Wednesday, April 30, 2008
I finally went back to pei hwa today! Yes, by myself. I AM SO BRAVE!!! Yes I am brave, thank you. I wanted to see Mrs Han - I just saw her last december holidays. But when I got there, she was as gone as a SARS patient. Not sick - as in she already RETIRED. It's like OMG! SO FAST. I just saw her some months ago ok. Then suddenly poof! Anyway I went on to see Ms Moh. And yes she's still single haha. Any guys reading this blog want to contact her? Lame. Anyway yes she's quite nice. She fell and scraped her elbow while trying to roller-blade. LOL! Erm. She said she still missed Faith 4'2004 the most *regarded her with considerable suspicion* Anyway she had to go for her next class so *byebye*. Oh and she remembered my face and my name (even though I changed my hairstyle quite a lot).
Then I went to find Mr Chua. He seemed to have a little more white hair haha. I mean of course - 4 years have passed after all (so fast). He remembered my face and that I played the piano but couldn't remember my name. SO SAD! :'( It seems quite strange. I felt he was different somehow. Not as in older. I don't know. Maybe it's because my perceptions have changed... it has been 4 years after all (about 1/18 of my lifetime?). Maybe he felt I was different from last time and therefore treated me differently... Anyway he said he didn't expect me to come back - it was usually the ones who were more outspoken who came back. Anyway our conversation was shorter than Ms Moh's, and I left.
They both said the same thing to me: I've become more outspoken and that I should keep trying my best.
Then I made my way down to the piano. Or rather the pianos. There used to be only one when I was studying in Pei Hwa. Another newer one arrived. It was quite obviously more played on than the old one because it was extremely, EXTREMELY out of tune and the G of the left-hand octave was stuck down and made no sound and I have quite a reason to believe that the hammers of the piano were not working properly anymore. They did not seem to stop the sound sufficiently and everything ended up echoing everywhere. The older one was quite tattered. It was in a rather worse condition than when I saw it in Primary 6. It's been only 1.5 years. The brand of the piano was totally stripped off along with the outer covering of wood (I believe the brand started with a "s" but definitely not a Steinway). The previously rich, mellow brown of the piano had faded to a dusty brown and the slight varnish it had had totally gone. I played on the older one first, which I have quite some memories of, and when I realised it was quite totally off-tune and the keys were not even, I went on to the newer piano, and found it worse. There was totally no clarity at all. So I went back to the older piano. I played some pieces and left.
It was quite sad to see the piano like that. It reminded me of humans. Hey I just thought of something. If humans were the piano, God would be the pianist (im NOT trying to imply anything okay). Life, like the piano, would be wasted if there was no pianist to play it. Only with a pianist, a piano can make beautiful music and bring joy to the lives of other people, delighting, entertaining, inspiring. What is the use of the piano if music was taken away from it? What is the use of the piano if there was no pianist to play it? The piano would never gain the ability to sing. The piano would never find true happiness. The piano would never learn to share and inspire. As pianos, our duty is to make ourselves as in-tune and even-keyed as possible for the Creator to make beautiful music.
Only then will our lives not be in vain.
