2012.2.24 - friday

           Heidy, Bryan, and I did our Romantic Music slide presentation today. We finally did it and thankfully it was a success. I hope we get a good enough score for it. In the end of our presentation we had to submit our booklets. In the booklet, i did 10 pages as instructed. I talked about Romantic Music and the powerpoint presentation did help me start off since by then I already know things about it roughly. In the booklet I just need to go a bit more in depth about it. We also filled in reflection booklets about our assessments. In the end, Mr Herry said that we need to update our blogs because it is inconsistent and it will be checked.

2012.2.20 - monday

           Today is the day that we are supposed to be doing our presentation. My group and I are ready as ever and we have already worked on it together in my place. We were done with the presentation really really early actually. Right after Ronaldo, Verena, Yohanes, and Hashfi are done with their presentation, it was supposed to be our turn. However, we experienced a major technical difficulty which was that the powerpoint presentation program at school is the old version, while the one in my mac desktop is the newest one. We tried converting it with a Ronaldo's laptop but his powerpoint was an older version than mine. So in the end we had to do it on friday, together with the submissions of our romantic music booklets.

2012.2.17 - friday

          Today, we were given back our results for the quiz we did before. I am satisfied with my results, however, i was really annoyed by one careless mistake I did in the definitions. I knew by heart that accelerando was gradually getting faster, however, I made a careless mistake and wrote that as gradually getting louder and I'm really annoyed by that one mistake. everything else was good. After giving back the paper, mr John gave us photocopies of a song that we are needed to perform for the class chamber orchestra. However I think the numbers are odd since there is only one violin, one cello (me), one flute, two pianos, and the rest are guitar players. I really wonder how it will sound in the end. It's odd.

2012.2.13 - monday

           We had our music assessment (quiz) about the natural, harmonic and melodic minor scales today, and in the quiz we were also told to answer some terms. I think that I did really well because I answered all the questions and I was sure about them. I hope I did not make any careless mistakes. Luckily I knew all the definitions of the words that were given. I even knew the word that the teacher just talked about and I luckily listened to what mr John was saying because most of the other students didn't know what it meant. I submitted my paper in the end when the time was almost up because I kept checking the scales to see if I accidentally wrote something wrong.

2012.2.10 - friday

            Today's class was focused more on revising what we learned the other time. I have also somewhat forgotten some things we learned. But after a few minutes it all came back to me and I remembered what we were learning about. Having class discussions are an enjoyable way to learn for me because everyone in our class are interacting and we also have laughs at the same time so it's not so boring. Since everyone is involved I understand better. Then, mr John tested some people to write on the board who doesn't quite understand it yet. He asked me a few questions in class as well, and that was also quite a good thing because I managed to answer which means I understood well.

2012.2.6 - monday

        Today, we started class by talking about study trips abroad since the grade 9 drama class are having an excursion to singapore to watch the world-famous play, 'Wicked'. I've watched a few broadway shows and I heard that Wicked is a good one although I haven't watched it myself. We planned about having our own trip ourselves but related to music. We thought about going to Austria or Germany since they have many relations to music. I've been to Germany and I did visit a lot of Music Museums, they had a lot of strange instruments from a long time ago. However this is just a thought and not final at all.

2012.2.3 - friday

          In class, we discussed a lot of music theory today. We talked about chords and scales. Like the usual, but it was more in depth and we talked about some more. I had some time where I was slightly confused and unsure however I caught up quickly so that was good. I think that sometimes I over think things so I get myself confused and I try not to over think now. We received a sheet of paper containing all the things that might be needed to be studied by us since we were told that a quiz will be coming up soon. In the sheet, dynamics, and other indications we can find in repertoires are written, and so are their meanings so it could help us in the future too.

2012.1.30 - monday

   Today we were told about our next upcoming assessment. We are told to do another powerpoint slide presentation like we did last time. This time, the presentation will be about romantic music and how it is different from the other musical eras over time. They told us that we are going to need about 3 to 4 people in each groups. I think it will probably be 3 people because of the number of people in class. Then, like last time, we are told that we will be required to make a booklet regarding the same topic, which is Romantic Music. After that we were divided into our groups. I got the same group like i did last time which was with Heidy and Bryan. I work well with them and we work while laughing and having fun, but we get it done well. In the end of the session we had a short discussion with our group mates and we talked about what needs to be included in our presentation.

2012.1.27 - friday

We didn't have class on monday because it was chinese new year. Today is the day of the singing assessment and I have got it fully memorized. We started off with vocal exercises. Then, since they decided to do it alphabetically, I was the one who went first. Thankfully it went really well and I didn't miss out any words nor did i get them mixed up. In the feedback the gave me, all I needed to improve was the expressiveness of my singing. Maybe my back was too straight or I didn't pull out a grin enough. So I learned that that's what I need to do next time.

2012.1.20 - friday

Today we started off with vocal exercises and also practiced breathing with our tummies. We did the usual vocal scales and humming that we did for the past few sessions in order to relax our vocal cords. Today we had to sing individually to look for the pitch of the song that is most suitable for our singing voices. I got -2 just like heidy. That was the most comfortable pitch. We were called on one by one. The assessment is going to be on next friday because monday is chinese new year.