Wednesday, June 28, 2006

school

[Go back to school]


Okay. This term would be a quick one. And there were quite a few changes this time. Mrs Chua is going away on course until november so now English and CME would be taught by this indian teacher, i'm telling you, i can't stand the way she looks at us. Grr.. And also Mr Hasyim (however you spell it) would be our form teacher. I'm just quite upset that Mrs Chua would be away for so long, but she promised she'd be back :D


And yay! In band i'm selected for the Outward Bound Camp thingy, i do hope i can go. It sounds so fun. Well anyway this week there are already two tests we had to take. And next week there's more to come. Plus there would be more band practices too i think, which makes my schedule very hectic and i hardly have the time to relax or slack. It also means that i must manage my time even more :((


Mum will be back tonight from Jakarta. Now 8 people are living in the house and its like so hard to get any privacy. Sigh. I wish i could just relax now but there's a physics test to study for. So i guess i'll just go now.


30 more days left to OPUS!

Saturday, June 24, 2006

:(

[Bye to the holidays]


I haven't started on my homework. I haven't played enough yet. And i don't think i have the mood to blog :((


1 month and 3 days left to OPUS!

Friday, June 23, 2006

bbq

[Let's have fun]


Okay, so today's band practice was enlightening for me. The 4 scottish dances and disco kid was so hard and i've encountered some problems for the distributing of parts in my section. Well anyway i need not play the solo part for Samba de Loves You. Yay! Najib shall be playing it. I'm spared.


And later there will be the prefect's bbq! Yay-ness. It's going to be fun and crazy. Yup and there will definitely be water involved so i would be bringing some extra clothes just in case.


Today, my cousin and grandma came over from jakarta to stay. My cousin's name's Jessica and she'll be staying until December, well almost like forever because she'll be here to study and my mum's thinking of putting her into Regent so that i can take care of her. While my grandma would be staying only until the 28th. Opus day! Which means she won't be able to see me perform. Aww..


I also started on my english homework and only managed to finish the comprehension questions, but not the summary. And there's still more :((


1 month and 4 days left to OPUS!

Thursday, June 22, 2006

reflections

[Reflections]


I shall not elaborate much. I'm trying to absorb what they all said. Perhaps they were right about me. I think i can get too emotional at times, and of course, pretty indecisive about things too. Which is so true. I need to think of a way to solve these problems, and fast.


Anyway i'm very happy that my trumpet playing has improved. I can play louder than before and yes my stamina has definitely improved, i mean, after playing loads of those higher range of notes i wasn't that tired and could play even more stuff.


Oh yes, i also cleaned the inner part of my trumpet. The inner part!! It was all so gross. With all those algae, you could just vomit by having a glance at the sink. But when i played my trumpet it felt a lot better after knowing i've got rid of those disgusting stuff. And playing on it was much much easier. Maybe because those algae sort of blocked the pipes that kind of thing and now the air can flow through the instrument much faster with those stuff gone. By the way, all i did was to flush water through the whole instrument, and i cleaned the tuning slide by getting rid of the grease with dishwashing liquid and then i applied the grease again. I didn't know it was so easy. The reason i could flush water through without any worries because mine was a silver trumpet and its okay for it to have contact with water without causing any damage.


So now my trumpet is new on the inside, and i want to buy the denatured alcohol from guardian so that i can polish my trumpet and it will be shiny (:


And the tickets will be out tomorrow too. I hope it can all be sold really quickly.


I still haven't touched my homework! Oh my.

yesterday

[Just a bad feeling]


I've got a bad feeling about the meeting later, with the ex-EXCOs and the OCs. It makes me feel so uncomfortable inside, and i think it would be an emotional one too. What a bad start to the day.


Anyway yesterday's band practice was pretty fun for me, especially when we were playing Danse Diabolique. The first trumpet part had running notes and it was all so fast and fun. After band, i went to Ten Mile Junction with Anyu, Maxine, Qiu Yan and Nydia to get our stuff for the barbeque tomorrow. And yes tomorrow's going to be so fun. However, i still have band practice before that so yah, i have to work hard before i can play hard.


And aww, the holidays are about to end, and i haven't touched a single piece of homework. I think i should be doing it on Saturday and i hope i can finish it in one day if not, i would have to bear the consequences of not doing my work and end up regretting. Actually i could already do some of it today, well i might be doing it after i come back from the meeting i've always dreaded.


So yea, i think i shall be off for the meeting, i'll be updating later.


1 month and 5 days left to OPUS!

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

band prac

[Band practice reflections]


I feel that the practice today wasn't that good for me. Gosh and i was so shocked when Zhi ting cried because Mr Lim told her that if she didn't want to play out she would take his position and conduct the band while he would play her cornet. It was sort of a jokingly kind of thing but yes she cried. I also don't know what to do at that point of time, i mean, it was hard for me to comfort her. I feel so bad. But anyway, Mr Lim also told me that if Zhi Ting couldn't reach the higher notes her part should be changed. For your information, she was playing the first cornet part. But i felt that yes she could reach those higher notes that was why i gave her that part. Its was just a matter of whether she wanted to play or not.


There will be band practice tomorrow, we would be playing danse diabolique and 3 onegin dances. I brought home my instrument to practice (:


And Rebecca bought me this glow-in-the-dark keychain from Hong Kong! Thank you! Hehe :D


1 month and 7 days left to OPUS!

sigh

[its a long day ahead]


Firstly, let's start with a birthday greeting shall we?


Happy Birthday to EDWIN!! :DD


Haha, well anyway its raining again, like yesterday and it sure is pretty cold in here. I have to make sure i bring along a jacket if not i'll freeze during band practice in the AVA room. Today we'll be going through latin celebration, el bimbo and grease. I hope it goes well today, and i really really hope the tickets would be out today.

Monday, June 19, 2006

heyheyhey

[back with a new style]


So yes, this is the new tainteddxskye. No more lowercase in all the letterings heh. I love the new style of the page. I find it totally cool. Well whatever. So back to this morning. I shall talk about what inspired me to do this new thing.


I was actually at blogskins.com, checking out the skins of the day and other people's work. And i went back to look at my blog and i realised, its like so boring can! So i proceeded to look for some sites and maybe i could go download some fresh brushes for myself to make the new layout. I found zero.chotoka.net and was greatly inspired by its style. It was so japanese and i thought, i could try that. But i also found out that the brushes i downloaded from that site were too flowery so i looked at the many brushes that i had previously downloaded and just decided on this rather reddish-pink colour on grey. I just put the brushes together and voila! This is what i got.


I had quite a lot of problem coding this new layout as this was totally different from my previous ones. But i explored into other people's codings and found that i just had to but div styles that kind of thing, put everything into place and its done! :D


I had spaghetti for lunch and it tasted great. I mean c'mon its been like forever since i've had a decent lunch at home. Anyway i think i will go and get the notes for the trumpet solo in samba de loves you. It has many running notes in demisemiquavers mind you! And its an upbeat song so the tempo of it is quite fast. I hope i can play this solo well, it'll be a great achievement for me if it goes successfully. There's band tomorrow once again, gosh will it ever end? I might also go and make more opus advertisements and yes before i forget, i shall be wrapping up a birthday present before giving it of course. And i have to start doing my homework, because the holidays are almost coming to an end, plus i still have to clean up my messy and untidy desk :(( now i'm wondering, why do they call it holidays when all the students get is homework, cca, and more homework. This isn't a holiday. Not at all. Grr.. The rain wouldn't stop, its been raining since morning when i woke up at 6:45am freezing and shivering under the covers :((


I'm jumping for joy! Cos' he will be back tonight! :)

bleh

[a day at home]


Like finally i get to stay at home for one whole day. And nope you didn't hear me wrongly, its finally. I mean, i'm always at band, well not always but usually. After all, we have a concert to practice for and many things are not done yet. Well heck enough of band for now, let's talk about what i've been up to the whole morning, and its a new layout! HAHA. Talk about being lame. I shall now be off to code it and put it up pretty soon so stick around for it. Shall update later.

Thursday, June 15, 2006

bandprac

[band: practice!]


so yea there was band practice today. and it was quite fun, today's practice was much more relaxing and fun for my section, nobody had this "sian" kind of look today, which is very good. i hope it can be like this on every practice.


i realise that everyday, i would buy one bar of chocolate and eat on my way home from band. looks like i'm addicted to chocolates. especially those with nuts. heh. nuts just taste so crunchy and delicious (:


my sun burns are starting to hurt so much. grr.. its like the first time i've gotten sun burnt in like what? 14 years? and i so regret it that i didnt put sun block. now i'm quite dark, when i want tanned.


where'd you go
i miss you so
seems like its been forever
that you've been gone

sentosawith2/5

[sentosa's beach]


so yes, yesterday was fun. however it didn't have a good start. so this is what happened. we met up at 10am and the people going were: wan yu, jia hui, jasmine, jenneth, teng wei, desmond, he chen, ye sheng, jian rong, wei yang, jun jie, siew chung, joel, shi yi, pei xian and last but not least, me! haha well as you can see, there are more guys than the girls so we were like out-numbered and at a big disadvantage.


upon reaching the island the guys kept on complaining that they were bored and kept on saying that we should have went to east coast instead as there was nothing much to do at sentosa. while they were complaining wan yu, jasmine, jenneth and me bought some ben&jerry's ice cream. and it tasted like heaven (:


after that we headed to siloso beach to have some fun and to get really wet. at first the girls was like, i dont think we should get wet because we might be eating lunch. but it turned out that the guys were trying to pull us 5 girls into the water, starting with jia hui. poor jia hui got dunked into the water a couple of times but she didnt bring extra shorts. then slowly they got wan yu and jasmine into the water too, jenneth and i ran from them and went to the rocks. heh. ye sheng tried to get us but failed so er too bad. but slowly we went back wading in the water.


so basically we played with lots of water and jenneth and i went kayaking, the rest of the girls went for this paddling thing and the guys were busy digging and digging. the kayaking was pretty fun for me and i was so afraid it was going to topple over. when it was over, the girls went back to our bags and grabbed hold of some guys' shirts as we were afraid they would come over to dunk us into the water and we thought they wouldnt do that because we had their shirts they were trying to dry. in the end, i got pulled into the water and screamed my lungs out. haha! i bit someone too. lol! well serves them right. the guys also had this sand fight that they were actually digging for and it was quite interesting to watch. shi yi could throw sand with patterns. haha.


then we took pictures of the sunset and went to wash up. we left the island at about 8 and went to eat dinner at the habourfront hawker centre. we ate until about 10 before going home. i felt so cold and the mrt journey was certainly fun. because at outram park, ye sheng and he chen was unable to get in so we got off at the next station to wait for them. then all of us rushed into the train and got "squeezed" well it was quite funny actually.


i reached home at 11 with sun burnt skin. i didnt apply sun block but heck! lol i shall be off to band now. its going to be a long day -sigh.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

have fun

[lets have fun, shall we?]


okay people, quick update, haha.


so now i should actually be on my way to school to clean up the library, i mean, the band's library of scores. mr lim wanted a new arrangement so yea, i shall do it up as soon as possible.


yesterday we had combine and i think i played really loud. yay for me (: i really do hope that in every band practice, my playing can get better and better. i really want to get better.


after i cleaned up the stuff i shall be on my way for a 2/5 class outing. oh my god like finally. actually i was supposed to have a 3/9 class outing but apparently mrs chua is physically weak so it was cancelled and replaced with a 2/5 one. dance for joy! lol


oh well shall update later on if i have the time. i still have to practice my trumpet you know ;p


ciao

Sunday, June 11, 2006

formations

[tetra: performance]


heres a link to the video of one of our performances during the passing out parade


enjoy ((:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1pfsgXkTDY


i was also told that daz and cat decided to play for opus, because cat has braces and cant play the trumpet she'll be playing percussion. anyway i'm overjoyed. heh.

TETRA III

[camp: tetra III]

okay lets start from knowing the people from my group yea. and they are: khaliesa (group leader), hui xian(asst), xiang xiang, jennifer, ridzuan, an chun and me. our group counsellor is esther and our group name is S.Rajaratnam (the guy that composed the pledge)


Day 1
i/cs: yubing, hayati, shi min
they got pumped the most. i really pity them, they had to go through all those because of the campers slow movements and being first day i/cs with few experience it must have been really hard for them. well anyway i didn't quite like the first day. during the first flag raising i screwed up, i forgot the whole tune, but played out loud. i was scolded by mr lim for forgetting such an important tune. we also had a lecture teaching us on how to clean our instruments as it affects our playing too. then for lunch we had outdoor cooking with the mass tins that kind of stuff. our group was sort of inexperienced so we ended up eating bread and half cooked instant noodles. for dinner we had a strategy which was to cook the water first then put in the noodles. it was better. forgot what really happened but the campers were scolded for not bringing the group flags everywhere we go and at night during the time when the i/cs were reporting strength mr lim stressed the importance of knowing where each and every campers were. because its a responsibility. we pitched up our tents after that. i'm in tent 5 and grouped with ya xin and xin hong(the band major for hougang). we had difficulty pitching up the tents because the other time they had tentage practice i was unable to attend due to lessons. anyway yonglin, audris and tent 4 helped us so thank you! haha. then following that we had supper plus we had to write a review each and gave it to esther. then we headed to sleep at about 1 or 2 plus. i must say that its quite comfortable actually. lol


Day 2
i/cs: suhaina, an chun, anyu
personally i think they did a great job in getting everyone to hurry up and i think things went quite smoothly for them as they learnt from the mistakes from the first day i/cs. we started off the day by having some p.t and flag raising then we were off to pulau ubin. at pulau ubin we had a game. we were given a total of 11 pictures of some parts of the island and we had to search for it and were given about 4 hours to complete it. in that 4 hours we had to plan our own time for lunch too. it was really fun i guess but im afraid that our group wasn't quite bonded because we werent walking together even though i told the people ahead of me with some other members behind to slow down but in the end we didn't really walk closely together. and the rain made things worse. i was quite disappointed with the group actually but nevermind that because we were the first to complete it ahead of the other groups. the remaining 90 minutes we went back to the jetty and have our lunch and there was group talk. we went back to school after that, had a shower, ate dinner and had to sleep in the canteen because the rain flooded our tents which were in the field. i was told that xin hong, haziq and me were the i/cs for the next day. it didn't shock me, because even before that i felt really uneasy and even told an chun that i bet i will get chosen as one of the i/cs. and it came true. boo.


Day 3
i/cs: xin hong, haziq, me
basically we got pumped a few times because people didnt pin up their fringes and for not tucking in their shirts, i was also pumped for shouting the worng command. and i think we were not bad somehow. but we know we did our best. xin hong and i got up at 5:30 and we had to get the campers ready by 6.15 in the parade square for pt. i don't really remember the activities for that day but i know we had quite a number of practices for the passing out parade. mr chakrit (our display drills instructor) even wanted to give up on doing the fourth movement because there wasn't enough time to do stuff. but in the end we finished the fourth movement and we could finish the whole display. lights off was at 12am after supper and review. before supper, we even had to make sure everybody showers. we slept in the canteen due to the rain again. today's i/cs also met up with the day i/cs for the next day and we had to tell them what to do and explained plenty of things for them. we slept at about 1 plus.


Day 4
i/cs: suhaila, phoebe, dawn
they were under the most pressure as there was the passing out parade, and the schedule was very tight, everyone's movements must be fast. in the morning we had to try to finish up everything for breakfast, then we had some rehearsals for the parade. my arms ached like crazy cos' we had to hold up our trumpets 90 degrees to the ground. anyway i had to endure.

MIND OVER MATTER, people.

then we had catered food for lunch. like finally. when we opened up the food we were all like "wah.. cooked food" (: after that we had to keep our tents and make sure all areas were clean for the parade later. then came the parade. the display was really beautiful and i think everyone did a great job, it was awesome and so fun. we went up to the hall for the graduation cum concert. and yubing, ain, ruyu, jia yin and i started crying. i was crying because the seniors were leaving. well anyway i liked the way hougang band played loch lomond and overture jubiloso. the trumpetors were really strong! i was like wow. the sec 1 band was very cute and awesome too! yay for them. after that the alumni band played auld lang syne. it was so emotional. i started crying, others too. and we gave presents to our seniors. i received a box of chocolates and sweets for the trumpet section from daz. a card from daz, rebecca, cat and jocelyn. many thanks to you guys. i cant bear to see you guys leave, anyway all the best to all of the graduated seniors! i shall miss you! especially rebecca, cat, jocelyn and last but not the least, daz! haha. we had a group photo taking session of everyone. and regent had to clear up the place after bedok north and hougang left, we volunteered ourselves to stay back and clean up after the whole thing, afterall, its our school right? i went home at about 8 feeling totally exhausted and felt really happy that i endured through the whole camp, in fact, regent made it through the whole camp without anyone breaking down or getting sick. yay for regent!


this camp made me realise i could do more things, only if i put my mind to it. it has helped me appeciate many more things that are currently around me. thank you tetra 3! anyway my mum is going to jakarta tonight and will only be back on the 28th of june. she never fails to go back after i attend a camp. grr.. lol

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

madness

[this is madness]


okay so tomorrow camp tetra starts, tomorrow is the day i have to start enduring and not complaining like i usually do. hah! i've got a feeling that the camp would be pretty scary. you know, it would be my first time sleeping in a tent on the field. plus what makes it even more worst is my fear of the dark and those of insects. all those stories people have talked about what goes 'round the school at night, basically "ghost stories" haha. well i think i'd better think more about my music and stuff, and not those silly stuff. and i'd better not fall sick during the camp if not it will be over.


and our group's doing a very very wrong thing. which is to meet up a day before the camp just to finish up our group stuff. that, is actually the last thing you want to do, and shouldn't be doing. i mean, in last minute work, how much effort can you put into doing that? okay anyway we shall all put in our best effort and complete it by today! today! like what the title suggests, madness! lol but i think it would be fun (:


tonight i shall have a good sleep and make sure i have enough rest for tomorrow. and oh yes of course, i have to finish packing up all my stuff.


ardios people. i will be back on saturday, 7pm. it would be the longest camp i've attended. 4 full days.


i'm missing you again and again. sigh.

Monday, June 05, 2006

gahh.

[uhh..]


yesterday i came back really late because of the emerge conference. anyway it was so cool. and everyone was so hyped up. but the guy sitting behind me really irritated claudia and me alot. and edeline ended up with a $20 taka voucher for the spelling bee competition, lol


and today there's band for the tetra people, we have to finish up the formations for movements 3 and 4 for the phantom of the opera. however i have to go early for an OC meeting. last week was so damn hectic for me and everyday i came home at 7 feeling totally exhausted :( oh well nevermind that, just a few more days to endure, just a few more days and it will be over!


i dont know why but now i just got a feeling i miss someone.