Haven't been updating my blog about the recent joy in my life but you can probably guess what it is when you read the title and see the picture above - taking French classes!
It has always been a wish of mine to pick up French since secondary school. If I have went with the poly route, I would've taken French as an extra language in school and fulfilled this little wish of mine. But I went the JC route :/
After that it's either no time or no money, but it has been always at the back of my mind.
A few months ago while I was job searching and feeling bored, I went to sign up for it at Alliance Française and have never looked back since!
It's super tiring rushing to class after work but once I reached and settled down, my happiness level peaked immediately. I am always 30 minutes late because of the location of my office so my teacher likes to pick me to read out or answer questions, which I quite like actually because I get to be corrected if I am wrong hahahaha!
It will be my sixth lesson next week and I enjoyed every single one. It makes my mid-week more bearable too because I attended the Wednesday class. I usually look forward to Wednesdays to relax and learn french, then Fridays to have fun and the weekends! One week passed just like that wooo!
It's tickles me whenever I hear us repeating words after our teacher because you can hear everyone pronouncing "le" "la" "un" "eu" randomly in class. This always makes even the more manly classmates (like those in their 30s, 40s) giggle LOL!! Just this week, my indian classmate sitting beside me was trying to pronounce a word but after hearing everyone's pronounciation he kept turning to me and laugh hahaha!
It's interesting how we're all so different (nationalities, age, occupation) but in that classroom we are all just enthusiastic and giggly students. :D
I'm glad I found my love for French this year because it has been a really trying year for me. Most of my year is spent either feeling sad, depressed, angry, stressed out, alone or just unhappy. At least one thing did turn out good before 2013 ends.
Hoping that my energy and enthusiasm for French will keep up and continue for long!
written on Tuesday, September 25, 2012 @ 1:04 AM ♥
I bought myself an Ukulele as a birthday treat for myself this year!
Woohoo!!
When I told Rachel I got an Ukulele, she's like "You know how to play meh? You just buy because it's cute, you just wanna spend money and to camwhore one right?".
Nooooo! I am not trying to act as a hippie nor is it for fun. (-_-")
It's just plain interest in it.
I always knew about the Ukulele but have this thinking that it's expensive and only sold in Hawaii. Until a few months' ago, I was talking to this singer I met and we started talking about Ukuleles. She was saying how it's really easy to pick up, like from youtube videos and urged me to go try it.
Since then, I've been toying the idea of getting an Ukulele for fun because I miss the feeling of playing an instrument. My fingers itches to touch an instrument and to play a song, just like the good ol' band days in secondary school. Me and my saxo, and a lot of sweat and blood... lol!
Nerdy Band Days. Spot me if you can!
This little thing is not only cute, it's affordable, sounds melodious and chirpy! SO WHY NOT?!
I went off to youtube some videos and wah, looks easy to play leh. Okay buy!
So I urged Ning to accompany me to Ukulele Movement to choose one.
The cheaper ones are surprisingly the prettier and brightly painted ones! They are usually the ones that don't sound that good because of the material that they are made of. Like wood infront and plastic behind. On the other hand, the uglier or rather normal looking ones are the real deal as they sound better because of the wood.
So basically as a beginner who knows nothing about string instruments, I was feeling very lost. I did googled and read up on "Tips on buying an Ukulele" but that didn't help much. We wandered around the store for quite long before getting one of the peeps there to advice us on it.
I'm super noob at this but roughly... here's what the person over there told me to decide before choosing an Ukulele:
Size - Soprano (smallest, most traditional kind), Alto, Tenor or Baritone
Wood - Solid wood (Best, but expensive) or Laminates (plywoods)
Sound - Test play to hear how different ones sound like! Some more cheery, some deeper toned.
Price - Decided on the rest already so go look for one that fits your budget!
The website is really helpful when choosing one. Unless you are choosing because of looks, I bet you are gonna feel so confused when you step inside the store, coupled with the random strummings of the Ukulele here and there, so this helps ALOT!
Anyway, it's been about 2 weeks since I bought mine and ahh... I don't know why but I feel so happy just looking at it. There's this happy and cheerful aura around it lol. But to be honest, IT'S NOT AS EASY AS I THOUGHT!! GG.
I'm still learning some chords here and there by learning simple songs first. Trying to memorise the fingerings and chords. Figuring out how to strum correctly and getting used to the strumming.
Haven't been updating my blog about the recent joy in my life but you can probably guess what it is when you read the title and see the picture above - taking French classes!
It has always been a wish of mine to pick up French since secondary school. If I have went with the poly route, I would've taken French as an extra language in school and fulfilled this little wish of mine. But I went the JC route :/
After that it's either no time or no money, but it has been always at the back of my mind.
A few months ago while I was job searching and feeling bored, I went to sign up for it at Alliance Française and have never looked back since!
It's super tiring rushing to class after work but once I reached and settled down, my happiness level peaked immediately. I am always 30 minutes late because of the location of my office so my teacher likes to pick me to read out or answer questions, which I quite like actually because I get to be corrected if I am wrong hahahaha!
It will be my sixth lesson next week and I enjoyed every single one. It makes my mid-week more bearable too because I attended the Wednesday class. I usually look forward to Wednesdays to relax and learn french, then Fridays to have fun and the weekends! One week passed just like that wooo!
It's tickles me whenever I hear us repeating words after our teacher because you can hear everyone pronouncing "le" "la" "un" "eu" randomly in class. This always makes even the more manly classmates (like those in their 30s, 40s) giggle LOL!! Just this week, my indian classmate sitting beside me was trying to pronounce a word but after hearing everyone's pronounciation he kept turning to me and laugh hahaha!
It's interesting how we're all so different (nationalities, age, occupation) but in that classroom we are all just enthusiastic and giggly students. :D
I'm glad I found my love for French this year because it has been a really trying year for me. Most of my year is spent either feeling sad, depressed, angry, stressed out, alone or just unhappy. At least one thing did turn out good before 2013 ends.
Hoping that my energy and enthusiasm for French will keep up and continue for long!
written on Tuesday, September 25, 2012 @ 1:04 AM ♥
I bought myself an Ukulele as a birthday treat for myself this year!
Woohoo!!
When I told Rachel I got an Ukulele, she's like "You know how to play meh? You just buy because it's cute, you just wanna spend money and to camwhore one right?".
Nooooo! I am not trying to act as a hippie nor is it for fun. (-_-")
It's just plain interest in it.
I always knew about the Ukulele but have this thinking that it's expensive and only sold in Hawaii. Until a few months' ago, I was talking to this singer I met and we started talking about Ukuleles. She was saying how it's really easy to pick up, like from youtube videos and urged me to go try it.
Since then, I've been toying the idea of getting an Ukulele for fun because I miss the feeling of playing an instrument. My fingers itches to touch an instrument and to play a song, just like the good ol' band days in secondary school. Me and my saxo, and a lot of sweat and blood... lol!
Nerdy Band Days. Spot me if you can!
This little thing is not only cute, it's affordable, sounds melodious and chirpy! SO WHY NOT?!
I went off to youtube some videos and wah, looks easy to play leh. Okay buy!
So I urged Ning to accompany me to Ukulele Movement to choose one.
The cheaper ones are surprisingly the prettier and brightly painted ones! They are usually the ones that don't sound that good because of the material that they are made of. Like wood infront and plastic behind. On the other hand, the uglier or rather normal looking ones are the real deal as they sound better because of the wood.
So basically as a beginner who knows nothing about string instruments, I was feeling very lost. I did googled and read up on "Tips on buying an Ukulele" but that didn't help much. We wandered around the store for quite long before getting one of the peeps there to advice us on it.
I'm super noob at this but roughly... here's what the person over there told me to decide before choosing an Ukulele:
Size - Soprano (smallest, most traditional kind), Alto, Tenor or Baritone
Wood - Solid wood (Best, but expensive) or Laminates (plywoods)
Sound - Test play to hear how different ones sound like! Some more cheery, some deeper toned.
Price - Decided on the rest already so go look for one that fits your budget!
The website is really helpful when choosing one. Unless you are choosing because of looks, I bet you are gonna feel so confused when you step inside the store, coupled with the random strummings of the Ukulele here and there, so this helps ALOT!
Anyway, it's been about 2 weeks since I bought mine and ahh... I don't know why but I feel so happy just looking at it. There's this happy and cheerful aura around it lol. But to be honest, IT'S NOT AS EASY AS I THOUGHT!! GG.
I'm still learning some chords here and there by learning simple songs first. Trying to memorise the fingerings and chords. Figuring out how to strum correctly and getting used to the strumming.
