Violin exam result

On 27th of September 2010, after my last class at 3pm, together with a friend of mine, Liong a.k.a Handsome Liong ^^, went to Trevor’s room to ‘kacau’ him… When we were about to leave his hostel, I received a SMS from my music teacher. Before opening the message I saw a little part of the message and it was my 2 brothers piano and my violin exam results. I was a bit scare to open the message as I mentioned earlier than i had a hunch that I’ll fail my exam. Even though I was afraid to know my result, but soon or later I’ll still know my result. So I pressed the ‘view’ button and it says:

ABRSM piano exam jun-aug 2010 result: ee hahn distinction 134, joe distinction 130, jen distinction 133. Congratulation! Ms lee.

“Joe distinction 130”! You see that? I got distinction? How could it be? I played so poor on that day but instead of a pass (which is my highest expectation), I got a distinction. “Am I dreaming?” I asked Liong. No, I wasn’t dreaming, I was very sure that I wasn’t dreaming. I was so happy that I almost yelled it out as loud as I could! At that moment I wished to let everyone to know my result but it could be wrong information sent by my teacher unless she tells me face-to-face. But I posted in Facebook that I got distinction and funny, a friend of mine jealous about it… haha… even though he already passed his grade 8 piano exam.

I once told myself if I could pass my violin exam I’ll continue my grade 8 exam but with another teacher. My eldest sister’s friend recommended me a famous violinist in Malaysia, Mr. Lau Yew Hann, sounds like my name. You can google his name to see his biography. Such a professional teacher wouldn’t it costs me a lot? Well, I’ll know when I call him. But till today I don’t dare to call him because he is not a teacher but an orchestra player, so it’s kinda weird for a stranger suddenly calls him and ask to teach him. You know, my situation is like the Malay form 5 novel, Konserton Terakhir where the main character, Hilmi had an orchestra player to teach him, and he ended up to be so famous in Malaysia that even the Agong (If i’m not mistaken) came to watch his play. But of course I wouldn’t want to end up dying at such a young age. So I think I’ll wait till this Saturday for my teacher to tell the truth about my result and see whether she can calls him to teach me or not.

2nd Semester day-2-Great+loneliness

The second day of class started with CSC111, which is about computing. While waiting for the lecturer, suddenly a young chinese guy came half way in and asked a guy which is my classmate same course was that CSC111. And then later he came back in and told the class “Good morning everyone” and walked out again to make a call. The whole class of us surprised, so he is our lecturer. I thought he is a student from Foundation in Science and Technology because he don’t look like a lecturer. After some time interacting with him, then we knew that he is currently 35 doing PhD.

The greatest news I had always been wanting to hear it: we were again sorted for the English class, and very lucky, I remained in Ms. Sharifah’s class. Yesterday I told myself that I rather change to other class than staying with my classmates who were previously with me from Dr. Jeya’s class. But today, many previously from Ms. Zadza’s class came to our class and some of us moved out. So, now I can don’t worry too much about this anymore.

Evening after class I felt very lonely because many of my friends went back home today. I was worried that tonight nobody eats with me dinner. Luckily I have two friends eating in Thinking Cup (a lousy restaurant). We waiting for about 40 minutes only the foods arrived. Luckily they were playing a movie for us to see, but they put the wrong type of movie. They put up a wolfman movie where there were scenes of the wolfman tearing a human’s flash, and the blood spilled out vigorously, and also a scene where the wolfman cut a human’s head down and so on… Hey bro, we’re eating you know! I ordered a Portuguese Chicken. When the food arrived, I saw the plate had only a small piece of chicken thigh, about 8 sticks of fries and few pieces of vegetables, and it costs me RM11! Luckily it tasted delicious, unlike the first time coming here to eat, the fish-and-chip was not fully cooked.

Next semester Kam Yin, David, Wee Lim and the others are most probably not going to continue their degree here so I won’t be seeing them after this. I wonder that time who would be eating with me during dinner? Because currently I always eat with Kam Yin and Wee Lim. I felt that loneliness is approaching me, good friends are leaving me, just like after my SPM last year. And what will happen after that? Good friends turned into strangers……. That’s my friends cycle….

First day of class, got back my scholarship

Today our first class was English class. We have 5 English classes with 4 different lecturers, one of the lecturer was Ms. Sharifah. The seniors told me this lecturer is much better than their Mr. Manickam. While not many attended the 8am class (because they want to attend the 3pm class), we were sorted to our classes. According to them, those who were previously from Ms. Zadza will be going to Mr. Manickam. Those who were from Dr. Jeya will be going to Ms. Sharifah. There are a good news and a bad news here. Good news is I’ll be going to Ms. Sharifah’s class, which I hoped to be in her class. Bad news is I’ll be again with my ‘lovely’ classmates. After we had been sorted out, we went to our own classroom respectively. Disappointedly, my class only had 2 students including me. There should have about 10 students, but none of them came, that’s why I called them ‘lovely’ classmates. When Ms. Sharifah asked both of us whether we want to be with our previous presentation group, immediately I said NO. I would rather be in Mr. Manickam’s class bore to die than going back with my group mates. So she said she’ll see whether will rearrange the whole English class. I hope she will.

In the 10am class, which was Economics, I was surprised that there were 40+ students in the name list, where are the rest? There should be 50+. Did they failed the exam or what? Never mind about that, but till then I still haven’t get my results, have I failed Economics last semester? Maybe not, because my name appeared in the name list.

During lunch time, my friend Kam Yin took me To Desa Palma to eat. There were 7 of us went together, of course with 2 cars! While eating, suddenly David received a call from the office people that he can maintain his scholarship despite his result of GPA 3.68 where he should have at least GPA 3.7 to maintain. I was glad about it. Then David asked me to get my results first see whether I can ‘begged’ for the scholarship or not. I don’t think I’m that lucky to get GPA 3.6, maybe I can only get GPA 3.5 the most? Well, I still have to wait till 2pm only can take the results. But I don’t understand why we have to take our results at a certain time (2pm-4pm) when our results were out since Sunday.

At 1pm class, which was Maths, the lecturer was Ms. Norhana. From the way she spoke to us, I knew that she is a kind and friendly type of lecturer. At the end of the class, when I was about to ask her whether Form 6 Mathematics T is suitable for our Maths reference, then someone is calling me, it was from the office! I though they will ask me to go for the counsellor thing but no, it was about my scholarship. She told me that I can maintain my scholarship because my result is very close to GPA 3.7. I was so happy to hear that! And guess what, I got GPA 3.63! I never thought I can get such result! When I finished talking to her, Ms. Norhana had left the room.

A promise is a promise. Even though I got back my scholarship, I still have to work hard for this semester because I target my Foundation In Business to have at least CGPA 3.7! This semester there are two subjects I’m worried about, that are Maths and Malaysian studies. My seniors said their class has about 20+ students and 30% of them failed their Maths. So I hope I can do better this semester!