second post of the day. i just hurt myself. pulled out my instrument slide and some of my thumb nail bended. it's bleeding. hahaha. my instrument (which I lugged home on a rainy day with faith, heri and YX) is so PRETTY. I oiled all the valves and polished it. aside from a couple of scratches (glares) its PERFECT. now all I need to do is go for the instrument course this saturday at ACS(I) to learn how to play properly. think I'm meeting zhengwei and yinlan (horn and saxo ASLs) at clementi and then we'll take either 14 or 166 to the school. end of transmission.