My Grey World

‘Nuff said. I got 111 for the exam, which means I only “pass”. Without merit, without distinction, but who cares? I got through the piano hell! OMG! Now time to play piano just because I love it. Anyone wanna learn playing piano, btw? Contact me!

This is the current hit song in my choir (SMU Chamber Choir). You Were There by Libera. I hope I’m not the only person that thinks the video is cheese sandwich. I mean, ugh. It’s like somebody just took their pictures and tinkered around with iMovie or the likes (Windows Movie Maker? Eeks). But it [...]

So if you guys follow me on Twitter/@sylvdoanx, you should have seen my public breakdown over my then impending grade 8 piano exam. I know it’s not a school exam or something, but let me tell you, piano exam is much much worse than school exam. Because unlike in written exam when you can try [...]

I, like many other people in the whole world, am sometimes peeved by the way my parents still treat me as a baby. Thankfully they don’t call me up at night and ask me whether I’ve eaten anymore (ugh, so Asian!), but they still feel that they have an authority over me to decide some [...]

Sometimes, just sometimes, I wish that I had gone to a “specific” school. If you go to a medicine school, you become a doctor. You go to a nursing academy, you become a nurse. Go to a teacher’s institute and you become a teacher. And yet I go to SMU and soon enough I’ll hold [...]

We’ve heard a lot of cliches around this : you are what you eat, you are what you wear, you are what you do, etc etc. But are you really what you listen? And do you define what you listen by how you define yourself? I’m pondering about this since my choir (visit SMU Chamber [...]

I think I just wanna write this post as a public service so that people will stop the misunderstandings that the language that Indonesian people use is called “Bahasa”. “So, do you speak Bahasa?” “Er… Yeah?” You see, people, the word “bahasa” actually means “language” in Indonesian. Bahasa Inggris means English language. Bahasa Cina means [...]

I realized I haven’t really ushered in the new year 2010 and to me that’s like a customary tradition on my blog. Yeah, right. Like you have any tradition, Sylv. Anyway, this year shall be a scary year for me. A lot of transformation will take place this year. I’ll be 21, legal for everything, [...]