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Saturday, September 24, 2005
the end.. =)
new comm + old comm =)
yup thats the end of prelims for me! yeah! i end later than most people but at least i feel a sense of achievement when doing my chem s paper which is so demanding that its half an hour for 1 question where there is like 10 parts la. oh man. just happy that i endured through the paper. shan't talk about prelims though i know one of my grades le and i am not so happy about it.
well just some random thoughts. =)
while i was getting bored of playing civilisation III ( yes i have been playing computer games for the past 2 days instead of studying ) i decided to take out my guitar. i own 2 guitars. 1 old which i am supposed to return and 1 new one which is my own personal one. =) i took out the new one. oh great. the string frayed near the guitar bridge for my bass E string. few choices for me to do. 1) get a new pack and restring everything again. 2) just buy 1 string and change that frayed one. 3) play on my old guitar.
it sounds like human making mistakes just like the string fraying and near breaking. when u make a mistake, sometimes you can't go back and everything is not the same again. you cant play the string, the music is missing of one of the most important part of its countermelody and the essence of the music: the bass. try strumming on it. something is missing and you can't play the G chord too. when someone makes a mistake, the impression of the person changes and its hard to change and have back the initial impression that we use to have about the person. just like someone committing a crime and everyone start condemning the person and many refuses to give chances for the person to turn over a new leaf. yes not all people are forgiving. but chances are to be given and we must treasure every chances, every oppotunity given to us.
regarding the number of ways of handling my broken string, if changing the whole set together, it takes time for the new strings be 'seasoned' and frequent tuning is required to get the whole guitar back in perfect pitch again. its just like a person changing him or herself completely in order to be accomodated back into the society again. it is hard on the person to try to be another person. but does it make sense that we have to not be ourselves when we make a mistake in order to fit back into our cliques into the society again? how many people are willing to do that? isn't it hard on them to do so to?
if we just change a string, as always the string runs. the bass string goes out of tune, the melody is spoilt. completely spoilt with the wrong key for the bass. seasoning is of course required and it takes less efforts to tune 1 string instead of 6. of course that seems to be the better way out, but the overall quality of the sound of the guitar is spoilt with only changing 1 string since the rest of the strings are old. its just like covering up your mistakes and acting as if nothing has happen. sounds something wrong right. the new string will seem oblivious among the other strings. hence, we must always be accountable to our own mistakes.
if we choose to use another guitar, its like completely avoiding the mistake that we make. yes its true that we should face up to the mistakes that we make and we must always do that. no point avoiding the mistakes that we made. we learn from mistakes. our forefathers learn from their mistakes. the scientists learn from their mistakes and that gives us what we have now. that is the worst choice to make.
well, to solve my urge of playing the guitar i picked up my old guitar and played. however, as always, feeling painful to see my guitar in this state i started asking for strings but i failed to get strings. eventually i took a 4th option out. i used back the same string by cutting away the frayed portion and the length is just nice ( its great to know how to restring and must really thank auntie kent for teaching me haha. ) well, shows that we have to face up to our mistakes and yes we have to make up for it and learn from the mistakes ( of stuffing my guitar in a corner for too long ). no man is a saint. everyone makes mistakes. its just how we handle them. =)
sounds like a crappy horrible entry lol. brain still in a mess after prelims. yeah! relaxing for 3 more days before another ordeal of getting back the papers. =) wishing good luck to me and everyone. =)
12:19 AM
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