Seriously miss my schooling days. Not because of the school books though i do really love Maths a lot. But i'm talking about the time i have at home while i'm a student.
At age 4, mom let me take up piano class but stop at age 5 because we are shifting from KL to SA. SA is a newly develop place where we hardly can find any shops by then.
At age 8, mom registered me to Yamaha Music School, S.Parade for organ class where i enjoyed a lot. Somemore at that age, teacher will give us stickers after every class end and whenever we can play the songs that teacher taught every previous lesson but before it reached 1 year, i had to stop the class because mom was pregnant and can't really take me all the way to S.Parade by bus anymore. :(
Finally at age 14, my teenage age where i'm seriously a rebellious gal at home that time, pestered mom like don't know what and went to search for a piano teacher myself and told mom, i don't care, i'm going for it! Mom just need to give me the money. It was also the age where my parents are separated, mom are heart-broken and yet her rebellious daughter was acting like this.
I even pester dad for a piano, after 1/2 years of pestering him, finally he get one for me for my birthday though he was not staying with us anymore. :) Well, till today, i still know that dad love me a lot, he is very bias in a sense, so normally what i ask, he will give.
I started very well in piano. After 1 year with this teacher, i change another teacher in a music school in S.Muda. At grade 2, my teacher asked me to perform grade 5 songs for a concert.
Is not really easy to learn piano, it requires a lot of practices, few hours a day? But till now, i still remember the satisfaction i'll get after i finally can play a pieces perfectly. That's why, i always know that 'practice makes perfect' and there is nothing that we cannot do if we put in effort. Seriously not easy...
I still remember when i started with any new pieces, gosh, there will be notes that we surely being played wrongly that make the sound so weird but after few practices, our hands will get the feel of it and after 100++ attempts, we will finally get to play certain parts perfectly and whenever there are some very tough movement at certain bars, we have to keep practicing on it non-stop and that will make a perfect sound.
Finally, the biggest achievements is when i get to complete the whole pieces be it for exams or for leasure, the satisfaction within cannot be described. AAaaaahhhhh..... =D
Managed to sit for exams till Grade 4 only, then once i started college, i shifted out from home and no piano for me to practice. So i have to stop piano class rather than wasting money going for classes without practicing.
On and off, when i'm out to the working world, i still go back for piano classes but still, i have to give up after few months because i just don't get the time to practice. 1 of the thing is no time to practice because i have to work daytime, 2nd thing is that i only finish work at 5pm++ and when i'm home, mom will be blasting the tv which seriously distract me, or rather i'm distracting fml watching tv so it's rather difficult to learn even till now... :(
Actually i do feel sad that i can't continue playing classical music, i love it very much... That's why i always encourage people to finish Grade 8 during school days. That's the time that they can concentrate on the exams and have the full time to practice. When you are out to college life and working life, nope nope, no more time to concentrate on it anymore.
I will never forget how is the feeling of achieving something that seems not possible (when you look at those pieces with few pages long) but finally when you have done it PERFECTLY, you will jump for joy man! :)
*Thanks mom and dad for giving me the chance to learn music.*
Not forgetting that i'm also interested at other musical instruments that i bought a guitar myself (hard earned money from Baskin Robins) and a saxaphone (where i hardly blow unless i have a very huge space for me to blast this loud instrument) and i do have a very cheap flute. I do know how to play harmonica, learnt it from my grandma. I will still go around asking people who are willing to teach me on other instruments that i don't know. Steven Goto taught me Twinkle Twinkle Little Star using violin... :) *thanks*.
Basically, my dad's side and mom's side do love music and they have the talent within. Most of my dad's siblings can play by hearing including my dad. And now some of my cousins are playing musical instruments in church. And 3 of my cousins (mom's side) and 1 of my mom's sis was in a band when they were younger, playing bass, guitar, drum and keyboard. And my sis too, playing drum! :D
*Thank you, Lord, for the talents*
