So many things in my mind right now, pending projects, project plans for next year, year-end projection budget (which I just found out that there’s a huge miss in it! Gosh!), and many other job-related things you can think of. Not that I’m an important person or what, but plainly because I’m so lazy this week. Or in my defense, I feel so weak in this last two weeks. I even skip one day for work last week because of a sudden headache followed with minor diarrhea (Did I already make it sound like a complicated disease?). Thanks to my wife I got through all of that in no time. We spent a whole day in our room by playing Burnout3 on XBOX and watching Friends together that day! What an enjoyable sick-day ever! :)
Right now, I should really attend to my tasks again but instead I’m writing this blog! So here I am surfing the internet, wasting the ‘service’ time intended for the client. Well… a bit of break won’t hurt I think. Kinda need it, though. After a late night work I did yesterday for a project that should be done last year! Yes, the ‘legacy’ works, that’s what we call them. Some projects or plans that should be done years ago but for some reasons got delayed, forgotten, and suddenly they start coming back now one by one. Guess I’m the lucky one here.
So I decided to ease my mind a bit. Ask one of my colleagues to play a song. And somehow I already knew he was going to play oldies! Hahaha! Not that I have something against it, I do love old songs. But I don’t think my mood suits it right now. I’m looking for a more instrumental play. I think more like a piano, violin, or even sax tune would be nice. And I know one place to find it quick! My friend’s blog! So I pick a piece from “Spirited Away” and keep it playing again and again and again and again until it stops by itself.
Funny thing with music is that it can change your mood instantly. Do you know that people have tried to combine music with medicine? And there have been researches of ‘music medicine’ to make effective use of music to reduce fear and anxiety in surgical and pain patients. Experiments show that hearing music affects the biochemistry of the blood, which in turn may cause effective changes.
Talking about music, my late grandfather was once a viola player -it’s like a violin but slightly bigger-, and although I have his blood in me and spent almost 7 years in my childhood learning to play violin, I still couldn’t make a decent tune out of it. Silly me!
I came across this passage from the Net that “Children who receive early music study generally are different from the average child. Regardless of natural gifts, native intelligence, or family economics, most children who study music deeply eventually become more confident, more sensitive individuals, and they are usually better listeners”. I wonder… does mine considered a deeply one? I doubt it though. The only member of the family that really has a sense of music/art is of course my eldest brother with his golden voice (nope, that’s not sarcasm; it IS truly a gold one). But I’m sure I can still beat him on reading musical note! Ha! And then after him there’s my little sister, although I can see that her sense of art comes strongly in the form of designing or photograph and or even narcissism (in a good and positive way of course!)
It’s nice to know that you’re surrounded by people who loves music, just as William Shakespeare said, “The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for reasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus: let no such man be trusted”
