hey guys, there is a new update, there wll be practice this sat 1 to 4 and on monday 2 to 5... pls pass this message on... thank you

details on TPJC band fest concert

Hi guys,
This is the final reminder for the attire for tomorrow's TPJC Band Festival Concert. Please remember to bring your white long sleeve shirt, school long pants, school tie, school blazer, school belt, black socks and black leather shoes. Please help remind others also! Thanks. I hope none of you will tell me that you dont have the attire.

Also, those playing with TPJC Band. Please note that the attire is all black with red tie. Anyway, gambateh to all marist bandits, including mssba members for performing at the TPJC Band Festival Concert tomorrow. So all JY! ALL THE BEST MARISTS! :)

James

Phil Youth Concert

Hi guys there will be a Philwinds Youth Concert. Please do try to come for this concert to hear them play and of course to support Mr Chiang. He will be conducting. :)

Phil Youth Concert
23rd Dec 2008 (tue)
Victoria Concert Hall
7.30pm
Cost: $12 (but can claim 60% subsidy under Tote Board Grant Fund), after discount on $4.80!!! Keep ticket stubs for teachers to process next year.

Pieces include
1) Symphonic Overture
2) El Camino Real
3) Blue Shades
4) Persis Overture
5) Cappricio for Oboe and Band (oboe solo and band piece)
6) Movement for Rosa
7) Clarinet Ensemble piece
8) GR Selections

All popular band favourites. So everyone please do try and come for this concert. You can approach Mr Chiang or me directly.

James

Attire

Hi guys,
This will be the attire for the following days during the TPJC Band Festival. I know its a little late but please do spread the message ard to as many band members as possible.

Monday(15 dec) : Orange Band T shirt and school shorts/pants
Tuesday(16dec) : Blue Band T-shirt and school shorts/pants
Wednesday(17 dec): Black Band T-shirt and school shorts/pants
Thursday(18dec): SHOWTIME! FULL BAND ATTIRE!

We only have a few days of practice left before we perform our SYF piece in front of the whole audience on 18 dec thursday. Thus, everyone please come for practices earlier to do your own warm ups and tuning so as not to waste full band time. Please do come for sectionals-woodwind or brass or percussion. Everyone! We dont have much time left! Please buck up and practise harder!

Gambateh marist bandits! XD

James

Tagboard SUSPENDED!

The MSSB Tagboard is suspended from Thurrsday, 11 December 2008, 0025 onwards.

Due to the immature action of certain members/spammers/impersonators, the tagboard is suspended until further notice.

Please take note, the comments posted by the these impersonators/UNKNOWN has been seen by the Committee, Teachers, Mr Chiang. Necessary action will be taken.

Until the day everyone knows how to respect people and be more mature and responsible in tagging, you will NOT see the tagboard from now on.

Attire for TPJC band fest

Hello all,
This is to inform all of you what to wear on this coming friday (12/12/08). Please wear your blue band t-shirt and school pants. School pants means white school pants and not PE shorts. Upper sec members please wear long white pants and lower sec please wear white school shorts. Please report to the band room on that day before 8am so that all of you will be punctual to board the bus to TPJC. So all please dont be late as everyone will have to wait for that particular latecomer(s) before departing to TPJC.

Results for the audition

As requested by Mr Chiang, I am posting the results for the audition.

Please take note, have lowered the passing marks to 45 mark (christmas giveaway).

All those names in orange are those who passed the audition.

This list is arrange according to marks attained.

***THERE IS A TYPO! Justin is from TUBA not French Horn.

Jesus!

2008 MSSB Band Camp

Good Day everyone,

[Please take note there is another post posted by James at the bottom]

So how's this year band camp? Fun/Boring/Normal?

Whatever it is, I guess everyone has put in alot of effort in this year band camp.

1stly is the Band Competition.

There were a lot of funny moments during band competition. Thanks to Trumpet, Percussion and Flutes + Oboes. Very entertaining. =)

Congratulations to Trumpet (3rd), Clarinet (2nd) and Trombone+Tuba (1st) for the Section Competition.

Although I expect a better performance from Trombone and Tuba (which join in our practice 1 hour before comp. (-_-\\\) ) Never mind. Do a better job during Sec 1 Orientation.

Percussion!! It's ok... you all lost and landed on 4th position (even though it should be better). Never mind, you all did well.

Horns, Saxophone, Euphonium + Bassoon, Flutes + Oboes: You all did very well, although there are SOME mistakes here and there. Not bad for a 2 days effort! Good Job!

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Next, SYF audition I

9am - 430pm

During that few hours, I have listened to so many of you. There were some impressive ones but there were some disappointing ones too.

Can all of you be more relax when you all come in for audition the next time round?

RELAX!!!

Let me list down some of the things during the audition:

1. COLD hands /Sweaty Palms (100%).

2. Natural vibrato (almost 90 % of the ppl). all your playing "SHAKE" like mad.

3. Trembling fingers or body (around 70%).

4. Keep looking at my expression and make urself more scared (50%). don't listen to shaun la! Like that I can't even move during audition la.. Smile only, scared till don't know what... Don't think so much. Smile may = to good too what. Shaun! Don't be so paranoid!!

5. OH MY GOD!! I can't think! OH MY GOD!! I can't play. Oh my god.. Oh my god! OMG x 30 times. (1 person). Basically the whole time, that guy comes in for audition all I hear is OH MY GOD!

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I have told all of you, I will be VERY lenient for this SYF audition. Why still so worried? Just play well and you will pass. Just see the number of ppl that pass the audition.

If up till now, you don't know whether you pass or not. I shall post it down here. ^^

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SYF audition I results

1. Darren Lim >> 67
2. Randy >> 65
3. James >> 64
4. Saw
5. Nicholas Soo
6. Joshua Lim
7. Nicholas Chew
8. Dwayne
9. Lionel Tang
10. Raymond Gan + Llyod
11. Kenneth
12. Zi Yang
13. Lucas
14. Nicholas Wu
15. Kevin
16. Jia Wei + Hua Seet + Jesus + Wen Liang

Good Job and well done to those who have the audition. For those that have yet to pass, work hard and I expect a better playing next audition.

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Congratulations to BEST SECTION:

TROMBONE SECTION

You all have done a good job. Well done.

Also congratulations to Best 1s (Shaun), 2s (Darren) and 3s (Jesus).
We have spent quite a while in deciding these 3. So you all really deserve what you all have gotten. Continue to work hard and contribute to Main Band!

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Lastly, Thanks to...

I think this Camp won't be able to be so Fun/Boring (your own definition) without all these people that have helped or present in this camp that make this band camp experience more FUN/BORING (your own definition).

• Mr Chiang (He has done too many things, I don't want to tire my hands. haha)
  
  
• Teachers - Mrs Tey, Ms Lee, Mdm Lim, Mr Wu, Mr Tan. Ms Menon (For arranging food and judging for section comp. Of course Mr Wu for doing night duties).
  
  
• Sec 3s committee (who has carried out their duty well and orderly)
  - James
  - Nicholas Chew
  - Jesus Kang
  - Nicholas Wu
  - Yang Chin
  - Lucas
  - Jia Wei
  
  
• Alumnus - mssba (who have come to help for certain activities or staying with you all for 3 days and making sure you all have your fun and of course WAKE UP ON TIME! haha **** Please let me know if I happen to leave out anyone)
  
  - Ben Yap
  - Jin Yan
  - Aaron
  - Bernard
  - Hao Siang
  - Wai Yip
  - Haryl
  - Caveat
  - Shawn Teo
  - Yu Huai
  - Jason Onggo
  - Justin Mark
  - Wei Jian
  - Douglas
  - Justin Yap
  - Xing hao
  - Albert
  - Wang Liang
  - Chang Jun
  - Joseph
  - Garrett
  - Ken Tan
  - Sean Kwek
  - Stanley
  - Wee Chong
  - Jason Chee
  
  
• Last but NOT LEAST!!! All of you who have participated in this Band Camp!

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End of band camp BUT continuos improvement on your playing has yet to end.

Everyone, let's work hard for your upcoming SYF. Whatever the alumni band can achieve, you all can achieve too. Work hard and go for it.

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fredy
maris stella symphonic band alumni
~the legacy continues~

Hi all MSSB members,
This is the first post after the band camp and yes it will be about the band camp! Do enjoy the post although it maybe a little long. This year band camp highlights 3 very important events which are: the inaugural section competition 2008, SYF auditions on TMC by Fredy Chia and POP for the Secondary 4 MSSB members.

Firstly, the Section Competition was a really great one. Although some of you all didnt perform too well but its ok. Its a really good effort put in by all of you! So i guess i can only phrase it as: Im proud of you guys! Give yourselves, your section and everyone a big round of appaluse!

The inaugural Section Competion 2008 was held at 2030 on 28th November. The panel of distinguished judges includes: Mr Chiang, Mrs Tey, Miss Lee, Mr Wu, Mdm Lim, Mr Tan and Miss Menon! Please thank them for coming down to be judges of this year's section competition! This section competition was a very tough one with many sections doing very well but the judges have chosen the top 3 sections!

The results are:(DRUMROLL PLEASE!)
3rd in place we have the Trumpet section who did a skit that was really funny!
2nd in place we have the Clarinet Section who played coral sea. Good singing by the way!
1st in place we have the Trombone and Tuba Section who played super mario brothers suite, arranged by Jason Chee and edited by Fredy Chia! LOL!

These are the final results for the Section comeptition but not the final results for the best section of 2008!

Next, I must comment on all those who have taken the audition on the last day of band camp. Great job on completing Fredy's audition. It is a difficult but not impossible task to pass Fredy's auditon. So, all those who did not pass. Please do work doubly hard in order to pass the next auditions which would mos probably be in the begnning of next year. So everyone do get ready for the next audiitons. Congratulations to all those who passed the auditions! By the way, the next auditions will also include the set piece and do take note that we are doign the overture No.2 so dont practice the wrong piece! Good luck guys for the next audtions.

This SYF auditions was a very strong competition with comments given in the form of stickers. These comments are very helpful in improving your playing so all please do follow your comments to improve yourselves.

Thirdly, POP was an informal one but it was done nevertheless. I think all of you should be familiar with your Sec 3 EXCO already so I shall not recite them. By the way, the names of all EXCOS are already posted on this blog on the left hand side.

With all the efforts you guys have put in for the section competition and the SYF auditions, Mr Chiang and the teachers and of course Fredy have chosen the best section of the year and this year the school have thus conferred the best section award to the:
Trombone Section!
( I just want to congratulate the trombone section for all the hard work that they have put in, although i am in the trombone section! ><)

Also, this yearis the first time when the band gives out the best Sec 1, Sec 2 and Sec 3 awards to outstanding members who have worked hard on their instruments and have a positive attitude towards band and have dedicated themselves to help imrpove the standards of the band!
I will now announce the BEST Sec 1, 2 and 3! (DRUMROLL PLEASE!)

The award of the Best Sec 1 of the year 2008 goes to: SHAUN HO! (Trumpet)
The award of the Best Sec 2 of the year 2008 goes to: DARREN LIM! (Bass Clar)
The award of the Best Sec 3 of the year 2008 goes to: JESUS! (Clarinet)

With that, this marks the end of the Band Camp 2008 and I hope that everyone have enjoyed as much as i have and I look forward to everyone continuing to work hard for the SYF Central Judging Competition next year! ( GWH is out target! Please work hard!)

Three cheers for Mr Chiang, all the teachers, all the alumnis and all MSSB members!
Hip Hip HOORAY!
Hip Hip HOORAY!
HIP HIP HOORAY!~~~~

Love you guys!

James

BTW, Jesus is aka/= to Kang Seung Hwa! :)

okay guys, you all are supposed to fall in with your blu band t-shirt...

Please remember to bring you orange band and the house t-shirt too....

Also, if your section has not prepared anything for the section competition, you all better find something to do before u go to the camp...

PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON USING THE SAME SPAMMING METHOD!!!

your Band Major

yo ppl, this is a very last minute thing and it is VERY VERY important. okay, as u guys know, there will be a POP during the band camp, and there is certani attire: black polo tee, white long pants, covered shoes. the shoes no need to be black colour... also, my phone got screwd up, so i lost all my numbers.. so it is VERY IMPOTANT that u guys pass this message on... just sms everyone u know in band... it is very important.. thanks...

Your band major

Saxophone outing photos

Hey guys,
This is the MSSB Saxophone outing photos. Anyway, so sorry to the saxophone section for this very very very very very very very very very very very late post on their photos. (I'm sounding so like Mr. Fredy Chia! ><)

Here are the pictures:

hey ppl, James got it wrong, the concert is NOT compulsory for all EXCO and SL... Mr Chian just said encouraged... also, my friend there said that there are only around 10 tickets left.. so if u wanna buy the tickets, sms or call me.. its first come first serve and u will have to get to the concert on your own... so if u wanna go, tell me by tomorrow, 5 p.m.

Also, i know there are ppl like Mark who will not ever come to this blog, so help me pass the message on.. i would have sent the chain message but my phone sms thingey is spoilt... thank you.. my number is 98573710

Your band major

Hey guys,
There is a CHIJ toa payoh concert at their school hall on 29 Nov which will be the last day of our band camp. The concert starts at 730 on 29 Nov, Saturday. Tix are at $8. It is compulsory for all EXCO and SL! So all please prepare the money and give Mr Chiang during band camp. So see you all there!

Ok guys. This is another news that concerms all of you.

Firstly, there will be an audition on the SYF choice piece (you know what) on the 3rd day of band camp. Marks will be given and will be tied to section competition results for overall best section award. So all please practise your TMC.

Secondly, please bring all 3 band T-shirts and school house T-shirts or school related T shirts! NO HOME CLOTHES! Bottoms up to all of you. Avoid bringing jeans! If not you all will sweat a lot. Bring Bermudas. ^^

Thirdly, please add a torchlight and a windbreaker/sweater to your packing list. It is usually cold, windy and dark at night. So please remember those 2 items.

Lastly, please bring all your props and scores and "barang barang" to the camp for the section competition.

Thanks!

Jia Wei

Latest Info!

Hey guys,
Its been a long time since I updated the blog. Anyway, this is going to be a slightly long post and is our 100th post on the blog!
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Firstly, this is a list of the items needed for the Band camp once the practice break is over.

Toiletries
-Toothbrush
-Toothpaste
-Towel
-Shampoo
-Soap
-Comb
- Deodorant/powder

Attire
-5 t-shirts (All band T-shirts plus other school related T-shirts, you are expected to wear your band T-shirt for practices)
-3-4 pairs of shorts/pants
-2 sets of P.E attire
-Enough Undergarments
-Socks and school shoes
-Sandals

Others
-Mug for supper
-Writing materials
-Medication (Do bring some lest you are injured/fall sick)
-Water bottle(MUST!)
-Sleeping bag

Reminder: Please do not bring playing cards, and other expensive gadgets. If you do bring handphones, all have to surrender them before camp and handphones will be returned after camp. We will not be responsible for any lost of gadgets.
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This section is about the upcoming section competition during Band Camp 2008.

SECTION COMPETITION
Objective
To showcase the talents of every musician in your own section

Panel of Judges:
1) Mr Lin
2) Mr Chiang
3) Teachers
4) Alumni Seniors

Division of Marks:
Mr Chiang - 20%
Teacher A - 20%
Teacher B - 20%
Fredy - 20%(This part confirm fail! So dont worry if you guys fail)
Lin Sheng / Alumni Music Comm/Admin Comm (1 person) - 20%

Awards:
-Best Section award 2008
-$50 cash prize (or voucher) for the winning section

Rules and Regulations:
-Must involve a performance of the section’s instrument(s) as a section
-Optional to involve the usage of keyboard for accompaniment purposes
-Can involve anything else such as dancing, singing, acting, props etc
-Music: Can be anything, from pops to classical. (You may find ensemble scores in the Esplanade Arts Library, buy them online (quite cheap usually), or arrange your own music from a piano score J)
-At least a 5 mins performance

Date and Time:
28th Nov (2nd day of band camp) at night, after the BBQ in the evening.

Venue:
Band Room

Participating Sections:
1) Clarinet and Bass Clarinets, IC: Kang Seng Hwa
2) Flutes and Oboe, IC: Yang Chin
3) Saxophones, IC: Ray Er and Hua Xuan
4) Euphoniums and Bassoons, IC: Renbin and Randy
5) Trumpets, IC: Nicholas Chew
6) Trombone, IC: James Onggo
7) French Horn, IC: Raymond Gan
8) Tuba and Double Bass, IC: Nicholas Wu
9) Percussion, IC: Jiawei and Saw

All Jia You for the upcoming section competition. Do ask your seniors for help. All the best to all sections! There is only 16 days left to Band Camp! So all do hurry get your scores and hurry. Practice for the section competition can be done in the Band Room. You can ask James to open the Band Room.
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Next Band Practice: Band Camp on 27 Nov 2008
Time: 1400h
Please be punctual! Dont be late! (You know who you are! Er Hem!)

Thats all for now. Any new addition to the list or new info will be uploaded here again. So please come and check the blog. Its your own responsibility!

Thats all folks. Happy Holidays and wish all to have a happy, enjoyable and unforgettable Band Camp in 2008!

Jia Wei

Band practice on Friday 31 Oct

Hey guys,
There will be band practice tomorrow, Friday, 31 Oct 2008, from 1400h to 1730h. Please dont be late as latecomers will be detained to do duty. As for Wednesday practice, only Nicholas Soo was the one doing duty. The rest, you know who you are, you will stay back tomorrow to do your duty!

James

Band practice resumes!

Dear members,
This is a gentle reminder regarding the band practice this and next Saturday. Both saturdays are full day practices from 9am to 5pm. Lunch will be provided. An announcement will be made tomorrow(Thursday, 16 Oct 2008) so please listen out to the announcement. All should be present unless with valid reason. Those who have to leave early or cannot make it for the practice please call Mr Chiang before Saturday as soon as possible! Those who need Mr Chiang's No, you can ask from me or from any of the SL. They should have Mr Chiang's No.

Next Band Prac:
Date and day: 18 Oct 2008, Saturday
Time: 0900h to 1700h
Lunch is provided so dont worry about food! xD

Please practise your instruments before you come for practice!
Please dont be late too!
Lastly, please SPREAD this message! Thanks!

James

Opening of Band Room on Tues

Hi guys,
I will be opening the band on Tuesday 14 Oct 2008 to allow those who have not borrowed their instruments to bring back their instruments on Tuesday.

Note: All must bring instruments home and there will be a spotcheck on Sat. Thus, on sat, everyone will fall in at the Basketball court at 9 am with your bags and instruments. Those without their instruments when falling in will be dealt seriously.

Exceptions: Tuba and percussion section!
Thats all for now. Any new updates will be posted here.

***The Band room will only be opened for 45 mins tmr! So please come and borrow your instruments for those who have not borrowed your instruments! ***

James

Exams are finally over!

Hi guys,
Exams are finally over for the Sec 1 to Sec 3! YAY! Cheers! Anyway, I, on behalf of the band, wish all Sec 4 Band members who will be taking their first paper on 16th Oct for O levels all the best! Study hard Sec 4 and you will get your desired L1R5. Believe in yourself! ^^
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Some announcements:
1) There is NO school on Monday 13th Oct 2008 as it is Marking Day. So DONT GO SCHOOL!

2) Band practice resumes on 18 Oct 2008 from 0900h-1700h. Please take note of the timing. It is a full day practice as members of the Alumni Band will be coming to help out. So please do listen to them. I hope that no one will criticise the Alumni seniors again like the previous incident. Lunch will be provided. Please do not be late or else you will have to stay back and clean up the band room. So dont be late! Thanks!

3) Please practise your instruments before you come for Band practice. I believe most of you have not practiced your instruments for a long time and your skills may be rusty. So please do some exercises first before coming for Band Practice!
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To those who have finished your exams:
Do enjoy yourselves first before you get your results on Tuesday 14 Oct 2008. Some of you may rejoice while others may be depressed when you all get back your results. But nevertheless, do not be demoralised as this SA2 is not O levels so all of us still have mant chances to do well even before we do our O levels! So wish everyone all the best when you all get back your results!

*Gambateh to all Sec 4 Band members! Do everyone around you proud!~~~*

James

Exams

Hi all members,
How are your exams? Hope you all are doing well. Anyway, good luck and all the best to all MSSB members from Sec 1 to Sec 4 who are taking their exams! Anyway, good news I will be opening the tagboard again once the exams are totally over. Gambateh to all MSSB for your exams next week for the Sec 1 to Sec 3 and the O levels examinations for the Sec 4.

James :)

Removal of Tag board and Next Band Prac

Hi guys,
Its been very obvious that there are a lot of UNWANTED guests that visits our blog every now and then. As a result of this, it will not be good if those tags get circulated around the school and gets to Mrs Tey or Ms Lee or worse... Brother Anthony or Mr Koh. So as everyone knows, the tag board have been removed lest anything like those occur again.

Another thing, Saw and Seng Hwa wll NOT be going around to collect the forms and money. They will be at 3B and 3C classroom respectively. So those who havent hand in, you have 2 days left to hand in your forms and money. Those who havent pay by Friday, you know what you will do when Band prac resumes on 18 Oct!

Next Band Prac: 18 Oct from 0900h to 1700h take note of the time difference. Thanks!

James

Ok guys. This is regarding this year's Band Camp from 27 to 29 Nov. There are still a couple of you who have yet to hand in the forms and the money($50). Thus, Saw and Seng Hwa will be collecting the forms and money respectively from tomorrow to Friday. So you got 3 days to remeber to bring those items. This is important guys! So please hand in the forms and money asap!

Also, please go and look for both Saw and Seng Hwa by yourselves in the morning! Please dont make your secretary and tresurer go to your classrooms and look for you 1 by 1. If really cannot find them, then please give the forms(NO money as we will not be accountable for any lost of money) to any of the Sec 3 Committee members who will then pass it to Saw. Please hand in the money by yourselves!

Here are the classes of your secretary and treasurer:
Saw- 3B
Seng Hwa- 3C

Thank you all for your cooperation!

James:)

Band Camp and Clar outing!

Hi guys,
One announcement: Band camp will be from 27 to 29 Nov! Keep these dates free! All must come!
These are the pictures for clarinet section outing! Good job clarinetists! Other section please try harder. Try have the outings during the holidays!
It looks like a BBQ pit to me > Whoa.. Chang Jun so handsome...
YAY! Section photo!
James

Trombone section outing!

Ok guys. Compulsory section outings! Must have! So, my section have set the example and was the first one to have one held today (3rd sept) with friends like Fredy, Justin Yap, Saw and Nicholas Wu. Thanks to friends for making this outing more fun. Indeed, the more the merrier! Anyway, these are the evidence of us having the outing. (The arrangement of the pics is a little screwed.)
Team 1 won team 2 in a match of Air Hockey(Not sure what the game is called though!)
Team 2 concentrating and enjoying the game. Close you mouth Josh! Later a fly go in!(Joking)

YAY! Trombone section. But someone is missing! Lucius where you!? Haiz... He came late so no choice took section photo without him. Sorry lucius > Team No 1(left to right): James, Hendrik and Justin Yap! We won the other team in the game!
Team 2(from left to right) : Nicholas Wu, Saw and Joshua!
See! Winning Team 2...

Anyway, to all SLs, if any of you have gone for a section outing, please pass me or Nicholas Chew the photos taken so as to prove that you have gone for the outing. Anwyay, next band practice is: 6 Sept at 0800h to 1300h. DO NOT BE LATE!

James

OK guys, read the followings, just some annoucements:

1. Band Practice is resuming! YAY!! :)

Date: 3rd Sept
Time: 0900h-1300h (Theres been a change!)
Please be punctual or coem earlier to warm up because I am 99.99% the band will sound bad
after the LONG break!
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2. Compulsory Section Outing!!!

Please remember that all section must have compulsory outing
Its the holidays so all should have more time! So it is the best time to go out and bond with
your frens aka sectionmates! Haha!
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3. Xi An trip in Nov!!!!!

Just a reminder! ><
Date of travel: 15 to 24 Nov
Fees: $300 for Singaporeans
$1000 for PRs and Non-Singaporeans

Please take care and come back to Band in one piece! Haha! jkjk! Take care and Happy Holidays Guys^^!

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Cheers,
J@Me$ :)

Ok... from the response of the number of people going to China, I seriously dont know whats going to happen. Currently, there are 21 main band members and 2 sec 4s who wants to go for the trip. This number is not confirmed yet because there are still a lot of sec 2 (those from camp who havent reply) So, there are still 13 ppl not going. I am not going to persuade or anything but just an advice: it is seriously more fun to go overseas with friends than with your family. Do not take this to heart because I know there may be ppl who disagree with me. Anyway, these are the details:

Date: 15 to 24 Nov
Fee: $300(Singaporeans)
$1000(Non Singaporeans and PRs)

Final time to confirm would be tomorrow morning. I may or may not walk around to ask you guys. So those who wants to change your minds or those who wants to give me your reply, please tell me by tomorrow morning latest. If not, you will have to go and Mrs Tey yourselves. Lastly, a Nil reply is needed.

Cheers,
James ^^

:)