Bloggin` and recent progress

After waking up at 11, and coming to school late, I encountered Ms.Gergely on the hallway. We had a brief conversation about my blog and she said my blog kind of looks like a diary of a cat, which was the example of ‘the way we should avoid when writing our journal entries.’ With the feedback, I thought for a while and realized that I actually didn’t really care much when writing blog posts. It was all about what I did every day (not even everyday) and what I will do in the future, which I didn’t really put much effort in. Ms. Gergely said it is okay so far that I wrote entries like that since it’s been not that long. But she said I need to write better entries, guided by the diagram that was also in the packet. So now, I have that packet right in front of me and trying to write a journal entry according to the diagram.

Anyways, this week was really crazy and still is because I have to perform at the Cabaret night on Friday and Saturday, since I’m a part of the Korean Drumming club. And along with that, I work three days a week (Tues, Weds, Thurs) which left me no room to practice and do homework. I did a little bit of singing over the weekend, but I think I need to try harder. Still, I am trying to figure out how to control my breath and just sing better in general. I think the answer lies in breathing, which the singing is all about. I think it’s the matter of holding breath longer and increasing the capacity of my lungs and stomach. To solve this problem, I am swimming about hour every other morning and working out (which doesn’t really help, but it’s better than not doing anything).

At the same time I’m working on I’m yours, I am also trying to sing a few different songs, which include Viva La Vida by Coldplay. The song is exceptionally good, in a sense that it goes as high as I’m yours goes and shares the similar chords. And I have personal preference for the song also. After singing that song sometimes, I realized that I could basically sing up to the highest note in Viva La Vida. However, it was only possible when I had 100% of my breath. When I’m singing and trying to hit that note, I run out of my breath and screw it up. The antidote to this situation is increasing my lung capacity. Same problem occurs to me when I’m trying to sing other songs besides these. I simply can’t hold breath long enough and end up making weird noises which is really annoying because even though I know the answer to it, I can’t really solve the problem in a short period of time. And I guess this is why Wise is all about discipline and dedication, because only though hard and routinely work, I can get over an obstacle.