More Portfolio-ness

Nothing much happened today except for the fact that I printed another draft for my portfolio! This time it's 160pages-ish... I put in all my works, including the smaller crappier ones... Not sure if that is a good idea, but I'm going to meet up with Stephen and ask for his opinion.

Just watched Butterfly Effect (2004), quite a creepy movie. Great ending, I love it (creepier than BE2 because of how he killed himself in the end).

It seems like I have much to say, but I haven't got anything to say. It's like I haven't got anything to say, but I do have much to say.

So I'm going to stop now.

Portfoli-O

I've printed off 2 copies of my Composition Seminar Portfolio (which I labeled workshop folio, since I didn't know which is which) and I also printed off a draft copy of my Major Composition Portfolio (which took 80 pages-ish). I'm going to have to carefully read it and check for mistakes and all. So far, I've found heaps of mistakes in the "Introduction" page. More mistakes are yet to come.

Borrowed a few scores off Carl today! Pärt's Miserere and Passio, Crossin's Caritas and a conductor's score of Beethoven's 5th Symphony with the annotations and conducting notes. I'm going to have fun with it.

I've decided to just fail my Music Technology, not only I'm not interested in it, but also, it's taking too much time off me and I'm too lazy to do that. Sorry, dad and mum... :( I can't do it! I actually feel so relieved after deciding this.

Anyhow. Gotta get back to my composition and history essay!

Laptop is back

Laptop's back! Data is back too! Great! I lost nothing but a week of productive time. Plus the piece I was working on before the laptop died is not really progressing at all.

Played the Telemann Recorder Sonata at the Early Music Ensemble/Chamber Music exam for Julia who was playing the Viola da Gamba. It was pretty cool, although I messed up a bit. Gonna play in the concert thing on the 17th I think.

Obama won the election. It was not a surprise at all really. Well, Palin, as I just read, did not know that Africa is a continent. She thought it was a country. Oh well, I'd like to congratulate Obama for winning the election, not much use though, I don't think he comes and check out my blog.

Anyway, I am starting to print my portfolio stuff, and to try to get it done soon. Meanwhile, my music technology stuff is screwed.

A Change of Name?

This is an interesting news indeed.

If I were British, this would be my new name.

Johann Wolfgang Sebastian Handel Ludvig Stephen Gustav Christophomus Vivaldi Chen Franz Peter Joseph Haydn Theophilus Debussy Antonio Richard Steven Bach Christopher Mahler Edvard George Schubert Frederic Beethoven Maurice Claude Wilhelm Gottlieb Sergei Guo Dmitri Romatz Long Trazom Tanoto Etcetera.

(Etcetra would be my last name).

My files, wherefore art thou missing?

Well, I think I have lost my files due to my broken laptop. It seems like my harddrive suffered from a long-term overheating. They did not really diagnose it as that, well not yet. They haven't come up with the reason yet, but I suspect it's that.

I called them and they told me that my case is a weird one, so they are going to do some stuff to it (don't really get their explanation) and tell me tomorrow. Well, there is a slim chance of me getting my files back, but it's slim.

I'd better start working on redoing stuffs now.

Other than that, more Dido and Aeneas performance tomorrow.