I really did know how to play the guitar

Strumming my pain with your fingers.. 

The only pain is my fingers.. 

I actually knew how to play the guitar.. I only stopped in Grade 3 because lessons were getting so much tougher and the teacher was mean to me, in a way.. He kinda pushed me so hard that going to class became a dreadful thing, I cried too on some lessons.. Can't blame me, I was like 10 years old! 

One of the biggest reasons was because I was music-notes illiterate.. I cannot read music notes, then or even now.. I learnt to play by listening, memorising, and then my fingers just move to replicate it, and I kinda did pretty okay to get to Grade 3! 

In a way, I never really learnt the chords, I just knew where my fingers should be to make the sound it should make, at the speed it should be.. 

I used to play alongside my sister - she would play every evening on the her piano, and we both shared a metronome at home.. I also tuned my guitar by myself to her piano, again that was by listening.. 

So.... guessed what was my favourite piece to play? 

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Fur Elise.

:)

Ok - I totally forgotten how to play it already.. it's been more than 30 years since I last touched my guitar. So rusty and forgotten how. 

 

2 Years & Counting

The pandemic means different things to different people.. 

But for us, it was the beginning of our story.. 

Fast forward 2 years later - here we are, done and through it all.. 

Recently, during Chinese New Year, my mom said something which took me by surprise, she asked me to bring back some cookies for "my friend".. In other context, it would mean nothing, but in this context, she's referring to him, specifically. 

I guess maturity takes many forms, and this is one of it..  

Happy 2nd Anniversary bbbbb <3