todo

it's december (stating the obvious, what an utterly brilliant way to start, as ever) with its ridiculous weather. hot sun, driving wind, inexplicable heavy rain and nighttime temperatures that feel cold but still don't dip below 24. ideal weather for sleeping in, quiet pensive reflection - or indeed rollerblading at east coast, if i could (and if i had the blades, of course)... damn. rollerblading would be nice.

with great freedom comes a great and gripping need to make to-do lists.

1. don't malu at prom & post-prom
2. learn to whistle. i regard it as my most profound personal failure. have been practicing all day only to get one tremulous tone that doesn't sound remotely like a whistle but is at least a recognisable note. a B-flat. i think this means i'm doing it wrongly.
3. waldstein
4. write a symphony (pipe dream, i know). it had better not be crap.
5. get some worthwhile bass stuff sorted. gliere, polish off the koussevitzky for the last time, stuff like that.
6. uni apps. fuck. loads of essays whoring myself in strange, guailan and indeed kaleidoscopic ways - while not actually looking like i'm whoring myself. character-prostitution.
7. get a recording done. for uni apps.
8. psc essay. more whoring. but i need a scholarship to go anywhere other than nus so... ah well i'll just have to sell my soul.
9. beat myself into some semblance of shape for ns. as it is now i probably can't survive a 30-min run. target: 10km in 50 minutes before christmas. <- realistic? sigh. more like too noob for words lah. respect to eli for doing a half marathon yesterday, and to anyone else who went.

btw grats to zh who's back to blogging.