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Basketball practice!


YX,XS,WC,WY,JE,YQ,JY,KS,LX,KM,ZH and I went to Southern Park to play the lovely sport of BKB. We had fun practicing. Hope we can face Saturday's competition X)
Am debating whether I should skip band tomorrow to cheer on the boys of J3M....=\ None of them showed up today except KS....so I guess they're pretty confident....lol



And on Friday....(not only is it the birthday of Ms. Joyce)...it's also the school's.....birthday....
Just kidding, most people will call it the school's anniversary...lol...and that means more performances from the band! (cheer....= =)

And to spice things up!

J3M!

is entering!

the!

student+teacher choir competition! (Cheer~~)

haha.....a grand total of less than 20 boys and girls + one class teacher are gonna SING~

Wish J3M choir all the best ! XOXO~

and hopefully after all that....back to studying like normal students... X)

Not as bad as I thought

Today was NABAIT. [refer to title for those clueless ones]

Choral Speaking-meh.  Did better than practices so I guess it's cool =)

Rehersal-even more meh.  Thank goodness I went for CS first.  Sorry band, but it's true.

My delightful class teacher took the class meeting today as a wonderfully fine opportunity to inform us about our grades!! [huge gasp]

I mean, we are all so excited to hear about them!!  Tell us teacher please please do!  And on Saturday we'll just drag our parents along and act suprised!  And if our grades suck we'll just whine whine whine about it!  

.....wait for a moment while I wipe up all the sarcasm.

OK as mentioned above, what I hate the most is the teacher gong-bu-ing (announcing) the averages and positions of the students.....actually I do understand that you have to know it sooner or later...yada yada yada...and I'm cool with that.....it's just that certain individuals treat it as a form of entertainment and play games with said individuals' apprentices and overall treat the entire bleeping thing as a great big joke!! 

These are the individuals who are supposed to guide us to our future?

I'll leave the answer to you guys. =)

Um....I supposed what really made me 'not-in-the-best-of-moods' today was because of:

Meeting 'piss-worthy' people

                  and

Meeting people who behave like they are piss worthy

--A Better Tomorrow. = =

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Just when you thought everything was going to go back to normal.....

The week starts off with a bang.  You know the feeling sometimes when you wake up and suddenly you feel like doing something really different?  Like wearing a new watch, lacing up your shoelaces in a weird way, or even cutting your hair with gardening shears so you'll have a funky new hairstyle.....Anyways that feeling came to me today and I spent 5 minutes of valuable hair-tying time trying to fix a broken watch....LOL...and other series of fortunate events which ended with me eating Snyder's of Hanover for breakfast....0_0

Well it looked like a normal, wacky day in the life of a wacky person...but as I learned last year:

LOOKS CAN BE DECEIVING

Today was fraught with a shower of STRESSFULL activity clashes : J3 Choral Speaking Preliminary  VS  S3 coming-of-age ceremony rehersal.

and SYMPTOMS of a popular disease called 'lack of sleep' == : tired tired tired tired tired

and general moodiness....lol

in the middle of piano class I felt this sharp sudden pain in my right arm....o_0....suspect it's from all the books....lol....hand muscles became 'tofu' after the weekend  =)

*As seen clearly above, today....sucked.  On the bright side I can say it was fraught(lol keep using that word) with many activities...

That much being said, I hereby resolve to (TRY) and sleep earlier.....hahahaha....=D

You Can Run, But You Can Never Hide...

Today is

THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!           ~~(AFTER SEMESTER HOLIDAYS!!!)

Finally managed to get some sleep at the beautiful time of 3:00 AM.  Yeap, I'm excited about school reopening, bite me =D

Today I woke up and saw,

all the flowers dead,

But the grass was still alive.

21/06/2010        615 AM

in my school uniform and barely awake

How's that for haikus? hahaha.... new pastime of mine  =D

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Anyways, many important exams are coming up soon so whether I like it or not, I need to study!

Recently an Amanda Palmer song has been going around in my head.  It's called

Runs In The Family
Amanda Palmer

My friend has problems with winter and autumn they give him prescriptions they shine bright lights on him
They say it's genetic, they say he can't help it, they say you can catch it - but sometimes you're born with it.
My friend has blight, he gets shakes in the night and they say that there's no way that they could have caught it in
Time takes his toll on him it is traditional, it is inherited predispositional
All day I've been wondering what is inside of me who can I blame for it?

I say it runs in the family this famine that carries me to such great lengths, to open my legs up to anyone who'll have me
It runs in the family I come by it honestly do what you want 'cause who knows it might fill me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Fill me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up

My friend's depressed she's a wreck she's a mess they've done all sorts of tests and they guess it has something to do with her grandmother's grandfather's grandmother civil war soldiers who badly infected her
My friend has maladies, rickets, and allergies that she dates back to the 17th century
Somehow she manages - in her misery - strips in the city and shares all her best tricks with
Me? Well I'm well. Well I mean I'm in hell. Well, I still have my health
(At least that's what they tell me)
If wellness is this what in hells name is sickness?
But business is business and business runs in the family

We tend to bruise easily bad in the blood I'm telling you 'cause I just want you to know me - know me and my family we're wonderful folks, but don't get too close to me 'cause you might knock me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Knock me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up

Mary have mercy now look what I've done but don't blame me because I can't tell where I come from and
Running is something that we've always done well and mostly I can't even tell what I'm running from
I run from their pity, from responsibility, run from the country, and run from the city
I can run from the law, I can run from myself, I can run for my life, I can run into debt
I can run from it all, I can run 'til I'm gone, I can run for the office, and run from the cause
I can run using every last ounce of energy
I cannot, I cannot, I cannot

Run from my family they're hiding inside of me
Corpses on ice
Come in if you like but just don't tell
My family they'd never forgive me, they'd say that I'm crazy but they would say anything if it would
Shut me up
Shut me up
Shut me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Shut me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up
Me up

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The thing about Amanda Palmer's songs is that you need to think behind the lyrics, there's another meaning....

The purple part is my favourite part of the song, to me, it's not just talking about running away from your family, more like saying that you always try to run, but in the end, you can never escape.

We all have something we want to run away from.....

An Interesting Birthday Present

On 10/06/2010 at approximately 5:30pm, I received a really unusual birthday present from my wacky [tf]...=)

It looks like a bolster....but according to him, you must be really careful as it is reaaaally fragile....o_O

A Closer Look......

CJ---> thats me haha....it even comes with instructions...'hug it carefully it has something sharp'.....@@

After taking about 5 minutes to open it.....the 'wrapping cloth' was held together by many stapler bullets....like I said....wacky tf.....=)

OMG Elephants!

and a lot of cotton......!

Look at the amount of cotton! And stapler bullets....LOL

All lined up

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Apparently these elephants came from Thailand....he got them on his last trip there....

Thank you very very much for getting me such a cute present in very unusual packaging,

I really like it!

=)

TC @ 2 days

Band camp is pretty much finished (for me), here's what happened so far......

1st day: Solo and duet were not eliminated (shock and horror) but it wasn't really good either.
Came back at 1130pm.  Thanks to ZT and JH for keeping me company =)

2nd day: Concert day.  

Erm...Well today's the day where I had to perform my solo at the  ensemble concert.  Due to technical difficulties, the piano accompaniment CD couldn't be played, resulting me to seek the help of DORCAS! the master pianist....lol....she sight-read the entired piece and we only praticed about 5 times in total....this is called hugging the leg of  Buddha I suppose.....XD

When show-time came, I was surprisingly calm.....compared to the auditions.....at least my legs weren't shaking ><....but the 'butterflies in the stomach' thing....that's kinda true....   

Thankfully I managed to get all the high G s....But I wasn't really pleased with it, (actually I don't think anyone in the audience was....sorry guys....) 

Bottom line is: I need more practice!

I resolve ( don't see me using that word much, haha) to practice harder in the future, and more importantly, to START practicing earlier...XD

Like what  教练 said...it's not just the notes, it's also your  表演神态 (performance air? lol) and that takes years of experience to accumulate.....and of course, the most important thing is that you do your best! =)

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger--Friedrich Nietzsche

Another variation is : Whatever that does not kill me, only makes me stronger.  Yep, that's sort of my motto these days, although it sounds kinda morbid, but  it tells us that we should learn from our mistakes.....at least that's what I choose to believe ^^ but hey, we choose our own mottos, right?

 

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When you are nervous, strange things happen.  During the concert, when I was waiting for my turn, the flutes seemed to take a reaaally long time.  What was strange was I suddenly felt very tired and starting yawning non-stop.  Well, anything's better than throwing up or fainting....haha...

Footnote: My outfit was a success! haha....HM said I was her idol lol...
FN: Many thanks to the lovely DORCAS! for helping me out with the piano accompaniment
     : And also to everyone who encouraged me...couldn't have done it without you guys....muax~
     : High heels are great and all, but they really play no part in running or climbing up stairs...= =
       Legs hurt like crazy!! @@

Signing off now~
     

Jazz

Duke Ellington was a great composer, arranger, pianist and other great things.  He composed many jazz pieces which is the foundation of jazz today.

Today we went to see a jazz tribute to Duke Ellington at Dewan Filharmonik Petronas.

Which means--> Dressing up

Dressing up means I have to wear a dress, which is something I haven't done in years, stockings and high heels.

Here's a few things I found out:

1) Some (most) dresses restrict movement of the legs, resulting one to be unable to stride, run, kick, jump over drains, and get into cars.  This resulted in 2 awkward moments which I had to sit on the edge of the car seat and literally lie into the car.  Smooth. 

2) Always make sure your stockings cover up your FEET if you are wearing high heels.  Not like mine which only covered 1/2 of my foot and leaving my heel bared.  When high heels came on it looked like.....well like my stockings had a huge hole at my heel.  Which is a big no-no.  And it's good to find this out when you are still in the house, with changeable stockings, instead of in the car 2 km from home, which means you are pretty much screwed.

3)NEVER let it show on your face that your heels are KILLING you.  I'm pleased to say that I have learnt this particular rule from sis & mum and I didn't commit said crime.  Due to point 2) I had bare feet in my high heels instead of stockinged feet ( I rolled up the ends of the stockings to prevent a major fashion fax paus >< )and the entire night was just the walk of hell...But as the saying goes, women suffer to be beautiful! =)

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Anyways...

The jazz quartet consisted of a pianist, trombonist,drummer and bassist.  There were a few gust performers : 2 alto saxophones, a female vocalist, and a tuba.

Overall it was a great performance...if you enjoy jazz =)

The show started at 6:30pm and ended at 8pm.  The song titles I remembered were: Sophisticated Lady, Cocktail, In a Sentimental Mood,  Boy Meets Tuba, and Squeeze Me, But Please Don't Tease Me, (yes, that IS a song title! XD)

The songs were nice and the musicians were brilliant, I really enjoyed myself at the show =)

Hope there will be more jazz performances soon! =D

 

All dressed up: see my unstockinged feet? lol

 

Another random shot  =)

 

managed to get one shot of the interior before they told me to put the camera away...rules were made to be broken....haha...

 

Love is in the air~

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Getting ready for torture camp...haha

Getting up at 5am and coming home at 11pm....happy days are here again.... 

Phyun

YES! I have changed my mouthpiece to the custom one--smaller mouthpiece with a gold ring around it. This mouthpiece is supposedly meant for high notes. And it works! 3 times out of 4 actually >< but it's better than nothing at all =)

During the afternoon, I skipped practice to meet up with RH,WQ,KS and TS for our physics experiment thingy. Had to wait for 1 hour cuz KS woke up at 1 pm...meeting time was 1 pm....'nuff said. = =

We had a total of 4 experiments to do...

1) Newton's 1st law: pulling a tablecloth and leaving the things on it intact 
* What we found out: things can't be too tall or too light or everythings going to end up on the floor...my poor Stephen King....='(

2) Bouyancy: adding salt to water will make an egg float up 
* What we found out: the person who is supposed to boil the eggs should never oversleep and boil 5 eggs in the matter of a few minutes = = 

3) Putting a burning match at the bottom of a glass jar with an egg stuck in the bottle mouth: Egg will fall inside bottle 
* What we found out: person who woke up late has to force his sister to finish a jar of mayonnaise 1st = = 

4) Sound travel: a string through 2 cups 
* What we found out: this is surprisingly fun! ^^ 
KS: halo halo? TS arh? 
TS: halo halo? KS arh? 
KS: = = 不要重复我讲的话。 
*a while later* 
KS: halo halo? TS arh? 
TS: halo halo? KS arh? 


lolz 


Well, the experiments were pretty much 1/2 failures...and KS and I ended up finishing all the eggs because none of them were actually cooked = = 

But hey, you can't have successes without failures, right? =) 

After that, we were high-ing around playing with my bubble sword when....

Damn KS shot a rubber band into my eye!!

All I remembered was trying to pop a bubble with a stupid grin on my face, then...

BOOM! explosive pain! then....

WQ: 哇，你的眼睛每次都中的噢.... (refering to a tragic incident in J1 = =) then...

My condition then: really wanting to burst out in tears, but holding it in for the sake of my dignity ><

But tears of pain, that's a different story.

Anyway, someone asks the question that I hate most == 

'痛啊?'

Gee, I don't know. It's only my sclera reddening and causing me extreme pain everytime I blink my eye, gee, if that's not pain, I don't know what is. = = Gosh, of course it doesn't hurt! just like getting a pair of scissors stabbed into your leg doesnt hurt at all! 

Sarcasm aside....Nothing really serious happened, I guess, except for a patch of red at my eye.....Thanks alot, KS, I owe you one.= =

So that's pretty much how physics day went... we ended pretty early so KS and I chatted and made really digusting stuff with the leftover eggs....lol

^^

The uncanny thing was, he was wearing the shirt with the same pattern as mine, only upside down...=) ^^

Phyun with Physics!

I am seriously annoyed

with the 'we' 

there is no more 'we' = =

it's more like 'you' and 'the rest of us'

move on with your life for god's sake

stop living in the past

and stop acting like you are a great help.

I appreciate your enthusiasm

but it is not needed here.

That weird feeling about you...

Haha...the title pretty much sums up my day... (>_')

After piano this morning it was back to school again to practice my solo...I only started at saturday, presentation is needed this coming friday, so I'm pretty much screwed.

Anyways, mum decided to take me to buy some clothes at this boutique

ZOMG the people there were aggresive to the max!  They were practically throwing clothes at you...and they were quite rude too...= = 

And so I arrived at school pretty late...haha....but anything goes when you are SHOPPING  =)

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GOD!  I know I shouldn't keep saying that but GOD!

Really panicking about the solo now...especially because I keep failing to reach high G...not  a problem except it appears only about FOUR TIMES!!!  x_X

Hope for the best, expect the worst

=)

Another year older...but NOT wiser XD

So....as you can see from the title (unless you missed it or something, then I suggest you scroll up)..... Today is the birthday of moi~

Earliest wish goes to the wonderful Zuo Haan at 00:02    =)

Many thanks to everyone for their thougthful wishes!

and also to M&D&J for the presents and cake XD (and alcohol too, I may add...muahahaha)

Well I'm older now....eh.....not really sure what comes next...hahaha

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On another note, (SO...   XD) (does anyone get this? = =)

Today was the second day of 8独中.....for people who don't understand, it's a bunch of schools gathered around for some sports...and being in the band....

We had to walk around the track and look smart =)

and when the walk-around-the-track [how's that for compound nouns X) ] was finished, we had to move the the patch of padang at the centre...In our band uniforms and hats and the wonderfully BLAZING sun, it was freaking hot as usual, and people were fainting left right and centre....I was cursing John Philip Sousa (I'm joking, I love JP Sousa...) AND then I lifted my instrument up.

NOTE TO SELF: NEVER NEVER NEVER (EVER) put your hand back into a French Horn immediately after it's been exposed to BLAZING sunlight!

THE RESULT: me shrieking in shocked pain-ness and shaking my hand and looking like an idiot  = =

the other 'siasoi' thing was: my hat was the most screwed up in the band today due to my hair...so being weird I took off the strap and put the hat back on.  As I tilted my head up a little, FWOOSH! The hat moved down, pulling my neck, making my bend my knees and tilt over. ==

IF I had fallen down then it would've been more embarrassing but thank the gods I didn't....phew!  But I was still noticed by this guy in our school who works in the library [Thanx guy! =)] 

He came over and asked me :' 你要晕了啊？ '

and I was like :' 不是...我的帽子掉了...'

and he was like 'booom!'----> 炸到, not that he exploded or something  = =

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Getting ready for a really hectic week~ Cheers!

=)

this is just...random...untitled

Why am I always the one who has to keep her cool no matter what?

Am I not allowed to suddenly lash out and go absoulutely ZOMG on everyone?

I'm just supposed to bite my toungue and let everyone step on me?

I don't think so.

Bring it on, Muthafuckas.

OK as mentioned above, I am feeling really !beh song! right now...

No it's not just because of NIE and irresponsible credit-takers preventing me from studying physics.

No it's not just because of certain hypocrites whining on about their lives and treading on other people's problems.

No it's every other bleeping thing!!

Gods   It's like I'm feeling what? one week? one month  's  worth of anger building up inside me.  Just that sometimes...seeing people walking around and thinking they are the ice in ice-cream makes me just want to beat them up.   Ok I can't really do that but....

I remember the words of the seniors : ^^the friends that last with you the longest are the friends you make in band^^

.....

Yeah sure.

Ran out of steam now.....

What a wonderful world....