Tuesday, December 05, 2006
PIANO EXAM!

I'M FREEEEEEE! WAHOO!
well, not quite.
still got performance rehearsal on 15th dec and the real thing on 18th dec (aha wang shao wei's bday!)
but who cares? I'M FREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Went for piano exam today at kawai music school at parkway... it's so conveniently situated near the toilet so I kept running in to warm up my sticky sweaty cold stiff hands with the hair dryer inside.
I discovered that I was pretty early for the exam because the little boy who was the third last candidate hadn't gone in for his turn yet. I was the last candidate.
OHO I was so super happy when I saw the examiner pop his head out of the door to ask the little boy to come in!! mr geoffrey coker!! I happened to see his cool profile last friday when I went for practice and I was keeping my fingers crossed i'd get him... and I did! WAHOO.
Then I waited and waited until my fingers got all cold and stiff even though I wasn't as nervous as before. the steward was reading a sidney sheldon book I think, haha.
yeah, after waiting some more, it was finally my turn! the examiner's very very nice! (:
so once again, like last year's post I shall blog about my piano pieces!
okay yes I seem quite behind compared to all those pro-ded buddies who've completed ABRSM diploma and everything, but here it is, i took trinity college's performance cert today!
1) Sonata in C minor, K.11/L.352 and Sonata in C major, K.515/L.255- Scarlatti
-- okok lah, miraculously I didn't make any slips in both pieces, wahoo!
2) first movement in Sonata in C minor, op. 13 (Pathetique)- Beethoven
-- okay the first movement ISN'T pathetic. it's a killer!! it killed me for so many months.. almost a whole year!! and to think I have to live with it for another year cos I'm doing the other two movements as well for ATCL.. ahhh... I made three mistakes I think.... expression was fine...
3) No. 1 of Novelletten op. 21- Schumann
-- my favourite yeah! it was okay lah... the cantabile sections went pretty well!
4) Polka- Berkeley
-- had to play this by memory instead of doing viva voce. thank God I didn't forget any parts!! (:

and at the end of the exam I got the examiner's autograph on the front of my Beethoven book! WAHOO. what a relief! now to wait for the results....... dum dum... hope I can pass!!
and thanks lishan, mrs tan, banana, chloe, mum, dad, ahma and ahyi for your support! hoho!
after piano exam went shopping at isetan (yucks no more shopping for clothes for me!), grocery shopping at cold storage. and of course I stopped by at the game shop to drool and stare and ogle longingly at the nintendo ds games!!! okay i'll get pokemon ranger for christmas then.

yay tomorrow mum and I are going down to the newly opened IKEA tampines (which is within 5 minutes drive from my house) to recce and eat breakfast and buy loads of coffee for daddy who just loves the coffee there! and then in the afternoon going to kawai again to help lishan turn page during her ATCL piano exam! jiayouuus lishan! (:


by the way I will post more about church camp tomorrow or the day after! when I have the time! bye bye!!