Monday, September 24, 2012

Hobby of Mine



Yesterday was the first time for a long time that I have picked up my guitar and start playing again. I remember the first time I played with a guitar was when I need one when I registered for Beginner Guitar Class in my freshman year of college. My first guitar was from eBay... Mann that was a big mistake. I didn't know anything about guitars so I thought my friend and I can get away with a cheap one that costed about 30 bucks. When I first attended my music class, we had to tune the guitar. The eBay guitar couldn't tune right so my professor told us to buy bronze strings. The next class it still couldn't tune with the nicer more expensive strings, so my friend and I decided to just buy a better guitar from Guitar Center. Luckily I read the reviews and did my research including finding coupons and it costed me around $200 including auto tuner, gig bag, and capo. I think it was worth it cause the reviews said that it's a good beginner guitar.
This is my second day of practicing and I think I'm getting the hang of it now. Currently trying to learn how to play Taylor Swift's We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together. I think this is easy to play because the chords are just easy to transition to. You just have to move two fingers and the others are the same. Been practicing for about 15-30 mins a day and my fingers hurts but its fun.

Friday, September 21, 2012

School days

-______- I'm always wondering when will I finish school...Now I feel like "omgosh about two more years and I'll be out of here, but what do I do after graduating?! AHHHH" I was planning on going on a vacation after college but I don't know yet. There are so many people that says that they wished they had taken a vacation before working because it'll be hard to get long vacations when you're employed. I'm talking about 1-2 years long. Okay now it's time for me to go to school. Will be back after I come back or not I don't know... If I remember to =] eeekk 13 mins before the bus comes.

Okay, I just came back from school..harharhar. In class today, we had a guest speaker. It was about... Honestly I don't even know what it was all about but I'm guessing it was something about labor rights and unions. I don't know why, but I sometimes find myself lost in these kind of speeches. One because I don't have a good knowledge about the general issues and terms they use. Two, they talk to fast for me to register what they are trying to talk about. Back to the vacation thing I mentioned above. What are some benefits and shortcomings of having a vacation after college? For one thing, I'll be able to go to different places I've never been to before and I can also visit my relatives back in China. The shortcoming of having a vacation after college is that you might miss an opportunity of getting a job and you won't be earning any money instead you have to spend a lot for the trip. So I don't know but I'm leaning more towards having a vacation because school is just stressful and if I were to start work right after college than I'll break down.