My 三舅妈 married to my 三舅舅 when she was 18. So their daughter is already working. And my 小舅, who's younger than my mum, has a son who's currently in his second year of university. WHAT ABOUT ME?! URGH.
When I was reading a post that I typed last year, I realised how much I hated Pipa. Somehow I still hate it now. I JUST CAN'T LEARN. I don't feel the passion for the instrument. I love the orchestra yea I DO! But whenever I pick up my Pipa at home I can't find the motivation to learn it.. Oh gosh what's happening.
I remember the 4 teachers that taught me Guzheng. When I was P1, it was 李老师 and he was the one who taught me the basics. He was awesome and humorous. There was once I fell asleep on the Guzheng and he patted me to wake me up. Then I blur blur opened my eyes then I sneezed damnnnnnn loud, even louder than HuiXin. HAHAHA!
After the transfer when I was P3, I learned GZ from 吕老师. Who's the teacher that influenced me the most because she scolded me the most. As we were in an ensemble, we were divided into 2 groups. 1st group being the pro-er ones and of course I belonged to the 2nd group. :P Then I always got scolded by her because I was one of the lousiest. :O In the end I just secretly smuggled into the 1st group by playing their melody. So from that time onwards I was damn afraid that she would find out that I was trying to ACT PRO. And I worked really hard because 1st group's parts were really much harder..
But she's amazing and I miss her until now.. T T If I remembered correctly, she left when I was P4, right after SYF just because we got Silver. That was because our WenXin (she's the lead) was suspected to have HFMD. WenXin's guzheng's string broke when we were at the back stage. Everything was in a mess...
I remembered her asking me if I wanted to take grades. She even called to ask my dad.. She told me she really hoped that I would take grades because she's confident that I would learn well and fast and she wouldn't ask anyone like this. Hais I miss you 吕老师.. :'(
The third teacher only taught for 3 weeks and he left due to some complaints. Ok I disliked him too. He drove a cool car to school and he wore cool clothes and he played cool songs but he was too fierce and sent student out of class when they made mistakes. And awesomely, I was one of those who got sent out of class. I think I purposely played like crap so I could join people outside. XD
The last teacher was the pretty teacher~ She was super pretty and I think 茉莉芬芳 is her master piece or something because she always played that in front of us. Don't pray pray hor, that's a grade 9 piece! I heard negative comments from my classmates after she performed in front of the whole school. -__- They only knew how to appreciate FAST songs because they were COOL and SLOW songs are BORING.
She was the teacher that sort of 传授 me her 秘诀 to some skills. She taught me how to create the minimum noise when the nails come in contact with the strings. I remember WenChi's YangQin teacher told me about the nails thing too. And my teacher taught me how to reduce energy needed to play some parts of the song by using some fingers ahem ahem. ^^ It is really an awesome skill!
Every time I play GZ, it just remind me of my teachers, especially 吕老师. I just remembered how much she loved us as her own children.. Every time during break time, almost everyone would go either loo or canteen. Janelle and I would stay behind.. Then we would practise with 吕老师. And she always liked to watch we two play because we really had 默契..
I miss Janelle, who was always there when I needed her.
I miss Cen Li, who knew my mistakes better than me, who giggled with me when I made a mistake.
I miss Jaslyn, who was the great listener and a great friend that laughed with me.
I miss Darine, who was so cute when she smiled.
I miss WenXin, who called before SYF and reminded us and made us all cry.
I miss Le Yi, who injured her leg and went up the SYF stage with her crutches.
I miss all of you. I miss the time I could do something I really liked. I miss the time when I was so passionate about something. I miss the time when I was actually good at something.
They all belong to the past. Let's say it once and forget it for life.
Move on baby. Life's like this.
