I started my piano lessons last year. Since I had studied flute before I can read the notes easier now. Five months into the lessons, my teacher; Walter, teaches me pieces by Beethoven like Ode an die Freude (Ode to Joy) and Für Elise. Here's a video of Ode to Joy mom took sometime in March. The piano seem a little out of tune though. :D

Yesterday was the first day of the new semester and I started learning number 7 of Opus 823 (The Little Pianist) by Carl Czerny. Hopefully I get to play it well soon.

Hair clips, hairpins, barrettes, headband, hair band - with small ribbons, flowers, big ribbons, in different colors or plain, if a girl wears it she becomes cuter. Well, that's what mom would often tell me or that's how she persuades me to have one. I anyway like having them on specially on bad hair days. (Yes, I often have those days...)

Mom said that when she got time, she'd be doing some for me using my headbands which have lost color.

Here is a step by step "how to" in making a hairbow.

1. Cut a length of fabric for the main part of your bow. Make it twice as wide as you want your finished bow to be and twice as long. A 2O inch width of fabric is good. But you can measure just by eye.

2. Fold the fabric in half, to make a rectangle, with the patterned side of the fabric in the inside. Pin in place.

3. Sew along the long side of the rectangle, to make a tube.

4. Sew along the top of the rectangle and the fold the tube inside out to show the patterned side of the fabric.

5. Fold the rectangle in half again, then sew the two short ends together.

6.Organise the fabric so that the two joined ends are at the back and in the middle of the rectangle. So that you wont see them when the bow is finished.

7. Squeeze the rectangle together in the middle, and play about with how you want your bow to look.

8. Make another, smaller rectangle of fabric and wrap it around the middle of the larger rectangle to hold it in place how you like it.

9. Cut and sew the end of the smaller rectangle, whilst in place around the larger rectangle, leaving space to slot a hairclip or hairband.

From: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Big-Hair-Bows

Dad got a new camera to mom's delight. I just knew that she'd be using it immediately for sample shots. That spells "me and my brothers."  :)

We went to our regular bible study last Sunday. Afterwards mom asked me to pose by the yellow wall...she long wanted to have this kind of shot. Yes, you noticed...I cut a bit of my hair all by myself and this is the result...you can clearly see those loose bits flipping away. So here it is, me without earrings, a not so nice haircut and as often as other times before, in pink.

This bolero that mom bought back from the Philippines is becoming a favorite. When the sun goes a bit brighter at noon but the wind still cool I wear it over tops...just perfect.

I got a few centimeters taller. :) My pants is now in the 134-140 range. Yipee!!!