the GWH experience

A Summary -

Ah. The beautiful tuning chord. B-flat, D, F. 10 seconds of bliss.
A resonating echo then filled Singapore Conference Hall.
Tien-Yin in its full glory. The glorious organ sound.
The makings of a band destined for gold with honours.

After the performance, to sum up,

Melvin said: I was godlike.
I said: Me too.

Its late. Another day lah.

joy

-1 days left.

Yesterday, while listening to his phone, yel suddenly jumped and shouted damn happily. The crowd around him broke into madness. No doubt about it.

ACJC BAND - GOLD WITH HONOURS

And the band also got something much better than just a GWH... (secret la.. cannot tell)

There isn't time for a recount of SYF day. All I can tell you now is that the band made everyone else shit in their pants. For now, it's back to homework and tests.

tomorrow...

0 days left. 20 hours left.

SYF is tommorrow. ACJC Band will own. We will play not just the best feste romane that the judges will ever hear, but the best feste romane that we will ever hear.

Its been more than 4 months after I joined ACJC Band. Tomorrow is going to be the first benchmark of the J1s. I don't know whether to feel nervous or excited. But I am more to the latter now. Over the 4 months, it was mostly pure hard work, sacrifices and dedication. The only thing that drove me on was my passion for the band. And yes, the effort that everyone had put in will show in tomorrow's performance.

Today's run-through was good after Dr Lee tuned everyone individually. It was quite in tune. We were serious. We were determined. We want the top placing in SYF.

After the run-through, a J3 made a very inspiring speech. She confidently told us to make tomorrow like the sydney trip (i wasn't in the band yet!) where the ACJC band played an excellent Movement for Rosa. She is expecting us to get gold with honours, top band. Dr Lee then told the band that he knew our limits but the band don't know its limits. What I think he's telling us is that we should unleash our band's true potential for feste romane, for he had chosen the piece carefully for us to play. Of course, we will!

Of course, I cannot forget Feroz and Luqman's talk where they wanted us to play so well that the band members in other JCs shit their pants. Evelyn's talk was damn funny because she was crying before she made her talk for reasons that nobody knows. I forgot most of what she said except that we are in some sort of race. When it is Martin's turn to talk, he would all the time say something like I don't know what to say to you all to make you all feel movitivated. It this damn funny because he is obvious damn nervous and ironic in a sense as his talks in the end do meet their purposes.

After band, there were nice orange cheesecakes made by the ex-co to eat. Yum. But they make me seem to get a bit of a sore throat. They also worsened ryan's and nabilah's sore throat. Nevermind, what counts is the thought and effort that made this cheesecake. Thank you, ex-co.

When the Christian Fellowship came to pray with the band, it came in the form of 1 person. That person was David, the president of CF. Anyway, I was amazed at the speed which he said the prayer. It was very very very fast. Yeah, thank you CF.

Also, let's not leave out some things that has made our band sound so good - the spray and the feng shui.

In order to play well for tomorrow, we should "Have fun. Have fun. Have fun.", credit to MX. Didn't the composer for the Night Safari piece said that we should have fun? So, when we clap or blow the mouthpieces, let's be happy. Don't be nervous. Play out.

When it is time for Feste Romane, let's play our hearts out. It's a brilliant piece of music. ACJC band will make it sound better that what Resphigi wanted it to be.

Passion in the pursuit of perfection. This phrase will be what I will be thinking about well into tomorrow's performance. Let's do it. Let's aim perfection. Achieve the seemingly impossible.

Before I go, one last thing... I say,

"MAKE THEM SHIT IN THEIR PANTS!"

nevermind if nobody reads this

2 days left.

I screwed up my physics practical on teh pseudo atwood machine. The points of the graph went everywhere. Why? I never read the question properly. Stupid atwood machine. To think that I wanted to solve the infinite atwood machine when I can't even solve one machine. Maybe I'm just very tired.

Band practice today was productive. Just inches from gold with honours was the standard today. It's just about intonation and togetherness before we can progess to a higher standard. We may or may not achieve this. I hope we do so in time.

I'm off. Got to do my theoretical way of figuring out values for my physics prac.

s=ut + 1/2at²... s=0.500m... t=1.00s... therefore a = 1.00m/s².... blah...

Sad but happy day

4 days left.

Today: GPP day. Other Homework: Undone.

I'm here typing things, wasting 5 minutes of my life.

Successes today: GPP is complete. It's the best I can do already. The group will be thankful for it.

Failures today: GP AQ uncomplete. GP essay plan i not touching it. Econs test that i'm studying for now I don't know whether I can remember the elasticity parts.

Mood: tOO happy. Man U going to lift the premiership trophy at stamford bridge. humiliation for chelsea! Yes, I still remembered the last time at the Theatre of Dreams. Revenge is sweet.

But its too early to say. Let's see. Chelsea down by one now. 10 men left. Possibility of winning: none.

Let's celebrate.

Yes. It's an irony.

The DEAD blog awakes. Nevermind if nobody reads this.

6 days left (actually less than 5).

Blue slips. Band. Just pure band. Well, almost, not to forget some tests and homework.

Let's do this. Let's give the college an extraordinary concert on monday.

Then it's time for SYF on friday. I'm going to have the time of my life. It's not about getting gold with honours - its about giving our best shot. Of course - Let's feel the music. Experience the 11th Tien Commandent and Tien Yin.

"The Best is NOW!" - Dr Lee

"Passion in the pursuit of perfection" - the whiteboard in front of the stage

Let's achieve these!

PS: Rest well everyone! Drink lots of water. Take Vitamin C. Take drugs if you need to.