Thursday, April 28, 2005

im so glad its over.. arent u?

St Hilda's - Bronze
Anglo Chinese School (Independent) - Gold
Yu Ying Secondary - Silver
CHIJ Toa Payoh - Gold
Chung Cheng - Gold
St Anthony's Canossian - Silver
CHIJ St Theresa's Convent - Silver
RI - Gold
RGS - Gold
Payar Lebar MGS - Silver
Anglican High - Gold
Woodlands Secondary - Silver
Dunman Secondary - Silver
Hougang Secondary - Silver
Junyuan Secondary - Silver
CHIJ St Joseph's convent - Bronze (jus a bit short of COP)

hmm.. its a pity we dint get to see tt many gd performances.. cos we came in during st anthony's or st theresa's.. dint get to see chungcheng. the onli performance i realli think was nt bad was rg. after anglican, listening to the performances was roadkill lah. cant remember which sch played a mutilated malaguena and the last sch.. OH MAN!!!! they werent playing guitar.. they were.. doing bass popping for every single note!!!!!! LOL. every single note involves pulling the string up and hitting against the fretboard making a 'tuck' sound. HAHA me and my fren were laffing non stop.

well.. so tt makes 6 golds, 8 silvers and 2 bronzes (or rather 1 bronze 1 COPper). everyone was rather sore.. cos the judges dint give out gold with honours. and all along our conductor had been telling us tt 'we play this kind of pieces and dun get gold wif honours ar...' yea.. well wad to do.. hmm maybe we wud get a holiday.. 4 golds and 2 gwh.. haha. anyway, im like.. super tired now. syf is tiring. i think i'll go sleep now

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

so.

congrats to chamber wif gold..

tt makes 3 golds, 2 gwh.

tml.

tml a bunch of retards armed with guitars will come together to become a professsional guitar orchestra.

tml an amateur grade 6 guitarist will (try to) become a professional jazz soloist O.o

i dunno but i had a weird feeling b4 today's chamber syf.. but i shall nt say until after tml.

for now.. its time to go polish stuff.. my shoes, my guitar, then off to church for pdl.... while others slug away wif the project work poster.......

there are no guarantees, but we'll do our best. cya.

Monday, April 25, 2005

i dunno.. but i jus have a sudden urge to blog haha.

ya noe, when you are on your deathbed, at an old age, you wouldnt be wanting to see all your diplomas and degrees that you've earned in your life, that giant bungalow you stay in, that porsche you drive.. you would want to see all your family and friends that you've spent your life having relationships with. read tt up from the pdl bk.. think its real meaningful.

these days have been real stressful.. i realli cant understand why im spending so much time on projects and all.. spent the entire wkend and the entire today doing 2.. and still nt done -.- hai. i havent even laid hands on my guitar for more than 15mins a day for the past 3 days. nt to mention syf is on thurs. and my solo is nt 100% foolproof. weird things happen under pressure haha.. masterclass being a gd example. but nvm.. gonna ponn 1h of class tml to prac naha.

longing for the hols.. to restore once powerful relationships... and make many new ones...

Friday, April 22, 2005

okie then.. i guess its time for an update.

this week has been rather uneventfully eventful. i cant realli remember anything except for wednesday pdl study... haha our grp was so big.. 10 pple.. tt when we finished goign one round toking abt our wk time was up liao lolz. but it was quite fun.. get to see everybody during the wk.. when we are most stressed.

this week ive also been thinking abt life.. i put everything else on hold.. all tt maths hw (jus b4 maths period faster chiong), my sleep, and subsequently my health. i jus went to see the doc jus now.. yupz.

so its friday nite. jus came back from sch after guitar prac 1 wk away from syf and oso wif a pile of physics, lang arts, and a whole big bunch of other homework. but i dun feel like doing it.. neither do i feel like playing guitar, sleeping, or playing. jus feel.. SIAN. i need a life. a new one.

Monday, April 18, 2005

okay. im back to blog a bit more.

today had guit orchestra's presentation for the sch. it was rather ok.. for a first try. and the fact tt we havent given a performances in ages. our conductor is realli gd.. he like.. doesnt get nervous lorh!! haha amazing. today i used my 1.7k guit.. and it was like.. 3 times louder than my other one which was completely inaudible. haha.. but i still had frens coming up to me saying stuff like.. "well done, cudnt hear ur solo" lol.

yeah other than that, tts abt it, other than the arts enrichment programme where my worst nitemare came true when i was invited on stage to learn dance moves -.- ergh. its sooooooo embarrassing. freaks me out just recalling it. lol

anyway, the workload is at one of its record highs.. but somehow i jus cant pull myself to do anything. im still trying to come to terms wif my life.. nt everything is fine and dandy.. and will nvr realli be. sighs.

happy birthday irvin.

Saturday, April 16, 2005

hey.

i dunno wad is happening to me. these few days.. i jus few so.. tired. first 3 wks have been slack. but week 4 is more crazy than ever. and its going to get crazier. i dunno why i bother to blog abt it to remind myself. wad i realli need now is.. a holiday. saturday cannot be considered a holiday anymore. hai. dun even noe why got five day wk.

haiz. these few days i've been spewing crap non stop out of my mouth and doing lots and lots of stupid things that i shudnt be doing. im getting pissed off so easily.. and im realli confused abt everything now. i still got lots of work to do.. lots of projects, lots of practices.. performance on monday (nt tt im worried abt tt).... but even so.. its all building up. i realli feel like im lacking an objective in life now. everyday its jus.. sch, extra class/cca, comehome, routine, practice guit, com, sleep. and pple everywhere are like.. 'mus start studying for mid yrs liao'. i dun blame them.. its gd to worry a bit.. but its realli troubling me. i havent even sat down to plan out my mid yr revision schedule (nt tt i ever did).. the sch hasnt even given us the exam schedule lor.

so many things to do, so little time. i think i should like give myself some 'trial nervous breakdown'.. try onli.. b4 the real thing comes. but what to compromise? guitar? sleep? (compromised lots of it already..) tv? i dont watch. com? or worse.. spiritual life? i hope its nt the latter.

i need some real encouragement.. but where? HAIZ.

gdnite.

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

wow i havent blogged in a veri long time.. heres the latest news: choir gold. band gold WITH HONOURS. congrats to the AC band.

i realli realli realli hope the guitar orchestra is feeling the pressure. there is an obvious pattern here. 2 yr ago silver become gold. 2 yr ago gold become honours. hmm. i dunno.. but i feel like ACSGO is going to lose its happy-go-lucky-anyhow-whack-and-still-can-get-gold character. i realli dunno.. onli time will tell. 2 wks. i need to change strings.

today's rugby finals was a washout man. take 166 for 45 mins all the way there to support.. onli to rain. quite disappointing, but its postponed to supposedly tml so i dun need to go. heheh.

the past few days have been quite slack.. altho there werent any tests for the 1st 3 wks i hav a feeling the standard of my work is seriously dying. ive been writing stupid answers everywhere. haha.. and i oso found out how u can generate static.. by rubbing ur butt against a plastic chair lol... but after a while it loses its kick of having fun making pple feel an electron discharge. haha.. i think im kinda scared of the feeling of static now.. cos ive felt it everytime i 'staticed' someone. LOL.

yeap tts abt it.. once again congrats to the band.

Saturday, April 09, 2005

bargh. i jus typed a 600 word entry and it got DELETED. shawn.. must be ur blog.. i opened it and suddenly some pop up thingy came out and i closed ur window.. which somehow closed the window wif my entry.... arRHHHH!! haha. nvm shawny its nt ur fault.. its jus my retarded internet connection... or maybe its my retarded self.......

anyway in summary of wad i jus wrote.. these 2 days have been kinda messed up.. nvr sleep enuf.. then also kena demoralised by my guitar teacher saying the sec 2 guy can play better than me.. and all tt stuff yeah. nt the first time.. ive been told liek.. every other wk by him tt i need to work much harder if i wan to do guit in uni.

realli having 2nd thots abt guit now... realli dunno if guit is for me.. maybe i'd be better off as an engineer.. make cars, or smth.. or maybe an insurance agent like my father.....

anyway.. today during combined my section was being tested cos we cudnt play a bar of running notes.. so individual testing.. everybody play once. then the conductor called on the sec 2 guy to play and somehow he jus cudnt. nt uncommon lah. then jus now he messaged me abt how he cudnt play and tt everybody expect so much of him. of cos at first i gave him some sarcastic reply wif 'its official, you are a better player than me' and got a vulgarity reply. lol. but aft tt i did message him back to tell him tt these sorta htings happen and teh usual comforting stuff like.. ive screwed up too and yah.

been doing the purpose driven life lately.. and we shudnt be chasing after things such as money, status, and stuff like that.. we shud be working on relationships and things tt are eternal. so, how well i play the guitar doesnt realli matter.. its onli for this life. wads impt is tt i build up relationships, which are eternal.

yea.. jus came back from singspiration... onli 11 pple!! hahaha. and 4 youth. but even so, i had lots of fun. hope more of y'all can attend it nxt time.

ok. cya.

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

aha. finally have something to blog abt today.

the sch days have been quite tiring.. due to the fact tt i've been having terrible sleep patterns over the past few days. still have yet to do lots of maths hw which im nt even certain of the due dates.

anyways, down to the main subject. i usually go to gramercy for my theory lessons, and a bit of piano. but today my teacher decided to introduce me to another teacher hu teaches guitar there.. he's an architect turned guitarist on the verge of retiring. anyways, all teachers hav their own character traits. this guy is.. like a coffeeshop uncle hu teaches guitar.. mix of chinese and english lolol. and the guitar he gave me to play was some bogus old guitar wif action like.. almost half a cm at the 12th fret la.. super hard to press. anyway, i played capricho.. the piece i played for masterclass for him. he say my left hand fingers too much movement (yeah lah.. every guitarist struggles wif tt rite?)

and right hand fingers too far apart. ok tts a new theory. he says liddat my tone on different fingers wud be different. has truth to some extent lah. but i look at his right hand fingers when he plays looks like a clenched up fist.. hmm. gonna report this to mr choo on thursday haha. quite cool when u see wad other teachers are offering their students. i've also learnt that u cant please everybody. so pls urself!! haha. when he was toking to me i look like im realli paying attention and like im so eager to try it at home.. but to me its just another opinion. anyway.. he doesnt realli have that captivating factor some guitar teachers have. mr liu. maybe its the guitar. heheh.

okok.. i guess tts abt it.. time to go do c maths or smth.