The New Stand

The journey to both Sheraton and OUG today was trouble-free with my freakin' useful map book! Ok from now onwards, I shall make sure it's kept nicely and not thrown somewhere nobody notices.

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It was really huge in real. Damn disgusting eek.

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#158

Quite amazed I still can do the french braid for myself! With that length and how easily my hair tangles, I tell you it's NOT easy!

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Bored at work place.

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Bought a new music stand for myself! This time it's a more sturdy one, more expensive too but it's worth it.

Check out my very own conductor sister lol!

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And lastly,

Busy with studies/work the whole day, finally he's back!


The way he sat, so cute! =D

The Commission

I'm supposed to be sleeping now. I gotta be at Sheraton Hotel Subang tomorrow at as early as 8 goddddd. 8 am to me is such a dreadful hour to wake up at. Whatmore, I gotta be there at 8 which means I need to spare at least 2 hours before that for preparing myself, getting there and the ungodly traffic. If it isn't because I'm in dire need of money... oh well. I'll be there to help do some accompaniment for some students' violin exams.

Everyone knows my fate with unfamiliar directions and getting somewhere new -_- Luckily I have my trusty map book. It's a book of the whole of Klang Valley's map. Every single detail. It's such a useful book because it has helped me a lot of times! The last few times I got lost, it was because I didn't have the book with me. I couldnn't be bothered to find where I've kept it, that explains the horrible experiences in getting everywhere. Wk bought that book for me before he left for Melbourne 2 years ago and I must say, it's the best thing he has ever gotten me lol. He must have known how I suck at with directions.

I've checked my way to Sheraton and please oh please let me get there without any trouble at all this time!

By the freaking way, I just discovered that my violin teacher gave me the wrong directions!!! -_- It's so damn wrong because she told me that I'll pass 2 tols when actually, I'm supposed to pass 4! FOUR and that is a lot of difference ok! Because she gave me the directions I followed it blindly and got lost! I've checked the map and the shortest route would be to take Kesas and pass by 4 tols. I won't need to get through so many tols using Federal but I've calculated, it's a longer journey. A lot longer. So I've decided to just stick to Kesas and see if my map will prove its functionality tomorrow.

On another note, I just got my salary today and it's quite disappointing cos I got a tad bit lesser than expected. And that's because of that freakin' one week's quarantine I was made to go through when I got back from Melbourne grrr. Because of that, I was only paid 3/4 of the month since their lessons were taken over by another teacher. Boo.

But on a brighter side, my pay actually has increased. I was given some new students and these new students are not beginners aka fees higher aka my commission higher. And besides, after exams the students eventually will be upgraded aka fees higher aka commission higher. So, that's good news.

Bad news is, I'm gonna be so broke this month. Gotta pay violin fees and I've just booked my graduation photo shoot. It's not cheap but it's a once in a lifetime thing so I really want it to be nice. I was thinking if my dad would urm...

The Pointless Entry

'About' page updated! But it's not complete yet. Will continue some other time. Today was a really boring day. Woke up at 12, onlined, had lunch, randomly visiting in the internet, then work and then came home and went online and here I am now. Tomorrow's gonna be another boring day. Hopefully I'll have the determination to go jogging. Haven't jogged since... forever. Gotta maintain that figure in that damn weighing scale or as Esther would call it, the 'fear factor scale' lol! Oh wait, I shall not maintain it but I must make it go 3 more lines to the left! Must must must! Ok bedtime.

The Hidden Charges

So I was contemplating whether to practice my violin or to work on the "About" page in my previous post. I did neither. Went out with Esther to the place we worship. Intended to make use of the 'free head charge' voucher but it's useless at that hour we were there so we decided to go for the student price which is only RM 9++. Instantly reminded me of Redbox. Stupid stupid Redbox. Do not ever trust the prices they display. The other time, we wanted the student price and it was written RM 8++. The girl later told us there's also a compulsary tidbit charge which is RM 9!!! Stupid RM 9 for a small bowl of lousy junk. Paying so much, don't even dream of getting Doritos or Lay's chips! The RM 9 tidbits are not even Twiesties or cheapo a bit, Super Ring. They're even cheaper than the type you get from pasar malam ok! And besides, it's not one bowl of tidbit PER room! It's a bowl per 2 people or something like that! I don't really know how it works but the other time when I was there with Esther and Wai Tuck, they gave us 2 freakin' bowls so meaning 2 x RM9!!! Stupid mofo money-sucking place. So anyway, at Greenbox, when they say RM 9++, they really mean it. And my voucher's still left unused yet...

The Timetable

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Cheating pic. Bought this in Melbourne.

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This is not my sister. Wtf.

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Notice how my name's not even written completely?

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Someb♥dy's design. =)

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A week more!

I officially ♥♥♥ Thursdays because it's the only day which I have absolutely nothing to attend to at all. Mondays I have violin class, Tuesday for this week I had work but after this, I'll ♥♥♥ Tuesdays too lol. Wednesday nights I have work, Fridays till Sundays' full day of work, work and work ughh.

My dad's been complaining that I've been bumming too much and having too much of free time and that I should at least find myself another part time job. What he doesn't understand is I purposely did not want to have too many days occupied with work so that I can use the time to practice. Otherwise, all I need to do is just request and I'll have a whole list of new students all waiting for me. Not bragging but violin teachers are really hard to find nowadays. Violinists are either really good that they venture more towards the performance line rather than education, or they're not good at all. Mediocre violin student like me can't choose to do much but just teach and improve myself. Well, it's not that I totally hate teaching anyway. I kinda enjoy it but I know very well teaching's not what I really really want to do.

Alright, time for lunch. What's next? Hrm. Should I practice or work on the 'About' page...

The Square Hat

Finally! It took so much of my time just to get this layout all set as the way I wanted! The banner will not be permanent. The rest will pretty much stay unless one day I decide to experiment with the ever confusing codes again. I've been concentrating too much on this damn thing! I think now I kinda know how my short sight mysteriously worsened... I can no longer walk out without my specs or my contact lens anymore boohoo.

Anyway, I attended my first violin lesson today. And got lost while driving to my teacher's house -_- I think I can hear snickerings already.

It's not my fault that I'm hopeless with directions! I followed what she told me and probably there's some sorta miscommunication or something, the road didn't turn out to be as described and yeah. I was lost. In the middle of somewhere I didn't even know the name. I'm so good at it. In the end I managed to find the way there by asking a few people who were kind enough to show me the directions.

Took my graduation robe without any waiting or queueing at all, unexpectedly! I've heard from people saying usually students start queueing since early morning (like 6am) to avoid getting the leftover sizes (L, XL, XXL, XXXL, XXXXL wtf seriously, I saw this). A bunch of us couldn't be bothered. Some went at 10am, some 12. Me and Cat, after lunch. Got everything within 10 minutes. It's because earlier before we finished our final semester we've already filled out a form regarding our robe's sizes so basically everyone was sure to get what they wanted. It wasn't as 'pasar' as what we thought it would be lol.

Ok bedtime.

Fast one!

One quick update before I go to bed.

1. First, the good news is that I've recovered from all the sickness YAY! I was so weak on Monday that I couldn't even get myself up to attend my first violin lesson so in the end I had to tell my teacher I couldn't make it and she managed to spare this early Wednesday morning for me instead, which is tomorrow, which explains why I MUST sleep right after this.

2. Tomorrow I'm supposed to go to uni to get my freaking graduation robe which cost me RM100 mcb. If it's not because of my graduation certificates and transcripts which I can only get AFTER I return the robe, I will surely keep the robe. Yes, that stupid scroll during convocation is only a fake thing, I just found out. Now you know.

3. I'm getting quite bored of this layout already frankly. I'm actually working on another layout now, something I can have more flexibility with, something which allows me to add a touch of 'me', something that has the "older posts", "home", and collapsing archives function. I like this layout a lot, the simplicity and only hints of colours in it, and especially the ever-changing profile picture at every entry but for long term, I don't think this is good. It's difficult to look for older posts. And for some strange reason I can't seem to change the font size of the posts to the size I want. Which means everytime I posted, I actually had to resize them myself. And it's not just one click, I had to check them under html one by one. If I don't change, it'll be this size, so small and difficult to read. If I change it all the time, aiyo so mafan ok.

Ok ok, wanna sleep now.