Sometimes I think I am zai lor. At 12am I posted that I cant play the solo properly, the next day at 12pm then I can play liao. So maybe you all can consider going Capriccio XXIII again.

HCI[College] Symphonic Band Concert - Capriccio XXIII

Symphonic Overture
New York
演歌[Hokkien Song]
Clarinet Ensemble

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Percussion Ensemble
Saturday Night Fever
月亮代表我的心
Carioca

It'd be quite an entertaining night I think, with all the familiar pieces. It might not be the greatest concert for band geeks but definitely something for the public to enjoy, so just join in the fun. Order tickets from me via msn or sms, I'll just leave the tickets at the ticket counter.

Went for band outing at marina bay last tuesday, had quite a great time doing a deal of weird and stupid stuff. I was just spamming eating the pork satay because it tastes good =x So my $12.90 was almost entirely spent eating pork satay. Then there were a deal of "awards" given out, I only remember Mr and Ms Sociable, Mr and Ms Cheerful, Mr and Ms eat-a-lot, Mr and Ms Handsome, Mr and Ms Pretty and last but not least the Prince and Princess. Then weirdly and unexpectedly I kena Mr sociable with my ms sociable Sean Chia Keng Rui. Dam lame. The prolly next 2 you'd want to hear is the prince and princess who are Nicholas Ng Zheng Tao and Cheryl-Idunnofullname.

Righto, after capriccio will be mugging WEEKS. Darn, JC life is starting to just get tough.

Sometimes I think I am zai lor. At 12am I posted that I cant play the solo properly, the next day at 12pm then I can play liao. So maybe you all can consider going Capriccio XXIII again.

HCI[College] Symphonic Band Concert - Capriccio XXIII

Symphonic Overture
New York
演歌[Hokkien Song]
Clarinet Ensemble

->Interval<-

Percussion Ensemble
Saturday Night Fever
月亮代表我的心
Carioca

It'd be quite an entertaining night I think, with all the familiar pieces. It might not be the greatest concert for band geeks but definitely something for the public to enjoy, so just join in the fun. Order tickets from me via msn or sms, I'll just leave the tickets at the ticket counter.

Went for band outing at marina bay last tuesday, had quite a great time doing a deal of weird and stupid stuff. I was just spamming eating the pork satay because it tastes good =x So my $12.90 was almost entirely spent eating pork satay. Then there were a deal of "awards" given out, I only remember Mr and Ms Sociable, Mr and Ms Cheerful, Mr and Ms eat-a-lot, Mr and Ms Handsome, Mr and Ms Pretty and last but not least the Prince and Princess. Then weirdly and unexpectedly I kena Mr sociable with my ms sociable Sean Chia Keng Rui. Dam lame. The prolly next 2 you'd want to hear is the prince and princess who are Nicholas Ng Zheng Tao and Cheryl-Idunnofullname.

Righto, after capriccio will be mugging WEEKS. Darn, JC life is starting to just get tough.

Sometimes I think I am zai lor. At 12am I posted that I cant play the solo properly, the next day at 12pm then I can play liao. So maybe you all can consider going Capriccio XXIII again.

HCI[College] Symphonic Band Concert - Capriccio XXIII

Symphonic Overture
New York
演歌[Hokkien Song]
Clarinet Ensemble

->Interval<-

Percussion Ensemble
Saturday Night Fever
月亮代表我的心
Carioca

It'd be quite an entertaining night I think, with all the familiar pieces. It might not be the greatest concert for band geeks but definitely something for the public to enjoy, so just join in the fun. Order tickets from me via msn or sms, I'll just leave the tickets at the ticket counter.

Went for band outing at marina bay last tuesday, had quite a great time doing a deal of weird and stupid stuff. I was just spamming eating the pork satay because it tastes good =x So my $12.90 was almost entirely spent eating pork satay. Then there were a deal of "awards" given out, I only remember Mr and Ms Sociable, Mr and Ms Cheerful, Mr and Ms eat-a-lot, Mr and Ms Handsome, Mr and Ms Pretty and last but not least the Prince and Princess. Then weirdly and unexpectedly I kena Mr sociable with my ms sociable Sean Chia Keng Rui. Dam lame. The prolly next 2 you'd want to hear is the prince and princess who are Nicholas Ng Zheng Tao and Cheryl-Idunnofullname.

Righto, after capriccio will be mugging WEEKS. Darn, JC life is starting to just get tough.

Weird. Diaryland caches stay super long in singnet. Which means new entries are usually not seen early.

A little advertising. Saya need to sell 10 tickets for hwachong's band concert Capriccio XXIII. Cos saya stupid never bring tickets to school to sell before the school holidays. Cos saya think i popular then can sell tickets. But in the end saya not that popular so cannot sell tickets. So must sell tickets. Nevertheless, if you need capriccio tickets, please buy it from me. If you'd like to support me, then maybe dont buy. I don't remember having much significant parts. Except a snare part for New York and a marimba part for 1 of the perc ensem piece. Both which I have yet to practise enough. God bless me that I dont screw up the concert. It's okay to screw up as long as you dont screw up the band. Or so I think. That sucks.

I was just practising the marimba part for Sinister Minister[the particular perc ensem piece], the solo part is a little crazy for me. Bla. I was playing at 90bpm comfortably but the piece is at 120bpm. And I just kept playing over and over again, from 5:45pm to 7pm, and dear miss lim chased us out.

Before that band prac was just some entertaining session la. Cos as per usual perc parts quite boring. They say concert need to have entertaining pieces. So end up the pieces we play only drumset and sometimes mallets make sense, in addition with a lot of miscellaneous auxillary instruments. So siyao and I were doing stupid stuff with the maracas and shaker throughout the entire 999 and tijuana taxi piece. Dam AA. Whole band keep turning back looking at us 2 spastic people dancing around with shaker and maracas. Like some super funny entertainment during band prac.

Tomorrow going to buy a new video card. Just gotten money from me mum. Otherwise cant play my Heroes V. Shit. Why my video card so old. Sian. Go choir concert with ralphy sitting with the teachers. I only look forward to the good food for dinner and the choir singing.

It's been a few long weeks. There's a lot of things that went past fairly quickly perhaps because I was slowing down a lot. I wasn't particularly catching up with anything as everything seems fairly fast. But it meant I enjoyed life at my own pace. On the other hand, you seem to start feeling segregated from one mainstream bunch of people, but get nearer to another bunch.

Band interviews today for election candidates. I ran for quartermaster btw for the information of online passerbys. It's been 2 years now. about over a year and a half ago, I ran for elections, asked for the QM post, screwed up some stupid speech, and there was no me for QM. This year is different. I got guts feel will win. Because I'm good. Hahaha. I think very egoistic. I will feel very weird if I dont get elected. Fk. I super ego. Later nvr kena elected sure die.

Yeah it was quite okay lar. It's quite surprising because the band major candidates were all stumped with weird stuff and a lot regarding their terms as majors in high school last year. If you know me last year, I wouldnt be surprised if I get thrown personal questions as well. Problem was, that did not happen. And I just felt weird. The infamous rebel past unscathed with his previous errors unmentioned. It doesn't necessarily mean good. It might just mean that the seniors aren't interested in you being the quartermaster. Now I'm starting to lost confidence. Crazy.

Let's get further back in time. Arts Fest wasn't too bad but I dont think the band sounded much good. That is that and there's no turning back. And we've got the concert ahead.

Holidays is all about band practices, Heroes V then studying for the last 2 weeks. Must enjoy, carpe diem. Since ralph likes it so much.

Yawns. I havent been inspired by anything for a long long time. Today is just another usual day, except that i went out with clement, my damai best bud.

Sometimes I have to gloat of the fact that I do have a few good contacts of damai, good friends in the band, and in class. Which makes my life simpler when I have to drag people out with me.

There was a long chat. About life, about the way we were, the life we are leading, the life we led, about how we felt. And the ramblings just doesnt stop. That's after the long basketball game which I lost obviously.

You realise at some point of time when there's no barriers as to what you talk to with your old classmates. Your lives no longer intertwine as much as they used to, and it's always a relief to talk about the things you do. Even stupid stuff like, what girls you're looking out for. Then he goes like, TP walk where also chiobu. Then you go like, darv it I wanna go TP too. Damn. To hell with him for enlightening me with the fact that TP has THAT MANY chiobus.

Today felt like eternal hell. Seriously. Imagine having missed school for 4 school days. You're back to the school day which you have gotten sick on, but still in school. Beware, it's the most strenuous day of the week. Precisely why you caught fever then too.

Before you even start school, right before you lies the prophecy that the day is going to be tough and you're probably going to end up dying. Because it's the toughest day of the week and you're not in top form.

Right at the bus stop of your school, good olde heaven cried again. It got rid of its fever[the week of heat wave], on the same day as you, and decided to give you a cold day ahead. The rain poured as I snored in the warm bandroom while others seem to be shivering while sitting on their exposed CT benches. The air was so cold, it almost felt like it's below 25 degree celcius.

Cold leads to nothing good. Physics lecture was a chore because I was right underneath the tubing airconditioner of hwachong[which means it directly BLOW onto you], after the torturous first 45 mins i almost spent the next 45mins in hibernation. Same went for econs lecture except that the period was only an hour long.

The day was made most bearable when I realised the rest was no better off and the class finally switched off the aircon in the classes for both tutorials. Kudos to you guys!

And that ends my torturous day, with still a heavy head, not looking forward to tmr's day either. It's not easy to look forward to school when you've been down, for over a week. Sleeping became more like a curriculum to me.

5am in the morning. I've been awake for the past 2 hours, fumbling about in bed trying to catch some sleep. To no avail.

So here am I, trying to blog probably about the past week of endeavours, which would include my waves of illness, and friday's Singapore Youth Festival Central Judging of Concert Bands.

It's like what all seniors used to mention to me. I fell sick 3 days before syf, on Tuesday with a fever. I went to the Coronation Clinic, got a few pills, back to school for band practice. Somehow the nap during band prac recovered most of my energy. However the next morning I was down again. So wednesday morning I skipped lessons, and went ahead with band practice again. Thursday didn't make much of a difference. Chemistry SPA, then band practice. Which meant that i skipped 3 days worth of lectures and tutorials. Today will be the same, my condition cannot bring my physical self to school. Which is effectively 4 days worth of tutorials and lectures. Whoever does that must be a genius.

Friday was our big day. In fact the big day of every JC band taking part in the SYF. Like Leng said, the mars bars took effect, and the band went crazy. Which was probably why sunrise sounded quite bad. I'm giving our band a huge excuse for not doing something properly =x right... Symphonic overture sounds like a disaster in the recording. I hear myself screw up the fanfare like crapnuts although on friday everyone was pretty sure I was dead nice. There were a few obvious loopholes that we did not do well, other than that we actually did quite well. Running notes on time, chords almost intune, good intonation, mature tone. I guess we improved a bit although we could have done better. But the award marks our efforts. Being a member of the band, no doubt I'd criticise our playing more, so don't go off thinking that we played bad but scraped the gold anyway >.> I could whack you for it because the band did well.

Gold Award

So that marks the first checkpoint of my JC1 life. Yawns. The next chapter would probably be Cappriccio, then blocktests, then promos. I probably wouldn't know if I'd survive through everything in the first place.

Wah. Went to school for Chemistry SPA after i diarrhea-ed the whole night yesterday. A bit of screw ups here and there but i guess it's fine.

On the other hand, I shall bear in mind the peak hours of taxi fares. For this is the second time I took a taxi at 7:50pm, when the peak hour ends at 8pm. An additional fare of $2. But the complaint ends when the taxi driver drove my entire journey without a question on where to turn. That's my first taxi journey i ever felt like i could sleep till i reach my doorstep.

SYF in a mere 14 hours. Yeah. We can do it =) May lord brahma, vishnu, Guanyin, Buddha, Jesus, Allah and the rest of the divines bless us with everything we've got. HC band shall show you what we've got.

After a long long wait. Diaryland is finally accessible for me to blog. The time is 10am. Where everyone is at school, I am on MC, staying at home to recuperate. Don't question me why I'm in front of the computer.

I'm not entirely sure that I've recovered. Down with slight fever, a bit of stomachache that had me going to the toilet. Yeah. Diarrhoea.

SYF is 2 days away. Everyone's like falling sick. We'd better recover soon, or we'll not be able to handle our SYF well. The progress is quite tremendous. Both the set piece and the choice piece can fully exhibit our band's forte. It's a confidence booster for the band to do well in this year's SYF.

Of course, we'd strive to do our best, and help siyao complete his entire collection of SYF awards. Things would change if we manage to get our Gold [with honours] this year.

Meanwhile, schoolwork would be disastrous while I embark on my journey to SYF. I'll settle everything next week when things start turning normal. Then it'd be cappricio, thereafter comes block test. Hope I'll do well in physics and get to do my H3 semiconductor physics.

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