omg this place is dead. AGAIN. what happened to all the ethusiasm like 2 months ago!
anyway, Cadenza XII was a week ago. pre-concert was stressful for everyone! oh yes thank you percs! for staying to set up the instrus even though everyone else was having lunch already. uhh this is very disjointed because i'm in a happy mood today! (and also in a kind of get-it-over-and-done-with mood)

lei-chen got me a cute teddy bear! sharon got us rocks xD okay lah they were pretty nice rocks. oh and $2 medicated oil haha. xinhui got me timbales sticks OOO: xing ern said they're more ex than normal sticks but they're not but they're still really nice! though the sticky black stuff is annoying and i need timbales now. ohohoh xing ern(and aliza)'s present is really cute :D
ehhh what's wrong with our blog again! D8 i can't seem to post photos D: how annoying.

anyway, section lunch was pretty funny cause we were all thirsty and desperate for coins. i wish i brought my wallet! i had like 4 bucks worth of coins.

rehearsals was... normal? the drumset started sliding away from me during fly high x( watching the ensembles, i thought, i really miss technology! the new arrangement of instrus was nice. made perseus and everything else so much easier. section time was... uhh... yeah, same same? then the juniors started freaking out. crap i just realised i never posted any inspirational posts before cadenza x( dinner was quiet, at least on my part, started freaking out silently, thinking that too many things had gone wrong for everything to be alright.

attire check was fun :D so was cheers. Commanders '10 are AWESOME! cried after cheers as usual. it's become like a pre-requisite for any performance. i cried again just before we went out. i don't know why, but we went out like THREE bells too early, we were only supposed to go out on the fourth bell. My (Logs comm I/C) fault i guess x( didn't give instructions properly sighhhh.

On the stage, I wasn't scared cause i've been there quite a few times, not like two years ago (: Silvercrest was nervous. I think i was better at snare drum two years ago than I am now x( Jesters was... uh okay? I ended on the right note at least. Perseus was good! in terms of audience satisfaction anyway. and there weren't any major screw-ups, though i realised shelley wasn't playing the ocean drum o.O intermission was a lesson. again my fault for not emphasising instructions enough x( second half was good too... Lawrence was nice! I wasn't late for anything at least. disney was fun. i enjoy hitting the crash :D fly high was okay for me. i made sure to keep the drumset close to me. messed up at the clars soli a little. audience loved it. though hearing sihui's dad's recording, i realised i drowned out the saxes both times they had solo/soli x( but i didn't miss a line (: and i didn't drop my sticks! worst fear didn't happen yay (: even if it did, i had my vic firths there as extras.

post Cadenza was tiring. i'm so glad that the movers we got were the ones we usually used i.e. trustworthy. so i was pretty sure all the instrus were there. missed attendance taking though x( but i actually like being logs comm i/c, cause then i can look after my instrus. section supper was nice in a really peaceful way. though when i saw my batch i was tempted to run off with them. but then my poor little juniors... haha. it was nice of y'all to agree! surprising too. though sharon was pretty foolish in not getting anyone to fetch her -.-

so my post has come to an end. i'd like to say thank you to my section for putting in their 110% and keeping their cool on stage. sharon's timp solo was on time for once! xinhui wasn't lagging for imperatrix. and that gliss was really O: haha, even i noticed. lei-chen didn't screw up her wood blocks! and the sec 3s were all cool, as usual. (actually i could spout bad things about them here and they wouldn't know) and i'd like to point out that i thought cadenza was really touch-and-go, and i was getting all these bad signs like broken shoe heels, missing stuff... but in the end, it was all alright. we managed to fix all the upsets and the concert was pretty awesome, so good job! and there's still a lot of events ahead of us so jiayou percs!

love,
Deborah
perc '10

Hahaha Deborah's computer couldn't uplaod photos, so I'm uploading for her. I have photos too! But too lazy to upload hehh. Maybe later ><

Sorry that they're in the wrong order!

Yayy Xing Ern's present to us and my timbale sticks for Deborah :D The glasses are so cool! But when we wear them I really think we look like insects oO

Yay semi-section photo with Aliza smiling!

Houseflies.

Sighh Cadenza was so fun! But OK I have to go to sleep now, so bye!