:D

20070930

its good to check friendster once in a while.
i just found some good news :D
feel so glad now. ganbatte friend! (:

back to studying.
i <3 econs many many.
yes yes continue this brainwash and i hope a miracle will happen.
freedom in another 9 days!

i want to live this dream with you

life is like a sine graph =)
2:54 AM

20070926

and just like that, i started to think,

it's just not enough.
- lena st. clair, rice husband
the joy luck club by amy tan

i've had enough notes, enough keys, enough pedals, enough fingering.
i'm SICK and tired of practicing hours and hours.
but today, i started to think,
it's just not enough.

please don't take away everything that i have.

life is like a sine graph =)
10:41 PM

20070917

if there's one thing in this world that i know is true
its the love that i feel when i'm thinking of you
no ocean no mountain can keep us apart
cause no one can take away someone who lives in your heart

<3

what a nice song.

life is like a sine graph =)
11:01 PM

20070913

OMG THEY ARE SO FREAKING NOOB
SO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB!
who takes cab to acsi from acjc?! what a noob mep class i have.

life is like a sine graph =)
11:09 PM

here's how my september holidays went.

band for 5 out of 7 days
AGM (self-reminder: put up SOP in qm room for those who missed agm)
band dinner @ liz's rivermoat steword! :D up is down!
2 x 2hours math tuition
new adidas :)
acsi setup + subway
UNPRODUCTIVE prac with gladys at my house -_-
triple lesson day: math electone clarinet
a LOT of qm work with mdm lui in prep for auditor check
swensen's, crystal jade, cold rock :)
open house! gah so much prep for this, so tired. THOUSANDS of repeat performances zzz
windowshopping + dinnering with em (who lost her purchase!)
kunitachi college of music workshop

pirates 3 soundtrack is nice :) up is down!
cellos and violas rock. horn trills and great percussion work rock too.
clever use of mixing of timbre. sequences. addition of chorus.
aye makes me dream of playing in an orchestra.
but anw, damn sick of pirates 2 thanks to open house. i hate grease.

pictures below (:

courage.

life is like a sine graph =)
11:08 PM

pictures!

STOCK CHECK :D day 1 (170807)

edwin and sean cleaning out the shelves! vacuum power!

michelle helping out! look at all the weird stuff around the table. oh and my grandma's fan! :D for temporary use hahaha.

FOR THE FIRST TIME ITS SO CLEAN

zhan messing around with the mutes. 1, 2, 3, 400, 500..

the pyramid of empty mute boxes! ahahah.

LOOK AT ALL THE RUBBISH. (well we kept some in the end though)

instruments + rubbish + zhan

zhan and mutes. 600, 700, 8000, 90000, 100000000..

more instrumentsss

stands! plus tubas behind and sean walking.

instruments on the other side of the qm room

nearly done with the cleaning up!
didn't take any photos on day two cause it was just zhan sean me tagging only!

random photos

the thursday when the rainbow ring appeared around the sun.
i rushed out of chinese hahaha.

pretty ey.

something good about being the qm: you can lock people out of the qm room. like gladys.

erm the excos. HAHA. okay, the aa4 excos. haha. well an attempted sissy jump shot of edwin and me. did this during the exco baking at my house haha.

WOWOWOW say this is COOL man! haha taken at the pier before going on liz's ship!

now we know why stuart's right arm has a huge mole.. it has a secret purpose..

life is like a sine graph =)
10:17 PM

20070904

things that have been happening in my life for the past 3 weeks

stock check shopping @ imm with michelletan :D
STOCK CHECK :D took 2 days! thanks to edwin michelle shaun cass for helping. i love my qms zhan and sean!
new buffet rc prestige clarinet :D yay!
watching fireworks show with the committee @ liz's ship!
baohui staying over :)
exco shopping! ikea, concourse, orchard.
qm training, SOP-ing!
exco BAKING @ my house! teachers' day presents!
hairspray with exco minus manf zhiwen ed @ plazasing :D
back to crescent for teachers' day celebration
elite section! :D:D:D
new laptop! :D acer travelmate 6292!
leaving my r13 ):
ratatouille! :D cute remy!

thats about it.
aye, sept hols are burnt, burnt, burnt..

life is like a sine graph =)
1:34 PM

20070902

dearest beloved clarinet,

the past 20 months have been eventful eh? indeed. as i give you a final last polish, lets take a walk down memory lane..

january 2006 was our first meeting. i was taking study leave from mus'art (haha, i am almost on permanent study leave the whole year round anyway lol) and you were assigned to me. a normal r13. nothing special, not that good, not that bad. i didn't really fancy you that much cause at that time i still held on to my rc prestige from crescent. at sec4, mrs chua said i should loan you out to keep in contact with my clarinet skills after graduating from crescent band. and indeed you proved to be a great companion.

sec4 work was crazy. homework, tests, assignments. but still i slipped back to mus'art to play. hahaha. just after i graduated from crescent band, i had my braces on. you helped me adapt to my horrible braces and i learned eventually to play without cigarette paper (after many many many months haha). i practiced with you once in a while, but sometimes very seldom until you collected DUST omg, i was so sad ): so sorry i couldn't find time then to practice.. but the least i could do was to clean the dust off you :\ sniff.

back to mus'art, i managed to convince my parents to let me join back after chinese Os in june :) yay haha. my first official performance with you was at national band competition on 15 july 06 at vch. thinking of all the fun we had during practices leading up to the competition, how fun it was to play xenia sarda and first suite in Eb.. makes me long to relive those times. those times, having so much fun with the pasir ris gang: hansel, leeyen, deanna, weijie, lihong and xinhui. plus it was like a huge project, with a concert coming right up on the following day at mus'art rhythme et blues concert on 16 july 06 at sch. it was such a great week, so fun and so memorable. sunday practices, additional weekday practices, seeing all of the pasir ris gang so often. playing on the first day of nbc just cause we had concert the next day had quite a special feeling. participating in open division was an awesome experience. meeting up for lunches/dinners the whole week leading up to comp and concert. performing the two comp pieces beautifully felt great. what a wonderful memory. and then our concert the next day, playing rhapsody in blue! whao. and petite suite, gosh. and of course other nice pieces. memories, memories. and then rushing to vch to hear our results for nbc! haha! getting GOLD for nbc! tj getting 88.14%, rj getting 85.59% and mus'art getting 85.29%. like omg, 0.3% away from second placing but still a gold and we're happy all right :) and off to funan kfc for supper, on both nights. what a brilliant week it was.

thinking that it would be the end of my musical career till after Os, i trudged back to school work.. but in less than a month i was back in mus'art again! for some national day variety show next to the cc, haha singapore experience and some other national songs? movies with the pasir ris gang (helen the baby fox & lakehouse), plus fireworks show! wow. and then our first esplanade performance together was the beautiful sunday on 13 aug 06, the fabulous golden hits! playing in the esplanade was great like the past few times. finally it was the end, and i had to settle down to mug.

a small performance in school before o levels came and went - farewell assembly. performing with my fellow meppers (ostinato!) for 'if we hold on together' and 'that's what friends are for' never made music more meaningful. piano, bass guitar, drumset, clarinet, vocal.. where can you get a more warped group of musicians? haha. and after Os back i was in mus'art! preparation for the upcoming concert in 2007, west side story and danceries! whao did anybody mention i was crazy in love with danceries that time! i was so damn happy. had an outdoor performance on 10 dec 06 at the courtyard which wasn't very interesting but oh well. reuniting with the pasir ris gang with new member baohui! more movies (night at the museum & eragon), chalets and hotel stays! and most importantly, seeing my transition into a jc band, acjc band. growing with me, rising our standards, learning so many new things. and of course new people, new friends!

next performance, mus'art unauthorised entry on 3 feb 07 at vch! danceries and west side being the highlights, the rest just random songs with the secondary schools. it felt great playing danceris and having so many new friends from ac band to come and support me. so touched :) after that, yet another beautiful sunday animaniacs! on 15 apr 07 at esplanade. played anime songs and soundtracks, quite interesting repetoire. and finally, the last mus'art performance, 15 july 07 at vch. not too excited though, quite bored with the repetoire and not exactly motivated to play somehow. thinking about it, exactly a year ago, it was nbc. how nostalgic.

of course, not forgetting non-mus'art performances: crescent musical evening where i played the special cornet/clarinet parts for to the stars!, acjc band muse at esplanade, acjc band SYF 07 :D, acjc band muse at vch, other acjc function performances.

well, my dear clarinet, serial number 440366 barrel B660, i shall remember you forever. these 20 months wouldn't have been, well, these 20 months, without you. all the fun i had in mus'art and in ac band, these memories i'll definitely hold close to my heart, especially nbc and SYF 07. i'll never forget how hard we practiced together, how we pulled through difficulties together, how we grew together. sorry for all the times i accidentally hit your bell or knocked you somewhere, sorry for all the times i neglected you. thank you for all the times you were there as my companion, thank you for letting me make music with you.

now that i've finally finished polishing you, its time to say goodbye. thank you for everything. i hope perhaps one day we shall meet again in mus'art. do take care, and i hope your next owner (if you do get one) will treat you equally well or even better. you were a great pal, and i wish you could stay longer. i'll miss you a lot, and i'll never forget how much you have impacted on my life. thank you, and goodbye.

-

feeling kinda silly again, but this is what i usually do when i part with my instrument.
just that this clarinet has been with me for the longest time yet, and its so hard to let go now..
20 months isn't a short time, and the fact that it is so seasoned (by previous users and myself) makes it even harder to let go.
oh well, good things have to end, loaned instruments have to be returned.
i'll be returning it to mus'art tmr cause they're having a stock check soon. (the first one in eons!)
and i doubt i'll be getting it back now that i have my own clarinet.
aye, so hard to let go.. so many memories, so many emotions.
i'll really miss it very much.

life is like a sine graph =)
1:56 AM