Wednesday, September 27, 2006
3 school days have passed since after prelims. Wanna noe my prelim results??? Not good... But not too bad also. Quite ok with it actually. Made a significant improvement. Must really work harder for my O's though. Hopefully can get single digit, cos my mom promised me a big reward if i get single digit. =P Maybe can ask for a new bike, new comp??? Dunno. See how. My grades for all subjects more or less the same, arnd B3 to A2 like that. Gahhh...
Today had minature concert. Yeah!! First "independent" thing done together as a batch. Played Singapore Rhaps(brings back loads of memories ya?), Enka 1 & 2, Lion king and many others. Can't say it was a fantastic performance but the concert ended successfully though. Yay! Ended up playing drumset for the last few pieces. Played from memory, so..... Ya.. Haha. Very difficult to coordinate lo, especially the foot. So irritating. Anyhows, enjoyed playing tgt with the sec 4s. Perhaps, today's performance is one of the last time we'll be playing together. Hopefully, can come together again and jam. Oh ya, have to thank the group of ppl who bought us flowers. So thoughtful. Thank you very much!!!
Clues and hints that reveal, defeats the purpose of hiding...
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Monday, September 25, 2006
Singapore Idol: ~ ~ H A D Y ~ ~
Lol. I wont swear. Must be a gentleman like jon dude and accept reality. Hady won hands down sad. Too bad can't find out the vote difference. =( But i know jon dude lost by a small amount. Have to admit that Hady has great vocals. Power range and stuff. If he undergoes training, he will become better. Anyhows, jon lost, sad to all jon fans out there but dun worry. He's got the potential. Like what Ken said,"You could be a regional star and your journey has just begun.." I think he's hinting something. Yeah, something like, got chance to develop you into a star. But the english singing industry in Singapore still not that established yet or should i say has greater competition out in the world. There are many great english singers out there ya? Alright enough of SI.
Today got some papers back: chem, bio, a math, ss, chinese. Can't say I'm satisfied with my marks cos in fact it's not up to my expectations of myself. Arww wells. Hopefully my L1R5 improves at the very least...
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Saturday, September 23, 2006
Darn, my Geforce FX 5200 fried. Lol. Took me ages to figure that out. Although there were signs that images were lagging bad and stuff. Lucky i kept my good old graphics card, ze MX 420. Ancient. But no choice, have no other graphics card with me. Found out the problem when i re-installed maplestory. Wanted to play it today but the update screwed up, so i re-downloaded the whole client and re-installed it. Then got same problem. I plucked my graphics card and put it back in again. Still cannot. ZZZZ. Then i tried my old one. Finally.....
Arww wells. Battle fought. I am victorious!!! Dun think i'll be playing maple today. So late already. Oh ya. If you guys haven't noticed. I added a small cute little hitsugaya beside the skulls. Cute huh? Not done by me. Haha. Done by some one from Deviantart. Cool site. Loads of fan-arts and stuff. If you can't find pics online, try that webby, it might just be there...
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Friday, September 22, 2006
Hitsugaya
Changed blogskin!! Changed to theme still on bleach but change character. Hehehe. Character info: Hitsugaya Toushirou, Zanpakuto: Hyourinmaru, Bankai: Great Crimson Ice ring..
Yeah. So cool. Hyourinmaru is actually an ice dragon. Hitsugaya is a talented boy genius in bleach. The youngest of all captains. Cool huh? And his Zanpakuto(soul slayer) is one of a kind. A katana with a star shaped crossguard. Haha. All non bleach fans must be blur blur right now. Spent the whole afternoon working on my new blogskin. Very satisfied with it. Think i will not be changing it for some time. Slack, slack, slack.....
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Snow skin lotus mooncake!!
Yum yum. Just ate a snowskin mooncake. So nice. =D Raffles Hotel one hor dun play play. 1 piece $3.60 so expensive but nice. Got two flavours. One is Champagne the other is chocolate. Not totally that flavour, is actually lotus paste add champagne and the other add choc. The choc one very stupid. It's lotus with coco krunch lor. Only the champagne flavour is nice. Got macademia with cream with champagne flavour. *Drools* Yup, eating mooncake = lantern festival is arnd the corner. Hopefully got band outing, go sunplaza play candle. Also must have rocket making competition. Last year, we made a rocket but it didn't fly, maybe pressure not enough. This year must make a rocket that can fly. =P Stuff it with loads of cracklers. Bwahahahaha. Went back to band to play instru with e sec 4s. Alot of us lost touch alr but not to worry, will get it back someday. Have to get it back fast too cos minature concert approaching. Orh wells. Stay tuned...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Prelims are going to end! =D Dunno how i will fare for it, hopefully not too bad. Today came home extremely early and i mean extremely. School just finish one period, i on my way home already =P. Mcq paper today 1 hr only. Tomorrow the same thing, summore dun nid to go to school that early cos paper at 2nd shift. Watched the whole of 'High School Musical' today. Extracted frm youtube. The storyline ok ok but the songs are good. Yeah. But the vocals abit fake, maybe is digitally mastered that's why. Darn, i wanna acquire perfect pitch. Acquire already then arrange songs much easier. If not have to struggle using sibellius, so chim. But i will figure out how to use it some day..
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Musical Frenzy!!!!!
Changed blogsong AGAIN!! Lol. Changed to 76 trombones performed by Canadian Brass. Check out the trumpets and the horns. Very nice tone quality. And this version sounds more whimsical. Like it very much =D
Today got E maths paper 1 and Elect history paper. E math paper is 2 hrs!! Paper one summore lor. Sad. But it's all logic and easy thinking compared to all the other problems from A math. Yup so sorta easier. But still looonnnnggggg. Both math paper combined 4hrs EACH ok? No time to check de. Confirm. So must do with caution. Yeah. Left 2 more paper 1s, 1hr each YAY. Then thurs go back band rm and chill. ;) Alrighty, off to do some music scouting =P
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Monday, September 18, 2006
Lolies. Yesterday, my brother played with my phone, trying to 'hack' and unlock my keypad. Dunno what 'Mr-smartypants' did, he managed to change my security code without even unlocking the key pad. =O My phone getting a little cranky already. Time to change =D My phone used about two yaers already if im not wrong. Maybe get a sony ericsson one or get some N-series phone. We'll see. After O's then go buy. Oh ya, continuing with the story. Wanted to go down to nokia shop at century square to fix my phone. Walked all the way to the bus-stop. Tried various code combinations and finally my old code. Guess what?? It worked. Lol!! Dunno why there's a temporary change of my code. But who cares, my phone is working as per normal now. Made a wasted trip to the bus-stop =.= Studied history in the morning and just now. Such a dry subject. Anyhows, need to do well for tmr's elect humanities test cos chem ain't looking that good =(
Today's sis's birthday...
Khusa Janmadina Ko Apa Sis!!
Managed to get the indian translation for "happy birthday to you", may be grammatically wrong cos every word got loads of different ways of saying. =S
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Sunday, September 17, 2006
Lol. Spent the whole of yesterday making my blogskin. Very tedious. Used adobe photoshop to process the skin. Superweisiong was also done on photoshop. Finally grasped the basics of photoshop. Yipee! It's a program with limitless capabillites. Got alot of functions. Have to slowly figure them out though. If have time and photos, then i will start wokring on new weisiong parodies =P Alright. Merfy went down to hong lim to see Dr Chee 'protest' yesterday. So dumb. The protestors were 'protest'ing for democracy and freedom of speech. Dunno about the details though. But they ain't the first protestors ever since the IMF. The first were a voiceless protest to protest against poverty, and to have basic speaking rights for poor people. The IMF is looking through this matter and giving more voting rights to developing countries like Turkey etc. Yeah, hopefully the poverty situation in the world can be alleviated after these IMF meetings...
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Saturday, September 16, 2006
CHANGED BLOG SKIN!! Designed by me.. =D
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Changed blog song again. =.= Changed to The Carnival of Venice, performed by Russian tpt'er Sergei Nakariakov. His sound and all very nice just that his posture is suxxors. Lol. Carnival is a very nice song so enjoy!!
Alrighty, went back to band room yesterday to check out xh's problem as well as play instru. Very long nvr play liao, very tiring. Summore ytd keep screaming high notes =X Anway, the pros say practising high notes can improve range =D, nvr forgetting the pedal notes also. Pedal notes are fun!! Checked van's and xh's sound yesterday, sorry no time check the rest of the section. After O's then see how bah. Both of em got almost the same problem, the 'stuck' sound. Told van to drop jaw, open embouchure and use more of air and buzzing. Told xh basically the same stuff and asked him to visualise and hear the difference between 'open' and 'stuck' sound. Hopefully both of them gets it. Band break for exams alr so dunno if they'll work on it at home. Got a piece of advice for the whole section though(apply to all brass players). Work on a comfortable basic embouchure where your sound is good. Then further develop from that embouchure. Basic idea is to have a fixed embouchure so that problems are easier to be corrected. Went to bach brass.com just now to check the difference between bach strad model 37 and 43. I played both models before, difference is that 43 requires more air than 37. The reason why this is so is because of the bore size. The bore is actually the cylinder tubing where it is smaller at the mp and larger towards the bell. Basically is the tube where the air passage is lor. 43 has a slightly larger bore than 37. But since tpts are long. The difference is multiplied so amount of air requried...... Yeah, do your calculations. Not advised to let juniors play 43 so suggesting to my to let xh change instrus, at the same time check the rest's instrus too. Better go remind her. Yup.
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Thursday, September 14, 2006
Got to get you into my life
Prelims have gone by almost a week already, ending soon. Yipee! Most of my major papers are ok, left chemistry tomorrow. Need to get a distinction for that then can have a nice L1R5. Yeah. Can't wait for the papers to finish tomorrow then go to band see how's the band faring now. Close to a month without the sec 4s. At the same time check on my section and play my instru =P Changed blog song today. Title of the song is called 'Got to get u into my life'. Performed by Earth wind and fire. The beatles also performed it some time ago. Some oldie. Hady sang it for S.I. yesterday. Found the tune very familiar. It's one of the tunes in Music of the Beatles. So checked it out online. This song ain't about a girl, though the title and lyrics like directed to a girl. The song is actually about.......Marijuana. *Stumps* Lol. Fyi marijuana is a drug. Prohibited and banned of course! Songs full of 'Oooos' and stuff. Must be expressing the 'high' feeling after drug abuse. Anyhows, drug abuse is bad and is illegal. Don't try it =D Update on S.I.: Cutey-cutey-cute Jasmine officially out of the competition. Most improvement shown as a singer ok. Top 3 summore, good job Jasmine! Finally, my prediction on who's going out is correct. Yay! Finals will be on 25 oct i think, 24 oct is the 'hype' concert thing. Support Jon dude!! Anway, enjoy the 'marijuana' song. Hee.
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Black n white..
Dun get misleaded by the title, not talkin about the game 'Black n white' but talking about my life these few days. Life these few days has been like black and white for me. Revising over and over again, looking at the same few pages of the textbooks, looking at notes, so borrriinnnng and dry. My life is devoid of colours!! Just text, text and more text. GaRrrRRrr.. Miss band loads, my instrument too. Will be going back on friday though. Check on my jnrs and fix xh's problem of his sound. The media has been advertising alot on the IMF event to be held sep 14 onwards. An event to discuss about poverty in other countries need to have so much ads meh? Anyways, you know the million smiles project thing? In order to 'extract' more smiles, Marina square giving away free coffee in exchange for smiles. Lol. Nt interested in the smiles part but interested in the free coffee! Nothing's better than enjoying a cup of kopi 'kao' =P Alrighty off to be, tomorrow still got two long papers..
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Monday, September 11, 2006
To live not in regret..
I just found one very startling fact when i tagged on merfy's blog/webpage. Anw, I linked him already. You should check out his cool website. Got loads of funny stuff and alot of info on the pro. Yeah, back to topic. If you guys haven't found out, guess what? Today is the 5th aniv of the sep 11 incident. It is the day when the WTC in american went kaboom when an airplane hit the building and that it fell. Lives were lost. Loads. And when the WTC was hit, US president Mr. Bush was at a kindergarden telling a story to the kids. When he got the news, he was shocked. Everyone was... 5 years later, the kids at the kindergarden are of secondary level. Time really flies. Incidents do make time go by much faster. We should not take life for granted ppl. Learn to appreciate. Learn to cherish... Before it is too late..
No mood to blog about the prelim papers today. It's @#$%@#$. Yeah..
Just 3 words to all: Seeing ain't believing..
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Sunday, September 10, 2006
The tension heats up!!
Tomorrow is the start of sec 4s' prelims liao. Crap. Haven't finish studying everything yet but i have confidence that i will do ok though. The last leg of the 4 year race in secondary school has started, soon will be leaving school, leaving my beloved friends, my beloved teachers, and my beloved cca.. Lol. Sad =( Memories will be all that is left, will keep the memories in my heart. Enough of the sad stuff. Getting bored staying at home, nothing to do except study but no choice. Just chiong one more week and it will be all over, temporarily. Still got the final 100 m , the O levels!! After that hor, siao liao. Play like crazy. Woohoo. A little too early thinking about playing now. Hee. Just downloaded FileZilla and used ftp to upload file to website. Now my blog has the full 2nd suite in f 1st mvement liao. Yay! All thanks to the pro. I checked out his blog source and pondered why he could upload such large files to websites. Then i remembering him saying that use ftp will be better, so i dl'ed filezilla and tried. It worked! =D Seemed a little complicated at first for a computer novice like me but in the end still quite easy. Just connect to ftp site and start uploading. For the dian nao bai chi's who don't understand these concepts, just dl the programme and try. You'll pick it up as you go along. Alrighty then! Here's wishing all sec 4s good luck for prelims. Single-digit L1R5 =P
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Friday, September 08, 2006
Ooiiissshhhhhiiiiii.....
Didn't study at all today. Spent the whole morning watching bleach with my brother. Ichigo has entered soul society. Lol. Those who nvr watch bleach wont understand. Wont explain to you guys either. Mwhahaha. Lunchtime went down to expo, cos got FOOD FAIR. *Drools* Haha. Im a born eater. Can eat alot de. Can't say im picky about food but i go for good food anyhows. This year's world food fair ain't that extravagant. Though Expo hall 5 looked extremely huge but the number of food stalls were little, compared to previous years. Last time as a kid i always remember going to food fair, to be a crowded event where u have to squeeze thru the crowd then can walk that kind. But this year a little different. The amount of people present, compared to other years is considerably lesser. Didn't need to squeeze through the crowd. Mayb go in the afternoon lesser ppl bah. Another bad point of the fair was the quality of the food. Become so-so liao. The vendors were selling more food, and the neglected the principle of "quality over quantity". Anyways, overall the food ok ok, there were still some good food though =D Ordered Bee hoon, Oyster 'mee sua', fish maw soup, assorted fried seafood dips, paper chicken( hot and ooiiishhhiii =P ). Shared with my mother though. Couldn't possibly finish all of the items i mentioned. Then went back and packet loads of dim-sum plus paper chicken =D. The dim sum is good i tell u, especially the paper chicken. They put a chicken wing in paper and fry in under hot oil. Then sell to ppl freshly cooked ones, the oil still dripping. Oooooiiiiiissshhhhiiii!!! Shan't go into the details of the taste and texture of the chicken. Lol. Cannot eat too much oily and fried stuff liao. Got a flu now. So poor thing rite? First, my mom got it, then pass to my brother, then finally my turn liao. Hopefully, will recover soon, before the exams. =O Prelims in 3 days f.y.i.......
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Thursday, September 07, 2006
Been studying a huge amount these few days. Haven't completely finished the whole syllabus though, too much to study already. Sad. Been into watching "Bleach" recently, episode 17 already ( the ep where renji came out ). The style of bleach is so naruto lol. Spirit power in bleach is like chakra in naruto. Then Ichigo resembles naruto alot as in the powers. Ichigo got lots of spirit power hidden in him whereas naruto has kyuubi in him which is equivalent to having a very large amount of chakra. Not much diff lor. Both series have their good and bad points though. One thing bad about bleach is the drawing of the hollows. They look so "ultraman-monster" like. Lol. At least naruto is ninja vs ninja =D Never mind shan't go into the details. Just finished watching singapore idol. Paul is out!! Sad to all paul fans. I personally feel that his singing style is very unique and the way he pronounces his words is very special. Maybe it's because of his family and upbringing and stuff. Arhh well. He's out anyways. Predicted that Jasmine would go though. Didnt know she got so many fans. Maybe because she is the only girl left that's why got more supporters. But she did improve tremendously ever since the start of her idol journey. Can't wait for the finals. Yeah! Finals between Hady and Jonathan. Woohoo.
Say! Say!! Say!!! This goes out to all Paul fans....
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Paul Twohill.. More than just hair...... Foooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Poof.... Here i am again blogging away. Clicking around aimlessly, dunno what to do, so blog lor. Studied quite a amount today, did loads of math, whole day do math, while listening to music =D Downloaded(heard actually) quite a number of songs online today.. Or was it yesterday? Lol. The holidays seem so typical. Heard scream machine by army blues, pilatus: mountain of dragons and many more.. All awesome songs. Scream machine, as the name suggests, has loads of trumpet screaming inside. Very cool, screamy =x, but professional recording. Yeah, highly recommended for all trumpeters =) Wonder when i will get a range like that. Hmmmm, train on more pedal tones like the pros said may do the trick. Dunno, after o's then try. Mwhahaha. Also realised that many pros use Vincent Bach 1 1/2 C mouthpieces. Similar to my 1 1/4 C, just that the tone produced on 1 1/2 is flatter and the rim is rounder. I want to get my hands on a 1 1/2 C or maybe a jazz mouthpiece.Hehe. Save money first then say...
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Monday, September 04, 2006
Thanks to merfy, im able to put 2nd suite in f for my blog song. Previously the file size too big so cannot put. After using a program merfy recomended, Magix audio cleaning lab, i managed to cut a small portion of 1st mvment of 2nd suite in f. Enjoy! In love with music with loads of expression now. Though 1st movement of 2nd suite in f not tt expressive but the tune is super catchy, hear alot wont sian one, summore the eupho solo inside very very nice =D Today spent half a day outside with my mother then afternoon most of the time fiddling with the program that i downloaded. The program can enhance sound and edit sounds also. Very cool and professional. Will try to grasp how to use it soon, after o lvls. =x Listened to quite a number of band recordings today. Dunno why. Felt like listening to loads of music. Studied uber little today, maybe after blogging go study liao. Ok not maybe, will study!! Till nxt time.. .. ..
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Sunday, September 03, 2006
Mein Kampf
Lol. The post title goes out to the pro.. No la just joking. Ok mein kampf means my struggle for those who nvr go to the pro's blog. Yesterday, quarrelled whole day with my mother in order to go to band director's association the concert. It seemed like a futile struggle(chim). But in the end i managed to go! Woo! Nvr regret. Very good concert. The strength of the band is quite big. Horns alot. The woodwinds are very good. Trumpets mayb a little soft but overall the sound and balance of bda band is very very uber good. Played a wide selection of tunes and songs. Merry widow was awesome. The expression all the band directors gave is owning. Can really feel the song together with them. They were that good.. I think. Haha. Then there were many ensembles. Got trombone choir, horn ensemble, brass kinetics and clarinet ensemble. Brass kinetics was good. Trumpet the sound very very nice. Can whack all the high notes with good tone =) Changed my blog's song. Bohemian rhapsody too sad liao. Changed it to 2nd suite in F last movement. Sorry cannot put 1st movement cos too big the file. 2nd suite in F is a song consisting of many many folksongs. Total of 7 in the 4 movements. Last movement is a song abt a fantasy, very catchy tune, beware of the last note, it's very loud dun get a shock hor. Enjoy....
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Friday, September 01, 2006
There's a kid in me !!
Had a relaxing day today. Went out with my family together with me aunt and cousins. Went to eat cafe cartel for lunch. Ordered ribs. Shiok lei. Eat for 30 mins also haven't finish. I eat fast so can imagine the size of those ribs liao. Hehehehe. Then went to catch a movie with my cousins. Cannot watch little man. Sad. My cousins all underaged. NC16 ma. Lol. Then we decided to watch monster house. Wont say the story of the show u all ownself go watch. It's quite a kiddy show, but some parts quite funny. Storyline also quite interesting. Runtime was quite short though 1 and a half hrs show onli. Heard from my cuz that the show had 4 out of 5 stars for ratings. And good news: Spiderman 3 in coming out in May nxt year. Caption frm spiderman3: the greatest battle is frm within... Chim eh? Spiderman 3 is abt venom, should be quite cool. Yeah..
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