[Golden Thread] What did you accomplish during lockdown?

Cool, wait until you get to grade 8 piano and then you'll be laughing. I got my grade 8 exam next month. I started guitar in May this year, quite chuffed that I managed to play two of the songs I wrote with lyrics only at first. My guitar teacher helped me write in the guitar parts of the songs and now I can sing and play at the same time.

I’m not doing grades. I’m self teaching for the fun of it

I successfully made Baklava and Chocolate éclairs from scratch

it's interesting... but i honestly have no clue what to do with the knowledge. I mean i don't know if i can see myself working in tech... idk
ooh a gap year. what do you plan on doing?

I’m not doing grades. I’m self teaching for the fun of it

I learnt latin, learnt to cook my favourite indian desserts (the memory of home was looming too large to not learn that), and learnt to slow life down

I successfully made Baklava and Chocolate éclairs from scratch

Take my grade 8 piano exam and do one more uni exam for third year as an external student. My studies got interrupted in 2019 because of my mental health. I had to do two exams this year to catch up. And have got one course left that I'm leaving til May next year because it's really difficult.

are you using books or learning off youtube?

I definitely prefer the fast life... at the very least you don't get any time to reflect on how bleak your life is compared to some others. But we all survive

I learnt payesh (kheer) and roshogolla (which might be spelt rasgulla by north Indian psychopaths but that is a wrong spelling)

ah grade 8 piano... which songs are you playing? Oh that sucks, hope you're doing better now.

That's good. I was actually really against doing grades for 11 years because I didn't like the pieces on the syllabus. But when I abandoned piano for half a year, my mum told me to do grade 8 before quitting since I'm at that level already. But after that I'm looking into getting into guitar and singing more.