My college's Western Music History class performed 4'33" by John Cage yesterday. That was interesting.

On Marcus Miller's Wikipedia page all of the pictures there show him playing clarinet/bass clarinet. That is interesting (if you know who Marcus Miller is).

Old Man Sunshine - Listen, you!
Never tell me dreams come true!
Just try it -
And I'll start a riot.
Beatrice Fairfax - don't you dare
Ever tell me she will care;
I'm certain
It's the Final Curtain.

***

They're writing songs of love,
But not for me;
A lucky star's above,
But not for me.
With love to lead the way,
I've found more skies of gray
Than any Russian play could guarantee.

I was a fool to fall
And get that way;
Heigh ho! Alas! And lackaday!
Although I can't dismiss
The memory of her kiss
I guess she's not for me.

(Screw the kiss I never got one anyway.)

Maybe it's someone from college. Maybe it's someone from the orchestra. Maybe it's someone from my hometown. Maybe it's someone who was from my hometown. Maybe it's all just one big metaphor for something else. Go ahead and jump to your own conclusions.

By the way the song is really good you might want to listen to the Idea of North's version.

I got back my Contemporary Harmony project today. My lecturer liked it very much, but I only got a B. This is because he said the Vice-President (or whatever her post is) didn't like the font of my music score. Apparently if it doesn't look like the Finale scores, it's wrong. So if I use Sibelius and its music font, it's wrong.

So at a MUSIC COLLEGE, I lost marks, and an A, because somebody high up didn't like the FONT.

My college achieved Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) status in 2005. That is a proud achievement indeed. To ensure the success of MSC companies, the Malaysian Government has the 10 Point Bill of Guarantees, of which number 7 is as follows:

7. Ensure NO internet censorship.

I think enough has been said about RPK and malaysia-today.net being blocked. Let me discuss something else a little more personal.

Apparently in my college a lot of hoo-hah was made about one of my recent entries. Apparently, some people got very upset that I had quoted verbatim from the 'confidential' email sent to me (whether that really was the cause of mass distress as opposed to the contents of my argument in said entry remains to be seen). Apparently, even though I took care not to mention any names, email addresses, phone numbers, explicit details etc, it still was very wrong for me to copy the same sentences (even though had no-one mentioned it, I wouldn't be writing this, and we could all assume I was just rewording what was written in that email). And apparently, the act of putting out this email in my blog was an insult to them. Apparently, they could have put my email on the college website to mock me, as I had mocked them by putting their email on my blog (even though I never mentioned explicitly that it came from them).

If you want to put my email on the college website, you can bloody well go ahead, the more people read it the better!

I'm not CENSORING my emails or treating it as PRIVATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, so I don't see why the big fuss over your emails being PRIVATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.

AND WHY THE HELL DO YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT OUT ON THE STUDENTS?

So because of all this hoo-hah with the management not liking something that I wrote, now I become the scapegoat. Apparently, there's a new ruling that lecturers are not allowed to respond to ANY student emails, because they are afraid that the students may take the PRIVATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY contained within the email and post in on the internet. To kill the mosquito, you burn down the whole house. So if a student has a genuine concern and he sends an email to his lecturer, the lecturer is not allowed to respond online, but can only reply in person. All these measures because they are afraid we the students will use their PRIVATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY online. Wow. Well in a way it's good since it now means things will actually get done in college.

And to think that the college has been plastering our faces on all their promotional posters, brochures etc without asking for our permission.

Do image rights fall under the same category as PRIVATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY? Why is it OK for the college to put my face on a college brochure without telling me, but wrong for me to quote from a lecturer's email on my blog?

And now,

Why is the email sent to me considered confidential, PRIVATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY?

It was never stated or mentioned AT ALL in the three emails I received. There was never anything along the lines of "Do not copy any part of this email and put it on your blog". Just like there isn't any "please ask permission before putting this photo of this student on a brochure".

According to The Copyright Act 1987, protected works are classified as "literary works, musical works, artistic works, films, sound recordings, broadcasts and derivative works". So what is an email, a literary work? Or maybe an artistic work? Where in the law does it provide that emails are PRIVATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY not to be disclosed to the general public? And isn't the act of withholding information from the public against the principles of free-flowing information as provided in the Bill of Guarantees?

Oh wait. They detained RPK and Teresa Kok. They blocked malaysia-today.net. They issued show-cause letters to newspaper publications. Why should I be surprised that my college is upset that I put their PRIVATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY on my blog?

But then again, I can say all I want but get nowhere. At the end of the day, the college is always right. They always have the students best interests at heart. Anwar can become Prime Minister but it changes nothing for us music students. The administration will always be there, the same, and we don't have an opposition party to topple them.

My college is MSC status.

7. Ensure NO internet censorship. (MSC Malaysia Bill of Guarantees)

Disclaimer:
- I have nothing against my lecturers, whom I see as a bunch of hardworking, dedicated professionals who are genuinely concerned for the students. Note: lecturers. Not the red-tape guys Oops I'm not supposed to say that am I?
- No sarcasm intended in the disclaimer only. The same can't be said for anything written before that.

Edit: BLOODY HELL I mistakenly deleted the entry that caused all this hoo-hah... Damn.

When someone has received death threats, aren't you supposed to detain those making the threats, not the person being threatened?

Why is it that the person who writes a newspaper article on a prominent somebody making racist comments gets into more trouble that the prominent somebody who was making those comments?

If I talk some more, will ISA detain me as well?

I changed the layout because the old one took forever to load. And GUESS WHAT, the new one takes FOREVER to load too! Maybe I should just switch to blogger or wordpress.

From The Guardian:

Who was hit hardest by summer transfer-window amorality? Was it:

a) Real Madrid: 'We profoundly regret the conduct of Chelsea. Despite knowing well our decision not to sell Robinho, they continue to make declarations.'

b) Alex Ferguson: 'You get used to Real Madrid's behaviour on transfers and unsettling other club's players. They've no moral issues at all. They think that they can just ride roughshod over everyone.'

c) Daniel Levy: 'United's actions over Berbatov are sheer arrogance and blatant interference. Given what Ferguson said about Madrid it's unbelievably hypocritical.'

d) Sevilla: 'It is hypocrisy personified that Spurs are complaining about Manchester United. They took our manager, Juande Ramos, in precisely the same way.'

e) Arsène Wenger: 'The way clubs destabilise players is simply irresponsible. Look at Adebayor. There is a game going on where the big clubs try to tap up our players.'

f) Martin O'Neill: 'Arsène Wenger's comments about following Gareth Barry were strange, I thought. Arsène doesn't usually make comments like that.'

etc...

Ryan Giggs:
"City have the richest owner in the world but I still see United as the biggest club in the world. United have a status and history that has taken years to build up. It stretches back to the Busby Babes, to players like Bobby Charlton and George Best. It will be very interesting to see what happens at City, but what we have at United is very special."

I have a cold. I have ear training class tomorrow. I have not practiced for ear training class. I missed one whole week of ear training classes. How do you sing the Phrygian scale with a blocked nose?

After the love has gone
How could you lead me on
And not let me stay around
After the love has gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that's lost be found?



She likes him. A lot. All i can do is let go.

Again.

Why are all the good fishes in the sea in another fisherman's net?