Lesson #1

Today's my first lesson.

It was drizzling when I started off. I was practising like mad for the past few days, hoping to impress my teacher or get some kind of response like, "Are you sure you are a beginner?!"

It turned out to be a very humbling 30-minute lesson.

The manager J whom I have not seen for a long time (I knew her since my boys are enrolled in the school 4 years ago) and I chatted a bit. I was introduced to my young teacher W. She led me to the music studio and asked me a few questions on the basics like whether I know what a bass clef and treble clef are, what is the middle C, etc. Then she played an American folk song Down the Valley, and asked me to try it out.

Then ...

I kind of froze in front of the piano - the keys of the piano is very much thinner than that of my keyboard at home. I just felt like an alien there. After gathering my wits, I started playing - if you can call that playing! Somehow, my left hand did not co-ordinate with my right hand, and I could not tell the difference between a B-note and a high D-note!

My teacher was very patient with me and taught me how the piece should sound like.

So, in summary, I have learnt
1) how to play Legato on RH while normally on LH
2) C chords, F chords and G7 chords

After the Lesson 

After the lesson, I went to Cold Storage to get some food for my hungry drones. I decided to cook instead of getting sausages or pre-packed sushi, as originally planned. Got some portobello mushrooms, minced pork, stingray and lime.

Here's the day's menu:

Lunch: 
grilled portebello mushrooms, pan-fried pork burger patties, pan-fried potatoes, eggs (sunny-side up), freshly-squeezed lime juice

Dinner:
grilled stingray marinated with garlic, pan-fried potatoes (as requested by drones), cream of spinach (from frozen spinach).

I modified the recipe of the pork burger patties from the cook show Rachel Ray's 30-minute meals: Just add herbs, steak marinate ... and chilli flakes (supposed to be paprika!) into the minced pork to make patties. My 2 drones, G and S,  loved them!

The lime juice was a hit - it tasted just like the way my mom used to make for my brothers & I when we were young :) I planted the seeds and hopefully can get a lime tree out of them!

I am bringing my drones to watch Rango this evening and has promised my ex-student that I will sit through the credits to catch his name!