Just feeling so tired...no milo to sip out of a mug today...haha. if mum doesn't ask me, I won't ask her to make for me =) why don't I make myself a cup, you ask? I can't make mine any better than hers...I wouldn't want to be drinking undergraded milo made by yours truly...
Managed to change my piano lesson next week, meaning I get to stay the full 3 nights at PY. Thank god now I can attend the alumni prac on thursday night. Wonder what we'll be playing...eh. J-pop la. LOL. We've waited long enough!
Moved everything over to PY today. It seems all of us were greeted with a warm welcome when we reached PY...the atmosphere there is just so fresh and welcoming. I don't know why. It just feels better than SPF I guess. So many memories were from PY. I doesn't just depend on the location; most of our fondest memories lie in what is now called Pasir Ris Secondary school...but all I know is, it was in "ping yi" that we derived our passion for band from, it was in the "ping yi" field that we did our first formations...that we've been in over and over again, half an hour to an hour at a time with 5 minute breaks in between, if we were lucky we'd get 10 so we could sit around a little before falling back in and doing everything over again, unless we were learning something new that day.
Great. I'm bringing myself and you guys back into the past again. I just missed those times...times of passion and glory. When we made a name for ourselves, the Titans band. Titanic fury, titanic determination, titanic spirit, our name said it all. Times I used to march with my snare, resting on my knees cuz I was short then; I still have those scars on my knees now. Everything was just plain nature to me...dressing, music, marching, all second nature. I don't know how. Seems most of us had that kind of ability too. I think it was the passion. Did my best, like many others. Did my best.
Found out today that CCA in JC was not required in the total results in A levels...admission to uni didn't require NS and CCA anymore, I believe. It's now 90% A level results, 10% PW instead of the past 85% A level results, 10% PW and 5% NS and CCA. Does this mean I can have a crappy attendance at band?
Mr Tan spoke to me today...yes. James Tan...hey. He's quite a good guy now okay. for now, at least. He said their apparently horrible sound was just due to their 'off form-ness' or something like that. He was even more surprised when I told him they were intending to take part in NBC. They would brush up, he said. THAT, I can only hope. If they're not up to standard by NBC, I don't even want to turn up on that day. Don't talk about responsibility, okay? I'm not prepared to lose face for a band that I don't want to commit myself to. I don't like the band. period. What's more frustrating is the problem of whether I'd be able to choose which band I'd want to perform with. Namely, TPJC band, or the Titans Alumni. Well duh, I'd want the latter, but who am I to choose? I don't know. Maybe I'll find out as time passes. In the mean time, I think I'm going for JC band on fridays...I don't even know if I have time to take the sideline on wednesdays anymore. Hope my timetable is not that full, at least until competition day.
Funny watching farz tryin to do offbeats with the flute section today...kai qian was like so damn retarded la...I think every flautist is retarded in something. Although I havent really picked out something prominent about farz yet. HAHA. I'm sure you're dead spastic in SOMETHING, okay? I'll just have to wait and see. hahaha...I think I need to practice in my offbeats too....a little retarded at the faster stages.
Have to follow mr poh to CCAB next week during the camp...thursday morning. Seems this jap guy will be giving a marching band workshop talk on that day. Wow, he was a Cavalier, and a composer and arranger for the Blue Stars in DCI in his earlier years. Always eager to learn from a professional drummer. Hoping to get tips on how to practice, tuning drums and all that technical stuff. Have to think it all through before next week...maybe goin to compile a list of the important stuff I'd have to ask him. I'm not just going to sit there and listen...gotta be interactive, right? This will definitely help the line alot...in both music and marching ability. Why am I not overly-excited? I have no idea....
Currently waiting for CY to come over to my place to take his share of the porridge...seems he just finished work around half an hour ago. Hope that's enough for his supper. Feel quite bad for him anyway, have to walk all the way here after a long day and then walk all the way back to his house. Oh well. farz and chen pei couldn't make it today...much to my disappointment at first. I guess it's alright since they have to take care of stuff at home. They're not as pampered as me...got stuffs to do. there's always another time anyway, right? maybe I'll call them over again in a month or so, when everyone gets that porridge craving again.
see you then.
Managed to change my piano lesson next week, meaning I get to stay the full 3 nights at PY. Thank god now I can attend the alumni prac on thursday night. Wonder what we'll be playing...eh. J-pop la. LOL. We've waited long enough!
Moved everything over to PY today. It seems all of us were greeted with a warm welcome when we reached PY...the atmosphere there is just so fresh and welcoming. I don't know why. It just feels better than SPF I guess. So many memories were from PY. I doesn't just depend on the location; most of our fondest memories lie in what is now called Pasir Ris Secondary school...but all I know is, it was in "ping yi" that we derived our passion for band from, it was in the "ping yi" field that we did our first formations...that we've been in over and over again, half an hour to an hour at a time with 5 minute breaks in between, if we were lucky we'd get 10 so we could sit around a little before falling back in and doing everything over again, unless we were learning something new that day.
Great. I'm bringing myself and you guys back into the past again. I just missed those times...times of passion and glory. When we made a name for ourselves, the Titans band. Titanic fury, titanic determination, titanic spirit, our name said it all. Times I used to march with my snare, resting on my knees cuz I was short then; I still have those scars on my knees now. Everything was just plain nature to me...dressing, music, marching, all second nature. I don't know how. Seems most of us had that kind of ability too. I think it was the passion. Did my best, like many others. Did my best.
Found out today that CCA in JC was not required in the total results in A levels...admission to uni didn't require NS and CCA anymore, I believe. It's now 90% A level results, 10% PW instead of the past 85% A level results, 10% PW and 5% NS and CCA. Does this mean I can have a crappy attendance at band?
Mr Tan spoke to me today...yes. James Tan...hey. He's quite a good guy now okay. for now, at least. He said their apparently horrible sound was just due to their 'off form-ness' or something like that. He was even more surprised when I told him they were intending to take part in NBC. They would brush up, he said. THAT, I can only hope. If they're not up to standard by NBC, I don't even want to turn up on that day. Don't talk about responsibility, okay? I'm not prepared to lose face for a band that I don't want to commit myself to. I don't like the band. period. What's more frustrating is the problem of whether I'd be able to choose which band I'd want to perform with. Namely, TPJC band, or the Titans Alumni. Well duh, I'd want the latter, but who am I to choose? I don't know. Maybe I'll find out as time passes. In the mean time, I think I'm going for JC band on fridays...I don't even know if I have time to take the sideline on wednesdays anymore. Hope my timetable is not that full, at least until competition day.
Funny watching farz tryin to do offbeats with the flute section today...kai qian was like so damn retarded la...I think every flautist is retarded in something. Although I havent really picked out something prominent about farz yet. HAHA. I'm sure you're dead spastic in SOMETHING, okay? I'll just have to wait and see. hahaha...I think I need to practice in my offbeats too....a little retarded at the faster stages.
Have to follow mr poh to CCAB next week during the camp...thursday morning. Seems this jap guy will be giving a marching band workshop talk on that day. Wow, he was a Cavalier, and a composer and arranger for the Blue Stars in DCI in his earlier years. Always eager to learn from a professional drummer. Hoping to get tips on how to practice, tuning drums and all that technical stuff. Have to think it all through before next week...maybe goin to compile a list of the important stuff I'd have to ask him. I'm not just going to sit there and listen...gotta be interactive, right? This will definitely help the line alot...in both music and marching ability. Why am I not overly-excited? I have no idea....
Currently waiting for CY to come over to my place to take his share of the porridge...seems he just finished work around half an hour ago. Hope that's enough for his supper. Feel quite bad for him anyway, have to walk all the way here after a long day and then walk all the way back to his house. Oh well. farz and chen pei couldn't make it today...much to my disappointment at first. I guess it's alright since they have to take care of stuff at home. They're not as pampered as me...got stuffs to do. there's always another time anyway, right? maybe I'll call them over again in a month or so, when everyone gets that porridge craving again.
see you then.
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