hey there,

I'm here to revive this place! Yes, inunion's over and in my opinion, it was kind of screwed. Okay that's kind of an understatement, but never mind! Let's jiayou and improve and work towards SYF'09, alright! (I shall attempt optimism :D)

Anyway, I think the section played quite well so it's okay :D. YAY now Aliza and Xing Ern are part of main band and Deborah's going to get little, cute, adorable direct juniors next year -grin-. (I actually can't wait to see little sec 1s next year! wheee!)

I'm posting this from Peru, and it's really cold, and the internet's in Spanish. And I hope band prac today was okay, and I'm so sorry that I couldn't be there. And this place is really dead, can you guys tag and post more? And this place is really cold. brr.

Oh, does anyone have videos of the various batch items? I want to rewatch them haha.

Oh, the only times where we can go on some kind of section outing would probably be like, after Deborah comes back from her holiday? Or you all could go without me, I guess? Yeah Deborah comes back at around the 20th-ish? hm.

love, Samantha

hellohellohello! (:

D: it's quite dead here >< nevermind! i have time so i shall post!
i know it's a bit late but good luck for your O levels, directs! hope you did well (:

yay Inunion is on Friday so good luck Xing Ern and Aliza! one year has passed quite fast, to me. you guys have improved so much and are really really pro so i know you'll play well for your songs! and some of them sound quite easy like Furusato (with only 32 bars) and Ye Banks and Braes O Bonnie Doon! where you have so many rests ><

so yeah, just play your best and have fun as well! congrats on officially becoming a bandgirl :D

<3 deborah

hello!

yay new skins so cool :D oh but i won't get to see how they're doing it if it's on wednesday right D: darn. yay let's hint very obviously for new instrus!

yeah! eyas are overrr!!! (heh sorry sam, not for you. but soon!) hope we all did well/our best/really well. let's decide where to go for section outing! i'm fine with anything. oh is it a bit late to book a chalet already? i don't think i'm free during december so yeah.

yay can't wait til band starts again :)
love, deborah
(ah, why're my posts so short ><)

Hi percs :D

This blog is so dead you guys are not doing a good job at all! No I'm kidding, I just felt like being nice and posting.

DO YOU MISS US DO YOU MISS US DO YOU MISS US. Don't you dare say no.

Was just scrolling down the rather old posts here and thinking of perc ensem during Cadenza just makes me happy again. Till now I can hardly believe we pulled it off together, weak as we seemed to be. And it's really so cool that we were the only section with ensem. So yep, thank you once again :D

New drumskins sounds so cool, take good care of them and make sure you repeat a million times to your future juniors that they are new. Try negotiating for a new marimba hint hint.

Jiayou mugging!
♥, HILLARYYYYY

hello percs!

my first time posting here in quite a while, then again, there hasn't been many posts for a while ><. anywayyy, if you don't know, I'm guessing you don't, we're getting new drumskins! :D. YAY. for timpani and toms, that is :D. - 2 of my favourite instrus, I'm guessing that's why the snare doesn't seem to like me all that much. we're getting them on tuesday, I think, but I'm not really sure. but, yay :D.

best of luck for all your EYAs! (argh you guys are really lucky, you know, you finish your EYAs on the 10th! And 13th and 14th are marking days! And I finish on the 13th =.=) yeah good luck and have fun mugging :D. let's have a section outing after EYAs, I'll try to organise it once my rp papers end! and um, if you all want section chalet, you'll need to email/sms your free days during the hols soon, because I need to book it soon, if not there's no way we'll even get a chalet, let alone a good chalet.

love, samantha

hello my dear percs! :D

whee this is my first time posting here! so fun :)
i don't actually know what to post (i'm just procrastinating). yeah i'm reviving this blog!

deborah :)
[LOVES rgssbperc 08/09]

Hello little juniors, thanks for making me feel appreciated and loved haha even though I don't think I've been so awesome as to deserve your cute little gifts!

ALL THE WAY PERCUSSION 09!
Love, HILLARYYYYY

P.S.: Technology for teacher's day tomorrow hee hee let's just have fun la, no stress dudes!

hello percky percs! sibf was over today, and i hope that all of you feel okay about it. :) despite the horrible acoustics that the hall had, i think that we all had fun, right? haha oh and i'm putting up the nice and un-zipai photos taken today :) hillary has a hidden talent for artistic shots!

marimba, by hillary
chimes, by hillary

wind chimes, by hillary

artistic vibraphone, taken by hillary. :O their hands are a blur!
picture #1: xingern and aliza stoning.
picture #2: xingern and aliza happy! SEEE so much prettier :D i think this is the first proper picture i've had of both of them smiling at the same time! goodjob, keep it up! :))
heehee our section is cool! and im the second tallest :)))

band prac before SIBF! and everyone is in uniform :)
hello deborah :D it took her 3 shots to pose properly, haha!
kimberley and the piccolo snare.
ARTISTIC SHOT OF THE BELL TREE . i proudly proclaim that i took it, not hillary! :D
egg and tuna and crabmeat sandwiches...SO MANY PEOPLE THREW THEIR SANDWICHES AWAY!!! boo you evil waste-fooders!

I don't know what to say except for:

THANK YOU PERCUSSION 08
I LOVE YOU PERCUSSION 08
I AM VERY VERY VERY PROUD OF EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Hillary (:

hello!

I'm so sorry if I'm spamming this place, but I cannot resist posting some things :D. look below and see really pretty photos courtesy of wanting :D

kimberley!
aliza! (looking like she wants to murder the score)

and doesn't everyone agree, the little ball ball thingy is very cute! :D

anyway, in case anyone is still feeling down or feeling like they screwed up for ensemble or anything, WE DIDN'T! Besides getting the second loudest round of applause, we got compliments from all over the place (I mean, blogs). Like this:

(okay it's not just ensemble, but good comments in general as well!)

"What really impressed me was how in time the entire band was. Almost all (heck, all) the players were staring at Mr. Oura throughout the concert, and the rhythm was so precise (which made Metro Gnome really impressive). It looked like something out of Fantasia (Google's your best friend), and that really rocked.

Technology was really cool. I mean, no conductor and the percussionists still kept in time, what with all the super fast solos. Who thought percussionists would be so professional?

...

But yeah, on the whole, Cadenza XI was good (heck, excellent). *standing ovation*" - from some RI guy

"Carmen... sigh. Good ol' days of 2006. I saw Hillary practicing Carmen's part I solo and that got me wondering. Didn't know they were playing Carmen for Cadenza. On the whole, they did a great job, probably better than us two years ago (oh yes that girl playing my tambourine part did a much better job than me!), and it brought back lots of memories too (like Army of the Nile did in A Tempo). A bit on the slow side though." (DEBORAH LOOK YAY! :D you played tambourine, right!)

"Technology was SUPERB! Me goes, "Why can't WE have perc ensembles like that"

As the saying goes, quality beats quantity, and our two perc ensembles doesn't hold a Sacred Candle to Technology (oh come on, William Tell was a joke, and I don't want to have anything to do with anything that starts with an S and ends with a E). So cool! And if Monument was monumental, then Technology really is technological. They have managed to evoke a sense of modern-ness in that ensemble. So yeah, there you have it." -from Ben

okay see, we played well as a band and as a section :D.

Samantha

hello!

yay we survived Cadenza and we did a good job, okay! To whoever is still feeling zibei/sad/in a bad mood due to their so-called mediocre playing, you played well! everyone played well! :D

My parents said that the ensemble got the second loudest round of applause, the first being when the concert ended! which is really good, because people clap hard after the concert due to the random fun gimmicks! :D. Which means that we did really well for ensemble. (yes sorry, Sam is on a post concert high, which is quite weird).

Anyway, here are some photos that I've found, and yeah, posting them here for all to view!


perc ensemble: everyone except crystalbel and kimberley

argh I cannot get the next photo to load so I won't try ><. anyway, well done! :D and let's continue to strive hard for SIBF! rgssbpercs ftw!

Samantha

hello you guys (: haha its 4 days to cadenza, aren't you feeling the caterpillars hatching in your stomach? mine will manage to grow to butterflies with super-huge wings on the day of cadenza itself (: especially during perc ensemble. hee. but during perc ensemble i'll be distracted with the task of not laughing when it comes to D! anyway, let's work hard for cadenza so that it'll make a really wonderful memory for all of us (especially since we're the only ensemble :))

anyway, i shall add section photos into this post since we haven't had a photopost since eons ago











ALIZA SMILE LA YOUUUUUU!! and omgosh me hillary kimberley look like we're all the same height :DDDDD

Less than a week to go! Please push yourselves so we can pull through this. (push and pull, forces!) MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU.

Well actually, may the rgssb spirit be with you. And let us not forget that Cadenza isn't the only thing we're counting down to. There's still SIBF and quoting Deborah, the F-word. (Hint: It's a eight letter word).

Aren't you all excited and ready to go? Whooooooooo!
All the way perc (:

LOTSALOVE♥, HILLARYYYYY

We did it! We're bringing ensemble(s) back to the Cadenza stage. Let's impress and show them how much we've put in for this.

Now for two things before we can truly celebrate
1) Where is the last player and her score?
2) Getting through the real thing, ie. Cadenza itself

We're ready for this, yes? 2 Weeks to go.

Hillary

It's 28 days to Cadenza, about a month. Exactly 4 weeks.

Just would like to remind every single one of you to give it your all and chiong the last lap together. A lot can happen in 4 weeks if you really try to make it happen. Don't give up hope--that's the last thing we want you to do and I hope we've emphasized that enough. Now's the time to really be perfecting your parts to your best ability and remember your seniors are always here for you yeah? *waves*

On another note, let's also try our best for perc ensem. Even if it doesn't come to fruition as we wish, let's still be encouraged by the effort we've put in. Cliched as it may sound, the journey really does matter as much as or even more than the outcome. I hope you have gained many takeaways about playing, bonding, helping after all this time. Plus! If we don't get to do it for Cadenza, there's an open invitation to play during school's National Day celebration (hahaha but why not just put all this to something right? the audience's expectations will also be slightly lower!)

Alright, gogogo sPERCkle 08! I hope Band camp has motivated you to some extent to work harder. Let's do this together (:

<3 Hillary

I'll blog, since I'm bored.

It's 50 days to Cadenza. Our turn. Our chance to show so many people, including ourselves, that we have not let them down.

I want every single one of you to play with love.

Less than three,
Hillary

hello! :)
thank you so much for today!
haha, and yes, I was surprised! (well, except for the card part, which I kinda saw)
but, I really didn't expect the donuts/doughnuts. :D
yes, so thank you for making my sixteenth birthday super sweet (and early)!
and also, thank you for being the most wonderful section! [I can't imagine being in another section without all of you.]
yup, so we'll see each other umm.. in week 9! :)

Love, Kimberley

oooh, and all the best for MYAs! :)

hello! :D haha i don't know what i'm doing blogging here when i'm SUPPOSED to be studying for bio test. i shall revive the blog! (actually it's never been really dead in the first place, but whatever! (: ).

anyway, who said yes to the japan trip thing!! :D it'll be totally fun right (except it's really expensive! maybe they'll lower the price if we all put it in the concerns part of the form or something ^^)! then we can go learn a few words of japanese before june. currently all i know how to say is "my name is crystalbel, what about yours?" oh, and "you are a pig/cockroach/toilet." haha. see, you shouldn't quit third lang in MARCH of sec 1.

haha my aim for this post is to not talk about band. can you tell? cos the other posts got alot of band alr! so my post shall be unique, so there. :D oh, did you know like the reason why human beings die is because every DNA replication that takes place, the ends of your chromosomes get shorter and shorter. so you just keep losing the genetic info till you die or something. :O *GASP*

darnnn i got nothing to talk about alr. someone tell aliza and xingern the username and pw so they can post too *POKES SAM REALLY HARD*. but don't go read my email hor! :D buhbyeeee seeyaguys tmr!

hello!
I'm resorting to this because I don't know how to edit the html thingum for the countdown thing ><. I'm html stupid whee



love,
sam!

Hello peeps,

Who wants to be nice and get a countdown for cadenza (: And put it somewhere.. there. (Points to the left) Hint hint sam you're very free right!

Anyway, we be playing lots of perc heavy songs so that is totally whee and cool and wohoo. Therefore we will not screw up/disappoint Mr Oura. So far, 8 songs have been more or less confirmed for cadenza!

1. In a Monastery Garden (Random important stuff like mallets, chimes solo.. and the chirpchirp)
2. The Pioneers (March, therefore perc!)
3. The Centurion (Ditto above)
4. Russian Sailors' Dance (WHEEEEE)
5. Selections from 'Cats' (omgzxz drumset D:)
6. Global Variations (LOVELOVELOVE!)
7. Metro Gnome (We totally can control the timing of the band)
8. Carmen Fantasy (Mallets Soli!)

Can we do it?
YES WE CAN -Bob the builder-

Ohoh, advertisement: Play'08 by RJCSB on 29 March Sat! Perc ensems ftw.
(:

i figured i should kinda like update, if not the blog will be dead (the tagboard doesn't count!!). (: so how was band prac today! i thought it was fun haha like running around, even though HE was kinda in a bad mood. the confirmed list of songs: carmen fantasy! global variations! *cues YAY from hillary!* monastery garden! metrognome! *BOOOOO* CATS! *YAYYYY!!!!*

haha don't you guys like carmen fantasy man! its like perc heavy! and global variations too! well, kinda. ((: yay kimberley im playing two duets with you for two songs on the marimba! heh, i guess you can kinda tell that i'm pretty high. my DISC says that my I goes up under stress, and right now im being stressed out by chinese zuowen and english orals kthnx.

looking forward to sectionals tomorrow! (:

lots of love, cryst