Sunday, April 16, 2006
10:11 PM
recount of 3 days MUSE festival..
It's over for the sec 4s. sobx. I will miss percussion.
padey & amanda: train the sec 1s well.. the future of the band rests on the sec 3s' shoulders now. joey, syahir, sher min, nissah: work harder! you can do it! improve as much as you can to match up with your seniors' standards! get gold with honours for SYF 2007. =)
so here's a general recount of the festival:
1st day.
went to old parliament house for the festival.. was quite fun.. came at 5++, and then got 3 cartoon characters on stilts came walking out.. somehow they remind me of the characters in wizard of oz.. even though it might not be.. and they came everywhere.. omg.. so we were running everywhere so as not to get near to t
hem.. got a percussion team and a hip-hop
dance..
went as a section to funan for dinner after that.. then back home after that to sleep. percussionists have to report at 7 tml. omg.
2nd day.
came to school at 7 on the dot.. most of the percussion instruments were loaded up already.. so all the girls( yeah, the guys were late. -_-") were left to stack up the chairs and go to the lorry after that. yay.. its so good feeling the breeze on your face.. so we we reached around 8.. arranged all the instruments before going for breakfast at burger king while chung cheng high were having their rehearsal. great food. =) then our rehearsal.. could have been better. went back to school for lunch and another rehearsal before going back to old parliament house for workshop.. then I headed straight for orchard to meet mummy =). borrowed 3 books and ate at seoul garden. =)
3rd day.
competition day! chung cheng first.. argh. alphabetical order.. =/ then css. james hargest was good.. they could be better if their band strength was stronger.. then st francis was.. omg. they marched in! like a real marching band.. with regards to their concert style playing.. i duno what to say. the whole prelude for singapore was so out of tune it was as though it was written in a whole new key. and the alto and tenor sax solo was.. oh gosh. it was really really off in terms of pitch. and the percussionists were all whacking.. they were like powerhouses. =/ heard that they were a gold marching band.. perhaps it explains why the percussionists were really whacking..
then interval was cool.. had some exciting programs.. then.. the moment of truth. RESULTS!
"the bronze medal goes to....... st francis institution military band!" they jump. scream. cheer. cmb members let out a sigh of relief. goes back to same position of bending their heads down, clasping their hands in prayer. "the silver medal goes to...... chung cheng high(main) concert band!" cmb members: "whew." fall back to same position.
he announces, and looks at us:"the gold medal goes to...... commonwealth secondary school military band!" we jump. scream. cheer. cry. hug one another. we did it! "wait. the second gold medal goes to james hargest college concert band!"
the last award.. the kingsmen challenge trophy! its down to cmb and james hargest.
"the kingsmen challenge trophy goes to......... commonwealth secondary school military band!"
we all jumped up, screaming our lungs out, crying tears of joy and hugging one another. I nearly cried. it's like SYF all over again. the feelings I experienced then and now were exactly the same..
reception after that. the food is great! me and jingni went for second helpings.. yum! and also took alot of section pictures..
amanda, jocelyn and padey. =D
full percussion section. jocelyn's not in it cos she's the one taking the picture.
jingni, jocelyn, me. I look damn retarded.
jocelyn and amanda. the sisters in percussion. =D
syahir, nissah, padey and amanda. ok, they went crazy and had a blast of a time.
jingni and me outside school. =)
the 4 of them being super lame and funny. with padey looking like abit of a retard. =x
laughs!
percussion! too bad jongling didn't come.
the ONE and only CMB percussion section!
percussion without padey.
another one of the 4 of them. funny. =)
Saturday, April 08, 2006
11:34 PM
tiring saturday
if anyone thinks that saturdays are the most relaxed of all the 7 days in the week, you are WRONG! =x
remedial in the morning at the ungodly time of 8am. by the time i reached the bandroom for sectionals, it was 10.30.. and i missed hearing the recording for howl's moving castle..
when it was lunch time, we were stopped. by that heavy downpour.. so padey and syahir went out opposite to the shops to buy lunch for us.. and the 2 poor souls came back almost totally drenched.. and padey's hair looks like.. gosh. it's really funny. lol.
at least full band today was ok.. howl's moving castle and under the flag of glory was fine.. could be better. hitting 70+ out of 100. must hit >85..
oh yeah.. the full band photo that we had during the photo shoot last thursday is out. and its only the formal shot.. why no informal shot?! that one was so funny with all our stupid, lame and funny poses.. and i look.. ok. i guess i could have looked better. =p
i'm bushed. t-t.
Saturday, April 01, 2006
11:33 PM
esplanade performance!
1st day: no lessons for me! after assembly was down to band room to move up all the percussion stuff.. then away to esplanade! its way beyond cool.. girls have 2 dressing rooms with a toilet linking both rooms.. while the guys only have 1. hahax. its really nice and all. then lunch was at the super early time of 11am. after that was slack time. on standby for sound check. so what some of us gals did was to play concentration and gossip. it was fun to sabotage jing ni.. haha then at around 5.30 we were having dinner when that announcement came: "all band members please go to the orchestra pit now for sound check." damn it. just when we were having dinner. what a big drag.. so luckily after the sound check, we could go back.. while drama, choir and all the dance groups had to stay until 11+..
2nd day: performance day! came at 7.15 and ran all the way to band room only to find that jocelyn and the others had helped me bring up my uniform and all.. so i just ran all the way to the first bus.. even though there was a second bus.. so it was a bit of a slack time there again.. until we went out to exercise.. and got caught on candid camera! =p then it was 'meditating' time.. just sit straight, close your eyes and rest.. =) then lunch.. sucks! i wasted half the food.. then after that more fun with playing concentration.. this time round really sabo-ed jing ni.. made her go to guys' dressing room and say... well.. you can guess it.. =D at around 1.30, after changing into white shirt and black pants, it was to orchestra pit for a full dress rehearsal.. ended 5+. dinner.. changed into blazers and everything.. and had a good laugh at padey. omg. he spiked his hair and he looks damn funny! =D then after that was the.. ACTUAL! what can i say.. we could have done better. some of us messed up abit.. even drama also missed out some lines.. and there were some technical faults also.. one moment you can't hear the voice, the next instant you can hear it.. most of the seniors came back.. jongling, aidil, fangling, silvia, seekai.. got a lot from band, choir and others.. =)
after the performance was the time to leave. =( and i got home at the incredible time of 12 am. i can't understand why the teachers dun give us all an off day. =( i miss those 2 days of fun.. but anyway it was really memorable.. and there's still the MUSE festival.. last performance before sec 4s step down.. =(
