The Heat is ON!
Thursday, February 21, 2013
10:47:00 am
So I wish..... While LTdL has JUST started, it sure feels freezing cold here in my room such that I'm wearing my scarf and am contemplating wearing gloves! Why so cold!
Ok I tried, can't type with thick gloves on! I think I'd enjoy/appreciate the muggy heat when I'm back. Can't wait! I wonder what's the outcome for Tanglewood....
So today I discovered what drives me nuts, way more than a soprano or a trumpet or saxophone or clarinet. IT'S SOMEBODY PLAYING SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS SLOWLY. Like grade 1 slow. And playing it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. And then some cheesy grade 1 song. On a piano whose sound is utterly disgusting (the young changs). I mean COME ON, the ENTIRE CORRIDOR IS EMPTY! WHY CHOOSE THE PIANO NEXT DOOR TO MINE! I almost went crazy in the room. After 15 minutes, I gave up and went next door to tune the next piano. After I was done, and went back, she was still there! I finished it up, went down for lunch, came back, she was still there.................................................
The only good thing was that, the piano actually sounded pretty okay in terms of tuning. And seeing as how I last touched it last week - not too bad! But oh boy................... I'd rather have a corridor filled with noise than silence and a single piano playing repeated slow arpeggios..............
12 more days... oh come on!
These days I've been on Jeremiah and I think it's one of my favourite books in the Bible!
Jeremiah 10:23-24
I know, Lord, that our lives are not our own. We are not able to plan our own course. So correct me, Lord, but please be gentle. Do not correct me in anger, for I would die.
Jeremiah 17:5-10
This is what the Lord says:
"Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans,
who rely on human strength
and turn their hearts away from the Lord.
They are like stunted shrubs in the desert,
with no hope for the future.
They will live in the barren wilderness,
in an uninhabited salty land.
But blessed are those who trust in the Lord
and have made the Lord their hope and confidence.
They are like trees planted along a river bank,
with roots that reach deep into the water.
Such trees are not bothered by the heat
or worried by long months of drought.
Their leaves stay green
and they never stop producing fruit.
The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,
and desperately wicked.
Who really knows how bad it is?
But I, the Lord, search all hearts
and examine secret motives.
I give all people their due rewards,
according to what their actions deserve."
