A Summary of What’s been Happening…
OK, recently, I’ve not been blogging at all. Not out of sheer laziness, by the way, but out of the need to do a LOT of thinking. What am I goin on about? Recently, I’ve been thinking very deeply on my subjects at school. I don’t know why, but ever since the new student at my school told me that I’m an abstract thinker, I’ve been very attuned to the fact that I do go a bit beyond sometimes. He told me that I should have done better than a normal old public school, but I don’t know. I mean, looking at my progress over the years and now, being in a public school hasn’t been bad for me. I think that even private-schoolers fail sometimes, or get bad results in something, and that your performance depends on your dedication as well as your teacher’s.
Anyway, on a personal note, I’ve been getting into pop music A LOT lately, as well as listening to a lot of 90’s pop like Killing Heidi and Garbage. Man, I hope I’m not turning emo. OK, I was just kidding on that one.
School performance-wise, I’ve been doing great. I’m getting behind in Maths but I finally grasped the essence to curve sketching, so I’ll be back in the game in no time! Speaking of maths, I just remembered that someone had asked me to tutor them in maths today. Now, for someone like me who was originally HORRIBLE at maths, this made me feel really good. I’d like to accept their offer, but I’m also aware of some possible maths syllabus changes that might’nt make me suitable.
The School Magazine’s February edition will be sent out soon. I hope it gets a good response. I’ve been racking my brains to write good articles for it, I hope my colleagues don’t summa-rape it.
Andre Rieu Concert
Yesterday, I went to see Andre Rieu and his Johann Strauss orchestra play some awesome classical music. Coming from a 16 year old, that spells nerd, right? Maybe so, but I enjoy classical music as long as there aren’t boring vocal solos or too many wind instruments in them. During the concert, Andre claimed that music is the most beautiful thing we have in the world, but in reality is that true? I wondered this because during the performances, there were interesting light shows that amplified the mood created by the music – shouldn’t the beauty of music have amplified it’s own mood? I’m not saying Andre is wrong, heck, music is one of the things that has lasted over centuries, but it has been used and abused :/
There were a lot of interesting people going, too, not snoody old people like I thought there would be. I also didn’t imagine the trip there the way it turned out – little more than a rock concert, beer boozers were humming out a cantabile of Andre Rieu favourites, from Motzart to Strauss, on the train ride. The way back? Boring. I did happen to see someone with extremely large feet, and a lady with an upturned nose, but other than that, nothing.
P.S. About the light amplifyng the music, it really helped me understand the feelings of the tunes because I wasn’t exactly in the best seats. Which reminds me: I LOL’d when I noticed it was bucketing down with rain on the people who paid for expensive seats, while the rest of my lower class bretherin and I remained in the safety of the shelter. It was also funny to hear conversations around me… “Apparently, they bought the more expensive seats, a ho ho ho” “Yeah, and now look at them! Serves them right for being such smart alecks“
I agree, they deserved it for taking their time getting to their seats while Andre was lolling around waiting for them to wait, playing freebie fillers with his orchestra.
The Rubik’s Phenomenon
What’s old is new once more in my school, with the Rubik’s Cube taking it by storm, for want of a better cliche. This was only followed by the “scoobies”, card games, portable gaming consoles (ok, maybe that’s still in, because I have a DS crew that congregate every lunch time), and even notebook computers.
It was only a matter of time before I got caught up in the whirlwind, mastering the “T-method” (as I like to call it) of solving the puzzle. So far, I’ve solved it myself 3 times, which I feel is a decent achievement for some Joe Blow who thought he’d never see the thing solved unless it was bought brand new or broken and remade or even if the stickers were pulled off and replaced conveniently.
Now, my friend has brought upon a new challenge, destined to either entrance others into completing it, or making them cower in fear at the mere difficulty of the puzzle: a four-by-four. Some might find that laughable, having had solved pyramid, electronic and overall poly-shaped Rubik’s style puzzles. Whatever you may be familiar with, no matter how cooky it may be, maybe you’d like to share some of those crazy experiences witnessing others or yourself solve those seemingly imposible (and evil) pieces of plastic.
