2006 年 7 月 21 日 星期五 【晴】

All fishes which I bought yesterday were died~!! Detestable! I haven’t try that before. Not only some problems on that company but fishes. Pay my money back!
Piano lesson
Miss Cheung practiced aural with me, and she tested me again to confirm that I have absolute pitch….and the answer is yes again. She teased me that I can’t sing well, as I mentioned before I can’t sing well if there someone looking at me. I don’t understand that how come I can be the soloist in my primary school’s open day choir’s performance. She said that my absolute pitch is useless if I can’t sing well and it is squander that I have absolute pitch….but I don’t think so.
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昨天買回來的六條孔雀
全都死了....~!!!!!
可惡呀...我從來都未試過咁架..
果度唔單止係公司有問題...連d 魚都有問題~!!!!!!
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今日學琴
Miss cheung 同我練aural..
冇lala 佢又再測試我係唔係Absolute pitch
點知結果都係呈陽性反應
....一早話左我對住佢乜都唱唔出
點知佢笑我唱得核突仲話
你唱唔出..咁你d Absolute pitch(perfect pitch)有咩用呀~! "西"哂
你知咩係Absolute pitch 架la~!!
超級無奈
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>>July 22, 2006 at 7:40:47 AM GMT+8

2006 年 7 月 19 日 星期三 【晴】

From primary four up till now, I go to book fair every year, that activity have already turned into a appointed one during my summer holiday, of course, this year have no exception
.When we arrived it’s just 9:30…and we waited until 10:00…actually all the things just like the past, no changes
at all.
I bought 3 books at this fair, and my brother bought 9..! We returned home at about something…and my legs are very painful because we walked and walked without any rest…
At night, boa and I had a CLC tutorial lesson taught by Dr. Ho. The lesson was very disgusting…he didn’t mention any about CLC….he spent around half an hour to promote himself, and spent one hour to explain the syllabus! We are F.7 soon…he need not to explained those silly things to us, so 6 people(included boa and me) left early because of his presentation, but this tutorial class only have about 10 people. On the whole, that tutorial lesson is wasting my time!
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21/7
I bought 6 fishes at Hong Kong Aquarium Plaza but when I go back home, two had died~~!!! How abominable are HKAP and I won’t forget that how they tricked at the passed summer holiday!
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今日一早去書展
從我小四到宜家就年年都去..
已經變成暑假既指定動作之一
去到9點半
等到10 點先入得
去到
其實年年d 野都一樣
我只係買左3 本書..
而我細佬就買到9 本..
最終行到3點幾先走
食埋野返到屋企好累..
夜晚去補中化...報chem 果陣送既...
只得3 堂
同包一齊補
一堂有1個鐘零 7個字
果個咁既DR.HO 成堂講廢話
講d 野都唔知同中化有咩關係..
我未試過上堂仲要係補習會上到咁
一班只有10幾個人
夾埋我地一共有6個人早走
不過我同包都只係早走5分鐘姐
孫健珊同佢男友係開始左5 個字就後就走人la~
真係好無聊..
浪費哂d 時間
成堂都冇心機聽佢講野
包仲可以一心四用...勁..
補完返到屋企
隻腳超痛..
到訓覺果陣仲一路訓一路痛..訓唔著
~~~
21/7
今日最終都要係可惡既香港水族廣場(前名:海珊瑚)買左6條孔雀($20)
點解可惡就唔再講咁多次la...
~~
頭先買果幾條魚...已經有兩條死左~!!!!
可惡呀~!
宜家得番4條咋....變到5蚊一條

You Belong in 1972

If you scored... 1950 - 1959: You're fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in! 1960 - 1969: You are a free spirit with a huge heart. Love, peace, and happiness rule - oh, and drugs too. 1970 - 1979: Bold and brash, you take life by the horns. Whether you're partying or protesting, you give it your all! 1980 - 1989: Wild, over the top, and just a little bit cheesy. You're colorful at night - and successful during the day. 1990 - 1999: With you anything goes! You're grunge one day, ghetto fabulous the next. It's all good!

You May Be a Bit Borderline...

Your mood swings make a roller coaster look tame! When you're up, you're a little bit crazy... And when you're down, your whole world is crashing Scary thing is, these moods can change by the minute!

You Will Die at Age 82

Congratulations! You take good care of yourself. You're poised to live a long, healthy life.

2006 年 7 月 18 日 星期二 【晴】

I just read the newspaper, and surprise that CU’s Information Engineering had become the third popular discipline after the last reelecting of jupas ! Goodness me! I will put CU’s IE in my first or second choice in band A essentially…but now….I have great interest in IE…and it seems that it is easy to enter since the median is not that high. Now, it may become more difficult to enter…>.<…DISHEARTENED~!
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剛剛睇報紙
見到中大既訊息工程學系經過最後既改選之後
變成中大第3 個受歡迎既學系
救命呀...
我本來諗住會將佢放係band a 既第1 或第2 位ga ma~
咁宜家仲放唔放得???
點解我次次揀親果d 都係本來冇乜人讀又易入既學系
變到多人揀..可能變得難入
好灰呀....
但係都係睇埋人地今屆放哂榜先算la~
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>>July 19, 2006 at 11:17:33 AM GMT+8

2006 年 7 月 18 日 星期二 【晴】

今天又死了一條孔雀

>>July 19, 2006 at 4:48:50 AM GMT+8

2006 年 7 月 18 日 星期二 【晴】

I have just searching about absolute pitch in wikipedia. I found that I may really have this kind of ability, but mine is passive absolute pitch….not the active one. I t mention a lot of passive absolute pitch’s characteristics I wonder that I also have those characteristics. Am I so luncky???....to have that ability?Am I really have a talent for music?
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剛剛在wikipedia 搜尋有關絕對音高的資料
我發覺..我真的可能擁有絕對音高這種能力
不過我這種是被動的絕對音高(直譯)
我發覺裡面介紹passive absolute pitch 的特徵
我全都有
難道我真的是那麼幸運...
真的擁有絕對音高
這種真是萬中無一
而大部份偉大的音樂家都擁有的能力???
即然是這樣的話
我應否繼續以音樂系為我的首志願???
我在音樂方面真的有天份嗎??
以下摘自維基百科全書
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Absolute pitch
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Absolute pitch ("AP"), widely referred to as perfect pitch, refers to the ability to identify a note by name without the benefit of a reference note, or to be able to produce a note (as in singing) that is the correct pitch without reference.

Definition
Perfect pitch has been defined as "an ability to attach labels to isolated auditory stimuli on the basis of pitch alone" without external referents.[1] Possessors of absolute pitch can typically name the pitch of a car horn or produce a given musical tone on cue from memory, whereas people lacking the ability cannot.

Absolute pitch is difficult to define accurately in simplistic terms. In understanding absolute pitch, one should be aware that it is possible to have varying degrees of both absolute and relative pitch; with varying degrees of absolute pitch defined as being either "active" or "passive", and varying degrees of relative pitch that can range from highly accurate to "tone-deaf".

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Distinctions
The musicologist Richard Parncutt and the cognitive psychologist Daniel Levitin introduced the following distinctions in their entry on absolute pitch in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

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"Passive" absolute pitch
Persons with passive absolute pitch are able to identify individual notes that they hear, and can identify the key of a composition (assuming some degree of musical knowledge). Some may be able to identify several notes played simultaneously, and therefore identify complex chords. Those with passive absolute pitch are not always capable of singing a given note on command.

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"Active" absolute pitch
Persons with active absolute pitch are able to sing any given note on cue, without prior pitch references. Usually, people with active absolute pitch are not only able to identify a note, but can recognize when that note is slightly sharp or flat. Active absolute pitch possessors in the United States number about 1 in every 10,000.[2]

Not all people with active absolute pitch are musicians. However, musical training is necessary for full development of the auditory potential of a person with absolute pitch.

Among autists and savants, the incidence of absolute pitch rises to 1 in 20 or higher. Absolute pitch is also common among those with Williams syndrome.[2]

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Scientific studies related to absolute pitch
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Absolute pitch as a difference in cognition, not elementary sensation
Absolute pitch is not limited to the realm of music, or even to humans. Songbirds and wolves have exhibited the ability. In fact, studies indicate that absolute pitch is more a linguistic ability than a musical one. Absolute pitch is an act of cognition, needing memory of the frequency, a label for the frequency (such as B-flat), and exposure to the common range considered a note. (A note in modern tuning can vary in its exact frequency.) It may be directly analogous to recognizing colours, phonemes (speech sounds) or other categorical perception of sensory stimuli. And while most people have been trained to recognize and name the colour blue by its frequency, it is possible that only those who have had early (somewhere between the ages of 3 and 6)[3] and deliberate exposure to the names of musical tones—usually musicians—will be likely to identify a middle C. Absolute pitch, however, may be genetic, possibly an autosomal dominant genetic trait,[4][5] though it "might be nothing more than a general human capacity whose expression is strongly biased by the level and type of exposure to music that people experience in a given culture."

It has been shown possible to learn the naming of tones later in life, although some consider this skill is not true absolute pitch.[6] However, with practice and dedication, the earnest student with good ears can improve in pitch identification.

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Absolute pitch and linguistics
Absolute pitch is more common among speakers of tonal languages such as most dialects of Chinese or Vietnamese, which depend heavily on pitch for lexical meaning. "Tone deafness" is unusual among native speakers of these languages[citations needed]. Speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages have been reported to speak a word in the same absolute pitch (within a quarter-tone) on different days; it has therefore been suggested that absolute pitch may be acquired by infants when they learn to speak in a tonal language[7] (and possibly also by infants when they learn to speak in a pitch stress language). However, the brains of tonal-language speakers do not naturally process musical sound as language[8]; perhaps such individuals may be more likely to acquire absolute pitch for musical tones when they later receive musical training.

It is possible that level-tone languages which are found in Africa-- such as Yoruba [9] (with three pitch levels) and Mambila [10] (with four pitch levels)-- may be better suited to study the role of absolute pitch in speech than the contour-tone languages of East Asia.

Further, speakers of European languages were found to make use of an absolute, though subconscious, pitch memory when speaking [11].

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Nature or nurture?
Many people have believed that musical ability itself is an inborn talent[citations needed]. Some scientists currently believe absolute pitch may have an underlying genetic basis and are trying to locate genetic correlates[citations needed]; most believe that the acquisition of absolute pitch requires early training during a critical period of development, regardless of whether or not a genetic predisposition toward development exists or not[citations needed]. The "unlearning theory," first proposed by Abraham[12], has recently been revived by developmental psychologists who argue that every person possesses absolute pitch (as a mode of perceptual processing) when they are infants, but that a shift in cognitive processing styles (from local, absolute processing to global, relational processing) causes most people to unlearn it; or, at least, causes children with musical training to discard absolute pitch as they learn to identify musical intervals [13]. Additionally, any nascent absolute pitch may be lost simply by the lack of reinforcement or lack of clear advantages in most activities the developing child is involved with. An unequivocal resolution to the ongoing debate would require controlled experiments, which are both impractical and unethical.

Since as early as 1899[14], researchers have attempted to train subjects to gain the ability[15][16][17][18]. (This is not an exhaustive list.)

It is possible that some people may be able to acquire absolute pitch (at least for single instruments) through directed learning. Pitch recognition is now taught at Julliard and the Eastman School of Music, and various absolute-pitch training courses have been offered since the early 1900s.[19]

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Potential problems
Persons who have absolute pitch may be irritated when a piece is transposed to a different key (or played at a nonstandard pitch).[20] They may have a harder time developing relative pitch than others when following standard curricula, and the learning of tasks such as transposition may be hindered by an attempt to use their absolute knowledge for something that is better a relative task. Because their comprehension of musical pitch is categorical rather than spectral[21], poorly-trained absolute pitch possessors can find it quite difficult to play in tune with an orchestra which is not tuned to standard concert pitch A4 = 440 Hertz (442 Hz in some countries). These problems can be overcome by careful training designed to make sure the relative pitch faculties are also developed.

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Correlation with musical talent
There is no necessary correlation between the possession of absolute pitch and musical genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin and Ludwig van Beethoven are some of the classical composers/musicians who had absolute pitch; Joseph Haydn, Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, Johannes Brahms, and Richard Wagner are among those who did not. Absolute pitch is not a prerequisite for developing high talent as a musician or composer.

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Relative pitch
Many musicians, and most jazz musicians, have quite good relative pitch, a skill which can certainly be learned. With practice, it is possible to listen to a single known pitch once (from a pitch pipe or a tuning fork) and then have stable, reliable pitch identification by comparing the notes heard to the stored memory of the tonic pitch. Unlike absolute pitch, this skill is dependent on a recently-perceived tonal center.

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Musical opinion
Some prominent musicians have stated that absolute pitch can and should be acquired. Composer and theorist Paul Hindemith wrote that his experience “time and again has proved that ‘absolute pitch’ can be acquired and developed,” adding that "if not, the question may be raised whether there is any musical gift at all in a mind that cannot learn to remember and compare pitches."[22] Zoltán Kodály said that "Developing the ear is the most important thing of all. The myth of ‘perfect pitch’; it is not innate but a question of practice, just like measuring by eye." [23]

Other prominent musicians have stated that absolute pitch cannot and should not be acquired. For example, composer and musical educator Ron Gorow[24] has said that "If you have perfect pitch, God bless you. If not, don't worry about it. Get a $4 tuning fork and get on with your work! Don't waste your money on methods that promise you can identify a pitch. There is no pay-off unless you want to show off at parties."

>>July 19, 2006 at 3:35:41 AM GMT+8

2006 年 7 月 18 日 星期二 【晴】

Your Brain is 60% Female, 40% Male

Your brain is a healthy mix of male and female You are both sensitive and savvy Rational and reasonable, you tend to keep level headed But you also tend to wear your heart on your sleeve

You Are Elektra

There's really no superhero with more style than you. Because who could beat being sexy assasin ninja?

2006 年 7 月 17 日 星期一 【晴】

2006 年 07 月 18 日 星期二 【晴】

Up till now, I can't remove the virus….Although HKCERT had reply me yesterday teaching me how to remove that virus, my windows is not the legal window, therefore I can't download the software to cure my computer.
So the problem is still here.>.<……I just send a e-mail to Cheung Sir sought for help, but I don't think he will reply me very soon.
At my piano lesson, Miss Cheung found that I have absolute pitch….she said that is a really good thing constantly.
She is strange that why I can hear accurately but I can't sing it well. Of course, I can't sing very well when somebody is looking at me ...especially her~!
Dr. Tang (My centralized scheme tutor) and alien both had mentioned what absolute pitch is before. And there is 0.1% that people have absolute pitch. All musicians are….and that ability is congenital you can't train yourself hardly too have absolute pitch.
Therefore, I believe that I don't have absolute pitch affirmatively.
In addition, Miss Cheung asked me a lot about my school’s choir….what are the intentions~! She is a spy~!!!!!!!

Today's Sing tao have report the news that I saw yesterday---a woman was frozen and fainted …Originally that was not a woman but a little girl who suffered from hypothermia.

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我的電腦仍然中毒中....
雖然昨日已有回覆教我如何醫好它
但....
礙於我使用的不是...原裝正版的window.
所以
問題仍不能解決
剛剛才向張sir 請教..
也希望他盡快回覆吧
~~
今日學琴
那個miss cheung 發現我有絕對音高....
她不斷說這是件大好事...
但她也在奇怪...
為止我聽得到..卻唱不出...這真的非常怪
當然啦
我對著她...
真的什麼也唱不出
我也知道我唱的也只是同一個音...
但我卻不信我真的擁有絕對音高
鄧博士(以前中央音樂訓練計劃的導師)
也說過這是萬中無一的
而不久前
alien 在音樂堂時
也解釋過
我真不相信我有絕對音高~!
miss cheung 在胡說
另外
她今天
不停打聽我校歌詠團的消息
問這問那
煩得很
間諜~!!!!!
~~
今天的報紙有報導昨日的太古城事件
原來...
我看錯了...
那個暈倒的人不是女人
而是一個小女童...

>>July 18, 2006 at 9:56:27 AM GMT+8

2006 年 7 月 16 日 星期日 【晴】

My computer is sick now~! It got a virus called W32.Myzor.FK@yf ~!But I can’t remove it, no matter I use four anti-virus programs, the virus is still here. So, I send a e-mail to Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (HKCERT) sought for help, but it seems to make a fuss over a trifle….I hope the professions will reply me as soon as possible.
All these because of Tracy~!!!! I visited her xanga…and my computer got that virus immediately~!!!!!!!
It is the first time to get virus and I hope it is the last time too.
I went to Cityplaza’s Tom Lee today, when I walked pass the Harbin ice Lantern Festival locus, I saw two first-aid personneles carried a woman on a stretcher. I think that woman has been fainted. But Cityplaza has already offered some thick clothes to all visitors, how come that woman can still be frozen and fainted???
I don’t have interest to visit this festival, that venue is pity small. In addition, that’s a lot of people queue up and those thick clothes are very dirty…..since everyone wear it…and they won’t purge it !
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我的電腦中了毒
搞了三個小時也清除不到
剛剛send e-mail 向電腦保安事故中心求助
好像小題大做...
希望能盡快回覆....
唉...
試過多個防毒軟件也清除不了
都怪....子子的xanga
害我一上....就立即中毒~!!!
這次是第一次...也希望是最後一次
~~
另外
今天往太古城的通行買書之時
經過那個冰雕展的場館
看到有一人被救護員用擔架抬了出來..
難道他被凍暈了嗎.??
大會已經提供厚厚的衣服給到場的人
這還會凍暈??
不過
我可沒興趣去看那個冰雕展
還有那些衣服個個也穿過
真的很核突...
而且那個場館小得可憐...加上有很多人排隊輪侯..
可真的沒興趣

~~~~~~~~~~
嘩嘩
不消一刻鐘
電腦保安事故中心已經覆了我
效率真高
~~

>>July 17, 2006 at 9:17:15 AM GMT+8

2006 年 7 月 14 日 星期五 【晴】

Today goes back to school very early ....When I arrived it’s just 7:25~! This day is our school orientation day for the form one students and their parents. I worked as a helper.

When I got off the mini bus…I met Miss Tang….she wonder that I gone back to school so early today. But I also wonder that she remember my name~! She just taught me RS and history when I was a F.1 student but also F.2~!

When we arrived…the gate didn’t open yet…we waited for a long time…

Then I go up stairs and waited for those F.1 students and their parents. Just for a moment, alien came…she asked me..why I am here….

At around 8:30..more and more parents came……we all waited until 9:00 the orientation day started. Wait again~!I hate it…I don’t have any tolerance to waited for long long time…

The activities started by many speeches….Sister Au’s follow by Sister Cheung’s and than Miss Pooh, Mr. Kam…Miss Chan..Miss leung..and alumni….those speeches finished at 11:30….so bored

During those speeches…Alien came and talked to me..also gave me two cheque…one for me and one for boa…which are the salary of teacher assistant…but we haven’t work yet~! Alien also told me something that she had already told me before~! I think she afraid that I will forget those things~! I am sure that I won’t forget…since I have good memorization~ especially those trifle~!

Nearly 11:30 ….Siu Siu and I worked as a guide to shepherd those students and parents so as to have a simple school tour.

When we finished …we went back to hall….alien ask me to distribute drinks to those people…and I noticed that she peeked me folder again….this was not the first time she did such thing on me~!

Siu Siu and I leave early but just 15 mins…because I must go to North Point to have a talk about jupas.

Since lee have to work today….my lunch is free of charge~!

The talk takes 2 hours ..and those things that the tutor mentioned ….I knew that before….it was quite boring….



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今天一早回學校....中一新生家長日..幫手
下車之時...遇見鄧綺薇
她對我說...那麼早?!
原來她記得我的名字~!
她只教過我中一世史..給中一,二RS 而已....!
回到學校
還沒想到開門...
等了好一會..才有人注意到我們
~
在禮堂門口等了又等的時候
alien 回來..
她說...程康綺..你回來幹麼...>.<"
到了約8點半..才有較多的家長到來
又等...
到了9時
那個家長會才開始
整個家長會也超級無聊..
聽副校長+其他主任說話
途中
alien 來找我
給我和包每人一張1000元支票
哈哈
還未開始做工
已先收到工資..
她又向我說了一遍一早已經向我說過多次的話
究竟是她自己忘了....還是怕我忘了???
講座聽到11時半...
然後就和邵邵一起
帶一批家長參觀學校..
參觀後
點禮堂
alien 又和我咬耳仔..
又叫我幫手派飲品給家長
我發覺.....她又自己亂摷我的文件夾..
已經不是第一次的了
究竟有什麼好看的..
~
提早15分鐘離開家長會去聽講座
走之時
向alien 說了一聲..
她又再再再次向我說了一次....不知聽過了多少次的話
我可是有記性的人~!
不用向我說那麼多遍
~
搭8x到北角聽升中七講座
恰巧嘉嘉今次上班...
我的lunch...變了免費
那個講座也挺無聊的
他說的那些東西
我早就知道了
不過也沒所謂
~
人生第一次.....salary

>>July 15, 2006 at 11:58:04 AM GMT+8

2006 年 7 月 13 日 星期四 【晴】

Today I went to hospital to take out stitches, only think about the one enough to fear….and something must take out without any anodyne….
This time is far more good than yesterday, which I wait for 5 hours just for 30 seconds treatment, this time I only wait for around two hours and for 4 minutes treatment.
I met millie and candy coincidentally while going home by bus No.82 . I don’t know whether chimpanzee will scold me ruthlessly.
F.7 only have 95 teaching days compared to F.5 100 hitting fight days, it only lessen 5 days. And I remember that Miss Shih always strange to count backwards..100…99…98….Time is running and nobody can caught it. It seemed that I just finished taking my CE exam

~~~
今天拆線..
光是想想已夠害怕的...
還有的是"監生"把那東西拿出來
痛得要命..
今天尚可...只等了兩個多小時
~~
搭巴士回家之時
巧遇咪莉&芷盈
~~
明天...
不知chimpanzee 會否狠狠地罵我一頓
~~
原來中七的上課天只有95 天
比起中五的百日抗戰..只是少了5天而已
那時師老怪還每天倒數
100....99...98....
時間過得真的很快...
我好像剛剛才考完會考似的

>>July 14, 2006 at 6:30:07 AM GMT+8