Welcome to Tim's ever so clean and nice blog! All violence, hate, love, is strongly flitered so that you can leave this place happy and refreshed! I'll tell you now that instead of reading quotes like "Iraq needs ... good ... kicking," you'll see "Sometimes, there must be war in order for peace." (Arnold aka "the Terminator.")

   OK, I'm glad that's taken care of.

   Well yesterday I had the concert I was writing all about. It went "very well," as Rair* put it. The concert's highlights included: the San Jose Taiko (whose drumming literally sent shivers down my spine-let's fight!); some funny girl dancing around on the upper level; typewriter girl *Roreen from Leigh playing some funky stuff. As a whole, the concert was a great and fun experiance.
   I've just noticed recently that I like talking to people. This is a little strange for me, since I used to consider myself to be sort of... I don't know..*fidget*.. shy. I guess that this is one of those things about "maturing" or "getting older." This should be a good thing.
   I made some people smile today, it's fun! You should really should try it. Just give a really warm, genuine smile and say something might lighten your *victim's* day. Even if your warm, genuine smile/remark was pretty lame, most people will smile back to be polite. Before you know it, your are Mr./Mrs. Social butterfly! And you are a weirdo!

   Well I'm back; it's been over a week. Did you worry about me? Nah, didn't think so.

   I had a poker night last night in fremont; what great fun! Poker plus Battle Royale (my favorite movie) equals "Oh yeah man" and/or "totally groovy dude." I owned the first round, but I didn't have such good luck on round 2's game of Texas Hold 'em. I ended with 57 push ups, so really, I didn't have it so bad. POKER ROCKS.

   Battle Royale was awsome, as it always will be. Half the guys liked it while the other half were left confused/scarred. I would post pictures from the movie here, but I try to keep this place clean and free from negative emotions =).

   Regarding the concert tomorrow, I'm inviting you, blog reader, to come and see the San Jose Youth Orchestra play. The place is: San Jose Civic Auditorium, 135 West San Carlos St. The concert starts at 3:00 I'm sure you'll enjoy it, so please consider going. Talk to me if you want to buy tickets.

   Something is royally wrong with my leg. I didn't notice it until after class. As I was walking to the library (where I currently am still at), I felt this pain in my thigh and began limping. Yeah, this isn't good.
   Speaking of physical problems, the blemish on my neck has recently been becoming more painful and nasty. This is probably due to my extended violin practing (Violin... *SNAP* ... *HUG* ... *SOB*). However, I think I've found a temporary cure: vasaline! Vasaline, for some reason, makes my skin less painful and look a little better. I've tried using cortazone like my teacher suggested, but I don't think she knew what she was talking about. Cortazone didn't help; it made my skin too tender and sensative. Yes, dear reader, I have a weird neck.
   Happy PG-day to Big Brother. Yesterday marked his 15z-12E innoculation of Z0G. Mr. Pi will be conducting the official ceremonies.
   Oh, and I picked up conversational skill trick that makes my life seem more exciting. I tried it out today, and I think it works (let me just say that it beats the alternative in a conversation)! Hee hee hee heee.

Well I had my audition last night. You probably want to know all about it but, nuh uh-nothing special happened. I just went through the excerpts, messed up, played well, and finished. I walked home and was in a sort of daze. I realized that things like this I need to put in God's hands. Even if I didn't ace the audition, I still gave a shot. Yeah, I shouldn't worry about these things (like G$*). G$ was so cool it wasn't even funny. I kept on telling him to practice. "I don't need to practice," he said. Suprisingly, I think G$ did pretty well.

I talked with Zam* and Leedoh* Zoing** yesterday about how I've been recently too occupied with my own little things. I haven't been caring enough about God, or people for that matter. I figure that I need more dicipline to do what is loving and pleasing to God. The To focus on God, I really need to dicipline to devote more time and energy in spending time with Him through prayer and reading.

*First names changed    **Last name changed

... BOO.

   Practicing violin for large chuncks of time is beating my mind back into shape. My playing has been reaching new levels as I double my practice time; my hands are more in tune to the instrument. In a weird way it's invigorating.
   Unfortunatly, so much practice has tremendous downsides. It tires the heck out of me, and eventually makes me either dumbed-down or dang grouchy. Playing is physically straining; the joints in my left hand and my left upper arm start to ache pretty bad. Moreover, in the mental department, my brain is pummeled and totally blown. When I take a minute's rest, all I can think of is what to practice next. Worst of all, after playing for a while I feel depressed. This is a weird instrument, definatly.

    By the way, please come to the San Jose Youth Symphony concert on Sunday the 30th at 3:00pm. Talk to me about tickets; it's $6.00 for students. I really want you to come. We're going to have Latin and Japanese percussion groups join us, so it will definatly be a pretty cool experiance! If you want to talk about it sometime, I can convice you further.

   If you're in SJYS, ask me to motivate you into practicing! Together we'll dig into our minds and figure out WHY we actually play music!

That sounded very funny.

"What's this?"
"Singer. I want to go to this concert in LA, but you probably won't let me go."
"What?"
"Can I go to this concert with Tavit* from church and some guys from Davis? You probably won't let me, huh."
"No."

    Well, Tavit* has since told me that he won't be going either. It's OK, we wait in hope of next year. But... Tavit and I were so stoked at the very idea of seeing BoA live! I don't like to say it, but for a moment on AIM, it seemed like he and I were totally obsessed fans! Feelings like that make life seem a little more fun..... :)

I sound like cheese.

    I have so much violin stuff this month, it's insane. I have four performances for a leigh HS musical, a masterclass, a CM evaluation recording, an important audition, and a symphony concert-all within the next two weeks. Oh yeah, and then there is the CD project. How I'll juggle this, I don't know.

   Today I received the first bad grade of the semester. It was a D+ for a Spanish quiz. Normally, events like this throw my mind into a uncontrolable state of sadness and depression. As for right now, however, I feel good! Hopefully, if I study hard enough I'll do well on the midterm next week.
   Exciting news (sort of)! Yesterday my teacher gave me this shiny plaque that was awarded to me by MTAC for CM. It says something like : MTAC (break) Timothy Yip (break) Advanced Panel Finalist 2003. Sorry, I can't remember exactly what it says. It looks nice; I think I'll find a good place for it in my room.
   I really shoulnd't be typing-I have class to go to right now!!! But I'll give you one last paragraph of babbling. I'm learning to dance "Don't Start Now." Big Brother says I'm becoming mainstream (BAH!). I gotta go.

Edit:
These guys are saying that BoA is coming to LA in April!!!!!!!!! I hope it's real..
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You guys know where I want to be Saturday, April 26, 2003, at 6:00 PM.

I've had TWO people say that I'm overly obsessed with BoA! In response to the feedback, I'll tell you about my violin stuff instead on my normal BoA babbling.

I had an interesting experience today teaching a new student. The five year old boy was so upset to be learning violin; he avoided me as though I was some evil menace, he kept on wiping his nose, he refused to pick up his violin, he started to cry. For a few moments I really didn't think I could pull the lesson off. Luckily, I had a box of colored pencils nearby. I asked him if he wanted to draw. Without looking at me, he accepted my offer. I figure that the best I could do was to teach his mom while he drew, so she in turn could teach him when he get home. After a few minutes, the boy came up to me to showed me his work: a rainbow, some flowers, a man, and more flowers. Well many minutes later, and after much chiding, his mother and I finally got him to start playing. Now he was willing and ready! In truth, he had previously (i.e. the initial moments of fear) been listening to me, he just chose not to do what I was saying until now!

I'm learning the dance to "Don't Start Now." It's sooooo coooooool. I'll show it to you if you ask-I'm waiting for you to ask.

See? Nothing about BoA today... heh heh.

My writing doesn't have very good "flow."

Last night after cell I ripped the music off a video I downloaded: "I Want" by Fly to the Sky and BoA - a LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO!!!!!! It's actually really fun to watch and listen to. First, and most obvious, is the girl screaming. It seems as though that through the entire song these girls don't let up; especially when Brian from F2TS starts rapping in english. Granted, they guy looks pretty good, but seriously; it must have something to do with them not understanding a word he's saying. Second, the performers differ a little bit from the original recording. BoA and the other non-Brian guy improvise a bit which is pretty interesting. Lastly, the performers look so cool in the video!! BoA wears black slacks and a black suit with a cylindral Chinese collar. The guys are dressed in slick black suits-smooth man! Now I'm trying to circulate the live mp3 on kazaa. Such things are too good to keep to oneself.

Right now I'm downloading this video clip of these three guys dancing BoA's "No. 1" The video is one shot of the complete dance, in what looks like to be some aerobics room at a gym or something. The dance really cool; some of the moves are really neat.

Isn't it weird how I fill up my blog with entries of BoA and Asian stuff? You guys don't really care about BoA, but you're interested enough to come to my blog and read through what I've written... Oh well, I need to let somebody know how much I'm enjoying this... and you're bored with nothing better to do anyway, right?