HAPPY NEW YEAR SECTION!! ♥ ♥

We should resolve to post more.

xx

Hi friends!

So there's going to be a 100-word write-up for every section during CCAO. Sharon's not here, so Fang Fang told me to write it, and I think I may have oversold our section heh. It's just hard to put the awesomeness of our section into words, and once you start you tend to go overboard! But it's relatively accurate. Anyway here it is, so in case you have violent objections you can still voice them out heh!

During a particularly memorable band camp, while the rest of the band were having dinner, the percussion section decided instead to climb over the wooden railing to the beach where they took photos, skipped stones and watched the sunset together. This episode reflects the spontaneity and open mind of all our members, our fun-loving and bubbly personalities earning us the nickname Perky Percs. It also shows how close-knit we are, bonded by numerous section outings we have to buy drumsticks, celebrate birthdays or just to have fun together. The unique experiences of being a percussionist that no other section can understand also bind us together, from training your arm muscles by playing cymbals to moving the timpani for the first time to sleeping in the section area in the band room, a privilege no other section has. We also have immense love and passion for our instruments and making music, protecting our drums and mallets with our lives and always pushing our limits by finding our own scores to try. Many may think that percussion is unimportant, but there is no denying that every part in a band piece contributes to the music – the bass drum may be soft, but it keeps the tempo; the crash cymbals may only come in twice in an entire piece, but the grandeur of the crash will lend a huge emphasis to the music. If you still think that percussion is way too easy, come try it out yourself, and even if your sticking and subdivision are perfect, challenge yourself with new rhythms. On the contrary, if you think that percussion is way too difficult, don’t worry, you’ll find in us a new family to support and guide you throughout your journey in RGSSB. <3

Quite true luh hor.

(And yeah it's nearly 300 words because there's really a lot to write teehee.)

Hello everyone! 8)

Ooops the blog hasn't been updated since 3 months ago D:

Anyway, yesterday was Inunion '11, our very last Inunion! ): The songs were okay I guess! And the Sec 1s played surprisingly well eh! Good job! :D I'm so jealous they got to play Phantom of the Opera omg we didn't even get to play a batch song for our Inunion !@#$%^&* On the other hand though, batch dance was quite ahem ahem embarrassing, at least for me, especially since almost everyone videoed us dancing oh gosh, including my mother (!!!!!!) And EVERYONE (I think) laughed when we started the dance with the NA NA NA NA part -hides face- There was this part where we were supposed take our partner's hand and twirl (?) underneath it, like the typical couple dance. But I couldn't reach my partner's hand, so in the end I ended up looking like some retard twirling under my own arm T_T But overall it was still very fun lah!!! 8D

After that we had section dinner/supper but quite fail LOL only Aliza, Xin Hui, Hwi Soo and I went. The sec 1s couldn't make it and Lei Chen went home and Xing Ern didn't come and ahem Deborah pangseh-ed us so... ): When's the next chance for us to have section dinner/supper again ah? Cadenza XIII?? SO FAR AWAY D8

And right just in case AXE miraculously comes here tonight... ('comes' and not 'come' cause AXE is a couple :D)

GOOD LUCK FOR YOUR 'O' LEVELS TOMORROW!!! :D

Ok byebye!

<3 Sharon

P.S. Paiseh I don't have a lot of stuff to post about this is just to make Deborah less sad LOL.

HEY SECTION!

Heh I don't have photos to post. OH WAIT ACTUALLY I DO! I forgot that I brought my camera to the June band camp and SOME PEOPLE went to fiddle with it, thinking it was xinhui's or something like that -.-



Sec 1's SBM photo! I think this one's the nicest, the rest of the photos i took were of them stoning =.=

another one of them, with their (lame) direct!

(By the way, did you know that there's actually a term "lame duck"? Haha google it lol.)

I don't really have alot of section photos, cos ernie was taking all the photos during section interaction with her awesome DSLR. D: I want one too!

Oh and I was going through super old posts, like from when ernie and i were sec 1, just for the fun of it. Juniors! Yall can go through the old posts too and see how we looked like in sec 1 (2008), all toot and everything. And have a look at your great-grand directs (a.k.a our (ernie and i) sec 4 seniors when we were sec 1, gosh how many times have i said this already ._.)

Yes and there are really cool videos hidden somewhere in the archives! Perc videos, mainly, that are beneficial for honing your percussion skills :) There're so many links to the archives, just pick one and start looking from there :D

Lastly DON'T FORGET XING ERN AND ME OKAY i hope this isn't gonna be my last post, and i hope that i do come back to visit the blog regularly after going to JC. :( I'm pretty sure that ernie and i will come back together to visit yall, even this year, so watch your backs ah (haha btw i posted sth along these lines ages ago on this blog).

Time flies. My sec 4 seniors when i was in sec 1 have already entered university. Helen and Talia, when y'all become sec 4s, xing ern and i will be entering uni too. So treasure the time yall have here in RGSSB (mainly for the current sec 3s and hwi soo) and for the sec 1s, your journey with RGSSB has just begun. There's no looking back from here.

And so, the end of a lengthy post (the sec 3s' posts when they were in sec 1 were wayyyy longer than this one! and much more luo suo.).

And also, the end of another's journey with RGSSB.

HELLO SECTION!!! 8)

Yesterday's section outing was awesome omg! Almost the whole operation was a success! Both Talia and Xing Ern didn't suspect much whoooooo~

Talia didn't really suspect though I kept trying to waste time by eating 'lor mai gai' super slowly and refilling water bottle etc in school, and even at Tampines 1 when I 'needed' to go toilet and took super long cause I was secretly sms-ing Xinhui!!! Just that uh the last part a bit fail cause I didn't know where Kopitiam was so we walked in the wrong direction after going up the escalator and Talia spotted Xinhui at the balcony .___.

As for Xing Ern's, at first it was very successful cause Aliza and Xing Ern are a perfect couple so having a candle-lit dinner together isn't very suspicious. So while Aliza went to fetch Xing Ern from Tampines MRT, Xinhui, Hwi Soo, Lei-Chen and me prepared the cake at Kopitiam. We borrowed a lighter from one of the stallholders and lighted up all the candles very nicely! 8) And we waited, and waited... super excited!!!

A while later, Aliza called:

Aliza: Eh can y'all hurry we're at Kopitiam already!

Me: !!!!!! Really?! D: *panick* (because we were waiting outside Kopitiam) -turned to check if they're at our table already and apparently they weren't there-

Aliza: Yeah!!

Me: Huh where got y'all not here yet what!!

Aliza: Huh we are!!

Me: You're not!!!

Aliza: ...Are you sure you're at the right place? We're at Tampines Mall Kopitiam!

Me: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HUH Tampines Mall?? OMG not Tampines One's Kopitiam?!! -faints-

Aliza: .........

So we quickly blew off all the candles, packed up and hurried to Tampines Mall holding half (the other half was gone because it was for Talia) the cake out openly, and getting quite a number of stares hm ~_~ And by then half the length of all the candles have already melted!!!

But after that it was quite funny cause we spotted Aliza and Xing Ern at the crowded Kopitiam and we were like, 'OMG I see them I see them!!!!!!' as though we saw some giant dinosaur and quickly hid behind the Long John Silver poster LOL!! And thanks to Hwi Soo's awesome idea, we went through the back door of the foor court and crept up on Xing Ern from behind!!! Better still, we were holding the cake, singing 'Happy Birthday' softly, until she finally turned around with the most epic expression on Planet Earth and her whole face turning apple red!!! And yes, she was being filmed heehee 8)

For everyone's entertainment:

EPIC VIDEO WITH EPIC FACES LOL.

I WONDER HOW MANY STARES WE GOT O.O

There're more photos!!! But the formatting's so screwed zzz I'll post them in another post!!

To be continued...

Love,

Sharon

Percs '11 <3

this is the 130th post, so it started with a great-big-grand-bang.

anyway, just wanted to say, today was kinda the last official "sectionals" with yall. and i really hope we enjoyed playing CATS today :D it's kinda sad knowing that exactly one week from now, ernie and i would have already stepped down. heh.

your SL will be revealed soon, and hope y'all will await it in anticipation. yeah. :)

actually i have a confession to make, and i really hope you guys don't mind....

I LOVE YOU SECTION!!!

yeah that's all. :)

Haii guys,

Heard that we most likely are playing Sagrada for Open House, in May. We have a little over a week to practice after band break, so do make sure you still are fluent in your parts after we return to band! Ernie and I will be checking on you, so do try to practice.

If you did leave the SYF stage with regrets (which I hope no one did), please take this opportunity to leave your regrets behind, because SYF wasn't the last time we were playing the piece! :D

love, aliza

Hello, eh I don't really have a lot of photos to upload because most of them are blur/unglam candids so here're the few upload-worthy ones. I dunno whether I should upload that zipai one because I have a problem with my face. T_T Can someone else be the one taking the photo next time so that my face won't be so big?

Aiya whatever lah. I feel bad for uploading the fish-eye photos (SCROLL DOWN!!!) so I'll just put that one here too :D

Yay whole section!

Hwi Soo looks the most normal (why is this thing underlined)

HAHAHA too bad this one is blur

HARHARHAR SHARON YOURS IS THE BEST ONE PLS!!

Okay I'm just gonna leave the fish-eye photos here for a few days (I promise!) or until y'all find out and take it down. Teehee :D Aiya no one but our section's gonna see this anyway, right?

Anyway great job for SYF! Our section made a few mistakes but I still enjoyed the whole process/performance immensely! A lot of people said that they enjoyed our performance - even though it definitely wasn't technically perfect - and that's enough, right? Hope you all learnt something from this experience and that you'll keep on improving. Enjoy your band break (BUT INDIV OCCASIONALLY so that you won't come back to band practice totally out of form) and I love you all! :DD

hellohello! SYF is over (for us at least) and are yall happy with the results, and most importantly, the process? :D It's a really good time for reflecting on what you've done well, and what you can improve on during this lengthy band break.

Well, now that it's over, WHY DON'T WE PLAN A SECTION OUTING??? It's been EONS since we last went (i think.) Section WWW is probably out (-.-) and since we've used section XXX before, we should use Section ZZZ! A.k.a. SECTION SLEEPOVER! (get the ZZZ? haha.) Yes. Let's vote for someone's house where we can go and have a sleepover. Personally, I prefer Ernie's house cos it's super big. But if the Sec 1s live in terrace houses/bungalows then their's would be the first choice :)

Maybe somewhere in the June hols lah. Maybe the beginning of the June hols, so we can get everyone to go before they fly off somewhere for their own family vacation. KEEP THE BEGINNING OF THE JUNE HOLIDAYS FREE FOR SECTION ZZZ!

okay and ERNIE post your pics from the DSL-R 8)))

aliza
p.s. THE SEC 1S HAVENT GOTTEN THEIR DRUMSTICKS YET! maybe we can have Section YYY during band break and Section ZZZ during June hols. Haha.

PHOTOS FROM SYF CAMP 2011 - Section Interaction

Xin Hui's stretchy skin or so-called "muscle"...

Failed zi pai shot no. 1 - Someone hit Xin Hui's nose (I think it was Sharon), you can see Sharon's ____ and Lei-Chen looks like a ghost again

Failed zi pai shot no. 2

Directs photo! (Without Helen ._.)

JIAYOU FOR SYF!!! CANNOT SLACK ANYMORE!! DD:

Hey Xing Ern I just granted admin privileges to you so it's up to you to update the blog that you hardly visit so now you must visit it more okay.

love,

deborah

Hello section. I'm finally gonna post some photos from section outing! Sorry for the lateness. ._.

I'll end off with some cool videos (GO WATCH THEM):

VERY COOL RIGHT!

HAPPY NEW YEAR SECTION!!

May we do awesome for SYF this year! Whooooo <3

<3XINHUI