Saturday, December 26, 2009 . 7:27 AM
good day, people. how’s life going ? silence means you’re living life like a bed of roses. nah, kidding. anyway, one week and three days ago was none other than a friday and i promised anna that i’ll accompany her to school to practice with her and to let my brain go through torture for a bit with the memorizing of the ‘whistle while you work’ score. oh, and ruby’s such a nice soul. i merely sent her a message telling her that i’m hell not sticking with the first clarinet part (of course, without the word ‘hell’ included in my message). well, although i’m not partnering anna, but at least it’s a second. :D. it’s better than nothing. thanks, ruby (well, if you’d ever read this). haha. anyway, there wasn’t a screaming-her-head-off-to-call-me-up-mum running around the bedroom like a headless chicken (whoops, my bad, mum.) coz she wasn’t at home in the morning today. i thank god for that. but it was when i needed her the most (i expected myself to wake up at 9.30 am) that she wasn’t around. anyway, my dad woke me up (minus the throwing of pillows and bolsters part) with just his voice and the surprising thing was that i got up after a few minutes. like, by myself ?! god. how amazing was that. and my poor mum has a firm idea that hollering at me and throwing stuffs at me would actually wake me up. -.-. such contrast. and it takes me approximately hmmm, let me see, perhaps half an hour for me to get outta bed with my mum being my alarm clock ? how amusing, although i’m not at all amused one bit. haha ! not funneh. haha ! oh, shaddup. haha ! will you shut the fuck up ! (apologies, i was just giving myself self-entertainment. you know, posting can e B-O-R-I-N-G.) hokay. strolled to school and there were only three people. anna, lisa and junyan. practiced and practiced while i was desperately trying to get my embrochure back. blah blah. more people starting arriving. people like yisheng, sean, wesley, ahmad, etc. blah blah. hokay. we practiced til around twelve plus before heading to point to point to have our lunch. in the end they decided to go to jiancheng’s house for mahjong session. me, anna, anne, zequan, shengyong, sean, yisheng, litat and junyan boarded bus number 112 and it was friggin’ long before it arrived at jiancheng’s house. mahjong-ed there and i won like, two rounds ? muahahahahaha. k, although i practically lost memory of the rules of the games and sean and yisheng and junyan assisted me in winning one of the games. ok, forget it. they were helping me play actually. blah blah. thereafter i got totally hooked by litat’s psp til 4 pm and had to rush home coz my mum was returning home at four plus also. so here’s the beginning of the interesting story that i travelled all the way home from jiancheng’s house by foot. it was pretty embarrassing so i’ll just cut it short. basically, i walked to the wrong bus stop and the bus that i wanted to board was actually heading to the opposite direction and i brisk-walked to hougang mall which consisted of walking past nativity church, punggol park, one 325 bus stop before reaching at hougang mall and i planned to take bus 325 but the bus went off and i decided to walk home ! nice story ? applause please. haha. whatever. the next post’s about sunday. a post about how i got insomnia and got to see the sky of 4.50am for the first time in my life, i guess. -.-. hokay. i napped from 5-7 pm. anyway, as i was rather wide-awake 1am in the morning, i assisted peilin in writing a letter. ok, so i was literally sitting in the living room with the tv switched on (although i wasn’t paying much attention to it) at 1am in the morning and trying to squeeze my brain to death by trying not to pen down crap least i crushed like fifty pieces of paper or something. by the time the writing process was finished, it was around two plus in the morning and my eyelids weren’t sending signals to my brain saying they were closing so i tried correcting the letter. the more i corrected, the more it sounded wrong. -.-. so i tried going to sleep in the living room, and at the same time reading the different versions of the letter and trying to determine which was the best, but i didn’t like the sofa and i proceeded to my room and started reading ‘angels and demons’ by dan brown. the book got so bloody exciting that i didn’t prevent myself from reading til 4am in the morning. time passes when you’re having fun. k, i stared at the ceiling for nearly thirty minutes before looking out at the sky. it looked kinda light blackish-brownish red. blah blah. last thursday was our first combine practice with the jjc band, together with some players from regent band and shuqun band. hokay. first day there was kinda weird and a little awkward coz we had no idea who each other was mah. each of us was sticking to our own school. oh, and the first day of sectionals was almost like self-practice. hahaha. ruby and the jj boy (according to ruby and wayne claimed that ruby looked down on him for calling him a jj BOY. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.) were trying to practice together and faith was constantly helping ahmad with their parts and shengyong with the bass clarinet part. me and anna were both wondering if that was counted as a sectionals. couldn’t blame us mah. coz we weren’t quite familiar with the notes and stuffs. both the shuqun people (xingman and alexandra (alex for short)) were rather quiet and alex kept walking over to xingman to chat with her. alex was playing second clarinet part, together with ahmad and faith and me, anna and xingman were playing third clarinet. xingman was damn sociable and was trying to make the effort to talk to us. haha, she’s nice and friendly lah. oh, and H-I-G-H and in secondary two. alex’s a girl, just that we address her as alex for short. she’s a half-caucasian and half-chinese. she’s pretty good in her chinese and doesn’t have the weird accent. she’s in secondary one. ok. we didn’t know each other’s names til the second day. LOL. so first day was mostly sight reading for me and anna and we had troubles for some parts of some particular songs. blah blah. practice ended at at around six and on the way home, wayne and friends were cracking cold jokes. -.-. it consisted of jokes with stupid but logical answers and there were jokes which you felt like killing the person who told the joke after the answer was revealed. here’s one. two men proceeded to the hundred floor as they wanted to commit suicide for some reasons. they jumped. one died and one didn’t. why ? haha. we had a difficult time trying to answer this. there were answers like ‘because the other one was a ghost’, ‘because the other one was a doctor’, ‘because the other one was a fireman’, ‘because the other one had a parachute’, ‘because the other one had an umbrella in his hand’. ROFL. answer: because the other man was lucky. wtf lah. haha. it made sense, but at the same time it’s a rather dumb answer. oh, and speaking of dumb, wayne was suan-ing faith about the ‘it’s dumb you know’ thing. HAHAHA. at first it was ‘my thumb is dumb you know’(with the thumb raised) and it modified to ‘it’s dumb you know’ (with the thumb raised also) and then ‘my finger is dumb you know’ (with the finger raised). coz faith’s thumb and finger were rather numb after each practice. and i think she didn’t pronounce properly or something and wayne heard that the word ‘numb’ was pronounced as ‘dumb’ and the whole thing started. -.-. just like that. like every now and then they would say it. haha. omg. poor faith. anyway, i reached home at around 8.30 pm and was literally a starving ghost. blah blah. day two, which was a friday, started out with band in the morning. we were supposed to fall in at 7.30 am but i was almost forty-five minutes late. god. they had warm-ups and we went through ‘whistle while you work’. after a while we proceeded to the parade square for display drills with our instruments. blah blah. ruby, me, anna, wayne, wesley, ahmad and shengyong. me and anna had a candlelight lunch at kopitiam while the rest of them went to mac. after eating, we tried flagging for a damn cab and were splitted into two groups. bloody hell man. when you try flagging a cab in a hurry, no damn cabs will ever stop in front of you. that was our situation then. like wtf. after like around twenty to thirty minutes, ruby and gang got a cab. me, anna and shengyong were still trapped and we were friggin’ pissed when we got to know that a bunch of aunties with no brains and had no idea of what was ‘first come, first serve’, snatched our taxi away after they crossed the road and stood a few metres to our right (the cars drove from our right) and acted like we were invisible or something. walan eh. they aunties think they big meh. hell. anyway, blah blah. practiced ended at around 7 pm. board the 174 (i guess) bus to bukit batok station. on the train, i was facing anna and faith with my back facing ruby, wayne, wesley, ahmad and shengyong. halfway during the ride, ruby asked me INNOCENTLY if i have water. yeah, it was innocent enough and i didn’t suspect a thing until my hand touched the side of my bag and my bottle wasn’t there. -.-. first i suspected was ruby. haha, she looked innocently evil. i searched her and suspected that it was at her left side which i didn’t managed to search properly. i gave up after a while. i started searching anna and faith and shengyong. -.-. i turned back and searched wayne, even his bag. well, it wasn’t on him, but he looked suspicious. i didn’t search ahmad and wesley coz they both looked serious. i was wrong. i decided to take revenge by stealing ruby’s bottle and slotting it at my bottle slot. in the end, it got lost. wtf. haha. anyway, wayne started the old two dollar note quiz of ‘why is the picture (behind) in the morning ?’. haha. again, loads of answers. ‘there was a dragon.’, ‘coz only dragon occasions are celebrated in the morning.’, ‘coz there are malays (which wayne said i was being racist).’, ‘coz the people were holding a ball.’. in the end, shengyong got the answer. answer: coz there was a person wearing sunglasses. haha. -.-. my god. and we looked dumb staring at a two dollar note. anyway, there was another quiz. the new two dollar note. ‘find the smallest words at the front of the two dollar note.’. hokay. that one was mostly me and ruby trying to crack the case. we were staring so hard at the note people might thought we hadn’t see the note before or something. in the end we refused to give up and upon alighting at the amk station, we were still trying to find the answer. haha, but wayne eventually told us the answer. hokay. it was extremely small. anyway, my bottle was with wesley. ruby’s bottle was with wayne. wow. anyway, blah blah. third day of practice i went home by myself as ruby, ahmad and wesley left early and anna, faith and wayne stayed til 10 pm and shengyong didn’t attend the practice. i left at 7 pm when they had their dinner. blah blah. fourth day. after practice, we went to buy our black long-sleeved shirt for the concert. hokay. anna took a loooooooong time to decide on what size she wanted til ruby and faith decided to go home. haha. blah blah. hokay. finally, it was the day of the concert. ‘reverie’ or something. anyway, me and anna decided to wear the all-black attire straight to jjc. blah blah. ran through and stuffs with the malaysian band who arrived a day earlier. they’re pretty good. during the dry run through, mr lim was frightening. he shouted at peirce band and the whole hall went silent. even the malaysian band. he practically screamed. hokay. anyway, the concert started at 7 pm. shizhe, anne, guowei, dominic, winsome, jieyi, sean, lisa, dickson and some other people came to support the hs band. jjc band performed three songs. welcome, american graffiti and disneyland celebration. peirce performed flight of valour and whistle while you work. lol, and the shuqun people were so excitedly flipping through the scores. haha. fifteen minutes interval later on followed by the malaysian band performing three songs. one of the songs were bravo brass. later was combined. played festa paesana conducted by mr lee, the conductor of the malaysian band. Christmas recollections was next, conducted by mr lim. last song (encore) was some Japanese song. it was nice lah. the band obviously sounded loud with three bands playing. the concert ended and the band took photos. thereafter was the certificate-giving session. haha. the ‘HAO !’ thing started all over again. everytime a person went up to receive the certificate, loads of people would shout ‘HAO !’. LOL. xingman was screaming away beside me all the while. haha. and she kept complaining that we didn’t have our certificates. she was like, ‘eh ! we should like question them why we don’t have leh. we helped them play lor.’. haha. she was sulking away. anyway, section photos were taken afterwards, and the shuqun and hougang people kept shouting ‘HAO !’ for no particular reasons. rofl. later was the shuqun, regent and hougang photo-taking session. it was difficult calling people as the whole hall was noise-filled. we had to literally shout 1, 2, 3 before screaming out the person’s name. HAHA. whenever we did that, heads were turned. anyway, we headed back to the band room and took some more pictures again. it was fun having them around lah. anyway, winsome and gang bought us a cake and they somehow managed to cut it outside the band room. the shuqun people and hougang people kept saying goodbyes. haha. blah blah. anyway, i went home alone with anna. hokay. she was telling me how this particular person knows how to mind-read. scary. travelled to bukit batok station by bus and saw ruby and gang. haha. we took bus from different bus stops. oh, and on the way to outram station, anna kept messaging FAMILIAR person. hehe. blah blah. by the time i reached home it was already around 12.40 am? yeah. woah. long post. nights people. tired tired sleepy sleepy. XD.Labels: slebal
