...And hello to you all! It's been quite some time since I've last made a post on LiveJournal-over a year, to be exact! (So there were no posts in 2011, unfortunately!) However, I decided yesterday that I'd like to start posting in my trusty old LJ again to document what 2012 has in store for me.

I was most active in LiveJournal from 2003-2007, and ( Read more... )

The year of 2010 has come and almost gone in a quick and wonderful fashion. This year brought on many changes in my life, mostly realizations about what I truly want to be doing with music and my career.

I was fortunate enough to go to Europe this summer, where I attended the PRAGUE PIANO INSTUTITE. I went a week early and took a short trip to ( Read more... )

 I am back from my summer music camp. It took place on July 12 - 27, 2009 in Baltimore, MD, and Gettysburg, PA.  It was certainly a life-changing experience, as all of the summer institutions I go to.

Back in 2006 it started with the University of the Pacific piano camp, followed by the same in 2007. Then in 2008 I branched out and went to Idyllwild ( Read more... )

This morning I decided I wanted to make myself a fake Starbucks drink with what I have at home.

My mom got me these really good Starbucks Frappucino 9.5 oz drinks (180 calories--yikes!), so I wanted to put those to good use. I put the following together in a spiffy blender:

MOCHA SHAKE

• 1 - 9.5 oz. bottle of Starbucks Frappucino drink
• 1 cup of vanilla ( Read more... )

 Summer is so near, I cannot stop thinking about it! Everything about spring reminds me of summer and it makes me want to just hang out, relax, go swimming, and do all those cool things you do during the summer. It's kind of driving me crazy! :) There's exactly one month until finals begin (May 7th), and by May 16th I'm completely out of here for ( Read more... )

Music. This is just what I want to do. I know it is right; it is my utterly truest passion that I can certainly confirm without a doubt. Listening to any kind of music, playing it, writing it, arranging it--anything. Primarily, I just want to play the piano. That is my main love and that is what I want to do ( Read more... )

Hey everyone ( Read more... )

It has been almost a month since I wrote my last public entry. I guess I have finally realized after over three years of LiveJournal I won't be updating three times a day any more. I can hardly even write a private/friends entry each week. I just don't have much to say anymore. Either that or I am just becoming much more in tune with my real life ( Read more... )

I have been browsing the Apple website today and I came upon this new product. It's where you have an iPod Nano and some Nike shoes, and with Apple's Nike + iPod Sport Kit it tracks your run and becomes your "personal trainer". It is said to be released in summer 2007.

What a cool idea, huh? What seems even cooler is that you can synchronize your ( Read more... )

Tonight is the FOUR-YEAR ANNIVERSARY for me owning my Yamaha P-120s Digital Piano. I can't believe I've had it for fourteen-hundred and sixty days already, that's a long time. I've taken it to several gigs, DOZENS of rehearsals, and it's been in at least two dozen or so performances. I'd have to say the grand we paid for it has definitely paid off ( Read more... )