Apart from the real threat of homework thst looms over me like a ledge that can topple over at any moment, the main defining factors of my life this week was basically Facebook and today's choral stuff.
You (whoever the random passerby may be) may have noticed that my blog is updated about once every week instead of regularly like once every few hours or days. Apparently not much happens in a day that allows me to update that often, and of course there is the time constraint (as mentioned earlier, the homework pile is.. um.. frightening.) and above those puny excuses, i am simply too lazy. Which also explains why 'I' is mostly 'i' if you haven't realised it yet.
About chorale today. There was a performance together with five other schools at St. Joseph's Institution(SJI, secondary school) that was supposed to help raise funds for Mercy Relief Fund to help the stricken Japanese people after the big hoo-ha that is still ongoing about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors and the tsunami. In my humble opinion, Japan is ailing, and apparently most economists agree that it never fully recovered from the 1980s financial crisis. But anw. After practicing for quite a long time, i could tell that the conductor's patience was wearing thin. And i felt that we weren't really at a performance level yet, judging by how the entire choir behaves. People generally still come late for practices. Talk during pauses during a song when the conductor (either the resident conductor or a student conductor) stops the song to solve various issues involving a section or smaller group of people. Talked and slept and took pictures during the half-hour break before our turn for the performance. I didn't do much too, and i was really disappointed with myself after the performance.
Before Raffles Chorale was Dunman Secondary(thx Paul for pointing out the error) and they sounded fabulous. And when we went on stage, the first song went sharp, the second song was too soft and lacking in dynamics, the third was fairly okay but i failed at my last two bars. I didn't breathe deep enough and my E2 (two octaves below middle E) was wavering, so i cut myself off before i killed the chord. Sigh. If i had perfect pitch, i'd probably be so depressed now because i would have known where the choir sounded off.
After the performance, the basses (me included) had a bass dinner including a few others from other sections. I have no comment, apart from the fact that it was a waste of time and money. We had to eat at Burger King because other restaurants/food court had no space at 7.30pm on a Saturday, or were far too expensive. I blew away $6.45 for the unhealthy burger and fries and drink meal and was still hungry afterwards. I'm not a health nut but when i saw the fries with a coating of salt on each individual piece of potato, i had to use my fingers to scrape some off before i ate them. Thinking about eating two days' worth of salt in a single meal is kind of scary. Hence, i avoid stuff like Macs', Burger King etc unless it's Subway, because the Subway wrap is really yummy (kudos to tortillas) although really, really expensive.
It also appeared to me that people in RJC are really out of this world.
Observation #1: Most people around the world are lame, but RJ lecturers and students are lame-r than most.
// #2: RJ people are weirdos. I admit i'm weird. But one guy in chorale collects and memorises every single piece of namecard he takes. Another found splitting straws by clapping his hands around it really, really fun. (I've never known that you could split straws that way.)
// #3: RJ people are really, really smart. A girl the same age as me takes pretty much all the humanities subjects (Knowledge & Inquiry/KI, Geography, History etc) which require memory work. Try eating and regurgitating a years' worth of newspapers with your own thoughts added. See, my mindset that i am merely a normal person is based on facts and is solidly grounded. I am NOT an emo person. See, me getting into RJ was purely a fluke (probably because of moderation in O'lvls.)
About Facebook. I've been spending about two hours on it every single damn night since i created it because i don't know how it operates. And wasting this amount of time when your homework is pending and the deadlines are approaching fast is fatal. I have to rush out my homework today (it's 12+am now, i started this post at 11+pm) and reality hits harsh, because i know i will not be able to finish all my homework. Damnit.
Also, after the "You have been blocked from sending friend requests to strangers for 4 days because it is considered as spam" notice finally went away, i went on a frenzy to add all my friends whom Facebook labels as 'strangers' and so i'm banned again for spamming friend requests. Screw it. Once more, i cannot add people on Facebook. Applying the principles of economics which i am very weak in to this, i suppose that Facebook is a good with inelastic demand. Hence even when all sorts of problems surface while using it people still continue using it because of necessity such as group updates. And we, the consumers, just have to grin and bear it while the company behind the scenes that orchestrates the entire set gains social networks of its 500-odd million users that generate it massive profits.
You (whoever the random passerby may be) may have noticed that my blog is updated about once every week instead of regularly like once every few hours or days. Apparently not much happens in a day that allows me to update that often, and of course there is the time constraint (as mentioned earlier, the homework pile is.. um.. frightening.) and above those puny excuses, i am simply too lazy. Which also explains why 'I' is mostly 'i' if you haven't realised it yet.
About chorale today. There was a performance together with five other schools at St. Joseph's Institution(SJI, secondary school) that was supposed to help raise funds for Mercy Relief Fund to help the stricken Japanese people after the big hoo-ha that is still ongoing about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors and the tsunami. In my humble opinion, Japan is ailing, and apparently most economists agree that it never fully recovered from the 1980s financial crisis. But anw. After practicing for quite a long time, i could tell that the conductor's patience was wearing thin. And i felt that we weren't really at a performance level yet, judging by how the entire choir behaves. People generally still come late for practices. Talk during pauses during a song when the conductor (either the resident conductor or a student conductor) stops the song to solve various issues involving a section or smaller group of people. Talked and slept and took pictures during the half-hour break before our turn for the performance. I didn't do much too, and i was really disappointed with myself after the performance.
Before Raffles Chorale was Dunman Secondary(thx Paul for pointing out the error) and they sounded fabulous. And when we went on stage, the first song went sharp, the second song was too soft and lacking in dynamics, the third was fairly okay but i failed at my last two bars. I didn't breathe deep enough and my E2 (two octaves below middle E) was wavering, so i cut myself off before i killed the chord. Sigh. If i had perfect pitch, i'd probably be so depressed now because i would have known where the choir sounded off.
After the performance, the basses (me included) had a bass dinner including a few others from other sections. I have no comment, apart from the fact that it was a waste of time and money. We had to eat at Burger King because other restaurants/food court had no space at 7.30pm on a Saturday, or were far too expensive. I blew away $6.45 for the unhealthy burger and fries and drink meal and was still hungry afterwards. I'm not a health nut but when i saw the fries with a coating of salt on each individual piece of potato, i had to use my fingers to scrape some off before i ate them. Thinking about eating two days' worth of salt in a single meal is kind of scary. Hence, i avoid stuff like Macs', Burger King etc unless it's Subway, because the Subway wrap is really yummy (kudos to tortillas) although really, really expensive.
It also appeared to me that people in RJC are really out of this world.
Observation #1: Most people around the world are lame, but RJ lecturers and students are lame-r than most.
// #2: RJ people are weirdos. I admit i'm weird. But one guy in chorale collects and memorises every single piece of namecard he takes. Another found splitting straws by clapping his hands around it really, really fun. (I've never known that you could split straws that way.)
// #3: RJ people are really, really smart. A girl the same age as me takes pretty much all the humanities subjects (Knowledge & Inquiry/KI, Geography, History etc) which require memory work. Try eating and regurgitating a years' worth of newspapers with your own thoughts added. See, my mindset that i am merely a normal person is based on facts and is solidly grounded. I am NOT an emo person. See, me getting into RJ was purely a fluke (probably because of moderation in O'lvls.)
About Facebook. I've been spending about two hours on it every single damn night since i created it because i don't know how it operates. And wasting this amount of time when your homework is pending and the deadlines are approaching fast is fatal. I have to rush out my homework today (it's 12+am now, i started this post at 11+pm) and reality hits harsh, because i know i will not be able to finish all my homework. Damnit.
Also, after the "You have been blocked from sending friend requests to strangers for 4 days because it is considered as spam" notice finally went away, i went on a frenzy to add all my friends whom Facebook labels as 'strangers' and so i'm banned again for spamming friend requests. Screw it. Once more, i cannot add people on Facebook. Applying the principles of economics which i am very weak in to this, i suppose that Facebook is a good with inelastic demand. Hence even when all sorts of problems surface while using it people still continue using it because of necessity such as group updates. And we, the consumers, just have to grin and bear it while the company behind the scenes that orchestrates the entire set gains social networks of its 500-odd million users that generate it massive profits.
Facebook doesnt have an inelastic demand as there is no price to it. it's FOC! HAHAHA:D
ReplyDeleteWhich is why i didn't type 'price inelastic demand' but 'inelastic demand', because it's inelastic due to the fact that these cyber forms of communication with friends make it hard to leave :)
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