Halloween and Stuff

Well last Saturday was Halloween.

Let me back track a bit--on Tuesday of that week I went to this thingy where I got a certificate saying I was the top ten of my class from last semester. I don't know when the next Renaissace assembly is but I'm not sure if I'll be in it--I got a freaking B on my report card... >:[

On Thurday my dad pulled me out halfway through math 'cause I had to take my level 3 practicum for piano. It's done by this thing called ABRSM [Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, in case you didn't know]. I was practicing like hell the night before and I really wish I practiced more throughout the week. I got there a bit before my time [9:42] and conversed with my piano teacher and the student before me [who also goes to my school and I kinda made friends with :)] So yeah. Anyways, I went nervous like hell, and I went in--hands frozen and clammy and my stomach churning. I decided to start off with my worst piece this time and work my way to my best instead of the other way around the last two times. So I did--and I f***ed up Allegretto! T_T I started off really good thinking 'I'm not doing bad'. Then I got halfway through and I literally stopped. I forgot what to play, staring at my hands and the music for, like, five seconds, muttering 'shit where am I' and 'crap crap crap...'. I finally picked up and I know I'm getting no more than a 20--I'll be lucky for a 15, actually O.O My next piece, Waldvoglen, wasn't bad but it probably sounded better than the first, and my last--Round Dance--was really good. Those were my three pieces, and then I did scales and shtuff. Next is everything else--sight reading, which was really easy and I'm set in for at least 18/19--echo, which is singing what they say and I did average--recognizing change in a melody--understanding a piece--and I think that's about it. *sigh* I'm hoping for a 100 [which is barely passing] but I'll be surprised to get merit, which is 110, I think. I got distinction which was 130 last year. [It's out of 150 but that's almost impossible.]

So yeah, and now Halloween. My plan was to invite four people--two friends from my school and two from other. At five-ish, when I asked 'em to come, I texted everybody and here's how it went; one was sick since the day before and couldn't come; one had people remodeling their house and didn't have a ride but after offering still couldn't come; and one was all set until the last minute and she couldn't. So it was pathetic--me and one friend trick-or-treating by ourselves. But it was fun--we went all around our neighborhood and it being hills and no one ever goes way up, we got quite the haul :) After we got back we ate snacks, wacthed TV and acted dorky, played the piano, and then she left at, I think, 10-10:30.

So that was my past week. What else?

Erm, on Monday I went with my dad to Costco 'cause I also wanted to go to Barnes and Noble. So we did, and I got some stuf:
The top two are books--Catch-22 and Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man [if you couldn't read]. They're for my author study in English which is due in, like, a month >.> I don't remember why I picked him, but I kinda wish I picked Frank McCourt...
Yes, and the bottom two are manga: Othello volume 1 and next is Negima! volume 24. The first was a present for my friend. I read some of it at school and decided to get it to her [pst--I finished it Monday night and it was a pretty good book]. And the next is, of course, Negima--the one and only :) I also finsihed it already and it was quite satisfying--love the cover, by the way.

Um, I don't think much happened this week... I finished all the things for the Halloween event on GaiaOnline [my unser's codestone0, so add me if you want :)] Yes--I'm kinda boring...

So now I bring you to the real reason why I decided to actually write a blog entry [finally]. *drumroll* I read through my e-mail, go thte Tokyopop newsletter and opened it. They had a link for their summer '10 releases [pretty lame if you ask me]. I jus scrolled down, distracted, and this name popped out: The Quasar of Stigmata!!!! :D :D :D It sounds lame but I started reading these scans in October and drew a picture of the main character, Sasha, and I thought it was good though also kinda random, and I was like 'Oh my gosh!!' when I saw it. So yeah... XD I'm weird, I know. *goes to finish article* Meh nothing else, but Quasar comes out in August which sucks... -.-

Anyways, I shall be off doing pointless things...


-Tzui
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