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2005年4月16日 上午2點56分31秒Get accepted into The Gateway urban program...
Get accepted into The Gateway urban program in Philadelphia! Thanks be to God!
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Recital in 9 days!
2005年4月12日 下午10點26分51秒Piano recital coming in 12 days! As my...
Piano recital coming in 12 days!
As my greatest personal event is approaching, it would be great to look
back my past recital in April 15, 2004, and all had happened since that
time.
My last recital was not really good. First, the timing (Thursday
12noon) was absolutely bad. I remembered there were about a
little bit more than 9-10 people, scattered around the hall. It
was just pain to my heart when I heard the recording of applauses,
which was almost an ironic joke to this serious event with all my hard
dedication and performance. The pieces were bad, as most of them
were short, it lacked the length, scale and complexity of my ideal
piano recital. The only good thing I can say is that it was my
first time performing experience ever to run through the whole program
by myself - a very humble, insignificant beginning of all the later
performing experiences.
Time has passed quickly. All the memoirs and mental pictures of
the past year --- the very lovely, wonderful girl in Music Building
going to graduate, going back to Hong Kong and argue badly with Mom, then traveling
around the world with parents and more bad fights on the way, and to
the culmination when the relationship between my parents and my brother
were almost torn apart during the graduation ceremony in Holy Cross,
which should originally be a joyful gathering. Are all parents in
the world so difficult to deal with? Or as I am growing from the
stage of childhood/teenage to adulthood, the parent-children
relationsip are not the same anymore? Perhaps...... I am going to
an unknown world with new relationships which I need to handle with new
ways?
After the trip, I stayed in Hong Kong and enjoy a regular period of
mandatory, crazy daily swimming and computer courses. The time is
especially confusing when I travelled to Taiwan by myself and visited
two friends, and stupidly showed many explicit signs of affection and
love to a girl I used to cherish franatically. Looking back, it
was the most silly thing I have ever done. Why don't I trust that
God will give me the best one, and instead seek one which is not for
me? It seems that if I disappear from her circle of life, she
won't even notice that!
Back to Hong Kong, and have some quiet time until the TYAC summer camp
in early August. It was a wonderful experience, reminding all my
spiritual friends (eg. Lam Sing, fellows in Gabriel......) and how God
loved and protected me all the time, since the journey had begun at
August 18, 2000. The card of dedication is still put on my desk,
pushing me to revive the fire inside me again and again. I truly
thanked God for giving me such a wonderful, loving church and
fellowship, a great place to nurture my faith in these years. I
was also very luckily freed from what some American friends experienced
in their home churches (eg. all the nastiest fights and distrusts
between denominations, liberals and fundamentalists, and crazy church
rules and norms causing injustice, abuses and suppressions).
Back to Bucknell - the bubble - again for my third year. The fall
semester was very tough. With an 5-credit academic schedule
packed with piano lessons and courses, I struggled through every class,
most notably the "Statistics for Engineers" by Professor James
Wright. I quoted the full class and professor's name, because I
hated this class and his teaching so much!!! Certainly I know
that Christians should not hate, but I cannot emphasize anymore that
how this class and his teaching inflicted so much pain to my fall
semester in junior year!
But whenever there is sadness and frustration, there is more joy and
hope from him! This time was not summer camp, but Fall
Conference! During this semester, I was much more involved in IV
and met a great group of friends. I espeically thank Stacey, with
whom we had chatted a lot freely about many things, including about
whom I loved. Her analyses(^.^), understanding and encouragement
were very helpful to me.
During Christmas break, staying with Ed Smith's family and the Joshua
Conference in Houston, TX with Kaley were also notable experience,
espeically for me who have never been to Southern US.
What else shall I say? Well...... if I am really going to write
them all down, it will be a 10-page paper titled "My junior year in
detail". But anyway, I'll never say that the past year was
miserable, or there is no progress on anything at all. I know
that God is working subtlely on everything for those who trust him and
love him. All I need to do is to rely on him, and believe that
whatever I ask, he will give the best, not by my will but your will, to
me.
God bless Keami, his junior piano recital, and all those yearning and coming for it.
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Yin Shing Hung, Keami, '06
April 24, 2005 Sunday
7:00pm Rooke Recital Hall
Music Building
Pavane pour une infante defunte
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Spanish Dance in E minor
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Tyler Mills '05, Violin
Piano Sonata in Eb Major, Op. 27 No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
- Andante - Allegro
- Allegro molto e vivace
- Adagio con espressione
- Allegro vivace - Presto
[ I n t e r m i s s i o n ]
Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118 No. 2
Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79
Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
- B minor
- G minor
2005年4月3日 上午5點32分16秒Today's specials: - A long, long raining day...
Today's specials:
- A long, long raining day (perhaps snowing tonight!!!!!) for the crazy
house party ^.^ I start to understand God's wonderful humor's now.
- Had a hour-long IM chat with a high school friend whom I haven't seen
long time ago, Miller Yim. She is in London for a cultural
exchange now. It's really a wonderful talk.
- Faculty Recital at 8pm. I love my favorite Brahms.
- Still the Gateway application....... Lord, show me your will in my summer. Give me the strength.
2005年2月12日 下午8點26分17秒February 12, 2005 Saturday Random writings:
February 12, 2005 Saturday
Random writings:
- Sky is clear again......
- The world is so big, and I am so small; today is just a paranthesis of the eternity.
- Thanks be to God. He always gives a second chance.
- Lord, I am weak. Teach me the meaning of serving.
- How to be a peaceful and joyful servant? Should Christians be happy? How can I do that?
- Does my character has a place in the Kingdom of God?
- The more I grow in faith, the more questions it comes up...... But I can't be content of simple answers, even though that means people regard me as weird.
- Lent is a period when you will be broken and then be healed, be crushed and then be restored, be frightened and then be comforted, be cursed and then be blessed, be cruxified and then be raised!
2005年2月12日 上午3點09分58秒February 11, 2005 Friday What on earth am...
February 11, 2005 Friday
What on earth am I doing?
I haven't changed from being that immature and inconsiderate jerk in Buffalo three years ago......
I need to change. I need to be transformed.
Metanoia!