Tuesday, November 30, 2004
went down for breakfast knowing that we were in for trouble... we were too absorbed in our conversation that we didn't notice the teachers passing by... after breakfast we were told to gather in the ballroom and we knew it was doomsday... gonna omit whatever sad things that happened frm here... i dun think they are worth remembering... but the treatment we got... it left a wound on my heart... something else contributed to that wound too... much of my misery came frm that something else... felt betrayed and hurt... alot of other ppl felt really hurt by that incident too... haiz... ok... after our whole day of punishment... we were finally given bout an hour to shop at the world trade centre... bought my levi's jeans... so in love with it... haha... we were scared of being late... so we ran to the meeting place 15 mins before meeting time... went back to hotel and noticed that star movies was screening the same movie agn... but just watched it... was super shagged... fell aslp halfway... haiz... agree that we were wrong... but i dun think we sld have been punished that badly...
let it snow
6:38 AM
Monday, November 29, 2004
woke up and the usual things such as breakfast... went to the thai clutural centre to watch the finals of the 6th asian band competition... and it was the return of shibin's fans... haha. shibin was trying to act intimate with selene and grace to get them jealous... later when we were outside this gal went "shibin!!" and started waving to him... than shibin tried to act intimate with rachel and we were all laughing away... ok... anyway... the finals was gd... their standard was quite high... but hongkong international had a few pretty obvious mistakes... fell aslp for awhile when the 2nd band played... but i was more awake during this than on saturday... the top band, assumption college was like... wow... anyway.. i dun really feel suaned by them lar... later on bought the 6th asbc shirt.. so tragic... they only had l and xl for the design and colour i wanted so i got something else... and medium was juz as big... sigh... anyway me and sel are planning to swap once in a while... after the thai cultural centre we went to this departmental store for lunch stupid "dad" bang seh us agn.. had to chase after him.... my section ended up eating at this italian restaurant where the lasagne was super sour and had funny lumps in it... after that split up from them to go shopping... darn! sld have gotten that nike shirt... sigh...oh well... met up with thm later to go tops and it was kinda crappy... "dad" fa huied his nagging skills! haha... after that we gathered and they brought us for dinner at i dunno what place... where miktham started calling the waitress his wife so lame.. than he and johnston started being spastic and started treated the food like abalone and sharks fin... in the end johnston fell off his chair... later we went to the night market... went with nabiand bize... got other ppl's stuff..only got a necklace for myself... in the end i got bang shed by thm and i got stuck with jkand val... met up at meeting place later and went back to hotel... than we broke the rules... went to issac's rm with shilei... it was either stay alone in the room, pay tv with the guys or shilei... was with the tbone section and bize watched ouila board where shilei let out bloodcurdling screams.. later we played truth or dare... actually we wanted to make bize wear an undieon his head knock on someone's dooor shoutcaptain underpants and run 1 rnd in the room... but we used a shower cap in the end... and lunette's hair was tied up in a plastic bag and she was to shout cat woman and run ater him...we went into the trumpet's room... and they were to shocked to react.. was super funny... almost died laughing... later martin and sufrie came in "frenching"... after a while we went back to our room... talked with nabi than we slept bout 3+...
let it snow
5:06 PM
Sunday, November 28, 2004
went down for breakfast with selene... been eating the same breakfast agn... haha... went up for practice... went through those problem areas in the pieces... than we were given bout 2hrs to get ready... went for lunch 1st... was addicted to the taro ice cream... haha... nabi kept nagging me to go... went back to the room where we watched the mummy than went to bathe later... ohya... forgot to mention on the 1st night... mtv channel kept playing this condom advertisement... where they showed sperms with halos... i was like... er dots... than i started laughing... nabi and shilei were in hysterics... than the nxt day it was a hoohaa bout that advertisement... ok back to now... went to wei may's rm to get ribbon... wei may was behaving like a mad woman singing at the top of her voice... we left than we rushed downstairs... we were juz on time... alot of ppl were late and we go a scolding which was rather demoralising... we left for mahidol university... tuned up and played some parts in the dressing rm... got scolded a few times coz i came in late for near dawn... than we went upstairs and waited for our turn to play... we kinda screwed up on stage and ms sia dropped the baton... but actually it was quite ok... i dun regret and i dun really feel sad coz i tried... i put in effort... later when we were going down to the dressing room... this grp if gals came and asked shibin whether they cld take pictures of him... me and selene stared at each other and burst out laughing... we laughed all the way from upstairs to downstairs... with frequent burst of laughter later on... in the dressing rm... a part of it was like a funeral parlour... got a talk from the chers later... then we went up and heard the results... we didn't win... and non of the spore bands got into finals... later we went out for our photoshoot... a bigger grp of thai gals surrounded shibin and started taking photos with him... and they asked for his email.. everyone was like... er... of all ppl why him? haha... than i was like... what is the world coming to? had our photoshoot than left... while going to the bus we spotted shibin's fans agn... than ran after him, cornered him and started taking photos with him... we were wondering what they saw in him... jo sd their eyes got stamp... haha... left for dinner... atmosphere quite weird... some ppl were happily talking whie some were quite quiet... went back to hotel where we the judges comments were reviewd... not bad actually... than we were reminded by the chers that we lost... sorta got a lecture... anyway... our conductors were nice enough to but ice cream for us... wheee!!! after lecture... we went to our rooms and did our reflections... i was happily eating nissin tomyam cupnoodles... than hit the sack... was pooped...
let it snow
10:54 PM
Saturday, November 27, 2004
had band prac. in the morning... than we went for lunch... it was this buffet at this restaurant... my table was super crappy.. . there were 2 mushy couples there... jiayi and shibin kept forcing selene and abigail to drink water... abi was unwilling to drink the water and jiayi was like "ok fine! i drink for u" and he drank the water... so did shibin... once agn we wasted food... jiayi covered his up with tissue paper and i put a clam shell over it... than all the unwanted food was poured onto one plate... ms sia tought it was untouched and she was like "benjamin!!! u better eat it!!!" than we were joking about serving that to ms ng coz it looked edible... gabriel said something like "kids these days..." after that we went to mahidol university to watch the 6th asian band competition was quite sian and i fell aslp... than we changed place... listen halfway and fell aslp agn... after listening we went to a steam boat restaurant where we wasted food agn... dumped everything in and the whole thing eventually ended up in some coagulated mass of dumpling... and the soup turned into gravy... everybodie's pots were wet while ours were almost dry... so lame... than we went back to the hotel to have practice... went back to the room... the exco appeared at the door later to wish us gd luck for competition... rested early for competition the nxt day...
let it snow
10:36 PM
Friday, November 26, 2004
we went to thailand today... woke up at about 6 something all because of gabriel chan.. he asked us to meet in sh at 8.30... mom cldn't fecthc me later thats why i ended up in sch at bout 7+... gabriel was areadly there... -_- he started telling me bout the parts of the pieces to take note... than he started teaching me chinese chess while waiting for the band room to open... went in and read harry potter... noticed that i left my blazer at home... panicked big time... asked my mom to go home and hlp me get it... was saved! principal came in to talk... left for airport... the seniors and other band members were there to send us off... sooo nice... crapped with them... than we went to check in our luggages... before going into the departure hall.. charrissa lee kissed me on the cheek... gdness me... and she left 3 letters for me, nabi and shilei... told us that we cld only open it in thailand... was lucky to get window seat... sat with shilei... was watching princess diaries 2 on the way there... didn't finish the show though... reached thailand, got luggages and head for hotel... slacked in the room til 5.30... went down and noticed that we were the earliest.. went to check out the pool and the gym... it was quite pathetic... and we kept running into the teachers... went for dinner later at some hotel... actually we wasted food... haha... than went back to the hotel for band prac. was tired... the night before we left i watched the incredibles and didn't get home till bout 11.40? went to 7 eleven after prac. bought chewing gum and coke... went back to hotel than we talked and slept bout 12 +...
let it snow
10:13 PM
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
today was another one of those marathon band practices... frm 8.30 to 4... the thai conductor came agn today... taught us how to play the pieces properly... my flute tutor sd she wld come today... but she didn't... later they showed us this video of the thai conductor's band... they are gd... but the flute section has no gals... tragic... than we were given an hour+ lunch break... went to clementi macdonalds with shilei, issac, bize and michele... went back for band prac... was tired... fell aslp in the middle of el camino real... i wld have continued slping if shibin hadn't called me... after that we did the thai piece agn... and the "nice" part is that we are gonna have another marathon band prac. tmr... *sigh* im not looking forward to it... the thai conductor sd that you must be happy when you play music... but those 2 juz kill it... its a really demoralising place to be in... i have lost a great big part of my confidence... i miss the old times... we used to look forward to band prac, but this enthusiasm has died long ago... it was sucked out of us... with all this pressure i can't possibly be happy when i go for band... oh well... went home after band... than went out with cal to catch the 7.20 show for the incredibles... we reached westmall at bout 7.13? i dunno... than we rushed in ran up 4 stories and 1 escalator... and we were face to face with a long queue... we were like forget it... confirm miss it liao... so we decided to go choa chu kang to catch the 8.45 show... when we reached there we fnd out that i mixed up the choa chu kang timing with the je one... oh well... so we walked ard... and my wish list juz got longer... haiz... than we went to neo print.. quite crappy... i look stupid in the photo... im not photogenic lar... but its not really the product that counts, its the process... haha... as long as we had fun its ok... than went home... did 2 qns on log... haha... so pathetic... than used the com... sometimes i wonder whether i sld have joined choir in the first place... and i wonder what it wld be like... wld it be different?
let it snow
7:52 AM
Saturday, November 20, 2004
had to go for band earlier today coz of some stuff that happened yest. the tcher in charge had a talk with us... seriously i dun think its entirely our fault... we have been working real hard and she says our attitude sux... if we really didn't care everyone wld juz ponteng band... anyway... today was quite fruitful... gabriel came back!!! was relived... later this conductor came and he was really experienced... taught us lots of stuff... muz remember to apply them when i play... been straining my diaphragm recently... had a session of long notes... seriously long notes... came out of it with an aching diaphragm... cldn't shout, painful when i coughed... its something like that kind of pain after u have done sit ups or u have been suffering frm a bad cough... ok... diaphragm ached for 2 days... o... with gabriel back... all the reports that we have to write when we have instructors coming in will be settled by gabriel... hehe... they sd SL and since he was the SL... let him do it... jasper is coming back on tue i think... band ended practiced for a while... than went to jp for lunch... saw this chocolate store where the chocolate was presented in super cute ways... than i treated nabi and chari to ichigo bliss... its so nice... its this frozen strawberry filled with condensed milk and covered in white chocolate... went to westmall later to photocopy the 3D band book -_- than went home... ate dinner than went for choir... waited so darn long for the bus to come... and the journey was super long... fell aslp halfway... was a few min. late for choir... did the usual warm up, sectionals than combine... doing actions and singing is not enjoyable... choir was quite fun today... than waited for beatrice coz she wanted to wait for weixuan(fellow east siders) ... while waiting she stayed to prac. for a while... went home than started slacking...
let it snow
8:11 AM
Saturday, November 06, 2004
had band today... the horrible truth took about 1 day to sink in... there might be a possiblilty that i will be the only flautist going to thailand... but selene's most prob. going... which is gd... ms ng is holding a talk so that parents will be informed bout the situation in thailand and stuff so that more ppl can go... like that the flute section won't die... anyway... i screwed up everything i played today... guess its bcoz i haven't touched my flute for ages... exams, chinese Os... was having sectionals when they told us only those going for thailand had to go in for combine... i was like... "i don't wanna go in alone!!!!!!" than i dragged a little while outside before going... went in... was demoralised and was not feeling very confident... kept saying that i cldn't make it... and guess what... i really cldn't make it... i screwed my starting of near dawn... made the band restart 3 times coz i didn't come in properly... this made sia pissed and she walked off... was feelling quite bad and guilty... cause so much trouble... but i only saw e piece this tue... guess i need more prac... so i must keep practising and practising and practising... til i can play... if not if fsb doesn't win i will blame myself and feel super guilty... i juz hope no one is angry and pissed at me... although i think there are some... oh well... i will juz have to prac. and prove to everyone that i can play! stayed to prac. for a while after band... went to orchard for a while than went home... can say we went orchard for no reason... went home... was prac. piano when michelle called... apparently i was unaware that there was combined prac. at 5.30... i thought i supposed to come at 7.30 which is actually the youth prac. ok... so i went for my 1st choir prac. in my whole life... got sop. 2 hard to learn... but it was quite fun lar... actually learnt to use my diaphragm... we are gonna perform on orchard rd on the 23rd of dec... other church choirs will be performing too... walked to mrt station with amelia and weixuan... than met wensley with his siblings and joo wei... went home with thm... was crapping with wensley bout jeremiah and arthur and their huge family tree... he claims that jeremiah and arthur always bully him... anyway... the journey home was quite funny and crappy... reached home bout dunno what time lar... tired...
let it snow
7:03 AM