This Week’s Boring Update.

MONDAY: Guitar lesson as usual, ah but this day had a little extra kick to it. I took the Vios and drove myself (ALONE KAY!) to class. I didn’t bang into anything nor had any near death experiences while I was on the road (thanks to boss’s ‘remember to look out for stationary objects’ reminder wor.. Lol).

I never knew driving alone was that much fun! XD I wish I could do it more but mum is sorta paranoid, as in psychotic rapist lurking within the parking bays, bad people with big parangs who knock into me intentionally and wait for me to get down from the car and drive it away etc. Sigh. Sometimes I wonder if I should really live my life in fear. I don’t know. I like doing stuff alone, walking alone, taking public transportation alone. Everyone always tells me that its dangerous but I guess I’m the kind who’d never learn till I really come face to face with the devil himself. *shrugs*

Anyways, I seriously do wipe my guitar every time after playing! T.T I swear. To my teacher: You wouldn’t believe how I’m wiping it now after you ‘accused’ me of not wiping it even after you told me to. =P I even wipe underneath the strings! And each strings separately too. Wipe many many times! Sigh. Bloody sweaty palms of mine. Salt in my sweat reacts with the phosphorus bronze strings and results in some oxidization or whatever! Chemistry eeyuck!

TUESDAY: Hmm. What did I do on Tuesday? OH! Went to Bukit Bintang with Janet and Fishy after Janet passed her driving test! And we watched ‘Transformers’ again (Fishy and I)! Sigh. This crowd was kinda sad. I think it was only Fishy and I laughing like mad at every single thing remotely funny. =P But the movie was still great all the same.

WEDNESDAY: Went to Mid Valley with mum for grocery shopping and I, khaki pants. I haven’t been wearing khakis since like Form 2 and from then on was jeans all the way. Went to Miss Selfridge and saw a grey one but didn’t bring my member card thingy so I decided to get it another day.

TL Hot Wind t. Bought this for 20 bucks! This was on half price. It was under the ‘no trying’ rack but the nice shop assistant was lenient.

TL army green khakis. There’s these two strings beneath each side of the pockets and they looked stupid when tied up in a ribbon or just left dangling so I just stuffed it inside the pockets. Hope they don’t pop out after walking for some time. =P

Radioactive 2 for RM 30 tees! I know they are the same pattern but cheap mar. =P

Oh oh! This one was on half price too! Cost me RM45 bucks.

Bloody! Am I getting fat! I had to get either L or size 10 for me to feel more comfortable in those pants (I was a size 8 during CNY.) Noooooooooooooo! I need to stop snacking every night! Make my big fat arse a bit smaller!

Maggots look alike but they taste NICE! XD

Culprits

Oh and after I came back? I kicked myself on the right foot with my left foot (with shoes still on!). I was like ouch and thought I felt something like my toenail being lifted off or something. But it seemed fine until 5 seconds later a little blood came oozing out onto my socks. =P

Lol! It doesn’t look very serious but you can see the dent marks (and caked blood on the sides. Hope you puke your food out!). Cool! XD

This is my closes encounter to ever having my nails ripped off. I so can’t play basketball now looking at the length of my nails. I never really knew how dangerous it was up till now. =P But I need nails for guitar wor. Guitar, basketball, guitar, basketball. Yang mana? I want both! Bah.

THURSDAY: Hmmm. Think I stayed at home all day coz the renovation people continued their job as the supplies had arrived.

This was how my house looked last week. It’s much messier now.

FRIDAY: Went to Mid Valley (yes, again) for dinner and grocery shopping (since we’re there already, get that grey pants as well).

THANK GOD I DIDN’T BRING MY MEMBER CARD ON TUESDAY COZ YESTERDAY THEY WERE ON SALE AND THAT GREY PANTS WAS ON THAT 50% off RACK! XD *hallelujah* But there was no more size 10 and only size 8 left. It is a very obvious sign from whoever is watching over me to DIET! I bought it anyways. Motivation to cut down my food intake. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! I wish!

Really nice light and comfy t shirts and it’s RM25.90 each only (well, considering the fact its from Zara.)

TODAY (SATURDAY): Going to have a dinner buffet with my relatives of my mum’s side (get to kacau Ian again! XD).

So basically this whole week consisted of shopping sprees and pigging out. How uneventful (no, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is not an exciting event at all. *yawns*). Mid Valley AGAIN tomorrow to see Master Fishy do her stuff at the US education fair thingy!

Mid Valley Megamall, a place to call my second home.

Ouch My Soon To Be Powder-ed Fingers.

I have been having acute menstrual pains this year. Acute as in stomach churning, intestines (or maybe the ovaries?) twisting pain which I have to curl up and not move an inch, and if i try to shift my position, the pain comes searing through my abdomen and is so terrible that it even makes me puke out my dinner (I think the twisting must be so terrer that it even affects my esophagus’s peristalsis. WTF. Someone with a better knowledge on Biology please enlighten me.). At that time, I just wish someone would get me a screwdriver to gut myself with.

Anyways, GUITAR LESSON TODAY AGAIN! Yippee! Did more exercises on the 4th and 5th strings *yawns*, 6th string exercise as homework. Then, continued with Goo Goo Dolls’s Black Balloon (my teacher thought it was ‘baloon’ *faints* Lol!). Was telling him that it sounded weird since last week’s lesson and today when he brought the cd and played it, he laughed or more like ‘eheh heh heh’ malu-ly coz it turned out that I had to tune the guitar a flat lower. It’s just freakin funny lar whenever he does ‘eheh heh heh heh’ thingy coz I don’t really expect such a cool lead guitarist dude (have I told you he has long hair which looks really good? Bwahahahahaha!) to act that way. Continued with the song we did. Turns out that the strumming pattern and chords he gave me weren’t that (quoting him exactly) ‘precise’. Lol. He tried to defend himself a little, jokingly lar of course and which was again, FUNNY!

Anyhow, the intro to Black Balloon was harmonics and I hadn’t learnt that before. So he gave me a harmonics exercise where I’d have to stretch my 2nd and last finger wide apart to reach the 7th and 12th frets. *faints*

The unusual tone of guitar harmonics, the actual split-second plucking and even the location of the frets that produce the guitar harmonics are all minute details that take a very long time to master and recognize. Learning the guitar harmonics takes time and patience, more so then many other techniques and while many guitarists use guitar-tuning harmonics, not many players even attempt to produce harmonics until they have been playing a very long time.

MyGuitarWorkshop.com-Learning guitar harmonics

What in the world is he thinking?!?!?!?!? God, this is definitely the most intensive guitar learning ‘course’ I’ve ever been to! He keeps using the ‘you’re on holiday riteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee? *evil*’ phrase. T.T

Okay lar, I have to admit, regardless of the finger stretching mild difficulty, it is actually quite fun learning to produce sounds this way. Very cool indeed! And bloody do I need my finger nails to grow faster especially my right thumb’s. It grows SO slowly! Does anybody know how to make them grow faster and stronger (as in not break easily)?

Another really tough ’skill’ I had to learn today was that half-barre thingy. He changed the A chord to a A/C# chord! *Cries, left hand and wrist cramps, i finger goes numb, finally faints* HOW IN THE WORLD does anyone press it perfectly without unintentionally muting one of the strings or making it go ‘twaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang’ or changing into that chord fast enough? I’d very much like to blame it on my fingers being too fat or short, but I hardly think that’s the case. Sigh. Practice, practice, practice. That’s what he and they all say. And therefore, practice I will. The skin of the tip of my left fingers are turning so thick that I can hardly feel anything with them anymore!

Whatever impression I might have given you after reading this post, I am still enjoying my lessons very much (waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than before with the previous teachers at Mahogany a few years back)! Maybe it’s coz I’m actually learning something and not just playing for the sake of playing a few easy songs. I am so going to miss the lessons when I’m off to HKU. But I swear I’ll continue my lessons when I’m back for my semester breaks and hopefully he’d still be teaching there. Bwahahahhahahaha!

My new H guitar pick.

Whoever that is. =P

1st pick with two stupid cicaks on it! Ew!

Random:

My sacred weapon! T.T One of the buds has gone missing. *sniff* I can’t live without them. Does anybody know where I can just get the earbud? I really don’t wanna get a new set of earphones just because I lost that earbud.

P.s. Emo post coming up tomorrow.