MERRY CHRISTMAS PERCS!

hello DUDEttes!!! (ya. according to Hillary ha ) -_-

CODA

Thursday, 28th December 2006.

Victoria Concert Hall, 7.30pm.

We're going right?
Let me know if you can make it.
we'll prolly have dinner first.section dinner. yum.

-misuzu(:

Yo Dude!!!
In case you're too lazy to check inet, here's the band schedule for december:

19th December-
8.30 – 10.30
SC Practice(Band Rm)

10.30 – 12.30
Footdrills (Sec1s and 2s) (Koi Pond)

12.30 – 1.30
Lunch

1.30 – 3.30
Sectionals
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22nd December-
8.30 – 10.30
Band Practice(Band Rm)

10.30 – 12.30
Footdrills (Sec1s and 2s) (Koi Pond)

12.30 – 1.30
Lunch

1.30 – 3.30
Sectionals
_______________________________________________________
26th December-
8.30 – 10.30
SC Practice(Band Rm)

10.30 – 12.30
Footdrills (whole band) (Koi Pond)

12.30 – 1.30
Lunch

1.30 – 3.30
Sectionals . STOCK TAKING

28th December- ( Same as 26th December)
29th December- CCAO

yup yup. see you guys on the 19th!

-su

hey! here's what i found (:
"Most percussion instruments are less tricky to take care of. Polish for cymbals can be bought at a music store, but keeping the cymbal dry and wiping it down after practicing will keep it from tarnishing. Drums can be wiped down with a damp cloth and dirty heads can be cleaned with a light soap on a cloth. If you've had your drum out in the rain, make sure to dry all the parts of the head. Skin heads (like on bongos) can be cleaned with just water, and make sure to loosen the head when you do because it will soak in the water and when it dries it will shrink again. Skin heads are also really sensitive to cold and warm weather, so keep it in a temperature controlled room if possible. Other percussion instruments can be wiped down with damp cloths and maintained as such rather simply in that way."

HAha.
I'm sure Kimberley, Hillary and Sam had fun spring cleaning...

i know why Kimberley had to be the one cleaning the air-cons....cos she's the only tall one among the three of you!!! shorties!!! nah..joking joking.
"cleared alot of mr beans, cobwebs and spiders"...
Please please please dont tell me you guys killed the spiders. -covers eyes- ><
you all destroyed their homes (cobwebs) and take their lives!?!?!? tsktsktsk. cold-blooded.

Regarding:
"things to get soon for the section:
1. the cupboard from ikea misuzu was talking about
2. 26 new files!
3. a nice cloth to polish our glock with"
...I talked to Mrs Koh about it. According to her, we cannot get those stuff with our own money. Instead, we need to give ms lim a list of what we need and she has to approve it before we can get them. If she ms lim approves of it, she'll either get it for us or we get it ourselves and then claim from treasurers. yea.

Something i realised while spring-cleaning on tuesday,
I found 3 pencils in the basket which belong to smart alecks who think that by keeping their pencils in the section area, they'll never have to be fined for not bringing their pencils. so smart!... later your pencils'll run out of lead and i'll laugh.HAHAha. you'd still have to pay for the fine. (:

yupyup.
-expects to see a super clean and shiny and nice smelling perc area(: -
Remember to practice! eh....if you dont have sticks with you, USE CHOPSTICKS LAH! hehe. i left mimi+momo in the band room too.): but i have timp sticks at home though. hee.
see you guys after band break!

hugs, misuzu.

today was spring cleaning again!

only kimberley samantha and i were there and we

• vacummed (sp?) the floor of the whole section area
• packed the corner infront of the timpani
• cleared the stuff behind the smallest timpani (singular timpano?)
• cleared alot of mr beans, cobwebs and spiders
• arranged all the stands, counted them and found out that stand no. 24 was non-existent and there was a clone of stand no. 20
• tried to untangle the currently half untangled fishing line that's supposedly for the triangle
• (kimberley did this) cleaned the aircons

IN CONCLUSION, today's spring cleaning was productive! go three of us!

things to get soon for the section:
1. the cupboard from ikea misuzu was talking about
2. 26 new files!
3. a nice cloth to polish our glock with

band break till 19th dec (i think?) so yay we'll see each other after that.
OH NO I THINK I LEFT MY STICKS IN THE BAND ROOM (ie. i cannot do any sticking!)

noooooo):

hillary!

Inunion '06.

So Inunion is over, and I guess all I can say is that we're really really sorry, and that we'll work harder together, and never never let this happen during SYF next year. We're all learning from this, so practise more, and always watch conductor during practice.We'll make each band practice after this the best one we've had.

To RB: Well done for all the pieces! (:

This is the start of rgssb 07, and rgssb percussion 07.
Jiayou we can do this (:

hey percs...
just a few things to tell you guys if some of you are still feeling depressed...

look at the brighter side!!!
we learnt something. which is good.
it's a blessing in disguise (maybe?) to teach us to be more alert in the future, to be bolder and to be more confident...

things weren't that baddd...
sec1s were good! i'm sure sam looked cool and zai on the drumset.
sec2s, your skit was so funny. .... .. HAHAHA.

work harder. perhaps we lacked practice, were unfamiliar with those pieces...werent alert enough after a long day of prep-ing,distracted,scared...so many other reasons that we can work on, ya?

GO PERCUSSION! YUPYUPYUP. can we do it? yes we can! (:

with millions of hugs and truckloads of love,
misuzu (:

haha sorry the last post was by me :P

and i'm posting again! back with a new quote by misuzu during today's section lunch!
she was referring to a certain person whom i think we all know (dont we?) :D

"he has that sparkle in his eyes!" *looks really enlightened as the sunlight beams down on her*
we could almost see a halo appear above her head.

anyway inunion's TOMORROW! yo, sam dont be scared haha because kimberley and i (and hopefully crystalbel) will be freaking too. we are playing with you HAHA. we will all play well and not screw up your inunion(:

so jiayou add oil!

ohno i havent written inunion notes):

<3 (less than three) hillary!

hello i shall revive this blog(:

hoho so we played variations on an english folk song and imperatrix (spelling?) today for bandprac. so fun :D i like perc solos yay

and just to add words to my post, here's a wonderful quote by our wonderful misuzu this wonderful morning when she was trying to screw back the toms onto the drumset (which were so heartlessly rearraged and left to die by an unidentified person/people)

"eh xian, you screw this one i screw that one... oh no this sounds wrong!"

haha yes we know misuzu(:

oh to add on, sam had her first auditions today! (first right) go sam jiayou for inunion. must act cool on the drumset :D and yay to us sec twos, we're are having our second inunion!

and the "talk" today at the end of band was quite funny haha
yay rgssb perky percs'06!

yo xian....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
you're 15 now so grow up! hahahaahaha.nah. just joking.you're more mature than i am...geez.
stay cheerful and bubbly and sweet and cute and happy and gay (which explains the colour)...and all the other millions of nice things about you. (:
rock on, sbm!

Hey guys!
We won't be having section chalet cos hillary, cryst and sam cannot make it. so we'll have section outing instead, probably after the 18th Nov (Inunion). maybe on 2nd December? we cant have our outing on a week day cos Peixian's having her WEP. yupyup. everyone try to keep the 2nd December free ya?

Reminder: Band resumes in week 9.
Inunion in week 10.

Look forward to seein' you guys again!!!

Yo.

EOYs are over! Time to plan for the holidays.
We need to:

- SPRING CLEAN!!!! which includes arranging files.
(speaking of which, who's in for buying new files? our files are...erm... not in a good state. very dangerous. hmm.)

-Do LOTS AND LOTS OF STICKING!!! who hasnt been practicing at home for the eoy week, say 'aye'. tsktsktsk.

-Prepare for Inunion. sam and chenrui's big day.

-Plan for Section outing? or Section Chalet? OR Do YOU WANT BOTH? *grins* Chalet----initially we (xian n I) planned to merge with saxes. but saxes (or specifically, cheryl) said that they're (or rather, she's) gonna make percs sleep outside the house cos it only has one one or two beds. -_-'' I negotiated with them (cheryl), that perc'll cover 60% of our dinner fee (eh. dont worry. i'll pay for that additional 10%) but they (cheryl) still rejected that offer cos "percs and saxes don't math together". sheesh,stewpid saxes. alliteration!!! cool. heh. kay. ahem. jk. anyway,we cant crash brasses' chalet cos... they wouldnt let us. neither would clarinets nor flutes.
sooo, we're left with having a perc-only chalet. the problem is, our section has only seven peeps. and chalet's kinda costly. you guys know right? approximately 100++ bucks? which means one person would have to fork out 20++ bucks.... eh. think abourrit ya.

Outing-- can be movies, lunch (and breakfast and dinner?(: ) and biking at east coast, volleyball at the beach, dunking, pretty much similar to chalet but no scary stories, supper, board games, horror movies at night. *** at the same time,we can celebrate all the birthdays. yup. xian's birthday's coming...and erm...a few others' belated birthday. yupyup.

okay. Happy holidays. erm. wait. no. i meant post-EOYs. looking forward to band prac. ********* those who havent paid section funds, PAY UP!!!! our piggy bank only has...haha. super sad. guess. yupyup. practice the Christmas Scene!

-su

even the best fall down sometimes says:
what does "first time" make you think of?
we were strangers starting out on a journey says:
err something gross
we were strangers starting out on a journey says:
o.0

XIAN!!!! you see? you see? our juniors are sickos! you dont know how many *rated stuff they showed me during our conversation.
yucks. yucks. yucks. i cannot sleep tonight...nightmare.

you all better not contaminate the sec ones' minds kay. goons.

-su

Hey section (:

I'm finally blogging. Yup had no time over the past one week plus to blog cos of all the PTs, and I'm unlike misuzu who finished her PTs much earlier than I did. :P

Anyway. So we got Christmas Scene as our SYF piece. It's easy on our section.. except for the mallets which also happens to be something we're rather weak in. Misuzu and I are considering taking over the mallet parts, but we'll see how. And one of you sec 2s might probably take the timpani part. Then again it's not confirmed. We'll settle the allocations by Tuesday hopefully (:

Yup please practise! Our gold with honours depends on everyone's hard work. Christmas Scene is a pretty song. Just that we have relatively little parts. But remember, that doesn't make us any less important. Heh i'm gonna sound super naggy if i continue. You get the point. Haha :D

Oh and to all of you. If you all see chenrui around in school, please remind her to come for band prac! Very important!

And lastly don't forget to work on your basics (crotchet quaver triplets semiquavers) at 152. Remember your target. By inunion you all should get it flawless (:

<3 pei xian

dude, where did the title bar go?

anyway new template(: aint our drumset hot
when you blog, remember to put your name in the title bar okay! (that is if you see it) then it will magically appear down there beside the time.

what doesnt kill us makes us stronger and i hope we've emerged from it a much stronger section than before. christmas scene/la boheme's perc score doesnt really have major parts that 'show-off' the section right? ): then even so, we'll still prac hard(: may we be the strongest section, yay!

and last but not least my favourite quote,

impossible is nothing

i love rgssb perc!

<3hillary

haha. so our blog has only two posts (okay. three, including this one) -_-
SO, here are some random stuff.

1.Didnt have Band practice on thursday thanks to that percussion fussion thingo. Dont understand why people can keep on playing when everyone's not together. tsktsktsk. MB didnt even stop. Sadly, we look like retardeds on stage playing the same thing over and over again for half an hour (without any variations). Hillary and I were thinking if we should secretly add 'stinking garbage' in. or maybe 'thunder and lightening'. hoho.
Thankfully we had time for sectionals- despite it being in cryst's dirty smelly classroom -_-

2. Momo dropped into the saliva drain. ):

3. our SYF piece... kinda boring (in my opinion). i stoned throughout. perhaps xian and i should play mallets instead. timpani score is apparently very empty. (according to xian).

4. i want more sec ones!!! currently we have only one dedicated sec one.

5. i wonder how it's gonna be like if ziyi stayed on...

6.oh! oh! WE FOUND THE MISSING GLOCK KEY! *grins*. (it was in the glock case all the while -_-)

why am i crystalbel momo foo ling ling? who is foo ling ling?

haha can we change the skin! its so ugllayee. ((: hillary make a new one!

less-than-three
cryst

Yay!!! WE FINALLY SET UP OUR SECTION BLOG!!! *grins* And I have the honour to be the first to post. tralala.
Everyone, say 'Thank you' to Crystalbel Momo Foo Ling.
Hmm...dont you find the drummer cute? *points at background*

anyway, yes. blog !!!
nothing else to say, besides the constant reminder--- PRACTISE!!! (: