Hello!
I came up with very short song for PERC today during Food and Nutrition class!! :D
hahaha you know the song for Teen Titans? It's like:
T-E-E-N
T-I-T
A-N-S
Teen Titans,
Let's go!

Then I changed it to:
P-E-R-C
U-S-S
I-O-N
Percussion,
Let's go!!

AH OMG SO NICE. 8D the number of letters and syllables are so fitting! :D :D

heheh XD
<3 sharon

Haha I'm going to post about Recruitment Drive to hopefully revive the dead blog, and stop Sharon from singing further ._.

So, on that very day during recess, I met this girl holding drumsticks in the canteen! So naturally I rushed up to her and started questioning her about joining band, or more specifically, percussion. And she wants to join perc 'cos she used to play perc in primary school! She seemed so keen on joining, and since she has the experience and will probably get in...YAY ALIZA AND XING ERN'S POTENTIAL DIRECT :D

Unfortunately, I didn't get to meet her again because our SB wasn't involved in Recruitment Drive! So sad...cannot see our juniors! Sharon can't see her mortal and I can't see my church junior :( Oh well. So we brought the tom-toms, snare drum and crash cymbal to the covered walkway (taking an unnecessarily long way because we were heading towards D-block at first, but then we match our batchmates on the way and changed our mind :D) and started indiving.

Um, yeah. So we indived.

And indived.

And indived.

Then we got a bit bored because there were no keyboard perc instrus...so we could only practice our techniques and try warm-ups at faster speeds and crash cymbals continuously (I still don't know how Mr. Oura can crash them 1000 times! My highest was 62 at one go, while Sharon's was...20/30something? And when I tried 100 times, I had to rest - without putting the cymbals down on the stand, but it isn't continuous anymore, no? - at least 3 times! D:).

Then Batch 11 started playing Perseus! So we played along, although I could only play my crash cymbal parts and Sharon had to substitue the bass drum with the snare drum (which made it sound very different, esp. at the rolls!). Worse, Lei-Chen didn't have the vibraphone so she could only continue to indiv...

Then Yi An came to find me to ask if the percs wanted to play Perseus with them! :D YESYES OF COURSE WE WOULD, so we moved to where they had gathered. But again, Lei-Chen couldn't play anything! Then how? We wanted her to play the beat, since if I was to clap my sticks together, I wouldn't be able to play the crash part, and it would also be conducting...? But she decided to just indiv, and the rest of the batch just tried their best to stay on time

Then some Sec Twos joined in! They kept coming to play then leaving, then coming back again. Maybe our playing was too messy for them? ><

After that, we gave up at around Bar 110? I don't know the exact bar, but I know we didn't play the Grandioso part 'cos it was starting to get REALLY MESSY...Perina and Qian Yi gave up trying to play as a batch - they moved away to indiv. The rest of our batch wanted to continue playing together, except they chased us away, complaining that the crash cymbals were too loud! ><

Then Wanyi asked if we wanted to play Perseus! Everybody was fine with it, except Ying Qin. But under peer pressure she caved, and we started from...Bar 10? I don't think it was the beginning, right? Ö And Lei-Chen and I just hit the air with our sticks for our mallets part :/

Um, then at the very end of the song I came in too early. So before they ended I already choked the cymbals and it ended up sounding very very weird ><

Thereafter, Sharon and I kept dropping our drumsticks accidentally, and finally we decided to wash them 'cos there was so much dirt on them ._. There were no perc seniors around, so we had to ask Vivian if we could go to the toilet, and she was very nice about it :) THEN OUR DRUMSTICKS TURNED BLACK WHEN IT TOUCHED WATER OMG ._. We quickly dried it, but it really turned black! As in, there were streaks of black running down our sticks. WHY?! ._.

Oh well, since we couldn't do anything about it, we just went back to indiv more. And that's when we started crashing cymbals continuously. It was so tiring I sat down (but it has nothing to do with legs right? I don't know why I sat down either oO) Then Sharon tried, just as Deborah came to ask us to move back to the band room.

Then came section photos! We took a very long time to decide which instruments to include the photo and where to put them and how to stand...and I had the brilliant idea of removing the gong and sticking all our heads in the gong stand! But then I figured, where would we put the gong in the meanwhile oO Or sticking our heads out of the bottom of the keyboard perc instrus? But they sounded quite...ridiculous compared to our final idea, so I'm glad I didn't suggest them HEHH.

So we took a lot of photos with the three of us sitting in front of the tom-toms and our seniors standing behind, pretending to play? Or were they just standing? Hahaha and why does Aliza find it so difficult to smile :(

In any case, can somebody pleeaase post the photos on the section blog? :D It's been so long since we had a post full of pictures! The last picture we had of was of...Bertrand (that's the orchid's name, right?)? oO

And nothing eventful happened after that. But the next day! When Sharon and I went to Far East together (I love Fridays 'cos we can go out as late as we want :D)! It was a lot of fun, eating Chippy's, spraying water, laughing until we...you-know-what, Sharon, and talking.

And we used the instrus to make up our faces! The bass drum is our head, the cymbals are our ears, the keyboard perc instrus are our hair (or braces for me, according to Sharon), the timpani are our cheekbones and forehead (assuming our forehead is made up of two bumps), two gongs will make up our eyes and the gong stand is our nose. I don't think there's a mouth? Hm, I can't remember the rest, but I know we didn't use all the instrus. Hahaha OMG I want to use the next ICT lesson to photoshop a face according to this and see how atrocious it will look! :D Meanwhile, here's a rough draft (without the timpani part 'cos I can't find it on Google ><)

After uploading it I just realized how horrible the face looks ._. With no mouth and such messy hair and a strange nose and shiny ears o___O

And we went to TOM N TOMS COFFEE! :D They should just remove the N from their name :D Unfortunately, we already going home, so we decided not to try their coffee. Haha one day we should go there for section...coffee time or something? :D

Yup, that's all that happened the past few days. And Sharon pleasestopsinging ._.

Hello I composed a song!! It’s to the tune of MY BONNIE LIES OVER THE OCEAN. :D I got the idea from my ‘hubby’ heheh :P Sorry, I don’t know what to post so anyhow compose a song… ><
Here it goes:
The section blog is so super dea-ad,
The section blog is so super dead,
The section blog is so super dea-ad,
Oh make the section blog alive!
A-live, oh a-live, oh make the section blog alive, alive!
A-live, oh a-live, oh make the section blog alive!
COOL SONG EH! 8D heheheh. Actually the blog is not that dead, just needed more syllables haha. XD Paiseh just wanted to make the blog alive. :P
Oh and thank you xin hui for helping me post! ;D
<3 sharon