Summer is Upon Me

So today is the first day of summer for me.  Why? It is because it is the first day I felt really bored.  to fix that, I played a flash war game.  Just think Risk but with flash graphics.  I was really bad at the game before, but I’ve gotten much better at it.  I’ve learn some strategy: always try to get a good hold of a section of the board, make the enemies fight each other, and don’t overreach even if possible.  Better to play defensive.  The game has this war music playing all the time, but I switch that off and put some nice, soothing classical.  Helps me make proper decisions and not be rash.  This is the same as when I tackle homework.  If I have some music, even menial tasks are not boring.  

Another Great Victory

I could have been doing other stuff.  I have so many unfinished books just lying around.  Still have to finish Kara no Kyoukai, Fate/Zero, On China, some fanfiction.  I just don’t feel like finishing my reading list just yet; that usually starts to get done mid-summer.  

Not like I wasted all my time today.  I was tabbing a song that I wanted to play on the guitar since my hand has gotten better.  The pain of staring at a screen watching somebody play the same notes over and over again, this is what guitarists face.  In the end, tabs are pretty meaningless after a while.  I learn music more through hand shapes.  That is probably why I’m bad at sightreading.  Not to say I can’t do it, but I rather like watching somebody play the song before I do it.  I used to ask my guitar teacher to play the songs first so I could watch her and see what I had to do.  Eventually, the sheet music ends up just being a subconscious marker of my place instead of piece of paper I’m playing notes off of.  

My Beautiful Tablature

Watched “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”.  It is a movie about people retiring in India and how it changes them.  Don’t know why it has such good reviews, it wasn’t that good.  Maybe because people were fascinated by the Indian setting and how different it is from America while I just thought “been there, seen that.”

Did other stuff today, like listen to K-pop with Anh, but nothing really worth writing about.  First day of a long string of days left of summer.