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

Haha just to add on to Sharon's post, since she forgot about an upcoming event coming up wayyy sooner than SYF - CCAO! We're busking as a section this year whooooo!

Thunder and Lightening is so super cool omg. But all the triplets are so difficult to master (I wrote "hard to get" at first before I realized the other meaning -.-) sighhhh must indiv like mad at home.

And the Carmen soli is so nice wheeeee okay let's jiayou and hope we make a lot of people want to join band during CCAO :D

Oh yeah how was quality check today! Sorry I had to leave halfway (Xing Ern what was your sister's degree again! Mine's forty already, five away from operation O_______O) but I'm sure it went well luh percs are so awesome hahaha.

<3xinhui

ANEONHA SAEYO! (I still don’t get how to pronounce! At first I thought it’s Ananha Saeyo! :X)

Oh no no posts for almost 3 months! O: This can be the December one XD

Hey what about the photos from the previous section outing? Postpostpost! :D I don’t have any leh so sad. x( When’s our next section outing? SECTION WILDWILDWET! Holidays going to end already leh! Or can we just go section running/jumping/cycling etc to build up stamina for OBS! OMG OBS IS IN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS SO SCARY. OH LET’S GO SKIING! Can go to snow city then use two skateboards/cardboards or whatever as the ski! (Was that what Totally Spies did? 8D) Hahahaha jk. Or we can go ice-skating omg so fun but I have never gone before ): And I heard that beginners must stay near the sides or else the pro people skating in the middle will swing and fly and cut you ._. Aiyo why so scary one D8 Eeeeee I feel like a scaredy cat now!

Hahaha and MERRY BELATED CHRISTMAS! PLUS HAPPY EARLY NEW YEAR!! 8D

AND JIAYOU FOR SYF WHOOO WE CAN DO IT!!! ;D We should go visit La Sagrada Familia (Deborah so lucky!) and take the Singapore Flyer (I haven’t taken O:) sooon! So can experience that erm, FEEL of the song haha! Can be section outing =D

Sigh holidays are going to be gone in a flash. D8 Okay anyway byebye!

Love,

Sharon

ps. I feel like posting a picture of Angang here omg!!! Can I? :P He’s my phone wallpaper whooo~ ooops paiseh this is so random

hi percs!

O: how can y'all not have a September post! Tsk tsk, juniors never maintain the blog well ah!

Anyway, though I doubt more than half of you will come here now, GOOD LUCK FOR EYAS!

I wanted to crash on the first week of my options then I realised y'all are on band break -.- and from this I realised that it's hard to keep promises! The schedules clash like nobody's business D: stupid combined math exam with RI. sucks. but I'll write out your farewell letters lah, maybe after math exam? See how lah, though I suspect most of you, except Sharon, have forgotten about it!

By the way, Sharon, bugging me to write your letter kind of takes the sincerity out of it, no?

Okay, that wouldn't be a nice ending, so GOOD LUCK FOR EYAS, JUNIORS! Miss you guys!

Love,

Deborah

Perc' 10

HEY PERCS!

okay, i was using facebook when i came across this really cool video. a 14-year-old playing Star Wars on the marimba! (i mean, yeah he's really good, seeing as sharon keeps spasming during her "rolls")

yup, so hope you guys will watch and appreciate this! :D watch how he holds the sticks, what movements he makes, what posture he has: all add up to create a better sound from the marimba. so depending on what song you guys play, play with emotion, and use your technique to express it!

always, always keep in mind that percussion keeps the beat of the band. keep practising, especially during sectionals. the reason why sectionals is on wednesday is to allow us to practise what Mr Oura told us was not so good on tuesday, so that when we return to band prac on thursday, we'll have improved on whatever parts he had mentioned. sectionals is necessary. sectionals is truly, truly important. it's not like a "free block" or "slacking time". it's not only acting as bridge between band pracs. it's a time where you get to try other songs to improve your percussion skills in general.

only take a break when you see that you can't play, that you're mentally tired, and your hands can't do what you want them to do. otherwise, we can't afford to waste time! assuming SYF is in april, we have: ... 7 months to practise. that's hardly a year, and it's been mentioned so many times but yes, it's hardly the time we used to practise perseus.

familiarise yourselves with sagrada familia (hmm no pun intended), in the recording, try to figure out where your parts are and how the sound like! and remember: to make a good sound, DON'T TENSE UP YOUR ARMS, RELAX THEM. to play faster on the mallets, don't tense up your muscles, make sure they are as relaxed as possible, but have good control of your wrists.

i know it's like we've said this kind of stuff so many times, but we can't emphasise its importance without repeating it over and over again. we're a small section, but we play such a big role, as do all musicians in the band.

and on a less serious note, back to the topic:

okay yes! jiayou sharon and xinhui for MTDC. when every single one of us can play as well as this guy or even better, we'll go have abalone and chilli crab and whatever you guys like at some high-class restaurant. i'll treat yall. and sorry for the lengthy post! (it wasn't meant to be when i first started typing it o.o be prepared for more to come! >:DDD )

and always remain humble.

no matter how good you think you can play, even if you don't think that there's anyone in the band that plays better, there's always someone out there somewhere better than you.

aliza

HEHEHE HELLO :P

i dunno why i can't get rid of this annoying line! D< aiya nevermind here are the pics :P

hahahaaha yay cheers you finally squeezed the cream out ;D eh not bad lah craftsmanship quite good...

oh i was the one who added the pretty flowers 8D except the top part of the cake a bit errr squashed...


so nice! :D

oooops the 'A' ......

trying to salvage the A hehehhe

o.O the A become so long

snare drum! :D


eh so cool snare drum with green rim and blue skin :)

:D

salvaged heart :P thanks to xing ern woohoo~

<3 percs!! :D

..i think that's deborah's hair... XD

heh nice like poop! :P

:DD

LOVE!

Yayyy that's all HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALIZAAAA :DDD <3

Oh yeah and i'm so sad i didn't get the whole pack of chocolate T_T really wasn't inside the box ah ):

Okay here are some other pics ;D

hahaha this is so lame... :X

DRUM FOUNTAIN <3

Okay yay finally done i'm tired T_T goodnight!! or rather, morning! O:

<3 sharon
ps. deborah come back to visit us when you're free okay otherwise we'll be very sad ): and add oil for eyas! ;D