(I'm still thinking of a name and gender for her/him)
I actually thought of getting it after the exams so I wouldn't get too distracted by it... but obviously that didn't happen. So here is a short story about "How I met my Ukulele":
~ 9pm last night, Sean popped up on Msn. Half way through the convo, I randomly said I wanted to get a ukulele and showed him the website.
That itself tempted him to get one too. (Awesome strategy to get a free ride to the music shop)
So we decided to check it out next afternoon (today) but apparently he couldn't wait and went there in the morning. After which he picked me up and we went there again. I was obviously going to buy it and did bought it. But he got a bit concerned when he saw the foreign music notes filling the pages of the Ukulele Book for Beginners, so he decided to let me take the risk first.
We drove back to law school, abducted PY and went back to Huia because there wasn't parking at my place. And that was when we all started trying to tune the ukulele. It was so damn retarded because 3 of us spent at least an hour trying to tune those 4 strings and when we couldn't, we came up with a conclusion that they might have stringed it wrongly. So we called pitch-perfect lionel to intervene. He too, can't figure out how to tune it because none of us knew how a ukulele supposed to sound like.
Alas, we decided to drive back to the music shop for help. And that, was Sean's 3rd time in the same shop in 1 day. During the drive, Sean said I will never learn how to play it and it will end up in a corner of my room collecting dust. And he would be able to buy it off me at $20. I'm so gonna prove him wrong and learn to play a song this week!
Elated that my ukulele is finally tuned, I tried to start playing a chord or 2 from youtube/online resources. After quite awhile of struggling, I wondered why mine sounded so different from the one played on youtube, although we were playing exact same notes.
Then it occurred to me: maybe I bought a left-hand ukulele!!! So i tried playing everything in the opposite manner AND IT SOUNDED RIGHT!! Gawd... I was like... NO WAY I'M GOING BACK TO THE SAME SHOP!! So I asked Nat (who knows the piano/guitar) what the hell is wrong with my ukulele?! And she gave me that -__- look, saying in a matter-of-fact tone that I was holding my ukulele the wrong way (I was strumming with my left hand instead of right).
Epic failure.
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