i just realized that this post is like, my 111th post. aww (:

anyhow, i love my mentor! she's fantabulous, 'cos she sent me two poetry collections (including her own which has the nice treasured-old-book smell), though i don't know whether she sent me the wrong one by accident. O.O as in, she told me she was going to send me aaron lee's, but i got ng yi-sheng's instead. not that i'm complaining though! and eh, i'm an idiot, i forgot to ask her the prices of the books plus postage when i replied her last time. stupid stupid stupid! :/

this holiday has gone by in a whoosh though, and although i haven't really gotten a real rest i think it's been rather enjoyable, to say the least. what with class party and other stuff! :D i wish more people turned up for it though; anyhow it was rather amusing because of all the stupid twister (charmaine i declare you are one devious and evil person!) with 'little fingers on red and big toes on yellow!', the retardedly funny shark contraption that goes around with its wicked but rather irksome laugh and its little rubber teeth (+ how i never got bitten when at the last two, yay! okay fine, except once), the overly-stuffed chicken pies, blind man's buff in the playground and hmm, ohyeah julie's fantastic chocolate thingums! i tell you, it is tremendous fun watching teachers - or should i say a teacher - play twister. and blah, i cannot, absolutely totally cannot, play charades. which is quite sad. ): but anyhow, class party was good so yay! :D

haha friday was cool because mengshi & i trooped off to spend our yamaha vouchers! seriously mrs chua is really nice because technically, the school would have a lot more better things to do with the vouchers, but they still gave it to us anyway, to finance our (ahem) random and uninformed purchases of scores. hahaha. xD i got a lot of dover editions though, but i couldn't help because (i) they are like, the cheapest and (ii) they are reprints of good editions anyway! oh, and grawr i realize i almost got cheated into buying the national edition of chopin scores! because wiener-urtext has jan ekier as the editor as well, but the prices are so significantly different! pfft pfft pfft! (okay okay okay i should stop stop stop repeating myself. yeah right. T_T) anyhow michelle is still happy because her pathetic music library has just been expanded into a not-so-pathetic music library (but nevertheless still rather hopeless). ohwell, she is contented. :D fine maybe not; i want more chopin! okay nevermind, she's prone to contradicting herself ever so often.

pavarotti died! ): i wish i got the chance to hear him in person, but sadly no.

okay i think this is going to be another music-heavy post, but whatever, so be it! hmm, i've been listening to a lot of stuff lately, and i'm desperate to get back to my chopin! i miss the grandeur (and almost furore) of the last few bflat minor / bflat major chords, the lyricism and almost melancholic quality of the second subject and okay, i miss the piece in itself! although i've got a very bad premonition that i will seriously die at the start, with all the frantic left hand stretches and right hand chords. O: okay the word 'die' is a rather, well, morbid pun? i don't know, considering this whole sonata is grim and funeral-ish and everything. the last movement is scary, methinks. it's like it just wanders and passes through tonality after tonality, not with the listener being exactly able to discern out a direction of the music, and then it fades away into nothingness. only to have the momentary silence punctuated by two bflat minor chords. it's one tragic, very tragic sonata. but somehow i derive particular satisfaction from playing it (or at any rate, the first movement!) okay, so now what does this say about me?! (for the record, i'm peace-loving - really! -, do not have any morbid tendencies and uh, dislike deaths very very much.)

i think my punctuation is weird, but nevermind. i love the opening of rachmaninov's 2nd concerto! and brahms' 2nd is nice too. :D

i love singapore too! :D sometimes, just peering out through the car windows at all the scenery gives you such a warm and fuzzy feeling. and i guess if you really explore it there's so, so much to singapore as a nation. maybe it's just me, but somehow i see shadows of other countries in the architecture of singapore at times. (O.O hallucinations? urgh no thanks.) and the juxtaposition just makes me feel that i'm getting the best of everything; even if it's just my imagination it sure is good appreciating your surroundings. and the city at night is just, fantabulously take-my-breath-away pretty. i don't know, i just like it. (:

okay still zero for coherence, i've concluded. fine next time i shan't bother trying then. xD

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

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lives, writes, sings, plays the piano, and attempts to sound intellectual at times (conclusion: fails rather miserably).

loves music (almost strictly classical, hurhur & inclusive of faziolis!), literature (& also the sciences - no they are not in conflict), making hopelessly lame puns, laughter, white/milk chocolate, cheesecake, the world & the people in it. list not exhaustive, by the way.

wants the world to be filled with peace, joy and love, and also wants (perhaps a little more selfishly) to be happy, plus lead a life of purpose. that would be more than enough. (:

oh, and she likes embarking on her own 'free hugs!' campaigns after exams and the like; not really sure why. D: (at any rate, you can tell that she's random enough.)

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very plain, she knows; but this is probably herself in its entirety - nothing more than a compilation of perhaps-boring-to-you little things (and the occasional Important Event), but also nothing less than all the brilliant memories which constitutes her life, and perhaps yours.

also interpreted as an inability to express with other things but words (nothing more, nothing less!), although even words sometimes won't do enough. but she does like orange.

v2.0 (230208): maybe solid grey isn't that fantastic after all. but wordy is good, all the same. she's weird, she knows.

ver. i-pretend-that-it-is-3.0-when-i-know-it-is-not (070608): i am boring, take that. (:

v4.0 (200908): got bored, so cut down on the quasi-fanciful stuff even more. perfectly plain now, though somehow the background still doesn't work on safari / google chrome. ):