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Name: Jason
Interests: movies, food, whisky.
Expertise: switch on/off, taking role calls, photocopying and distributing handouts, tidying classroom.
Occupation: Customer service/support
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Member Since:
10/7/2003
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| 昨天完成了大佬的婚禮。之前的疲累，終於也一發不可收拾。
102.3F，成年人來說是頗高燒。發冷、頭痛、筋骨痛。幸好今天晚上才有工作。不過我也要考慮一下是否應該放自己一兩天假了。自撞車以後慢慢冷靜下來，是時候想想如何向撞我車尾的小朋友作投訴了。
好煩，甚麼都不想理會，但這是不可能的。起碼要為自己討一個公道及合理的賠償吧。
幸好我們的旅行延後了，要明天一早出發的話，我一定會死。而且我也要留下來處理保險的問題。
暫時不要開車了。我的心理會承受不了。
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| 1st Term 完了!對我來說，1st Term已經完了，因為所有我要幫忙的Concert Series已過去，所有課亦於今天完結。剩下來的，是下星期一的「止驚」音樂會及一堆Aural Training功課及試卷。還有一個半個監考什麼的，比較輕巧，不算什麼。
Flute Exam過去了，希望及格吧。學笛未夠兩年便考ATCL，最艱難不是技巧問題，而是信心問題。昨天考試的四首樂曲中，我有三首在顫抖，真的很可笑。要多謝伴奏的朋友，是我遇過最好的pianist！問題是，接下來，考什麼好呢？
最近聽到公司同事對工作頗有不滿。只想說，我也有大量不滿，但有些事情，過了就算，反映了也無用，老闆可能反要覺得你多多事實。反正在何處工作，總有不如意事，總有office politics。被人欺負，就怪自已實力不夠。丁點不滿，何足掛齒…
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| 零八年十一月point form 寫weblog，零零散散。這個月來，我的思緒都是這樣零零散散。
不知何時開始，Xanga與我的距離越來越遠，而朋友之中仍在寫Xanga的人也日夕減少。是因為Facebook？抑或只是人懶惰了？
這個學期過得特別快。一轉眼又是兩個半月，與新的學生們好像一點都不熟落，而且我也有點不願回公司去了。
轉工。這個學年之後無論如何都不會續約，現在有什麼機會都要抓緊。
這幾天思想頗負面，很有種「大不了轉行」的想法，覺得音樂幾乎是誤了我的一生.... 同時也覺得音樂系不斷在浪費資源、誤人子弟.....
這半年看著樓市股市，都有種看煙花的感覺，一有風吹草動，感覺就是.... 「.....嘩！.....嘩！！！」好不刺激....
不過.... 中國市場似乎仍有極大隱憂，短期內可能有更大災難來臨..... 這倒不是值得高興的事情。
這句說話也忍了兩年了..... 老闆的特性，同時也是現今香港社會的寫照︰「涼薄。」
秋天，總是有點哀傷感；今年的秋天，多了煩惱，少了自在。
討厭
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| updatehaven't written anything about myself for months.
well... i am still somewhere in between excited and exhausted about my wedding. have mixed feeling about living a new life 2 weeks from now. not really prepared to say goodbye to my childish way of life. but feel the urge to grow up and to establish something (though i can't tell what they actually are at this moment). hope everything will be fine.
1st term is almost over. taught much more than i should this term, and i am determined to cut most of them in the coming term. the funniest thing is that according to MM, a teaching assistant is not supposed to teach ensemble and applied music courses (and he called it "problem of history"). but i am always asked to take more ensembles every now and then, and i suppose MM has suggested some of the year 1 students to take applied music course with me. there will be lots of department concerts in the coming term which i have to take care of - nightmares.... hope i can survive all these.
no time to practice my beloved flute. a bit depressed for that.... wish to take another flute exam in april next year, but not that optimistic in view of my workload. the art festival concert is coming, and i can foresee many of my time devoted to rehearsals and self practicing. to be frank, i really enjoy playing in this group. the only problem is the limitation of this musical instrument - almost impossible to solve problem involving chromaticism, modulations, etc. and i don't have a good guzheng for such performance..... have to find suitable instruments for this concert very soon.
have much less chance to perform this year. partly because i didn't go to teahouse as often as before, partly due to my changing attitude towards chinese music. as i have said before, i almost got disgusted playing and listening to new chinese music. now i can gradually understand why western music players look down on chinese music. but i still teach guzheng as my career. can you feel my frustration teaching something that i don't truly appreciate? whenever people show their admiration to my career, thinking that i am able to earn my living by doing something that i love, i want slap them on their faces. chinese music is something to be appreciated from a distance. but beware not to get too close to it. it works well as reminiscences or nostalgia, esp for elderly who used to listen to it in their youth. or if you want to modernize or professionalize it, going to the opposite end of technical proficiency is not a bad thing per se. the annoying part of that is to see the majority of players (and guzheng "masters" as well) striving for speed and power without paying attention to music, accuracy, sound quality, musical structure, etc., and they attract audience.... i heard a comment to hongkong commercial music scene recently, and i think it applies here: "there is no music in hongkong commercial market. it's your fault to criticize them because you assumed that they are music and they should attain certain quality." how sad....
the graduation ceremony took place few days ago. as usual, i have no interest to attend. i got what a wanted (the certificate and the knowledge) already, and i don't feel esp excited about that. the only thing that i might regret upon is that i didn't inform my mum of the ceremony, and she might be very sad to know she missed the chance to witness "the glorious moment of her son's life".
yesterday was our 5th anniversary. i am very happy to be with her. we were both too busy to have any celebration, but that doesn't matter at all. 5 years..... what would i be after another 5 years? suddenly feel a bit lost. i am not as confident in the future as i was before....... | | |
| Whiskynew bottles added to my stock: Laphroaig "Quarter Cask" 1 Litre (x2) from my uncle in taiwan Laphroaig 10 Years "Original Cask Strength" 700ml (x2) from Ada's friend Glenfarclas 105 "Original Cask Strength" 700ml from Bobo and May tried the Bowmore 17 Years last week. not as good as it boasts to be. stronger than the 12 years but there's too much peat which nearly covers everthing else... well, maybe still because of the bad storage condition... will try the legendary Laphroaig 10 Years "Original Cask Strength" very soon. those who are interested please leave me a message and we can have a whisky tasting session together. | | |
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