My First Cello Lesson!

Hey all,

I had my first cello lesson with my new teacher today! Phew, I was pretty okie, but also nervous so made a few mistakes here and there.

First thing, I HAVE SO MUCH TO UNLEARN!

Sigh, it's gonna be super hard, and needs alot of practice and the "stubborness" to wanna get it right. Well, I think I'm gonna do ok I guess. Because I've been "hurting" myself too much, and getting really discouraged and frustrated alot. Simply because I was having too many problems playing my cello.

Few things I have to correct.

1) My position of my cello.
2) My position of my hand on the bow.
3) My position of my bow on the cello.
4) My position of my left hand on my cello strings.
5) My extensions.
6) My pitching.

That's about all so far I have to unlearn. haha. I mean some la.

KK. Firstly, my cello position. I have been playing "senget" you can call that. Well, I have to put both of my legs at the side of my cello, lower the spike lots, and put the cello straight! It's such a torture!!!!! It's so painful!!!! I'm not used to it!!!!! AAAAA!!!!!!!!!! But well, if I'm to play with ease, LET'S DO IT!

Second, my hand on the bow. I have been having alot of problems there. As I said, my right arm will always be tensed up after I play for awhile. Simply because I haven't been holding my bow right.

My teacher said I have to put all my weight on the cello, relax all my fingers on my right hand, and just plop it down on my bow plop my bow on my cello. And that's it. She said that I already have a habit where my fingers goes in such a funny direction and stuff. I have to remember to relax. The KEY word. RELAX. C'mon Charissa, you can do it, just relax!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)

She said if I didn't relax all the pressure will go up to my arm. That really explains why I always have a hard time playing. I'm so happy I finally know what's the problem but not so happy that I have to unlearn a super bad habit. Sigh. But with God's help, I can do it!

Third, when I play, my bow goes wonkus. It turns here and there. I mean sometimes I don't pull my bow in a straight line. So I have to learn that too.

Fourth, my left hand. haha. Another problem. I have to push my elbow back so that I form a straight line. Very hard too, to remember. Another bad habit too.

Fifth, my extensions. I learned the technique for front extension today. It's so funny! haha. I mean, I have been doing in a way where it always hurts simply because I don't move my thumb along with my whole hand! Sigh, all these, my old teacher didn't teach. So I have been suffering. sigh. Well, now I know, so hopefully it will be better.

Sixth, haha...the really most important thing too. PITCHING. The dreaded word. pitch. haha. Have to learn slowly la. My internation. lol. Hopefully it will be better soon.

Ok, that's about what so far I have to "unlearn." The thought of it makes me shudder. Hard work Charissa, hard work.

I really wish that my old teacher looked into all this and also thougth correctly also la.

Had two new books today. One photostated and the other new. The new book is so cutteee!!!!! haha...it looks pretty kidish, my teacher said so, and i agreed with her but it's really cute. lol.

Well, so on the whole, my first lesson was good, finding out all the "mistakes." But not that good when I saw that I have so much to "unlearn" as I said before.

I know I'm so "cheong hei" on this unlearning thingy but seriously, I really need you'll to pray that I will be dilligent and hard working to correct all this. Thanks so much!

Dear God, I pray that you will help me not to be lazy and to be dilligent and hard working in correcting all the problems. I pray that I will work hard so that one day my hard work will be repaid. Thank you, I know You will be there helping me each day in all my struggles. In Jesus Name, I pray, AMEN!

Ok, I'm pretty looking foward to my next lesson next monday, a thing I've never done before. haha. I kinda of like never looked foward to my lessons last time with my old teacher. You know why. Theory. Problems. Sigh anyway, that's the past.

I gtg and sleep now, so I will blog more tmrw hopefully.

Enjoy

Charissa

"First" CG!

Today, can consider like first cg like that la. Anyway, it was at 6. We had dinner at Pastor Wong's home. My mummy went earlier to help with the food. So ate ate ate, but didn't eat much because seriously was quite full from a very weird lunch.

K, I side track abit k? Because I ate roti telur for breakfast, I wasn't like very hungry for lunch. Because roti canai and roti telur both also quite feeling ok. lol. So bought fruits after church then came home. Then I still had one bun left from friday? Yeah friday. So I ate that lor later at around 2 something. Then I wanted another one. So went down and walked to Block A to the "mini market." But they didn't have any stock for that particular bun. So decided to buy twisties intead lor. We bought two packets because my sis also wanted to eat. Then I also decided to buy an ice cream cone. So had to quickly walk back and put the ice cream in the freezer. Then ate twisties while watching August Rush, then I ate my ice cream later. XD.

K back to the subject. So as I said, I was full, so I didn't eat much. There was spaghetti bolognese, more for the younger kids. There was also chicken rice and some thai salad tingy. All made at home I think. haha. After makan, since I finished ealier, some "kids" came to me. haha. Then started playing with them lor. Raewyn came first I think. And she started playing with my hair, then later started talking to me. Then Lee Xin came, then they wanted me to catch their hands. Some game, so I played with them. Wah, sweat betul le...had to move abit. lol. Today also very hot la.

Then later cell started, so stayed there, but was feeling super tired and sleepy, so I was struggling to keep awake.

Later, after cg over, Lee Rui came to me. She is so cute. haha. She has this cheeky mischevious look but she's so teeeerriibbblllyyy cuuuuutttteeee!!!!!!!!!! Lee Yuan also quite cute. haha. Lee Rui is always coming to me. Don't ask me why, but maybe it was because last week I kinda of like "played" with her, so yeah. I kinda of like little kids, but not my sis! haha.

Then later Lee Rui, was so cute! She wanted to tie my hair, so I let her. She kept at it, tie, untie, tie, untie. haha. I just sat on a chair and let her play! XD. SOOOOOO CUUUUTTTEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So on the whole, I was most of the time playing with Lee Rui, Lee Xin, and Raewyn. XD. All cute pretty little girls. XD.

kk la...I wanna sleep soon already, very tired.

First cello lesson tmrw at 2. Phew.

Charissa

The day is coming nearer...

Aaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's already Saturday night! Going to be Sunday soon!!!!! Then Monday!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For two reasons, one, I'm pretty nervous about my first cello lesson with my new teacher. Second, you know, the "week-ly" activity...haiz...

Cello lesson before BSF. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA....lol...

You know, for example, before my cello lesson, I may be nervous but then on the actual day, it's so weird. I'm like peaceful, calm... Very weird. haha...I usuall experience this...=)

Sigh, gonna sleep soon la...tmrw full day le...church and cg...sigh...so tired actually...lol...

Charissa

MSN, I need you! I need a real true friend too!

Msn!!!!! I need you!!!!! I desperately need my old comp to work!!!!!!! I am so desperate for some friends to talk to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Arrrghhh...

I always wonder why it's always ME who has to start conversations on msn and not you others. I've narrowed down my answers to: the very likely reason is because either, you all have too many friends already, so you're talking to a lot, or you are either busy, or either that you don't feel like talking to me, or, you are the type of person who waits for people to start the convos.

I hope I will find somebody, a friend one day, hopefully soon, who will really be a real true friend, and also who are not like alot of people I've met.

Sigh, I'm hoping that somebody kind enough will start convos, instead of me all the time. I'm really tired of doing that all the time. It makes me feel, odd and like as though I'm unwanted.

Yeah, maybe I'm really unwanted and maybe nobody really wants to talk to me, but when I starty a convo, maybe they are just being polite not rude, and just will kinda of like "talk." Sigh, Charissa! You musn't think such thoughts. Put all these out of your mind.

But really, I'm beginning to think that that's the real answer. Hardly anybody likes me perhaps? =(

Charissa

My New Cello Teacher!

I've been wanting to blog about this for quite awhile. But didn't have time. =)

Well, if you'll have read my really long ago post, I have stopped my lessons under my old cello teacher.

So we've been trying to find one for quite awhile, and finally, we manged to get a contact, but she couldn't take me in. So look-ee again.

Finally, we found another contact, and yeah! She agreed to meet with me, to like talk about some stuff and something. So last monday, we met up. Actually my mummy was the one who talked to her. lol.

And she took me in, thank God!

Unfortunately, I will have quite a hard time. Because, my position of the cello is not right, my vibrato is taught wrongly, and many other things. Phew! My mummy said this is part and parcel of changing teachers and life.

So, I shall have to "suffer" for awhile, and practice real hard, and hopefully, very soon, I'll be able to play with ease.

I was actually having A LOT of problems playing the cello. My right arm and somewhere near my right thumb, always hurt after playing the cello for awhile. My old teacher said that, my arm hurts like that, because, I tense up. And she said that I have to rest my whole arm on the cello, so that it won't hurt. But it's so impossible! It doesn't make sense one bit! When I rest my arm on the cello, my whole arm goes slack. So funny. XD.

Anyway, I'm hoping that my new teacher can tell me why I'm always having these kinda of problems.

I have been experiencing these problems for like 3 years already you know! Crazy. No wonder it always discourages me and I don't wanna practice my cello. Sigh.

Lord Jesus, firstly, I wanna thank You for providing me with a cello teacher. Also thank You for giving me a family to help support me, Thank You for my daddy, who works very hard each day to help support me and my family. And now that now my cello lessons are more expensive than before, I pray that you will help me to be really grateful for even getting a chance to learn. Please provide daddy with more jobs, as now the economy is not very good.

I pray that we will all learn to be grateful and contented with every little thing we have. Thank You that I even have a chance to learn music, when others who really long to learn, don't even have the chance. I pray that You will help me to be dilligent and hard working in improving and changing the stuff that aren't right. You know, it's so hard for me, as I have been playing like that for so long. It will need a lot of like "own-want-ness" to be like that. (if you get what I mean) So, I pray that I will be like good in working hard so that finally the hard work pays off. In Jesus Name I pray, AMEN!

Sometimes I wish I'm stubborn so that it will be easier. In this case, stubborn in the sense, stubborn to learn the right thing. Meaning, doing that something until you get it right.

Charissa

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY LILY OOI!!!!!!!

I'm so sry for such a late post. I wanted to blog on Sunday but coudn't...sry...

HAPPY BELATED 12'th BDAY LILY OOI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God bless your 12th year of life! Seriously, I can't believe it that you are only 12!!!!!!!! lol... XD.

I hope you had a nice time on your bday!!!!!!!!!!!!


I love you Lily!

Charissa

Hilarious time at BSF!

K, I wanna blog about what happened to me yesterday at bsf.

Firstly, last week, I didn't go to bsf for some reasons. I nearly didn't go yesterday again, cz I had to go somewhere, but we manged to come back on time, suprisingly. Cz we expected a jam. But it wasn't bad at all! haha.

Anyway, here I went for bsf, bracing myself for perhaps any unexpected happenings. Luckily for me, none happen. Instead, I practically laugh througout the whole bsf.

You see, during discussion, a guy name Russell, gave some answer that made all of us laugh! haha. And Me and Tabi, couldn't stop. But teacher said we had to laugh silently. It was such a TORTURE!!!!!!! I clapped my hand over my mouth trying to stifle my laughter. Tabi did the same thing! But it was so dreadfully hard! And after that, during homeletics, Russell again gave some funny summerized verse, that made me burst into laughter again! Then I actually stopped, but Tabi couldn't, and her laughter is so contagious, that I laughed again. And my laughter happened to make Samantha laugh, and she didn't wanna laugh. So she was scolding me saying, STOP! And later she said to Esther that she thinks I took too much caffeine. I was like, EXCUSE ME? I didn't take any caffeine. And then she said, fine, maybe you took drugs. I was like, I didn't take that either. Then she was like wtvr.

Anyway, I literally couldn't write my homeletics. My hand was shaking like an old lady! XD. I could feel the temperature rising in my face, I could even feel that my face was red! XD.

Tabi had problems too. lol. She kept laughing, means, me too.

During Bible lesson, one of my teachers fell asleep. Then Joanna created some song thingy or smth, which made me laugh too. And later Tabi started drawing a pic of SOMEBODY, and it was so hideous that we laughed again! Then Joanna, joined in, but she didn't laugh as much as us. We contributed to the picture, making it look even sillier. lol. It was just so funny!

Anyway, I had a good laugh at bsf yesterday, thanks to Tabi. haha. She was the one who made me laugh until like that! Im not blaming you Tabi, kkk... I'm just saying that you were the one who made me laugh. haha.

Hope you enjoy this "cheong hei" post on my laughing fit!

Charissa

Rocking Chair

I have so many things to blog about. Firstly, I wanna blog about something my sis and I experienced last week.

If you have seen the newspaper last week, there was some Earth Tremor or something? Anyway, when that happened, both me and my sis also experienced it. haha. Okie, it's not that bad. I mean, so happen I was sitting on my chair, in the study room. Doing my work. Then suddenly I felt like as though I was rocking! I was like, goodness???? But I thought that maybe I was just tired(I was feeling sleepy) and maybe just imagined it la. So I continued with my work. Then it was so continous. It continued. Then I was abit scared. So I just decided to make a statement. I told my sis, I feel like as though I'm rocking. And she was like, "Hey! Me too!" Then I knew it wasn't my imagination. I was like, really? Ooo...my goodness...this is so scary. Then I decided to call my mummy.

She was in the club house playing table tennis with my daddy. I called her and told her what happened. I was actually scared that the whole condo gonna topple over. haha. Anyway, my mummy was like, har? Did you eat something funny arr???? Then I was like, no, jie and I only ate tiger biscuit which we have eaten before.

Then she said she didn't feel anything also. Then I was like, nvm then.

Next day~

EARTH TREMOR! Newspaper! haha...my sis read it, then she told me and mum. Then my mum was like, OH! That explains why you felt the rocking thingy! I was like, yeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!! What happened!!!!!!!! Then we read that other places kena dunno some earthquake and typhoon and dunno what la. Then I was like scary. Here also can kena wan arr. Then my mummy said that she probably couldn't feel it coz she was on the ground floor. At the clubhouse. So yeah.

Anyway, this is a really boring post on my experience.

Charissa

Im back!

Finally, I can blog abit more. Im so sry to have literally abandoned my blog. The thing is, our comp has ko-ed, like last Tuesday? Yeah last tuesday. My dad used it earlier for some youtube thingy, then my sis used, then I wanted to use, then the next thing I knew was, it hunged on me and suddenly there was some problem thingy. Sigh. I always kena it, everybody else don't. Probably since I"m usually the last one to use, then somehow, maybe it worked to much so it decides to konk on me. Sigh. So unfair.

Anyway, right now, I'm using my mummy's laptop. But I'm limited to a few things only. Cz my mum is scared that aftwards this comp oso virus. So yeah. NO msn. No uploading or downloading anything. Anyway, at least I can blog finally!


Charissa

Monday

I dunno why these days my posts have been like super boring like dunno what. I dunno but even though I have many more "intresting" things to blog about, I dun feel like blogging about them. I seem to be emo lately. Also dunno why. Just feel super emo. Sigh.

Well, today I didn't go for bsf, which is good. I'm in a pretty not-so-good mood. So, if that "guy" had just said smth to me or smth, I may have just shouted and screamed at him. XD.

I just felt that I couldn't go for bsf, due to reasons. And I'm glad I did. Anyway, I'm feeeling abit tired too. Wanted to take a nap but didn't. XD.

Apparently, my sis said that nobody asked where was I which means, even if I go, I'm like a "nobody." haha. If you get what I mean. But seriously, I usually experience that wherever I go. I also do not know why. Maybe some of you can tell me why. Let me know.

Sigh, I dunno why, I just wanna like sit in a corner and cry my heart out. Seriously. It's just what I feel like doing. =(

Charissa