Thursday, May 31, 2007
Presenting the HCCO and HCBand Percussion!
Picture taken on the night of Hwa Chong Arts Festival 2007, 23 May.
I will never forget that night.
The night we met our companions.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
I have very serious stage fright, yeah especially when it comes to a very prominent role in the piece.
Christal says just be more confident, Ai Wen says practise more. Jie Han says just have aura.
But I think experience plays a majority of the role.
SL says Percussion is supposed to be a very brave section, since most of the time we would be standing up while the rest of the band would sit and play. So the most eye-catching people in the band, after the conductor, would be the percussionists.
I have not been realising all these pressure from the crowd much, probably due to the fact that I am not playing a major role that does not stand out as much like a soloist. Been playing all the auxillaries since J1, I have decided to try out other instruments which are, foreign to me.
It is not easy, with fairly weak foundation. Rudiments seem to be a personal practices since the start of this year, unlike last year where the SL actually got everyone to practise stroking. I guess it is all because the J1 this year are ex-banders, so they already have lots of practices on that, except for the harpist. Nevertheless, being a harp player, she can read notes fairly quickly and getting the correct pulse. In contrast, I still have to write the A B C D (for bass clef) and taking quite some time to actually read the notes in treble clef, which sorts of explain why I have been playing auxillaries, and not saying that it is easy, it is easy to know how to play but it is toughest to master it.
Just look out for the cymbol crasher during the concert for Symphonic Overture, you will see the difference between a pro and a learner.
I need to get rid of the stage fright, yes, within the remaining 5 days.
No more hiccups, no more missing beats and random rythmns.
Keep it steady,
Steady Bom Pi Pi
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Yesterday was the band outing. It was quite a weird time to have outing since it is within the intense practice sessions. I thought it would have been better if everyone goes home and rest up after a tiring day. Maybe to some it is better to relax this way. So all the banders were invited to eat steamboat at marina bay yesterday.
I think I would really not want to eat at that kind of places again. Very fortunately, my body has not shown any signs of discomfort after the food. The food is really unhygenic and I would just turn off by all the flies flying around the food. Did not eat much, instead went to arcade to watch 'free show'. hehe others play I just watch.
Oh ya, a conclusion I can draw from the arcade session: Band members can dance fairly well.
They actually recorded videos of all the people namely Shueli, Ernest, Chin Seng, Shioban (spelling). Shall try to get those =)
Left home shortly after 10pm. Just to go home in time for the Core module today and sectionals.
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Just realised that my entry is not in a very logical flow. I am not thinking logically anyway.
SHAO lag ah
Christal says just be more confident, Ai Wen says practise more. Jie Han says just have aura.
But I think experience plays a majority of the role.
SL says Percussion is supposed to be a very brave section, since most of the time we would be standing up while the rest of the band would sit and play. So the most eye-catching people in the band, after the conductor, would be the percussionists.
I have not been realising all these pressure from the crowd much, probably due to the fact that I am not playing a major role that does not stand out as much like a soloist. Been playing all the auxillaries since J1, I have decided to try out other instruments which are, foreign to me.
It is not easy, with fairly weak foundation. Rudiments seem to be a personal practices since the start of this year, unlike last year where the SL actually got everyone to practise stroking. I guess it is all because the J1 this year are ex-banders, so they already have lots of practices on that, except for the harpist. Nevertheless, being a harp player, she can read notes fairly quickly and getting the correct pulse. In contrast, I still have to write the A B C D (for bass clef) and taking quite some time to actually read the notes in treble clef, which sorts of explain why I have been playing auxillaries, and not saying that it is easy, it is easy to know how to play but it is toughest to master it.
Just look out for the cymbol crasher during the concert for Symphonic Overture, you will see the difference between a pro and a learner.
I need to get rid of the stage fright, yes, within the remaining 5 days.
No more hiccups, no more missing beats and random rythmns.
Keep it steady,
Steady Bom Pi Pi
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Yesterday was the band outing. It was quite a weird time to have outing since it is within the intense practice sessions. I thought it would have been better if everyone goes home and rest up after a tiring day. Maybe to some it is better to relax this way. So all the banders were invited to eat steamboat at marina bay yesterday.
I think I would really not want to eat at that kind of places again. Very fortunately, my body has not shown any signs of discomfort after the food. The food is really unhygenic and I would just turn off by all the flies flying around the food. Did not eat much, instead went to arcade to watch 'free show'. hehe others play I just watch.
Oh ya, a conclusion I can draw from the arcade session: Band members can dance fairly well.
They actually recorded videos of all the people namely Shueli, Ernest, Chin Seng, Shioban (spelling). Shall try to get those =)
Left home shortly after 10pm. Just to go home in time for the Core module today and sectionals.
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Just realised that my entry is not in a very logical flow. I am not thinking logically anyway.
SHAO lag ah
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Monday, May 28, 2007
8 days to concert.
Still so much to fix, I really wanna fix all of them so that I can end everything perfectly.
My legs are still hurting from the continuous practices. But I am not going to let it be this way. I am gonna perfect every detail, every note, every beat, even though it is not easy, given my level of foundation.
Practice makes perfect. We shall testify how true it is going to be.
I hope by the end of the day, I will proudly say:
Practice does make perfect.
Still so much to fix, I really wanna fix all of them so that I can end everything perfectly.
My legs are still hurting from the continuous practices. But I am not going to let it be this way. I am gonna perfect every detail, every note, every beat, even though it is not easy, given my level of foundation.
Practice makes perfect. We shall testify how true it is going to be.
I hope by the end of the day, I will proudly say:
Practice does make perfect.
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Saturday, May 26, 2007
Is it the end of term 2?
Or actually the start of the term.
Term 2 and a half.
Life has been busy, as usual, with the tremendous amount of time in preparation for concert. Thanks to SYF, our practice times have not shrunk at all. In fact, it has maintained at a comparable level with pre-SYF frequency.
We just want to deliver the best to the Audience. I really look forward to the percussion ensemble. We will be playing two pieces which are catchy and cool. Had intensive practise since thursday so it had better be a good one!
Did a trial run of the two pieces today, the other non-percussionist (except the bass guitarist) were our audience. It is a really different feeling when you just practise amongst your own section mates. The stress factor (and sleepy factor for some) interupts and affects the performance of the section.
Performance = Potential - Interference
Got to know this "equation" from the VJ conductor, which reflects how well we will be able to perform up on the stage. We practise everyday, humming the rhythms everyday, to increase the potential of ourselves. However. when it comes to performing, intererence plays a big part in the final outcome of the quality of the music. Daily practises can be a hullicination, an illusion to how well we thought we can perform because there is negligible intereference. However, the actual performance is often, much less than the predicted (and often, the potential) performance. We shall work harder to maximise the potential and minimise the intereference. In time to come, we will be able to perform out of our potential, that is when we turn intereference into our strength to do better.
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It is ironic that you can have two contradicting feeling towards the same situation. On one hand, I want the concert to finish ASAP so I can really get down and mentally prepare myself for the intensive half of the year. On the other hand, I wish that all these would not end, I am not prepared to leave yet. I have met many great guys, girls alike, in these two years. It will not be forgotten, for we have strived together, work together, had our fun and joy together, complain together. There are bound to be hiccups, but I wish I can end this CCA, that I can proudly say I am a member of this team, with a perfect full stop.
Capriccio XXIII, is probably the last ever concert that I will be performing, in my life.
Or actually the start of the term.
Term 2 and a half.
Life has been busy, as usual, with the tremendous amount of time in preparation for concert. Thanks to SYF, our practice times have not shrunk at all. In fact, it has maintained at a comparable level with pre-SYF frequency.
We just want to deliver the best to the Audience. I really look forward to the percussion ensemble. We will be playing two pieces which are catchy and cool. Had intensive practise since thursday so it had better be a good one!
Did a trial run of the two pieces today, the other non-percussionist (except the bass guitarist) were our audience. It is a really different feeling when you just practise amongst your own section mates. The stress factor (and sleepy factor for some) interupts and affects the performance of the section.
Performance = Potential - Interference
Got to know this "equation" from the VJ conductor, which reflects how well we will be able to perform up on the stage. We practise everyday, humming the rhythms everyday, to increase the potential of ourselves. However. when it comes to performing, intererence plays a big part in the final outcome of the quality of the music. Daily practises can be a hullicination, an illusion to how well we thought we can perform because there is negligible intereference. However, the actual performance is often, much less than the predicted (and often, the potential) performance. We shall work harder to maximise the potential and minimise the intereference. In time to come, we will be able to perform out of our potential, that is when we turn intereference into our strength to do better.
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It is ironic that you can have two contradicting feeling towards the same situation. On one hand, I want the concert to finish ASAP so I can really get down and mentally prepare myself for the intensive half of the year. On the other hand, I wish that all these would not end, I am not prepared to leave yet. I have met many great guys, girls alike, in these two years. It will not be forgotten, for we have strived together, work together, had our fun and joy together, complain together. There are bound to be hiccups, but I wish I can end this CCA, that I can proudly say I am a member of this team, with a perfect full stop.
Capriccio XXIII, is probably the last ever concert that I will be performing, in my life.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
I am not angry
I am just disappointed.
What is done is done.
One incident to reveal everything.
I am just disappointed.
What is done is done.
One incident to reveal everything.
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Sunday, May 20, 2007
I stand at the cross road,
Yet again.
My brain and heart are at loggerheads.
I am losing faith,
And the confidence to move on.
I wander alone.
Yet again.
My brain and heart are at loggerheads.
I am losing faith,
And the confidence to move on.
I wander alone.
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Friday, May 18, 2007
It is finally the weekend. I have longing for this day to come.
Firstly, I have been sleeping late (11pm-12mn) everyday since Tuesday. Yes I know it seems like uber early for some of you. I am sorry I waste a lot of time sleeping but that is how I function.
I can't believe concert is in 2 weeks time. Like Ai Wen says,
We Are Screwed.
Next week is the only week left that we are going to have a full section rehearsal for all our pieces. After which some of our section mates will leave for overseas trips. Need to practise like everyday next week..
I heard that one of the band member (J2) quit band because he needs to study for A levels. I was like quite.. bewildered by that decision. Concert is just two weeks away, and like what Kia Meng says, just work hard for this week and the first week of the June holidays. It is going to be the last performance that the J2s are going to ever have (for mots of the people) and it would probably be one of the most memorable ones that we would have. While studying in June holidays is necessary, i think it would not affect us too much to the extent of harming the results. We just need to ensure that we work really hard in the time we are left with in the holidays.
I need to start studying too, have been slacking off my econs and GP so much. It is really time to start honing my skills in essay writing. I am not really sure how much it would help by reading magazines and newspapers. However, I think it is necessary to build up these little information and skills over time. Language, unlike science, cannot be learnt over a course of short term intensive studying.
H3 test next friday, it is not going to be easy so need to start working like now too.. Boo, A levels.
Ahh, I realised this post is so disorganised and random. I need sleep man..
Firstly, I have been sleeping late (11pm-12mn) everyday since Tuesday. Yes I know it seems like uber early for some of you. I am sorry I waste a lot of time sleeping but that is how I function.
I can't believe concert is in 2 weeks time. Like Ai Wen says,
We Are Screwed.
Next week is the only week left that we are going to have a full section rehearsal for all our pieces. After which some of our section mates will leave for overseas trips. Need to practise like everyday next week..
I heard that one of the band member (J2) quit band because he needs to study for A levels. I was like quite.. bewildered by that decision. Concert is just two weeks away, and like what Kia Meng says, just work hard for this week and the first week of the June holidays. It is going to be the last performance that the J2s are going to ever have (for mots of the people) and it would probably be one of the most memorable ones that we would have. While studying in June holidays is necessary, i think it would not affect us too much to the extent of harming the results. We just need to ensure that we work really hard in the time we are left with in the holidays.
I need to start studying too, have been slacking off my econs and GP so much. It is really time to start honing my skills in essay writing. I am not really sure how much it would help by reading magazines and newspapers. However, I think it is necessary to build up these little information and skills over time. Language, unlike science, cannot be learnt over a course of short term intensive studying.
H3 test next friday, it is not going to be easy so need to start working like now too.. Boo, A levels.
Ahh, I realised this post is so disorganised and random. I need sleep man..
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Sunday, May 13, 2007
I am losing the momentum. Yes I am losing it.
Damn
Damn
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Saturday, May 12, 2007
First and the last SYF I am going to ever have.
Thanks to all the well wishes from
Friends: Ying Qun, Lekchia, Wee Chern, Khai Shin
Classmates: Yan Zhi, Yan Min, Audrey, Xinwei, Jun Quan, Yan Yin, Yue Kai
All of the Band Members.
Mr Leng, Mr Chiang, Mr Yao
And all others who have wished me luck one way or another.
Very strangely, after the annoucement of the results, I am not really in a jump for joy and cry out loud kind of mood. Yes we really have out done ourselves, we are acknowledged. Yet, where is the sense of achievement?
I see some of the band members crying for joy, jumping high and low with the achievements of the band. I couldn't help but to get high together with them.
Probably because I cannot hear the announcement in the lobby, even though the officials claimed that the announcement can be heard throughout the lobby. All that I can hear is that each school is screaming high and low in the lobby and I can't catch a single thing that they are announcing over the speakers (that is provided they really announced it over the speakers). Suddenly the girls in the band started screaming and I heard something like a gold.. Yeah end of the long awaited results from 11am, to 5pm.
It is actually quite disappointing. I wanted to go into the concert hall intself to get a feel of what it is like to be waiting inside for the announcement of the results. At least I can hear what they are announcing. After the announcement everyone in the lobby just starts cheering for their own school for doing well like getting honours, or even gold. Here is a breakdown of the performance if each individual schools.
Honours: ACJC, VJC, SAJC
Gold: ACSI, MJC, NJC, HCJC, TJC, NYJC, RJC, TP
Silver: JJC, SJC, YJC, PJC, AJC
Heard that we are close to getting honours, but no matter how high the gold is, it is still a gold. Just like your grades will only be revealed in your A level cert, B is B, no one really cares whether you get a high B or low B, and no one really knows except the judges/markers.
Be satisfied with what I have. Yeah, at least, we have proven ourselves that we are a gold band. Our hardwork and dedication since January have paid off. All the night practises, sectionals, individuals, monday to saturday. This award is something that we can proudly say, we have recovered from our previous defeat and our juniors are in for an even more hardwork the next SYF.
This is really far from ending, it has ended for me, but it is just the beginning for my juniors, grand juniors, great grand juniors, ...
3 cheers for HCBand!
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Sometimes, you sit down, and you start thinking of the whole event that has happened. It is just like a blink, January till now, time really flies. Even the performance up stage, 15minutes, is just in a matter of seconds. Before I could realise it, it is already near the end of Symphonic. I really have not had the feel for SYF judging, probably too nervous to look at the crowd. I think I must have stared blankly at Leng througout the entire piece, maybe I am trying to give "attitude" to the judges. To think that it is the first and last one I am ever going to have, it is kinda waste not to have fully enjoyed the feeling up stage. It would most probably be very different from a concert. Nonetheless, one more concert to go, I am definitely going to enjoy every moment of the preparation, upstage, and the applause.
After the whole SYF, the band went to Marina Square for an outing. However, handling such a big crowd is really not easy and so many people have difference preferences. It must have tired out the MWOs but in the end most of the band members settled down in Yoshinoya for a dinner, before breaking up into own section outings.
The percussion decided to go for Häagen-Dazs since Jie Han said he wanted to eat ice cream, but we didn't know that he only want a scoop of the ice cream, we went into the shop and sat down, only to realise that all the prices are godly. Haha.. crapped inside the restaurant deciding what to eat and whether or not to call for help.. Luckily our grand senior, yihui, came and give us a treat to the fondue. haha it is very nice =P thanks yihui. Haha..
Talked a while for inside the restaurant before going back to marina square where most of the band members are relaxing, engaging in sectional/cross-sectional talks. Stayed a while, then went home with Bangky.
So much about band, band SYF. So much I want to say, but I think it is time to move on. Move on to concert, and piling homework...
Thanks to all the well wishes from
Friends: Ying Qun, Lekchia, Wee Chern, Khai Shin
Classmates: Yan Zhi, Yan Min, Audrey, Xinwei, Jun Quan, Yan Yin, Yue Kai
All of the Band Members.
Mr Leng, Mr Chiang, Mr Yao
And all others who have wished me luck one way or another.
Very strangely, after the annoucement of the results, I am not really in a jump for joy and cry out loud kind of mood. Yes we really have out done ourselves, we are acknowledged. Yet, where is the sense of achievement?
I see some of the band members crying for joy, jumping high and low with the achievements of the band. I couldn't help but to get high together with them.
Probably because I cannot hear the announcement in the lobby, even though the officials claimed that the announcement can be heard throughout the lobby. All that I can hear is that each school is screaming high and low in the lobby and I can't catch a single thing that they are announcing over the speakers (that is provided they really announced it over the speakers). Suddenly the girls in the band started screaming and I heard something like a gold.. Yeah end of the long awaited results from 11am, to 5pm.
It is actually quite disappointing. I wanted to go into the concert hall intself to get a feel of what it is like to be waiting inside for the announcement of the results. At least I can hear what they are announcing. After the announcement everyone in the lobby just starts cheering for their own school for doing well like getting honours, or even gold. Here is a breakdown of the performance if each individual schools.
Honours: ACJC, VJC, SAJC
Gold: ACSI, MJC, NJC, HCJC, TJC, NYJC, RJC, TP
Silver: JJC, SJC, YJC, PJC, AJC
Heard that we are close to getting honours, but no matter how high the gold is, it is still a gold. Just like your grades will only be revealed in your A level cert, B is B, no one really cares whether you get a high B or low B, and no one really knows except the judges/markers.
Be satisfied with what I have. Yeah, at least, we have proven ourselves that we are a gold band. Our hardwork and dedication since January have paid off. All the night practises, sectionals, individuals, monday to saturday. This award is something that we can proudly say, we have recovered from our previous defeat and our juniors are in for an even more hardwork the next SYF.
This is really far from ending, it has ended for me, but it is just the beginning for my juniors, grand juniors, great grand juniors, ...
3 cheers for HCBand!
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Sometimes, you sit down, and you start thinking of the whole event that has happened. It is just like a blink, January till now, time really flies. Even the performance up stage, 15minutes, is just in a matter of seconds. Before I could realise it, it is already near the end of Symphonic. I really have not had the feel for SYF judging, probably too nervous to look at the crowd. I think I must have stared blankly at Leng througout the entire piece, maybe I am trying to give "attitude" to the judges. To think that it is the first and last one I am ever going to have, it is kinda waste not to have fully enjoyed the feeling up stage. It would most probably be very different from a concert. Nonetheless, one more concert to go, I am definitely going to enjoy every moment of the preparation, upstage, and the applause.
After the whole SYF, the band went to Marina Square for an outing. However, handling such a big crowd is really not easy and so many people have difference preferences. It must have tired out the MWOs but in the end most of the band members settled down in Yoshinoya for a dinner, before breaking up into own section outings.
The percussion decided to go for Häagen-Dazs since Jie Han said he wanted to eat ice cream, but we didn't know that he only want a scoop of the ice cream, we went into the shop and sat down, only to realise that all the prices are godly. Haha.. crapped inside the restaurant deciding what to eat and whether or not to call for help.. Luckily our grand senior, yihui, came and give us a treat to the fondue. haha it is very nice =P thanks yihui. Haha..
Talked a while for inside the restaurant before going back to marina square where most of the band members are relaxing, engaging in sectional/cross-sectional talks. Stayed a while, then went home with Bangky.
So much about band, band SYF. So much I want to say, but I think it is time to move on. Move on to concert, and piling homework...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007
It is never possible to predict the outcome of something.
The table tennis girls put up the fierce fight, no one knows the outcome of the match till the last point of the last set of the last game.
You can predict all you want, but things just have to fail on you at the last minute.
Jiayou Band, we will do it, we are going to show the world, that what we are capable of.
60hours
and counting.
One band, one goal.
The table tennis girls put up the fierce fight, no one knows the outcome of the match till the last point of the last set of the last game.
You can predict all you want, but things just have to fail on you at the last minute.
Jiayou Band, we will do it, we are going to show the world, that what we are capable of.
60hours
and counting.
One band, one goal.
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Saturday, May 05, 2007
6 days, 144hours, one band, one goal, gold.
Today had band exchange at VJC. It was good, not just the exchange, but getting to know other school, and the people. I get to take a sneak peak of the VJC Vball team training today. Our school vball team will be competing against them next wednesday.. hehe All the best to our school vball team!
Back to VJC.. I think the school environment is much better than HC.. more like newer.. brighter.. a more vibrant kind of feeling. I think the student there are great too! Haha, and I came across some posters that says:
And some other interesting sayings too. Heh interesting.
Ok then we had the exchange =) A fruitful exchange.. I think we did quite well.. the place is nice and environment is quite conducive.
Go HC band! Go Go Gold! (quote from KB)
Today had band exchange at VJC. It was good, not just the exchange, but getting to know other school, and the people. I get to take a sneak peak of the VJC Vball team training today. Our school vball team will be competing against them next wednesday.. hehe All the best to our school vball team!
Back to VJC.. I think the school environment is much better than HC.. more like newer.. brighter.. a more vibrant kind of feeling. I think the student there are great too! Haha, and I came across some posters that says:
And some other interesting sayings too. Heh interesting.
Ok then we had the exchange =) A fruitful exchange.. I think we did quite well.. the place is nice and environment is quite conducive.
Go HC band! Go Go Gold! (quote from KB)
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007
I returned home earlier today, at 12mn
Band chalet was good. Had combined sports meet yesterday morning and I find it really quite a waste of time, even the faculty cheering is pathetic, Arthemis and Athena combined is still less than what Ares has.
Sometimes these kind of things are just the number of people that matters. The more people there, the more you would want to stay and cheer for your own faculty. However, given the nature of some students in Athena as well as some other Faculty, they simply just pon after taking attendance in the morning or slack off the whole day without even coming to school. Athena is already a smaller faculty, on top of that, the number of "poners" just make everything less interesting for those who actually stayed behind and cheer.
We are so afraid of taking the intiative to stay back and cheer. Some of us just couldn't care less and always think that we have better things to do that sitting there, getting drowned in the voices of all people.
What is the original aims and objectives of the whole sports meet itself? To increase faculty spirits, school spirits or even interactions amongst the high school students and the NY girls?
Or having one for the sake of having one every year just because we have been doing it all along.
CSM should not be abolished because it signifies the level of atheletic performances of the school. However, it should be considered how can CSM actually attract the attention of the student population. Every year the sports meet has been a routine, with the highlight of the faculty cheering. It has been the same all the years that it is beginning to lose interest in the student population, especially among the J2s. CSM in college will become worse, due to the influx of the Chinese High students with their culture of "just pon" and the lack of school spirits. With decreased number of people in a particular faculty over time during the CSM, the more likely the remaining people would pon or just slack off because the highlight of faculty cheering event is no longer appealing to them.
I am not justifying students who pon the event, who manage to escape the junior NPCC. As one of the slackers sitting near the clock tower, instead of forcing students to go for such events, the school can consider how they can actually attract students to go down and support the event. It is definitely not easy, if not the school would have implement the ideas long ago.
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the usual physics gang went out to have lunch again, xinwei jiawei elicia junquan audrey and I decide to go Crystal Jade to have our lunch. Xinwei really likes to make Elicia treat people, even though it is in their contract, but poor elicia has to succumb to xinwei's pressure and give way in the end. I couldn't be with them till the end of the lunch because I have to rush back for Band prac at 1pm (i left the place at 1pm). took a bus back to school on 171 and only reaching SALT centre realising that everyone has been broken up into sectionals and half of the section (actually the guys) are sleeping soundly as usual on the carpeted floor. Did our ensemble pieces before everyone came back for combined. blah blah blah the usual practice stuffs. more interesting things are those following the band practise, the chalet!
chalet has been overall quite last minute and chaotic. First there is a communication breakdown between Yumin, Steve and Ai Wen, so our dear SL Ai Wen has to bring all the other people to the destination herself. The long bus rides are coupled with interesting stories about people in band that I would not have otherwise known. We met another group of the band members going to chalet on the way, and we squeezed onto this bus that has average frequency of 20minutes per bus. It was another fairly long ride to Tampinese interchange. We bought our dinner and some drinks at the NTUC there, and some of us cabbed to chalet while the rest took the bus there. In the end, everyone reached at 830pm.
I learnt a new dish yesterday, that is to fry spaghetti with bacon chilli and garlic. It smells nice.. and tastes very nice too. After which some of us decide to go to Old Changi Hospital which is just walking distance from the chalet. It was really old and creepy, and coupled with some weird paints on the walls of the hospital makes everything feels even more eerie. Met some 62 and 60 guys who left from the Athena Fac outing. If not for them I would have gone deeper into the building. Some of the things that they are doing really made me uncomfortable and weird, so I decide to leave the place with the others. It is exciting enough for me.
Sit around and play a bit more before saying goodbye to them. Hopped onto Mr Leng's car and troubled him to send me home. Reached at 12mn, home sweet home =)
There is still so much I wanna say, but I think time has run short for me. I intended to have this day to catch up on my work instead of staying over at chalet. I shant disappoint myself. Till next time!
Band chalet was good. Had combined sports meet yesterday morning and I find it really quite a waste of time, even the faculty cheering is pathetic, Arthemis and Athena combined is still less than what Ares has.
Sometimes these kind of things are just the number of people that matters. The more people there, the more you would want to stay and cheer for your own faculty. However, given the nature of some students in Athena as well as some other Faculty, they simply just pon after taking attendance in the morning or slack off the whole day without even coming to school. Athena is already a smaller faculty, on top of that, the number of "poners" just make everything less interesting for those who actually stayed behind and cheer.
We are so afraid of taking the intiative to stay back and cheer. Some of us just couldn't care less and always think that we have better things to do that sitting there, getting drowned in the voices of all people.
What is the original aims and objectives of the whole sports meet itself? To increase faculty spirits, school spirits or even interactions amongst the high school students and the NY girls?
Or having one for the sake of having one every year just because we have been doing it all along.
CSM should not be abolished because it signifies the level of atheletic performances of the school. However, it should be considered how can CSM actually attract the attention of the student population. Every year the sports meet has been a routine, with the highlight of the faculty cheering. It has been the same all the years that it is beginning to lose interest in the student population, especially among the J2s. CSM in college will become worse, due to the influx of the Chinese High students with their culture of "just pon" and the lack of school spirits. With decreased number of people in a particular faculty over time during the CSM, the more likely the remaining people would pon or just slack off because the highlight of faculty cheering event is no longer appealing to them.
I am not justifying students who pon the event, who manage to escape the junior NPCC. As one of the slackers sitting near the clock tower, instead of forcing students to go for such events, the school can consider how they can actually attract students to go down and support the event. It is definitely not easy, if not the school would have implement the ideas long ago.
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the usual physics gang went out to have lunch again, xinwei jiawei elicia junquan audrey and I decide to go Crystal Jade to have our lunch. Xinwei really likes to make Elicia treat people, even though it is in their contract, but poor elicia has to succumb to xinwei's pressure and give way in the end. I couldn't be with them till the end of the lunch because I have to rush back for Band prac at 1pm (i left the place at 1pm). took a bus back to school on 171 and only reaching SALT centre realising that everyone has been broken up into sectionals and half of the section (actually the guys) are sleeping soundly as usual on the carpeted floor. Did our ensemble pieces before everyone came back for combined. blah blah blah the usual practice stuffs. more interesting things are those following the band practise, the chalet!
chalet has been overall quite last minute and chaotic. First there is a communication breakdown between Yumin, Steve and Ai Wen, so our dear SL Ai Wen has to bring all the other people to the destination herself. The long bus rides are coupled with interesting stories about people in band that I would not have otherwise known. We met another group of the band members going to chalet on the way, and we squeezed onto this bus that has average frequency of 20minutes per bus. It was another fairly long ride to Tampinese interchange. We bought our dinner and some drinks at the NTUC there, and some of us cabbed to chalet while the rest took the bus there. In the end, everyone reached at 830pm.
I learnt a new dish yesterday, that is to fry spaghetti with bacon chilli and garlic. It smells nice.. and tastes very nice too. After which some of us decide to go to Old Changi Hospital which is just walking distance from the chalet. It was really old and creepy, and coupled with some weird paints on the walls of the hospital makes everything feels even more eerie. Met some 62 and 60 guys who left from the Athena Fac outing. If not for them I would have gone deeper into the building. Some of the things that they are doing really made me uncomfortable and weird, so I decide to leave the place with the others. It is exciting enough for me.
Sit around and play a bit more before saying goodbye to them. Hopped onto Mr Leng's car and troubled him to send me home. Reached at 12mn, home sweet home =)
There is still so much I wanna say, but I think time has run short for me. I intended to have this day to catch up on my work instead of staying over at chalet. I shant disappoint myself. Till next time!
Labels: Band, Reflection
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