Wednesday, November 29, 2006
A summary
Finally found the mood to blog.. so much to say... hmmx... i'll start from... erm... when we sent mingquan off at the airport some time ago... sent off yewei,jinkai and xian jie too... off to taiwan for 1 month... hmmmx... There were me,jj,kb,boyi,hwee,sngzheng and ys... went to kb's house after that... juz played pokemon cards... forgot wad happened... okae next... erm... argh... cant remember too far back...i shall start from recent stuffs...or those i can remember vividly...
One fine tuesday, me,jj,kb,sngzheng and ys went to play badminton in the morning... hl and boyi cudn't join us, one was working the other was at a camp... but aniwae quite fun... and funny... badminton's so fun!!! Aniwae went to kb's house after lunch and played mahjong... learnt it last year but forgot... refreshed my memory abit and i won the 2 out of the 3 games!!!! Kept getting all the flowers... after tt played pokemon cards(as usual)... sngzheng and i went for dinner after that a macdonalds... juz remembered it was veh cool(<-- pun)walking to the place... the breeze was real nice... always wanted to take a walk lidat...
Grad night last thursday,it was erm... not as great as i tot i wud be... actualli nothin much to blog bout that zzz... tot it's supposed to be a memorable event... but... hmmmmx... guna post some pictures here taken on that night...when i get them... and andrew lim... the song... zzz... after the dinner, and a class-photo taking, victor and someone forgot who tried to throw yujun into the erm.. a pool, there was a pillar surrounded wif a small pool of depth not more than 50cm i think, guess they were trying to re-enact the scene when yujun got dunked into the pool at kennedy's house during a bbq... just when they managed to get yujun's legs into the pool the manager or someone came out and they ran zzz... Seems like Andrew lim guna get complaints...
Next morning, went to SCH wif boyi,ys,sngzheng,angus to watch the judging rounds of a composition competition... overslept... went there felt really sleepy... slept during some of the songs... sorta... try to... i realized y i was so tired only later in the day... around lunch... was having a fever... thou not too serious... had lunch at maxwell foodcourt(i think tt's wad it's called),ys left earlier, den angus ordered cockles...looks disgusting... and angus cudn't finish it...
Nxt day went for the concert and prize presentation for the composition competition. Went for dinner first wif chunyin angus and sng zheng at 'old market' first... den went for the concert... saw jessly and zixin...den went for supper after that...
Next,on one fine monday, actualli this monday... went to school for "practice"... wif yiheng, biran and sngzheng... but instead of practising... we kept playing pokemon cards... from 10+ to around 5 zzz throughout the whole time i was playing the zhongruan... while waiting for NASA rockets to take off...den the nxt day(ytd)... took out zhongruan to practice and the fingertip of my index finger super pain!!!! Cudn't practice properly but it got betta in the night...
Went to school todae too... juz din wana stay at home... betta to hang out wif frens... sngzheng,boyi,yiheng were there...they practiced and i.. erm... practiced and read "President's Assasin".. borrowed it on monday... decided that i should read a novel once in a while... tried sight-reading... and realized how suky i really am zzz... wonder how im guna get pass friday... 2 days away... actualli... less than 48hours away.... haix...
Feeling veh... melancholic now... juz wana go out and 散心... dun wana stay at home... aniwhere else is betta.... There's still the auditions... haix... Hwee Leong will definitely get in... Haix... Shud start finding pple to go wif me to watch nxt year's SYCO concert...
Actualli... haix... i always think 船到桥头自然直.... and wad is mine will be mine... wad is not mine will never be... but... mebbe 人定胜天.... and as quoted from Sister Kate in Chrno Crusade "The gate does not open to those who do not seek it"... haix... which side shud i believe in...
Haiya.. spent around 30mins posting this entry... after like 1 and a half hours of super gunbound fun(Played wif real nice and fun pple)!! Guna go read a book now... stay up late late... so dun haf to wake up early tml and face wadeva coming at me...
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Fri and Sat
Took a 1 hour train ride to Changi airport to send angus off to vietnam...longest train ride i've ever taken i think zzz... saw angus brother... dosen look like him... went to eat popeye after that... quite nice.. cept for the biscuit thingy... make me finish like 3/4 of my drink... so dry and powderish... after that took a 1 and a half hour bus ride back to RJC... longest bus ride i've ever taken... tot a long bus ride wud be cool but zzz felt veh lethargic after the journey... mingquan was the only one who enjoyed the ride i think...Saw the syf set piece... 渐快的凉风... i think the english name is typhoon crescenti or something lidat... english name sounds cool.. looked thru the zhongruan scores also... not veh hard... easier than xing kong(all the hou ban pai zzz)... but it was... not nice...n the orchestra was veh noisy... after trying out the set piece went out to play pokemon 3v3... kb,jj,boyi,hl,mq and me... played until around 630 and it became real dark... but we continued playing in the dark... cudn't see wad was happening... but the lights came on at around 730... managed to catch yiheng and swing him around....went for dinner after that... and continued playing pokemon 3v3 at food junction... only had time for 1 game... all the stalls were closing at 10... tts all for friday...
Saturday... helping out for a duno wad concert... boyi,hweeleong,sngzheng and me...went to NAFA and juz stepped into the concert hall or wadeva place u call that, den there was this gigantic fat guy sitting on the first row in the middle...n he was scolding scolding scolding...we backed away immediately and started laughing... duno y but juz found it funni...got our instructions and den heard more of the fat guy's scoldings... got instructions for wad we were supposed to do and went backstage...by then i think we not shuang him adi... we juz made jokes out of tt fat guy and laughed like hell...like if he's standing under the hot sun can hear the sizzling of oil burning XD... and if we use a knift and stab him, oil will spurt out instead of blood!!!! We were thinking of ways to boycott the performance too... like juz leave b4 the performance den see how that fat guy shouts during the performance... or when presenting the flowers... den accidentally drop it and let the person behind step on it and the next person picks it up and give it to him again!! There was another helper called micheal... quite nice... actualli we were thinking of escaping before the presentation of flowers... but tot he wud be in some trouble if we did that... so juz stayed... went for delayed dinner after that... at KFC... reached home only at around 12.20....Quite a funny day....today...boring....but a rico tanbo blog is being setup now!!!! Initiated by Tam Chun Yin....i'll haf a link when it's done...watch out for it!
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Voices of the Dragon VIII
During the rehearsal for feng nian ji, i broke my 1st string, i broke another 1st string while tuning, and broke a 2nd string during donghai... when i got down the stage again to fix my 2nd string it was cool to see the expressions on the faces of pple who saw it zzz... hl juz shook his head and lester gave the "What!?" look... the rehearsal for chun dao yi he was also horrible... felt so super nervous... and finally understood how having butterflies in my stomach feels like... felt abit queasy...din expect myself to be so nervous even during the rehearsals when it was juz playing in front of pple i noe(most of them..)...cudn't lun properly, miss notes etc... much worse den during usual practice.. after that rehearsal, mr yeo told me my right hand was funi... and lhl juz kept telling us not to be nervous... i noe tt i shouldn't be... but knowing what should be done is one thing, doing it is another...sooo depressed after the rehearsal... and wif the string breakings.. felt really pessimistic bout the actual performance... at the moment i wondered how things wud turned out like that... wanted to pass my "last" day in RICO and RI fruitfully and memorably... what if my string breaks... wad if history repeats itself and my zou2 falls out... what if i screw up the duet.... there were so many questions in my mind... sat backstage after the chun dao yi he rehearsals for like 10+mins... and jia huang had to console me zzz when it was supposed to be the other way round... after the 10+mins... decided that it wudn't help if i continue to 坐以待毙, so went down to practice again wif chun yin... took around 30mins++ for me to calm myself down and recover fully from the horrible rehearsal... den i played the whole thing once thru again feeling relaxed and it went pretty well!!! I realized that once i get nervous everything was guna be over...so i juz tried not to think bout it... and kept reminding myself that getting nervous was useless... feeling more "high", i went back to the practice room and started talking to pple and started taking photos!!!!! Using others cameras zZz... ji an sorta changed... he became veh tamed... and inquisitive... tot he was acting wierd... but den got to noe tt tt's juz him... he started asking me bout the "stand" for the liuqin and stuffs... den during dinner yongjun kept telling me not the duet lousi is the song not nice... cudn't take a proper photo wif yiheng zZz... n sng zheng... n lhl bought bananas for me n chun yin... tot that was realli nice... he said it wud calm us down... den finally it was time for the concert... started to panic abit again.. but i think the photo taking and stuffs made me feel more relaxed... Before the actual concert started.. i collected luck from many many many pple... by shaking their hands...
To the concert....
When i entered the stage... was quite shocked... the audience were sooo... active, lively, cool!! Cud hear shouting of names and there were cat calling everything!! Super cool... reminds me of like some superstar concert den when the star comes onto stage the fans juz start shouting and shouting...i tried to find pple i noe.. and saw my classmates immediately... they were sitting directly opposite where tanbo face... n yujun's family was sitting behind them! Cudn't find other pple... cudn't see zixin,lukas,tph or even my parents zzz... den it started... i wanted to put emotions into wadeva songs we were guna play on tt day cuz it was the last day... but was too worried bout chun dao yi he to do that... but it turned out quite okae... tried to restrain myself from playing too harshly in case the string breaks.... feng nian ji was okae i guess, and taiwan was okae too but there was a part where the orchestra was not together...After the 2 songs started getting abit nervous... it was ye di de hua, the sec1 piece and den chun dao yi he... althou i was MUCH MUCH less nervous den during the rehearsals, still felt abit panicky... and ye di de hua was over so fast!! Felt nervous again when i realized it's here adi...
Just before me n chun yin went on stage, hwee leong,boyi,kb and jj came to wish us good luck...tt time was too nervous to think bout anithing else cept the duet but thinking of it now it was quite heart-warming...den finally heard the emcee annoucing me and chun yin's name... it was time to go out... walking towards my seat i heard my classmates shouting my name...mebbe tt made me less nervous... and mebbe to not disappoint my classmates who had came down or pple who had passed their luck to me, i was much less nervous and the duet went well... althou chun yin missed some parts... but it was okae... cant describe how glad i was after the item was over...This experience really let me understand how being nervous can screw everything up... this shall be something i'll keep in mind for some time...was veh happy n juz getting "hyperactivated" after that... went downstairs n ji an was like "Can u play tt song? I want to listen... very nice"... was so shocked...felt like he wasn't being himself... but still played aniwae... den chun yin was quite unhappy wif himself... he din perform up to his own expectations i guess... but well.. he's only a sec2... if i were to play chun dao yin he in sec2....it wud be a disaster...den went out during the intermission and saw zixin and mun hui...got good comments! Was quite a relief... mebbe they were trying to be nice... but still haha...den found out jessly heard the performance of the 1st 4 songs over the fone...
Before the next session of orchestral pieces started, when lhl was tuning my lq, he asked if i was joining syco...I'll take this opportunity to say something about tt... signed up for the zhongruan auditions adi... but i also found out bout my other competitors... there are 2 more and 1 of them is the brother of syco erhu principal... the one who can plays jian qi(grade10) on zhongruan... hmmmx... so... game over le bah i guess...
*Aniwae*
Decided to enjoy the last few songs im guna play as a member of RICO... again the audience were noisy when we went on stage again... n nobodi sat... veh confused...din noe if it was lester or me who was supposed to give the cue zzz... so everyone stood up while the emcee talked zzz.. den boyi had to tell us to sit down when he came in zzz... no comments for huan xin... long was still rushy even when mr yeo tried veh hard to tell us not to... dong hai was veh fast... and the percussion was noisy!!! Before i knew it it was over...encore matsuri...decided i cud finally play as hard as i usually do... last song... that was i was guna play... as a member of RICO...
Still remembered i decided to join RICO partly cuz the matsuri that the 2003 batch played was impressive and nice... and now im ending my 4 years wif matsuri...
the audience continued clapping and shouting for encore even after matsuri... but just too bad mr yeo tot lemon tree was still not up to standard yet... so that was the end... felt quite sad... but went out and saw my classmates... yewei,jinkai,aaron,victor,justin,xianjie,mark,lionel,liangjie,darryl,weiqi... their comments were encouraging...they den took a class photo wif mingquan yujun and me... we were SOOOO noisy tt we attracted the attention of almost EVERYONE who was in SCH... 100+ pple loh... not a few... everyone was looking at us but we din care the least bit... 4J'06 ROX!!!!! Here's the picture:
Thanks guys! For coming down to support!! Then got lollipops from wenjun... so nice... den went onto photo taking madness again... failed to take a proper photo wif yiheng again... hanged around in SCH wif yiliang mervin ++ also... mervin said:"Hen hao, zhe ci xian mei you duan" haha... he watched the myriad performance and saw wad happened...so diu lian... cudn't bear to leave...
Hope i din leave out anything... will edit if i realize i did....
Learnt so much in this concert... Also realized how lucky I am to have known friends who are so hard to say goodbye to.... 4J'06/RICO'06!!!!!!
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Graduation Ceremony
Cudn't sleep the day before the day of the concert and graduation ceremony, felt too excited mebbe...
*Aniwae*
Went to Ngee Ann Polytechnic with darren chai, had to wake up super early, but i still overslept and woke up only at 6am. Finally saw efoo after like 4 or 5 months... haven changed... Mr wee had to replace tph to give us the certificate folders as he was somewhere busy marking o level scripts. Watched videos that brought back memories... Cudn't recognize pple for the "Reach"... all look so different... Headmaster and Year head gave their speeches, B.K. was boring as usual.. but Andrew Lim was... erm.. interesting... he dug out all the past incidents of the sec4 batch misbehaving and stuffs lidat, den started giving CLE lessons zzz.. Throughout his speech there were many rounds of applause(which must haf made parents think that A.L. is very popular) the response was most probably cuz we've thought that he had suffered enough in the 2 years haha... Batch song was nice... Institution anthem too... alot louder than usual...Another 5 tickets sold during the graduation ceremony... Victor wong,Justin,Weejin,Aaron and Lionel... Took some photos after the ceremony...den went to SCH!!!!
Din feel veh much for the graduation ceremony... so i shall go on to RICO concert!! In a separate post..
Blog Revived!
Hehez... the first entry of this blog was posted on 8thNov2005, after blogging for 4 months felt too lazy to continue... but i've decided to revive this blog again! To record the ultra success of RICO Voices of the Dragon 8! Coincidentally, todae is 8thNov2006!!!!!!!!!