ive caught up to the latest season of How I Met Your Mother (6 just came out on tv!) so i moved on to leverage. exciting show id say. but season 3 is still downloadin. (shhhhhhh!) the two seasons more or less occupied my nights. (end up sleeping at 3am every night) my bones also on the way. though i got season 5 alr. -.- hmm, wonder what other awesome shows i could watch. \\
rawrrr. waiting for time to pass now. sp band later at 630 though im going off at 730-ish to bouna vista for swsyouth. i can say im pretty happy to go for pracs again. im not very tired nowadays as well after playing soccer. been working out a lil to improve my fitness. though i still eat a lot. :o
band band band band band. its thursday alr. everyday feels like a weekend now. hah
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
start of the holas!
holas, meaning holidays!
though the buid up was pretty insane. after the concert, back to school. the academic side. cant say i focused and gave my full attention. managed to pull through the final week before the YOG break. i admit i didnt really study and revise during this period. spent most of my time playing Aion >.<
anyhow, i pay the price for my crimes to myself. i prolly just scraped through this semester. gpa will definitely drop. hopeful i am to to maintain at least 3.0. =/
gonna forget about the whole exam period and blah blah. the last few days were pretty epic. when i finished my final paper on tuesday, went over to kayheng's place alon with mark to play ps3. two other friends of kay's arrived later on and impromptu decision to stay over and watch soccer. nee3dless to say, i only slep at 7 in the morning when i got back home.
so i slept wednesday away. woke at 3+ and joined louis and jess from my choir for a work out at the gym. t'was a well spent day i'd say.after the work out we just sat at a void deck and chilled till bout 1030-ish. (gymed 7-830 i think.)
oh, it doesnt end there. thurs i met up with my bestmate ak47. kiddin, AK is A. Kumarran. hah. been a long while since i hung out with him. but no matter the how long its been, we're still pretty cool. heh. caught the movie grown ups which was a really good value for money id say as well. we then proceeded to walk all the way from plaza sing to junction8 at bishan. took us 2 hours, 12 km and a bottle of apple juice each to make it to our destination. we'll look back years from now and remember that day. oh, and i finally got my guitar back from sarvin whom i lent to a year ago.
so, pretty much my muscles ache. this morning went to the cage at kallang and played soccer! officially holidays are next week and ive alr done quite a lot. heh.
weekends are here. though everyday feels like one. heh heh. right, off to finish up season 5 of how i met your mother!
though the buid up was pretty insane. after the concert, back to school. the academic side. cant say i focused and gave my full attention. managed to pull through the final week before the YOG break. i admit i didnt really study and revise during this period. spent most of my time playing Aion >.<
anyhow, i pay the price for my crimes to myself. i prolly just scraped through this semester. gpa will definitely drop. hopeful i am to to maintain at least 3.0. =/
gonna forget about the whole exam period and blah blah. the last few days were pretty epic. when i finished my final paper on tuesday, went over to kayheng's place alon with mark to play ps3. two other friends of kay's arrived later on and impromptu decision to stay over and watch soccer. nee3dless to say, i only slep at 7 in the morning when i got back home.
so i slept wednesday away. woke at 3+ and joined louis and jess from my choir for a work out at the gym. t'was a well spent day i'd say.after the work out we just sat at a void deck and chilled till bout 1030-ish. (gymed 7-830 i think.)
oh, it doesnt end there. thurs i met up with my bestmate ak47. kiddin, AK is A. Kumarran. hah. been a long while since i hung out with him. but no matter the how long its been, we're still pretty cool. heh. caught the movie grown ups which was a really good value for money id say as well. we then proceeded to walk all the way from plaza sing to junction8 at bishan. took us 2 hours, 12 km and a bottle of apple juice each to make it to our destination. we'll look back years from now and remember that day. oh, and i finally got my guitar back from sarvin whom i lent to a year ago.
so, pretty much my muscles ache. this morning went to the cage at kallang and played soccer! officially holidays are next week and ive alr done quite a lot. heh.
weekends are here. though everyday feels like one. heh heh. right, off to finish up season 5 of how i met your mother!
Monday, August 2, 2010
IBM
congratz SPSB. y'all did a good job. it was an awesome night. you are such and outstanding person.
i hope i can find my way back, or rather put myself on the right track. im really weak and scared. im lost and i want to get together with y'all. i dont want to feel alone. im selfish, i want to change that. i dont know whether i have time on my side. im really sorry. i know trying may not be enough, but i'll try to open my mouth more, open up and communicatefor now. i hope to make good relations from now. i hope i can gain your support and return the favor.
i hope i can find my way back, or rather put myself on the right track. im really weak and scared. im lost and i want to get together with y'all. i dont want to feel alone. im selfish, i want to change that. i dont know whether i have time on my side. im really sorry. i know trying may not be enough, but i'll try to open my mouth more, open up and communicatefor now. i hope to make good relations from now. i hope i can gain your support and return the favor.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
glad
really sorry for making lots of people worry.
thankful and extremely blessed to have such caring friends around me. thank you all for putting up with me.
i'll do my best. i wanna cherish this. im sorry
thankful and extremely blessed to have such caring friends around me. thank you all for putting up with me.
i'll do my best. i wanna cherish this. im sorry
Sunday, July 11, 2010
GOLD WITH HONOURS. TOP BAND
after watching peixin clinching honours twice and stgabs retaining the gold, i was anticipating this NBC a lot. 3 years it was since i played in a competition band. i was in bliss in p6, merely joyful upon getting gold in 2004. disappointed but my heart wasn't in the band as much yet as i was only sec 1 and we achieved silver the following year. i teared in sec 3 when we got that gold in 2007 for exodus which eluded the previous batches since 1999. this day eclipsed even that.
we went through a crazy month which i feel made us stronger and more accepting and appreciating for one another. countless hours over and over the same two pieces. leading a double life trying to keep up in class. but the efforts nonetheless was totally worth it. the two bands results were 85%, got me anxious. a single percentile was enough to send us all screaming. 86.33% is such a blissful figure. not only a Gold with Honour but also making SPSB the top band in the open division. i'll never forget this night. screamed my lungs out in triumph as we roared as a band. the tears which signified our passion and love for the band, the music we performed, freely escaped.
i absolutely have this special place in my heart for the band. further strengthened after this accomplishment. thank you mr chiang and mr tan for leading us. all the members, we were imbal. my section for juz being the most saxy people on earth.
we went through a crazy month which i feel made us stronger and more accepting and appreciating for one another. countless hours over and over the same two pieces. leading a double life trying to keep up in class. but the efforts nonetheless was totally worth it. the two bands results were 85%, got me anxious. a single percentile was enough to send us all screaming. 86.33% is such a blissful figure. not only a Gold with Honour but also making SPSB the top band in the open division. i'll never forget this night. screamed my lungs out in triumph as we roared as a band. the tears which signified our passion and love for the band, the music we performed, freely escaped.
i absolutely have this special place in my heart for the band. further strengthened after this accomplishment. thank you mr chiang and mr tan for leading us. all the members, we were imbal. my section for juz being the most saxy people on earth.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
wake up
i am absolutely horrible. i am totally unprepared in life. i am sorry.
i've got to learn to cope. to shoulder responsibilities. plan ahead. take the initiative.
i've got to learn to cope. to shoulder responsibilities. plan ahead. take the initiative.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
refresh
feel better. thanks melv and daryl.
ima do better. work harder. i know i can. pray and keep the faith.
ima do better. work harder. i know i can. pray and keep the faith.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
in a mess....
im broke. im confused. i''m lost. im lazy. im unfit. im sick. im annoyed. im hungry. im bored. im unstable. im a wuss. im.... always moping around.
im trying to find the mood. for jazz. that extra bit more in the other band. being more trusted. more reliable. more open. hardworking. fun.
ive made changes. im bored. thats why. tired too. perhaps i could fall asleep immediately.
im trying to find the mood. for jazz. that extra bit more in the other band. being more trusted. more reliable. more open. hardworking. fun.
ive made changes. im bored. thats why. tired too. perhaps i could fall asleep immediately.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Worthwhile.....
Came across this article...
Being a musician is a pretty hard job. Firstly, the process usually starts when you’re in primary school, and you have to go through a very long period of “playing” something which, if truth be told, you can’t really make a very nice noise on. However, the noise gradually improves, and you eventually appeal to people other than your parents and your instrumental teacher.
But why are we just the absolute best?
The amount of time it takes us. Not many people would be prepared to put years and years of practice into their hobby. Musicians have to practice for anything upto 5 hours per day to make sure that they don’t lose their technique. This is true dedication.
We have to learn a new language. Unless you’re latin/french/italian/german all rolled into one, you probably couldn’t read musical terms before you started playing. At the back of any theory book, there are hundreds of these words that we have to learn just to make our music make sense. If we didn’t take the time to learn these words, your listening experience would be very dull indeed.
We can play complex music based upon where dots are placed on a couple of lines. If you’re not a musician and have ever actually seen a piece of music, you probably wondered how on Earth we could make sense of these notes. Right from being small, we have been taught that certain lines mean certain notes, and similar. Not only this, but we also have to read these dots very quickly, and the “colouring in” of the dot tells us how long to play it for, along with the type of stick. We also have to read a lot of foreign words at the same time to tell us how to play the notes.
If that isn’t hard enough, when we’re a bit more advanced, we come across clefs. Pianists will have been used to two of these, but will soon come to realise that they are never ending. Which clef happens to be present could change everything. And, we have to remember for the whole piece of music which clef it’s in, and somehow manage to play the right notes, remembering which notes sit on which line for this particular clef.
We bring people happiness. Whether it’s a drummer at a rock concert, or a brass band in a park, people enjoy music. The music industry would be nothing without the people who take the time to learn the ins and outs of music, and Simon Cowell would be living in a one bedroom apartment in a London backstreet. So, for all of you who have ever calld musicians “nerds” or “geeks”, remember that your world would be nothing without them.
We give children something to aim for. When I was a young child, just starting to play my instrument, I remember wondering whether it would all be worth it in the end. I used to search for videos on the internet of people who could oplay my instrument well, and I decided that if there was even the smallest amount of chance that I would one day be able to play like those people, that it would be well worth carrying on with it.
So, musicians are clearly a special breed of people. No matter what instrument we play, or to what standard, we are contributing to the music industry just the same, and will one day make some people truely happy. That’s something for all of us to be proud of, and work towards when we’re wondering whether it is worth the effort.
Hmmm... Worth the effort eh?
Being a musician is a pretty hard job. Firstly, the process usually starts when you’re in primary school, and you have to go through a very long period of “playing” something which, if truth be told, you can’t really make a very nice noise on. However, the noise gradually improves, and you eventually appeal to people other than your parents and your instrumental teacher.
But why are we just the absolute best?
The amount of time it takes us. Not many people would be prepared to put years and years of practice into their hobby. Musicians have to practice for anything upto 5 hours per day to make sure that they don’t lose their technique. This is true dedication.
We have to learn a new language. Unless you’re latin/french/italian/german all rolled into one, you probably couldn’t read musical terms before you started playing. At the back of any theory book, there are hundreds of these words that we have to learn just to make our music make sense. If we didn’t take the time to learn these words, your listening experience would be very dull indeed.
We can play complex music based upon where dots are placed on a couple of lines. If you’re not a musician and have ever actually seen a piece of music, you probably wondered how on Earth we could make sense of these notes. Right from being small, we have been taught that certain lines mean certain notes, and similar. Not only this, but we also have to read these dots very quickly, and the “colouring in” of the dot tells us how long to play it for, along with the type of stick. We also have to read a lot of foreign words at the same time to tell us how to play the notes.
If that isn’t hard enough, when we’re a bit more advanced, we come across clefs. Pianists will have been used to two of these, but will soon come to realise that they are never ending. Which clef happens to be present could change everything. And, we have to remember for the whole piece of music which clef it’s in, and somehow manage to play the right notes, remembering which notes sit on which line for this particular clef.
We bring people happiness. Whether it’s a drummer at a rock concert, or a brass band in a park, people enjoy music. The music industry would be nothing without the people who take the time to learn the ins and outs of music, and Simon Cowell would be living in a one bedroom apartment in a London backstreet. So, for all of you who have ever calld musicians “nerds” or “geeks”, remember that your world would be nothing without them.
We give children something to aim for. When I was a young child, just starting to play my instrument, I remember wondering whether it would all be worth it in the end. I used to search for videos on the internet of people who could oplay my instrument well, and I decided that if there was even the smallest amount of chance that I would one day be able to play like those people, that it would be well worth carrying on with it.
So, musicians are clearly a special breed of people. No matter what instrument we play, or to what standard, we are contributing to the music industry just the same, and will one day make some people truely happy. That’s something for all of us to be proud of, and work towards when we’re wondering whether it is worth the effort.
Hmmm... Worth the effort eh?
Thursday, May 27, 2010
chill
really should follow emmelyn's advice. chill-lax a little bit. as much as i may want to deny it, im not coping well with everything thats happening at the moment. and im always rushed and 'gan chiong' (i have no idea how its spelled) need to do some soul searching.
MST is 2 weeks away. ohmigosh. next week there's a few theory test and practicals! arghhhh! dang it! need some mozart to aid me in my revisions. HAHA.
MST is 2 weeks away. ohmigosh. next week there's a few theory test and practicals! arghhhh! dang it! need some mozart to aid me in my revisions. HAHA.
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