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6 Mar 2006 02:57 pmFeeling procrastinative musical today and dug out a random recorder and violin.
Does anyone know how to fix violin strings? Not sure what to call those things, but the little tuning knob down the bottom is attached to a metal hook-like object, which has split halfway like a piece of cheap plastic, thereby proving it is. Anyway, back to the fixing string problem, the E-string keeps popping off the damn tuning knob, and I really don't want to get sliced in the eye by a highly taut and thin piece of metal wire with a metallic knob on the end.
(Yes, the violin was made in China ~~;;;; It took me about an hour to get a decent amount of resin on the bow so that it could actually make a noise...and the stupid tuning whistle is off-tune. Ugh.)
My recorder on the other hand, was made in Japan and hasn't broken even though I've had it for 10 years now (and despite me accidentally hurling bits of it on the ground due to trying clear out the...water inside). And it only costed $8. And it sounds much nicer when played, but I don't think that has anything to do with the manufacturer (damn).
Today I had my first biochem, Japanese and pharmacology lectures. And lugged home about 300 pages of readings for pharmacology (+ 3 Japanese texts + 1 microbio prac book) T________T I have never seen so much readings for science.
Biochem is completely beyond me, must revise ==; Can't remember what POL stood for any more, except that it had something to do with promoters...I think?
Didn't actually do much in Japanese, apart from nearly having a heart attack from seeing the fully kanji-ised sentence: "Watashi wa kinou tomodachi no JIEN-san isshou ni daigaku ikimashita."
(Yesterday I went to uni with my friend Jane)
Am going back to uni in ...3 hours time...for a meeting =___=|||| And I start tomorrow at 8am T_________T Fortunately, there are no labs this week, meaning I only have one hour of lecture on Thursday....
Does anyone know how to fix violin strings? Not sure what to call those things, but the little tuning knob down the bottom is attached to a metal hook-like object, which has split halfway like a piece of cheap plastic, thereby proving it is. Anyway, back to the fixing string problem, the E-string keeps popping off the damn tuning knob, and I really don't want to get sliced in the eye by a highly taut and thin piece of metal wire with a metallic knob on the end.
(Yes, the violin was made in China ~~;;;; It took me about an hour to get a decent amount of resin on the bow so that it could actually make a noise...and the stupid tuning whistle is off-tune. Ugh.)
My recorder on the other hand, was made in Japan and hasn't broken even though I've had it for 10 years now (and despite me accidentally hurling bits of it on the ground due to trying clear out the...water inside). And it only costed $8. And it sounds much nicer when played, but I don't think that has anything to do with the manufacturer (damn).
Today I had my first biochem, Japanese and pharmacology lectures. And lugged home about 300 pages of readings for pharmacology (+ 3 Japanese texts + 1 microbio prac book) T________T I have never seen so much readings for science.
Biochem is completely beyond me, must revise ==; Can't remember what POL stood for any more, except that it had something to do with promoters...I think?
Didn't actually do much in Japanese, apart from nearly having a heart attack from seeing the fully kanji-ised sentence: "Watashi wa kinou tomodachi no JIEN-san isshou ni daigaku ikimashita."
(Yesterday I went to uni with my friend Jane)
Am going back to uni in ...3 hours time...for a meeting =___=|||| And I start tomorrow at 8am T_________T Fortunately, there are no labs this week, meaning I only have one hour of lecture on Thursday....
