These are the stuff I bringing for my batam trip!

Dear Bloggie...

As you can see above me, there's quite afew stuff which I'm gonna be bringing...

And for those who don't know...

I'm going Batam tomorrow...

For four days and 3 nights...

And it's not for holiday...

It's for GYL camp which means, Generation Youth Leadership camp...

I'm in the group A2 and I'm the group leader...

Although part of me doesn't want to go...

But thinking about high elements, trekking and raft building just makes me excited...

I'll most probably miss alot of people while I'm there...

I'm the kind that gets home sick quite easily...

But I hope everything goes well...

And will be looking forward to Friday when I come back...

To those who are reading that are my juniors in NASband...

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE have prac on Saturday...

It's the last practice before you guys go for your exam break...

So please do end off on a good note...

Most probably I'll come down on Saturday if there's practice, which I hope there is...

Exams are around the corner already for most of you...

The Ns, the Os and the EOYs...

Heck they are just names...

You guys can do it, I believe in you guys...

Like everything else, play hard, practice hard, study hard too...

I would just like to thank the commitee for accepting my presence...

Although some times I'm quite annoying and we don't agree, it's still great to be with you guys...

The ups and downs we went through are just the beginning of a bigger challenge that awaits...

If I could put in words how I feel about the comm now, it would be a wonderful batch of students of different characters but with the same attitude and commitment towards the band...

And so, before you guys forget me when your off for your exams...

Please remember that being in NASband is the greatest thing that could ever happen to you...

We are a family no matter how far our differences might be...

I would just like to wish everyone that's having exam soon...

Good luck and all the best!

When exams are over, lets come together, and create wonderful music!

Poco a poco, con brio, con expressivo, con giocoso ma non troppo, allegro assai...

Bit by bit, with vigour, with expressiveness, with playfulness but not too much, be very lively! =]

Manz, I suddenly don't feel like leaving...

I've packed almost 95% of my stuff already...

Oh and did I say I've cutted my hair?

It's like super short now...

But not botak lah, please...

Cause it's been very long...

Till it irritates my eyes...

Then scratch2...

Why am I not sleepy at a time like now...

Listening to Seagate Overture brings back memories...

I shan't bore you people with my memories...

I'll try to take as many pics as I can at the trip...

Manz, I really dunno why I was chosen as group leader...

Just now went school to plan for games and skit for Gala night...

And just realised the games were to played during relax time...

The skits we came up with was Army Daze and FOP camp...

I can say we have quite an interesting bunch of group members...

There's that Aissarudin...

Who loves being lame like me...

There's Tian Hao...

Who just finished his NS last year...

Gonna bug him to tell me stories from NS...

There's also Edwin...

Eh, I just realised something, I'M GONNA MISS MY BED FOR FOUR LONG DAYS!

Anyways, this part of the post is just random stuff put together...

And I'll be out of schedule for my Music Theory exam papers!

Should I bring along my exam papers to do?

It will be kinda dumb if I did, cause I'll be the only one doing that...

OOH! and tomorrow I'm gonna wear the new RED GYL shirt...

Although I like the colour, I quite hate the design...

It's simple, TOO SIMPLE...

I realised this thing isn't going anywhere...

And I've been farting alot since just now...

My stomach has a bad feeling about tomorrow..

It's always about going overseas with school...

Speaking about that...

WHEN IS NASBAND GOING TO GO OVERSEASSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's been like since 2004 that we went to Thailand for that competition...

But I guess, it won't be too soon...

The band now is still building it's foundation...

But I'll say in afew years time, it will be ready for the BIG thing...

Ok I think I should just post this on my blog now...

Before I forget to blog this up...

So...

Take carez people!

Hope I have fun for the next four days!

Good nights and Sweet dreams to everyone!

Zupz Zupz!

This song...melts my heart...=]

These are the music exam papers I have to complete by November so that I'm ready to take my exam... 6 years...
And there's 4 different sets inside each year... So there's 24 papers for me to do.... OMGOSHNESS...........

Dear Bloggie...

"Can't Loose What You Never Had"

nahhhhhhaaaaaaaaaahhhhh
Baby you're so beautiful,
and when i'm near you,
i can't breathe,(i can't breathe)
A girl like you gets what she wants,
when she wants it,
You're so out of my league,
(out my league)
I show you no emotion,
Don't let you see,
what you're doin' to me,
(that's what you seeing baby)
I imagine the two of us together,
but i've been living in reality,

Fear of rejection,
kept my love inside,
But time is running out,
so damn my foolish pride,

I don't care if you think i'm crazy,
(crazy)
It doesn't matter if it turns out bad,
(i don't care)
I've got no fear of losing you,
You can't lose what you never had,

Now i'm gonna confess,
that i love you, (love you)
I've been keeping it inside,
(inside),
feelin i could die,
But if you turn away,
baby that's O.K.,
At least we had a moment,
before you say goodbye,
You can lose what you never had,

Rules are made for breaking,
(breaking)
Nothing ventured nothing gained,
I'll be no worse off,
then i am right now,
and i might never get that chance again,
baby,

Fear of rejection,
kept my love inside,
Told my heart i didn't want you,
but i lied,

I don't care if you think i'm crazy,
(i'm crazy)
It doesn't matter if it turns out bad,
(doesn't matter if it turns out bad)
I've got no fear of losing you,
You can't lose what you never had,
(yeah)

Now i'm gonna confess that i love you,
(i love you)
I've been keeping it inside,(inside)
feelin i could die,(i could die)
But if you turn away,
baby that's O.K,
At least we'll have a moment before,
you say good-bye,(before you say goodbye)

Here on the outside looking in,
Don't wanna stay dreaming bout,
what could have been,
Need to hear you speak my name,
even if you shoot me down in flames,

I don't care if you think i'm crazy,
(i 'm crazy baby)
It doesn't matter if it turns out bad,
(if it turns out bad)
I've got no fear of losing you,
You can't lose what you never had,

Now i'm gonna confess that i love you,
(that i love you girl)
I've been keepin it inside,
feelin i could die,(die)
But if you turn away,
baby that's O.K,
At least we have a moment before,
you say good-bye,

You can't loose what you never had,
You can't loose what you never had,
You can't loose what you never had......

*I love this song....*

Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...


Today was the kickstart to a bright exam up ahead...
Microcontroller wasn't that difficult...
Apart from some stuff which i should know but I didn't...
Other than that I'm fine...
I was quite pissed with the MRT I took when going to school today...
First of all, it jerked alot which made alot of people to fall...
And it wasted like more than 5 minutes at Tanjong Pagar...
I'm pissed because I planned my time correctly and the MRT didn't follow...
So the moment I reached Dover MRT station, I rushed to the exam location...
I saw many others who had the same expression as me...
Pissed, worried, unsatisfied and more pissed...
The moment I went in the exam room..
The invidulators were like telling everyone to start reading the questions...
I quickly put my HP in my bag, grabbed my pencil case and rushed to my seat...
After about 3 mins of reading, I was only at the second page of MCQs...
They told us to start writing...
So basically I didn't have enough time to read through the damned paper...
30 mins later, one of my classmate came and I couldn't be bothered...
I just did the paper...
At around 30 mins to the end of the time given, I completed it...
And I passed up my paper and left...
Outside, those who had already left the room were discussing answers...
I was feeling pretty confident of my answers...

Went to Dover MRT, took a train, met up with Is at Buona Vista...
We discussed on the anwers...
I guess it's over for MCT...
No more MCT!
How I wish I could say the same for the other modules too...
This is like the only module I'm confident with...
I'll be having Maths on Thursday...
Wish me luck people...
I'm gonna start studying as soon as I possibly can...

*Am I starting to like her? Hmmmmmmm....*

"It's not about how difficult the music is, it's how easy the audience is able to feel it..."

Zupz Zupz!

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This is my keyboard... Music brings out the colours to the keys... =]

Dear Bloggie...

And so it's been almost a week since I updated my blog...
And I pretty much can say that the week has been quite boring but quite interesting at some time...
Didn't go to school on many occassions over the week...
Skipping suffs such as lectures and tutorials...
And only coming to school for tests or interviews which might affect our end marks...

So on Monday had planned to go to school for meeting with my groupmates for OOP...
But in the end didn't for some reason...
And I wasted monday socialising through MSN and did some studying...
Tuesday wasn't any fun either...
Went to school at around 11am, met up with my groupmates...
Instead of discussing on the project...
My groupmate started playing his PSP...
And so we didn't get anything done...
So we went for lunch, eat eat eat...
And head to class for our interview...
I think we were like the 3rd group to be interviewed...
I'm really grateful that kevin's in our group...
He did quite most of the programming...
I owe quite alot to him actually...
And during the interview, I explained the part where the money could go negative and stuff...
And we're done for interview...
I rushed back to NAS for their rehearsal for National Day...
Mr chua wasn't there yet...
So I conducted warm up and the songs...
It really felt good to conduct...
Like you had some sort of power somehow...
But I still got a long way to go in terms of conducting...
Into the Joy of Spring is just one of those songs which is particularly difficult to conduct...
With time sig. changes here and there...
But the moment I got engrossed with the music...
Conducting just came in second nature...

The other two songs were rockin' randeau(sp?) and YMCA...
Usually when I conduct, I like to give like an empty bar before I begin...
But on that day, I only gave an upbeat and they started...
So I think I'll start with that from now onwards when conducting...
And only during rehearsals I give count like 1, 2, 3, BREATH!...
Rocking randeau was ok, though the percussion could be abit more decisive...
YMCA was just, blew me away...
Though as I said before, the band could work alot more on articulation...
The overall sound is too muddy and blur...
When I come back down, must teach juniors to tongue properly...
Their loudness is ok, apart from Izzati's Marimba which could be played abit louder...
Then Mr Chua came when we were about to like end...
Since he came, we had to practice for about another hour or more than that...
After practice, we had a comm meeting...
Shan't elaborate on it, those people who were there, take my words seriously ok....
*and, I SAW THE GIANT SINGAPORE FLAG IN THE HALL!*

Wednesday, had FME test in the afternoon...
At first I thought of going NAS in the morning...
Just to watch my juniors perform...
But in the end I didn't as I know they'll rock the hall...
Got alot of compliments by my juniors that they enjoyed it...
The sec 1s were quite nervous but managed to survive the concert...
Anywayz, my FME test...
Reached school at about 1pm...
The test was at 1.20pm...
So me and my friend walked from the Dover MRT station to SB...
Which isn't that far...
When we reached the test room...
It was already 1.15pm...
So I just flipped through abit of my notes just to confirm...
And the test started...
Overall the test wasn't that difficult...
Shan't elaborate on the test also...
*See, I cut down so much as not to make this post long*
Went home after the test...
And that was Wednesday...

Thursday...
Woke up to a lonely morning...
My parents went for holiday with my other relatives...
I didn't follow as I'm having exams next week...
So going for holidays now would not be such a good idea...
But on the contrary, I haven't been studying much at all...
Anyway, woke up at around 9am...
Went online and just started chatting...
Made my own breakfast which was just eggs...
And continued chatting will like 1pm and I felt hungry again...
Which I made eggs, again, and ate with bread...
I ironed my red shirt...
And got ready to go out for the National Day thing at Esplanade...
Met up with Yihui at bus stop at around 3.45pm...
We had like the worse luck ever as the buses we wanted to take never came...
Ok I can't technically say never, it came at around 3.55pm?
Which meant we had 5 mins to get from there to Tamp Interchange...
Once we reached Tamp Interchange, I called Caiyan, she haven't reach...
So much for thinking we were late...
Caiyan told me Chien Wai and Xue Ting reached the MRT control station already...
But when we reached, Yihui went to top up her EZlink, the machine was just goin bonkers...
We looked for Xue Ting and Chien Wai, but they weren't there...
Yihui called Xue Ting and she was on her way from TM...
In the end me and Yihui were the first to arrive...
Shortly later, Caiyan arrived...
And after that Xue Ting came also...
So we went up the MRT station to meet up with Chien Wai who's at the platform already...
On the way to City Hall on the train, Caiyan had alot alot alot of imaginations...
She kept looking at people and what they are doing...
Whispering to us about what she could find...
And Caiyan has 500 bucks to spare as she CHEWED some sweets which Chien Wai had...
When we reached City Hall...
The moment we went out of the MRT...
We saw a gay indian couple...
I was like "I didn't just see that right?!"...
Caiyan was like, "see! I was right! they are weird!"...
And City Hall was like packed as though there was great Singapore sale somewhere...
We met up with Liang Rong...
Assidiq was very late, so we went off first...
We walked and walked...
And there was one passage that was blocked...
So we had to exit by two other exits...
We went up with the right exit, tried to cross the road, but failed...
So we went down, and went up the left exit...
Followed the crowd and finally saw the Mus'Art performance...
The performance was ok I guess, expected Mrs Chua to conduct...
Instead there was this Wilson Ong...
Which I saw the face before, but can't remember where...

Loved the songs that they played...
After the performance ended, LiangRong started to sing...
With the big speakers which were playing National Day songs...
Took quite alot of pictures after that...
After staying there for quite awhile, we went to look for Izzad...
Izzad was at the padang...
And when we met up with him, he was wearing black...
When the rest of us were wearing red or white...
He was wearing totally black...
After meeting him, we were like super hungry...
I suggested that we went Funan IT mall for dinner...
Walked to Funan, went inside, walked around, sat at Delifrance, didn't eat, went out...
We then headed to Raffles City...
Went up to the second floor but there wasn't anything...
Then we went down to the basement...
Looked for any restaurant that's Halal...
In the end didn't find any, went up to 3rd level and went to Food Junction...
Finally there's a place that sells Halal food...
We ate there, while eating, my juniors that just graduated came...
So nice to see those faces again, miss them loads...
There was EUNICE, HuiJuan, WeiShi, Peijun and another one I can't seem to recall...
Eat finish, took more photos, started laughing at the photos taken...
Went around Raffles City...
They have cool shops manz...
Mini Foosball tables...
But it cost around 85 bucks...
So ex, maybe when I got money to spare only then I buy...
We then heard that fireworks were starting soon...
So we rushed out of raffles city...
Heard the loud bangs from the fireworks...
But couldn't see where it came from, so we just followed the sound...
And finally we saw it...
It was just amazing...
The view of fireworks was just awesome...
LiangRong said he saw Rahimah Rahim, Izzad thought it was the old one...
But LiangRong said he saw the one from Singapore Idol...
*NEWSFLASH*
Rachel just copied my nick and pm and made it her own, she also changed her font to look like mine, and copied my display pic and looks like me, only difference is her email address
*NEWSFLASH*
After fireworks, went to the MRT station...
It was like super packed...
We then decided to go into Coffee Bean just to rest for awhile...
In the end we moved to the basement of Raffles City and chilled till 9pm...
Went to the MRT station again and it was like super crowded, and probably worse...
We went down to the MRT station, it was super stuffy and humid that we went up back...
The smell of fresh air was just great...
We then headed to the bus stop...
And the bus 14 just left...
So we waited and waited...
36 came like 5 times?
Izzad was like telling us to take 36...
In the end 14 came like 40 mins later...
*INTERUPTION*
this interuption has been caused by people who tried to be me in MSN
*INTERUPTION*
We then boarded the bus and sat down happily...
We thought we were going the right direction...
But when Caiyan's mom called...
And asked where we were exactly...
I looked out and saw Tiong Bahru...
I was quite shocked...
How can we be in Tiong Bahru when we were heading to Bedok?
The Chien Wai went down and asked the driver where we were going...
The driver said we going to Clementi...
That's the opposite direction...
So we stopped at the next stop...
Luckily there was 7 eleven, I was getting thirsty...
Bought drinks, composed ourselves crossed the bridge to the other side...
Xue Ting's dad knows around the place in Singapore...
So Xue Ting led us to Redhill MRT station...
I think if Xue Ting wasn't there, we'd be stuck there waiting for bus...
But we didn't cause Xue Ting saved the day, or night...
As we walked towards the MRT station, we sang UMBRELLA...
Which LiangRong was totally against...
As he wanted us to sing National day song... But we didn't... =X
And so we reached Redhill MRT station and board the MRT...
In the MRT we played the number game...
And by the end of everything, I owed 4 dares and LR owed 4 and Izzad owed 1 dare...

We got off at Tampines MRT station...
Caiyan ran after her bus, but the bus left without her...
So she walked back to us...
Xue Ting bought drinks...
And we waited for bus together...
But 291 came first, so we board first and pang seh caiyan, sorry caiyan... =X
Me and Yihui alighted at TMart, while Xue Ting alighted somewhere near her house...
We both went back to our homes and that was the end of Thursday!

Friday...
Woke up at 7.30am as my mom called me at that time...
Had a hard time waking up, no idea why...
Had to go to school by 9am...
Meet my groupmate for the final project of the week...
Go through the powerpoint slides...
Line Diagrams and stuff like that...
Went to the lab, presented, go home...
Went for Friday prayers...
Came back and went online...
Chatted with my juniors...
Cooked maggi mee and drank green tea....
Gosh I sound pathetic...
Clean up my cat's poo...
And went talked to my "girlllllpppprrrennnnnnn" on the phone...
Stopped talking at about 1am plus...
That's when I went to bed...
And I shall blog about today, another time, cause I am very hungry, and I think it's maggi mee again, MOM PLEASE COME HOME SOOOOOOOOOOOON!! I'm STARVIN! grrrrrr.... Anywayz, Take carez pple and thanks for reading! Will edit this portion out when I wanna update it again later on, CYA!

Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...

Hello everyone...
Sorry for not updating for so long...
Even though it doesn't feel that way...
I've been sick these couple of days...
Bad throat, very bad...

Last week was a week which is, kinda, slacked...
Monday had CT&A lab test...
Which was quite easy...
After connecting up my circuit..
I called for the cher..
He came and checked my connection...
And he wrote a big fat ZERO on my paper...
I mean, I was shocked obviously...
Then he explained to the whole class that the number is the number of mistakes made...
I was so relieved...
Which meant I got 50% of the whole lab test already...
So yup, quite relieved there...

Tuesday, woke up at around 11am plus...
Got ready for school...
Went out of the house...
Reached MRT station and got a phone call from Daff...
She said she not going for the lesson...
So I went back home, and my mom was shocked...
Told my mom that the meeting was cancelled and I did the programming stuff at home...
Ooh, and I bought bubble tea on the way back, I think it was blue coral...
Did some music theory stuff and slept...

Wednesday, woke up quite early in the morning...
Rushed to school and reached exactly at 8am...
I rushed cause there was another lab test...
This time it was MCT lab test...
Which was very very very easy...
Since it was open book and the programs were inside the comp...
I did for afew mins...
And to my horror, the comp hang on me...
So I closed the program and started fresh again...
But I remembered to save it...
After everything, I called the cher...
He checked my program and wrote 100% on my paper...
It was like too easy I guess...
He should have made it earlier, so that I could've ponned more...
Went for GYL camp briefing at 12pm...
I'm gonna be away to Batam for the camp on 28th to 31st August...
Part of me is looking forward to it, part of me just don't feel the same...
I paid my 110 bucks on that day...
And I went home after that as there isn't any FME that day...

Thursday, I came at 10am for CT&A lecture...
It was abt the last chapter for the whole module...
Which I have forgotten what it is cause I haven't revised yet...
Note to self, next week is revision week for ALL modules...
I repeat, ALL modules..
After CT&A lecture, followed Is and Jianhui to FC4 and called Rachel...
They were going to W4..
So I rushed to W4 from FC4...
Which is like worlds apart...
When I reached, we had to leave as it was 12pm and it's lunch time...
So we went to FC1 for lunch...
Which I ate briyani...
We discussed about our D&IP project over lunch...
And when it was nearly 1pm, we set off back to the lab...
Did quite alot of hardware stuff, trying to get the sensors to work and all...
We really did as much as we could...
But the time given to do everything was just too little...
I even ponned maths lesson for it...
Which I know is going to cost me quite alot...
And we left the lab at around 5pm plus...
So we spent about 5 hours at the lab just to make it work...
I find it very tiring...

Friday, went to school in the morning for the robot thing...
In the end we chucked our sensors one side and our LEDs one side...
And that's the hardware part...
Since I had no sensor to program...
I just programmed the robot to go straight and just do circles...
After doing the programming, I went for EID...
Which we are always late for as we always drag DIP...
We had a sort of Field Assignment...
Went outside where there was a copper pole about 2 metres long buried underneath soil...
It's to check on some earth leakage protectiong thingy I learned during EID...
So one of the wire was connected to that copper thingy...
Another wire was to be placed about 20 metres away...
And another one was to be placed 10 metres away...
First we had to check the resistance of wire from the pole to the one 20 metres away...
The resistance was only about 55 ohms?
And when we measured the one at 10 metres, it was 55 ohms also...
So we concluded that it was safe..
As in there's earth leakage protection around the area...
(damn this is so boring stuff right, I know...-.-)
Then we went inside the lab again and check for failures in wiring circuits...
Won't elaborate on that as it is very boring...
But, I played with the electrode thingy...
And shocked myself with 500V...
Yes folks, 500V...
And no, I didn't fry myself...
It was just shocking...
Kinda hoping I became electrified or something...
Anyways...
After I shocked myself...
My groupmates wanted to try...
And they know how it feels like...
And so that was the start of everyone jumping and screaming...=X
(why izzit that fridays are always so shocking)
After EID, went back to DIP lab...
Do some final touches to the robot...
And was shoo-ed(sp?) by the TSO to go library for the "presentation"...
Basically our robot will have pens or other drawing materials on it...
And there will be drawing paper sticked onto the floor infront of the library...
And so my robot just drew lines and circles...
First we used the Bus cover...
But the thing holding the robot in, broke...
So we just left it naked...
I felt quite ok actually as the robot drew quite alot of circles...
I took some photos and videos of the robot doing it's stuff..
Will update the photos/videos when I have the time...
All in all, it wasn't too bad, the blue marker didn't work...
So there was quite alot of red markings on the paper...
After all that I was off for friday prayers...

After my friday prayers, rushed down to NASband...
They were having rehearsal in the hall...
I can only say some stuff...
Winter's Fury doesn't sound nice when it's been played slowly...
Rocking Randeau(sp?) didn't sound convincing when it starts...
And YMCA is the loudest song that's being played...
I just hope there's still time for improvements...
After the rehearsal in the hall...
They went down, and I conducted Majulah Singapura...
Actually I didn't even think of conducting...
I just conducted and let my feeling take over...
Now I understand why my conductor feels so excited when conducting...
But the worse thing was, we had to play in the sun, for SOOOO long...
Luckily Ms Ong was there and bought some bottles of water for the band...
That's very thoughtful of her...=]
After everything ended, the band had to do punishments, which is to run around quadrangle...
They make it look so fun, but hey, who said punishments can't be fun?=]
And they packed up and that was the end of Friday.......

Saturday.......
Came to school and the DM was taking attendance...
After attendance, we were split into groups for marching...
I took the Sec 1s, DM took sec 3s and BM took sec 2s...
I was feeling quite strict on that day, so I snapped at the slightest things...
*Rebekah, I am sorry if I offended you in anyway, I didn't mean to, I'm really sorry...*
Most of them were doing fine...
Only one or two that were spoiling the whole squad...
That's why I kept shouting SA-MU-LA...
At times even though they weren't together, I just let them off...
Luckily for them, and for me, marching ended at 8.30am...
So I didn't have to do alot of things to them...
After marching...
Set up instruments and sat down at the benches in the quadrangle...
I conducted their warm up...
Give them afew tips...
Made them stand up...
And I learned that from Mr Tan..
Who told us to sit but the upper half of the body remain standing...
This is for air circulation and all...
I'm glad my tuba junior got listen to me...=]
And so Mr and Mrs Chua came and took over...
She went through all the stuff that's gonna happen on that day...
Played Trumpet Voluntary and four from the percussion had to act as flag bearers(sp?)...
I shan't comment on them...
After all that, went up to the hall for rehearsal for concert...
Talked to Izzati about her playing the marimba and tested it out...
Izzati, please try to play louder, ok? Just whack that marimba...=]
Ok, I am just too sick to continue blogging about Saturday, the rest gotta wait...


*does she still hate me? do my juniors like having me around? am i appreciated?*

Take carez people!
Thanks for visiting and hope to see all of you soon!
It's been 4 days since I chatted with you, hope you're doing fine at your new place...=]

*If a picture speaks a thousand words, Music paints a thousand pictures*

Zupz Zupz!