it was an eventful day today. i was supposed to meet emily at vch to buy the mep student ticket for the gil shaham concert tonight... somehow i arrived like 20 minutes early. it's weird that when i need to meet my pw group at city hall mrt i take a little more than an hour... but when i stop at raffles place and walk to vch, i take like little less than an hour? ridiculous! i don't walk that fast! mrts are so freaky. just today another two accidents happened... one at redhill and one at bukit batok. and don't forget the one at bishan previously. eeks...

okay, so i waited for emily... she said she was going to be late but was actually just on time. when we tried to buy the tickets, the lady at the counter told us that the mep card is only for category 4, 5 & 6. we were like... "huh?" cos the card says that it's all categories for gala concerts. but even when we kept explaining to her about the card she insisted that it was a mistake and that the computer system's mep tickets are for category 4, 5 & 6 only. obviously all these are sold out by now... sigh. and i can't even afford a category 3 ticket with the 20% student concession. if they had made a printing error on the card, shouldn't they have informed us about it? then we would have bought the category 5 or 6 tickets long time ago... i really don't mind sitting at the back, as long as i get to go. but to wait till the day of the concert to be told that the card holder is not entitled to category 1, 2 & 3 is totally disappointing! as if they'll manage to sell the expensive tickets by concert time... rich people who want to go would have bought their tickets long time ago lor, still wait until concert day to buy meh. if it's the aunty's mistake then i'll be totally irritated... really wanted to go for tonight's concert!

so emily and i went to esplanade library to find scores to include into our compo portfolio appendices. browsed through lots of shelves and books looking like a kiasu nerd who's super eager not to miss out on anything available... hahaha really! i looked through every shelf and every book on each shelf (at the very least it was at the cover and title of the book). in the end i found quite some string quartet scores which i thought would be of help for my third compo... and some two piano works and variations. managed to zap two of the string quartets... the shorter ones. one by bartok and the other by gorecki. since the variations and two piano works were too thick to be zapped there, i decided to borrow three of them. then decided to borrow a ginastera string quartet... if i have time some other day, i think i'll go back for the schoenberg and janacek string quartets.

after dinner at mac's, emily and i decided to "drop by" towers. hahaha... ya, u all know why the inverted commas are there! at first i did find things that are useful for my compos or things i wanted to listen to. i found debussy's images (can't find it in ms... CD 599, anyone took it pls return!) which i'm supposed to get some inspiration from for my third compo, and found a beethoven leonore conducted by karajan with symphony no. 8 i think, can't remember. didn't buy it in the end cos emily found another cd, leonore and fidelio, for 75% off... decided to buy this instead cos it's cheaper plus i already have his symphonies. so when there seemed nothing else to look at, i began flipping through the shelves to see what's for sale... (towers having sale, for those who are interested) the pile of cds in my hands just grew non-stop. i had to exercise some self-control and consider only those i would be interested in or would find helpful and not just take all the cds that are on sale. hahaha, still ended up with lots of cds... joined emily at some table at the corner to decide which cds to buy. ended up spending $73.40... excluding a $10+ cd which emily helped me pay for. wah... no more money liao, luckily no school for the next two weeks. one of the most expensive towers trips i've had... if u don't count the one where i had to collect everyone's verdi requiem. what was funny was that while we were deciding which cds we wanted to buy at the table, this guy, who apparently thought i was just a worker sorting out cds, wanted to take a look at a grieg cd i had decided to buy. hahahaha at least he wasn't angry when i told him i wanted to buy it, and when he couldn't find anymore copies of it on the shelves. and another guy, who also thought i was the worker, asked me whether the price on one of the cds was before or after the discount. hahahaha just told him i wasn't working at towers... maybe i should have been more helpful and inform him that the cds without any stickers stating the discount are still at the usual price? still quite happy though i'm super broke... i love to buy cds!

ok... shall settle back into my usual uneventful life and do something to my compos... i have nothing to show philip tan! listened to brahms' paganini variations and though there are some ideas, i can't seem to get it right. in the first place, his variations are so super hard to play! and ms chew just reminded me on monday not to kill my players... hahaha.