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being in the sick world



hello everyone

Those two pictures on the above are my most recent activities, first, i had the very first recital for this new school year, i sang!! YES I SANG... an italian song, the song was good i guess, but i should've practised more with my accompanist because she took it twice the speed...ahhahahahaha... okay i sang an italian song entitle "danza, danza fanciulla" by durante and i played on the piano chopin's etude #10 opus #4...i think ahhahahaha, i think i'm gonna do it again, a better version of it... not that i played terribly during the recital, but i was nervous, and probably a fresh new attempt would justify the amount of time i spent practising....

okay the next picture is my very great friends and I at the english trip, which was a blast and not a blast at the same time... we spent about a day, all in all, on the journey both going and coming back, lemuel got sick, and in the end, lem, pappu (he wasn't at the trip) and I ended up in the hospital for three nights. It was great because i could escape the college, didn't have to play piano for any worship services, and i wore the same shirt for practically the whole trip, if you were there you would know!! ahhahahahahahahahaha....

it's been quite some times since i logged into my blog and posted up anything at all... well here we go, i'm putting up a post!!!

i just had garlic, been painfully swallowing garlics for the past few days, it's both painful and temporarily relieving...

i just received my almost final work i had for creative writing, and all the improvements that i've made seems satisfying at this moment, but not knowing what would happen in the future, my works may extend, in length and meaning...hopefully

so i won't be always the blonde that vivian thinks i am!!! ahahhaahahahahahahahaha

i can't believe the year is already wrapping up, i'm thinking: what next? what would i do next semester? what would happen to me when all my friends graduate? will i be alone?! with whom will i hang out during my free time? with whom will i go to the markets with? whose bike will i borrow? who'll replace my late night calls (vivian is handling that duty right now - underpaid) I don't know!!!
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Kim said…
telan garlic?? that one for bikin hilang sakit or bikin tambah sakit ooo??
12:39 PM
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