BAND

2009-08-24T00:07:00.002+08:00

ha after the long hiatus, i'm back posting.

those who expect a post that is specially dedicated to flaming people, will be disappointed.

basically over these few months, many things happened, regardless in band or anything.

i have to say that being a senior is really tiring for an impatient person like me.

i really cannot bear it when juniors cannot play simple stuffs.

and some juniors(not from saxos) even have those sort of bo chap attitude towards band. this sort of lousy attitude really makes me very pissed.

after 8 April's SYF, many of the year 2s said that they will work hard and teach the juniors, so as to reclaim our former glory.

but how many people actually remember these few words?

we are forgetting that we have been insulted by that person and how we had promised our seniors that we will work hard for SYF'11.

our attitudes and discipline is really like deproving and dropping like crazy.

if this goes on, how can we actually prove that woman wrong?

i hope that everyone can at least work hard together and push the band back to its former standard. im sure people won't want to be stuck with the same song for a long time. So why not work hard and play this song well? than we can be exposed to a greater variety of songs!

To my juniors who may be reading,
please work harder and have a sense of urgency. Please remember that you will be the second most senior batch in SYF'11 next time. Work hard!

syf'09

2009-04-10T17:59:00.002+08:00

okay thinking back clearly now.

had a nice time playing on stage. i believe i did play my best.

moreover, i didnt screw up like in pri 5.

and i wasnt as nervous as in pri 5.

but the results ended up to be the same.

although people wld say results doesn't matter, it's the process that matters.

but nevertheless, i believe this medal we got mattered to us.

but let this medal be the wake-up call for us.

since the gold history has been broken,

we will start a new legacy,

of GWHs.

its time to work hard.

and for yr1 juniors, hope u all would rly start working hard now.

its our chance on stage next SYF.

practice hard and regain our glory!

syf'09

2009-04-08T20:22:00.002+08:00

this will just be a short post.

syf'09

the results received wasnt rly desirable.

but i believe this will serve as a wake-up call.

and we will definitely strive for GWH in SYF'11.

i dont want to change to tenor

2009-03-28T21:17:00.002+08:00

ah. if my seniors leave after syf, there will be no tenor.(if u disregard the two ponners)

i dont want to change to tenor.

i prefer alto.

damn.

hope for some damn imba primary sch players to come in nxt yr.

p.s hopefully my juniors.

condemns

2009-03-17T21:32:00.002+08:00

ok i shall just post abt band on fri, aka, last day of school.

well had sectionals cos ms chan wasnt here.

and we got chased around by CO until we finally settled down near the study area.

that was when i saw two people walking towards us with their fingers in their ears, as though their ears were so fragile and delicate that they would break upon contact with our saxophones' sounds.

and guess what.

the two people comprised of a TEACHER and a SC.

wow.

they are rly polite huh?

they dont even show the basic respect for people.

by shutting their ears with their fingers, they are just showing how good their parents brought them up as.

worst still, arent TEACHERS and SCs supposed to be role models for us?

if this is what u consider a role model, i suppose u have to wash your eyes with detergent and put them in the washing machine for thorough cleaning.'

i shall condemn this two people forever.

p.s i shant state who they are but i shall offer some clues abt the teacher.

the teacher teaches as well as my maths teacher and my class, 2B, cheered when he came in to relief us.

happy guessing.

and once again, condemns to this two people.

35days

2009-03-03T22:46:00.000+08:00

35days to SYF'09!

are our playing standard so low?

2009-03-02T20:04:00.002+08:00

after the sound check yesterday, i suppose all of us have finally got familiar to the stage of SCH.

afterall, we took 45min before we started sounding acceptable.(according to ms chan)

i thought we sounded not bad.

i thought we could get at least a gold.

but ms chan told us that our final playing standard was only worth a silver, probably due to the fact that we are exhausted.

can't we do better than a silver?

can't we maintain the gold or even better, get Gold with Honours?

can't we not disappoint our seniors?

can't we really focus during band pracs and not make stupid mistakes?

can't we continue striving on for our goal, Gold with Honours?

we should rly work hard, there's not much time left anymore.

sound check

2009-02-28T22:24:00.003+08:00

okay, tmr is the sound check.

its been a long time since i last stepped on the stage of SCH.

should be about 3yrs.

erm i seem to remember vaguely the sound check for syf'06.

1h seems like a rly rly short time for a practice.

in fact its rly short.

so all RV bandsmen should cooperate tomorrow and not waste any time.

and we must make ms chan proud and let her know that we still hav hope, we still have hope to get GOLD WITH HONOURS.

its time to prove ourselves.

13days

2009-02-17T22:08:00.003+08:00

13 days and counting.

to sound check at SCH.

its time to feel the sense of urgency.

no time

2009-02-16T22:10:00.002+08:00

lol. like sebastian poh, i also dont hav enough time to type out a proper post.

anyway, i'll update when i hav the time to do so.

yah. LOL.

possible band exchange programme

2009-02-02T22:29:00.002+08:00

well, recently i heard from a friend in RIMB which stands for Raffles Institution Military Band, and a friend in RGSSB, which stands for Raffles Girls School Symphonic Band that the two bands are going to have an exchange with River Valley Concert Band in like Mid of March.

I have no idea if this is true or false since sebby has not mentioned any single thing about this upcoming event. Haha, but i hope that this exchange will exist hopefully. it should be interesting and fun to have a musical exchange with different bands.

haha. hopefully it will aid us in our preparation for SYF'09 if this event does exists.

Last Day Of Jan

2009-01-31T21:47:00.002+08:00

it seems so fitting that the last day of jan would end with band.

had no drills tdy, which made the day more enjoyable and less tiring. basically, what we did tdy was just sectionals and tutor.

and clarinets got their new instruments tdy. including yr 2s. lol. thats like so nice. they just entered for 1yr plus and they get to use brand new instruments. they are rly rly rly lucky. hope they would treasure their instrument and dont produce lousy music with it.

and band ended with a not very good ending tdy. sebby was pissed with us and finally could not take it anymore. we did 20 pumpings, and excos did 10 more. excos have a hard life, i must say.

well, hope that the attendance would be better next time. expecially ppl who dont play very well and yet still keep pon-ning practices. im pissed with these sort of ppl. just hope that they would come to their senses. haiz.

damn

2009-01-22T20:07:00.001+08:00

i just ruined my whole blog.

the music player is gone. this is so retarded.

22nd Jan

2009-01-22T19:38:00.002+08:00

tdy was a pretty normal day, but its boring nevertheless.

due to the lack of band practices, the day was very, very boring. and i had nothing to look forward which spells boredom to me.

had the usual boring dose of lessons.

especially lang arts and mathematics.

the subjects are actually not very boring. but due to some *coughs*, the lessons are boring.

and there's cny celebration tmr. it shld be quite boring too due to the fact that yr 2s have to do the calligraphy thing in the canteen for like 1h. i would rather prefer sitting on the floor and watching the entire concert to sitting in the gallery and watch half of the concert. then do the stupid calligraphy thing. argh.

but after the calligraphy thing would be band practice. haha. it shld be quite enjoyable if i get to use sheryl's instrument. if not, i'll probably just die in epicus. the high notes that i get stuck at with my old instrument. i'll rather go through overture with my lousy instrument lo. at least i can play through the whole thing.

aiya, tmr will be a sian day until 12. then it will be interesting. hahas.

Sparkwinds Concert

2009-01-19T16:34:00.003+08:00

haha i finally updated, due to the overwhelming workload.

anyway i shall try and make my post more wordy nowadays.

yesterday went to Singapore Conference Hall for the Sparkwinds Concert. The Singapore Conference Hall remained as it was like 3 years ago. It brought back quite a lot of memories as i remembered syf'06. i still remembered us waiting outside the hall for our turn to go in. and the tension we felt. haha. it was quite meaningful to see the Singapore Conference Hall again.

anyway, the Sparkwinds concert was great. RV, YH, PJC alumnis were great. Their playing was quite professional, especially my tutor, nizam. He was like so imba in playing the solos. His soprano saxo solo was like a recording and his playing, in summary, was super super imba. The whole band was great. Their epicus totally owned us by a lot. It's like when they used such a short period of time and they still could play better than us.

what could i say? seniors are seniors. they definitely have more experience than us. their sound was also quite balanced and the soloists were great.

and lastly, the Saxophones Section was wonderful. Their quartet was so damn nice. Their playing is super professional lo.

and the gifts we bought for the seniors were chocolates. and sheryl had a special present from us. *laughs*. it was actually quite amusing. haha.

im so looking forward to Beautiful Sunday on 28 June(?). The Sparkwinds will be performing again. I hope they will make it a compulsory event again.

although i went home rather late last night and had to chiong homework like mad, but i still felt that it was worth my time and money for the concert.

haha. band just rocks.

a typical tuesday

2009-01-13T23:15:00.002+08:00

this is such a typical tuesday.

being the CCA day, I dont get why teachers just love to give us all the homework on this particular day.

We get home like 8 plus. Where do we find the time to do the homework? Rush them out till midnight? Then next day, they still expect us to pay full attention. Is like WTH?

and futhermore, we have exhausted our energy on cca. what ounces of energy do we have left to plough the endless stream of homework?

therefore, i can safely conclude that on tuesday, teachers should just save up the homework they want to give, and give us on friday. Then, we will have the weekend to finish them up.

isn't that like the perfect solution to solve this endless problem?

anyway, words aside.

today's band practice was horrible for me.

my notes keep squeaking.

i dunno whats wrong but i just know that my sound quality sucks today.

continue on like that and I rly wont get in SYF man.

=.=

pissed

2009-01-12T16:08:00.002+08:00

first of all was the cid cluster.

i actually got mathematics as my cluster.

WTH.

please don't get it wrong. it's not that i don't like maths. its just that the content taught is seriously boring. who would possibly wanna learn abt ancient maths, in this case, ancient chinese maths.

oh man. and futhermore, the groups are chosen for us. we dont even have a choice or chance to voice out. unfortunately, i know none of my groupmates. that's horrible!

imagine facing that for one semester. oh man, i think i'll collapse.

and after that horrendous lesson, i get another *i dunno how to describe* lesson.

my maths teacher is really fantastic. =)

she teaches like *i dunno what to say*.

anyway, lets just say that her teaching can make us into F9 students.

anyway, i just feel that this year is gonna to be damn lan4. cant wait for better teachers nxt yr.(not saying that there aren't good one this year).

its a boring sunday

2009-01-11T14:12:00.003+08:00

almost forgot about this.

Happy 14th Birthday to Celine!

its a sunday.

but i dont feel the mood of a sunday.

i just feel the mood of a normal school day.

BORING.

i just wonder why do we even need to do homework.

why we even need to go to school.

actually we just need to study ourselves and just come to school for exams.

its so simple lo.

better than wasting your time in school.

with teachers that make you more confused.

the only good thing about school is CCA lo.

other than that, there's nothing much attractive.

its a boring school life.

past performances

2009-01-09T21:42:00.007+08:00

just suddenly had the urge to compile the lists of performances I have taken part in before.

i'll probably not be able to state all as i won't be able to remember so well.

From the past to recent:
Primary School
1)Some performance at the opening ceremony of (i forgot what)
2)Some performance at (i forgot what place)
3)Primary School Band Concert'06
4)SYF'06
5)CCA Promotion Day'07

i think there are more, but my memory is rly failing me. i can only remember flashes of my primary school band life.

Secondary School

1)RV Guest Band at Yuhua Concert.
2)Speech Day
3)Istana Performance
4)National Day(lol)
5)First day of 2009.(lol)

Primary Alumni
1)Primary School Concert'08

i dun rly remember well. im not sure whether there are more or not. but well, these are all that I remember for now. I might come back and edit this anytime so, yah.

and anyway,
my instrument just keeps giving me problems.
sometimes i cannot even produce a sound out of it.
damn.

support lost

2009-01-08T21:10:00.002+08:00

oh man, my brother just reported for NS today.

That's like so "great" man, now I have to rely on myself to complete those complicated homework.

Damn it, I'm so gone this year.

My pillar of support is gone.

Futhermore, the good teachers are all gone too.

....

2009 teachers

2009-01-08T17:21:00.004+08:00

Let me just do a simple sum-up of the new teachers.

Lang Arts: Mrs Josephine Woon
I would say that this teacher is just like any normal language arts teacher. The lessons are equally boring and mundane. I can totally see almost everyone looking sian-ed during the period. However, I would still prefer my old teacher better because she isn't strict at all.

Mathematics: Ms/Mrs Agnes Lee
This teacher is the most horrible maths teacher I have ever seen. Maybe it's just me. She seems to treat us like primary school students, explaining every single step to us. I would definitely prefer Mrs Chak to her. Mrs Chak's teaching is like dont know how many times more interesting and better than Ms/Mrs Agnes Lee.

History: Ms Serene Teo
This teacher is quite an acceptable teacher. I must say her teaching is still acceptable and good. Nothing much to continue.

Geography: Mr Bryan Tan
I don't rly know this teacher well yet, since I only met him once this week. Can't rly comment much but quite a friendly teacher I must say.

Overall, I would obviously prefer last year's group of teachers. They are so much better and friendly than these new teachers. Especially Mathematics. I seriously dunno how am I going to score well with such a teacher.

Oh, and I'm the new History Rep. Lol.

2009, the start of the new year.

2009-01-01T00:05:00.000+08:00

2009.

the new year.

Firstly, I should start by wishing everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Secondly, I should talk more about events in this past year.

2008 has been quite a meaningful year. New school, new class. Everything is new, well not counting CCA. I had to adjust to new environments and etc. Nevertheless, I had fun with my class, though there were and are still some disputes. More importantly, I had fun in RVCB. Although sometimes, I had to juggle between my primary alumni band and my secondary school band, but I still enjoyed myself tremendously in band.

As all bandsmen know, band rawks. Especially RVCB.

Other than that, I also had fun coaching my juniors. Although their improvement is rather slow, I believe that with practice, they will improve gradually. I hope that they would seriously love band and practice with gusto.

Now is the start of everything.

We're all back to square one. I hope that 2B'09 will be more united and hopefully have no internal conflicts.

That's all.

new year resolutions.

2008-12-31T22:35:00.000+08:00

2009 is approaching in...

1 hour and 24 more minutes.

i should make some resolutions for nxt yr.

Resolutions are as follow:
1. Get good results without studying hard.
2. Get into a subject combination I want.
3. Get into SYF'09.
4. Get top in English.(hopefully)
that would be all.

hope that nxt yr's teachers would be nice and good.

hope that my chemistry teacher would be a different one.

and for RVCB to get gold with honours.

thats all.

homework

2008-12-31T00:03:00.000+08:00

i hate writing english essays, man

especially when i hav no inspiration and dunno what to write.

especially when the topic is something that I'm totally unfamiliar with.

nevermind, i shall write whatever that comes to mind.

since its not graded too.

just a few paragraphs and i can slack alrdy.

lol.

inconsiderate neighbour

2008-12-27T11:32:00.000+08:00

omg, my home reeks of smoke now.

all thanks to my very "considerate" neighbour.

I must commend them on burning their incense paper right outside my home.

I have such a clever and smart neighbour.

I suddenly feel like spraying air freshener on purpose when they get out of their house to retrieve the tin.

argh, my neighbour "rocks", man.

alive blog

2008-12-25T00:59:00.000+08:00

change of a blogskin.

This blog will no longer be dead.(hopefully)

I shall update about band camp perhaps tmr.

for tdy, i'll shall just slack.

bye.

primary school band prac

2008-12-12T23:41:00.000+08:00

went back to primary school tdy.

taught my juniors on several songs.

however,

i'm getting impatient with them.

got pissed with one junior who just could not play the solo part.

i mean the solo sounds so nice one la.

but the way he plays it is like..

let's just hope that he will practice harder for the solo.

primary school band concert

2008-11-09T18:14:00.000+08:00

Okay, this post is just to promote the upcoming concert.

Details as follows...

1) It's held on 20th December 2008.

2) Alumnis might be performing too.

3) Its' very entertaining.

I'm not sure about the tickets though.

So, just tag if u're interested.