The Rain

Rain rain go away!

Photography by Yours Truly

Just let the sun and blue sky make my day :D

Well gosh, it's been like raining 24 hours this wet and (of course) rainy Sunday. It's pretty rare to see a 24h rain here in Singapore. And not sure why it's raining cause umm I think it should be sunny? Oh wow what a smart reasoning. But anyway yeah, it's been raining and the weather is freaking cold. I had to wear a long sleeve T-shirt just now -.-"

Anyway today was awesome (beside the rain) cause I went to Ikea with my sis and her bf! I always love going there cause it's so awesomely inspiring. And you never fail to "I wish I have that room" or yeah. I went there to get some photo frames for my room, and yes I bought them already! Lots of them :D Hope can put every one of them in good use heh.

And another good thing about Ikea is the foooooood. Ate my fvourite meatballs there, and this prawn open sandwich! I remember eating something like that back in Sweden as well (but tasted 100x better than the one here) so yeah brings back lots of memories. Man, I really wish I can change the design of my room anytime I want with the designs in Ikea :P

Dinner at Holland, we went to try the Korean food there! Tell you what, the food is awesome, and the service is awesome as well! The price is sort of awesome too :/ but well good food, so worth the price. And it's not as if I'll be eating there every week (or even month) haha. But yep, I have to compliment one of the manager there, really helpful and caring :)

Grocery shopping as usual, and uhh yeah bought things to bring back as well! I'm going back on Tue for CNY so yep! But wow, I'm bringing LOTS of things uh! Haha, oh well I need to plan the stuff again, hoepfully can pack nice nice and yeah. Hopefully won't exceed the limit either :O

Right what else... I guess that's all for today! Meeting WP, Liz and Candy for PBL tomorrow, really hope we can finish it ASAP, I don't like PBL :/ Wait nope nope, must be positive. I love PBL! It's my life... Hahahaha. Okay chao!

Dear sky, you look nicer when you're smiling brightly you know? :)

Life, oh life

Hello, I won't be blogging today but I'm going to post a video! Once more haha. This is a song be Desiree (or Des'ree, I'm not sure which). It's called Life. Believe it or not I once heard this song when I was in... Primary 2 or 3... I know it's definitely a time when I was very very young. And I remember seeing its MV on MTV, but then, who could remember clearly the video now?

So well I have this song in my iPod, but I went to search its MV again in Youtube. Thanks to Sony for blocking the video in Singapore (not sure why either, what's wrong with sharing awesome songs :/) but I found one anyway! So here it is!

This song is really really nice. All I know, when I was young, is "Life... Oh life" but well now, I know the songs lyric, and understood it! As ordinary the lyrics can be, there's this underlying strong and powerful message and symbolism in the lyrics. Listen to it, I'm sure you can see why and how it is powerful.

And one more - this song is just so happy and joyous to listen to. And now that I'm reunited with the video, it just adds to the powerfulness of the lyrics!

Oh well, life, oh life...

The wind

The black and white keys

Photography by Yours Truly

That play a wonderful melody

Hmm the weather is still acting weird... Like today! But anyway the evening was nice and breezy though, so me likey! And I stayed back to study after school today, from 10 to about 6! Sweet huh. IDEAS was cancelled so yep, well of course, I didn't study straight for 8 hours, that's called being nuts. Well at least I managed to study right :P

Anyway since Math ended at 10, umm I think it really sucked to actually go home after that, for it means I'm only in school for 2 hours -.-" so I've decided to stay back for a while. Met Chee Ming first to pass him his present, then went back to class and... Ate Mac haha (sorry for the anti-climax). We then decided to go to Spectrum to study instead.

You know.. Spectrum is sort of like the newest hangout space in SP now haha! I think it's so famous everyone sort of forget the existence of Colours :P But all thanks to my classes now held at T14/T11B area so yeah, it's rather convenient there. I like it there though, even though it can get (or it's rather) noisy, well so long I have my music there should be fine.

Studied with Zaki and Niv, Syazwan left after his prayers while Hari and Larry left after their GEMS. Syazwani came a while after haha. Anyway had a great time with them! We joked sometimes so our studying session was not boring at all! Left at about 5.50 plus. And yup that's all for our studying session.

You know I really like the feeling, when you end school and then you walk out of it as you are heading for home. Then the sky is beautiful, the wind is breezy, the cloud is nice. Oh man I just love that feeling! Well as I stepped out of Spectrum today, I looked up the sky and it was wonderful! I really love it. And the wind was nice as well (Y)

I was surfing the web in the evening when I came across Dr Kelly Tang's (Composer of the SYF 2009 set piece) page at Reverbnation. I was ELATED after I found out that there is a recording of Overture No 1 for Wind Band! Well even though it's not by TSMB, I'm still happy, at least I found a song that will remind me of my last SYF :)

Waves of memories rushed inside my head as I was listening to it. The recording was performed by St Andrew Secondary School band, and they're really awesome. Oh well the last SYF for me was both a sad and happy moment for me. But ultimately I've learnt A LOT during those times, and of course, one valuable lesson which I actually have kept since then :)

Right what else... Okay I think that's all for today, I wanna continue my RWP report! Gonna do some "light" stuff today. It's Friday anyway, not gonna work so hard eh hehe. See ya then!

Sometimes, I just feel I'm thinking WAY too much :)

The Weather

In this grandeur stage, I performed

Photography by Yours Truly

It's really scare to perform in front of a full house! :)

Well well something is definitely weird with the weather these days, or one of these days, cause it's been raining on and off! Like today. It was raining in the afternoon, then it stopped for a while, then it rained again, then stopped once more, and I wanted to go home at about 5.30 but it rained again, and yeah! Haha. Oh well, not sure why either.

Today was alright I guess, I did quite a lot of things! Decided to stay back in school to study and I managed to do lots of things. Finished my Math tutorial 11 and 12 (I know I'm slow) and also some of the IO Chem tutorials. Did some read up on the past few chapters as well. Actually the chapters are easy, just that it's a lot of memorising especially the reactions O.o

And I finally get my hands on the MD34 recordings! Wee, thanks a lot to Emmelyn for uploading em on Facebook. I can listen to it and keep it for eternity hoho, like well for a long time of course. And I can also let my parent listen to them, since they're unable to come for the concert :)

Hmm I was thinking about lots of things about MD yesterday.

You know, even though many people in band don't know me... Who am I, what instrument I'm playing, my look or even my name, I really feel honoured to play along with these musicians. We are one group of people, that go for the same direction - to play music together and put up a wonderful concert. Well I'm sure everyone is heading for the same direction.

Performing in Esplenade is one of my biggest dream in life. It's one of the items on my life's to-do list. And yes I did it, and yes I stroke it off from the list. And I told myself that I would make 23rd January 2011 one of the best days in my life, and yes I did.

At some point in time, I do feel that uneasiness. But I put that feeling aside, deep somewhere far from my heart. I'm not sure if it's going to continue to be like this. But I do want to let you know that well if it does continue to be like this, I'll just give it a shrug and let time flow and decide to where it will take, to which direction it will go, and to how it will go.

Sometimes life is funny. When we do something for just one intention, something may obstruct us and sort of distracts us from whatever we are doing. But oh well, c'est la vie. It's hard to tell in this perfectly imperfect world huh?

Alright I guess that's all for today. What am I talking seriously haha. Back to more studyings tonight! Wheeeeeeeeee

Hmm nice, perfectly imperfect world

It's in it

Rays of hope, for a better tomorrow

Photography by Yours Truly

Love this scene, taken yesterday :)

Right, now that MD is over, is sort of weird to be at home at this hour, since usually I have band eh? But anyway, at least I'll have time to catch up now, so that I can study and prepare for the soon-to-come exam, meow!

Anyway the past two days was alright... Did the independent exercise on Monday, 2nd session. Well today we check the result and it sort of fail. Well not sure, I have to count the colonies first. Cause somehow there's more bacteria on the agar with garlic, where it should be no garlic. So I guess we have to increase the concentration of the juice I guess.

But as I once said, failure in experiments are the trials and tribulations of scientists. And there's no way we can ALWAYS get a positive result eh? So yep. Perhaps we can change the experiment a bit on the last session.

Glad to know that my group did well for our RWP presentation! A-team (as Lizzie mentioned) for Liz, Bobby, Syazwan and me! But Ms Khoo said I have to maintain my grades :O Meaning I have to ENUNCIATE more, during classes and etc. Haha, oh well I guess it's for my own good as well :)

Hmm alright I guess that's all for today, I'm currently suffering from post-MD syndrome with random parts of New World, Gaga, Candide, WHAV popping out in my head at different times -.-" It's always like that, this happened during SYF too haha. Alright then, see ya! Gonna study tonight, that's why I blog early today :P

It's in music, that I seek joy from, and to

Musical Delights XXXIV!

Right... It's 1:17 AM right now and I'm still blogging. And yes I'm very very very tired. I just reached home a while ago from school after SPSB concert - Musical Delights 34! It was just a blast. It's beyond words. But all I knew is that I have enjoyed myself there, and I have played with my heart and soul. Despite of the few mistake here and there, I think everyone did their best :)

Anyway assembled in school at 9,45 to move out our instruments and carry the percussion instruments. Reached Esplenade at about... 12.30 plus and we had lunch at Yoshinoya with my fellow clarinettists except for some who had some administrative issue going on. Went back to Esplenade to prepare our rehearsals.

Rehearsals went on from 2.30 to about 5. The band sounded really good there. And when I first stepped into the hall, I was just feeling two things - speechless and happy. Speechless to know that this hall will be filled at 7.30 PM and happy in a sense that I am actually going to finally perform in Esplenade - one of my biggest dreams in life.

Had dinner after that and we were preparing for our concert! It was rather chaotic cause I need to pass some tix to some people so yeah, but thankfully all went smooth and yup, finally the time to shine was there.

I won't go into details of the concert, if not this post will take like a long time to finish, plus I'm tired :P So yeah I'll just burst my feelings here.

This is what I love about music. Music alone, is just a subject. A subject that can evoke THOSANDS of emotions. A subject that can do THOUSANDS of different things. It's just not an ordinary thing. Many people could not think of these different things and feelings music can evoke. But if you seek deeper inside this thing called music, you'll know why.

I told myself that I'm going to enjoy this concert. And yes I did. Even though I did make a few mistake here and there. I told myself that I should carry on and go with the music. Bury the past, and go on. Reminds me of what happened in SYF 2009. But anyway, I have enjoyed myself there and gave my best shot. To me, that is enough.

For me music is just something one should enjoy doing and should share with others. You don't have to be perfectly, spotlessly fine when playing music. Sometimes, we focus so much on being a good player, we have lost the mission of enjoying music while playing it. Oh well. Music is just something that I can truly enjoy to myself, and of course, truly share with others.

Music is powerful. It brings people together into one group that showcase our passion of music through just one thing - playing music together, and putting it together into one. I may not be known by other people in the band. But just to let you know, it's an honour for me to be able to play with all of you. It's a great experience I will never forget in my life.

When I once said that I come to band to enjoy and play music. Well, I do mean it. But of course, not forgetting the awesome people around me who made band even more interesting, and enjoyable. Well I just hope the cards I make for my section is good enough to show my thanks to them for the past... 9 months plus experience.

Alright I guess that's all for today. Currently, I'm just really tired. I need to get some sleep, and I'm waking up early tomorrow morning to meet Candy and KX to continue our Microbio experiment. Okay... See ya

The memories of MDXXXIV shall remain in my heart, always.

Tomorrow!!!

Photo taken during IBM last year

Lets play as beautifully as IBM

Or even more beautiful!

Good luck SPSB! :D

Hello there, it's been quite a long time since I blogged... I think. But anyway you should know the reason why. I'm busy with band of course! This week is like one of the most hectic weeks of my life. But well it's gonna be worth it, cause...

Tomorrow IS THE DAY!

Yep finally the day for MD34 has arrived. Whew! I've been waiting for tomorrow to arrive and it's finally arriving heehee. It's like finally, all the days I've been working hard for will be paid off tomorrow. I'm sure it'll be a great concert for everyone. And of course, no doubt that I'll enjoy tomorrow's concert as well!

Anyway today I had band as well. It's our last practice before MD itself. But went earlier at 9 (I was late) to make the gifts for serniors. I thought I was late. But when I arrived, there were only Vanessa and Jason. So well the three of us did the gifts to our seniors and then Lionel arrived, followed by Jiajun. And then we continue from then on.

Band was awesome I guess! I don't know why, it's either me or it's real or it's the last-practice-before-concert feel. But I think I sound good today hahaha! So is the band, despite of some mistake here and there. You know like last time during SYF, I remember that the band sounded so nice during their last practice before the day itself. So I'm not sure if today the band -really- sounds good, or it's just me.

But nevertheless, I am pretty sure, we will give our bestest shot tomorrow! And if we sounded good today, I'm sure we'll sound AWESOME tomorrow heehee.

Well band ended later than it was supposed to end. It ended at 3 instead of 2. So I have to rush down to Holland cause I was meeting Hendy! He came to Singapore for a visit after he has finished his study in China so yep. Had lunch with him and my sisters.

In the evening went to see my dad's colleague as she just gave birth to a cute girl! Well the baby wasn't at their house as she needs some monitoring in the hospital, but looking at the photos... Gosh she's soooo cute haha. So heart melting!

Alright I think that's all for today. I hope that tomorrow's programme will run smoothly and beautifully, like how a piece of music sounds to my ears. Anyway yep, wishing all the best to all SPSB members for tomorrow's MDXXXIV! Lets rock the Esplenade Concert Hall tomorrow! And impress the audience.

I came up with this line - Let's play With our Heart And Voice tomorrow, and take the audiences to a New World! For We Are! one haha. I know it's lame, but good luck peeps!

On the side note...

As I once mentioned during IBM, tomorrow, I will play on that prestigious concert hall of the Esplenade tomorrow, with my heart and soul. I'm going to leave those things behind, and play like how I would play those beautiful music I have been practising really hard for the past few months. I will let my emotions flow out, and enjoy myself on that stage. I am going to make tomorrow, 23rd January 2011, one of the best days of my life :)