mreow.most ppl if anyone will admit it took me long to type into a nearly abandoned blog. Xp haha.
i shall lament (not) about yesterday.
ahhhhh
haha.really last minute cause i only like decided at 12 noon ytd that i'll be going.going where.....................
acjc concert
yep.during a math class,then poor lijin was troubled by me to ask theresa got ticket or not.thankfully still have.
ahhhh.the thing dun wanna upload.sorry.a little side.
continuing along...
so i secured a ticket from theresa...one line shall be dedicated to her.
THANK YOU THERESA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THANK YOU ALOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!REALLY!!!!!!!!!!
is that one line?should be.on w wad i was saying...
i secured a ticket,went home,wasted alot of msgs asking lijin if i could hun4 into her section.went out later than i should have.i thought i was going to be late ok.went out like 10 minutes later than i was supposed to cause i was using the forbidden computer.and so.reached raffles mrt,was trying to find the toilet that we were supposed to meet at.why toilet?i found out later.though i still dun understand why toilet.found out.dun understand. Xp couldn't find it,went back down the escalator,saw a yellow polo t and ran towards it becaue it was jolynn and i was a mad person shouting jolynn and running towards her in this crowded mrt station.yay.secured a tubist who knows which toilet.went toilet,couldn't find cindy.found her in guardiannn which closed up on us and we had to find an alternate route back to the toilet.right.fast forwarding along,lijin cheated nadiah into getting off at tiong to get chocolates so lijin would be earlier than nadiah,which she was supposed to be since she wants to zhen3 nadiah. fast forward.lijin reached,nadiah said she'd take a cab from tiong(see?lijin?how mean you were to make her have to pay for a cab ride and a chocolate which costed 4 sth)
fastforward,we conquered the approximately 500m walk to vch,waited a little while for nadiah,realised i had to get my ticket from the reception,recieved it in a red envelope,went in w cindy 1st to grab 5 seats in a row.got it in row 'O' dun ask me whyi know.it was because cindy knew.long long long story.choked 3 more seats and they happily came in.. early.not late. surprisingly. Xp cindy decided to record,me decided to record,we decided to shut up and on w e show.nostalgiaaa.1st concert in nearly 1 yr.
tune,and they started off with Carmina Burana Mvt 13 Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi yes.it's a really long title.that's what was typed on the programme.it was really really really nice. XD i liked it! but it was so short. T.T sadcase.
The Hunchback of the Notre Dame.only found out how to pronounce ytd.haha.was really different from saturday's.guess it's the difference between playing and listening. Xp very nice..... T.T touching.the saxaphone solo was damn nice.
there wasn't a national emblem as on the programme.
then they exited,in came acs(i) band.Mononoke Hime it was pretty but was really under what i expected.because the pretty horn solo turned into a 'jazzy' saxaphone solo.at least that was what it felt like.it felt too jazzy.really sad.cause i always expected that solo to sound sad and mournful,so horn would be best for it.wahh.laments laments laments. T.T why dun let horn playyyyy?!it's like making a bright toned trumpeter play some funeral song.oops.
then it was The Merry Widow it's really wierd watching a bunch of boys playing a piece about a bunch of widows.ahhh.not wierd.different.yes.different.
then it was the acs(i) recruit band.i gave up recording them one because there was nothing worth recording except that the drummer very consistent and lihai..two i didn't know the titles,three i was trying not to fall asleep.
interval.we went to groupie theresa.followed her around.saw everyone,saw em and sam and to my surprise clarice!.haha.i didn't know she was coming she didn't know i was coming.we didn't know we were coming. XD really stupid occurence.cindy was exclaiming about someone whom i'll not name in case i'm not given the rights to name.i was trying to figure out who that was.reallly.they loaded theresa w flowers,a box of chocolates,and a chocolate duckie.like the rubber duckie except in black and white and edible.fast forward.went in,couldn't find jolynn and nadiah,grabbed 3 seats 3 rows from the stage,and lijin and cindy were fighting to sit the aisle seat.cindy won.
Percussion Ensem.cindy was really on a high high for that.lijin wasn't.thankfully.and the ensem was super cool.ohmygosh kinda cool.i didn't understand it,but it was really nice.the mallets were like wow and the drums were also like wow.haha.the drums were so loud my recording had 'za2 ying1'.really sad about the za ying,but other wise it was excellent.
my vocab is limited,i'm sorry.
Trombone Quartet.i didn't expect it to be literally 4 trombones.thow was good.and i just found out emily bluffed me about thow's name.my my.i love how it so happens that i'm typing about this and windows media is playing that same thing.coincidences.but who cares?!they played The Entertainer was really great for four trombones to play sth lidat esp the fast parts cause i never knew trombonists had such fast arms.was shocked in fact.the was really good really really good. T.T
Wind Quintet was an OHMYGOSH.1 flute,1 oboe(qingyi),1 clarinettist,1 bassoonist(xiangning),1 hornist.they was really good.the timing was like perfect?watching them really feels like 'watching' a recording.cause there really was no sign of how they keep time.and the hornist was the good.everything was so clear and the really high notes were the really warm kind,not the forced kind that we play.i was really impressed.although they played sth really lengthy by mozart.which i forgot the title.so forget it.
Jazz Ensem saxaphone,trombones,trumpets,drumset and electric guitar.i have always wondered why no euphonium of horn.i still dun get it.nvm.on with what i was saying,which was nth i think.they played Fly Me To The Moon which is a nice piece if you listen to it once.more than once and it gets boring.this was really really really really nice.my recording missed the 1st note. T.T faidhi was conducting and i found out ytd what his conducting reminded me of.somehow it reminded me my aunt.the way they hold their hands is nearly the same. Xp i'm really sorry about this.i felt i had to say it because i finally found out after the long time.then they played sth which i didn't catch the title of.it was really fun.haha.very nice turn of events and turn of segments(? or is it section?)haha it starts out with this oldie and then changes to some other piece. Xp the middle section felt somewhat abit slow for it's style.haha.the drum solo was the good.it was abit too loud at one point but it was really nice.elsewhere.
A Movement for Rosa haha.xiangning's solo again.crescent time it was also her solo?yep.i think so.well there was.... i forgot what i was about to say,but nevermind.it was very nice!!!it justified the under expectation mononoke..ah.i can't rmb what i wanted to type..
Turandot. i really have nothing to say to this.it's so damn fast so damn fast my average for the 3 or 4 times we tried to play was only 4 notes.it was so damned nice too.it's so nice i can't think of anything to say about it.
ENCORE!Mission Impossible III haha.what Dr Lee said before they played that was really funny.it was so funny that i caught on immediately unlike other jokes which are funny,but takes me ten thousand years to understand.it was really funny at the end cause no one knew when to come in aft the drumsolo,so half the world came in before the drum solo was done.
ah.over with the repertoire.finally..and now omi shall go on with the groupie activities after the concert. XD haha.not that bad aft concert. lijin went back on 77,jolynn and nadiah disappeared,so left cindy and i.cindy was going to wait at vch until 11 for her father.shock.11..... nth t say.okae.nvm.we were looking for theresa to 'groupie'.haha.then we found out emily and sam were back stage(because i called to ask if i could hitch a ride home w emily Xp in the end no ride to hitch) so we ran back and groupied w emily,sam and clarice.and i found out who was the person that lijin and cindy were high-ing over.haha.finally.
and we groupied theresa,and ruth and waited thousands of year for xiangning.haha.the horns went 'tribal' with the torch.and we hung around for another half and hour,saw zhiqi,wanteng they all outside vch and went over and rubbished our way through,took the long way to the mrt station,talked alot of rubbish on the way,made a lot of noise and talked alot of 'philosophy' on the way.haha.was really exhausted when i reached home.
and now i shall lament not about saturday tune in.felt reeally bad aft combine because i cannot catch up. XD
well started out in the morning,meet lijin at bouna vista at 9.15,she said cannot be late.she ended up late and i didn't receive the msg abt having to wear school related uniform/clothes.and so i worried and nvm.walked to ac frm mrt station,lijin was pleading w theresa to come out and fetch us nearly the whole time we were walking there.
>> reached the lecture theatre(duno how to spell). signed in,was assigned to 'black' group,lijin was in 'turqoiuse'(duno how t spell either) and em and sam were in the group which was in the line in front of mine.okae and fast forward,played games within the group to ren4 shi4 each other.there was magaret frm st magaret's - hn,valarie- eupho(swiss cottage),hanliang- tuba(swiss cottage),trombonist from queensway or town sec,tubist from bukit panjang gvt highanother st magaret's whom i can't recall the name nor the instru but i can recall the face and frm ac:mingxuan,thow,wenjun and joel.
and so we played some games and thow had a forfeit which required him to go over to another group and sing the school song to jefri.
and we went to play games against the other groups.twas really funny.1st 'station''s game.dump our shoes in a plastic bag and one by one run to the plastic bag,wear your own shoe,run back,last group gets a forfeit.and so we happily dumped all our shoes in.i think mine was the easiest to find.it was the only sandals there.someone's bag of shoes got 'kidnapped' haha.that was sad.and our first person went over and happily took the shoes out one at a time.haha.so we had to tell him to pour the shoe out.and so we won 1 due to our 'cooperativeness'(ican't find another word currently) 2 due to the reason that we have less ppl. XD lijin's group had to do a forfeit.spell their group's name out w their butts.twas ridiculous because no one knew how to spell 'turquois'(i still don't)
and then we went on to a game w water balloons.1st thing all of us said : 'oh shit.' or 'dammit.' twas bu4 yue1 er2 tong2.haha.ended up no one had to get wet except the losing group.game objective.transfer 20 water balloons using 4 black plastic bags,persons holding the bag cannot move.so we happily thought up a strategy.wrap all the balloons up in one bag,get the lightest guy to hold it and the rest of the guys carry him over to the end line.wenjun ended up being the guy carryied over.and we thought we won.until...refree comes over and says that's not allowed.and so we wasted alot of time negotiating with the refree about how we would transfer theballoons back to the startline the allowed way.negotiation failed.and so we transfered the balloons back to start point and did what the rest of the groups were doing.slipping the balloons bag to bag.made easier by the soap water they squirted on the balloons.well it was difficult but we won.again,surprisingly,shockingly,to our surprise.haha.why difficult? 1 we had less time,2 we transferred more at one go than the rest,3 because one black bag was held by the trombonist and hanliang,two tall guys,the other was held by wenjun(another tall guy) and i(a short girl) and so hanliang had to bend over more while transfering the balloons. Xp sorry! haha. 'turqouis' had the forfeit again.
>> three way captain's ball was the next game,we were at a disadvantage,having lesser ppl.and not so we lost.twas sad.we were doind well 1st half.lagged 2nd half.thow fell from the bench though while catching the ball.haha.purple won the match.the queenstown girl in purple was damn poor thing.for the whole time she was playing they was calling her purple girl 1 because she was in purple 2 because her sch skirt was purple.twas funny.
and then went back to LT and grouped up with the section to go for lunch.and met MeiYing(SCGS),Vanessa(SCSS),Jefri(ACSB),Lenus(St Marg),a bukit panjang gvt high guy and another st marg's and magaret whom i'd met earlier.and off we went to clementi KFC for lunch.was really funny at the busstop.while waiting,faidhi decided we should do a self intro.and the bus was coming and someone was exclaiming that it was coming and ruth happily declared nvm one.and we happily watched the bus go past.twas damn funny.and so we had to wait another 1/2hr for the next bus.haha.and we continued self intro and rubishing around.
and so we reached clementi and we had t follow the 'red' brick road to KFC and it was theh crowded so we choked off a whole corner of KFC and meiying started to ask the yes/no story question the one where we had to guess the starting to the end of the story and could only ask yes/no questions.and so the 1st stage was passed within 5minutes by me because i rmbed the story. Xp and we(venessa and i) slogged through stage 2.haha.venessa is theh good at that kinda thing.and venessa and i were joined by jefri at stage 3.he's theh good too.and meiying was a wreck about the time cause we were about to be late,which we were in the end. XD
on the bus ride back,meiying and i posed the 4th stage to venessa.why and i?because i know the story too.and venessa was slogging over it for the whole bus ride back to ac.and so venessa,bpgh guy,jefri and i were queueing up to loan horns.and so venessa,who figured out the story already,posed the question to jefri whom i think until now still haven't found out the story.XD
and so venessa,jefri and i warmed up at a side of the hall.i found out i deproved baldy.i can't reach high A properly anymore and i could reach high high c ard 3 mths ago.twas sad.
>>went to theh ac band rm.it's really big.compared to what we have,which is tiny. Xp not that i'm not thankful for it.settled down,warm up taken by faidhi,and we had no idea what he was talking about and were struggling to transpose to the key that we were supposed to play in and suyin rescued us at one point and we died again aft that when she shifted place.jefri was really good.he was playing really well even though he didn't have any idea what faidhi was talking about too. haha.so in the end i was following his fingering and pitch. Xp guilty confessions.and then there was the commotion about the scores,we didn't have this score that score,but it worked out in the end.and hunchback was taken and it wasn't so bad and turandot was taken and it was really bad and we died on turandot. XD
>>and then Dr Lee came in and he grabbed wenlong to make a speech with him,which wenlong didn't and Dr :Lee didn't really say much and then it was on to introductions again.by school alphebetically and so we went on.i think i know the flautist shiying.she looks really familiar and her name is really really familiar.as i was saying,on went the intros,and then it came to crescent,and so happens i'm like at the sidest and so i had to go first.and then on.poor emily.haha.she haven't say anything DrLee already said sth.haha.poor thing.before em could say a word Dr Lee was like 'ah i know you' kinda thing.and on we go all the way to Z which there was none.i only realised on saturday that there was a school for every alphabet of the alphabet.
and so we went on with some warm up and i have no idea what Dr Lee was saying at all.he was going like 'pick your note' and i was like harh?and so we played. XE
the hunckback of the notre dame was good.i could catch up,i could play,i understood.we had to play this by ourselves w/o ac band one time and i think it wasn't that bad considering it was half of us's 1st time and we've never played w each other before.and the saxaphone solo for hunchback is really nice.
mission impossible III was impossibly easy.except for one or two rhythm messes.it was damn funny
gelato con coffe was not that easy but it was okae cause got someone to listen to.haha.it was nice,but abit underivative for horns.
turandot was murder.as i said earlier,the few time that i tried,it was an average of 4 notes per try.haha.sucked badly at this.adn did nearly all crescent players. XD
and so we ended off for the pieces.and DrLee did his 'speech' then.he was talking about some Pure harmonics which none of us(non ac-ians) understood and apparently,cindy didn't understand and emily was telling her she'd explain.that's a huge shock like what theh ins pure harmonics?! till now i still dun understand.i only know it's a full scale all notes played,focus on a certain few notes and it sounds really good eventhough it wa all the notes played tgt.the balance was really beautiful.
and on.we packed up in 10 minutes,returned our instruments and returned to sit w our groups.and we listened to a few 'speeches'announcements, watched a promotional video,watched a slideshow of the photos during the games.
yep i stayed for the bbq in the end. XD and we walked over to the condo and i was a clarinettist for 5 minutes. XD hahai was helping sam carry her case.her case is heavy for a clarinet case. XD and so we reached and pam went and grabbed the swing.haha.and she happily declared she wasn't wearing shorts.haha..that was really bad.
and so em,sam and i were slacking away and we dominated the swing aft pam.and Dr Lee,and 2 ac-ians were playing hopscotch.haha.DrLee is good at that.as in really good.and so.we were swinging ourselves away,letting go of the swing only enough for St Marg's and the others to swing for a while and em was nuts she wsa getting thow to push her to 180 degrees on the swing.the frame was rocking realy hard and the swing was creaking. XD and then i was swinging and em happily came and pushed me. T.T nooo.....haha.i dun like a swing i can't control and joel happily come along and pushed me and i was really traumatised cause i dun like a swing i can't control and i got violent and emily was being nice and was being a restrainer. XD and joel was mean.he was standing behind me at the swing traumatising me and other swingers.sam,em and i decided we slacked away long enough and we went off the swing as in really gave up the swing and went over to hun4 within the chefs. XD and we were thinking of ways to zhen3 joel.didn't really succeed. hai.too bad. XD
and so a rain came and interupted the bbq and we all transfered ourselves and stuff to shelter and we hung around for quite sometime.haha.i secured a ride back home from em and her brother who said since shun4 lu4 so can. XD em,sam and i we went ard looking for the club house to find the vending machine and i got cheated by emily.she walked and i happily followed her.into a dead end.i didn't realise she was trying to bluff me. T.T and so we found out that the club house was this door that we walked past nearly 3 times and i got lost trying to find the door to get out to find grace who was also looking for the vending machine. ah.the door wasn't far.there was just too many doors. XD and so we grabbed a drink each and went back to the 'porch' and we watched ppl go off.and emily,sam and ruth was exclaiming about how slow i was aft em told me the wasabi joke which took me 10 minutes to digest and figure out and laugh at.
and so aft a while of slacking off at the 'porch',either emily or her brother decided it was time to go and so emily,her brother,joel and i loaded ourselves into a taxi.i have found out i cannot do directions during that taxi ride home.and i was listening to conversatios that i didn't understand at all.and joel happily said i looked like the typical studious njc student who declares:"i have to go home and study."i was like =.-? and em has been teasing me about looking like a njc student ever since.stop it ok. XD i don't do the njc studious thing.i can't do that in fact.
and so how i found out i can't do directions.at the exit to bukitbatok east along the highway.uncle asks:"na3yi4bian1"as in into the exit or the next next exit.me happily replies :"zhou3 zhi2" go straight.twas really stupid because no matter how the vehicle moves,it still has to go straight.it's only a matter of left straight or right straight.and then,at the t junction in front of the driving range near my place uncle ask turn which side me happily say turn right.em was asking:"turn right?" and i was declaring :"uh.turn right."until i saw my finger which was pointing left.like ohmygosh.that was really stupid.and so i declare i can't do directions.yay.not. X3
and so i reached home dead tired for saturday and yesterday.and now,finally finish typing and i'm dead tired too.cause i spent nearly 5 hrs typing about one day and one night.congratulate me.i have typed so long after a duno how long abandonment of the blog.look forward to this being abandoned until 8thjuly.haha.ja.
