Thursday, September 30, 2004

i hate quarrels.
i hate hot tempers.
must be something that runs in the family. argh stupid moving house, stupid agents.
my definition of agents: Arrogant, Geeks, Emotional, Noctournal, Tactless, Stupid.
argh.

argh just found out that CHS speech day is on the 13th oct. ok knew for a long time but still. i want to go back to perform. but mylast paper is on 14th... yar its only harmony but... sheez. maybe go back and play gershwin preludes...

ok my prac's tmr. shld practise.

on second thought, no.

leave it.

too much practice will kill me.

besides,

im hungry.

haha.

Chee

Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Thank you.

to those i owe one,
thank you.

to those who mattered to me today,
thank you.

to those who treated me nice today,
thank you.

to those who had over time been giving me so much,
thank you.

to those who sticked by in times of need,
thank you.

to those who tolerated my madness,
thank you. (and perhaps sorry too.)

to those who kept me awake,
thank you.

to those who talked to me when others would shun me,
thank you.

to those who encouraged me,
thank you.

to those who helped me overcome anything and everything,
thank you.

to those who helped me feel important,
thank you.

to those who noticed me,
thank you.

to those who made my day,
thank you.

to those who thanked me,
thank you.

and you're welcome.

-Chee Hang

postnote: how much a simple thank you can mean. don't you think that its such an amazing word? gosh so much happened today. i guess i don't have time to say everything here so i'll skip it.
and thank you. for reading.
to those who would eventually tag on my board, thank you.

-Chee Hang.

Monday, September 27, 2004

Let's see. if i typed Chee instead of chee hang here's wad i got:

C - Colorful
H - Hardworking
E - Explosive
E - Entertaining

haha colourful? im a pretty black and white person. oh ok except for my luto score hhaha =o)
hardworking? i'd like to think i am, then i think im hardworking on the wrong things =p
explosive? ok i used to be. now? u tell me.
entertaining. i guess being childish is one way of being entertaining. at least i make people laugh/exasperated too... haha


hmm... 4 days to promos. prac. argh im going to die. sheez. gosh what happened to all my fingerwork? its nothing good. nothing comparable to others. grhs. (hey if u think u do not belong to the 'others' group then don't say anyhting. haha.)
how to practise? teach me teach me!!!

ok shall not waste time. mus go and practise erhu later. haha. not piano =p my d major scale seriously cannot make it. argh.

okok. stop complaining.

cheers.

who am i to you?
-Chee

Sunday, September 26, 2004

C - Complicated
H - Helpful
E - Exciting
E - Easy
H - Handsome
A - Awkward
N - Nice
G - Gloomy

is this realli true? hmm...
ok lets see. i agree on the helpful. (sometimes i realli think im too helpful haha)
and im nice. or at least i hope i am. haha.
am i exciting?
hm me gloomy? ok at times...
me awkward? haha.
me handsome? o_O. no comments. u tell me.
but i think im a simple guy and not so complicated. haha. look at how i protested with using powerpoint the last time for chinese opera!!! hahaha...
wad does easy mean? hmm... easy going? easy to convince? easy to cheat !?!?!? haha

haha enuff of that. something interesting that's all.

oh yes. want to tease someone here:

U ARE IRRITATING!!!

ok kidding. haha. was talking about it just now. hehheh. don't worry im just pulling ur leg. u're not irritating lar. and that's the truth. ur being talkative and an I personality has its good points. it keeps others light hearted and keeps the atmosphere relaxed, and keeps people awake! (unless its like u r on the bus and keep missing ur stop. heh.)

convinced? =p

Who am I to you?
-Chee

Saturday, September 25, 2004

Who am i to you?

for those who are wondering...
im asking cus i want to know.
i don't think i know who i am. that's for one.
for two, i dont know who i am to you, and to him, to her, to everyone else. how differently does everyone see me? how differently does everyone think of me? and how differently will they treat me then?

hmm...
oh wells.
-6 days to my promos prac.
-my compo is getting impossible to play.
-i need more sleep in order to avoid falling in love wif the doors (esp 3-9) again. ie kissing them or falling head over heels wif them. IE BANG INTO THEM. gosh. i have opened the door onto my own head for how many times liaoz.
-luto is very challenging.
-allegro barbaro is getting harder.
-beethoven is getting messier.
-im getting weak. physically. health-wise.
-havent started on physics yet.
-getting slower on maths.
-losing sight of many goals.
-losing my common sense.
-getting ignored.

on the good side.
-my prac will be over sooner.
-my compo is on the 4th draft.
-the doors are quite clean. and green. they smell nice. haha
-luto is fun. starting to see things differently.
-allegro barbaro is getting what it is: barbaric
-beethoven interpretation has changed (for the better or worse?)
-i ran in the sun that day. *pant* but a good workout.
-my goal for physics is only a C.
-maths is still easy.
-no goals mean more relaxed.
-no common sense means no need to think so much. see everything as straight forward as it is (i think im confusing things here.)
-being alone is fine for me.

haha.

things are so confusing nowadays. oh sheez. im getting very conflicting thoughts. my mind is in a mess. sometimes i don know how to react to things. to people. to everything in fact. and this is so mad...

oh i should grow up.
i should listen more n talk less too. well im an SC personality. was an I but no longer. mus keep to that i guess.
yet at the same time cant be too compromising.
argh.
im taking on a lot of things? hmm
cant believe i left home today forgetting that i was going to school after piano lesson, and had to go home and change after walking out for a few blocks.
erm maybe i should use my old bag.
i need $263. haha i bolded this. hint.
seems so long into this year already, yet felt as though so little time have past. have gotten to know a lot of people better, but at the same time sometimes it feels we are strangers. hmm.
some people i hate, but i cant shake them loose. gosh. and im such a nice person i don't even tell them in the face. gosh.
no its not u. trust me.
this is getting boring.
oh im good am i not? haha. that's egoistic, but still, thanks for the praises.
should stop wasting time. hmm.
should concentrate on wad's important.
oh wells im going around in circles. babbling on and on.

oh wait. i got a new watch. and new shoes. something to cheer about i guess. u guys will see the watch but not the shoe. not wearing it so soon.

oh need a buyer for my house too. hmm.

who am i to you?

soul searching...
-Chee

Friday, September 24, 2004

who am i to you?

to someone, im a teacher. to someone, im a student. im also a friend, companion, accomplice *gasp*, compatriat, accompanist, etc.

who am i to you?

if u read this, please tag.

-Chee

Wednesday, September 22, 2004

hmm. lets steer away from serious topics for some time. cus i came across this for the 2nd time and thought might as well put it here for everyone to laugh and comment at. here goes:

The Young Person's Guide to the Chorus

In any chorus, there are four voice parts: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. Sometimes these are divided into first and second within each part, prompting endless jokes about first and second basses. There are also various other parts such as baritone, countertenor, contralto, mezzo soprano, etc., but these are mostly used by people who are either soloists, or belong to some excessively hotshot classical a cappella group (this applies especially to countertenors), or are trying to make excuses for not really fitting into any of the regular voice parts, so we will ignore them for now. Each voice part sings in a different range, and each one has a very different personality. You may ask, "Why should singing different notes ake people act differently?", and indeed this is a mysterious question and has not been adequately studied, especially since scientists who study musicians tend to be musicians themselves and have all the peculiar complxes that go with being tenors, french horn players, timpanists, or whatever. However,this is beside the point; the fact remains that the four voice parts can be easily distinguished, and I will now explain how...

THE SOPRANOS are the ones who sing the highest, and because of this they think they rule the world. They have longer hair, fancier jewellery, and swishier skirts than anyone else, and they consider themselves insulted if they are not allowed to go at least to a high F in every movement of any given piece. When they reach the high notes, they hold them for at least half again as long as the composer and/or conductor requires, and then complain that their throats are killing them and that the composer and conductor are sadists. Sopranos have varied attitudes toward the other sections of the chorus, though they consider all of them inferior. Altos are to sopranos rather like second violins to first violins - nice to harmonise with, but not really necessary. All sopranos have a secret feeling that the altos could drop out and the piece would sound essentially the same, and they don't understand why anybody would sing in that range in the first place - it's so boring. Tenors, on the other hand, can be very nice to have around; besides their flirtation possibilities (it is a well-known fact that sopranos never flirt with basses), sopranos like to sing duets with tenors because all the tenors are doing is working very hard to sing in a low-to-medium soprano range, while the sopranos are up there in the stratosphere showing off. To sopranos, basses are the scum of the earth - they sing too damn loud, are useless to tune because they're down in that low, low range - and there has to be something wrong with anyone who sings in the F clef, anyway.

THE ALTOS are the salt of the earth - in their opinion, at least. Altos are unassuming people, who would wear jeans to concerts if they were allowed to.Altos are in a unique position in the chorus in that they are unable to complain about having to sing either very high or very low, and they know that all the other sections think their parts are pitifully easy. But the altos know otherwise. They know that while the sopranos are screeching way on a high A, they are being forced to sing elaborate passages full of sharps and flats and tricks of rhythm, and nobody is noticing because the sopranos are singing too loud (and the basses usually are too). Altos get a deep,secret pleasure out of conspiring together to tune the sopranos flat. Altos have an innate distrust of tenors, because the tenors sing in almost the same range and think they sound better. They like the basses, and enjoy singing duets with them - the basses just sound like a rumble anyway, and it's the only time the altos can really be heard. Altos' other complaint is that there are always too many of them and so they never get to sing really loud.

THE TENORS are spoiled. That's all there is to it. For one thing, there are never enough of them, and choir directors would rather sell their souls than let a halfway decent tenor quit, while they're always ready to unload a few altos at half price. And then, for some reason, the few tenors are always really good - it's one of those annoying facts of life. So it's no wonder that tenors always get swollen heads - after all, who else can make sopranos swoon? The one thing that can make tenors insecure is the accusation (usually by the basses) that anyone singing that high couldn't possibly be a real man.. In their usual perverse fashion, the tenors never acknowledge this, but just complain louder about the composer being a sadist and making them sing so damn high. Tenors have a love-hate relationship with the conductor, too, because the conductor is always telling them to sing louder because there are so few of them. No conductor in recorded history has ever asked for less tenor in a forte passage. Tenors feel threatened in some way by all the other sections - the sopranos because they can hit those incredibly high notes; the altos because they have no trouble singing the notes the tenors kill themselves for; and the basses because, although they can't sing anything above an E, they sing it loud enough to drown the tenors out. Of course, the tenors would rather die than admit any of this. It is a little-known fact that tenors move their eyebrows more than anyone else while singing.

THE BASSES sing the lowest of anybody. This basically explains everything. They are stolid, dependable people, and have more facial hair than anybody else. The basses feel perpetually unappreciated, but they have a deep conviction that they are actually the most important part (a view endorsed by musicologists, but certainly not by sopranos or tenors), despite the fact that they have the most boring part of anybody and often sing the same note(or in endless fifths) for an entire page. They compensate for this by singing as loudly as they can get away with - most basses are tuba players at heart. Basses are the only section that can regularly complain about how low their part is, and they make horrible faces when trying to hit very low notes. Basses are charitable people, but their charity does not extend so far as tenors, whom they consider effete poseurs. Basses hate tuning the tenors more than almost anything else. Basses like altos - except when they have duets and the altos get the good part. As for the sopranos, they are simply in an alternate universe which the basses don't understand at all. They can't imagine why anybody would ever want to sing that high and sound that bad when they make mistakes. When a bass makes a mistake, the other three parts will cover him, and he can continue on his merry way, knowing that sometime, somehow, he will end.

Top Ten Reasons for Being a Soprano
1. The rest of the choir exists just to make you look good.
2. You can entertain your friends by breaking their wineglasses.
3. Can you name an opera where an alto got the man?
4. When sopranos want to sing in the shower, they know the tune.
5. It's not like you are ever going to sing the alto part by accident.
6. Great costumes - like the hat with the horns on it.
7. How many world famous altos can you name?
8. When the fat lady sings, she's usually singing soprano.
9. When you get tired of singing the tune, you can sing the descant.
10. You can sing along with Michael Jackson.

Top Ten Reasons for Being an Alto
1. You get really good at singing E flat. 2. You get to sing the same note for 12 consecutive measures.
3. You don't really need to warm up to sing 12 consecutive bars of E-flat.
4. If the choir really stinks, it's unlikely the altos will be blamed.
5. You have lots of time to chat during soprano solos.
6. You get to pretend that you are better than the sopranos, because everybody knows that women only sing soprano so they don't have to learn to read music.
7. You can sometimes find part time work singing tenor.
8. Altos get all the great intervals.
9. When the sopranos are holding some outrageously high note at the end of a song, the altos always get the last words.
10. When the altos miss a note, nobody gets hurt.

Top Ten Reasons for Being a Tenor
1. Tenors get high - without drugs.
2. Name a musical where the bass got the girl.
3. You can show the sopranos how it SHOULD be sung.
4. Did you ever hear of anyone paying $1000 for a ticket to see 'The three Basses?'
5. Who needs brains when you've got resonance?
6. Tenors never have to waste time looking through the self-improvement section of the bookstore.
7. You get to sing along with John Denver singing "Aye Calypso."
8. When you get really good at falsetto, you can make tons of money doing voice-overs for cartoon characters.
9. Gregorian chant was practically invented for tenors. Nobody invented a genre for basses.
10. You can entertain your friends by impersonating Julia Child.

Top Ten Reasons for Being a Bass
1. You don't have to tighten your shorts to reach your note.
2. You don't have to worry about a woman stealing your job.
3. Or a preadolescent boy stealing your job.
4. Action heroes are always basses. That is - if they ever sang, they would sing bass.
5. You get great memorable lyrics like bop, bop, bop, bop.
6.If the singing job doesn't work out, there's always broadcasting.
7. You never need to learn to read the treble clef.
8. If you get a cold, so what.
9. For fun, you can sing at the bottom of your range and fool people into thinking there's an earthquake.
10. If you belch while you're singing, the audience just thinks it is part of the score.

haha. go comment. =o)

-Chee

Saturday, September 18, 2004

live each day like the last? that's good in a way u will never miss anything out. or even talk about missed chances. but still. if everyone were to do that. imagine. wad would it be like?

we will have people not thinking about consequences and such. minds will probably be going 'its the last day. i dun have to care about wad happens after the clock strikes 12 and im not arnd anymore.' oh wells. actually who knows wad it will be like?

hm.
i live in the present. that's all i can say about me. after hmm i never think ahead. probably becus i know that my future is bleak (yar. some of you probably know wad kind of condition im in...) to me, the future is gone, and for a long time i have never thought of regretting it [until recently. but ive decided to let that pass too. more about that some other time.] and i have never looked far into the future. becus i know that the future is one where i'll see everyone enjoying, and i won't be arnd for that. hm. so ucan say i live each day like the last too. in a sense.

but still. how would u live if u lived each day like the last? what would you do everyday? would you even look into the future?
hmm...
deep thinking...

-Chee

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

What would you do if you knew you would die tomorrow? (Part 2)

well...
i have conflicting thoughts about this thing: should i or should i not call all my friends and tell them?
on the one hand, i would die wif everyone knowing.
on the other hand, i would spare everyone the distress... haha.
and then... what should i do after that? should i prepare myself for it? but how?
oh wells. i still stick to the too dazed thing that i said the last post. i would not be able to do anything. its like i would just sit there and stone. hopefully i'll have the company of friends and family wif me, but its alright if there isnt.
hmm... waiting for gw to say something about this question.

um. for those who wonder where my tag board is, scroll down. its still there, wif all the links and such. yar. wondering why there isnt any tags these days... ha

-Chee

Monday, September 13, 2004

argh. stupid opendiary. got hacked into. guess i'll complain about spa another time.

hm.
what would u do if u knew u would die tomorrow?
well this china scholar said: "i would go home to china".
quite true. we all want to be wif our family and close ones especially in this kind of times.
hmm. i'm still forming my own opinion. and here's how it looks like right now:
i would not be able to do anything. will be too dazed. at least for a while. after that...

after that...
haha wait for the next update. heez. havent realli thought about it.

but.
how unpredictable life is. we might be here one day, and gone the next. i have been thru this a couple of times. and how unfortunate.
for those who think im raving mad, trust me im not. for those who think im going to like die tomorrow, im not too. i may not outlive you but i'll try my best to stay wif you peeps. ha. gosh i can still laugh about my health.
treasure ur loved ones. and ur friends. and 'enemies' whom u bicker wif everyday. cus there might be a day when u lose that chance to quarrel with him/her again.

pondering...
-Chee

Sunday, September 12, 2004

hm
came across such a question: what would you do if you knew you would die tomorrow?

hm i havent thought much about it. will check back wif my answers soon. and if u have any answers, do leave a tag.

oh yar. came across something sweet:

Do you know that a simple "HELLO" can be a sweet one?
Especially from your love one. The word HELLO means :
(H)ow are you?
(E)verything all right?
(L)ike to hear from you
(L)ove to see you soon!
(O)bviously, I miss you ..


see how much meaning there is to something so simple that we take for granted?
chew on it. =o)

-Chee

Saturday, September 11, 2004

wo. school officially starts again in 2 days.
can safely say that i'm now officially a failure for not having done anything fruitful for the past 7 days haha. oh wells. i'll manage i guess.

'i'll manage.'
'it's manageable'
'i can do it'

i've been saying all these too many times, too often. which makes me think am i piling extra, unnecessary pressure and stress on myself? hmm. the amount of work i do outside of school is one thing. argh. and it doesnt pay well by the way. however. this doesnt mean that i don't like doing it.

heys. i only do things that i like doing. my belief is that no one can force me to do anything. and once im in something, even though i might change my mind after that, i'll stay committed! i'll still give my 100%, if not more. hmm.

miss the old days. oh have i been saying that?

im hungry. again.

i love the sun. walking around and sweating in it is fun. tho smelly.

i need a break. was rushing a lot of things today. ahem non school things.

i need to study soon. promos coming. i want my maths S lehz.

hav u pple checked out this link? http://members.home.nl/saen/Special/ilike.html

i need to exercise.

oh im losing my sense of tone. i ve been playing my erhu out of tune. which is bad. considering ive been in tune for 4 months and then suddenly i cant go in tune for liang2 xiao1. !!! and i cant play scales. sheez.

i want a new piano!!! ok maybe in ten year's time.

i need more money. haha. just spent the last of my this month's income today. bye bye lunch for the rest of the month.

feeling bored and lonely.

ar the holiday-blues... my own definition: cooped up at home away from schoolmates for too long, beginning to feel lonely and delirious. haha. been screaming arnd like mad at home. mouth chattering non stop. emotions pouring. my poor piano.

oh piano. i love bartok. allegro barbaro!!! wad a piece. my finger still hurts (ya the nail got chipped up cus my last finger landed on the edge of one key, and the nail on the edge of the next. and it was damn hard. so ouch.)

will have to wait a few days before playing the piano again.

dear soloists: sorry may not be able to play for u peeps this coming week.

oh wells. holiday blues. at least holidays ending.

looking forward to school:
-Chee

Friday, September 10, 2004

ha i had a good day today. even though i didnt manage to do any work. but still. maybe i should have taken a rest earlier. it feels good to tune down. =o)
tomorrow? i'll rush again i guess.
well i'll be able to survive till end of this year. i hope.

urgh.

haha
-Chee

Thursday, September 09, 2004

here's a link u pple might want to take a look at. i'll put it in the sidebar once i manage to figure out wad's wrong wif the html code. hm.
enjoy
http://members.home.nl/saen/Special/ilike.html
dedicated to all my frens. =o) switch on your sound! =o)

hm. just found out i posted this yesterday too. oh blur me. not going to remove it.

anyway im looking for a violinist or any other soloist who can play a grade 7 or 8 trinity repertoire (more specifically one piece from grp A and one from grp B) for my accompaniment exam next year. ya the pieces can be found on trinity webiste www.trinitycollege.co.uk
i'll let u choose the pieces. as long as it falls within the requirement stated above in brackets.
oh do contact me if u want to play for me. =o)

i can accompany u for ur trinity exam if u want too!

-Chee

Wednesday, September 08, 2004

http://members.home.nl/saen/Special/ilike.html

i'll put this link in *links* too... once i figure out how to. ha. take a look!

Tuesday, September 07, 2004

=(
argh nothing's working for me today.
first i get locked out of open diary.
then my com hangs when i open sibelius. this time its a 4-hour wait. gosh. record setting.
then my erhu decides to loosen itself twice in the middle of a piece.
then my bow decides to bounce on the string.
then my high notes sound screechy.
then when i open internet one thousand million different pop-ups appear.
then my com hangs again.

on top of that i've got a dull day.

ok maybe that's a blessing in disguise. alright i take back the last line. i should count myself lucky that im at home today when a lot of pple i know in many schools are like rushing back for 'fun' -- remedials.
argh but being at home means breathing in the fogging that they do to get ride of the stupid aedes mosquito around the area. bleahx X_X

i still havent found a 4th piece for my promos.

i still havent looked at a new exam repertoire... hints to the person who's holding on to my exam book haha.

i havent found a soloist. or rather 2 soloists. for my accompaniment exam. either i find one soon or next year i'll be freer wif only 1 exam for piano. any volunteers? according to protocols u'll be paid haha. wow how wierd. accompanist paying soloist. then accompanist is judged in the exam. hmm. but i'll still need a good soloist.

oh wells.
that's the least of my problems.
i hate all this.
im complaining about things that don't realli matter much!
gosh what have i become.
and my com's giving up on me again.
better go.

-Chee

Monday, September 06, 2004

its the first day of hols.
what holiday? teachers have been going on and on about how important this holiday is, studying for promos and such. but actually do they think that anyone will be free these days? what, how many days to promos, how many subj, meaning how many hours per subj. havent i heard this last year? it didnt work!!! oh wells. i'll just cope wif it. study the day b4 or something. basically my aim for my promos are as such:
Maths --> A
F M --> B
MEP --> B (not that i don't want an A but i don't want to be disappointed)
Phy --> C
GP --> B4

that will qualify me for Maths 'S', which is what im aiming for. pple think im mad not to aim for physics S but i know my limits. lim as chee goes to infinity = 0 haha.

these days... heez... i look very happy? hmm... im just acting hyper. its just not me to frown and remain silent in front of everyone else. just look. what happened today. the stock-taking stuff. i was busy jumping everywhere. even i made a joke of my run in the morning.
heez... in front of everyone else, i cant discuss my problems. just cant. dunno why. i always liked to complain. now i complain about trivial stuff like schoolwork. and my work. gosh has life become so dull for me? look how easily i confided in others back in sec school. but now... hmm... no one to confide to. ah i should just give up trying... ya that's right.

oh wells. i'll survive.

-chee

Sunday, September 05, 2004

went to AOH today. army open house. did like 10 pull ups in total. well. had a good workout. but nothing worked in taking my mind off wad's bothering me. damn.

stupid..

i still hate you.

i dunno how i'll react when i meet u.

as normal?

i don't even know why im still affected.

-Chee

Saturday, September 04, 2004

stupid.

why does things have to turn out this way.

maybe its just not meant to be.

damn it.

all i had to do was to live in a bliss.

all i had to do was to ignore the fact.

all i had to do was to pretend everything was going to be alright.

but no.

stupid.

i just had to find out.

and i did.

and i was prepared.

or so i thought.

it didnt go down well wif me.

i hate u.

why.

was it all my fault.

did i start all this.

i hate u.

stupid.

im never going to recover from this.

i hate u.

why do u have to do this to me.

i hate u.

argh.

can i ignore this any further.

i don't think i can.

can i still act to be joyful all the time

i don't think i can

can i still smile at everyone when i see everyone

i don't think i can

i could.

but not anymore.

and its all your fault.

no. wait.

its mine fault still.

damn.

stupid.

i hate u.

=(

Friday, September 03, 2004

U ARE A BIG FAT LIAR!!! If i hadnt found ways to find out, i wouldnt have known. may i say a good job u ****** ******* ******* liar.

do u know how many people's feelings u hurt just because of your lies?

im very disappointed. in u. and everyone else.

Wednesday, September 01, 2004

happy teacher's day!!!


oh gosh. im such a good actor i found out. always happy haha.

acting...
-Chee