Burning out?

What would you do when you burn out!? In education, we talk about teachers experience burning out after teaching for a long time. What is that so called "burn out" anyway...?

"Burn out" happens when you do the same thing over and over for a long period of time that you forget to put your mind in it, in other word, you don't care what you do anymore. It becomes the matter of get it done. At least, that's what I understand.

Can student also get to the point of burning out?

I'm not saying that I don't care about school. As the matter of fact, I'm graduating. My defense exam is right around the corner. If everything goes well, I will be done by this coming Thursday. Isn't that exciting??

Yea... it's exciting, and that's the problem because I don't feel all excited!!

Perhaps, I'm so ready to move on that my mind is not focusing on school stuff anymore. Could it be that I'm burning out of being in school? or maybe not!?

I have been in the state long enough that I don't really know where my home truly is. Bangkok is surely different from 6 years ago. But the feeling of living here in the state any longer is not really in my mind. Why do I wanna go back badly even though I'm not sure that it would be a home like it used to?? Perhaps, being jailed overnight because of the careless workers at the international student advising office had turned me off badly. Perhaps, it was some bad experiences during the school years. I don't really know...

Well, regardless of those bad experience, I'm thankful for all of my professors now who have been so nice and kind to me. I met cool friends who I wish to keep in touch after moving back to Thailand. Guys! if you are reading this, let's have a party before I go back and don't forget to keep me post where ever you are!!

I would say that I'm glad we met. There are not many of you throughout my years in the US. When you leave school, you know that only true friends will stay in touch.

Burning out or not, I hope that I pass the defense exam on this Thursday. I'll do my best. Wish me luck then.....

Solar

I came across this girl from one website that has the link to her performance posted on YouTube.
It's not so often to see a cute saxophonist, though this is a smooth jazz. So, I just wanna share wit you guys.

Asimo by Honda

Wow... this is cool, isn't it?

Nora

Oh...boy!!
Now, even cat can play piano...

Mario

I guess people who age more than 20 are supposed to know Mario, the classic computer game from Nintendo. The adventure of Mario to rescue princess from Kupa (the dragon, I presumed) fulled with adventure and excitement that hard to refuse. The game has so much to offer for kids. However, one thing that I had never noticed was the great of music of this game.

Well... You may say that I'm Innocent for never imagine that someone would actually play the Mario theme songs. Or even if they play, what is so great about it!?

Playing Mario Theme Song on solo instrument or put harmony to it and play on guitar or piano is cool... but what if they arrange for a whole band? I'd say that is even better!! Imagine seeing a choir or oboe quartet perform the tune in the concert hall... Now, who said that those kind of band could perform only classical music. I think the musician has wisdom to choose what to perform and they enjoy their music as well as the audience.

Check this out.. There are Mario songs I found on YouTube.com

EWI

It might be when one of my favorite japanese fusion jazz group, T-Square, played Omen of Love that I got lure into the jazz realm. Though it was a small portion of jazz and I was just a high school kid, the band sounded so cool that I wanted to make it my own. There were VDO clips of T-Square concert that I found on the Internet. Masato Honda was a wind player of the T-Square playing one weird instrument with the look of wind instrument but has cable wired up just like electronic instrument. I, later, learned that it was an "EWI," a wind controllor that allows you to blow just like wind instrument throught sound synthesizer.

Unfortunately, I can't find that Omen of Love clip anymore. But here is the same tune by the same people that I found on YouTube.com



After discovering the T-Squear and EWI, my interest was pretty much on fusion jazz and later lead to smooth jazz. Something like the clip that you can see below.





Sadly, such commercial liked music are not quite welcome at UNT. I found myself learning and playing a different kind of jazz. EWI were kept into the other side of my music circle, like hobby. Until recently I discovered that the big name in Jazz such as Michael Brecker had also played EWI for a long time. Check this out and you will see the nearly unlimitted possibility of EWI.





And you might as well want to see this clip by Steve Tavaglione, the music composer for CSI series, showing what EWI could do with music studio production.

Blogger with Gmail

It has been awhile since my last post on this blog. Actually, I was busy with something else that I almost didn't look at this stuff at all. Then... when I sign in today, the blogger has its new feature. Now you can transfer your blogger account to your Gmail account in order to login the blog. I don't really know what the difference is, but I transfered my account anyway.

Well... with that being said, I decided to post something. As you can see... there is no content to this post at all... ha ha...

Thanks for reading ^^;
I will post something with more meat next time.