woah i tell u todays performance was by far the WEIRDEST performance ever.
ok heres the deal. we report at 2:30, leave late at 3:45, and arrive at plmgps right on time for our sound check at 4:20. we receive a preview of our music teacher's funny conducting skills (she never conducted us playing such a funky piece before). we were playing for some methodist teachers dinner. if u think abt it.. its quite WASTE TIME when u cud have been spending ur time with the care team. and i tell u the weather was so hot.. first time i was playing and sweating.
okay the performance in my opinion was realli screwed up.. cos we cudnt hear each other that well (the dinner was held in a converted carpark), we did not have our real conductor, and there was no mike for my solo. lol. but the funny thing was that the teachers were super high.. we walked on stage and our two deputy principals starting waving to us, and the ac teachers were cheering like mad.. like lol. then halfway thru performance my solo starting that time the ac teachers started cheering again.. and i sorta slipped hahah. if they dint cheer at least the table in front of me would have heard me play. then when we went 'hur!' they cheered again. like.. LOL.
yeap anyway today also announced the next year committee and have a briefing. the whole thing was supposed to end at wad.. 9+ but i left sch at 11. nvr trust the stated ending times.
ok enuf from me. see u all in church ^^
its onli a reflections on Hinduism for philosophy.
but honestly im tired of doing this stuff. when writing this sorta stuff, u shudnt be too offensive or have a one sided view, but in this type of situations, u cant write 'Hinduism is fun' to fill up 800 words.
bah.
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
hey.
i just finished watching the dvd of the july 15 guitar performance. lol my hands are sweating cos i can feel the nervousness in myself when im playing in the video!!! lolol. indeed the concerto turned out okay.. even tho i left out a block of music. my koyunbaba solo was cut off in the middle cos the guy dint have enuf tape -.- but managed to catch the ending. not bad. hahah.. but the ending of the concert was spectacular. it turns out i did slide quite nicely.. but ended up in quite an awkward position lolz. memories.
i wonder what the future would be like.. this friday is the last performance wif ACSGO and im complaining abt it.. cos its until 9pm and i cant go for care team :(
i most likely shud be continuing next year .. but things wud be different. i definitely wud be giving up that soloist position to someone more deserving and technically more pro. he needs that 'resident orchestra soloist' position to boost his solo performance skills. hes in sec 2 this year and he probably owns me in sight reading liao and is taking grade 7 WIF ME at the end of the yeaer.. but in terms of performance presence he is a bit lacking.. if u noe wad i mean.
i think im going to change my performance style to include more body motion.. lol. my conductor rox.
ac won C div rugby 16-12. yay.
hahah and i did a super RETARDED thing after the match.. i was planning to go to my guit teacher's hse from yio chu kang stadium cos ang moh kio is one station on the right of yio chu kang. i went up the escalator leading to the mrt platform.. then i heard one train jus stopping, so i got on. and guess wad.. 2 of my frens hu were going towards jurong east got on.. and i was like.. wait.... where are u all going?
and then i realised. i was going in the wrong direction. supposed to go towards marina bay. -.-
today i learned quite a number of valuable lessons. 1) CHECK wad direction u r going.. dun anyhow jus jump on a train 2) yio chu kang and khatib stations are like.. 10 mins apart 3) theres some interesting train that goes towards marina bay but terminates at ang moh kio mrt.. i got on one when i alighted at khatib (feeling like a loser).
yeap.. guitar lesson lasted for 50 mins onli.. hahha my teacher had quite a packed schedule. and i think my learning curve is finally starting to INCREASE!! hahah.. crash coursing that concerto aranjuez i played for the concert realli helped me to wake up my ideas. yeap.. and i hope the reality sets in soon that im now a grade 7/8 guitarist.. no more that pop/rock/classical grade 6 guitarist... altho i still like to play my pop songs.
okay i gtg now.. cya.
hey everyboday.
spent the whole of today jus slacking.. homework has reached the point of 'undoability'.. so me and my (normal) frens all seem to have made no progress.
yeaps anyway, the topic of my sermon on sept 18 will be 'The Sweet Redemption Story'. it should remain unchanged till then unless God gives me an even more brilliant idea. basically i want to show how simple the story of Christianity is.. many times it seems so complicated but it isnt. it is possible to tell someone about God's salvation for them in one minute, but i will be doing it in 20 or so minutes. so pls come :))
hmm my life has basically steered off into nowhere.. cos theres no holiday, guitar exam or guitar performance to really look forward to. in life i always look forward to something.. and the next thing is the EXAMS. the teachers havent even finished teaching the syllabus yet.. and we have assignments right into wk 10 and the sept hols. how to stardie man. i dun want to die nxt yr.
ok tts abt it. cya.
and this short flick of national day holidays is ending once again..
well i think i did get a lot of the rest i needed.. evidence is that im feeling bored hahah.. or maybe its just the reluctance to do work. ive been alternating btwn the com and tv for the whole day today.. after i nearly killed both my fingers and my brain in the morning by trying to just read a diploma piece from beginning to the end. i learned nuts lol. my introduction to humanities assignment also still stands at 500+ words onli.. a far cry from the required 1.5k.. its like we have written so many essays and we say that 1.5k is nothing cos we have written 2.5k essays.. but then again when ur teacher mentor isnt the most on person and when u cannot find any info on ur topic writing even 800 words is a nightmare.
i've been toying around with the harmonica i bought on saturday and now i sorta noe abt everything that is possible with it.. which isnt a lot. do u noe that a particular note on the harmonica can be bent an entire tone? the onli note i can bend is the E on the first hole.. and that one bends like.. by default. u cant produce an in-tune E. yeah so my theory is 1) the harmonica i bought sux becos it costs $10 2) the harmonica i bought sux cos its made in china 3) the harmonica i bought sux becos it cant bend notes 4) i jus suck.
hahah anyway there isnt much u can play on a harmonica that only has the scale of d major (with some notes missing).. i can play mary had lamb and twinkle star.. as well as a bit of four seasons by vivaldi. i almost killed myself trying to play kanon in D jus now lolol. maybe its time to get a chromatic harmonica.
but one things for sure now.. need to go add more words to that aessay.
1 Corinthians 13:4 - 5
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
yay i bought my harmonica!! today was quite an interesting outing indeed.
left house at 11+ for ps first. went there to buy some stuff.. then i went to peace centre which is just after paradiz.. but i lazy to walk so i decided to take a bus.. ended up the 106 went the wrong way.. so i had to walk from bras basah road there -.- never trust ur street directory entirely mann. especially if its a 2003 edition. anyways, went to renner music at peace centre.. their internet website is realli outdated.. the most expensive guitar they had there was like 800+ onli. their website got some 5, 6k plus guitars. their whole shop quite run down. i wanted to buy a Marine Band harmonica.. supposed to be veri high quality but they were OUT OF STOCK (as u can see their website is reall outdated) so i reluctantly settled to buy a $10 china made victory harmonica. hmm maybe u want some info on harmonicas.
how u make sound on it is basically u blow through got one sound. u blow out got another. and i have yet to figure out the rest lol like how to play a scale properly. there are 2 types of harmonicas.. chromatic (all notes) and diatonic (notes of a major scale onli). i bought a diatonic harmonica in the key of D (they dint have the G i wanted........ cannot play qing tian -.-) yeah so now im fiddling arnd wif it. its quite remarkable.. the sound is quite nice.. especially to someone like me hu nvr seen or touched one b4.
aft tt went to guitar gallery and tried a 6.5k guitar.. some manuel rodriguez 100th anniversary thingy. most ex guitar i have touched in my life. i played an E major chord and the G# had a buzzing sound -.-'''' i think it costs that much onli cos its craftmanship is nice and has a nice long name. i still like my 1.7k guitar's tone better.
yeah anyway when i was at ps i met a lot of pple hahah. met valmond and tim and rachel's mum and dad. and there was this horde of pple doing flag day there. lolol but i onli got approached once cos i think they look at me noe i sure wun donate one :p
yeah quite a fun day. later im going for my sch's band nite. shud be gd :)
woohoo!! today was a fun day.
today started out kinda cold.. the rain and all. had that australian maths thingy then aft tt a 20min free period.. then a physics prac which i cudnt do cos i din come on monday. had chem test which i was quite confident abt. then we were supposed to go to macritchie reservior for cross country meet.
but then an announcement came over the PA system and said that it was postponed due to the rain!!!
so today was a short day
ending at 12:00!!!hahahah.. so i came home and slept from 1:30 - 3:15. lol i feel veri pig now. whole aftnoon dint do much either. but im quite happy wif slacking today.. still recovering from that bogus LA(B) project chionging FOR NOTHING on tuesday nite. teacher dint even ask us to present ytd lor.
yeap.. tts abt it for now. today is going to be another short day ^^ cos im not involved in ndp and theres no guitar. muha. cant wait for care team meeting at shawn's hse tml.
sometimes i dun trust myself wif my knowledge. lol.
anyway, thx shawn for hearing me out and being a great brother in Christ.
things change. people change. and its all part of God's purpose. change is not always comfortable.. like breaking into a pair of new shoes. ur so reluctant to leave that old smelly black pair of adidas shoes wif multiple holes in it, not jus for ur foot to enter. well that new asics one looks nice.. but its kinda hard. well thats the idea. if we dun get accustomed to change, then how will we move on wif our lives?
how should i put it. i think im going thru the toughest of experiences in my Christian walk now.
the reasons why it happened are clear cut. but i jus cannot accept that it happened. everytime i close my eyes the incident pops up again in my mind. i got the answers to some of my questions. but it wasnt the answers i wanted.
im glad i ponned sch today :P i realli dint sleep well last nite thinking abt stuff. sometimes i realli wonder if what we have been doing all along is all correct.
sometimes, i wish i dint know so much, and think so much.
happy birthday to candice and olivia (:
