Dear Bloggie...

(I probably won't finish this entry today, but well at least I tried ya =])

LIFE

Well life's been pretty normal apart from the weather which is like so unpredictable...
Let's see what have I done for the past 16 days which I didn't update...
My piano cher bombarded my with Grade 4 & Grade 5 music theory books to do...
Of which I'm still at Grade 4 still trying to get used to alto clef...
Come to think of it, why can't musicians just use either Treble or Bass clef...
What's with all these alto and tenor clefs...
Pfft..
Anyway, I went to a couple of concerts...
Well actually only two...
Manjusri/GESSband concert, and TPJC concert...
I shan't comment on Manjusri's concert for no reason...
But TPJC...
Not that I have alot to say...
To sum things up...
The hall is VERY VERY echoey...
I know it's not the band's fault as the venue was changed last minute...
But looking from the bands point of view...
The dynamic changes weren't that attractive enough...
Plus there were alot of players who were off tempo...
Apart from all that, the songs played had deep meaning and the percussion section was the strongest that day...

Why am I talking about band stuff under my LIFE section...
Nvm, just take it with a pinch of salt...
So apart from my music theory books which i've been bombarded with...
I'll be having exams in approximately 5 weeks time...
And honestly saying, I haven't prepared anything yet...
Ok this shall go into the SCHOOL section below...
So life has always been about being at home basically...
Been waking up late due to heavy sleeping...
Staying up late cause there's no school....
Been playing my PSP all day too...

Last Thursday I went to a mosque to witness lamb slaughtering...
With years of experience, I wasn't squeemish at all...
Just that the smell of the blood is very strong...
Which made me very dizzy and went home after eating Briyani...=X
I didn't go out the whole day that day...
Was supposed to visit my both grandmas', but my head just disagreed...
So I stayed at home on my bed lying down not doing anything...
The moment I got hungry, my mom came back at the right time to bring back food....
Had lunch/dinner and went back to bed...
Shortly after, I went online...

Lets see what else I can dump in this LIFE section of mine...
I guess there's nothing much...as expected...
The lesser time I go MIA from blog, the lesser the entries gets, makes sense...
Oh and did anyone realise my new blogskin?
I just designed it just now...
Pretty neat huh?
If anyone has any complaints please do so through my tagboard...
Now on to the next section of the blog...

SCHOOL

I've mentioned above about having exams in 5 weeks time...
And seriously, I'm not very fond of knowing that info...
Scares the crap outta me...
Haven't studied a single thing...
Been skipping lectures like nobodies business...
I am doomed!
But not to worry, I shall study, cause my future depends on it!
(i should really stop sounding so heroic like that)

I'm having holidays now..
In fact, I'm in the middle of holidays now...
Halfway through and halfway more to kill before the short term 4 starts...
As always, I've always got something to bitch about school...
And this time is the PBILs...
WHY OH WHY, did they give PBIL at the very last few weeks of school...
All the time in my mind now during this hols is PBIL...
Even my groupmate has been pestering us about the PBIL...
Last semester also we had the same problem...
The school is starting to get on my nerves...
Cause projects require TIME to complete...
What do they expect us to do in one week with a PBIL???
*rhetorical question, not to be answered*

Ok I shall not bitch too much...
On to the next section!

BAND

Ok for band...
I've got nothing!
I mean really...
Except for promoting my band(SP) concert...
It's on the 6th of January, 5pm at VCH...
It's called Musical Delights...
The repertoire for the concert is...

Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - by Richard Wagner
The Inn of Sixth Happiness - by Malcolm Arnold
Willson Suite Mvt.3, "Hurricane" (ft. soloist Kelvin Tan) - by Robert W. Smith
Ghost Train Mvt.1 - by Eric Whitacre
Flourish for Wind Band - by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Orient Express - by Philip Sparke
Tintin - by Dirk Brossé / arr: Johan de Meij

I heard from my senior there's more repertoire...
Oh and one more thing, I'm not performing...
So those who wants the tix can ask through me and I'll get from my senior...
Please do go and support as I will...
*somehow I feel bad for not performing for the concert, but it's too late for that now*
All the best SPband! =]

Galaxy Express 999 - by Masanori Taruya

SONGS

I'm afraid there's no songs to update for now...
My friend hasn't been sending me any songs lately...
I only get my songs from my friend...
So those who have songs to recommend, PLEASE SEND ME...
Thank you very very much...

REPLIES TO TAGS:
Mab: See I've updated after 16 days, not bad ar? =X

Alex: ALEXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!! =X

Rachel: Hello! =D

MELISSA: The previous entry was long, I don't think this entry is very long...

`RABIA: Hello! hahakz, i always have long post, and thanks for reading! =D

yihui: hahakz, no more one month anniversay!!! =X yay!!! =X

sam: ur welcome..=]

~ShErMeEnZ~: And I've finally updated again! so take more then 5 mins this time kkk? =X

estherr: yea, the details are on top...=]

adah: heyyy, thanks for visiting ya! ur blog is like so dead la please.. anyway, u take carez ya! =D

So that's all from me, I updated my blog exactly in one hour!
Take carez everyone!
*i miss SPband and NASband....=[*

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Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...

(Goshness it's been more than a month since I've updated my blog...Better blog now before it's too late...)

LIFE

The last time I blogged, it was about me doing my Music Theory Grade 3 exam...
But after that, I haven't touched my theory books ever since...
Life now is quite boring, if not, very boring...
And the weather wears me down easily...
It has been freezing cold these past few weeks...
If it isn't the rain, it's the buffeting wind smacking my face...
This morning was one fine example...
It was sunny yet I was feeling cold...
My jacket/windbreaker was wet, so wearing it could be disastrous...
I've been going to school late too...
Especially for Tutorials where I can't really wake up early in the morning...
Been skipping afew lectures too as I was too tired...
Why am I writing about school stuff under my life section...
Ok quick change of topic please...

I just bought a new phone afew weeks back...
Been wanting to buy the phone since last year...
And I finally bought it...
It's the Nokia N73 Music Edition...
I know I know, many of you would say it's common...
But it's not a bad phone actually...
Very slick & stylish, it's BLACK too...
The thing I like about the phone is the camera...
3.2 Megapixel camera...
Not too bad if you ask me...
Cost me 198 bucks with 100 bucks trade in...
I was dumbfounded when I realised I didn't copy my contacts to the sim card...
Now all, or should I say, MOST, of my new contacts are bygones...
So that's all about my new phone, shall post pics taken from the camera in another post...

PSP!
I've been playing this game called Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness...
At first I thought it would be some same ol' same ol' RPG game...
But when I got into the hang of it...
It's very VERY addictive...
I got hooked onto the game...
Been playing the game for about 2 weeks and I've completed the game...
All I need now is to wait for my friend to buy his PSP and we can duel!
*I promise to stop playing and start studying soon,well, maybe after the hols*
Played Metal Slug Anthology also...
It isn't THAT fun to play compared to going to an arcade to play it...
But at least you can save money instead of inserting tokens into the machine...
I wonder how the PSP would look like with coin slots...
*runs away from horrid imaginations*
Anyways, those of you who DO have a PSP, do try Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness...

About two weeks back, something seriou happend to me...
I had a very bad reaction to eating prawns...
My eyes swelled(puffed) like balloons...
My whole body and face felt super itchy...
I AM ALLERGIC TO PRAWNS!
*....sob....bybye prawns...i miss u.......*

It was the worse reaction EVER...
Last time only my tongue was swollen...
Now everywhere swelled up...
It's as though I was sprinkled with itching powder everywhere...

Anyways, that night when it happend...
My dad rushed me to Changi Hospital in a cab...
And went straight into the Accidents and Emergency unit...
There i met with several doctors...
Of which one of them gave me a jab on my right shoulder...
*it's still aching now, even though my itchiness has stopped*
And the swelling just started to disappear almost immediately....
Then I was given pills and spent the next 2 hours going in and out of the toilet...
*It's the effect of the pills, it HAS to be*
After which the doc called me in and check that I'm feeling much better...
He asked if I wanted to do an allergy test...
But the moment he said I'll have dots on my arms, I immediately reject the whole idea...
*actually I just don't want to be tested in such a way, I was scared, boohoo*
So I just said that I'll stay away from prawns and see if anything else happens...
*luckily for me, NOTHING happend...phew...*
I then went home and went to sleep...

*While writing this entry, I'm actually thinking what's been happening to me for the past month...*
Oh yea, due to my absolutely boring life, those up there ^ are the only interesting things which happend to me...
So that's why I haven't been updating much on my life...

SCHOOL

Some of us hate it, some of us love it, some of us simple DREAD it...
Yes people, it's school...
Please ignore all the school stuff I typed in the LIFE section...
My mind got carried away for a moment...
*and obviously I'm too freakin lazy to change/edit it...*
So let's talk about school shall we...
I've been skipping quite alot of lessons due to my laziness and boredom...
Of which I know I'll have to buck up when term 4 starts...
On the other hand...
My Lab Practicals are extremely good...
Most of my Labwork marks are more than 90...
I must say I'm good at following instructions...
The only Lab I'm struggling with is DCS lab...
All the loopback loopback stuff makes me all loopy...

On Wednesday after my GEMs test, I had to go for this STUPID sports day thing la...
Firstly I'm pissed because I had other plans for that time...
Secondly we wasted our time there as it was raining and our "CHEER" wasn't that loud...
Thirdly, I was DRENCHED, my bag and shoes were WET...
Our attendance wasn't taken too, so its as if we were never there...
Seriously, using GYL members to do this kinda thing is damn CHEAP...
I am NEVER going for GYL camp EVER again...
And I thought I learned my lesson from last year...
Freaking Rediculous...
Ok I've finished bitching about that STUPID event...=D

I did my MST(Mid Semester Test) and got back the results of four of my papers...
Of which I passed 3 and failed 1...
Which is quite an improvement compared to last semester when I failed all but one...
Even though I'm glad, I'm still not satisfied as there were many times I wish I could do better..
*but I guess I gotta do better next time?*
Shall not emphasis/dwell on my MST too much...
*as thinking about causes a slight explosion in my bladder*
In fact, I shall not talk about school anymore for this entry...

BAND

The band, NASband, had their band camp this week...
From Monday to Friday...
I came for all three days but didn't stay long...
On Monday I came at around 1pm...
The band was having combine under Ms Leong in the AV room...
*I walked ALL THE WAY back from the temporary canteen to the AV room*
They were playing Habitat, I never heard the recording before though...
But when I tried playing the eupho part, it's not that difficult...
Not that high notes but quite challenging rhythms...
After Combine was break but the band couldn't leave the school as lunch was provided...
I know I shouldn't talk about the food and be grateful but the food sucked big time...
After lunch was time to watch the video on maintanence, AGAIN...
We moved from the AV room to the Computer Lab to 3I1 classroom...
Which took up most of our Sectionals time...
And the video took quite long also...
After which was sectionals which wasn't really sectionals...
As there were alot of sections cramping and practicing in one room...
So everyone was basically doing their own thing...

Then had combined at around 4+...
Played that Fundamental Book which is new...
Played that for half an hour, considered warm up...
Then played Habitat and Seagate Overture...
Nothing interesting happend during combined...
After combine was Marching...
I didn't really pay attention to their marching as I was practicing on the Eupho...
At the same time I was teaching Terrence how to play high notes...
*the security guard has a knack for calling my name, i find it irritating, somehow*

On Tuesday I reached the school at 4.30pm...
Ms Leong was taken them combined...
Played Habitat again...
But now I was focusing on the Tubas...
After combined they sort of played tug of war...
Which was a disaster when the cloth used to tie the "rope" together tore...
In the end everyone played Captain's Ball of which I joined in the fun too...
But there were WAYYYYY too many people playing at the same time...
My cute junior got smashed in the face with the ball and has dots on her face...
Poor cute junior of mine...
After captain's ball was dinner...
Went to outside NPCC room to eat our dinner...
XueTing keep hitting me when I disturbed her...
*Seriously it's getting old...*
I couldn't finish the food as it sucked big time again...

After dinner some of us played heart attack for awhile...
It was fun until we all had to report at the AV room for Band Meeting...
*I shall not disclose any info about the band meeting*
I went home at around 8+....
I actually felt like staying over, but the thought of having school the next day...
It just made me feel uneasy...

I came back to school on Wednesday for their last day of band camp...
Out of all the 3 days of band camp, I find that on wednesday was the most productive sectionals ever...
I took the Tuba and Bass Clarinet...
We did a VERY long warm up...
Shenghao looked as though he was gonna faint...
*who ask you not to sleep enough the night before...*
We then went through Seagate Overture...
Some of the parts I focused on, others I just ask them to play through...
And since I only had an hour...
I couldn't work on Habitat...
So after finishing Seagate Overture, the band had combined...
I stayed till 12 and left cause I had GEMs test in school...
Which I rushed to the bus stop just to see one 19 drove past me...
Ok, shall not talk about school!
*speaking of which, I haven't bitched about getting drenched yesterday..it shall be edited into the school section*

So that's band camp...
And there's no OFFICIAL band prac during the whole month of december..
Of which I shall make an UNofficial band prac sectionals...
And if they want to combine, can call me down and I shall conduct combine...
I'm done with band's entry!

SONGS

Ok...
Recently I've been listening to....
C21 - You are the one
Chris Daughtry & Brian Howes - Over you
Just these two songs...
I find them very meaningful...
Oh yar, one more song to add to the collection...
Rainbow Connection by John Michael Higgins & His Symphony Of Guys


So that's all for my 1 month plus disappearence from blogging... I hope it covers everything...

REPLIES TO TAGS:
yihui: Yes I know it's been 1 month le, now I updated le! hahakz... =X

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Mab: Hahakz, I have broken the record for the longest time not updating my blog! =X

stacy :): yoyoyoyo, do come by more often ya! and hi to u too!!! =D

fila: No I'm not dead, and my blog isn't too! heez, thanks for visiting!!!

dyla: I know, I'm having the same problem too, been trying to find the time to make my own blogskin, but to no avail, maybe when I change the skin it would be easier..Till then, this skin will have to do...


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Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...

*So I've finally changed my boring blogskin to this new one... Note that I've cut the hair of the boy above this box as it looked like a girl before this as observed by someone... I hope you guys like my new blogskin!*

LIFE

Recent happenings!
I just did my Grade 3 Music Theory Exam paper!
I thought it would be easy peasy...
But when I saw the last page...
I read through...
Allegro ma non tanto...
What is TANTO?
Then I read everything again...
Allegro is quick and lively...
Ma non is but not...
So tanto logically must be MUCH...
So that means Quick and Lively but not much!
Phew!
That nearly made me mad for a second... =X

When I came into the class...
I was like the eldest among everyone in the class...
Then I saw one woman, looks like she's working or something...
At least I know i'm not the oldest... =X
But there were people taking grade 5 papers too...
So I guess she's taking grade 5...
Goshness grade 5...
My cher told me she wanna chiong me do grade 5 exam next November...
That's like exactly a year to learn grade 4 and 5 la...
Actually if I can, I really want to...
And I know I can...

On 17th November 2007, I hope to buy a second hand piano...
Saw on the sale thingy that starting price was 399 bucks...
So I better go check it out...
I thought this section was about my life...
Yes yes...
My dad wants to move house...
Downgrade to a 4-room flat...
Obviously, I didn't agree to it...
But it's his house...
So actually I've got no say...
So that's that I guess...

SCHOOL

Last week was E-Learning week...
Basically E-Learning week is a week you do your studying at home...
Infront of the laptop...
For me, I gotta do assignments and make a video for maths...
Of which I haven't really done so as I was busy studying for my exam just now...
So I got two days to catch up on a whole week stuff of work...
Some of which I tried doing and isn't that difficult at all...
But others are too tideous which I just got lazy to do...
During the whole week..
I've been waking up quite late...
The average time I'd usually wake up would be 10am...
If not the latest would be 12pm?
The weather is just crazy these few days...
Hot cold hot cold...
Many of the people I know are sick, I think that's the main reason...
So basically there's nothing left to say about school!

BAND

Ok as for band...
This will be very very very short...
As I haven't been at band for the whole week...
Was busy studying and doing schoolwork to even take some time to go back...
But I guess there'll survive without me...
The band won't be having any band practices during December hols...
That upsets me the most as the band needs all the time they have to buck up...
Obviously the teacher think they need time more on their studies...
Since the school is gonna rank CCAs and academic performance is part of it...
But don't you think it's actually killing the spirit of having a CCA?
I fully support the idea of having a CCA flag...
But rankings?
First they said CCA was a place to relax and not feel the stress of school life...
But now they are gonna put academic as one of the criteria?
It's true that some may try to study harder to fight for their CCAs...
And also...
With rankings, don't you think it would be demoralising to those who are at the bottom?
And adding to that, with the academic factor, they may even call themselves not smart...
Ok, I have no idea why I am debating over such things...
Just my 2 cents of oppinion...
And just to add one more thing, having criterias on CCA uniforms???
Just when CCAs could be different from one another...
Where's the uniqueness of each CCA if there's a criteria on everything?
The moment I heard about all this things...
I knew something bad is gonna happen someday...
But I shall not say anything now as it has nothing to do with me...
Only the band has something to do with me, the rest of the school is not my problem...

SONGS

Ok, recently I've been listening to this song called The Way You Look At Me by Christian Bautista...
It's really nice...
The meaning of the lyrics are very strong...
So this week, I will only feature this song, as I love it the most...

REPLIES TO TAGS:
~ShErMeEnZ~: nice skin!!! haha.. =D suits ur interest in music!!! haha. but that person is a .... haha.. u know wat i mean!! =X anyway, good luclk for ur music theory exam tml!!! =D
Yea I know, I changed the person oleady!!! And thanks!!!
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You think so? hahakz, thanks! After so long I finally changed... took some effort...
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How am I suppose to go your blog when it's locked jiahuiiiiiiiiiiiiii....
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Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...

LIFE

Life... Life... Life...
No matter how many times I say it...
I still don't have a life... -.-

Been sick for a very long long time...
Well, not really that long, since last Tuesday...
Even though I was sick, I still went to Jalan Raye with my friends...
Of which I suffered the consequences only near the night...
My nose was just flowing like tapwater...
Nothing much to say about the outing...
Just that I felt like dying half the time...
Luckily I'm near full recovery now...
I'd really like to thank those who wished me well...
I really really really really REALLY appreciate it alot...
And now I'm mostly well and all...
I wish all those who are still sick to get well soon ok! =]

Since I was sick, I didn't have mood to do anything...
And yes, when I say anything, I really mean anything...
I couldn't sleep, I couldn't sit infront of this laptop...
It's not that I don't want to, I just can't cause of my tapwater...
So I've been occupying myself alot with playing my PSP...
Especially with games which are new, I find them fun...
Speaking of PSP, I'm thinking of trading in my PSP for a new PSP Slim...
My uncle told it I just had to top up about 100+...
And with my hari raya money...
I have no idea what I'm gonna do with it...

I just wanna say, I have great friends around me...
And today I shall feature a friend...
Her name is..... Shermeen!
She's been tagging my board as ~ShErMeEnZ~ so it's not that hard to miss...
The person who's always been bullying me and the person who's been bullied by me... =X
Work both ways la hor...
She's always online most of the time...
If not she'll be watching tv...
She's just a great person to be with...=]
SSS~! SUPER STRONG SHERMEEN! =]


SCHOOL

SCHOOL! yes, school...
I have no idea what to talk about school...
I've skipped quite alot of tutorials...
Missed afew lectures...
Not that I want to, cause I'm sick and lazy to go doctor everyday...
I was only given one day MC...
But I was still sick the next day...
Anyways, there's this malay/indian lecturer which I totally cannot tolerate...
With his indian accent which is totally difficult to understand...
And he keeps stopping his lecture to scold those who's talking...
The first time he started to irritate me was his second lecture...
I couldn't take it, I just went off in the middle of the lesson...
And subsequent lessons, I just will tap my card and leave...
At most I'll just study the chapters by myself or go through during tutorials...

I must say, I still love going for practicals...
It's so easy and fun...
Well, I think it's easy because it's fun actually...
Even though there's some theory involved...
Most of it are just straightforward stuff...

Usually class ends super early of which I'll go to any FCs to eat...
I get hungry quite early in the morning, so having breakfast is crucial...

This is not related to school, but it is to studying...
So since studying is under school then blah blah blah...
I'll be taking my music theory exams next Saturday...
Please please please wish me luck...
I know it's only Grade 3...
But there's a truckload of info for me to swallow...
Ok, ok, truckload might be exaggerated...
But still, I might get nervous and screw up totally...
And I really hope I won't get sick on that day...

Speaking of school, next week is E-Learning Week!
Which means, there's no school for the whole week...
Which means, HOLIDAY...but for a week only...
But on Monday I gotta drag myself to school for FYP briefing...
Of which I'm still unsure of what time it is...
I'm such a lousy class rep....

BAND

Band..........
I've been hearing alot of negative feedback from NASband...
Like seriously bad feedback...
Such as people wanna quit and those who don't respect seniors...
I actually feel quite sad listening to all this...
I mean...
First we suffered during SYF...
Looking at their sad faces...
At that time they were so determined to strive for a better band...
But now...
It's as though those times they went through were a mere memory...
Maybe to them, it might be just one of those down side in band...
I can't blame them...
But running off and showing bad attitude towards band, I just can't tolerate...
No matter how hard the seniors are trying...
No matter how hard the teachers are trying...
No matter how hard anyone have been trying...
There's no improvement in attitude whatsoever...
The band has become SOFT...
No one respects anyone anymore...
We have people who come for band as and when they want to...
I've felt great losses in the past before...
Suffered greater pain...
But the greatest pain of all would be to see the band I love so much...
Just crumbles slowly...
Becoming meaningless...
Every practice becomes a chore...
Is this what a band should be?
Where did the band go wrong?
The leaders?
The members?
The teachers?
Who who who?
It doesn't matter now...
Cause it has already begun...
The sinking ship of NASband...
Please forgive me if I sound pessimistic...
But that's the reality of things are right now...
And no matter how we look at it, we can't run away from it...

Is there ever a way to save this band from sinking?
Like every problem, there is a solution...
I believe, the bigger the risk one takes, the bigger the reward one will get...
So my solution would be...
Seperating those who wants to be in band, with those who don't...
Meaning, kick out those that have a bad attitude towards band...
So that means we'll have a small band...
A reminder to everyone, this band started small...
And there's nothing wrong with being a small band...
My solution is to start the band from scratch again...
Nurture those commited members to be elites...
Make them our strength...
So when other batches come in, this batch of commited members will be ready...
Ready to dicipline, nurture and educate the future members...
Band remember, we do not need a big band with uncommited members...
We need a band that has it's roots and culture...
It may take a long time to build the foundations...
But once the foundation is there...
We will be ready to move upgrade ourselves...

Band members, if you've read this...
Spread to everyone you know in the band to read this...
And those who just don't care about band, we DON'T need you...
So stop showing attitude and giving everyone a hard time...
I'd rather you spend your time elsewhere...
Thank you.


SONGS

I've been listening to the Plain White Ts....
Specifically would be Hate I Really Love You, Hey There Delilah...
Been listening To Zanarkand also...
Oh yar, The Golden Circle is nice too!

Ok that's all for today!
Will update in a months time if no one bugs me and if every band member read my post already...
Take care everyone! =]

Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...

*before I start blogging, I just wanna say that I'm gonna change the way I blog, just for kicks... So basically it will split into 4 sections, Life; School; Band and Songs... So lets say if it works!*

LIFE

Ok, I haven't been posting for ages in here...
So I would like to apologise once again for not updating...
It's weird as to how many people come my blog even when I haven't updated...
Again, I'm sorry for not updating...
The last time I blogged was during fasting month...
Now I blog is after fasting month...
So that means Hari Raya time...
Yesterday I went to my relative's houses...
Well actually only two houses...
The eldest sides of my mom and dad...
Morning I went to Hari Raya prayers at Masjid Kampung Siglap...
We reached there quite early and not many cars were there as it should...
After prayers, my cousin lost his slipper and walked barefooted to the car...
At around after Zuhur prayers, my family went to my mom's eldest side...
Which is at Sengkang, cabbed down there...
Ate Nasi Goreng Tomato, can't remember who brought it there also...
After lunch was the apologising session...
(note to those who don't understand what apologising sessions are, it's a session where we ask forgiveness starting from the eldest and basically all the way down, and it's also the time where kids recieve their green packets, well, for me at least...)
After apologising session, we watched tv together and we went back...
My family and I went back home for Asar prayers...
After which we went to my dad's eldest side...
Did the same thing I did at my mom's eldest side...
Recieve green packets and stuff like that...
The only similarity between both houses was that...
Both houses, everyone keep telling me it's been so long since they saw me...
Which, is very true actually...
I mean come on, schooling in a Tertiary Level aint that easy nor free...
So I guess, everyone's happy to see me like finally...

Anyways, I ate ketupat and lontong at my Nenekz house...
I was bloated as hell...
The type where my head just feels like sleeping...
And true enough, the moment I went home...
I did my Isyak prayers, and went straight to bed...
I woke up this morning and looked at my hp...
I recieved 3 sms...
Luckily I told one of them I was sleeping, so she should know...
Woke up quite late also today...
Went to Tmart to buy KFC...
Actually wanted to buy Macs breakfast meal...
But the moment I saw the queue...
I just went past the door and went to 7 eleven...
Bought instant noodles for emergency as I've run out of stock...
Went to KFC soon after, bought cheesy BBQ meltz...
Been dying to eat that during fasting month...
Went home and ate my KFC while watching tv...
American Inventor was on, so I watched...
It was showing the top 10 worst inventions...
Super hilarious...
After which I'm here now online...
Updating my blog since it's been dead for so long...
So that's the end of my doings for today, well, up till now at least...


SCHOOL

I must say school hasn't been so much fun recently actually...
I missed half of the first week of school...
As I was hit by the flu bug which made me really sick...
And what more, I was fasting..
So I had to break fast early for two days...
Which also means I have to pay back my fast...
Other than that...
All the practicals has been quite easy...
Been ending early all the time for practicals...
Even some tutorials or lectures have been ending early...
But since I was fasting, haven't been able to go for early breakfast or something...
That's why I'm looking forward very much to next week...
Finally I can eat in school like everyone else...
I really miss the food there...
Speaking of school...
I haven't been doing all my tutorials...
Except for some, which I did during tutorial lessons...
Other than that, nothing else...
Diploma day and the celebration of SEEE's 50th Anniversary this coming Wednesday...
Honestly, I'm not looking forward to it at all...
But hey, I think I'll be getting CCA points...
Although I feel my CCA points are quite sufficient already...
Nothing wrong with getting more right?
So I guess, from tomorrow onwards, it's full gear for me in terms of school...


BAND

Band...
What can I say...
I haven't been active in band for the last month...
In SP band too due to fasting period..
And at night I have to do my Solat Terawih(special prayers)...
But but but...
I've recieved my own mouthpiece which I bought...
My shiny new SM4 Euphonium mouthpiece...
It feels good when buzzing, so I hope it feels great when playing too...
I haven't been to NASband either cause they're having exams...
So band has stopped for awhile...
NASband is starting again next Friday, can't wait for that...
It's time to start being serious...
Talked to Joy about the band lots of times...
We both feel like doing something great for the band...
*At least I don't feel alone*
So we'll try our best to do whatever we can for the band...
Cause honestly, the band is losing it's spark and publicity...
And being inactive for so long just kills the spirit...
So it's time to pick up the slack and let the world know who we are...
And let them know how great we can sound...
Cause we are, NASband...


SONGS

Currently I'm hooked onto quite a huge bunch of songs...
But the songs which I'm hooked onto most would be songs from HSM2...
I like to listen to, Everyday...
You are the music in me...
Bet on it...
I gotta go my own way...
Apart from HSM2, I've been STILL listening to...
Ennio Moricone's, Playing Love...
The piano melody just makes me melt, I have no idea why...
Maybe the movie is just very nice...
People! If you haven't watched The Legend of 1900, PLEASE do...
It's the best movie ever...
Speaking of music movies, does anyone have the movie Amadeus?
Please tell me if you do, been dying to watch it... Thanks!


End.

Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...

Grah...
Yes. Grah.
I haven't been keeping on to my promise of updating regularly...
Mab. I wonder how you do it.
I shall not grief over my laziness...

Ok then, a week of fasting has gone by...
And I guess, my stomach is finally getting accustomed to it...
Even though sometimes my gastric juices just flare up...
Makes me feel like I'm having PMS, however that feels like...
I said before, I'll get cranky easily when I'm hungry...
So this is really a test of my patience...
Which I will endure...

The past week has been tiring...
Not cause I've been exercising or what-not...
I've been looking after my superly-duperly-hyperactive nephew...
It's like his energy just never runs out...
He could run around the house for hours and not feel tired...
If he ran around by himself, that's fine by me...
But he drags me along with him...
And I must say, it's an interesting workout...
Made me forget I'm even fasting...
Only after afew rounds(of running) that I feel thirsty...
At that moment I realised I was fasting...
Which I begged my mom to look after him while I rest...
My mom told me this during one of the time when we were breaking fast...
She told me I wasn't that good with kids...
And I must say, she's very right...
Kinda makes me wonder if I'll ever change and if I could ever have children...

So effectively by looking after my nephew...
I wasn't able to do my music theory exam papers which I hoped to do...
Today I woke up at around 10am...
Bathed and watched TV...
After TV, I cleaned 3 of the ceiling fans in the house...
Of which now I'm infront of the laptop updating my blog...
I feel like taking pictures, but my sis has my camera...
And my desktop computer outside has been reformatted...
It is now clean of anything that I've dumped inside it for the past millions of years...

I wonder if I've said in my past entry before...
But I can't wait to go back to school next week...
I suddenly feel so hyped up and ready...
This attitude of starting things fresh and new...
It's actually not that new...
It was there at the beginning of last sem...
That was cause I joined SPband and felt quite excited about it...
But now I'm excited cause the modules seems like fun to me...
I'm also excited cause I won't have to stay at home and wait for time to fly...
With all this commotion of wanting to go school...
I have scary thoughts too actually...
The only thing that scares me would be collecting money for buying notes for the class...
Just hope I got my classmates to help me...
I know they will help me...
Speaking of school...
I said I will talk about my timetable...
And I will upload the pic to my blog right away...
Ok so the pic is up already...
I also realised something very interesting...
I posted the picture above my timetable...
Keyword is 8888...
Super nice number manz...

Ok now back with my timetable...
Monday I have school from 8am to 5pm...
Tuesday is from 10am to 3pm...
Wednesday is from 9am to 3pm...
Thursday is from 8am to 5pm...
Friday is from 8am to 12pm...
So I must say my timetable is quite packed...
On Wednesday I put tere till 3pm cause I have GEMs from 1pm to 3pm...
I think I'll love Friday the most...
Can go back early...
That is if I quit going to SPband...
But if I decide to stay, then I'll be wasting alot of time in school after Friday prayers...

So that's it I guess...
I hope this entry wasn't that long...
Take care everyone...
21 more days of fasting, I can do it!

Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...

Okok, I haven't been updating for awhile not, ok not awhile, ALOTwhile...
And I haven't been keeping my word as to update like Mabeline...
So that's why now I'm updating this blog of mine...
Hopes hard that this blog doesn't die off anytime soon...
*GORENG GARING GARING jangan GORENG GARANG GARANG!*
Ok that was random...

Yesterday was the start of the fasting month...
It's interesting how I actually was looking forward to it...
My stomach grumbled quite alot yesterday morning...
Even today too...
But today wasn't as bad as yesterday's...
I guess it's all in the spirit of getting used to fasting...

Didn't do much the past few days...
Most of the time, I'd be online or I'd be just playing game on my PSP...
But mostly is playing games on my PSP...
I always wanted to do my music theory papers...
But until now I left them untouched...
Tomorrow I really got to do it...
But my nephew coming down, and my mom wants me to look after him...
Why do plans usually spoil just like that, it's quite irritating...

On Wednesday, I said I'll be getting my results right?
And well, yea, I did get my results...
I woke up at 8am...
Forced myself to sleep, but my heart was beating very loudly...
In the end I just dragged myself out of bed...
Turned on the modem and my laptop...
Went into my messenger...
Went into my school email account...
And there it was...
The email that contains my results...
So I picked up the courage and just opened the email...
I scanned through the results, expecting an F somewhere...
But there wasn't any...
There were only these results...

BA002B
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FOR ENGINEERS
2
B

ET0900
DESIGN & INNOVATION PROJECT
2
B+

ET0906
MICROCONTROLLER TECHNOLOGY
5
C

ET0905
OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
4
C+

ET0050
ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION DESIGN
5
D

MS4206
ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS II (B)
4
D+

ET0053
CIRCUIT THEORY & ANALYSIS
5
D-

The D- for CT&A was quite shocking as I thought I was gonna fail that module...
And I found out, it was a Subsidiary Pass...
I guess it's a pass that I think I failed, but the lecturers pull me up to pass...
And my GPA is damn crappy, as expected, too ashamed to put it up by the way...
Next sem I really gotta buck up on everything...
No more fooling around, no more slacking...
With the help of my friend, I saw my new time table...
It's not much of a difference from all the rest, most likely it's very similar...
But on thursday is like lecture day...
With 3 lectures on that day, plus one tutorial...
I shall comment on my timetable on my next entry...
Now I still thinking on which GEMs should I take...
Anyone who knows what GEMs to take please tell me...
I'm now in the catagory of Science and Technology...
Enlighten me please...

Anyways, for today, watched a DVD on instrument maintanence...
Trust me when I say it was damn boring...
It was like every instrument, the guy keep repeating the same thing over and over again...
And also, most of the time he would be advising us to see a repairman...
I mean, if we have to buy a DVD that tells us to go see a repairman like 50 over times...
Might as well don't buy and just go see the repairman right?
Alot of them slept in the AV room while watching to the video...
At the beginning, TeckYang was like mocking the guys' actions like going in and out thingy...
But after awhile, they started to get bored, and slept along with the rest...
I stayed till the end of maintaining of Timpanis...
Then I went out and had a small chat with Sarah...

When the DVD finished, I went in again and Caiyan was telling everyone what to do...
Assiddiq will be very busy trying to find stuff as he's the QM...
And after watching the DVD, those instruments got dents will be sent for repairs...
As it hinders the TONE produced...
Actually to me, it doesn't change much, the instrument by itself is not perfect...
That's what the tuning slide is for...

Went down to the storeroom...
Mabeline was like polishing her tuba, just the top part...
And I greased her slides...
I don't really know why, but I like to grease instruments...
And also putting oil on the valves, makes me feel better...
Even though I'm not the one playing the instrument later on...
When band resumes again next time, I'm gonna make sure everyone's instrument shine...
Especially the tubas and euphoniums...
Gonna check on their instrument all the time...
So mabeline and shenghao, if u reading this, you know what I'm expecting...

Looking at Shirlin just now...
Just reminds me of the time I was QM...
Running here and there...
Asking people for their instrument's serial number...
Asking them what's wrong with their instrument...
Asking them if their instrument need any repair...
And doing stock checking...
But it seems Shirlin has everything under control just now...
Apart from new instruments which wants to be repaired...

JOY pang seh-ed me today, she say she wanna come...
In the end she go out eat with her friends..
Tsk Tsk Tsk...
Hahakz, it's ok, no hard feelings...

JO always been called lamp post, and mabeline still wonders why...

Zhihui screamed/squealed like mad when mabeline wanted to put that small ball in her uniform...

Everyone ate marshmellows from the chalet after packing up everything...

Gaby has a nice name... I shan't disclose it here, although many would tag it on my board after seeing this...

Rebekah always stares at me for a very long time...No idea why though, maybe she's slow...

Gwen kept singing Mary had a little lamb, I thought mary had a little lamp...

Izzati's forever hunting people down for band fund as always, good job! =]

ShengHao and Johnathan likes to gay around, like senior like junior....=X

XueTing keeps following me in an attempt to put that small ball in my shirt just like how mabeline tried to do that on ZhiHui...

Yihui and me thought of the same thing at the same time, the \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ has spread to her too from shirlin...

I just upgraded my windows messenger to messenger live, from msn messenger 7.5, feels abit weird, but I have to get used to it...

I guess that's I want to write...
I so gotta stop writing very long entries...
You people are so gonna get bored with me manz...
But I feel better when I type alot...
Heck, it's my blog! =X
But for all to see, ok I have no idea what I'm talking now, so I'll just end it off...

*Forte is light dynamic*
*28 more days of fasting*
*18 and 100 days young*
*please. PLEASE. do not spam on my tagboard, thank you*

Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...

*321st entry*

Ok, I didn't blog yesterday cause well, basically I was too tired...
I cleaned my whole room yesterday...
Vacuumed the floor and swept the floor also...
So my room is DUST FREE now...
So proud of myself..
Usually I clean my room like during the fasting month...
But my dad told me later fasting month I'll get very tired and stuff...
So I decided to just clean my room...
It was alot of hardwork of course...
But I guess the hard work paid off!
I'm kinda lazy to take a pic of the cleaned room, maybe another time...

So what did I do today...
Having slept at 2am yesterday night chatting with a friend doing Zuowen...
An advice to everyone, don't chat with someone doing zuowen...
They will take forever to reply, or maybe never...
So I bailed out at around 2am...
Slept all the way till 12pm...
Actually I was awake at 10am...
But it was raining, so I continued sleeping..
Dragged all the way till 12pm...
After which I bathed and had my brunch...
I then looked after my nephew, as in like play toys with him...
When I was done looking after him, I watched some show on crunchyroll...
Now I'm at the second last episode and it's really getting intense...
I planned to do my music theory exam papers...
But I guess I can leave that to another day...

I can't believe there's just 3 more days left to fasting month...
Really looking forward to it...
I'm gonna learn to be more patient and persevere...
And also keep my heart pure...
The window of repentance will be opened...
And I've sinned so much that I pray hard that I shall not repeat my mistakes...
And in 2 days time, I'm gonna get my results for my exams...
I'm really feeling quite scared but I must accept whatever results I get...
I must persevere and move forward!
No more being lazy...
No more slacking...
Everyday I gotta do something so that I will improve...
I'm gonna quit not doing things I set myself to do...
I will do the things I plan to do with a focused mind...
Though my future is still uncertain, Allah knows the best for me...
I must believe that all I am, all that I'll become is already planned by Him...
That is why, in the new semester, I'm gonna make sacrifices...

Before I joined SPband...
I told myself I was going to cope with my studies...
I told myself it won't take much of my time...
I wanted to prove to everyone that I can do both...
But I guess I'm mistaken...
And there's no one or nothing to be blamed for it but myself...
My own ignorance and foolishness made me believe life was going to be easy...
How wrong I was...
What hurts most was knowing my own capabilities yet taking the risk...
Mistakes after mistakes which I made...
And I dared to call myself a leader?
How can a person who can't do something so simple be a leader?
Who am I to kid, i'm just an ordinary person...
I have yet to find it in me...
I have yet to find what makes me tick...
But till I do...
I shall keep improving myself towards a better future...
For the past I can't correct, The present I can change, The future I can plan for...
I just gotta be strong in everyway possible...
Alot of people are counting on me, and I won't let anyone down...
I would like to apologise for the things I'm going to sacrifice...
For the things I'm going to abandon...
I just hope everyone would understand what I'm going through...
Take carez everyone...

Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...

Ok so today there's supposed to be band...
But there isn't any as most of the comm members are at the SL workshop...
I realised my playing has gone from bad to worse...
My high notes are sounding so crappy that I can't bear to play it...
Anywayz...
Wanna blog about yesterday...

Morning had band...
During band there was this sort of Total Training warm up but with leg movements...
Which onli a handful were moving their legs...
I let jezer play my Eupho as I wasn't in the mood to play...
So I just walked around the basketball court...
When Rebekah gave the beat...
It was quite soft and uneven...
Maybe she was scratching her nose or something...
After total training warm up...
The band was broken off to sectionals...
I walked alot during sectionals...
Going from section to section...
Mrs Chua came and gave out two songs...
One of them was Armed forces something something...
And the other one was Pachelbel Cannon...
The Eupho and Tuba section played together both songs...
It was very easy actually, so we played around 2 or 3 times only...
I was feeling quite useless yesterday...
Cause I dunno how to teach James how to play properly...
Till Mrs Chua had to step in and teach him personally...
Mr and Mrs Chua are the greatest people the band could ever have...
Their patience and determination just inspires me alot...

And I was quite shocked that Ginny didn't know how to count rhythm...
She was like calling me to play for her the rhythm...
I hope she buck up on her rhythm soon...
Then it was combined...
Mrs Chua went through the Armed Forces song with everyone...
Then let the sec ones do combined with Ms Leong...
While we played Pachelbel Cannon...
It felt a little weird as I felt as though I was playing Classical Cannon...
I miss that song alot...
The song has afew hard parts, but not too difficult...
Then she gave us to read We're All in this Together...
That song I really no face already...
Sight reading that song was just a disaster to me...
It wasn't too difficult of a song actually, but the notes look very complicated...
I can't believe I broke down when playing that song...
I must train on my sight reading skills more...
That means, more songs to read!

After band, went to friday prayers with Izzad, Assidiq and Amalul...
Sat under the scorching heat of the sun for like 20 mins?
Luckily I got to squeeze into the mosque for some space...
After prayers, me izzad and assidiq went to meet the rest...
They wanted to go Pizza Hut...
I didn't bring any cash along, so I wasn't supportive of the idea...
But luckily Caiyan would be kind enough to lend me some cash first...
Don't worry, I'll pay you back on Wednesday...
Shirlin was like damn hungry...
So as Izzad and me...
So we ate like four slices of pizza...
And Assidiq kept bugging me...
I felt irritated, obviously...
And the rest planned on Holiday practice for the next hols...
After all the eating and talking...
We went to Sunplaza Park to like have some fun...
Me, Shirlin, Jo and Yihui went to walk around the whole sunplaza park...
Me and Yihui saw lightning, shirlin didn't, so we were like, we didn't saw anything la...
But she still stared at the clouds waiting for lightning to come out... =X
After our walk around the park, we went to the fitness corner...
I was so happy playing with the spinning thingy...
There was this kid who jumped on it and I literally flew upwards...

After playing at the fitness corner...
Went to meet the rest again...
They were making music videos...
So we decided to join in the fun...
We made two videos, if I'm not wrong...
The star of the video was LiangRong...
He was like dancing like mad all the time...
I just became one of those extra extra people...
Who jumps in and out of picture randomly... =X
Zhihui made her head bobble like an egyptian...
Caiyan posed with her Macho when it dropped...
Both of them were like ball room dancing on the grass...
Everything was just weird... =X

We went home at around 6pm plus...
Me, Jo and Yihui took the same bus...
Yihui had her trumpet with her..
And the bus was already so crowded...
So we just squeezed into the bus...
When the bus jerked, everyone was like banging on to each other...
And when we reached to our bus stop, we had to squeeze our way to the exit...
I can't imagine carrying a tuba onto that bus, not even with a Eupho... =X
So we reached home safe and soundly....=]

Wow, two entries in a day...
I shall try to blog as often as Mabeline blogs on hers...
I said TRY hor... People busy with life... =X
Actually I've been busying myself playing Tiger Woods 2008 PGA Tour...
The game very nice, my friend is so gonna be jealous of me... =X
I guess that's it for today! Take carez everyone!

Zupz Zupz!