So I'm listening to Prokofiev right now. That bastard had the gall to write a symphony, which I now have to know from top to bottom. It's all my fault though, really. I signed up for music after all. Eh, It's not really that bad. I'm up to the third section. Oh, the fourth now. Since the third was only about 50 seconds.. Woohoo! I'm half way done already!
Next will be the Yellow River, by Xian. It's real cool from what I've heard. All about Chinese propaganda and their fight against the Japanese in the 1940's.. From what I read, it's basically a soundscape of the Chinese spirit and will to fight Japanese invaders. Oh boy..
Speaking of Japan, I went there for the holidays! Only for about 5 days, but it was still an awesome experience. It was actually the first time since I learnt Japanese that that skill actually came in handy. At last, the past two years of my life haven't seemed like a total waste of time. Linguistically speaking, of course. Ooh, this fourth movement is quite exciting. Very moving indeed. If you catch my drift.
Hahahaha, speaking of catching a drift, I've just listened to the new Offspring album. At first I wasn't so impressed, just kind of seemed like they hadn't really developed at all, and their like, in their late 40's now. But then I thought about it, and realised they don't really need to develop an entirely new sound. They've already perfected a sound that is their own, so why would they go around destroying it? I mean look at what happened to Linin Park.. *Shudder* Anyway, anyway, they have a song in the new album called Cruisin' California (Bumpin' in my Trunk), and what I only just realised, was that it's a song about some chick farting. Hahaha at first listen it just sounds like they resorted to falling into the same pop-groove as Katy Perry, but no, far from it. This is one of their best joke songs evaaa. It's also catchy too.. But I guess that's what you'd expect from pop garbage.
So I've been pretty busy these holidays ya know. Granted, not doing so much work as I probably should have been doing, but still, I was a busy guy. For instance, a lot of my time was spent writing super long emails that just kept getting longer and longer! That was what happened for a majority of the time when I was in the U.S of A. It was fun. Now that I'm back in my old casa, I've got Joe here! He's visiting from England. It's pretty cool, since I haven't seen him in AGES. And yet it's like he never left. Some things are kind of different, like not that many people are here, and we can't really talk about stuff that happened in school, but we get by. It's just good to have my old friend back.
Now I'm supposed to be writing about this massive 12 minute movement by Prokofiev. But I'm not. This blog is far, far more important than my foreseeable future.
Hmm, the thought has crossed my mind of dropping out of school. Just go to Singapore instead for my uni. I qualify for going there right now, so it wouldn't be a problem getting in. But I can't. No matter how I bitch and whine and complain, I'm not gonna be quitting this damn IB anytime soon.
Besides, there's still so much left to happen this new year.
I just hope most of it turns out to be good,
