When my Dad was a kid, his family was poor. My Dad was the second child out of six siblings. The fourth sibling, my aunt, has always wanted to learn how to play the piano, but she just couldn't afford buying one for a LONG time. I suppose she also didn't take any piano lessons 'coz it would be hard to practise without having a piano at home.
She became a full-time career woman and took some language courses and got a job in Jakarta. Her diligence, perseverance, and brain enabled her to go on a trip to Europe with her own money and buy a house on credit in Jakarta. In one workplace, her boss sent her to New Zealand to study something (I forgot what it was). I think when she was around 40 years old, finally she found an second-hand piano and at last she could start taking piano lessons that she had been dreaming of since she was a kid.
I remember one time she visited us in Bandung and she showed us her newly acquired skills on my brother's organ. I was very impressed at how fast she learnt to play the piano (she played simple songs, but she made very few mistakes). It was clear that she had been practising a lot on her own daily 'coz no matter how brilliant the person who gave her piano lessons, if she didn't do anything at all at home, her fingers would be stiff and she wouldn't remember how to play the songs.
What happened to the piano? Unfortunately it had to be sold 'coz she had to move to Canada to be with her husband - she found a husband (she had never been married before) at the age of 49 years old. :-)))
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
3BT: Random Days
1. Tomorrow and Friday I'll have free days, though on Thursday I have my Finnish class, but still it feels GOOD to be able to have some free time. :-D
2. With the free time I have, I'm right now trying a new recipe that a friend posted in FB HE HE HE HE HE...Hope it works!!!
3. Getting the much-needed nap today after work, since I only worked 4 hours today (due to the overtime I did the first week this month - since the Finnish class had a week holiday, I could use the time that I was supposed to spend at school at work).
4. Feeling the sun warming up my back while sitting in our kitchen.
5. Getting SO MUCH LIGHT from all the HUGE windows in our apartment.
6. Having good rolled curtains to shade the light when we're asleep. Now that Midnight Sun is coming and it's getting light longer and longer during the day, it'll be hard for us to sleep without these curtains.
7. I've been pretty diligent in reading some Finnish every day and also trying to translate Finnish songs in my other blog (though I still need R2's help, but still it's good practice for me). I should keep up the pace and not slack off!!!
8. We've gone sliding down the hills three times this month, so I'm VERY PLEASED with it, because last year we didn't do it at all as I was busy with my full-time Finnish class and during the holiday I got sick, so we couldn't make it.
9. Enthusiasm. Enthusiasm. Enthusiasm. About life in general and also about learning more Finnish.
2. With the free time I have, I'm right now trying a new recipe that a friend posted in FB HE HE HE HE HE...Hope it works!!!
3. Getting the much-needed nap today after work, since I only worked 4 hours today (due to the overtime I did the first week this month - since the Finnish class had a week holiday, I could use the time that I was supposed to spend at school at work).
4. Feeling the sun warming up my back while sitting in our kitchen.
5. Getting SO MUCH LIGHT from all the HUGE windows in our apartment.
6. Having good rolled curtains to shade the light when we're asleep. Now that Midnight Sun is coming and it's getting light longer and longer during the day, it'll be hard for us to sleep without these curtains.
7. I've been pretty diligent in reading some Finnish every day and also trying to translate Finnish songs in my other blog (though I still need R2's help, but still it's good practice for me). I should keep up the pace and not slack off!!!
8. We've gone sliding down the hills three times this month, so I'm VERY PLEASED with it, because last year we didn't do it at all as I was busy with my full-time Finnish class and during the holiday I got sick, so we couldn't make it.
9. Enthusiasm. Enthusiasm. Enthusiasm. About life in general and also about learning more Finnish.
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