June 28, 2009
The time now is 4.50am. Amazing, I have been composing for 5+ hours! Eventually, and finally, I’m done and I’m really proud of myself. I wonder if the reactions from which I hope to achieve from the listeners will tally with reality?
Life, oh life, what have you done to me? Hahaha…. Oh gosh.
Time to sleep before waking up to 1-day spamming of History facts?! Please save me…..
June 20, 2009
Muahaha, what a timely period in life to say that the hols are here! In fact, it’ll end in a week’s time! Well done…
The hols thus far’s been really quite fruitful! Bandmates and classmate are studying hard and that motivates me to do so too hehe! Of course, can’t wait for band to start!
Westwinds too! Damn, hope to play with them soon…
Oh, I need many people to suggest as many favorite pieces to me! Can’t seem to settle on a nice repertoire with Bertram for our Fiesta ‘09!
Hope everyone’s well and fine! Oh, hello and thanks for visiting! HAHA wth that’s so…
p.s went to have a good, nice swim with Man Ting, Jason and Nikki! Whoa, it was a very well spent day today. We then headed over to Vivo to catch the Drumzout event by NTU! TJCSB Percs gave a daring arrangement which I then realised may not have been so appropriate for such a casual competition.. There were some deep renditions and interpretations of certain rhythms and musician interaction which most probably the general audience would not get. A pity! I’m amazed – very much – by how they could come up with such an innovative rhythmic arrangement and have it very nicely played in just a few practices!
June 14, 2009
Hello guys! How have you been?
I just came home from this terribly addictive chinese buffet @ River View… Tsk tsk I’ll have to lose some stuff off my body very very much! There was some really great food – salmon sashimi, shishamo, sweet & sour pork, shark’s fin soup, venison, beef, prawn rolls, seafood rolls, sambal squid… etc..Oh man.
Going for a swim this coming week! Can’t wait to get into the water… But I have this whole on-and-off cough/sore throat thing going on.. Extremely irritating and annoying.. Damn! My tonsils are large by nature actually.. But the thing is that the pain goes from the right tonsil to the left – back and forth, back and forth… @$%#$^&
Been going to school/meeting up with band mates pretty much! Really cool to have such close company to go through days of crazy studying – coming home from Gino’s place at 8pm since 3pm! It was terrible – I overslept on the day I went to Gino’s house so I couldn’t really seal my rest time and was pretty much exhausted the whole day 
Had this throbbing headache and I tell you!! I almost puked on the bus and like when I start walking everywhere.. Hehhee my goodness gracious!
Band life’s gonna get exciting again! Oh speaking of which, MEP practicals went quite terribly when I was appaled by the recital room’s acoustics! Was distracted throughout my entire recital.. Damn! Though Miss Chew said I did alright, I wonder if that is something of a consolation! The trouble with any wind instrument for a recital is definitely the whole tendency to sound really bad suddenly and then not know what to do since you’ve already started the piece
Got an exciting week ahead with Sec 3 class chalet, St Nic’s MEP outing, SLC outing with Joey Clay and Zhining, and much more study. Swimming with Nikki, Man Ting and Jason! We made it a point to go after Saturday band pracs. Damn, hope it’ll work.. Haha… Going to swim this coming week too!
Oh, Monday’s the day cor cor will be enlisting into NS.. Haha how did I get so casual suddenly? Yea yea 2 – 3 weeks of not seeing him! Ah, wish him all the best muahahaha I’ll be going in soon too and I should seriously get down to doing something about how I look!
Also, a new lease of life for hundreds of new bettas! Yep, my pair bred and the whole tank’s filled with tons of baby fries and uncountable microworms as food! Ahh omgomogmogmg hahaha.. My 4 angels have also started to be spotted with breeding behavior! Ah, happen soon, happen soon!
May 24, 2009
Oh gosh oh gosh it was a great night; I’m much relieved with the end of something so stressful and crazy!
My Classmates! <3 33/09!
GV & I!!
The Altos! <3
Saxys, with Alumus
Sleepy me and Rachelle HEHE
Saxyyyy
I love this shot!!
Band room ghost between Gino and Xinyun HEHE
We did Jolene’s act cute pose and man it was hilarious
We’re the SAXYSSSS
Shen Jing BIANG!
Omg
Oh Henley (my stuffed chicken) rocks
TJCSB IS LOVE
What was Miss Chew doing and we were attempting a failed Hitler pose
OK, a success!!
J1s!! LOVE YOU GUYS
Omg what are the girls on the right doing hehehehehe
I was holding a flower by Gino fatty bombom blocked me!!
Omg I was mercilessly taupok-ed
HAHAHAHA ACT CUTE JOLENE!!!
May 10, 2009
SYF’s over.. Gone. The 2nd Silver in TJC’s 30 years of SYF history was made – sadly, by my year. It was a journey back to school full of question marks, tears and tense atmosphere. The whole bus was silent, with occasional sniffs of mucus back into one’s nose. Eyes were puffy and red, lips had a curved shape downwards, and every one avoided eye contact with anyone. It was terrible, devastating, unbearable.
Of course, it’s not about the award. Cliche and cheesy as it may sound, it really is about the journey taken together with the greatest bunch of friends and second-family members in my life! It was a journey full of ups and downs, full of annoyance and pleasure.
Of course, the times spent in the saxophone section as the only junior in the section really can be described as the best feeling ever. There is nothing to compare playing with my J2 seniors because amazingly, we roughly know how to connect and blend with each other i guess. Definitely, the times we’ve been through is madness. I still remember so clearly and vividly how I was so pressurised and stressed about SYF that during a sectional practice under LT1 one day, I sort of screamed at Linda (My SL T_T) because I was so disturbed and uneasy that when I couldn’t come in on time, she simply asked if I was okay and I went all defensive of myself and crazy. I’m so glad things did not sour. That’s because my section understood and tolerated. 
Coming into TJC, once again I must say, was something very much foreign and uneasy for me. I’ve never had a senior and coming into the schol full of J2s and commands, duties made to do – it was simply intolerable. Sigh…
Coming into TJC to receive a Silver Award was definitely something not in my agenda when I decided to DSA there. But thinking back, I do not regret one bit of it. I do not regret playing the way we played for SYF, I do not regret not doing things which I could have done. I felt a certain honour and pride while playing EXTREME MAKEOVER. If not for the DSA, I wouldn’t have gotten to know such a challenging and crazy piece and whatsmore, I can tell everyone that the band attempted it with so much gusto and pride. We got through this craziest piece ever attempted in SYF. Who will follow our footsteps? Who will attempt Extreme Makeover the next SYF? Even a band director full of years of experience will probably think twice.
Ending off, Lin Sheng wanted us to attempt Extreme Makeover wasn’t solely for the award, but for challenging himself – for challenging the typical stereotype of playing it safe at competitions.
We’ve made a mark, we’re one infamous Silver band. We’ll embrace and watch otu for us @ Prelude! LOLLLL
I hope I don’t sound too extremist. ROAR!! 
April 9, 2009
I think Alastair has just vanished into nothingness from his active life on the internet hahahaha….
I’m blogging in school.
March 24, 2009
Life’s been great! Used the holidays to catch up on my readings and progress in school. I definitely benefited from my seniors whom have their MCTs right this instant! Goodness, I feel terrified thinking that one year later I’d be in their shoes.
Basically, my life still (fortunately or unfortunately) revolves mainly around band and academic studies. I’m trying hard to do my part and more in band as well as keep up with the menacing pace of the whole Junior College educational system. I’m glad I survived the first day of Term 2 relatively well, despite having the tendency to have an eye closed during both Maths lectures and tutorials. It’s amazing though, that I can still be able to grasp certain key concepts which are rather significant for the journey of Maths! It’s crazy but I’m utterly grateful and thankful to have had started Maths tuition once again with Wang Peng. Words cannot describe how well she allows me to understand and build up a very strong foundation in each chapter. I was doubtful that with the whole new syllabus thing going on, she might not be able to effectively give me helpful pointers but I was proven wrong! Very wrong indeed.
Throughout the holidays, I made time to at least get a breather and go out to enjoy some greens (this time not the colour of my uniform!) but unfortunately things just had to go against me and I was practically faced with the stupid thunders and strong winds @ Sentosa when my intention was to go there with FY and at least soak in the sun.. Darn!
Concert’s coming up this Sunday! Anyone going? Haha! Can’t wait. Well Jacob de Haan was definitely a driving force and motivation during West Winds rehearsals, but I got to admit, I’m still looking forward to something better and much more exciting!
Javanese gemelan is terribly scary! Studying it during MEP can make me go bonkers. I’m amazed at how there are quite a number of people in my class with perfect pitch. Even Miss Chew has that! Makes me wonder if I’m worthy to be in the class or not.. Well, we should work together because ultimately, our main goal is to really get the As throughout the class. Shouldn’t be an individual effort, but a class and united one.
I’ve been staying up late very frequently (like now) because I have the tendency to take coffee in the evening! Not that it really disallows my brains to rest. I’m physically tired with the crazy sleeping hours. I’m mentally so awake and I wanna do so many things! Just can’t seem to coordinate well!
JC life is great. Love every moment of it – even for the very screwed up times in it.
Haven’t updated for such a long time! Life’s been great (oh yes, I managed to visit Pei Hwa during their band camp last week. Got to say, a huge WOW to Mr Tang for bringing them up in such a crazy kickass manner. Woohoo!)
Got lots of different photos up in my phone. But without Photoshop, I can’t resize them and make them look undistorted. WordPress sucks at resizing photos here. Darn!
Cya guys!
March 8, 2009
Such beauty…
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Had the ‘North People BBQ’ with TJCSB bandmates omg they rock so hard hahahahahha! It was such a great time man, the dessert was great, the food was great, the atmosphere was just awesome – got to know so many of them lots better!
Ah, life’s great
March 3, 2009
Is the start of JC meant to be a period of failing test after test and feeling freakishly crazy about it?
I can still manage an ‘LOL’…. omg
March 1, 2009
I can’t even recall when was the last I ever logged into this account to post or just check out certain stats of my blog haha.. Life’s way too hectic!
The feeling I get from the whole JC experience so far is just like the feeling of how you’ll feel when teachers drill you for the O Levels… And it’s just getting progressively terrible and traumatising!
Assignments piling up, deadlines so very tight, rest is never enough etc etc… Haha how I wish I’m going through what my seniors went through – ponning lessons and skipping lectures. What the heck, no one’s dong that in school now! HAHAHA not that I want to follow them… But their lives seemed to meaning and rich in life.
I went out to meet my Sec 4 friends just about a week ago! They’re a really nice bunch of people oh gosh I really felt good having met them again at this weird timing!
The guys of the group! Hahahaha
And I just got pictures of Fiesta from Linda!! HAHA finally LOL
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