currently all the information in my brain is very mixed up so i shall present my day in retrograde! (it's as if anyone cares but i'm just doing this for my own entertainment)

masterclass. i was praying real hard that fang laoshi would start with all the two piano pieces first, because knowing myself best, i will spoil any single solo piece that comes into my hands when i play in front of much pro-er (oh dear i'm using singlish but if i write it in proper english that feeling won't be there) seniors who can probably play consecutive and repeated octaves without wincing. and then i had to be so unlucky because fang laoshi decided to start with solos first. so i really destroyed the piece i was playing. fine the piece isn't exactly what you can say nice, but still i destroyed it and now i feel so guilty.

masterclass part2. okay there wasn't really a part2 to it but i prefer to think the two pianos bit and the solo bit as two separate parts because the solo bit is just too painful to remember (okay i admit it i run away from problems!). thankfully this bit was good. okay by my standards which are really low. but anyway fang laoshi said it was okay so that's final. at least those hours of practice has not gone to waste. thank you tiffany! i shan't talk about the other portions of the (yes you guessed it) yello river concerto because my favourite fourth movement wasn't played and my second favourite first movement was nice but it wasn't exactly synchronised. now what am i to say they were not synchronised? well just ignore that comment. generally it was fun (yes it was) and i look forward to the next masterclass (wow i've never done that). whatever. there's always a first time.

before masterclass. was spent practicing at the recital hall. and we were really surprised by the fact that no one was fighting with us for the room. nothing much to say except a super irritating parent was like pushing her kid and her partner to practise their duet while we were throwing away our drinks and stuff. it was really irritating because they weren't even playing for the masterclass. plus it was pretty obvious our scores were there and we needed to practise too. so please ask before you rush to the piano, thank you.

house practice. i'm skipping inessential bits. anyway today is the last house practice. so sad i will miss the waddle house exco! other than the fact that we had the black-shirt black-pants lady who speaks with a really weird american/british accent to brush up on our mass dance (and finally she said "well done waddle"!) and a totally pointless much needed march-past (my spelling is really wonky...) practice, it was thoroughly enjoyable. mainly because we had a party complete with sweets, chips and drinks. and also because they played a lame funny april fool's day joke. they told us that they had bad news for us and our mass dance steps had to be individualised so there was a major revamp (to think we really believed them). and in that revamped dance we had really meaningless steps like those "squawk" steps (the ones usually associated with ducks?). after we learnt half of it (and after all of us were groaning about how pointless mass dance had became), they told us it was all an april fool's day joke. and dora heng if you still continue to say that this revamped version of mass dance is nicer i shall personally smack you. just kidding i'm not that violent.

and that's basically my day. now i shall go further back in time because there are more important things there than they are now.

one. oneELEVEN now has loads of class spirit. even the teachers agree because they say we're really funky and cool. or in formal terms, energetic and enthusiastic. wait that's beside the point of class spirit. but anyway, when we got back our chinese formative, we were cheering both for the people who did really well and for the people who didn't do that well. okay as a form of encouragement for the latter but i thought that was really really cool. thanks weiqing for initiating all this! and back to house practice today, we were cheering all the waddle cheers we could think of and it seems that everyone think oneELEVEN is good now (sorry ego boost). putting that aside, i'm really really really proud to be in this class! now i have loads more reasons to add to my list.

-because we're enthusiastic yet sane.
-because we currently have the most house spirit among the three waddle classes.
-because they're loads of funky and cool people in oneELEVEN (do i count as one?)
-because everyone is nice and caring and loving (in the platonic sense, thank you)
-because we have the most people in the math olympiad training programme which equates to our class having quite a number of mathematical smarty-pants! (okay this sounds really arrogant)
-because we're really close together and bonded
-because we're hardworking with a dash (maybe four of five dashes) of fun and humour.

and i want to add more but i can't think of any as of now so forget it.

now i need to address something that's been irking me for a long time. people copying my work. it's like someone borrows my stuff for a while and the next thing i know it, their worksheets contain the exact same answers as mine. word for word. absolutely no change. and when the teachers read these worksheets they will be wondering whether i copied. even though i'm totally innocent. okay really, what's so great about my answers? now i give you some great reasons as to why you shouldn't copy my answers.

one. please bear in mind that i'm not the answer key and i do not always produce the best answers. most of the time my answers are not to the point so if you copy my answers you're just putting the wrong concepts into your brain. i'm not like the barenreiter urtext or henle-urtext editions which you can totally trust when you come to piano pieces. i'm not a genius because as far as i'm concerned i am unable to match up to einstein's feats. so my answers are not 100% accurate, and even then if you find a genius like einstein, his or her answer may not be 100% accurate either. so don't bother copying from me at all because you're just going to get inaccurate stuff and basically you won't get whatever you're writing too.

two. like i just said, you might not get whatever you're writing. blindly copying without understanding is total study suicide and even if you understand what you're copying when you come back and revise you won't exactly get it because it's not in your own words. so by copying you aren't learning so too bad if you don't do well in your exams. that's your problem -- who asked you to copy?

three. come on. even though my answers are not brilliant answers, do still respect my intellectual property. it's not very nice to take other people's stuff and claim it as your own. even if you really need to (like in group work) please paraphrase or put it in your own words. or at least tell me so i can try and explain to you instead of you just copying whatever i write.

four. you're killing off brain cells by not using your brain. you can surely do better than that.

five. if you still treat me as a friend please do not subject me to the possible questioning that may arise from a teacher when she sees two exactly identical scripts. i have been nice enough not to expose you so please stop. i don't want to be suspected of copying and neither would you. please just be honest to yourself, and if you don't know, just ask.

oh dear i feel so proud and boastful because i sound as if everyone wants to copy my answers and it's as if my answers are so brilliant. but they're not and still some people want to copy them.
i shall end off (sadly, in a less than cheerful way) with this.

i detest copycats.

or zongmin, in english, chinese or - okay, not really otherwise.

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