Mrs Tan, my piano teacher, organized a workshop at her house today. At 3pm, the whole family went by car to her house. I was there half an hour early. That's the typical me, I'm either very late or very early. Why can't I be on time?? Anyway, Tina reached there followed by Yi Jia.
We went in to Mrs Tan's room and started playing our exam pieces. There are 4 in total: Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin, Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum by Claude Debussy, Sonata in C (K309/284b) by Mozart and lastly, the Hungarian Dance by Bartok.
My goodness, I think I played the worst today. Probably due to the lack of practice because of my procrastination, hesitating to play till the night before. This is a mediocrity you shouldn't learn from me...ha ha. Made a thousand and one mistakes today, Mrs Tan was kind enough not to bestow me a "black face". After all, the other 2 also had numerous breakdowns. I mean, we're all nervous aren't we? It's totally understandable if we made errors that we didn't make normally. In fact, it was totally bizarre that teacher even said all the pieces were "not bad" when I felt I could fail in the exam judging on how I performed. Just so incredulous, unbelievable!!
Tomorrow will be considered a big day for all the my juniors as they'll be having an ensemble performance/competition at Raffles Hotel, Jubilee Hall. Good luck and all the best! You can do it!
