Sorry long time no blog ppl..
wanna know why?
1) I normally do not blog on weekends, cos i came home late from work, feeling exhausted.
2) My dad has adopted a new hobby lately, watching old chinese war films on the net, so im left
with no com to use.(he watched till its time to slp!)

Sooo..to make up for the lack of posts, I shall post more today!!

Hmm..recently im quite mad with my violin students taking exams this coming july/aug. They never bothered to memorise what I told them to. There is one particular student who never memorise the scales(a requirement for the exam) and thus I spent a few lessons endlessly teaching her the easy ways to memorise it, instead of placing emphasis on her exam pieces, which is also going to be tested.

Then just last sunday when she had her class with me, I realised that she still doesn't bother to memorise her scales. She said she forgot(again!)
I tried to suppress my anger..(I just can't bear myself to scold students)

Then I asked her to play her exm pieces..O goodness..from the constant pausing and repeating parts in her music, as well as the lack of the graduation of tone and dynamics, I could tell she had not been practicing at all.

Me: What have u been doing? U never practice your pieces?!
Student: I only practice my scales.
Me: What?! I thought I told u to practice your pieces? I can't possibly have the time to go through so many things with u, the scales and the pieces.
Student: (silent)

Haix..I've spent so much time analysing the pieces with her, and now it seeems to be futile..

told her dad that she is not ready for the exam initially, but her dad insisted her to take it, saying that since she took grade 1 in pri 1, he wants her to take grade 2 in pri 2 too..

And being unable to say 'no' to her dad, all I could say was:" I'll try my best to push her then."

So it looks like i'm really going to have to try..