Wednesday, August 10, 2005
-piano exam-

OH MAN today was such a scary, nerve-wrecking day.
Got up at 9.30am and spent five hours practising on the piano. Kept freaking out at the thought of going for my piano exam later at 3.50pm, and kept bugging my piano teacher on the phone. Then i had this very stale omu rice [which is rice wrapped inside an omelette in japanese] and a small cheese cake on the way to the piano exam centre.
AHA, the piano exam. When i got there I was nearly one hour early, so I just paced around the waiting room, staring at the different violins hanging there. Suddenly the stewardesses were running about, talking about the air-con in the examination room. The air-con, thankfully, had broken down, but the bad thing was that the examiner, a mr young, was very ANGRY. grrr. He walked out of the stuffy room, red-faced, and he said hi to me and told us the horrible story of the horrible air con which had broken down in the horrible, stuffy room. My friend was doing her exam halfway when the guy stormed out and we could hear her playing her grade 7 song. So the management had no choice but to ask my friend and the mr young to move over to another examination room. I was so happy that i was dancing in the waiting room, coz the room they moved to had a BOHEMIA PIANO, which was the kind i had at home! hahahaha!!! like that i would have no problem getting used to playing it during the exam. Then i waited for an hour or so, until my friend came trudging out of the exam room, complaining about the air con. And it was my turn, so i went into the exam room and my legs were shaking so much that i didn't walk properly. We will analyse the outcome of the horrible exam:
Scales: Well i usually suck at scales but this time i didn't make any mistakes while playing the scales! whee!
Exam Pieces-
Impromptu: GRRR!!! i made two slips in that song, at i hope the examiner didn't notice them... on the whole quite expressive lah.
Allegro Moderato:oh no this is my worst piece and i made like one mistake per page, which makes 5 mistakes or so...
Sonata in D major: oh man this song rocked! I thought i'd totally freak out while playing it, but it turned out that I managed to play all the arpeggios in this song right. HAHA...
Sight Reading: okay this one sucked totally. i didn't know how to play two bars and i nearly collapsed...
Aural: i think i did alright for the singing component, modulation full marks, and i think we discussed a piece of music quite nicely. Coz he was joking with me and I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry... haha...
Yes, i think i will NEVER get a distinction but hopefully, but not likely, a low merit. or pass. or fail. i'm dead sure it's a pass. So horrible, hor?
Whatever lah, at least the whole thing's passed and now i can move on to diploma! haha!!! I can't wait to go back to sch tomorrow, and i miss my lit group a lot...