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I refuse to practise playing my violin when I’m around other people, even my family members, though I actually enjoy playing (but of course no one at home seems to believe me).  I finally coughed up ~$200USD (plus $50CAD custom fee and tax!) for a cheap electric violin on Ebay.  I know for that $250 I could have used it to upgrade my acoustic violin or my bow, but at least I’m practising now.

Oh.. and my bow crapped out finally so I need to replace it… and the fingerboard on the violin needs planing… and the tailpiece needs changing.  It isn’t too bad, considering this is my violin’s FIRST EVER maintainance/service ever since I started playing!

I’ve never tuned my violin the “normal” way — play two open strings together and listen for the perfect 5th.  Never.  I’ve always relied on my (less-than-perfect-)perfect pitch and tune each string separately.  Now that I’ve lost my perfect pitch, I can’t tune my violin properly.  SUCKS!  SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!  Sigh….  Now I finally need to LEARN to tune.

剛才去同朋友食晚飯時，友人留意到隔籬檯埋單時不停有閃光燈，於是問「是不是明星？」… 我望了幾秒後記起，是 Sun Boy’z 的其中一人，不過記不起名字 (如果他沒有在容祖兒的 music video 出現過的話，我大概甚至不知道)… 友人立刻撥電話問人… 原來是 Dennis。