Counting down

Counting down to the second I'm going to travel through air the 2ND time! ^.^

I will be flying through AirAsia on Monday 7am to Hong Kong for the Kawai Piano International Competition. I am not looking forward to the competition but to the holidays I am going to have. I wish all my worries previously is useless and I will be enjoying myself thoroughly.. I wanted to enjoy as I paid a lot for this trip. Not
to mention money but my time, my effort and my emotions.

Yes.

I am emotionally wreck this pass weeks.. Due to practicing and others factors which is not suitable to reveal. However, I just hope everything will be going smoothly and it would be a good experience for me.

So, I need to prepare and get some rest now before waking up around 3am later. So, wish me luck.. a lot of luck. And wait for my photos. This time I bring my DSLR and hope to bring back lots of photos for you all.

I will be back at 31st July! Don't miss me ya!

Why Nuffnang?

Yes. I have been serving Nuffnang for quite a long time already. Back then, I'm not so active in the blogging world, nor am I very active now. However, since working, I have an urge to blog so much. I guess this is only the place where I can completely be myself instead of being a good student/designer. When I gets tired of it, I can rant my heart out here, knowing that my dear blog would never avoid me.

Oh.. I've been away from my initial topic already. Ok..

Nuffnang ads. At first, I sign up for Nuffnang is because I wanted to earn some money while I'm a still a student. And I found that Nuffnang is actually very straight-forward and easy for me to manage and understand. Therefore, I've been a loyal nuffnang-er for about more than 2 years.

Nuffnang is a blog advertising community. Advertiser choose certain blogs to put their advertisement and aim to the loyal blog readers. As simple as that. When readers found some interesting advertisement and click for more, that's where I earn the money. See? Simple and straight-forward. Installing and registering for it is also very simple. But for years, I did not earn any money from Nuffnang.

1. My blog have very very little traffic.
2. No one click on my dear dear ads.

When no traffic come to my blog, Nuffnang did not assign any ads to me and my Nuffnang ads corner will be..

Like this

Instead of displaying beautiful advertisement, it became just the Nuffnang logo. How am I going to earn any money if there's no ads for people to click?

On the other hand, how can Nuffnang assign ads when there's no one coming to my blog?


This is really a major problem.


I have to generate more and more traffic to my blog from now on. Brush up on my writing skills, photography skills and humour skills.. ^O^

Oh!


And another point I enjoy being a Nuffnang-er is because of this

Automatically I became an exclusive Nuffnanger if I do not have any other advertisement from SEA on my blog. This enables me to get more priority in ads and earn more from each clicks. It make me feel.. well, exclusive.

But, no matter how that exclusive status is, I am still not earning from these ads. I have a few amounts inside my account now, but it is still a long way until I reach the amount when I could cash out my earnings. And this is after more than 2 years serving Nuffnang. I started to feel like a fool. Saying I serve Nuffnang but not getting paid by them. It's not their fault but I can't help complaining.

Maybe I should really find a way to attract you readers to continue reading. Any suggestion of what interest you all? Leave me a comment as to how I can improve my post.

I know many 'famous' bloggers with few hundreds or even thousands loyal readers for everyday, proof read their post again and again and edit again and again before clicking the 'publish post' button. However, I did not proof read my post but click post right after I finish. Then only would I check my post and edit my mistake. And I don't spend hours drafting out a post. I am not going for professionalism and I did not aim my blog's post to be as well. All post is true from the bottom of my heart and reflex the true me. Which is what my blog is all about.

Should I change the way I write my post? Shouldn't I write according to what people like and not what I like?






PS. Since I have been blogging quite regularly these few weeks, Nuffnang had been putting up various advertisement on my blog. And everytime I saw an ad, I will be so happy. Thank you Nuffnang for making my day! (psstt...I'm not buttering Nuffnang.. nope! I'm not... >.<)


PSS. My preparation for the Kawai Piano Competition @ Hong Kong is STILL NOT DONE! I still couldn't play my part well enough. Have to practice more these few days. I flying to HK on Monday! On airasia again. I wonder when I am rich enough to fly with MAS. Maybe Nuffnang can help me.. *wink* *hint*

Wish me luck guys. Pray that I wouldn't make any stupid mistake on stage. Pray that I don't blank out due to nervousness..

Debussy Petite Suite No 4

Debussy's Petite Suite for four hands, No4. 

Debussy perform his Petite Suites on February 2. 1889, wayyyyyyyy before I exist. This composition consist of 4 movements and the video above is No.4, Ballet. His style of composition range from late-romanticism to early 20th century modern music. Petite Suite was composed for four hands by Debussy himself originally but Henri Busser later on rearrange the composition for orchestra.

Anyway, back to the video. Petite Suite is designed to entertain and brighten up the audience. Fun and simple melody throughout the music, it is a type of dance music. Debussy composed the music to be energetic and always on move. It makes me want to move around and be happy.

Doesn't it make you wanna dance? LoL..

Anyway, this video quality is not really good but I think you can still hear it. My review of the music is not very detail so you might not be able to get the full idea of it. However, just listen to it. It may cheer you up listening to a cheerful music.



Warning! Everything I write is just my stupid opinion. (>.<" it might not sounds as good as I said..)

Musical Architecture

Musical Architecture

Was browsing through my hard disk and found some of the works I done during my final year. This is the poster for my dissertation which is about Musical Architecture.

Practice Practice Practice

That's how I spent my weekend.


Dedicated all my free time to practicing for the competition. However, I still sucks. Luckily, I enjoy playing the piano (for the time being), if not, I would be so depressed spending all my time infront of the piano. I wonder why does I play so badly? My fingers really.. stupid.

My teacher would always tell me to watch my hand shape. I try to. And when I watch my stupid fingers, my notes all went hay wire.. And I become even worse.

When people practice, they get better. When I practice, I stay the same. Maybe my method of practicing is totally wrong or I did not spend enough time to practice. Either way, I'm going to screw up during the competition if I did not get any better this week.

The competition date is out. We are playing on 21st July, 2010 at Parsons Music, Treasure World, Whampoa, Hung Hom, Kowloon.

Don't look at me. I don't understand the address as well. But according to the letter, we get to practice for 1 hour at another location on the 20th. So wish me luck guys..

Btw, the letter for the competition spell my name wrongly. I wonder if there's a problem. Hmm.. I point it out to the teacher and she says should be alright. I hope she's right. I don't want to meet any problem there nor do I want my name spell wrongly everywhere..

No photos for this post. As I am writing this note out of boredom. I just need to rant. Might post about my Disneyland trip later in the afternoon is I have the mood. Haha.. Until then~