Can someone give me the definition of good music?
To some people, good music is something that is aggressive. That has the scream of a bloodcurling vampire and the aggressiveness of a bulldozer.
To some people, good music is classic music, composed of intricate musical technicality and spans up to 8 and 9 long minutes.
To me however, good music is simply something good to the ears. Desirable things to listen to.
Consequently, due to the generality of my definition, what is good to my ears can be ungood to other people.
For instance, I love classical music. Really I do. I think it is the most complex form of music available. But a lot of people my age dont even listen to classical, let alone know about it.
But I think classical music is the most evergreen form of music readily available in stores. Go get em.
And I also love soundscapes. Like Kitaro. some of their music is now even music. They are just soundscapes. And I love those to.
But not all people listen to these things I listen to.
Like in more conventional forms of music, I like to listen to guitar oriented harmonies, vocal harmonies and such. But not all people specifically love those too.
I also like percussion based instruments. I think STOMP is magnificent.
I also like choir and opera.
And in some instances, I also like instrumentals. Some short and sweet. Others long and phrased.
And listening to all these that are not listened to, I think good music to me is another world of beauty. It's a myriad of colours that gives me a chance to paint my black and white world.
Wow. Isnt that dramatic. =D
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Losing Edge.
I have not been writing for quite some time I see.
I guess the seasonal tendency of blogging has gotten into me.
I hate it. I was reading through some things that I wrote a few months back in January and all of those were good stuff. I realised that I will forever have the love to write.
But writing is like reading. It takes practice.
And I am losing my edge.
I need to write more. It makes me more mature...
(write write write write)...
I guess the seasonal tendency of blogging has gotten into me.
I hate it. I was reading through some things that I wrote a few months back in January and all of those were good stuff. I realised that I will forever have the love to write.
But writing is like reading. It takes practice.
And I am losing my edge.
I need to write more. It makes me more mature...
(write write write write)...
People On the bus.
People are interesting. And learning about them is even more so.
Have you ever been on a bus, sitting alone and have nothing to do?
I have. And more often than not I tend to look at other people in the bus, (try to) study their characteristics. (Actually I was only trying to find something to do, which is better than studying through my lecture notes. =D)
Being in Australia, for sure the kind of people I meet in the bus are a lot more different than Malaysia.
In Adelaide specifically, there are a lot of old people around. They like to take their time, get on the bus, smile at the driver, and they have shaking hands when they want to validate their ticket. (Cepatlerr, aku dah lambat nk pi kelas niii...)
Also, what strikes me the most is the number of 'problematic' people on the streets and in the bus. There is this one day when in the morning, I seem to be meeting really strange people and on the way, I was late for class.
There was this one guy who sits alone, who looks like a homeless. He looks like Shrek version human (no kidding, minus the ears of course.), with a constantly open mouth, and every 7 seconds or more, keeps swaying his head like he was listening to Indian Metal.
And then the same morning, the bus driver stopped for what seemed to be someone who want to get on the bus. What turned out was that the guy just stood outside the bus and started to tell the driver (outloud) about stories about dont know what. And it was polite of the driver to simple say 'thank you' and drove away (I would've thrown a show)...and I was again late for class..
But there are some interesting people who I meet on the bus as well.
There is this one guy, who is a traveller. He travelled numerous places before. What struck me is that he had a pretty steady job before he left Australia decades ago. But he quit all that, went travelling and worked while he travelled. He worked really simply, like teaching English, etc.
And this all happened a few months back. Surprise2, recently we met again on the same bus. And he remembered who I am. And we continued to chat like old friends...(And I cant even remember his name. =D)
So I guess, looking at people keeps me interested in staying on the bus eh.
It's also funny to me when I am living in Australia but the students whom I see going to Uni everyday in the same bus as mine was mostly chinese. Yeap, more asian whites then Aussie Whites. Guess Adelaide is Old Man Country after all.
But being able to study people, quietly, is a bonus in itself.
Don't get me wrong, I dont think Im a 'people' person. But all the same, studying people gives me the pleasure of looking at humans and discerning their character.
Everyone is unique, and getting to know what part is unique is interesting in itself. Because given a situation, everyone would not react in the same way. It's interesting to see how people react and compare it to how you yourself do.
People can also be role models. They can be your inspiration to get better in life. It's interesting to see how people do what they do, and why they do it.
People are interesting, especially people on the bus.
Have you ever been on a bus, sitting alone and have nothing to do?
I have. And more often than not I tend to look at other people in the bus, (try to) study their characteristics. (Actually I was only trying to find something to do, which is better than studying through my lecture notes. =D)
Being in Australia, for sure the kind of people I meet in the bus are a lot more different than Malaysia.
In Adelaide specifically, there are a lot of old people around. They like to take their time, get on the bus, smile at the driver, and they have shaking hands when they want to validate their ticket. (Cepatlerr, aku dah lambat nk pi kelas niii...)
Also, what strikes me the most is the number of 'problematic' people on the streets and in the bus. There is this one day when in the morning, I seem to be meeting really strange people and on the way, I was late for class.
There was this one guy who sits alone, who looks like a homeless. He looks like Shrek version human (no kidding, minus the ears of course.), with a constantly open mouth, and every 7 seconds or more, keeps swaying his head like he was listening to Indian Metal.
And then the same morning, the bus driver stopped for what seemed to be someone who want to get on the bus. What turned out was that the guy just stood outside the bus and started to tell the driver (outloud) about stories about dont know what. And it was polite of the driver to simple say 'thank you' and drove away (I would've thrown a show)...and I was again late for class..
But there are some interesting people who I meet on the bus as well.
There is this one guy, who is a traveller. He travelled numerous places before. What struck me is that he had a pretty steady job before he left Australia decades ago. But he quit all that, went travelling and worked while he travelled. He worked really simply, like teaching English, etc.
And this all happened a few months back. Surprise2, recently we met again on the same bus. And he remembered who I am. And we continued to chat like old friends...(And I cant even remember his name. =D)
So I guess, looking at people keeps me interested in staying on the bus eh.
It's also funny to me when I am living in Australia but the students whom I see going to Uni everyday in the same bus as mine was mostly chinese. Yeap, more asian whites then Aussie Whites. Guess Adelaide is Old Man Country after all.
But being able to study people, quietly, is a bonus in itself.
Don't get me wrong, I dont think Im a 'people' person. But all the same, studying people gives me the pleasure of looking at humans and discerning their character.
Everyone is unique, and getting to know what part is unique is interesting in itself. Because given a situation, everyone would not react in the same way. It's interesting to see how people react and compare it to how you yourself do.
People can also be role models. They can be your inspiration to get better in life. It's interesting to see how people do what they do, and why they do it.
People are interesting, especially people on the bus.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Procrastination...
Procrastination, the thief of time..
In my 20 years of serving the world, procrastination had always been the bane for an organized life.
Even when in primary school...
secondary school,
foundation,
uni...
And I'm sure, a lot of people will say the same thing..
Fact is, there is just no running away from procrastination..
But the bad thing is, we know that it is bad...So, why do we do it?
I think the easiest answer within, is that:
In my 20 years of serving the world, procrastination had always been the bane for an organized life.
Even when in primary school...
secondary school,
foundation,
uni...
And I'm sure, a lot of people will say the same thing..
Fact is, there is just no running away from procrastination..
But the bad thing is, we know that it is bad...So, why do we do it?
I think the easiest answer within, is that:
We never learn (Tak sedar sedar diri la katakan)
So, what is procrastination?
Procrastination, put it simply, is delaying things. Delaying our homework. Delaying our job. Delaying our duties..
Thing is, life revolves around a chain of events, and is thus subjected to the chain rule, in that a small change in one thing will affect a sequence of events that come after it.
So procrastinating in one thing, will have an effect on the events that follow later on. In an analogy, it is like dominoes...
You push the first one too slow, the rest falls slowly. You push the first one hard, and the rest falls hard.
So, why is procrastination the thief of time?
Imagine, in a day, we have a few events. Let's say, in a day, we rise, bathe, go to 3 classes, come back home, cook, eat, do homework, sleep.
So in effect, we have only 24 hours to do all that..
Let's say, we bathe for 30 minutes (accounting for girls of course. =p). If we delay the time we take to rise from the bed (like turning off our alarms, tossing and turning in bed) for about 10 minutes, we take up an extra 10 minutes of bathing. Which means that ideally, we can only bathe for 20 mins.
..but we still bathe for 30 mins, which means we delay the time to take the bus.
....so we arrive at the bus stop 10 mins late, the next bus comes in another 15 mins..
..so after 15 mins, we go to class. We're late for class because the journey to uni is about 15 mins.
..so we already used up our 15 mins of class to get to uni...
Class for 3 hours as usual..
..then we come back home. Let's say we're supposed to cook at 6.oo pm. But we're tired and we rest for an extra 30 mins. So we start cooking at 6.30 pm.
But at 6.45 pm, we should be finishing our cooking.. So we wasted another half on hour there, and we finish cooking at 7.30..
But at 7.30 we're supposed to start homework, so we cannot watch tv after eating.
But we stil watch TV. So we start homework at 8.00
And we delay doing homework.. We YM, Facebook and all that. So we take up two extra hours doing all that. While we're supposed to finish homework at 10pm, we finish at 12pm.
And therefore, it takes out 1 hour from our sleep. So we get about 6 hours sleep.
...and most of the time the next day we will wake up late again...and the cycle continues..
So a little delay in the beginning of the day, caused more delays in the next events to follow.
And this had been a problem for almost 15 years....
Thing is, there are people who are extremely good at managing time. Goes to show that if we realy try, we can get what we want.
Living in Australia, I have friends who are extremely good at managing time. They go through the same workload as I do, but they sleep earlier and they go to all their classes.
Hurmm...maybe it's time for a change? Please?
Procrastination, put it simply, is delaying things. Delaying our homework. Delaying our job. Delaying our duties..
Thing is, life revolves around a chain of events, and is thus subjected to the chain rule, in that a small change in one thing will affect a sequence of events that come after it.
So procrastinating in one thing, will have an effect on the events that follow later on. In an analogy, it is like dominoes...
You push the first one too slow, the rest falls slowly. You push the first one hard, and the rest falls hard.
So, why is procrastination the thief of time?
Imagine, in a day, we have a few events. Let's say, in a day, we rise, bathe, go to 3 classes, come back home, cook, eat, do homework, sleep.
So in effect, we have only 24 hours to do all that..
Let's say, we bathe for 30 minutes (accounting for girls of course. =p). If we delay the time we take to rise from the bed (like turning off our alarms, tossing and turning in bed) for about 10 minutes, we take up an extra 10 minutes of bathing. Which means that ideally, we can only bathe for 20 mins.
..but we still bathe for 30 mins, which means we delay the time to take the bus.
....so we arrive at the bus stop 10 mins late, the next bus comes in another 15 mins..
..so after 15 mins, we go to class. We're late for class because the journey to uni is about 15 mins.
..so we already used up our 15 mins of class to get to uni...
Class for 3 hours as usual..
..then we come back home. Let's say we're supposed to cook at 6.oo pm. But we're tired and we rest for an extra 30 mins. So we start cooking at 6.30 pm.
But at 6.45 pm, we should be finishing our cooking.. So we wasted another half on hour there, and we finish cooking at 7.30..
But at 7.30 we're supposed to start homework, so we cannot watch tv after eating.
But we stil watch TV. So we start homework at 8.00
And we delay doing homework.. We YM, Facebook and all that. So we take up two extra hours doing all that. While we're supposed to finish homework at 10pm, we finish at 12pm.
And therefore, it takes out 1 hour from our sleep. So we get about 6 hours sleep.
...and most of the time the next day we will wake up late again...and the cycle continues..
So a little delay in the beginning of the day, caused more delays in the next events to follow.
And this had been a problem for almost 15 years....
Thing is, there are people who are extremely good at managing time. Goes to show that if we realy try, we can get what we want.
Living in Australia, I have friends who are extremely good at managing time. They go through the same workload as I do, but they sleep earlier and they go to all their classes.
Hurmm...maybe it's time for a change? Please?
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