Sunday, January 16, 2011
it's probably time to work on my strokings. my drag is horrible on my left hand. but there is no motivation, though there are inspiring people. sigh.
started on my thailand post if not i'm gonna procrastinate forever. need to start on japan post after thailand post. need to create a 2010 post after all the posts that i owe. need to continue on my peer teaching notes. need to start thinking about club & resort project. need to go for band in 6 hours and i'm still awake. need to practise the kl concert pieces. need to sleep.
my january is so packed i don't know how to fit in project meetings. ): (don't even need to think about all the posts that i owe) i foresee sleepless nights in the coming week(s). last project submission on first week of february, before chinese new year. in quite a bad mood now thinking about the next 2 weeks.. BIG SIGH.
first jap lesson later in the afternoon. hope it'd be good although i really really forgot everything from intermediate class. goodnight.
i'm falling even deeper in love with the marimba recently. but it sucks when i can't even read notes fast enough.. ): thanks choy for wanting to groom me into an hougang-class (or whichever estate) player, cos nanae mimura's a world-class marimba player. HAHAHA.
i still like this song of her playing best! (: i have page 1 of the score, it's still decent, i can't imagine the other pages....
cool, nice song!
tico tico on marimba. i like how she's enjoying herself while playing.
okay enough of youtube for tonight, i'm going off. performance for cca recruitment tmr! byebye!
hello ngee ann's concert Rondeau XXIV is over! great experience playing with them :D i learnt quite some stuff from this concert! i'm like super motivated to practise now. HAHAHA. but like what i said on the train just now, after projects. wl anti-climax ttm! moeller's technique, traditional grip, practise conga etc.
it was fun during the encores and the alumni band segment! i screwed michael jackson up, ARGH. i guess i need more practice for drumset... new year resolution update! the last concert i played drumset was 2007 lah omg, freaking long ago please! [and that was mj school hall wth, cui. HAHA] i mean if you exclude non-(concert) hall performance. symphonic metamorphosis was fucking fast at the end i thought my hands were going to get tangled but i persevered till the next bar which was cut into half the speed, phew.
wah i'm on post-concert high now! i guess if i screwed up alot of my parts i'd be feeling damn sian, so it was good! (given the limited number of practices we went for..) intensive week from tuesday to friday/saturday. lol. clementi everyday after 6pm lessons and the stupid jams made the journey longer. o.O but it was worth it lah. (:
okay shall go look through scores for later's concert! omg i feel so unprepared although i went for more ai pracs than np's. ): cos i have so many mallet pieces!! and i still can't freaking sightread taogays. yeah cool, i'm taking it as a learning process again. gaining experiences, improving skills. there's so much to learn and improve on.
the sense of satisfaction just feels awesome. i will live the saying of 活到老学到老 although i'm not that 老 yet. all the percussion angels (we came up with it today HAHAHA) and gods out there please impart some knowledge to me. but i will try my best to look up the internet for self-learning/e-learning! i hope the attitude to practise and learn won't be gone before i finish my projects.
i'm hungry already. ): char kway teow and satays weren't filling enough? oh yeah, thanks pohyih for the satay treat hahaha! byee it's score-browsing time.
went to my grandma house for the 2nd time this year. i decided to go cos i thought since it was a free sunday, why not? haha.
i only saw my youngest cousin like 3 times since she was born. and the 2nd youngest one is going to attend primary school soon! oh and it's north vista, i think. HAHA! (: btw, he talks in an angmoh accent and i can't even catch what he say sometimes. 0.0 then my uncle was asking me if i know the music teacher or what. but i don't know which one, i only remember the young and the old one from band. \: yeah but i definitely remember the principal, cos of some stuff and yeah the kids always suddenly become very quiet and guai whenever they hear his name. LOL.
yeah. i went after airport studying (failed ttm!) with the section and shirlene. i think i was camwhoring, exercising, gossiping and stoning more than i studied. omg i think my karma reached the maxiumum again! gossip like free please. hurry i need to reset my karma hahahaha. [shall see if i feel like uploading photos next time]
yay more percussion outings! :D eh people are finishing exams and i'm only starting. sadded. to all those finishing As tmr/this week, congrats you have made it through! to all those in the midst of uni exams, jiayou! lol i can't wait for december to come now. i wanna go kl and shopshopshop. (:
school had been good so far this week. because there're no tutorials yet. -.- wait till next week, i think i'm going to say it's not good.
i think i need to write out my list of to-do things on my daiso whiteboard. HAHA. i'm finally opening it from the plastic since i bought it last dec in japan. oops. then hang the calendar i bought which wasn't opened too. ahahaha. i need to let myself know that jap exam is nearing and i need to start studying omg. and upcoming concerts! yeah and lots of other reminders..
went to bras basah swee lee today after lecture (11am - 1pm! :D) with jasmine, aaron and joel. ervina came to find us to buy sticks during her break. i feel like getting the 2 pairs of vic firth sticks.. the brown and white one, i forgot the series. then i saw the pair of vater sticks i said i would buy if i see it. HAHA. vater piccolo which i feel is the nicest pair of sticks in mjcsb. X: okay but what's the point of getting so many pairs of sticks? wah sianszx.... ):
okay i MUST start doing my tutorials by this weekend. and i've decided that i'm not going for nus concert. so so so sorry to yaju and val and all who are playing! ): have fun during the concert and my spirit will be there. hahaha. actually i want to go quite badly.. HAHA serious. i realised i've been to almost all nus concerts since 2007? o.O sigh, i'll go for in tempo next yearrrr!
zz jialad i haven't sold any ticket yet for next week's concert. \: ah ah ahhh. o levels and a levels takers are eliminated. i still suck when it comes to selling tickets. sigh.
oh btw, koudai appeared in my dreams last night. HAHA. it was some separating scene. there were other people too but can't remember who. when i think of my dream i want to emo leh.. i still miss meiden alot alot alot alot.. ):
hello it had been a long day. meeting time was 1pm and i thought i was 10 minutes late... then raz and jasmine turned up 2 hours later. LOL! i ended up finding food and walking around angmokio for that 2 hours. haha.
we finally went to find percussion ensemble scores. raz and brother left at 6.. joel came at 6.30.. decided on this jap score: 風になりたい - the boom. THE BAND VERSION IS DAMN NICE!! (:
i saw the meiden cd i saw online! :D maybe i'll get it when i'm richer.... band is a rather heavy investment activity. HAHA. i still have many many cds i'm intending to get. ajbc discs are too luxurious, no money!! ): joel and i almost wanted to ask about the cd for the band version of 風になりたい cos the songs in it sound so nice! yeah, again, when i'm richer.
OH OH, we bought this pair of hornets drumsticks! the double sided one with rubber on the other end. the one weng has. haha. mine's half black. yayyyy so happy! another pair of drumsticks to my collection! (: i hope it's to the i-will-use-it-collection instead of the i-can't-bear-to-use-it collection which most of them fall under..
we left at 8. craving for popeyes brought us to airport. we took 24 all the way from amk to airport.. listening to random songs on the bus. ended up eating at the viewing mall cos it was too crowded. i like the viewing mall atmosphere, peaceful but with rather poor lightings lol.
reached home at 12am. my mummy thinks i'm going out alot and reaching home late at night. eh usually i only leave house at 5pm and reach home at 12am lor, for band practices. okay but when i'm at home i play games. X: time to really clear my room. go sell books at bras basah man! hahaha we wanted to since march..... i think i really have alot of unfulfilled to-dos. eg. taking theory since like 2007 or something.
i'd better fulfill them soon! life is short.
oh and it's bad to have a public holiday falling on sunday, for me. cos all my band practices fall over the weekends.. and saturday became the eve of hari raya and sunday hari raya itself, and monday compensating for the sunday holiday. so from a 4-day band week, it became a 1-day band week. SHEESH.
okay i shall go and do my jap homework before sleeping. there's jap lesson tmr! o.O
ahhh i think my com is getting screwed. it's getting laggier and laggier.. ): so i can't load the few photos into the com cos my com can't seem to detect the usb thingy. [ya that includes the fake genting prelude photo hahaha]
saturday. nus concert. hymn to the infinite sky suddenly brought back sws 2007 comworks memories. my first sws concert and first proper band concert, and the most intensive with mr willy tan around i guess.. and the ahem-orgasmic ending we experienced :D most awesome experience then.. i learnt and improved alot during that period of time.
next, vesuvius. so it's memories of mjcsb? and err, the screwed-up performance in japan! \: when it was freaking cold [maybe cos the hall door behind us was open i heard?] and we can't hear ourselves and the band cos the hall was so echo-ey.. even then, meiden sounded imba lah. still so neat and nice etc. so it's our fault right? hahahahaha.
well, all in all the concert was okay. the repertoire included some of my ex-favourite songs. hahaha. like chorale and shaker [sec 2 or 3] and fantasy variations [sec 4]. of course i love hymn to the infinite sky. (: satoshi yagisawa's songs are nice, although they sound mostly of the same style..
we all took 151 home from nus.. it didn't take as long as expected again. see, singapore isn't really that big. X:
sunday. had swsy in the morning. overslept again... okay but usually i still manage to reach before they actually start. HAHA. sightread a piece called hurricane. it sounded like a hurricane. ahaha.
worked pretty long on 4th symphony 2nd movement. vibes part. chords. 4-mallets. there was only one part of the song that i could really play. sorry i'm a noob. ):
sometimes i really feel very inferior at reading notes. but i'm trying to work on that now, taking it as a challenge in honing my percussion skills. timpani too.. to make myself less tone deaf with better tuning? mallets mallets mallets, when can i overcome you? [maybe i need one at home HA] but at least i can see that i'm reading notes slightly faster than before. hope my weekly random trainings help in time to come.. if i don't improve more soon i think i'm going to fall into depression.... cos i already got emo typing this. o.O
anyway moving on. to bandworld after that.. to collect our pay. we stayed there for hours until it closed. lol.
went to yinyue's house after that! i reached at 8pm. we did random gossiping and watched a few super funny youtube videos. then taught her some japanese for her to use during her trip! :D eh although i'm still a noob.. but i suck more at grammar than vocab. oh we ate/drank this soup her father made when i just arrived, it was quite nice although there were alot of veggies but i still ate them all! hahaha. we cooked curry maggie mee and then i went home. reached home at 12am.
monday. 'interview' in the morning. standing in for a week for lingmei. haha. well i don't mind working part-time after i start school.. will have to see time table then. oh i think i already gave up on the 4/5-day event job. cos that means i gotta sacrifice my weekend + 2 weekdays and i wanna do quite alot of things then. plus they'll be getting back to you today and tmr. so i'm not putting much hopes on it.
primary school in the afternoon. preparing for their first performance next week. sometimes it's a test of your character too.. hmm.. but seems like the kids are not that naughty today. (:
jap lesson at night. one word: stresssss! so stress that we even went to find out what's stress in japanese on christine's palm, not literal palm, during the lesson. sutoresu ストレス or atsuryoku あつりょく/圧力 (kanji not chinese LOL). counters is really crazy.. o.O you have to count big, fat, thin, small, etc things in different forms.
yeah so that's all for the weekend. am quite excited for tmr.. i wonder how the job would turn out? given my confidence level, i'm worried for my basic english like had has have and whatever sai. but it'd be another good experience again. (:
HELLO I MANAGED TO UPLOAD ALL THE PHOTOS FROM THE PAST 2 WEEKS IN THIS POST. [: so, let's recap.. hahaha.
12th december, friday. fellow cedar batch percussionists (silin + regina) to celebrate my birthday at city hall.
ate at some pizza place at raffles city.. over-ordered. we ordered 2 pizzas, 2 pastas, sides combo.. shopped around at marina square, then city link. couldn't find things to do... sat at tcc for a drink, and ate that chocolate thingy which was super nice! :D
decided to walk home. HAHA YES FROM CITY HALL. wanted to buy new shoes together cos regina's shoe wasn't fit for walking. okay then no size.. we ended up going to regina's house to watch movie. watched _____. (shit i forgot the title HAHA) halfway through we watched little nonya so we left her house at 11pm.
yay thanks alot for the treats! (:
13th december, saturday. mjcsb tune-in. the japan craze was still on.. cosmos, "hai", japan games etc.
CAMWHORING.
16th december, tuesday. grace's house for kawaii family gathering minus huiching, maple and seokhan. ordered pizza + MINI WINGS! :D oh yes then we watched little nonya again. haha! [i'm not a fan of it, i just watch randomly from time to time] ohya, i brought japan calbee which tastes the same, just that it's in jap. hahahahaha.
my chocolate mochi from japan! VERY NICE! :D
camwhoring.
more camwhoring.
hoho presents! :D
yy and i slept over at grace's house. we spent most of time at facebook, or looking at my japan photos from my external hard disk. HAHA. slept at 4+++am.. and i managed to wake up for band! :D
17th december; wednesday. band + sp concert. ms sia brought machu picchu! whoo had fun practising.. first time having time to practise after sightreading it twice at sws/y. o.O
after lunch was sectionals. rehearsed cosmos too. HAHAHA.
video 1: mjcsb percussion choir rehearsing cosmos. video 2: canon jamming. video 3: mjcsb combined cosmos.
met lingmei at bedok for dinner, and photocopied cosmos score. HAHA. got the free vip tickets from livia, or celeste whose mother was the in charge or something. eh we had free buffet during intermission but we felt awkward.. haha.
much nicer photo than nus's concert. HAHA, it's like exact people, exact same spot.
lingmei + my camera. HAHA both same one!
HAHAHA.
18th december, thursday. sentosa! all of us were late.. yaju being the earliest to reach harbourfront. livia overslept and met us at sentosa. HAHA. skyride. this is called poor aiming.
don't drop your slippers. ha. [:
scenery photo.. reminds me of japan. AHHH. ):
smelly helmets.
livia brought us to tanjong beach.. it's like A BEACH FOR DOGS cos there were alot! ma de lin and i couldn't have our peace. so we were always on our guards when we see the dogs running along the beach.
having fun with our water guns from daiso. HAHA.
HAHAHAHAHA.
crazyyy lah. HAHAHA.
blue lagoon: vodka + _____________. hahahaha i forgot.
after bathing..
we were on a budget spree.. cup noodles at vivo with good scenery :D
basketball game.
korean breaded sausage :D *i finished the sausage HAHAHA*
19th december, friday. hair-dyeing ceremony. the gays came my house.. to help/witness in the ceremony. then horror movie session.
HAHAHA so kuku.
helpers + 'victims'.
witnesses de-laughing with cosmos. HAHA.
after.
hair kena spammed. HAHAHA.
cooking spaghetti.
ended up having not enough sauce.. haha.
so we added pork floss and whatever is available to it for flavour.
watched wishing stairs after that.. christine and i weak heart in these kind of stuff, so we were packing our meiden photos into the photo album. HAHAHA. whenever there was a 'scary' scene we'd whip out koudai's photo and stare at it. how gay. but anyway, the show wasn't that scary although anything is scary to me.. it was more like anti-climax.. at one point of time, we were totally directing the whole scene ourselves. so it became a comedy. o.O
the only non-blur photo from my phone.
diy hair dyers. HAHA. we're still living in japan...
okay i'm off. left with sunday to blog about.. BYEEEE.
WARNING: percussion loaded post, it's all percussion videos.
we played concertino for marimba and winds by alfred reed today. after youtube-ing, i think this song is niceee :D yeah videos below.
movement I: Nocturne
movement II: Scherzetto *personal opinion, the starting sounds pretty much like chinese new year. lolol.
movement III: Toccata the most exciting movement haha. and it's so jazzy. [:
okay i'm off to hear timpani concertos. someone hx-ed to me and showed me some, looks interesting.. HAHA okay bye. oh and i love packing stuff because i saw many things which brought back memories.
ah i'm back to add in more videos. HAHAHA. cos i'm just too amused! omg change consecutive notes while playing.
this is exciting from 3:40..
this one is quite interesting and sounds fun. HAHA.
exciting! [jump to 3:00 cos it's intro in front]
go watch the other 2 parts if you're interested. ha.
drumset concerto! since we were talking about it today.. haha. and greg showed me the score before 2 years ago. *uhm focus more on the drummer than the band ya... X:
maybe one day when i'm bored again i'm going to do a band videos post. HAHAHA. see what boredom has done to me. blah i shall go wash my drawers soon lol. it's so dusty even my stuff has dust on them!
hello i'm left with human geog paper on tues. i need to chiong it desperately cos it could save my life. but, it's off day from some work to - day -night. (:
i don't want to comment much on the papers so far.. all i can do is to pray for miracles. and prepare to succumb to whatever fate i'm going to land myself in. enjoy life while you can. [be it until getting back of papers or for your whole life] well, at least there's still something that i can do to salvage the situation [if it's that bad] - do well for human geog paper.
really, i don't know how to describe the papers. okay i should really focus on human geog. ah let's not talk about ____ already.
maybe it's normal to start missing people when you face notes too much. human-deprived maybe? i can laugh to myself reading gay friend's sms, again. even though it made me cry the first time i saw it and but also cheered me up a bit, on this bad day. it was even this coincidental that i was feeling low and you had to send that message after months of no-sms communication. fate?
that was how i remembered the times when you were there to cheer me up. the 'love letters' for syf and o's etc. and on graduation day, you told me there's no need to cry cos we'll be meeting up often. then we still failed to accomplish our long list of to-dos after o's. but that's not the point. we really need lots of catching up. (:
it's good to know that people actually still want gatherings after so many years. to be precise, a more proper one. haha. yay sounds cool for a 6c'02 chalet :D plans plans. i want many gatherings too! i'm still one who likes to gather. hahaha.
anyway, ___ (?) struck me and i finally found out the names for the 2 unknown meiden percussionists on wednesday while stoning at my desktop wallpaper. i don't know leh but i got this feeling i did this before but no impression. so it was either a dream or when my memory was failing me.
so, there was an identity confusion between shiori and miki. now i know that this is shiori. *below*
hahaha comments that she look like me.. long lost sister? lol i think is the eyes somehow. whoo 2 meiden siblings. HAHA. *the gay starts hx-ing*
yeah see the name tags? i zooooomed and tried figuring the names on the name tags. ha. so it's shiori my long lost sister (lol) and the one beside her is miki. (: yay i won't be feeling bad already, for not knowing the names. lol.
aha that was a redundant part of the post. feeling happier tonight. also because i started watching my first episode of jap drama :D 14 sai no haha - 14 year old mother. i need to plan my drama watching schedule! [after tues that is, it's only the prelude] *nodame's next! :D [again]*
ah i'm tired. i shall sleep early tonight. since last night i think i officially fell asleep only at 5am, and woke up at 6.30am. survived through maths in the morning. it's pretty surprising i didn't fall asleep during the 2 hour 40 minute gsc paper.
ohh i like the highing session we had before gsc paper! [which starts at 2.30pm and we had 3 hours to spare after maths] the 4 of us simply abandoned our notes after awhile and talked like free. andrea and her cheap colgate. HAHAHAHA damn funny lah. let's go dig some gold/treasure soon. (:
hello, first a video of koudai's showtime! :D :D :D seeeee he dance damn nice right, melts people omg.
Ayano Ota. my first meiden friend! how fated, "what instrument?" "percussion!" "oh oh me too!" she's pretty! and she's the sl, 18 years old. (:
Ayano Matsuoka. sha da jie! she got the blur feeling but make you happy after seeing her type of person! just listened to our combined ag 16 and i just find her drums solo DAMN NICE OKAY. she cried quite badly at the airport too. ): made us cry with her through the glass window.. haha.
Koudai Hioki. the one who has many fans! including me! hahaha. i told him that he dance, kawaii! after vch concert. heh. he looks so cool and good playing the tambourine :D i'm interested to know whether he was supposed to play the timpani part. HAHA. but yay, thanks for teaching me to play the part properly. HAHA. he's only 16!
HAHAHA PEOPLE SAY: we look like siblings in this photo!
don't cry! *he cried rather badly at the airport. ):
Fumiya Kato. i love his timpani playing pleaseee. the tone is so nice even when he plays on our laoya timpani. HAHA. impressed by his olympics timpani solo la! oh he's 17. (:
i took a photo with him on combined concert day, but it turned out to be a video. HAHA.
Mizuho Muro she plays the snare! the first time i talked to her and we both got a bit high was when we found out that we both play snare. aha, so cute! :D i love her techniques by the way. nice snare sound and EVERYTHING!
Yoshiyuki Hashimoto he's the main drummer! ehhh he played tambourine for armenian and we all fell in love with it.. super nice okay! ARGH.
Keiichi Sato he's cute and nice! :D and he patted me on the back during farewell. he taught the warm-ups during sectionals for the workshop. ahaha.
Saki Ito. although i think i didn't talk to her before, we're from the same section! :D i know the name and ya, see them and we do wave! lolll.
Miki Takeuchi / Shiori Mori. arghhh up till now, i'm still not sure which one is who! ): *anyone who knows please enlighten me... she got small eyes! hahaha. argh so cute. gosh, like little girls. xD
Yuki Okita. ah didn't really got to talk to him either.. but well, i think he's cute too. HAHA.
most right: Yuki Ito. 2nd from right: Miki Takeuchi / Shiori Mori. ah these are another 2 i didn't really talked to! ): but okay, i still think all are kawaii. HAHA.
*hello, i've been saying that everyone is cute in all the above. BUT IT'S SO TRUE OKAY, WHO DON'T AGREE?!
we shall meet again in december! (: 4TH DECEMBER! meanwhile, i shall entertain myself with their videos instead of live.. I LOVE MEIDEN PERCUSSION! I'M MISSING THEM TOOOOO!
taken when we met for only 5 minutes. hahaha. (: (: (:
combined concert with aichi meiden band. it was a superb experience.. with their astounding music, passion, discipline etc.
after this, no more meiden in band room. ):
*ANOTHER LAST PHOTO WITH PHYLLIS, who can't find her usb cable. hahaha.
it was really nice of them to write letters! in english some more! if only we knew japanese.. ): we shall try to write letters in japanese in december! ahaaaa.
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