What A Poor Pharmacist
for a weary soul like mine

Currently Playing:
Tears
by X-Japan

Lyrics

doko ni yukebaii
anata to hanarete
ima wa sugisatta
toki ni toikakete

nagasugita yoru ni
tabidachi wo yume mita
ikoku no sora mitsumete
kodokuwo dakishimete

nanagareru namida wo
toki no kaze ni kasanete
owaranai anata no
toiki wo kanjite
dry your tears with love
dry your tears with love

Loneliness, your silent whisper
Fills a river of tears through the night
Memory, you never let me cry
And you, you never said goodbye

Sometimes our tears blinded the love
We lost our dreams along the way
But I'd never thought you'd trade your soul to the fates
Never thought you'd leave me alone

Time through the rain has set me free
Sands of time will keep your memory
Love everlasting, fades away
Alive within your beatless heart

dry your tears with love
dry your tears with love

nanagareru namida wo
toki no kaze ni kasanete
owaranai anata no
aoi bara ni kaete

dry your tears with love
dry your tears with love

nanagareru namida wo
toki no kaze ni kasanete
owaranai anata no
toiki wo kanjite

dry your tears with love
dry your tears with love
dry your tears with love
dry your tears with love



Wednesday, April 06, 2005


Sigh... the feeling of letting a good opportunity slip between your fingers...

went to yamaha today for an interview on the position, "clarinova* music teacher cum salesman". Basically you had to teach students (which will be enticed to join by cheap coupons), then during the course of the lessons hopefully the student will incur enough interest (not $$) to buy a clarinova, then bam!, the student buys a clarinova that costs anything from $1000-$2000 (the cheaper ones). Deal closed. With the purchase the student is sorta "enslaved" to attend regular Yamaha music lessons, which bam! ensures you that he/she sloth off another $100-$200 every month for the next ten years or so until Grade 8 is attained or you give up halfway, that's about $12000-$24000 per head in potential cash.... can't label it as the Yamaha tactic cos every dude whos teaching music does it this way... private or school... music, is an expensive hobby man.

*clarinova = digital piano with the yamaha label
**electone = digital organ (2-keyboard with pedals) with the yamaha label

thing is, the post is for clarinova teacher, but i only play electone**... apparently i couldn't get the electone teacher one cos my qualifications CMI... haha one grade short of making it... sigh~ but nvm. The keyboard of the clarinova is with tension, like a piano, whereas the electone keyboards are without (i.e. means you have to whack harder on the clarinova for every note). They call it "weighted", mainly because you can vary the force used by your fingers to whack the piano keys, to create loud and soft sounds. Also the reason why zhou jie lun plays the piano in "shi jie mo ri" he looks like he's applying shiatsu massage.

Thing is, i cannot play weighted keyboards... damn pain when i just slam the front part of the finger down man, esp the left pinkie.

Anyway, the job was not meant to be.... for the post i had to clock at least 25h/wk (with yet unknown salary) for a one year contract... and before that, i had to pass an audition first (need to practice on the piano on two modern pop pieces). Assume the monthly pay was $1000:
Amt of hours worked per wk: 25 x 4 = 100h
Rate: $1000 / 100h = $10/h.
But, tuition offers much higher rates like $15/h for upper sec! although u earn much less in total.
Also, leonard who was beside me all the time pointed out, gotta make time for what i term "unexpected activities":
Amount of hours per week = 24 x 7 = 168
Minus sleep and transport (10h/day) = 14 x 7 = 98 hours
Minus NUS time (40-60 h) = 38-58 hours
Homework and research (20-30 h) = 8-38 hours
So much for having a "life": on avg i got 22 hours of leisure per week.. and that's not counting "unexpected activities" e.g. projects, meetings, ...

The decision to terminate the audition was made on 18:05.








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About Myself
Name: Tan Yong Qiang
Birthday: 19 Nov 1984
Primary profession: Student in NUS Pharmacy
Secondary profession: Audiophile
email: whyqueue@hotmail.com

Where I Came From
Primary Sch: Fuhua Primary, 1991-1996; 1H-4H, 5B, 6B
Secondary Sch: Commonwealth Sec, 1997-2000: 1B, 2B, 3S1, 4S1
Junior College: National JC, 2001-2002, 01S25, 01S29
National Service: Singapore Armed Forces, Army, 6th Division, Jan 2003-May 2005
Tertiary: National University of Singapore, Aug 2005-Present

Character
Likes having fun. Being with friends. Listening to music.
Introverted if don't know u well
A person with epilepsy.
Dreamer.
Problem-solver.
Hesitant and procrastinating.
Pulling up my CAP

Wish List
Make it through Pharmacy course
To be happy every moment of my life
Take care of myself
To be a better man

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