We spent the night celebrating dad's birthday (the pictures are with Narin, and I'm thinking of keeping them to myself). Oh, and the amount of times dad said "Thank you" - he was overwhelmed ! I reckon that he said it at least fifteen times.
As for me, I'm here, with a veeeeeeeryyyyyyyyyy sloooooooowwwwww Internet connection (so slow to the point that most pages load with "https://" instead of "http://"), with an incessant urge to drum, and no pyjamas. I actually had to borrow Jasvin's pyjamas yesterday night.
Dad's car tyre got all flat - it was punctured by a nail - yet again - this is, I think, the fourth time ever since he parked his car in the open-air parking lot near our place - and we spent at least two hours looking for a car service centre so we could change that tyre, and get a new spare tyre. The spare tyre we used back there was quite old - at least a year old - and we were scared that it'd give way. So we went and searched for a service centre.
We ended up using the wrong way and landed into the SMART tunnel - for the very first time. After an exhiliarating ride, we ended up in Jalan Sultan Ismail. We searched for shops in the heart of KL but to our dismay, all of them - and I mean ALL OF THEM - were closed.
So we went out of KL - up to the road near Batu Caves - but we couldn't find a single service centre ! We went even further - to Rawang - and all the car service centres were closed.
Finally, we found one, at the side of the road. Thing about that shop is that they know the other stores are closed. Instead of the normal RM5, they charged us like, RM10 ! They exploited the fact that almost all stores are closed for the Chinese New Year holidays.
Nyeah well, we got our tyre fixed.
Dad will be away from Sunday to Wednesday. If Narin's with us, well, at least I won't be alone. :)
Meanwhile, can you readers please do me a favour ? There's the post right below this, an MP3 draft of "Le Paradoxe", albeit with the quality of an AMR file. Please do listen to it, and comment on the post (shoutbox comments are welcome, but it'd be better if you guys could comment on the post itself). And do tell me what you think ! Just so you'd know, I wrote, played and sang that song. Recorded it on my phone and edited it with WavePad (but to little avail).
Just a tip to save you guys the trouble of searching for the lyrics : you see the Navbar above ? In the search box, type "Le Paradoxe" and click "Search Blog". All the answers for the query "Le Paradoxe" will be displayed, including the MP3 and the lyrics. The lyrics will be at the bottom of the page. So whilst you listen to the MP3, you may read the lyrics - well, to understand what I'm singing. And since that MP3 player is in autoplay mode, you'll be able to listen to it over and over again while reading the translation of the lyrics.
For the musically inclined, I'm sorry if you guys find that I have a tendency to go a microtone/semitone higher than usual. I know something sounds off towards the end. Rest assured that I'll train my voice more - so that this may not happen again.
Meanwhile, I know I shouldn't have put that player on Autoplay mode, because I feel like putting two more flash MP3 players right now - both containing different versions of the piece I was thinking of submitting for the ABRSM songwriting competition - Impromptu 8.27.
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