“Be a really, really good listener - to music certainly, but also to people. Embrace the fact that everyone, absolutely  everyone, has something important to teach you.”

“Let yourself dream. Dust off your imagination and take it out for a spin. Imagine what a thrill it is to make music with a large ensemble as your instrument.  Imagine what it feels like to climb onto the podium and survey a stage full of highly trained musicians looking over their stands at you, awaiting instruction and hoping you know your stuff.”

“At this stage in my career, in anything else, all I would have to do was play golf. We all love games, but can you imagine anything so humiliating as hitting a golf ball as the focus of your life? Instead I am playing with an orchestra with whom I have a 50-year relationship. They and I are pouring every bit of energy into a series of music by a genius who could spin the whole gamut of human life into sound. Would I rather do that or would I rather be hitting a golf ball? What do you think?”

— excerpts from a book I read in Introduction to Conducting

So this is pretty much why I love Intro to Conducting, definitely one of my favorite classes this semester. I’m in love with the fact that just one person, with the most subtle movements, can guide an entire orchestra down the deepest and darkest caverns, over endless rolling valleys, all the way up Mt. Everest, and then above that.

Keith Lockhart, Boston Pops conductor.

Tiffany Ho, owner of 2 big bottles of 梅子綠茶s.

Hahaha well I’m not there yet. Not even close. But at least we both have the same cheeky smile. :)

Peace allllllllll.

Dear family,

Thanks for putting an empty box of cereal back in the cabinet.

Sincerely, now I can have disappointment for breakfast.

I saw this book at barnes and nobles while I was in Nashua this week. Picked it up and literally just could not put it down! when I got home the first thing I did was download a copy of it… asians, that’s how we roll :)

so, if you haven’t read it yet I highly encourage you to do so! it’s a good ol’ short n sweet read.

“This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”

I absolutely looove this book - embellished with beautiful language, an epic story line, and just the right amount of insight and poise for the novel to be enjoyable and still not fall under the sap, corn, or cheese category.

loveeeee it.