Mid-Year Exam (Part 3)
List of exams:1) Sight Reading/ Hearing/ Singing (Theory) Pt1
2) Sight Reading/ Hearing/ Singing (Aural/Practical)3) Harmonization Pt34) Piano Pt15) CONDUCTING Pt26) Orchestration + Score Reading Pt3
7) Art and Philosophy
Chinese Folklore History9) English (Oral) Pt110) English (Test) Pt311) P.E. Exams Pt1
1) Harmonization - Taken 27/12/06
Harmonization was taken early in the morning… and I did something stupid the night before. I had this MP3 alarm clock on my desktop where it’ll play any MP3 songs that I insert… a very good way to wake myself up. Because instead of the sudden loud songs that starts off with choruses on my handphone, this one I get to choose soft songs that goes slow and easy before going louder and louder, and I get to choose from my wide range of song choices in my computer. Cool eh? THEN, there’s this "AM" and "PM" thing on the clock, and the "clever" me forgot to tune it to "AM" when I set the alarm. SO… I was supposed to wake up at 7:30am as the exam starts at 8:20am. BUT… since I didn’t set the thing properly, of course it didn’t RING. THANK GOD I opened my eyes and remembered that it was HARMONIZATION EXAM DAY, wondering why were the sky so bright already. I spring up and realized that it was 10 minutes away to exam time and sped up to everything. GOD. KILL ME. Then as I panted down the hallway and turned a sharp corner, I met my friend who was wandering outside the classroom. He smiled at my state and said: "Exam’s starting at 8:30am. Teacher’s not here yet." I heave a sigh of relief, grinned at myself and ran back to the hostel for a cup of hot milo, feeling great after that. LOL. The exam was kinda tough, long question with many solution that my mind found but couldn’t mark out which was the best one… Hopefully I don’t do too bad. Because if I get below 85, I might be expelled from my department…. crazy rule.
2) Orchestration + Score Reading - Taken 29/12/06
Another one of the exams where I have to score 85 and above or be expelled from the department. But I’m not too worried about orchestration score reading, because this one all you have to do is practice enough. There isn’t spontaneous things that you have to do on-spot. So, as long as I practiced everything, it should be fine. And thanks to HuangYi, who had asked me to help him with his score-reading, I did pretty well… LOLX. Because by the time he learns a particular piece, I’d be memorizing already. WAkakaka…
3) English (Test) - Taken today 08/01/07
These China people have a funny way of taking english exams. During our last few english lessons before this exam, the teacher gave us 6 sets of questions that contains: Vocabulary, Cloze passages, Comprehension and etc… And we were asked to memorize as much as possible because all the questions are going to be base on what’s inside. Or to be exact, during the test, the questions on our test paper will look EXACTLY the same as part of the questions in what we are given to read. So, er… you call this a test? And well, I did read through the 6 sets of papers once… and helped some of my friends (malaysians from chinese school) in understanding the comprehension question. So when I sat for the exam, I could practically do it blindfolded. LOL… no lar, blindfolded kinda impossible… but I really didnt do any extra reading, just circled the answers. HAHAHAHA. And finished 65 questions in 10 minutes. Sweat right? It was a one hour exam, and I spent 10 minutes answering, 15 minutes coloring the answer sheet black, 10 minutes double checking my answers just in case I colored wrongly… and then I was out. LOL. With the whole class’ eyes on my back.
Oh well, now I’m down with the easy one, I have 3 more hard ones to go…and then MERDEKA!
