And so...

completed 2 out of 3 essays, submitted one today. It kinda remove the stone in my heart metaphorically. The last one left is an essay of 750 word, a kind of review of a recording that makes good use of music technology which is due this Friday. Thanks with the help of Debbie, I manage to find some techno music for a review.

It is indeed my first time dealing with essays in university. Unlike the essays in JC, you are required to do your own research in university. And the next thing to note that, you have to start your research very early, because you arent the only one doing the essay. If you drag your research, all the materials in the library would have been taken up. I remember all the books on Haydn symphonies are entirely borrowed and 2 of my books are actually on reserve, but I am going to take my time to return, the due date is on 22/9/08, i.e. next monday. Well, to the person who reserve it, TOO BAD!, though the book is with Angela now. I cannot return the book now, as it will be kept for the person who reserve it. For these 2 major essays, I guess I probably manage the time badly, but not as bad as some who have to burn midnight oil just to meet deadlines. I started my Haydn essay earlier, and it took me about 2 hours just to type a paragraph of 300 words. Got to think and type. Psychology essay is worse... that's because I dont have much materials, relied heavily on online materials... so I am keeping my fingers crossed for my psychology essay.

Putting essays aside, we did an interesting lab class for psychology in the morning. The senario is this: Suppose there is someone staring at the sky in the corner of a street, would you stare at the sky too? Would you stop? What if there are 3 ppl? What if there are 5? 10? We conducted the same experiment. We initially send 1 person to stare at the sky for 3 minutes and observe the passer by response. Not many people did react to the 1 person. But as the number increase, more people gave a glance to what we are staring. I guess the interesting part to this is that, what are the passer by thoughts when they saw we are just staring at the crest of University of Melbourne outside Sidney Myer Asia- Centre. It's really interesting to watch people's facial expression to it. I guess that's why I like psychology, the part of infering and interpreting people's minds. It helps me understand people better and react to others in a more appropriate way.

Next to.. music. I have the list of repertoires to be worked for the next semester:
JS Bach
Italian Concerto for Harpsichord in F
Partita No. 2 in C minor

Mozart
Sonata in A minor, K310

Kalebevsky
Sonata in F major, op. 46

Ginastera
3 Danzas Argentina

I still didnt get to do a work from Beethoven again. :(

Generally, I have improved in my piano technique within these 6 weeks of piano lessons. I am fortunate to have a very good piano teacher, one of the best piano teachers I have so far.

Alright, need to get some sleep. :D