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I think it's quite dumb to eat half a packet of banana flavoured cream biscuits. You might get a tummyache after. My man khong guan makes them too good though.

If you want to feel hip hoppish and loosen that tension, listen to Steppin' Thru by Jimmy Eat World. The street dancers danced to this number on national day. Yeah "let's get it started".

Or if you want to develop another migraine, ilyich tchaikovsky can accommodate you. Was rummaging through my cd collection, and taadaa! I discovered little ol' tchaikovsky hiding behind my embarrassing Max 7 from 3 hundred years ago. And the temptation of listening to the Piano Concerto No.1 was too great apparently.

I will now ramble on about this insignificant moment of today because I'm bored and I can't wait to go Holland V to eat my xiao long bao..

It is his first piano concerto. The one his personal friend Rubinstein damned, then became doubtful and became an advocate (hypocrisy at its finest (: ). So we give him a break. Haha.

Allegro is disturbing. Really. It begins with a mega huge introduction set in the 'wrong' key, containing an imposing tune which never returns. Now is that psychotic or what.

Then there's this imperious horn call opening the concerto, and a folktune fragment which is pretty catchy, ushering in the main movement (hooray). Then the woodwind comes in with this plaintive melody, and on its second occurrence it builds into a climax which is capped with the soloist's double octaves! Insane, this man.

And there we have witnessed the eccentricity and utter control of thematic unity, after allegro comes to a fitting sonorous conclusion.

It's 22.49 minutes long. I listened to it twice. I'm going crazy already.

holland v here I come. Crystal jade cakery goodies going at $1. (:

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