Yay! Holidays holidays holidays... hehehehehehe.

Eh... dunno what to say leh. Wells super glad that term is over, not so busy anymore. But that's also a ninth of my time here gone too :(

Christine said I could try to ask Sue whether I can sign out the harpsichord and its room's keys for the holidays so that I can practice. But she said it might not be possible so I may just have to practice on the pianos. Funny, ZM said that she isn't really keen on Bach but today she set me stuff from Bach's French Suites. Ah very nice! I like them better than the English Suites! Yay... think of having all the time in the world to practice! Ok, not all the time in the world I guess. But still, it's going to be so empty or emptier cos people will go home. :D

Need to do my compo though. I did churn out a few bars for individual tutorial but then I didn't like it. It was too cliche, pastiche... pentatonic! Daria said it wasn't very pastiche cos the 'gestures are different etc' but then I still don't like it so she suggested that I add dissonant notes to it. But the few bars of the middle of the compo that I churned out was ok, at least I didn't hate them that much. Just that I think it's not really effective to think of a beginning and a middle and work out what goes between the two. I need to rethink!

Need to find a job too. Hopefully one that can still be continued after the holidays. But if not, at least for now. There are so many things I want to buy! Yet at the same time I want to save money for next year's fees. Bleargh.

My flat's going to feel like the first few days when my British flatmates haven't moved in yet... empty again! Good in some ways but then again, I might not be used to all the silence after they're gone. We're going to have Christmas dinner this Thursday... heh they invited me but then I thought I should still cook something and chip in. Otherwise super bad. Hahaha this works on the reciprocity principle of the recent psychology test! :P Anyway I've been quite bad to them la, so dao to them. Never join them for anything, the most I do is say hi plus a bit of small talk when I bump into them. And my alarm clock's snoozing every morning! Hahaha somehow the people here don't seem to need alarm clocks to wake them up. I've never heard anyone's, and Pohning doesn't seem to have heard anyone's too! Hope they're not too pissed with me and my snoozing...

On Sunday Shuying and I went to Selina's house for Christmas dinner. Very yummy! Hahaha Shuying was in heaven :D We bought two big lollipops each for the kids, and a box of chocolate. (Hahaha reciprocity again!) Cos we couldn't really decide what toys to buy for them and anyway toys are expensive. But guess sweets as large as what we bought aren't very practical too. Though they look really attractive, kids can't finish all of it at one go right. Selina was questioning why I chose to borrow money and come here to study if all I wanted to do next time was to give private piano lessons, reasoning that I could have done that long ago. I was like ermz... dunno what to say. Hah but she did set me thinking lah. It's quite true that since I came here, there must be something I can gain that I can't get in Singapore right... I just dunno what that is. Heh obviously the course isn't what I'd be able to get back home. But then like she said, I can still do the same things next time even if I didn't come here. I was totally o_O Dunno la... I need time to think!