I wonder why I have been thinking a lot and getting too emotional these few days. Maybe it's due to insufficient, late night sleep but reasonable wake up time. Some are really depressing. So the morale of the story is, dont sleep late too often, it will set your mind thinking and make myself whiney.

Woke up early for choir this morning. Sang the mass by Palestrina. Just in case you dont know who is Palestrina, he is a composer in the 16th century. So of course, a capella is quite common in those time. Singing a capella is always a challenge, but the choir is relatively strong. (Duh, one of the requirements to join the choir is the ability to sight sing). Not that I am good in sight sing, but I can do basic intervals. Having a musical background is certainly an advantage in singing in this strong choir.

I just had a little conversation with my piano student on Yahoo Messenger, the girl who got a distinction for her grade 1 exam. She is really intelligent for a 11 year old. I guess because she reads alot and yesterday she gave me some riddles for me to guess. Here are some examples:

What grows down when it grows up?
A goose (why? Cause according to what she read, down is something which keeps the goose warm or something like that?) I was like... wah, so impressed...

And of course some not so informative ones like:
What does a yellow umbrella become when it is put into a red sea?
It becomes wet.

Oh well, she is chosen for the school concert this November, due to her distinction score of 133. But unfortunately, I will only be back on December.

For myself, I will not be having piano lesson tomorrow as my piano teacher is sick. Musically, I guess I have improved this week. Manage to play Moszkowski etude once through at a relatively fast speed, though I think not up to standard yet. I guess her insistence of having curved fingers works. My ambitious self tells me that I should start doing another etude, anyway, got the kick of playing fast notes, really, something which I have not successfully done as my piano teacher says that I couldnt play fast with my old technique.

Oh yes, I got a free 1kg of rice today. (eh, though it's only 1 kg, it means a lot, u know, no worries for a week?) How does the story go? It all happened when I went to Cole's supermarket to get rice for my daily use. Strangely though, I will usually buy the packet of 2Kg rice, but today, I decided to get the 1 Kg which cost $2.09 as stated. I didnt want to get the 4 kg of rice (which cost $4.09) because I do not have much petty cash with me ( left with 4 bucks and I refuse to draw money and cant pay by EFTPOS as it's less than 10 bucks). What happened was when I went to pay for my packet of rice, the counter stated $2.49. I was shocked and initially thought I had seen wrongly, but the cashier read my body languauge and asked 'Do you want me to check the price out?' She went and found out that it's an error on their part. She told me that it's indeed a mistake and I can have the 1kg of rice for free. Well, come to think of it, how strange sometimes things can turn out. :D

Arsenal lost! :(