Thursday, September 28, 2006

Right. I had most certainly lost my favourite ring again, the one Ching bought from her NZ trip years ago, and a plastic ear stud that I wore on my second earhole. Okaasan found the back part of the earstud minutes ago from my bed. Haha! I can not believe my things are going missing. Third time lucky? I hope not. LOL!

Anyway, it is time to tell you about my day(s). We had Aural yesterday afternoon. Daddy drove me to the street before Mayo Street, which is along Jalan Besar, and I walked to school from there. He did not know that he could had dropped me off outside Prinsep Street instead as he thought there was not a right turn into Rochor Canal Road available even though I tried to explain it to him. (He was avoiding the ERP as he does not have a CashCard.) Haha! He stopped at that street and Okaasan went out to scout around. (Yup. She came along for a spin.) Now he knows. Aural exam was much better than the test. We were provided with only a piece of manuscript paper that time. Thus, we had to pick out the appropriate time signature for the questions EW played on the piano. How horrible. Naturally, I failed. This time round, EW gave us a proper piece of exam paper, with the questions, inclusive of both the key and time signatures written out. I managed to get the Melodic dictation done, saved for the second last bar which was a whole mess, because EW played the melody five times. Yay! As for the second question, Rhythmic dictation, I was and still is a complete failure at it. I had only complete the first bar which was partially correct. Drats! As for the Harmonic dictation, may God bless me as I was really tikam-ing through out. What was a little worrisome was when EW made a red mark on the top of my paper when he went around checking out aural homework. You see, I did not know that we had to complete another four pages and so, when I got to school and found out about it, I had only managed to copy the last two pages, in the hope that he would not check the other last two, which he did. So, there went at least 2% of my overall marks. Sigh...

I am so tired now. All thanks to having both Harmony and MoA exams on the same day, which happened to be today. It was a pure double whammy. Thank God those two were not one after the other or else all of us would be very much dead. Instead, we had a 3 over hours worth of break to continue with our MoA mugging. I managed to complete both questions for the Harmony exam as I was very much panicking during the final minutes. Unfortunately, I believe there is some mistakes with my modulations/tonicisations. Aargh! Forget it. What was done is done. If I was asked each paper was a killer, I would pick the MoA one. It was neck-aching, back-breaking, mind-numbing, brain-freezing, eye-straining, butt-iching (yah right!), finger-cramping (if there is such a word as 'cramping'), heart-wrenching, tear-jerking, highly-irritating piece of paper. Wow... So, you are finally done with all the adjectives. Funny. Haha. I skipped the essay question that was worth 40%, which I had only wrote a sentence some time later, and headed straight for the other 60%. And it was because of this 60% that caused me all of the above adjectives, especially the horrible question on the matrix and the score "analysing". Sigh... It was HORRIBLE. Just by basing on the 60% portion, how am I going to pass the exam??? I thought I had made a huge blunder because the notes in the score looked like an Inversion of some kind. So, I checked it against the matrix that we were suppose to construct using the given twelve tones. Which I did and I was so STUPID as to think that those sets of tones were different from the Prime original. AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH...!!!!!!! HOW COULD I BE SO STUPID??? IT WAS PRIME ORIGINAL THROUGHOUT THE F***ING PIECE!!! AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH...!!!!!!! And there I was, sitting in the examination hall/Recital Hall, panicking like crazy all thanks to my brains being in over-drive mode.

Truthfully, never in my life have I felt so much for my examinations. Never. What is more amazing is that my current feelings are on the brighter side as compared to last week, even though it is now the examination week. For this whole week, especially after the history exam, I am feeling confident. Maybe it is because I know that God, Jesus, Mother Mary, Gong-gong and Ma-ma, my guardian angel and Blessed Barre are all with me. Maybe that explains why.

I have Ethnomusicology later in the afternoon and I have yet to study as my time was taken up by the KWLA journals that RK wants us to do as part of our MoA portfolio. Thank God we all will not have this module any more come next semester. Therefore, the journals are our only tickets left in order to pass. May God bless me that I will pass this module. Heaven only knows how I am going to mug Ethnomusic later after I awake, especially with what little notes I have of the semester, including those from last year's Gamelan studies. Sigh... It was a very bad idea to upload the lecture notes onto the Yahoo Group as these prevented us all from entering, making us wait for an "invitation" from TM. Well, I am off to bed now as I seriously need to sleep. My eyes were trying to keep open throughout the day. My poor eyes...

After Ethnomusicology, it will be full steam a head for my Piano practical! Choo-choo!!!