Just Another Long Rant

Yet again, I have no arty contribution to my blog today. I haven't even finished (or continued, shall I say) the background I was working on. It's been really busy lately, and it's only been the second week into the term. Last weekend, I went to Manchester and it was awesome. It was wonderful to meet old friends again, especially one who I haven't seen for two and a half years, since I moved down to Hertfordshire. And I think, catching up with friends, seeing what they've been doing over the past year has been good. Sometimes, you just need those moments in life. 

I also bought lots (I say lots, but it wasn't that much, I wish I had bought more). I've actually eaten most of it already, and today's only Wednesday. I actually can't wait till my next trip till Manchester, I'm going to stock up like crazy. It's not that there isn't Pocky and stuff in Sheffield, but it's more expensive. If I was unaware, I would be willing to pay a ridiculous price for Pocky and all the other Japanese sweets, but you don't fool me when I know the prices >=[ There's this new Japanese store (which I mentioned in the previous post), and they were selling Pocky for £2.10 and Pretz for a similar price, the Chinese supermarket round here only sells it for 90p or £1.20 or something like that... but in Manchester I bought Pocky for 60p! So here's my mini rant on prices xD And just think about all the extra snacks I could buy from the money I save ^^ No one is going to separate me from my Pocky and cuttlefish (there's this snack which is called 'seasoned cuttlefish' according to the packet and it's damn amazing... It's not to everyone's taste but my life would be a sadder life without it ^^) 

I've decided that this post is going to be one of those where I talk a lot of myself. Interestingly, everyone seems to be blogging more about pictures and drawings and stuff. But in my old blog, my friends there and I used to just blog a whole page of writing... maybe blogger is just a lot less wordy? 

Today was my day off! YAY FOR WEDNESDAYS! I went bowling with some friends. First we went to Pizza Hut after I said I didn't like Nandos (we had a dilemma between Pizza Hut and Nandos). As usual, Pizza Hut had incredibly bad service. I wonder are they ever going to get it right? It's been so many years... surely some dude at the head office would have received enough and complaints and decide they must do something about it. There's really something wrong with the disciplines and management of that company. Today, I had to ask three times for a straw. The first time, the waitress said she'll get me one in a couple of minutes and walked off somewhere (she wasn't even going off to do something else that was urgent, in fact, she wasn't doing anything at all). Second time, I decided to try a different waitress, she also told me to wait a few minutes. Then finally, I asked the third waitress, and I finally got a straw. She also bought out a pasta dish my friend had ordered, then, just before he was about to eat it, he realised there was chicken in it. So they had to recook his dish, without the chicken. Another friend who ordered potato wedges for starters, then a small margarita pizza... but her pizza order was never placed. Sometimes I wonder will that place ever get things right? 

Then bowling was fun, after not bowling for so long... it felt a little weird but fun. I do regret not cutting my nails before hand though... because (maybe I'm bowling wrong) but I get this pain in my right thumb and after a few goes when the pain shows up... I'm worried about my nail breaking. It happened once and it was horrible. But nonetheless, I didn't come last. I only got one strike in two games, but it's a small achievement ^^ 

After bowling, I wanted to go shopping in town and make the most of my day ticket for the tram. But I had a stomach ache (I personally suspect the pizza because I hadn't eaten anything else that day besides my tea and biscuits which I have every day). Besides that, it was also because I was just super tired and needed to go home and rest. (Yes, I needed to rest, even though I did nothing but sleep till 10am and ate and went bowling... =.=") But the night before I was doing Purple Peace stuff till rather late; and boy, does making a website make your head hurt or make your head hurt? It makes your head hurt. Another thing I did on Saturday was discuss PP plans and this week I made a deadline for 21st February. That's the last day for the website to finish, and then we have to start promotions for our new website. But there's just so much to do on my super long to-do list. And the Purple Peace comic is driving me insane. But I know it'll all be worth it some day. PP is like my child (I know it sounds weird but just bare with it xP). 

Lastly, here's a little piano piece by koreanjeenyus. I can't even remember subscribing to him but I came across this video in my subscriptions and rather liked it =] 

Piano ~~

I can't remember the last time I posted. But I feel like I should post today!

I bought my piano! =D It's not the most amazing model, but it's good enough to keep me satisfied and help me practice ^^
Ahh I've been playing on it a lot today. I've realised how rusty my piano skills are after just stopping for a year. I can barely play Forever Love now, I can't even remember the Fur Elise notes T_T
But yeah, plenty of time to practice this summer ^_^ *happy*

Also, today, after I bought the piano. My mum told me this shop which sold some classical cds cheap. So my mum took me there *after I've asked to go so many times*
It had some really cool Mozart for baby cd's =] It had ones for concentration and for memory and for emotions and stuff. It was really cool. If I have a kid, I'm gonna get him or her to listen to Mozart hehe xD
Anyway, then I saw this box set of 12 Mozart cd's.... I wanted to get that.
Then I saw a box set of 12 different classical composer cd's. There was Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Haydn, Chopin and many more. So I bought that and I'm really happy =D
Oh yeah, it also had Vivaldi, the four seasons.... but I already have a Vivaldi cd...

Also... I bought some really cool Sony headphones with my piano. They were more expensive than the ear phones I usually use for the ipod... but these were headphones which was quite awesome because they don't hurt my ears after a while =]

Yeah, I don't really know what else to say now. I'm sure there's more but I can't remember. I'm gonna go and watch tv, it's this thing about the Caribbean, it's so cool =]

Yiruma

As usual, I end up spending hours and hours on YouTube watching piano videos (especially when I'm supposed to do something important like finish off the magazine article or homework)

But yeah, I've spent all day from about 10:30am this morning watching piano videos. I can never ever get tired.
They just make me happy.
But I did spend some time shopping round for pianos too. They're so expensive >.<

I've discovered a few people on YT who plays wonderful Japanese and Korean songs. I'm surprised I didn't notice their videos before.

 I've always been a big fan of Lang Lang, Yundi Li, etc. But then I was looking for DBSK's "Share The World" piano score, 'cause I read from one of the video's I watched that I could purchase it from Yamaha. But to no avail, I couldn't DBSK scores on the Yamaha website. I also heard that their newest single "Stand By U" will be available too. 

Anyways, all of that was besides the point. I ended up stumbling on a great pianist called Yiruma. And I am completely in love with his music.

Although they're all good, so far I have two favourites ^^


Kiss The Rain




Love




So yeah, check out his videos. They're pretty awesome! He plays so beautifully... you just get completely mesmerised

I also love Destiny Of Love. Watching him play is so awesome, he's so absorbed into it ^^

I've been looking for his piano scores. I found some of them on YesAsia. I'd love to own all of them.
Should I spend about £40 buying the 3 volumes of piano scores? They look so tempting. But before I buy those, it'd make sense to buy a new piano first. 

I think I'm gonna have to find all the mp3 files and then put them all on my ipod <3>