Dear Bloggie...

Finally the exams are OVER...
Today marks the last and end of the exams...
There was S&I today...
The paper was, I should say DOable...
Not too difficult, nor too easy...
I shall be contented with myself if I can pass all my modules...

So now I'm FREE!!!
Well not exactly...
Usually by now I would be jumping off the ground and feel as though I can fly...
But I'm brought back down to earth by the mere thought of ITP...
I know I shouldn't be dreading my attachment...
But I dread it because I can't go for NASband practices for weekdays...
Oh bummer..
Maybe my boss can gimme off on tuesdays and fridays, hmmmm....
Keep dreaming fiq...

So I posted a design *scroll all the way down*...
Honestly I find it kinda ugly in someway...
But considering I'm no expert, I'll be content with myself...

Before I forget...
Despite having exams today...
I went for NASband prac yesterday...
Saw a couple of sec 1s...
But mostly girls...
There were only 3 guys around...

Ms Leong gave everyone these small balloons to blow up...
I took quite alot of effort to be able to blow them up...
There was one sec 1 boy who could blow it up...
I find it amazing, really!
Then they were given the big balloons to blow...
I sticked with the small one cause it's more fun...
Then they were tested one by one with the balloon test...
After the test while waiting, some of them tied the balloon up and played with it...
Just shows how bored they were...

After the balloon test, they watched a DVD on band...
Had like mini test in the DVD...
Like identifying Rhythms, Pitches and Melodies...
Quite interesting DVD...
Oh and there was one girl who played the Eupho...
And another who played the clarinet...

When the DVD finished, Ms Leong gave everyone a piece of paper...
The breath control test...
Basically they had to put the paper on a wall and blow on it and make sure the paper doesn't fall...
I didn't try cause I doubt I'll be able to...
There was one girl who did it and it looked like she wasn't even blowing...
It's as though the paper was stuck on the wall or something...

I was quite sad when I saw many wanted to be in percussion...
Well they are actually more interested in playing the drumset...
So that's the main reason why percussion is so appealing...
But there were others who wanted saxophone and clarinet...
I doubt anyone would choose tuba or any brass instrument except for trumpet...
Well at least I have a eupho player, hope she stays in eupho...

Apart from the sec 1s...
The seniors who were taken by Mr Yeo...
Were doing Rhythms...
As in counting Rhythms for like I dunno how long...
I like how Mr Yeo shouts STAND and everyone just springs up...
Mavis kena suan by Mr Yeo for standing up slowly, and was asked to carry marching bass drum to practice standing up...poor mavis... =X

The band decided not to have POP...
Honestly I feel we need more time...
And we need to concentrate more on improving our sound before being able to play and march at the same time...
I hope the band plays Digital Prism for graduation day for band...
I hope Heal the World and The Incredibles would sound audible during CNY...
So this Sat I hope Mr Yeo or Ms Leong will touch up on afew parts for these two songs...

Talked/Chatted with Shenghao, had a senior-junior chat...
Talked abt his focus and concentration during sectionals...
I really hope Tuba section is the Best Section in NASband...
Even if there's no such thing as best section...
Tuba Section must be on top of everyone else...
That's my first goal, polishing my tuba juniors to be elites in musicianship...
But firstly their attitude must be corrected...
As I would tell to Mabeline, SLOWLY BUT SURELY....=]

I'm really grateful to have Fayyadh around when there's band pracs...
He's really one of those pple you can count on to get things done...
And Hansel too, these two are my greatest bandmates ever...
I really owe them alot for coming down and helping the juniors...
I hope someday, our Alumni strength will increase in numbers...
And eventually we'll be able to set up an Alumni Band...
Every section with an Alumni...
Everytime during sectionals, the Alumnis will gather and play for the juniors...
Then these Alumnis will conduct sectionals as well as bond closer with the juniors...
I know now it's practically impossible to grab those Alumnis...
Maybe I'll have to wait afew more years, NASband is still young anyway...
Once we've accomplished this Alumni Band...
I believe the band will improve tremendously as well as have more fun and challenging pieces...
But for now, I'll do whatever that I can, whatever knowledge that I've learned, and pass it down to my dear juniors...

If we, the Alumnis, don't support the band that started our love for music, who will? =]

Ok today's entry is almost all about band stuff...
Mabeline must be grinning from ear to ear with this... hahakz... =X
Ok I shall stop here till further pestering from mabeline... =D

Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...





Just a design I made just now...

I hope everyone likes it... =]

Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...

Ok so after a very very stressful week...
It's finally one of those time where I can just do my R&R...

Last week was the most hellish week I've ever gone through...
4 papers in a week...
3 papers in a row...
ACS and DCS I'm hoping to score really high...
EMD and Maths, I'll be damn lucky if I can even pass...

My previous entry...
I guess most of my previous entries...
Are kinda unheartful...
Maybe it's cause of my exam stress...
My piano teacher want/dowan tell me my results for grade 3 theory exam...
So now I'm just a blur...
I broke down after band practice yesterday...
Couldn't go for piano lesson cause of a bad headache/fever...

But I still went to Mus'Art concert...
It was a great concert...
Closed my eyes and listen to the songs intently...
My head felt much lighter...
The Soprano sax player was super pro during riverdance song..
Met with Mrs Chua, was nice seeing her again...

Band practice yesterday morning was ok...
Conducted The Incredibles, Seagate Overture, Heal the World...
The band recorded The Incredibles and Heal the World...
Alot of messed up parts, but I just continued...
My throat had PMS yesterday, cough all the time...
Ate peanut butter waffle with my greatest junior in the world, mabeline...
She continued on eating hashbrowns after the waffles...
Checked my EZ-link points for mac, and I've got 1977 points...
Not really sure if that's alot...
Will only use them in emergencies...

I just got a new game for my PSP...
It's a soccer game called Winning Eleven 2008...
Been playing it all morning...
Will continue later...

I've got an idea on designing the new band tee...
The idea is like " I Love Music " written behind the tee...
Substitute L with a treble clef and the C with a bass clef...
Still not sure how it will turn out to be...
Den at the front of the shirt, using our newly designed band logo....

If I got time and mood to do then I'll make a prototype of the design...

I'm actually blogging under the request of my dearest junior mabeline...
See I updated already!!!!
And don't worry, one day I'll let u try the eupho, promise...=]

I really want to meet the new sec 1s this year...
So I'll be coming down on Tuesday...
When my attachment starts, I can't meet them anymore...
Unless they come on saturdays, which won't be possible I guess...
Need to get them to like band, get to know them more...
Heard there's one Eupho sec 1 who already knows how to play...
So happy to hear that...

Ok I guess that's all for today...
I wanna go for SPband practice!!!!
I wanna learn new new new new songs!!!!
Till then, take carez! =]

Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...

EXAM WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yea it's THAT time again...
Very very stressed...

Just took my DCS paper just now...
And OMG la...

It was quite okey, not too difficult?
I dunno, I think it was quite easy?
The only reason I took quite long was I did the paper twice...
It's my way of, checking my work...
Once through on the question paper...
And second time on the answer sheet...
CLEVER eh?

So I have THREE more papers this week...
There's the ever so irritating EMD...
There's ACS and Maths too...
I'm only worried for my EMD...
The rest can handle I guess....
I shan't talk anymore abt my exams...

I wanna thank MABELINE for waiting for me...
So nice of her...
She taught me how to do the strikeout thing...
But looks complicated...
Ok I'll try once...
TEST TEST
Wow it works!
All thanks to my GOOD junior...
Hahakz... =X
And thanks for mentioning me in ur blog ya...
And Please do tag my board too, it's getting very quiet... =X

And so I've heard that the band has only FOURTEEN sec 1s...
The moment I heard this, I kept cursing and swearing mr wong...
Blardy hell, wanna bring down the band so much...
HATE HIM HATE HIM HATE HIM HATE HIM HATE HIMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!
Yay....
Heard there's 11 girls...
And 3 guys...
We'll have to work alot to bring them up manz...

Ok that's all for today, thanks for reading!

Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...

Ok my posting times are gonna be damn random timings....Which include when I'm bored, distressed, bored, angry or sad or happy or mad...Anything that makes me wanna blog...So please do regularly report to ur pharmacist before it's too late, thank you.

I've realised that using headings made my blog look neater, but itz actually quite troublesome to do... So I shall post my entries like how i always do, which is in short
short
short
short
short
paragraphs....
Lets just see how it works ya...

OK OK.... So I exeggerated myself ALOT on the EMD lab test....
Luckily it was EASY...
My palms were practically sweaty before I entered the class...
And sitting on my desk was one piece of paper...
Read the front and back page, laughed my ass off, and started doing the theory questions..
There was onli TWO theory questions...
The rest was just practical stuff which was very easy, of cuz... =X

After EMD was ACS practical test...
Started off good, but ended off bad...
Totally forgot to study for some parts...
Was too worried abt EMD rather den ACS test...
But all in all, I think both papers are passable....

So that was monday....
And today's thursday...
Of which I had my DCS lab quiz...
The answers were practically served to us on a silver platter last 2 weeks...
Just that I couldn't remember what it was...
And caused me to have quite a bad time just now...
But again, i will say it's passable too...i hope...

Went to t14 to print some exam papers, but there isn't any cash to spare....
Instead went to FC3....
Ate 2 plain pratas and one prata with cheese and egg...
Made me damn full...
After lunch, went home and skipped ACS lecture...
My fren told me to concentrate on chapters 7 to 10 more...
Luckily or UNluckily I haven started my ACS revision yet....

So here's my exam time table...
1) DCS 21.1.08
2) EMD 23.1.08
3) ACS 24.1.08
4) Maths 25.1.08
5) S&I 30.1.08

I just don't get it...
I have 3 papers straight in a row...
And the last paper is like 5 friggin days away from d 4th....
Somehow I'm starting to hate the school even more...
But I guess that's life....

Have been going for NASband a couple of times too...
Once Mr Yeo was late cause he had something on...
And I conducted the band for The Incredibles...
It sounded ok to me, ok as in first try ok...
But upon further inspection, many pple got lost at their own parts...
There was once Ms Leong couldn't come, which Caiyan did the prep for P.O.P.
And when it came down to combine, I conducted seagate once through and Incredibles again...
I guess the problem with the band now would be not looking at the conductor...
Too glued to the music, they've got potential and they can play....
But a conductor would be useless if no one's watching him/her...
*I believe those student conductors noe wat i'm saying*
Oh yar, NASband has a blog now....
Itz called http://www.nasband.blogspot.com
Please do go and sign the guestbook... =]

Gosh I just have so many ideas to help d band improve...
But I somehow feel no one's taking me seriously?
Maybe it's just me...
Maybe i'm just too nice...
Maybe this maybe that...
Hell i even have a choice not to care abt dem too...
But i do...
But it often feels like i dun exist there, well datz because i DON'T....
Graduated/Stepped-down how many donkey years ago...
So why do i still feel loyal to this band...
I guess those memories that I had when I was in it...
Not wanting practice to end...
Keep asking for more and more and more...
Even though I was tired till I went home and slept till morning after band pracs...
But even though I was tired, I was happy...
The sad thing is, it felt like I had no senior back then...
And even if I did, we'd be arguing like cats and dogs and nv get along anyway...
So technically I was all alone...
The most important person left me alone...
I got transferred to tuba section where there wasn't anybody...
It's like I was meant to be alone all this while...

I could've just quit the band and live a pathetic life...
But I didn't...
Even though the closest to me left me, I stayed strong...
Even though I couldn't practice more on my Eupho, I endured...
Even though I was all alone with tears of silent screams, I moved on....
SO WHAT if I'm alone...
SO WHAT if everyone leaves me...
SO WHAT if I cry...
These are just processess of which has turned me into what I am now...
Now I can play two instruments quite fluently...
I learned the hardships of losing something yet gaining something else...
Looking back to those days...
I've accomplished many things which I never thought was possible...
Getting GOLD for two subsequent SYFs with TWO different instruments...
I know I've made a difference...
And I've even talked about how much I'd DIE to become a DM/BM...
Even that, I was just an advisor...
God if you can hear me, please make me strong, if not, stronger then I already am....
And if there's any chance, please let me go for NCO camp for band...
I know it's not possible, but I really really really would like to go for that camp...
I even begged the teacher in charge even though i was just a miserable advisor at that time...
I begged and pleaded, but he said no cause there's only places for two...
I bet many of my juniors now reading this would be like, it's just a camp...
Then let me tell you guys...
Have u ever had something you've been longing to have...
Some people might wish for a rich bf, or a PS3 or to find true love....
It's something that means so much to u but not other people...
Ever heard of, "One man's thrash is another man's treasure"?
If you've ever fought for something in your life that means so much to u before, u'd understand...
NASband is my life...
Playing my eupho & tuba is my life...

But I'm greatly disappointed and sad...
No matter how much the leaders have done...
The same blardy things still keeps happening...
Accessories goes missing, for example Metronomes...
Seniors PONNING band practice due to their selfishness...
Are we supposed like, tolerate all this crappy attitude?
And worse still, the sec 1s are coming in...
Haven't the teachers suffered enough nonsense from the band?
The worse is there's people who come and go for band like it's their problem...
Until when are we gonna function as A band...
Creme De La Creme...
Best of the Best...
A very outstanding vision set by our great leaders...
But no one's motivated...
U can tell by the look on their faces...
They practically have "i'm NOT motivated" written on their foreheads...
I mean COME ON ALREADY...
Isn't Mrs Chua's resignation a wake up call already?
If it is, Many of the pple are still SLEEPINGGGGGG....
And if anyone dares to ask why I care so much...
YOU better ask urself WHY THE HELL aren't YOU bothered!
And if I may add, the only complaints that should be coming out would be from the Majors...
NOT the members...
The MEMBERS adapt to their LEADERS, not the other way around!
My god we've become so freaking soft till the leaders feel so powerless...

This entry was written to show how blardy PISSED i blardy AM....
And to those pple with attitude, or would like to PON summore...
Just leave and don't ever come back...
We don't need half hearted members in the band...
And we got alot of events for the whole year...
I wish the next batch of leaders can be as good as d current ones...

Thanks for reading, goodbye.

Zupz Zupz!

Dear Bloggie...

Ok basically I just have alot of things to say, so I'll make this entry the shortest entry ever without any format watsoever...

-My sis's second baby was borned today at 10.57am, and today is 13 January 2008

-I have EMD lab test tml and i'm totally SCREWED, unless the paper is as simple as d cher made it sounds...

-Went out with family before and after visiting my sis at the East Shore Hospital...

-Ate coin prata while smsing Shermeenz who was studying and i disturbed her, muahahaha =X

-Milk = bad throat

-I'm still thinking of the EMD lab test tml which i'm so dead abt...

-To future self if i ever create a time machine or ever jumped into a time rift: PLEASE TAKE UR FREAKING LABS SERIOUSLY DAMNIT! AND STOP PLAYING GAMES AND STOP WATCHING VIDEOS, THEY DUN TEACH U HOW TO ACE IN EXAMS U DUMBASS!

-Note to self: EXAMS ARE IN SEVEN FREAKING DAYS, dun tell me not to act as though i'm panicking, I AM NOT ACTING!!!

-And why do I still feel like vomiting every morning when I go to school, maybe i'm allergic to SCHOOL...

-My 2nd nephew who-I-dunno-what-ur-name-will-be, if u read this, I'm sorry u had to go through this on ur bday...but u're really cute in the pink blanket, awwwwwww.... =D simply adorable... now go play cars with ur brother and remind me to teach u music wen u have d interest...=D

-Looking at my sis having another child sumhow makes me think abt how it would be like for me, but thinking again, I'M SCREWED FOR TMLs EMD LAB TESTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!

-Tried teaching Mabz maths, hey! MAbz, MAths! WOW! itz ok mabz, slowly but surely ya...

-I think I like posting my crap this way, i feel much more.....alive? i dunno wat I'm saying animore...

-It's freakin 10.40pm on d clock and I'm not asleep, and i gotta drag my lazy arse to school tml morning by 8am to take the freaking EMD LAB TEST....

Sumone just shoot me*

Zupz Zupz!