First of all, however trashy this year has been, time flies and it's 75% done.
Starting mid year this year, a very subconscious resolution started to recur, that is to pick up playing a classical string instrument again. I need to use the term string instrument because from the violin that I used to play throughout my school years, I have switched to the viola. It could be "beginners luck" but as far as the multi instruments I've been through, it feels like a string instrument of the right size for me.
As a not-so-diligent kid learning the violin, I paid zero effort into discovering anything beyond what was in front of my face. Mozart was a violin composer who composed minuet, Beethoven was a violin composer who composed a different minuet, Bach was a violin composer who composed minuet and gavotte. I'd done all the stupid things a violin 熊孩子 (Chinese slang, means an annoying kid, in particular in a not-so-smart way) would have done but I was not really ready to keep playing. Before leaving for college my