean....musicians like him
it is my night off...
6.17.2007
finally
after all the nightmares, finally i was in the airport, thanks to all the people who helped me/offered to help me before i left for this trip, esp cl. i was really really tired....but still i didnt have time to be tired, the night before, i couldnt sleep becuz i was too tired and anxious, my heartbeat was bitting so fast that i felt like i could just collapse like that anytime
so glad and relieved that i can now sit on my bed, and use my new computer, and write about today
in the airport,my knee started to hurt, cuz of the heavy load
i felt that my whole body was just ...like tofu, while my big left toe was wrapped like a big marshmallow bcuz the nail broke into half and was bleeding inside... except that i was continuing walking...at times i didnt even care to have my glasses, i just had to find the gate number..which was big enough that i could see..i know i need a long long total rest..i stopped in chicago, after finding the gate, it was still early, there were chairs without handle in between...what else could that mean, exactly what i needed, without any hesitation, i put my skoolbag at one end, laid my head on it, legs at the other end, and SLEPT! as if nothing else in the world is more important than that. i had my alarm clock set so that i wouldnt miss my flight
on the plane, i thought of the long-lost him. I travelled around a lot ever since I came to the states. also becuz of him i got to fly to different skools for auditions and interviews. it seems like the only person who have sat with me on a plane was him other than my mom & strangers. I miss him while i was flying. Also becuz boston is where i am going. it is a dramatic place for me. tears and laughter.
it is complicated inside. I m leaving okc for more than two months........but i am too tired to even anticipate what will happen next...
so glad and relieved that i can now sit on my bed, and use my new computer, and write about today
in the airport,my knee started to hurt, cuz of the heavy load
i felt that my whole body was just ...like tofu, while my big left toe was wrapped like a big marshmallow bcuz the nail broke into half and was bleeding inside... except that i was continuing walking...at times i didnt even care to have my glasses, i just had to find the gate number..which was big enough that i could see..i know i need a long long total rest..i stopped in chicago, after finding the gate, it was still early, there were chairs without handle in between...what else could that mean, exactly what i needed, without any hesitation, i put my skoolbag at one end, laid my head on it, legs at the other end, and SLEPT! as if nothing else in the world is more important than that. i had my alarm clock set so that i wouldnt miss my flight
on the plane, i thought of the long-lost him. I travelled around a lot ever since I came to the states. also becuz of him i got to fly to different skools for auditions and interviews. it seems like the only person who have sat with me on a plane was him other than my mom & strangers. I miss him while i was flying. Also becuz boston is where i am going. it is a dramatic place for me. tears and laughter.
it is complicated inside. I m leaving okc for more than two months........but i am too tired to even anticipate what will happen next...
6.07.2007
run-thru
today i had my run-through for the competition, i was very nervous about it, never really played through this whole program straight through, and first time playing in public, surprisingly, the crowd was big this time...didnt really tell a lot of people only to ppl who asked about the competition or people who thought of going to the competition (but it was too far so I dont think they should), but everyone whom I talked to came...so surprised! well except timothy as he had a last minute plan.... and everyone came early!!! I was so impressed..thank you all for the support !!
Comments/review:
a little bit tense in hands overall esp LH, affect LH accompaniment in Mozart
Comments/review:
a little bit tense in hands overall esp LH, affect LH accompaniment in Mozart
6.05.2007
randomness
went to cafeteria for dinner
met this girl, whom i saw in the afternoon at lunch but we didnt talk
this time i happened to sit next to her, she introduced herself, she is stacey
a guy sitting opposite to her,... i think his name is ..justin, not sure
stacey is probably one of the most interesting ppl i ever met in my life, she is a bassist..."where are you from" is probably the most difficult question for her because she is from everywhere, born somewhere, grew up in many different places, been to over 40 countries...her favourite is africa though
"what made you choose the bass?"
in england, everyone signed up for an instrument, i signed up for flute, later someone called and told me that 20 ppl signed up the class is full and they put me in double bass, i have no idea what that is...when i went and saw that instru..i cried and told my mom..mom, i dont wanna learn that thing........but later somehow i just felt in love with it (love is just sometthing so interesting isnt it), and now i hate the flute (so is hatred)
the guy ...omg, he studies in hawaii-manoa, a school that i almost went, the school gave me a really really good offer, i wanted to study with this pianist who does very interesting chinese music with piano and he is into contemporary music which is what i really like...忽然一丝 的遗憾，i kept asking him about how the school is like, the environment....and of course about that pianist whom I almost study with, he helped me so much hoping that i would go..
stacey she is now studying in northwestern even though she got the chance to study in curtis (but she still goes to curtis every summer to study with her favourite bass teacher there), what a great music school, she said her teacher is this very young famous guy from china (25 years old)...so she is in chicago...reminded me about this school in illinois that I almost went, they gave me a really really good offer too, the piano professor whom I wanted to study with helped me so much as well.....
so these two people were here today to remind me about the two schools that I almost went instead of here OKC?
i came back at about 10:30, suddenly i decided to go for a swim, i told myself that i'll have to feel the water before i leave oklahoma city this summer, because i just saw them changing the water few days ago, and by the time i come back..the weather may be bad again, so i have to do that before i leave..择日不如撞日， after finding out that they close at 11pm, i basically ran there after putting on my swimming costume...havent swum for so long..it felt good......then i went into the jacuzzi...my first time here in cokesbury after almost a year can u imagine that!!!! well they just got it fixed not long ago actually.thank you...it felt good...i wish some people were here with me when i was in the jacuzzi hot tub..it should be fun to chat while in there ..i met 3 other ppl, one guy from tulsa..and two other girls...he thought i was a dance major...interesting...he wasnt the first who thought i was a dance major....well i wish
met this girl, whom i saw in the afternoon at lunch but we didnt talk
this time i happened to sit next to her, she introduced herself, she is stacey
a guy sitting opposite to her,... i think his name is ..justin, not sure
stacey is probably one of the most interesting ppl i ever met in my life, she is a bassist..."where are you from" is probably the most difficult question for her because she is from everywhere, born somewhere, grew up in many different places, been to over 40 countries...her favourite is africa though
"what made you choose the bass?"
in england, everyone signed up for an instrument, i signed up for flute, later someone called and told me that 20 ppl signed up the class is full and they put me in double bass, i have no idea what that is...when i went and saw that instru..i cried and told my mom..mom, i dont wanna learn that thing........but later somehow i just felt in love with it (love is just sometthing so interesting isnt it), and now i hate the flute (so is hatred)
the guy ...omg, he studies in hawaii-manoa, a school that i almost went, the school gave me a really really good offer, i wanted to study with this pianist who does very interesting chinese music with piano and he is into contemporary music which is what i really like...忽然一丝 的遗憾，i kept asking him about how the school is like, the environment....and of course about that pianist whom I almost study with, he helped me so much hoping that i would go..
stacey she is now studying in northwestern even though she got the chance to study in curtis (but she still goes to curtis every summer to study with her favourite bass teacher there), what a great music school, she said her teacher is this very young famous guy from china (25 years old)...so she is in chicago...reminded me about this school in illinois that I almost went, they gave me a really really good offer too, the piano professor whom I wanted to study with helped me so much as well.....
so these two people were here today to remind me about the two schools that I almost went instead of here OKC?
i came back at about 10:30, suddenly i decided to go for a swim, i told myself that i'll have to feel the water before i leave oklahoma city this summer, because i just saw them changing the water few days ago, and by the time i come back..the weather may be bad again, so i have to do that before i leave..择日不如撞日， after finding out that they close at 11pm, i basically ran there after putting on my swimming costume...havent swum for so long..it felt good......then i went into the jacuzzi...my first time here in cokesbury after almost a year can u imagine that!!!! well they just got it fixed not long ago actually.thank you...it felt good...i wish some people were here with me when i was in the jacuzzi hot tub..it should be fun to chat while in there ..i met 3 other ppl, one guy from tulsa..and two other girls...he thought i was a dance major...interesting...he wasnt the first who thought i was a dance major....well i wish
6.04.2007
bass
nothing much today
I had my piano lesson today, after that i felt that i couldnt really sit down and practise
highlight is probably the meeting with timothy kok, we had quite a long talk and we touched on things that we never did before, surprisingly. He is leaving OCU, another person is leaving! it is kinda sad, reminded me of the professor who is leaving OKCU and not coming back next semester, I was very sad about that, although i know i should be very happy for him...that kind of 矛盾 always happens in life isnt it...same thing happened to him, he got a better offer...congratulations! we said we will meet again before he/we leave(s)...I am leaving at about the same time for boston and NY...funny that we couldnt stop 'blaming' how busy each other was
and then i returned joseph's call. i got his msg saying that he was back from india. He asked if i had time this evening, it would be the last day of jam session in rococo for this month...i was however more interested in the bass convention thing...basically all the great and famous bass players from all around the world will be gathering here at OCU just because it so happen that this year ISB is held here right at OCU...i met so many people from diff countries these days in the school, esp down there in the practice rooms area...it is really a big thing, wish more ppl knew about it, there are concerts whole day everyday this week from morning to night in different places:
http://www.okcu.edu/news/news_details.asp?article_id=13936
http://www.okcu.edu/news/news_details.asp?article_id=13934
and because of this convention, rococo will have jam session everyday starting from today...i decided to go check out a little bit....too bad the bass people came late, and i decided to leave before knowing if they were gonna go out and play or not...
I had my piano lesson today, after that i felt that i couldnt really sit down and practise
highlight is probably the meeting with timothy kok, we had quite a long talk and we touched on things that we never did before, surprisingly. He is leaving OCU, another person is leaving! it is kinda sad, reminded me of the professor who is leaving OKCU and not coming back next semester, I was very sad about that, although i know i should be very happy for him...that kind of 矛盾 always happens in life isnt it...same thing happened to him, he got a better offer...congratulations! we said we will meet again before he/we leave(s)...I am leaving at about the same time for boston and NY...funny that we couldnt stop 'blaming' how busy each other was
and then i returned joseph's call. i got his msg saying that he was back from india. He asked if i had time this evening, it would be the last day of jam session in rococo for this month...i was however more interested in the bass convention thing...basically all the great and famous bass players from all around the world will be gathering here at OCU just because it so happen that this year ISB is held here right at OCU...i met so many people from diff countries these days in the school, esp down there in the practice rooms area...it is really a big thing, wish more ppl knew about it, there are concerts whole day everyday this week from morning to night in different places:
http://www.okcu.edu/news/news_details.asp?article_id=13936
http://www.okcu.edu/news/news_details.asp?article_id=13934
and because of this convention, rococo will have jam session everyday starting from today...i decided to go check out a little bit....too bad the bass people came late, and i decided to leave before knowing if they were gonna go out and play or not...
6.03.2007
3M - Meditation, Mozart, Magic
today i woke up early, at 7:58am. My yoga teacher was very kind that she offered to pick me up to her house from my apartment to her house for group meditation. I had three meditation sittings about two weekends ago, when all these great masters came over from dallas, and so she thought I should start going to group meditation to not waste the sittings.
Ok so we started off with some cleaning before we started the actual meditation.
There was this Indian doctor sitting opposite to me..
so people all left, except me, this other lady, my teacher and this indian doctor, my teacher said she wants to show us a film next sunday, then this indian doctor said he would like to talk about some things next sunday, to share his feelings and experiences with meditation, he thinks some people still dont get it, suddenly he pointed at me, and said like you and the lady next to you, i feel something is going on....i am not talking about her, and her.. ( he was pointing at the seats where two other people sat), but her and this person next to her ( he was pointing at me and the seat beside me)..something is blocking u, u have no idea, there were many questions....i was a little bit surprised, I was just writing on the notepad (everyone got to write on our little note book after each group meditation)...I wrote: this is my first group meditation, dont know why so many things that i didnt expect at all just entered my mind... (Was that a subconscious thing)...obviously i was being very honest with myself when i wrote that instead of saying how i did achieve the state and felt the 'nothing'...now that this doctor was saying that...i have nothing to say of course. My teacher said...yes it is hard isnt it, yes I think "it is hard to be simple,"...I have always wanted a simpler life...
Now that I am playing Mozart, it is soo difficult because it is very simple...it should sound simple at least (no matter how difficult it actually is)...the notes are so simple that a tiny little mistake will throw u off
Then I met with my Japanese teacher for lunch. We decided to do hot pot, i learnt a whole bunch of stuff today,
i learnt everything that i saw:
rice, mee, fish, vege, squid, (and I remember water from risa), soup, clam, shrimp....bag, sun, phone, money (okane)
Review:
Please go ahead and eat
how much is this/that
this is (very) yummy/tasty/delicious
this is fun
that was (very) fun
new phrases/ sentences:
I like rice
I like mee...etc...I learn how to connect them when I am liking more than one thing...so I like rice, fish, vege, shrimp, mee, and soup
Do you like fish?
I am still hungry
Are you full
not really/ so so (mama)
drink it
there is still mee inside
no thanks = no thats enough (kekkoudesu)
yes please (um, Onegai shimasu)
I am happy (shiawase) today
A joke:
I asked him why he msg me "yokatta" that day after i answered sth, wasnt that "afternoon"? Oh maybe he wanted to help me to review the word, but how did he know that I learnt 'afternoon' since I dont remember telling him that ..he was like...what? OH....the truth is...afternoon should be yuugata...uhuh! haha i mixed them up, but no one really told me what yokatta was before, good that i asked..they were so similar anyway
Something funny:
I passed him a stack of napkins, and he wrote some Japanese words on the napkins so that I can remember them better, I got them back...I flip and flip..weird..where is the one with words (there was one that we wrote on)..he said, "Magic" I thought he was kidding, so I kept flipping them, and then he said: no I am serious it was magic!" I looked at him and said: "U ..know magic?"
"Yeah I learnt it before"
"Oh WOW"
"But..I forgot how to bring it back.."
"WhAT?"
"I am sorry I forgot how to..." and he didnt look like he was joking because he seemed a little bit embarrassed
"u remember how to make something disappear but u forgot how to get it back? interesting..." I have to try hard not to laugh
"Next time I will show you some more magic"....
.."But where is it?" I am still very concerned about missing napkin
We started to look around
Finally, I found it on the floor under his chair !.!>!>
Ok so we started off with some cleaning before we started the actual meditation.
There was this Indian doctor sitting opposite to me..
so people all left, except me, this other lady, my teacher and this indian doctor, my teacher said she wants to show us a film next sunday, then this indian doctor said he would like to talk about some things next sunday, to share his feelings and experiences with meditation, he thinks some people still dont get it, suddenly he pointed at me, and said like you and the lady next to you, i feel something is going on....i am not talking about her, and her.. ( he was pointing at the seats where two other people sat), but her and this person next to her ( he was pointing at me and the seat beside me)..something is blocking u, u have no idea, there were many questions....i was a little bit surprised, I was just writing on the notepad (everyone got to write on our little note book after each group meditation)...I wrote: this is my first group meditation, dont know why so many things that i didnt expect at all just entered my mind... (Was that a subconscious thing)...obviously i was being very honest with myself when i wrote that instead of saying how i did achieve the state and felt the 'nothing'...now that this doctor was saying that...i have nothing to say of course. My teacher said...yes it is hard isnt it, yes I think "it is hard to be simple,"...I have always wanted a simpler life...
Now that I am playing Mozart, it is soo difficult because it is very simple...it should sound simple at least (no matter how difficult it actually is)...the notes are so simple that a tiny little mistake will throw u off
Then I met with my Japanese teacher for lunch. We decided to do hot pot, i learnt a whole bunch of stuff today,
i learnt everything that i saw:
rice, mee, fish, vege, squid, (and I remember water from risa), soup, clam, shrimp....bag, sun, phone, money (okane)
Review:
Please go ahead and eat
how much is this/that
this is (very) yummy/tasty/delicious
this is fun
that was (very) fun
new phrases/ sentences:
I like rice
I like mee...etc...I learn how to connect them when I am liking more than one thing...so I like rice, fish, vege, shrimp, mee, and soup
Do you like fish?
I am still hungry
Are you full
not really/ so so (mama)
drink it
there is still mee inside
no thanks = no thats enough (kekkoudesu)
yes please (um, Onegai shimasu)
I am happy (shiawase) today
A joke:
I asked him why he msg me "yokatta" that day after i answered sth, wasnt that "afternoon"? Oh maybe he wanted to help me to review the word, but how did he know that I learnt 'afternoon' since I dont remember telling him that ..he was like...what? OH....the truth is...afternoon should be yuugata...uhuh! haha i mixed them up, but no one really told me what yokatta was before, good that i asked..they were so similar anyway
Something funny:
I passed him a stack of napkins, and he wrote some Japanese words on the napkins so that I can remember them better, I got them back...I flip and flip..weird..where is the one with words (there was one that we wrote on)..he said, "Magic" I thought he was kidding, so I kept flipping them, and then he said: no I am serious it was magic!" I looked at him and said: "U ..know magic?"
"Yeah I learnt it before"
"Oh WOW"
"But..I forgot how to bring it back.."
"WhAT?"
"I am sorry I forgot how to..." and he didnt look like he was joking because he seemed a little bit embarrassed
"u remember how to make something disappear but u forgot how to get it back? interesting..." I have to try hard not to laugh
"Next time I will show you some more magic"....
.."But where is it?" I am still very concerned about missing napkin
We started to look around
Finally, I found it on the floor under his chair !.!>!>
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