This guy is one of the coolest people in the world.. a world-famous Turkish concert pianist. I'd gone to two of his concerts during the week when I went to Turkey, and the man's a genius! Right now I'm in the middle of reading a book he wrote entitled Ucak Notlari ("Airplane Notes"), consisting of writings he produced when he was bored on plane flights. He describes his life, insights on music, etc. It is very fun to read and I've learned a lot. I'm also listening to the 4 CDs of him that I'd bought from Turkey and they make me happy. :) But right now I'm listening to Bach's Mass in b minor for the first time because I'd bought the CD last year but was too lazy to listen to it. It was mentioned in the book, and I was like, "Damn it, don't I have a Mass in b minor CD somewhere?" I also remember getting Handel's Messiah... the whoole damn 3-hour long thing, and I have yet to listen to that. Grr. I shall do that today if I have time.. cuz this Mass in b minor is going to take about 2 hours to listen to. Today was a music-filled day, starting from the morning when I woke up and fixed my Join Choir bracelet, to reading, doing very effective piano practicing, reading some more, listening to different CDs, and researching stuff. I am very happy, if you couldn't tell. posted by Melike at 20:52
I'm definitely majoring in music, goddamn it. posted by Melike at 19:04
So.. I woke up in the morning and I still didn't like my new Join Choir bracelet, so I painstakingly shortened it and now it's good. It's hard because I used a chain (necklace) folded in two to put the beads on, since it had a clasp and it wasn't silver and gave me allergies anyway. At least it'll be of some use to me if I cover it with beads and wear it. So yeah, it's nice. I also put an evil eye bead on it -- just for fun, and because the chain was too long anyway. *looks at it and grins* I don't know what to do with my old Join Choip bracelet though... it looks so... pretty. *sob* So yeah, I finally did pleasure reading one day after not doing so for years. Yay me. I'm going to read some more now. I figured it'd be a fun project to become an introvert. More so than now. Just because. :) posted by Melike at 16:23
I made a new Join Choir bracelet and I have mixed feelings about it. I'll decide in the morning whether I like it. For now I'll just go to bed I guess. posted by Melike at 04:55
Thursday, January 31, 2002
I was looking in my archives, and I discovered that I have been wearing my JOIN CHOIP bracelet non-stop for 3 months and 4 days. Wah! I won't WANNA cut it and make a new one! I like the choip spelling! *sobs* I dunno what to do!! posted by Melike at 18:13
Happy birthday, David! I have nothing inspirational or profound to say.. but I might as well write something because I hate it when people don't update their blogs.. or they do, but they write two-liner crap like me. Actually, I'm about the only one who writes two-liner crap, because everybody else is too lazy to spill out ramblings on a daily basis so they wait for stuff to accumulate. Yay calc! We are learning limits! I've always wanted to learn them since 8th grade, because our math teacher had said, "It goes on forever.. of course there's limits and everything but you're going to learn that in calculus." So yeah, I wonder who actually reads my blog.. like.. I had no idea Brent read it.. haha. I wonder who else there is! It'd be cool if like someone liked me and they always read my blog and I'd feel stalked but that's okay because I do that to a few people too *wicked grin*. Actually, naw. I just check my friends', and also this guy I used to like and stalk in 9th grade. It sort of stuck. Hehe. Anyway, back on Sunday I'd bought a new lettered bead set so I'd cut up the "JOIN CHOIP" bracelet I'd made and replace the P with an R. There weren't any more R's left, so I just drew in the line on the P for a while.. but then I got lazy and stopped doing that. Now I'm too lazy to remake it. Oh well. *grin* The time shall come. My mom got me socks! Yaaay! Damn it people! I want to do creative stuff! Like draw and stuff! But I CAN'T! Grr!! posted by Melike at 18:10
GOODNESS! What the heck am I doing up? Well.... I'll probably stay up for another hour so.. yeah. I'm dumb. Today was a stupid day, haha. :) Bye! posted by Melike at 04:21
Wednesday, January 30, 2002
A few days ago I had a dream where one of my friends was going out with a girl in my English class. Now I feel all weird whenever I see her. posted by Melike at 20:04
Ah, right now I'm eating an orange and it reminded me of a dream I had this afternoon while I was taking my nap.. where I was sharing an orange with a friend. The orange was really juicy though, and it got all over our hands.. just like right now.. gr. I don't like juicy oranges. posted by Melike at 01:11
Tuesday, January 29, 2002
Wow, today I witnessed the most amazing weather EVER: the sky was bright blue, it was hot and sunny, and there were huuge white puffy clouds, and a big dark ominous-looking cloud amongst them. And suddenly, it started to rain! It was so weird because the sky was so bright and sunny! It was sooo beautiful. I think I'll always remember that moment. I couldn't see a rainbow though. :) Ah well. posted by Melike at 18:07
Monday, January 28, 2002
Silly life. *grin* Kill it! posted by Melike at 04:11
Sunday, January 27, 2002
Yay, I'm back home! I bought lots of stuff and spent a lot of money.. and all I ended up buying for myself was a silly bead set that was worth less than $5. But I'm so happy! I walked in the rain! Mmm, I love rain. And now I'm starving but I shall eat pizza soon! So whee. Today was good... so far. :) posted by Melike at 19:58
Ew, stupid Blogger!! I was writing this long thing and suddenly it cleared the text box! Vat ze hell! Oh well, I'll start over. The sleepover was really fun. If you're reading this right now, Jocelyn and Aimee, then thanks! Ju guys rule. Hehe. Jocelyn's spicy and dangerous. I molested Aimee. *grin* Anyway, we went to bed at 5:00 and woke up at 9:00, and Jocelyn and Aimee left at around 11:15 and 12:10, respectively. So yes, I'm left all by my lonesome here. *pout* But not to worry. I finally filled in my new address book that Jocelyn had gotten me for Christmas. Now it is proudly displayed on my computer desk, next to my phone. I didn't notice that it was raining until my dad actually pointed it out to me. So cool! I was planning on going out just by myself today.. browse through a book store and an art store or something. Very cool. I'd been looking forward to it since last weekend, since I couldn't go then because I had finals to study for. But yeah, I need to study for a bit first... again. Studying is okay though. *grin* So yes, my weekend is perfectly planned (hopefully). SATs, recital, sleepover, studying/resting time today, friend's birthday party tomorrow. *smiles* I feel content. *happy sigh* Yay! In fact, as I type this I'm becoming more relaxed. I'm not even sleepy after getting up at 6:30 yesterday morning and having only four hours of sleep. The recital went okay yesterday. I had two pieces to play, and in the first one I messed up, so I stopped playing, turned to the audience grinning, and said, "Okay, I'm gonna start over now." The audience chuckled and said okay, and it went fine after that. It's hard to play in front of an audience; I don't know why. Not like the parents of the little children my teacher teaches are all musical virtuosos. In fact, when I turned to the audience to announce that I was beginning again, I felt more relaxed, even though there were more people than I'd expected there to be. The piano was crappy anyway, so it was sort of an informal atmosphere. So whatever! My second piece was the Moonlight Sonata and I did that really well. People came up to me after the recital and told me how good I was. Haha. I know *hair toss*.. :P j/k. Yeah it was alright I guess. I don't even remember what I did. It was all a blur to me. But good thing the success of the 2nd piece overshadowed the failure of the other (but hey-- I played the first one well too). Well, I guess I should get a little bit of studying done now so I can go out later. Bye! posted by Melike at 16:29
Hey.. Jocelyn and Aimee are sleeping over tonight, and Aimee's playing with my Shakespearean magnetic poetry.. Here's all that she wrote:
damn you woman my saucy lover's breast dost torment him alas he hast pleased my maiden the wench ne'ever loved a man like a lady's bosom
methinks death is perilous hence to dream is loathsome
thou art a drunkard drunk as a codpiece
wicked peasant you villain she belches every night
we'd bestow lordship upon thy lover's full bosom my saucy lover's bosom and breasts are vulgar never strike my bosoms can thou spot melike's full bosoms tempting bosom
Hehe. Aimee seems to like that word. posted by Melike at 04:03
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