The Random Blogger

There are so many things to talk about my short semester and thus, I decided to break it into few parts...                                        Books, understanding, notes and memorizing  Honestly, I never know why my university have this super short semester. Okay..actually the main purpose is for internship..but seriously, 14 weeks of syllabus compressed to only 7 weeks is quite insane especially if your subject is quite heavy!!!! ('World Music', I'm looking at you). Nonetheless, I learnt so many things in just 1 1/2 months..          No worries..I can still (kinda) play the violin but not Vivaldi. That's too tough for me.. Previously, I took violin as my minor instrument because of three reasons : First, I perceived that as a classical major you cannot have a contemporary minor. Second, It looks cool carrying the instrument around (I know so childish). Third, I initially thought that knowing how to play the violin can land me a spot in an orches

I really really love Debussy as a composer... His songs are really unique, dreamy and magical.. Last semester my friends told me "Cher!! did you know that one of Debussy songS have Gamelan influence?" (*we were talking about this because my friend's topic was Gamelan for her presentation while mine was Chinese music) I was shocked and super excited because I love songs which have the oriental Asian feel with Pentatonic scales etc ... * For those of you who don't know what a 'Gamelan' is... No worries :) I initially thought that Gamelan is an instrument....and mind you I am a music major so you know how fail I am omgosh..                                                          My 'perceived' Gamelan so laugh all you can lols XD I told my friend who is also a music major this and she said ''I used to think that way too until I saw the whole thing!!" (so you guys can be relieved now lols) So yeah...to simplify it, Gamelan is

This is a typical beauty pageant question asked in most pageants you know..from big pageants to small pageants. Thus, it's been in my head for awhile. Somehow, I'm inspired to write more about my opinion on this because I just watched Miss Malaysia Chinese International (Miss Astro 2012) and one of the top 5 contestants answered :               " BEAUTY ..because if you are not beautiful, no matter how much you make up you will still look somewhat lacking somewhere" (In mandarin though lols XD) She have a point there...but somehow her answer sound superficial to many (especially my mum who was like " omgosh..she so dumb to give that answer should pick brain !! * and starts telling me how she'll answer =.=) because : First, it sounds shallow. Second, it's too short !! I know you have 30 seconds to answer !! But make that answer worth the 30 seconds !!! and yeah..because of that answer she missed the top 3 placing (what mum said lols).. So it'