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Thursday, October 16, 2008
Music
I think this is bad.... I seem to be spending more of the day playing guitar or harmonica, or singing rather than doing math or physics. I literally wasted the whole of today. So, while I can't sleep, I have decided to study math.

My Jazz Band just had a mini performance today and I thought we did well. Someday, maybe we'll perform for real.

I know plenty of people who decide to pick up an instrument just for the sake of it. I was like that myself. For 5 to 6 years I've been playing like a void deck mat. All that changed when I saw Kaori Muraji play though. That was when I decided to strive for exellence when it came to guitar. Along the way I decided to pick up the harmonica too, because it looked cool, fun and simple enough (it really is).

I guess I realised that it's really quite pointless to learn something and not have a desire to be good at it. You can't play the songs that you want, and you don't discover what you really can do if you really go beyond what you're comfortable with. I guess that if you don't have a desire to be good or if you are lazy and don't act upon that desire, your music becomes expressionless after awhile, and that defeats the purpose of making music in the first place.

I don't have any videos of myself playing or singing at the moment, but maybe I'll post something in the future. For now, here's a video of a viola virtuoso in the making - none other than my very own beloved roomate, Hugh (I apologise for it being rotated 90').


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