Revolving stars

For those who had regularly kept themselves updated with my posts (as boring as they are), you would know that I have signed up for Korean classes. Before I went for the trial class, I tried searching online for some clues and tips about the class and there was nothing! (I thought KLC was a pretty decent school but nopes, there was not much online presence). Anyway, so I shall blog abit about my experience at the trial class. (I went for the noob aka beginner class) I registered via their FB link and I liked the follow up where they sent me the bus schedule, together with the pictures of the location where I am supposed to wait for the bus. It is very helpful for people like me who would have gotten lost without it. It was a pretty awkward journey as everyone doesn't seem to know each other on the bus and it was a silent ride all the way. And the place is OMG ulu. The bus passed by so much landed property that I thought we were out in JB or something. When we reached the sc

Recently, I have a new obsession - to re-learn korean. For those who didn't know my background, I took 1 special sem of Korean language back in NUS year 1 and nearly died. I had no idea why I wanted to condemn my grades by trying to compete with those self-proclaimed non-noobs. Basically I was trashed by those who pretended to not know Korean but could speak fluently by the 2nd week in class. Seriously -.- I was randomly surfing the net and hangukdrama appeared in my search when I was looking up for some JLPT blogs by Singaporeans. I was inspired by her consistency in language learning and it became a source of motivation for me. We are kind of similar yet not similar. I started with learning Japanese back in...2005? and slowly progressed from there. I guess she is a more hardworking person since she managed to pass her TOPIK 6 within a few years (which is pretty fast track) while I'm still trying to pass my N1 >.< Well, we all progress at our own pace and to push m

I realised that it has been months since I have updated this platform. These few months were a torture. The family trip had been better than expected despite the unsanitary condition of their toilets and I felt the warmth of family. I think as our parents grow older, my brother and I become more aware of the fragility of life and we try to spend more time with them. Marriage life on the other hand was a roller coaster. The highlight of moving into our own place was marred by PL going for SSEAYP and flying off on my birthday. Honestly, I was more than upset by it. To this very day, I am ambivalent about this whole matter. I can’t believe that he chose SSEAYP over me. Anyway, nothing can be changed now and I shall try not to think about it anymore. I went on a solo London trip (thanks to SSEAYP), survived and came back, all without the husband. London was pretty but it was more expensive than I expected. I guess to a certain extent, I am pretty sick of travelling overseas. I kind

I am so excited about this family trip to China! This will officially be the first family trip where my whole family is together overseas, which is really very rare. My dad hates to travel. In fact, this trip wouldn't have happened except that it's my brother's graduation and my mum insisted that the whole family should be there (and she started planning it 4 years ago) My brother would be planning the trip and I can't wait to see the highlights of the trip!!! ;D

Recently, I went to take the grade 5 music theory exam. It was unnerving, especially I made the decision to take the exam quite last minute and had to do a crash course (twice a week) less than 4 weeks before the exam. I just got my results and to my surprise, I got 85, and that's a merit! With this boost of confidence, I'm going to try for Grade 3 practical next year, and hopefully I will pass it too :D

Realised that it has been a pretty long while since I have updated about my piano lessons. Yes, I'm still continuing my weekly lessons at West Coast area, with some absenteeism here and there. Obviously, I'm not progressing as much as I should, seeing how I do skip practice *ahem* pretty often. However, I really can see a definite improvement in playing, especially when I return back to the old pieces that I played a while ago. Now that I'm at grade 3 lessons, I can pick up grade 1-2 pieces pretty quickly (depending on the length and difficulty of the pieces - I'm still pretty bad at the ornaments). Currently, I'm doing Fur Elise and Spinning Song, together with Long Long ago from the Piano Pieces for children (green colour book). I quite like this book as there are many pieces where I can recognise the songs, which helps in my playing. Alan Chan (from youtube) also did the covers for the book (if I'm not wrong), which is very very helpful if you want to

After waiting for ten million years, we finally got our keys! :D Since we had waited so long, we kind of sneaked into the house even before we did the rolling of pineapple and what not tomorrow later. Never knew that home renovation is such a tedious thing. All those time spent on contractors, IDs, etc..@@ Hearing the stories about how couples quarreled like mad during the renovation period, I'm glad we are not one of those (or maybe not yet). The only grumble that PL has for now is that the house is too small, but I think I'm perfectly fine with it. Smaller house equates to lesser cleaning, which is good for everyone!