Tuesday, February 24, 2009

goddamn it stupid OpenOffice Chinese word count method

I was writing up my essay for 鹰的天空. first wrote something damn lame about some guy trapped under a building after an earthquake. Decided it was too lame in the end and I couldn't ever fulfill the word quota as I was on page 2 and at 700 words. So I restarted my essay. Did the 'do-you-want-perfection' question. Did a page (with a smaller Chinese font) and checked my word count. not even 500? Bullshit! A single paragraph is like over 100 words. So now my Chinese E-Learning is complete. Not my other subjects though...

Oh and I was supposed to collect my broken trumpets with Lin Jin (he had a broken trombone) at Windworks today. Only today was staff training and the band wasn't open, and there was no way in hell I'm bringing 3 trumpets home (I brought back from yesterday's awesomely-long practice from 9-5. Didn't play it though =\).

Sunday, February 22, 2009

(I'm quite Bad) minton

I played a bit of badminton just now with my dad. Quite fun but I still suck. Need to get less lazy =\ Daniel Ng, wanna play some day?

I found out about (actually it's more I remembered about) Samurize, which is basically a desktop editor. Let's you put a lotta stuff on the desktop, like CPU info, RAM, time, etc. If you think a normal desktop won't have use for such a thing since it's so cluttered anyways, my desktop is rather...empty.


Yea. The wallpaper changes often, though.

Anyways, I tried to use Samurize. Fiddled around with it for the entire night on Friday, then uninstalled it the next. D: Tried Rainmeter, but didn't like the fact that to edit your desktop you had to use Notepad.

Monday, February 16, 2009

nothing much

Again, just posting to keep my domain alive. Hopefully.

Valentine's Day passed by peacefully without my doing pretty much anything. So did Total Defence Day (got caught mildly surprised by the alarm though).

I have SMP tomorrow, as my mentor had an MC last Thursday. Means I go for SMP twice this week...

Ah well. Need to improve my trumpet playing even more. I'm actually okay, just that my endurance is still utterly disgusting. Can't really think of how to train that though.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

long time no update (shit may lose my free domain D:)

Feeling not so emo now, although still emo that I screwed up so goddamn badly yesterday concert. Ah well, it happens. But still.

I was supposed to have SMP today, but my mentor called in and told me she had an MC, so I went home earlier. Practiced a little at home, sounded like shit still. For reasons still unknown, I sound way better in school.

God, I seriously need to practice my trumpet playing more.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

advertising for my debut single which is coming soon

People, get ready for the most awesome and pleasurable sensation you have ever experienced. This artifact, still in the midst of preparation, will blow your mind, and every other part of your body along with. Starring all sorts of fingerings, positions, and instrument blowing, it is the one, the only:

Saxytime with a Trumpet and an Out-of-Tune Piano

Okay the above was all a bunch of bullshit. You know, just in case you believed me.

I was playing Take 5 with Ernest as piano this afternoon. And I sucked. Surprise. So after practice we were all discussing about my debut album, and thinking up all sorts of innuendos to the title.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Bought a Trumpet duet book for myself. Hmm...

Kinda ironic since I'm only one guy, eh?

I realised that Cold Storage's honey-baked and black pepper chicken are SO much more expensive than their Carrefour counterparts! By more than a dollar! What the heck!

Also, a small chicken cutlet in Carrefour costs $1.60, while a honey-roasted version of a similar size goes for the low low price of $4.00. Huh.