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music journal

One of the assignments our awesome MUS113 teacher Dr. Sam Wong gave to us was to write a music journal! Basically, we have to write about whatever inspires us in music. It’s pretty flexible and we can do practically anything we want in it (:

I love freedom, especially freedom of expression, and so this assignment is totally my cup of tea.  I have many opinions and theories about music which I gladly jot down into this “happy” print notebook that I made on a lonely day.

Because I like to see myself as androgynous, I don’t usually go for floral prints in my notebook designs but this pattern really stood out to me. Maybe it was the floral print on the turquoise blue background that won me over! I used to love blue a lot. In primary 4, I had a blue “hello kitty” pencil case, a blue “looney toons” school bag, blue Bubbles notebook, wore lots of blue clothes… So much that my mom banned me from buying anymore blue clothes because she said that I looked like I was perpetually in mourning. (at that time, my kind of blue was the deep russian blue) Now, my taste in blue objects has evolved into liking the lovely light coloured azure blue; it has really grown on me and I stay true to my androgynous self-image at the same time. It’s girly but not too girly I suppose.

I wish I could have done more with my notebook. Actually, I was thinking of adding gold sequins to the sides or adding more texture… Having just started out, I suppose I need to experiment more with different types of materials! However, $$$ is always an issue. I never have enough money to try out the cool different kinds of materials that I see in scrapbooking stores ): I’ve seen ribbons, stamps with intricate designs, cut-out hole punchers, stick-on glass stamps… There are so many pretty pretty things in there! Pity I can’t try them all out ): So I try to make do with what my student’s budget can afford: interesting prints and ribbons. Even though my designs seem really plain, I make do with the stuff that I have and try to make an interesting twist to them. Isn’t that what innovation is all about? haha

During an inter-class challenge in AC, my friend phu and I teamed up to play contract bridge against another class. At that time, I hadn’t played bridge for months since PAE! I went into the game feeling really confident, thinking that I was going to whip everyone’s butt; my cards weren’t so bad either haha! Okay… so things didn’t really turn out the way I planned it to be. Even though phu and I had the upper hand, we lost. I think it was because I was being too cocky and didn’t play my awesome cards right, and also because the girl and guy on the other side could strategise a lot better than we could. So game over lah! After that, I swore to always play my cards right! (haha how’s that for a pun?) Perhaps it’s not always about the resources that we have, but about what we do with it that makes the whole difference. Becoming successful has a lot to do with how we play our cards! (that could be the reason why not so good looking guys have absolutely smoking hot girlfriends! or the fact that our leaders might not always be the most capable or talented among us… )

Lessons learnt while playing bridge and making notebooks… haha I love my life indeed <3

Excuse me while I make my next entry into my music notebook (MJ for short haha)

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