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I remember auditioning for a little music summer camp thing when I was a lot younger...when I finished playing the Aeolian Harp etude...my finger slipped on the last rolled chord and I banged hard on a natural D instead of an e-flat >_< needless to say, it sounded atrocious and almost ruined the entire audition .//. ah memories.

Well my moment never happened on a stage, but in the classroom. And it actually had nothing to do with music, but it was within the classroom, and it's not really funny, it's embarrassing beyond belief.

It was the last day of school, this year. I had a crush on this bass player in my class. This was never my intention. See, someone told me that he liked me and i had no idea to believe them (I have horrible trust issues), so i sent one of my friends who was in his Spanish class with him to asked if he did, and he said that "he liked somebody" so i kinda was like, "okay, maybe he does like me" so i kept trying to think of how i could get him to tell me, and over the course of three weeks, i developed a crush on him.

Well, the friday before, i asked one of my friends in the Viola section to tell him directly that i liked him. See heres my theory, if you tell a guy directly you like him, that scares them, but you can beat around the bush and play games, they also don't like that (I don't have a clue how to act around guys so i had to ask for help from my mom), so, on a number scale of 0 to 100; 100 is being direct and 0 is beating around the bush, so you want to be in the middle. I had no idea what the middle was, i figure it's your friend being direct for you.... but this wasn't the case, she also beat around the bush and said, "a girl came up to me in the bathroom and said she liked one of the basses." At first I thought okay, I'll just write him a note, explaining everything. So i told the friend i was going to write the note, but she told me she should so that he wouldn't reconize my hand writing. Okay that made a little sense. So she wrote it... But it still didn't go as planed. She put "Dear Bass player" and even though i wanted to put my name, she said we needed a different name.... she used "Lulu" (i personally don't like that name). And to finally prove how dumb i truely am, i though we would tell him who "Lulu" was.... no way. But what really made me thing this had turned out wrong was when she told them "She came up to me in the bath room with her eyes wide with the note clenched in her hands" I though this made me sound like a stalker!!! So instead of perfectly at 50....... I was at -50!

So on the last day of school, i told myself, "I'm gona tell him today!" I was going to tell him directly to get me out of the negitives and to 50. See, i though this: you're at a river bank and he's at a tree far off, and you have to meet in the middle, you can't go to the tree and he can't go to the river. So sending the friend sent me into the river, so the only way out is to be direct. So this is what I was going to tell him; "Okay.... I like you, and i know i shouldn't be direct, but beating around the bush got me no where, so I'm telling you that i'm Lulu and i'm sorry I wasn't telling you personally, but it wasn't my idea. I'm sorry and I like you." but he never exactly let me finish.... The bell had rang and he went to his bag and i was at "beating around the bush" when he said that this was going to be akward because he was already in a relationship. I paniced and apologized and went to my next class shaking I felt so stupid, i had fallen for another lie. I was shaking so bad, it took me longer than i realized to finish my geometry final. Even when i was at my friends house for a while, she noticed that I was "too mellow"

So my mother told me that it was okay and i was just finding out a lie or a truth and maybe he was lying because he wasn't ready. so i felt a little better. And now i realize that the shaking was because i made an utter fool of myself.... the question is, if i see him at one point this summer, how will we react to eachother? Well, i don't know, but thats my incredibly long embarrasing moment... smile

Well, i cant top any of the funny and/or embarrassing moments above, but i have had one. While in orchestra, i needed to raise my stand in the middle of a piece. The stand was not in the best of conditions, so the top of the stand where you place the music separated itself from the base. As i watch in horror, the weight of the music tipped the half of the stand i was holding, backwards, and onto the head of the person in front of me. Oh JOY!!!! ah, good times.... Anyway, that happened a few times throughout the years, because I, for some reason, end up with the really messed up stand (but eventually it gets replaced). Anyway, hope you enjoyed that little blurb. Cya.



"What's important is that the orchestra starts together and ends together. Nobody gives a crap what's in the middle" (this is an actual quote, though i forget who said it, and yes, crap is part of the original quote)

i have experienced embarrassing moments too in stage. two years ago, my classmates [i mean all of my classmates] voted me to be part of an event in our school. it was like a contest to all class. its like a beauty contest [not exactly beauty, but something like that. i kinda forgot] i mean, why would they voted for me when they already knew i was a shy-type person? i really dont want to join but my class adviser insisted to. i have no choice but to join : the event started. were all done with the dancing and stuff. next is showing the talents. my talent was playing the piano. my hands were really shaking. not only my hands but all of my body was. the intro was okay. but at the ending part of the piece, i pressed the wrong key and it sounded really bad. i still looked for the right key like 3 times and i didnt got it right. so i just stand up and bowed and left the stage. x_x at the back of the stage i almost cried. my partner comforted me. but i was still shaking. next up was the question and answer. okay, again. i was shaking. i answered but in just one sentence. [i told you before, im a shy-type person] then the awarding. i didnt won the talent and Q&A part but i was awarded as the best costume. i was really shocked. but happy too. after the event, my classmates congratulated me. they told me that i was pretty and did a good job. they also told me that all of the students said that i was supposed to be the winner. also for the judges. they told me that i would be receiving all the awards if it wouldn't be following the rules, etc.

-and thats one of my embarrassing moments. i know it is embarrassing but it was fun at the same time whee sweatdrop

i remember i was supposed to play a baby-sized snippet from the surprise symphony when i was wee and went to piano camp (hahaha)
yeah
um i completely forgot about the surprise part
i just plowed right through it
oh it was a mess

Ha. My youth orchestra was playing Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" for our final concert of the season, and during one of the quieter wind sections, I tried to play an up-bow note sforzando, and stabbed the girl next to me in the side of the head with my bow. She fell over and knocked her violin against that of her stand partner's. She had a huge bruise on her face from my bow, and her instrument now has a huge scratch on the left side of it from her stand partner's violin.

crying Needless to say, she's not very fond of me.

So, I was walking up the stairs to the stage with my violin, and I was leading the rest of the row, because I got to be on the end (Oh joy!). I tripped over the microphone cord for the basses, and screamed on the top of my lungs because I thought I dropped my violin. In front of the entire school, part of the other schools, the entire school board office, and parents. Oh, and my future strings teacher. Oh yeah, it was awkward.