Sunday, December 31, 2006
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YEAR 2006 has come to a close! whatan eventFUL year it was this year.. thinking back about the many activities that has happened will really make one feel that this year was not a year that went by meaninglessly but rather, a year full of surprises and lessons learnt! haha.
lets see... my new class in 2006,
3e1. the class with the 'nerds' as some may call it juz by seeing the name. but one thing i am super proud of is that we managed to be seen as the cool class with the clever people and not really nerds! haha. maybe a few chess players :P we won sooooo many things this year in level and school challenges.. some great moments will be winning the national day performance thing (we practiced real hard for it okay and was the ONE AND ONLY upper sec class that articipated.. never see that coming from a first class ya) haha. and also, winning the most profitable stall for the SUNDAY MARKET!! we rocked in so many things... academic wise and outside classroom matters wise.i am so proud to be a 3e1-nian. haha. also, not to forget the many challenges i had to overcome having to take 9 subjects and i too, enjoyed every single lesson of my LITERATURE class, where there are only 6 of us taking lit and we are called LITETERANIANS. haha... our glorious moments cant happened without both MR shah and MRS lai who helped up at different parts of the year. also to our many subject teachers..
Peer Leader, becoming Vice-Head and head of 1 opt group came to me as a SURPRISE. i can say i was not really enthu about peer leader as i had my band to handle at one point in time.. but like i always say.... once given the job, do it well even if u do not want it as it has been given to u with faith and confidence! haha. peer leader was busy this year but fun at the same time!
Band,the place where most of the fun, sad, joy and all other emotions comes out of me and where i will have my deepest and greatest memories in!the many performances at all the wierd places where all of us will get real hot and sweaty... the Stadium Green Performance, Bedok Family Day, Bedok Interchange... haha.. although it was real hot, we still gave our very best and we were well recieved! cheers!
one very very memorable evening of the band calendar would be Fiesta de Graduazione, our very own concert since a long time! this years' one was a sad one for me as i had to say goodbye to many great seniors of the band whom my batch are very very close too.... huijia, weining, xiaowei,clariss, carin, yining and the rest. u people made a lasting impression on the band and to us! thank you for that =D it was a great concert too which ended up with many tears flowing... but whats a new beginning if there is no ending! haha
Also, my next leap in band was the becoming of Band Major. was i prepared for it? not really i would say. all i wanted before handng down day was to remain as the librarian. the library which i did for the past 1 yr was something close to me as many ugly and nice things happened there. never have i thought of leaving that library job.. but when i was chosen as BM, all i could think of was 'oh no, my library!' but i was quite glad that it was in the hands of elizabeth as i know, she WILL do a better job than me. haha. yup, so i was quite shock.. the band is either gonna support or go against me. but a leader is there for a reason and there were many challenges i had to face and of course, there was a greater work load.. have i done enough as a BM i always think and i always answer back to myself 'NO!' and its because there is no end to how much i can do and till now, i hope that under the leadership of me and xiangyi, the band has improved. but thats just a hope... but in reality, hav we improved for what we are aiming for ? =D thats for u ppl to decide!
the next one would be my the
32nd BAND NCO camp! this is a once in a lifetime event and to me, i am really honoured and glad that i was part of it! no one and i mean NO ONE can ever forget what the band majors and drum majors from all the schools in Singapore went through in just the 5 days where we trained and enjoyed ourselves from 8am to 5pm EVERYDAY. i will never forget the waking up early and heading to CCAB every morning to have pracctive and seeing all the familiar faces which u have seen 10 hours ago. i will not forget playing ABba Gold and the other 10 pieces with the rest of the Band Majors. i will not forget doing marching formations.. i will not forget the drum majors performance, i will not forget the Band Majors perfromance and i will NEVER forget the lunch they gave us. but most importantly, i will not forget the memories i had there and the time i spent there with the people i made friends with whom i believe will be in touch tgt for a very long time. it was a tremendously great experience with the 5 days of being tanned and drenched ending with out very own Passing Out Parade. this is one thing that i wish i could do again!
the last big event of the band would be the
Hong Kong trip. i think much has been said in my previous post abt the trip but one thing i would say about this trip is that it has really made me know who my BESTEST BEST friend is and how people really react to different situations sometime! but still, this trip is one trip that i will never forget and i would definitely wanna go back to HK with the band again and experience this whole roller coaster ride once more! thank u so so much YVONNE for being there with me all the time! u rocked!
tha many band camps.... they were all great!
this year would not have been how it was if it wasn't for all my friends! u guys were great and quarrels only make the relationship stronger! =D however, i would like to say how greatful i am to have friends like
ELIZABETH, YVONNE and GINO! we 4 must have shocked some people to see how close we can be even though not all of us are in the same class! also, to Xiangyi, 2007 is an important year! and u have been a GREAT partner! always relieveing stress from me with ur huo po attitude! haha. thanks! and to all the other band mates, we have a great year ahead of us!
~ summing up year 2006
HAPPY NEW YEAR PEOPLE!!! YEAR 2007 will be a great year for EVERYONE (hopefully :P)
Saturday, December 23, 2006
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okay.. shall update on things now!
16th December - Rachel's BBQ and Carin's BirthdayHAPPY BIRTHDAY CARIN!!! Your a year older now and im sure you were damn touched by us. hope this year was a memorable birthday for yoU! all the best for your future JC life! ACJC shall welcome a cool, funky girl next year with open arms!
Next, THANKS RACHEL for the BBQ! I Cooked my own food this time round and set up the fire ok! was not lazing around like last time so its an accomplishment! but after ur bbq, don't really know why but i find setting up the fire is a fun thing! my love for playing the piano came back while at ur house too! just trying to practice that phrase of the Grade 4 piano score for like cloe to 2 hours! hmmm.. patience is the key i guess. oh ya. had a fun time there too and i hope u liked the present we gave you!
17th December - Rachel's Birthday and 2e2 '05 BBQHAPPY BIRTHDAY RACHEL! know u have to go through a lot both at home and in school but i think u can do it one! all those MILLIONS of tuitions u have will not help u unless u have the right mentality and i believe you do! so work hard for that wonderful result slip next year ya!
2e2 '05 BBQ - i would not really call it a class BBQ but rather the BBQ of these few groups of close friends (influencer, moon, star - some names we group ourself in... more collective and hence, easier to talk about) . okay. as these few days went by, the raindrops keep on falling as well. it was no exception for this day either la! i left my house at around 1130 am and it rained very heavily non-stop until 5pm. during this time, we played bowling and i got 125! its been a long time since i got 100+ cuz the most i can rmb was scoring around 80-90. was playing with the moon : zhihao, erwin, randy, junyan, wesley. haha. while the girls took another lane. after which, we all went out and it was not raining anymore and then decided to go cycling after a LONG discussion on whether to blade or to cycle for some of us. and after getting our bikes, we had to decide again who to sit with who cuz some girls cant cycle that well. end up, i still sat with yvonne tee like always! haha. ya.. then cycle cycle cycle, then we had to go do the BBQ pit. some of us had to go return the bikes cuz we were already exceeding the time limit. Hence, they decided that all the boys go return while the girls stayed to do the pit. and then, it rained VERY HEAVILY again and everything juz started getting bad fronm then on. i was cycling on some very wet grass and then someone called me. being unable to stop to listen, i cycle with one hand and talk and before i knew it, the grass was so wet and sleippery that while i tried to turn, I, fell one side with the bike on the grass. damn! only elizabeth noticed and she asked me "did u just fell?" and i was like "YA!" then i handed her my phone to talk to the person ... he was my band member asking bout some games thing. so 2 of my friends in the shelter offered to ride back and before i knew it, they were gone with the bike. i wanted to ride back la. felt so bad after that. then the rain stopped at our (those at the pit) side and we started the fire with the help of one uncle whom i believe has left home for a very good reason. he is very knowledgable and he helped us alot without eve us asking. so, i did alot of manual work at the pit being the only guy like helping set up the fire, setting up the tent with clarabelle, getting water etc etc. woah... but it was fun! okay, then while the fire was already ready, we were so hungry (yvonne, eli, shihmei, jessie, clarabelle and me) and the rest who went to return the bike was not back yet hence, we decided to bbq SOME food for ourself and end up finding undiscovered 'talents' like me being able to BBQ good satay and eli being able to BBQ good chicken! the rest of them being VERY GOOD helpers as well. haha. so we bbq bbq bbq and the rest were not back yet after damn long and we started to get worried and clarabelle called to ask and they say it was raining very heavily at their side there. so we decided to cook more for ourself and came up with a plan to eat and then cook for the unfortunate bike-returners. ya. so we cook and had alot of food and we eat... eat... eat... then, we saw a grp of ppl heading back and we immediately cleared the place and start bbqing (we were fearful of them saying us for being such greedy ppl) and then they some funny things happened between these 2 grps of us and turns out, they walked to lagoon to eat while we ate bbq foos and that was why they too, were acting suspicious. SO, we all ate and then took pictures and then eli and yvonne left to take taxi being accompanied by gino, wesley and me and when we 3 went back to the pit, the rest of the girls, too have left leaving only shihmei and yvonne soh. the rest of the guys were playing by the sea and then we all went into the tent to chat after that. talked abt our pri school life, our family, our ambition and whether our parents still cane us. haha. then wesley suddenly went crazy and went outside dancing and singing on the table. it soon rained and we all packed to go to Gino's house. we decided to walk by the new bedok camp underpass and damn! it was ISOLATED, FAR AND SUCKY! we walked for miles in the rain with all the things to carry and there did not seem to ba any sign of that stupid underpass. but luckily while walking, wesley spotted it and we went across. the next stupid thing was that we had to aslk back the direction we walked from at the other side of the road and we were really walking a complete U. then we walked for 2640m from the other side of the underpass to gino's house IN THE RAIN. and we FINALLY saw life.... the main road at bedok camp there. then i decided to go home and they went to Gino's house. it was a long long day and rainy day but it was sure fun. reached home at around 3.30 am. thanks gino, eli, yvonne Tee, yvonne Soh, shihmei, Jessie, Woan Yin, clarabelle, zhaos, yanzz, erwin, wesley, randy for making this day so fuN!
20th December - JurongVille Concert Band performance, XiaoJun's Bday, Yanjun's Bday, MY BDAY!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY 16th XIAOJUN!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY 15th YANJUN!
haha! its great to have so many people who has the same birthday as me! basically, it was a fun-filled day for me!
all the movie and all the birthday song sung to me by some of my band members at VCH! a memorable day.
thank you ALL who sent me sms-es wishing me happy birthday, those who called me to wish me ( chen chen[happy fren] , sokyee[good fren] - who sang me the bday song and leejin ) , those who drew cards for me, those who wished me on msn, and those who got me presents!
the 30 + people who chipped in for my present, liling rynna karen for ur present, xiaojun for ur present and card, weining and xiaowei who spent so much on my present and carin for ur chocolate. Those 30 + ppl are i think, eli, yvonne, gino, stars, moons, ain, peiying, oliver, chen chen, amanda, sokyee, yining, carin, xiangluan, rachel, xiangyi, lorraine, natalie, er... o dint have the list with me so i will edit this part and write in ALL ur names to thank! haha! THANKS ALOT YOU PEOPLE! UR GREAT! my band members, friends, classmates aLL! u've made my birthday a great day! and extra thanks to eli , yvonne and gino on collecting the money for my present! haha. oh ya...i got a nike bag, a mini water dispenser, cups, clip stand, slippers, and i think wallet and pencil case and most of all, deepest LOVE from u guys! thanks (",)
okay... the concert was nice. it was fun and enjoyable to both watch and listen!
21st Dec - 23rd Dec : Band Campwhoo.. i think for the sec 1s and 2s, you people must have gained alot of experience from this camp upon doing all the preperation for ur individual departments. GOOD JOB! much has happened in this camp for me la. very beneficial camp to the band members and i think for the other part that happened to me... haha.. best not to be said :) but to those who know it, yes! quarrels indeed make friends closer. i finally got to tell u people some difficulties i have to face and some things that i can't do even if it goese to the extent of hurting myself. thanks * for telling me ur thoughts and make me known to what u all are thinking. i hope u too, will remember what i said and i know u will be there to tell me in the future too :D hope everything will turn out fine. all i do is for the band's sake but my friends are still, deep down inside, important to me. to *, finally i get to tell u my deepest thoughts on both our relationship and im so glad i have done that :) i hope u got touched and i was touched by myself too cuz i know it was a fact and i felt it but i don't tell anybody hence, juz to tell u how i feel is great! haha! best friends are important to ones' life :D
Marching video... made me think of my NCO. i wanna go back there!! those 5 days, will NEVER be forgotten! our band did well too in our marching video too ok! good job for first timers lo! :D
Hong Kong trip video was so sad case... i wanted to show the WHOLE 18 mins. spent so much time on it just to show 10mins of it. stupid computer..
A tiring camp.... when is it not!
Okay i guess thats all for the post!
going out now to shop for my school shoes! :D
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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been rather busy this few days... going for my band camp tomorrow and hope everything will turn out fine! will update on Rachel's BBQ, 2e2 '05 BBQ and those people i wanna thank alot for making my birthday such a wonderful day!! hee...
oh.. happy belated birthday RACHEL! and CARIN! and XIAOJUN!!
Friday, December 15, 2006
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whOO! just came back from Tanjong Katong Concert! am exhausted cuz been walking since 12noon today all the way till 7pm and after the concert walk again! TK concert was great! i like the fact that the alumnis came back to help out with the whole concert and of course, not forgetting the presnt members own hard work. anyway, they played really cool pieces that i wish we could play like Oregon, Godspeed, Jungle etc. Like 'Jungle' by the way... such a clever composition. okay, then took pictures... many pictures with the two TK stars of the night for NCO-nians... Nicholas and Sijia. and they both are horn players hence, conclusion is that horn rocks but Hornists' rocks even more! haha. okay..anyway, took pictures with them tgt with nanchiau BM (yanting) and DM and Bowen's DM and er... one NCO saxophone girl, also with nicholas's twin brother - Kenneth. Saw Deyi there too but guess they went off quite soon to take pictures.
this 'gathering' for some of us, NCO-ians at Singapore Conference Hall really takes one back to the times during 32nd NCO! hmmm.. where we talk and eat and march and play on the field together! and during POP where all the pictures were taken. hmmm... WE MUZ HAVE A OUTING AGAIN!!! A BBQ MAYBE! haha. its gonna be so cool. lol.
anyway, went to watch with eli, yvon, xiangluan, xiangyi,rachel, and some sec 2s and darren. haha. but went to shop for presents first b4 that with eli and yvon haha. okay.. think thats all.. photos of today MIGHT be uploaded soon :D
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
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saturday was a fun, fun day! went to Ms Liews house and play, play, play. We played 'pictionary' and then 'monopoly'. sad case. we played 2 rounds of 'pictionary' and i won one only with my group (serena and ezkiel against ms liew and zhihao) but sadly, the first one the boys lost to the girls (which included rachel) oh ya... it was the liteteranians who went to her house! except for Grace who had a camp. haha. it was fun la... eat pizza cooked by her husband and chilled out at her nice house. no television but still feel very homey haha! and spacious with the nice sea view! this are some pictures we took!
*rest time* *this is how we draw so UGLY-LY*
THE LITETERANIANS OF 3e1!
Also, the HongKong trip pictures are up (not all but i will be uploading all by this week i hope) in my school's portal. so i would not be uploading here the whole band/scenery ones. the rest that i like alot will be uploaded here but not so soon :D heehee
link of portal : http://www.bedokviewportal.sg/fontcoloryellowForStudentsfont/CCA/PerformingArts/ConcertBand/tabid/76/Default.aspx
Saturday, December 02, 2006
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.: Hong Kong Trip 'o6 :.
i think i shall not talk about it day by day cuz its gonna get real long is thats what im gonna do.. think its better to talk it in fragments and in places :D
before departing from hongkong, in the airpot at 6am... the whole band was there and everyone were so excited to leave already. we had our luggages and many parents were there just excited for their child and also to see their child with their frens. i think this gives a parent the sense of comfort just to see their child being all happy and excited for the triP!
at HK, our hotel room was SMALL! really small. i could not believe that this was what a 4star hotel could provide. maybe it because of the huge population there. from what i noe, there are about 7million ppl living there and that there are MANY high rise apartments with all of them so so tall that the norm of an apartment was about 60 stories high! imagine with a shopping center below some of them! but the rooms were only 150 sq feet and this is how they can let everyone in HK live! there were two buses and my bus was bus A with our tour guide named 'rainkie' (self-proclaiming that he is Rain's brother) . He is a very funny and knowledgable man but hearing him talk makes u wanna sleep! haha. but that is also because the band had to follow a very very tight schedule.
the visits for the first day was to Repulse Bay(i think this is the name) and Madame Tessaudes (i think i spell wrong). The Lantau island is juz a beach but we had photo taking sessions there! haha. with the beach and scenery but the beach really reminded me of 'Goong'. and then Madame Tessaudes.. its actually the wax museum.. wow! it was cool. the wax figures included aaron kwok, andy lau, Lee Kuan Yew, England royal family, marilyn monroe and even albert einstein and many many more famous people! it was fuN! taking pictures with it. haha. did alot of picture-taking there.
the 2 school's musical exchange was done on the second day! one can really see how the bands from other countries were. and i think this is the most enriching part of the whole trip. our band had time to interact with the other schools and had tours in their schools. of cuz, we made some new friends and i dare say, we did learn about the other schools system and people. talking to their principal and vice-principal was not easy. there is this amount of stress though.. but it was definitely a little hard to converse with the students as their first-language is contonese. i had to be emcee for the 2 schools for the band and gosh.. it was nerve-wrecking.. those who went must have seen the nervous side of me! embarrasing as it was, i still had a good time and i suppose my members did to!
Then it was shopping at 'nu ren jie'. 'bargaining' was the key word here and although i would not like to bargain but it was indeed necessary as the starting prices of the goods were all so high! had fun there definitely.. buying all the things i want.. it was like free shopping and the time to just come out of your shell to get the things u really want!
day 3 was spent in disneyland! Disneyland at HK was small but nevertheless, it was so so fun. i had spent my greatest time there and just seeing all the cartoon characters again especially with ur close frenz makes one wanna relive their childhood. i cant really describe disneyland except for you to see the pictures to really know what was there! but one thing that i enjoyed the most was the "mickey phillamagic"... especially to a band member, this is definistely an eye-opener and a cool thing to watch. its a 4D show... we wear the glasses and the images on the screen starts popping out... so real! and that there are some parts that we get wet and when the screen shows a table of food, we can smell the food.. all the water and smell of food comes out from something infront of our chair... very cinema type. and it was based on a musical.. with instruments of cuz and alse based on all the cartoons joined together! a splendid show. did alot of shopping too. the things were very expensive but were very special in their own ways and nice. there was a parade too and there was a few fun rides which we took... the galaxy thingy was damn fast and fun! took pictures with winnie the pooh, mickey and many more! haha. also, the fireworks which occus EVERY NIGHT was so so nice to see. which such great music accompliment. why cant singapore have smth like this?!
day 4 was the avenue of stars and fishing village and ocean park.
The main highlight of the day i would say, is ocean park.. haha. took some rides there and visited the jellyfish museum and hark aquarium. the sharks were HUGE! and was hence scary. the rides were not that thrilling enough in my opinion but still had a great time there la.. which ended with shopping at the souvenir shop! haha
the last day was the time to go home and everyone missed HK! i can say on the whole that this trip was an eye-opener. some friends became not so close friends and some not so close became close friends. the band generally bonded together even closer and this is what i am very glad of. though there wre conflicts between some groups/people, it can be solved. it actually depends on the individual. i think there is alot of fun things that happened and alot of nit fun things that happened. good things and bad things were very evidently shown in some people. and that some emotions came out in some people which i generally dont think its a bad thing cuz we are all humans. this will show how much one treasures their frenz. this trip definistly shows the other side of some people and i can say that it has bonded the band together much closer... but to some, was is a make or break trip? but this trip was very useful in helping me know my band members more and also for them to know me more. the dialogue session was very very useful. i opened many doors and said many kept feelings to a few members. i hope it has been a good time for all my members and may the whole band grow stronger as one unit and may greater freindship blossom in some people or heal in some people!
one really can't live without friends!!! (",) and thanks yvonne,gino, xiangyi, shanhui, huijia, weining, xiaowei, carin, yining, xiangluan, rachel, amanda, sokyee,erina,xiaojun (ms pungent-i will NEVER FORGET ur lame jokes and laughter!),lorraine,nicholas Huang, samuel, and all my band members for making this a memorable trip for me :D
