Hi. Okay, so.

First of all, spamming has gone overboard, though some parts were okay. Like xh's tag about the bass drum falling on sharon... I seriously laughed, and not because I like to laugh at Sharon (and I really don't), either. Just don't ramble on and on about what the snare drum looked like and that it has two layers and so on. That belongs to a post. Yes, I know you, Sharon, haven't been invited. Actually, you were, but i revoked it cause I was angry at you. But that was a while ago and not something I want to discuss here.

Second of all, I like xh's post (: Gosh, all my secones' misadventures are so funny! Glad to see that you two are bonding well. I hope that and your apparent love for percussion/band will pull you through to sectwo - together. Sigh. Though the fact that Sharon lost her sticks is making me >:( you better pray it's in the band room. Check on Tuesday. Have I mentioned I don't like this face? :P it makes people look qian bian. Did you know that in sec one I left my sticks in the band room which I thought we weren't allowed to do so I freaked out and didn't dare tell my seniors (neither did I put it as my msn nick). The next time the band room was open I rushed in to get it, hoping that no one found out. Looking back and comparing to the present, things really have changed.

Xinhui and Sharon, can you please talk to Lei-chen more? Maybe you could tell her that you're getting a new pair of sticks and ask if she wants a pair too? Although she has already told me she wants one that's reddish brown like the really old pair Oo and I'm not sure where to get sticks of that colour. Just. Ask. Talk.

I have given up all hope on the sectwos. Either they're just not bothering to come and visit THEIR section blog, or they're standing in the sidelines giving that all-too-familiar look at all the tags. I think the latter is more likely of the two. Though I can't say I blame them. Sam, did you know their look is practically masterclass material?

Finally, secones, I don't know if you've noticed, but if I were you, reading these posts and our tags, I'd get the hint that my(your) tags aren't really appreciated. Which isn't what we're trying to say, really. I know that sounds a bit confusing but I'm guessing one of you has gotten the hint and the other one hasn't. Anyway, I don't mind your tags cause they bring life to this place and make me smile SOMEtimes. But I thought - and I think Sam must have thought so as well - that there were unspoken, yet obvious, regulations when tagging on a blog that is shared with seniors. I thought it was clear what you said and what you didn't say. This year has proved a lot of things different. They just don't catch on as fast as they used to - thinks of the sectwos. Though the sectwos shouldn't be too flattered, cause they're just too quiet.

For the sake of a lighter end to this post, I shall say that band break has started! I'm gonna miss the instrus a lot (though not so much the marching snare ><)! Have a good break, study hard, don't stress (xinhui don't think about RA so soon!), and don't you dare tell me you forgot the warm-ups. It's not funny. (Oh God this just turned serious again.)

Yeah okay. That's it. GOOD LUCK FOR EYAS SAM.

Good luck for EYAs, everyone else (:

Love,

Deborah

Um, I'm posting this just so there won't be a 1-month gap between every post :)

And to stop Sharon and I from spamming the tagboard (again ><) by reminiscing too much about that very day…

Well on Friday Sharon and I stayed back in the Shaw Lab to finish our Philosophy journal. Last-minute work! D: But we had our Poetry Projects due the day before, so we should get a lighter sentence :D

I’m digressing. Anyway, then we decided to go indiv at the band room. So, we…indiv-ed -.- This is getting very awkward because I don’t really know what to say >< I’m just blogging so this blog would stop being dead! Aargh.

OK so after that at exactly 4.30 p.m. a senior told us it was time and we took up too much time covering the instrus, so we had to rush out, and we don’t know if Sharon took her sticks or not :( Then we spent time talking in 101 instead of doing homework, as usual, before my sister called and told me I needed to get my own dinner. So we decided to have dinner together (sounds like a date oO)! :D Then we took 132 to Far East (I’m giving too much detail! This is so naggy! D:) when Sharon suddenly asked me if her drumsticks were in her bag. So I checked for her, and they weren’t. So she started panicking. Then she got over it because she thought they were in the band room. Then the bus halted to a stop, and she lost her balance. So her wallet fell. So she bent over to pick it up, before rushing out of the bus. After that, she started panicking again because she couldn’t find her handphone. So she made me check her bag again, and, lo and behold, it wasn’t there.

Then came a terribly unpleasant dinner as Sharon kept worrying about her handphone instead of having fun as usual. And she was reminded of her drumsticks because there was a band playing right in front of Far East Plaza, with the drumset and all (and yes we agreed that our drumset looks nicer :D). Thus, she decided to call her father to send her back to school to look for her handphone.

I waited with her until her dad came which was about 7.20 p.m., and I got a little annoyed so she agreed to send me home :D So we went back to school, but then the GO was closed. So we decided to go to her classroom, but when we stood at the top of the amphi we just freaked out! D: It was so dark…so deserted…so creepy…so eerie…and we could have sworn we heard noises…and we couldn’t see clearly…and if anybody fell we might die (like when a snare drum hits your head D:)...and it was the 7th month! We looked at each other and immediately understood that we were both clearly scareddd…so we took each other’s hands (AHAHA it would be romantic if not for the seriousness of the situation) and ran down the amphi, screaming! It was actually exhilarating :D Then Sharon got so excited she fell on her butt at the small slope leading up to the stage! :D I don’t mean to laugh at you but the way you fell was seriously funny (oxymoron :D)!

OK Anyway when we got to 101, there was no mobile phone not drumsticks to be seen D: So our hearts sank to the bottom of the ocean where the fishes ate them AHAHA OK not funny nevermind -.- So we held hands again and ran back up the amphi to her dad’s car. Did I forget to mention that we hummed the tune of I Got Rhythm!, albeit off-tune? It was hilarious, except for the fact that her handphone was gone and she was going to get scolded since it was the 2nd time…and I was going to get scolded for bad results but ignore that.

So on the car, we called 100 for the number to SBS Lost and Found department, but the first time we called some taxi company by mistake >< Then the second time Sharon couldn’t hear what the person was saying so she just put down the phone, giving up >< It was a complete failure trying to recover it, so she said she would just get a new phone. Her parents said they wouldn't get her a new phone since:
feels super sian x) says:
my parents say i'm very confused or sth
and mentioned sth about fengshui


Then we got lost trying to locate my house -.- I nearly made her father drive me back to RGS by a wrong turn! D: OK when I got off the car Sharon gave a very worried expression because according to her later:
feels super sian x) says:
thanks to your presence in the car my dad didn’t dare to scold me... yet

So, er, yeah that was the end of our adventures. OK AND WE PROMISE TO STOP SPAMMING THE TAGBOARD D: We got too carried away ><

Hello!

Today's farewell! Sorry I can't seem to phrase it any better, but yeah :D.

Hm I don't really know what to say, but I really wanted to post. I guess I'll write whatever I want to tell you guys individually in your farewell notes! Which I will finish and give to you after your EYAs! :D. I really hope you all like your presents :D. I'm sorry about all the knitted stuff, but I was hoping to make you all something useful and meaningful, so, yeah ><. And thanks for all the wonderful presents :D.

Presenting... -insert timpani roll-... that orchid that deborah gave me, aka Bertrand. I think. I'm not too sure about the name. But yeah.

 

[edit] uh, yeah. This is like, 10 days later? Anyway, look, it has like, 11 flowers!! :D!! If you can see the picture, yup >< [/edit]

HAHA I think it's actually going to be fine! :D My dad saw it, and proceeded to place it upon a pedestal, and promised that he would ensure that it was watered regularly, unlike my cactus. (Haha uhh, my parents do actually keep orchids, and they survive oO.) But I promise I'll talk to it everyday! :D. Okay I think I'm high oO.

And yay I didn't know the sec1s were so sweet. I didn't expect them/xinhui to give me a present, but yeah ><. I promise I'll give you one when we meet up for present exchange (part two).

Anyway, today was a fairly enjoyable day, and I guess it provided the much-needed closure to our band lives. It wasn't as emo as au revior in 2007 or last band prac in 2008, but it was still special and enjoyable luhh :D. Deborah, I really really really really love Bertrand! It's so pretty and purple and :D. (Okay maybe Bertrand isn't a good name oO. eeeeeek.) And I did enjoy the sec2s' video, but I see what Xing Ern means when she says it's somewhat (crap I can't remember the word you used, but yeah oO) It actually made people emo :O. Except for the BOF part =.=.

Sorry, no particularly pertinent Words Of Wisdom (WOW!), except that, yeah, please do continue to work hard and bring the section to even greater heights! I've seen every single one of you grow and improve, and I just want to say that I'm really proud of all of you :D. And I'm sure you'd do me, and every one of your seniors proud :D. I have learnt a lot from you guys too, and, thanks, really, for being such wonderful juniors (and uh, seniors, if you're reading oO). Please feel free to approach me if you have any problems, be it band-related, academics-related, or just about... life, in general. Jiayou! :D

And haha don't give Deborah a hard time! Aiyah I have full confidence that every single one of you will be brilliant yay :D.

PERC'10 FTW! :D.

Love,
Samantha

Whee my second time sharing a blog :)

I don't know how to contact Lei-Chen so I told Sharon about this blog after she kept asking to make one for Percussion in our blog http://xylophonexinhuiandsweetsharon.blogspot.com/

Um, yeah. Can somebody invite Sharon to post? She's so funny :)

OK bye!

Cheers,
Xin Hui :)

Hello!

I'm sooo glad the drumset's finally back. All along I thought it was Andrew Chia playing it, turns out it's Mr Mizar! I really cannot stand the way the teachers handle it >:C

First of all, they dismantled the toms to move it separately, which I guess is okay. BUT, they stacked one of the toms onto the floor tom which I think would damage the skin then they took the chair apart O.o and stacked the seat on top of the tom on the floor tom! D8 I didn't know whether to tell them not to do that, because then we wouldn't have enough hands and they'd have to leave the tom alone on the floor and come back to get it.

Secondly, Mr Mizar doesn't close the hi-hat, neither does he turn the snare off when he's done playing with it! So on Friday after NDP celebrations (which didn't end very nicely), the drumset got wheeled back into the band room and I turned off the snare, only to find that I couldn't turn it on again!

Thirdly, the screw INSIDE the right-side tom had come off somewhere between their rehearsals and the time the juniors and I helped move it to the recording studio. So Kai and I unscrewed the skin and screwed the nut back. I also took the opportunity to clean the extremely dusty toms. Underneath (hidden by) that, erm, cloudy exterior, the tom has a very nice looking wooden inside! Kai also says it has a nice smell, but I beg to differ.

This is the side of the inside of the drumset tom! Can see that it's wood :D but my camera *ahem ahem* phone couldn't get the color nicely due to lighting.

Yeah okay. I need to educate the directs on proper instru handling, and the juniors on how to screw/unscrew/fix instrus.

Okay random picture from Sam's last band cca day (I can't really say prac, since it wasn't a prac...) I just thought XE looked very funny staring into the, erm, I want to say water container? Not sure what Aliza's drinking out of.

Yeah i think that's all.

(See my nails, they're white!) Happy National Day, section! 8)

Love,

Deborah

i realise it looks like i'm monolouging but, y'know, i'm actually okay with it. i'm not really forcing myself to post. i just really really want to(:

okay so today, 30th july 2009, is/was last band cca day for the sec fours. it wasn't as solemn and dreaded as last year's, definitely, probably because it's been so hectic. i mean, it feels like band only just started, and we got new scores for arts fest, it never really had time to sink in. i dunno about sam and the juniors, but all i could (meaning allowed myself to) think about was chinese pt D: but i guess that's not necessarily a bad thing. it's sort of like a new beginning, new experiences, and it's not like sam's out of our lives entirely. besides, i have much more fun playing martial arts (THE FIRST THING THEY HAVEN'T SCORNED AT!) and taking crappy/normal section photos with a high tech camera than crying til my eyes hurt.

Okay so i'm SL now. i'm really glad i didn't lose out to Casper. it was a really close fight. i will try better than my best to be a good SL and i hope the juniors will cooperate with me (and take me more seriously). yeah. i'll make my seniors proud, i'm sure of it (: and i'll pass on everything i know to the juniors, and remind them to change timpani skins on the 1st of April, 2011.

The unexpected thing that happened today - to me, at least - was that i'm now commander. and i'm taking attendance for my batch. this is a job that belonged to the people i was most scared of in sec one and two! i hope i can get the same kind of respect i had for them (if not i really lose). this means the sec twos too okay! aliza, xing ern, don't you dare "HAR?" me again. so rude and predictable. Commander! the more i think about it, the more excited i get(8 although i'm kinda hoping i won't be taking the sec ones, for various reasons i'm too nice to type out. but if i am, once again i'll just do what i have to do and try my best not to lose my patience.

i would continue, but i should seriously do chinese pt now, then history pt next. and study for math, bio, english SAs, which are a day before history pt is due T.T which is also farewell day.

so i'll end off now. Sam, Thank you for being a great senior and friend. I'll miss your company! It won't be half as noisy without you! (if you get my drift) Thanks for teaching me new things and giving me support when I had to deal with my directs. Hope your, eh, future ahead will be musical - or filled with something you love to do! (8

love,
deborah
perc '10

One minute there's band, the next there isn't, and the minute after that there is again. Literally. Okay maybe not literally literally, but close enough.

Last last week Talia/ Eeiyn/ Mrs Kohby sent out an email saying there wouldn't be band, I felt sad. Then I kinda got used to the idea that there wouldn't be band so I started planning for other things. Two days later an email gets sent that there will be band (for last week). I felt sad-ish. My brilliant plan to use the extra time for Bio PT has been ruined! :O Then I felt happy again. heh.

Then surprise, surprise they cancelled Thursday's prac! On Thursday! At 3pm! I was sad cause Mr Oura was coming finally! Sigh. I want to play Perseus! Although I realise that the next few pracs would prolly be for National Day and Arts Fest -.- I want to play Perseus ;__________;

The school just made an announcement that though CCAs are cancelled for Week 4, there'll still be Arts Fest rehearsals which makes me wonder if they care more about our health, or Arts Fest. I'm really hoping they don't send a surprise email tmr saying band will restart a week earlier cause I need to finish Bio PT! Then I can concentrate on TOMS(!) for perseus (: (: (:

I miss the instrus! I wanted to bring the snare home, just for the sake of bringing it home. I don't think I'd actually play it cause it's really loud. But just for the sake of having it there.

Okay I think I've said a lot of random things already(8 it's hard having only 2 people who post here. Except for that one time that Aliza posted, I think? About band break being over, which turned out not to be true anyway D:

I shall stop here. Sayonara, friends! See you soon, or sooner, or later, or never, or whenever (8

Loves,
Deborah
perc '10

Hey percs!

Haha I'm here to post about band birthday! :D. Though I didn't get very many pictures because um, my hands were busy most of the time trying to ensure that potatoes were cooked/peeled and all, and the sec2s are camera-shy (though we really ought to change that yes :D)

OH RIGHT - THEY CUT THEIR HAIR! (and I think it's really cute :D - so does the rest of my batch.)

the sec2s cutting potatoes! (haha you know after cutting potatoes and eggs for the whole afternoon, then Xing Ern told us that she was afraid of knives oO.)

Haha mixing the mayo in!

(okay you know these pictures are all taken by me so it appears that I didn't do anything, which is not true, okay :D. I watched the timer and did all the stove-related stuff!)

And I think it looks quite gross, but it definitely tastes better than it looks :D. 

Haha right, no band for the rest of the hols thanks to H1N1 preventive measures, (though I don't see how it's going to help, considering that none of the other CCAs are being cancelled?) but hopefully there will be section outing on thursday so :D. 

Do post, to keep the blog from dying! Enjoy the rest of your hols!

Love,

Samantha!

hello :)

band break's gonna be over soon! let's all cheer! yay.

Hello!

Today we had band prac! Which was strange for a Monday. One thing to take note: Always uncover the bass drum even if we don't think we're gonna use it! And I have to remember not to give in to the juniors' laziness. Cause Mr Oura asked us to do crotchet beats on the bass drum so we had to get the cover off real quick O:

We played Perseus today! It sounds so lovely(: We've only played it a few times and I love it already! It sounds so majestic, exactly how "A Hero's Quest in the Heavens" should sound like! Ahh it's so nice... I'm listening to it now:D I love the Animato, Feroce and Cantabile parts the most. Aliza's timpani parts are so awesome! And the chimes make the whole sound of the song that much more, ehm, exhilarating! I just crash for added impact(: Sorry Sam I have no comment on your parts cause I haven't heard them yet! Don't get lost when you come back to play okay! Ehh Sam! We need to get our toms back! I tried the toms part but most of the time I had to hit the non-existent higher toms i.e. AIR *_____________* Sus cym roll upside down on the timpani is by far the scariest, yet most amazing sound I've ever heard. It reminds me of some extraterrestial sound. Oh and the ocean drum is really dirty D: but fun to play with!



Perseus - Unknown Artist

Zomg i hate imeem and their 30 second previews. Click the link and listen to the whole thing!
Doesn't it sound nice! Don't answer. IT SOUNDS NICE.

Oh yes, good luck for limelight, directs! All of us are going! I'm asking my directs tomorrow.

Love,
Deborah.

hey percs!

haha I'm here to spare Deborah the agony of monologuing! And to take a break from Pan Am and it's logo, whatever it's supposed to be ><. 

Right, if you all didn't read your emails, and for the various seniors who may see this, we have a band blog! Yup, so take a look at it? There are quite a few nice pictures of band camp there, and (for some reason) nice section photos :D. (I take issue with that one with the 4 of us staring intently at the metronome and looking remotely... emo ><)

By the way, this is Sam. (because for some reason that name thingy down there says boo!)

If you're really bored, go read the previous posts, they're amusing! :D. And we can't let the blog die! So um, poke Aliza and Xing Ern to post too! And someone, please tell the secones about the blog coughDeborahcough. 

And yup, thanks, Deborah, for fixing the html and for the photopost! Aliza and Xing Ern have a lot of... weird photos together oO. 

love,

Samantha!

Hello i'm posting again!

sam it's gonna be your turn to post soon! if not i'll be monologing both during sectionals and here! we must work hard to keep this blog alive!
anyway, i'm just posting to say that the time's been screwed up for really long and i discovered it's cause it was set to GMT -8! so i set it to +8 :D

band break's starting on wednesday! Have a good break everyone, and i'll miss you guys! (((:

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥,

deborah

hey percs!

((((: i made the blog look okay again! i feel so accomplished now.

okay going to do ss pt ><
♥deborah

Hey percs!

Oh dear this place is really dead. Sorry for not posting for so long! I don't know what to do about the weird HTML settings cause I can't find the button to edit it. Sec3 has been surprisingly busy and I should be chionging Physics PT now cause it's due this Friday! But I won't for now, cause we just had Band Camp and we took lots of really nice/funny/cute photos! :)

yay aliza's smiling!

haha the sec2s look so cute.

My directs - Lei-chen, Xin Hui, Sharon

why so gloomy! haha sam

sam & her directs!

Chair photo!

Section photo! With my very extra batchmate on the right.

The juniors! XE's giving the look haha.

Yeah that's all! (8 Happy holidays everyone :D See you juniors next band prac. Sam, I'll see you in what, three weeks? (:

Love,

Deborah.

hey percs!

this place is really dead. okay I'm really sorry about screwing up the html, so, does anyone have any inkling of how html works so that they can repair this? heh ><. 

oooh we're meeting sec1s tomorrow! And Deborah's going to be a direct senior! Seriously, time flies! haha I'm trying to imagine Deborah managing 3 sec1s and the image that's popping up is seriously... amusing. Anyway, you'll get all the help you can have from me and the sec2s, don't worry! 

SYF is honestly soon (I'm thinking about 50+ days?) so yup, do continue to work hard, and full speed ahead! 

love,

Samantha!

hey percs!

dead blog, anyone?? Anyway, Deborah - all the best for OBS! Drink loads of water! We'll miss you, for the one week you won't be here yup :D. But do enjoy yourself, okay! Then it'll be full speed ahead for SYF. 

Anyway, I probably didn't get around to wishing all of you guys a HAPPY NEW YEAR! All the best for 2009, which I'm sure will be a crazy year with SYF and another year of academics, PTs, SAs etcetc. So all the best, and jiayou! (haha yup this applies to the J1s too! - I actually can't believe you all are J1 already heh ><)

Do try and post so the blog won't be so. dead. ><.

love, Samantha!

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

THIS IS THE 40TH POST, how exciting (: I finally managaed to hack into the account anyway, actually with help from cryst's cool tag lol.

So inunion just over. We're officially rgssb perc'08.
LET'S ALL WORK HARD FOR NEXT YEAR ALRIGHT! GOGOGO SPERCKLE.

By the way, great job everyone at inunion! Thanks sam, shaowei, deborah for putting up with me while kimberley and cryst were away (in aust and in the zoo). I think we worked really hard for this yay.

To 2008 and beyond, peeps!

Love, Hillaryyyy

hello! haha i shall revive this blog! mehh this is my first time blogging on sPERCkle (((: whee today's section outing was very very fun! we have learnt several valuable lessons!

1. avoid S'pore S. School people on the rink AT ALL TIMES. 99% of the time, they make you fall (or feel like falling)!

2. avoid the pro skaters who twirl around also (esp the really young ones), because even though they won't crash into you, they make you feel zibei.

3. misuzu goes for older guys! *coughs HACKS coughs*

4. cryst has an odd habit of grabbing random people on the rink when she feels like falling down

5. do not fall down 1 hour after the ice has been resurfaced- your pants will be soaked like a sponge!

6. bring gloves (AND SOCKS) to iceskate! :D

ahaha yes that's it! hahaha (: did i say this before? nehmind, today was very very fun!

<3s

GUESS WHO :D

some people covering faces and running away

guess who.

Hello!

Farewell's over but... IT'S NOT GOODBYE FOREVER!

we're still meeting up to exchange notes and presents (though it'll be quite anti-climax).

Speaking of which, Roscoe Sperckle is still in good condition! (i dont think paries has seen him yet...)

cryst! I had tons of fun playing and blowing off your relightable candle. coolios.
samseah! ARE YOU RICH OR WHAT. geez. royce choc and白い恋人？！？！
and your batch item was sooo emo. (not to mention the background music)

Hillary! stop acting cool.

Kimblee! You must teach me canto one day. (yao mou gao chou? han jin beng? le gong me?)and i'll teach you gibberish. we can trade! HOHOHO.

We had a really wonderful farewell. A great big thank you to you guys!

Now that xian and I wont be joining you guys for practices and sectionals, make sure you guys dont lose discipline and continue to work hard kay! like..TIMING! and make sure your left hand doesnt become retarded and experience spasm! and manymanymany other important things, dont forget okay!

I'LL MISS YOU!

P.S. i'll be leaving mimi and momo there for some time...till you guys get your own sticks. please do get your own sticks.

till we meet again,

GO PERCUSSION! GO BATCH O8!

love,

misuzu

Hello (: Farewell's over and I guess I just wanted to say some stuff (before we exchange presents & notes).

Yup, first and foremost. Thanks for making our last concert good (: La Boheme was quite nice, so good job there!

Hm so you all are going to be all on your own now. Just wanted to say that thanks for giving us the chance to lead you all for the past two years. We might not have been the best seniors, but together as a section we've created waves, like nbc and of course, syf 07.

Work hard please! And make everything that comes your way good.

Won't say anything too much to each of you individually. Will leave that for your notes.

Good luck with band pracs and for the future. We'll be supporting all the way (:

All the best, percussion 08!

<3, pei xian

we love you peixian and misuzu! we would have been nothing without you two!
why did farewell have to come! ):

(we must have our section outing. MUST)

lots and lots and lots of love,
hillary!

-courtesy of HILLARY

Hiiiiiiii ;)

I know it's been a long time since I last blogged, but that's partly cos I didn't manage to hack into the account this afternoon -_-

okay, as part of the plan to revive this blog, I will post pictures of our mashed-potato making session on the day of band bbq (or potluck) :D

Potato Peeling! (:

see, through this activity, we now know who the xiao-jies of the section are! -stares at misuzu and samantha-

Potato mashing!

vigorous potato mashing -_- actually, more like squeezing and taking out eyes from the potato.

Potato in wok!

okay, this part was..er. mostly done by my mum haha.

Nice smooth-looking potato :D :D

Completed Job (:

Misuzu looking really happy with the potato hahaha!

Section photo (it is actually with the potato but that got cut off)

Section photo (with the potato)

Okay, that's it!

hoogahooga says:
"I look into my high-tech magic toilet bowl and YES...I SEE IT!
I see the future- empty wallets and yet happy faces..."



$9 - NEW band shirt
$2 - files
$22- pupils' funds

yay! i finally hacked into our section blog.
yes our blog is dead ..
so here's something to revive it.

For the section,
From yinrui. (:

Quote: ".......Evelyn Glennie is a famous professional percussionist. She's so famous because she's deaf and still able to play extraordinarily well...."

Enjoy!



can you believe it? she's actually really really deaf!

anyway, happy holidays.
-su

Hi! (: Yay the names part at the left is finally updated! :D

<3 cryst

something to make you guys smile.... take a break from your hectic exhausting school days.[ i wanted to add "take a break from your intensive practice and indiv" BUT do you guys even do indiv??!?!?!?!?!. 0__0 qu4 mo1mo1 zi4 ji3 de liang2 xin1..... ]

anyway, here goes:

English
Singlish

Hello, here is my passport.
Narh.

Where do I go to collect my luggage?
Take bag go where, ah?

You mean chewing gum is prohibited in Singapore?
Gum cannot, meh?

I ' m being fined? Oh dear.
Kena saman? Die, lah.

What shall we have for dinner this evening?
Tonight eat what, ah?

I'm open to suggestions.
Anything also can.

Do you have a reservation?
You early-early call, not?

Yes, it's reserved under the name "Tan".
My name "Tan"!

Please wait a moment while we attend to your table.
Your name ‘Tan’, so you 'Tan' here awhile, can?

This way to your table, please.
Come!

What would you recommend?
Here got what, ah?

Our speciality is fine European haute cuisine.
Ang mor makan, lor.

Would you recommend this dish?
This dish how, ah?

from: http://www.talkcock.com
Imagine how many syllables you'd save if you spoke Singlish!
I'm super ON about saving singlish.

KAY , GO .... PRACTICE HARD LAH!!!!!!!

Note:

sec THREES

SLI rehearsal tomorrow. (12th Feb)

2:20pm

-su

hi perc.
i dont mean to be a 'party-pooper' or anything of that sort... to spoil your good moods or anything.
just a gentle reminder... (in view of what happened last thursday,)
juniors, please please set up before practice starts. so we'll have time to warm-up and stuff.
set-up includes moving instrus, putting sticks to where they're supposed to be and putting up scores on the stands for the respective instruments. i suppose you guys know this already and we dont have to repeat ourselves time and again.
inform either me or peixian if you're not coming for practice.
yup. be responsible!

and another thing...

this is so random but..... i guess we should treasure one another, and not take one another for granted.
the thing is, my buddy(from CO)'s junior just passed away today. (okay or rather yesterday since it's midnight already). I mean, it's so shocking, isn't it? like the junior's barely 14... so many dreams to fufil. dreams which probably include getting gwh for syf this year, with the entire orchestra...and as I console her, it just came to me, like what's gonna happen if one of us just goes away. it's not just the reallocation of parts. it's this sense of remorse and guilt when you come to think of what you should have done with her when she's still around.
so yes, the point is, we're one big family...dont take anyone for granted!(:

have a wonderful weekend!

su.

-too much stuff to say. so i'm posting instead of tagging. (:-

hey!!!!!! WE MISSED YOU SO MUCH!!!! kay enough about us missing you, I BET YOU MISSED US TOO RIGHT!??!?!
it was soooo quiet without you guys.
you dont know how busy we were okayyy. PEixian was on MC. -__- so i juggled my part, cryst's part and ran to the glock to sight read kimbarlee's part! 0_0

haha. PPP. dont ask me about recruitment drive cos I WAS supposed to be there to screen the sec ones BUT I had to go for DC because my class didnt off the electrical appliances 3 times. yup. Class DC. URGHGHHH. -bangs head against the wall.-
so... moral of the story: i'm sorry, dude. i can't tell you if there were any ambidextrous sec ones. haiz.

anyway, glad that you guys are back.
look forward to seeing you chaota poks on tues!
-su *runs off to chiong commonwealth essay*

hello perc :D

yay i bet misuzu, peixian and sammi missed us while we were happily away at obs risking our lives climbing high elements and going out to sea in kayaks!

how many perc will we be recruiting! btw, i think we should advertise for PPPs (Potential Pro Percussionists) like this:

Basic requirements to be a PPP:
1. Passion
2. Commitment
3. Sense of rhythm
4. Ambidextrous

Haha, how many can fulfil the 4th requirement! anyways, see you guys soon back at band on tuesday! you'll be seeing 3 totally barbequed things bringing the section to full strength!

(Hoho too much OBS)

Am I Dying?
No you're not!
That's me!
Squeeze Check! Pull Check! Instructor Check!
Dying!
Die on!

<3Hillary

you know that during OBS you'll be given huge white bottles for you to drink from right?
Yup... guess what...
guys pee into them... (according to a reliable source).
...
...
...
Luckily Hillary, Belly and Kimberley don't know that... ...YET.

woohoo. i bet they're having lotsa fun at OBS! (:
-let's all pray that cryst survives-
and they're coming back CHAOTA...black n roasted... cool!

and for us, PEACE for one whole week!!! heehee. jkjk.
I'm sure we all miss them already. right?

-su

we'll miss Kimberley, Hillary and Belly for one week.):

i wont spoil the fun by telling you what's in store for OBS.

Have fun at OBS, dudes! (:

hey...

Just to let you guys know,
horns aren't having instructor prac this coming Wednesday.
so,
try to DO INDIV!!!!
( you'll prolly have the entire band room to yourself. yippee)

*and not only for this coming week... try to do indiv every week.
" girl ah...这是为你好啊."
"不听老人言, 吃亏在眼前..."

-美玲.

everyone say, "CHINESE ROCKS!!!" .... "i LOVE CHINESE! "

It's 2007! Happy new year, everyone! (:

Yup most importantly there's syf (and hopefully the july concert) to work towards.

Looking back on the year, I guess we went through quite a lot with cadenza and nbc.

Yep and we have quite alot to work on in the new year, especially with you all (sec 3s) taking over.

Heh jiayou and may 2007 be a year of GwH,and much happiness! :D

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
jiayou for SYF'07! (:

MERRY CHRISTMAS PERCS!

hello DUDEttes!!! (ya. according to Hillary ha ) -_-

CODA

Thursday, 28th December 2006.

Victoria Concert Hall, 7.30pm.

We're going right?
Let me know if you can make it.
we'll prolly have dinner first.section dinner. yum.

-misuzu(:

Yo Dude!!!
In case you're too lazy to check inet, here's the band schedule for december:

19th December-
8.30 – 10.30
SC Practice(Band Rm)

10.30 – 12.30
Footdrills (Sec1s and 2s) (Koi Pond)

12.30 – 1.30
Lunch

1.30 – 3.30
Sectionals
_____________________________________________________________
22nd December-
8.30 – 10.30
Band Practice(Band Rm)

10.30 – 12.30
Footdrills (Sec1s and 2s) (Koi Pond)

12.30 – 1.30
Lunch

1.30 – 3.30
Sectionals
_______________________________________________________
26th December-
8.30 – 10.30
SC Practice(Band Rm)

10.30 – 12.30
Footdrills (whole band) (Koi Pond)

12.30 – 1.30
Lunch

1.30 – 3.30
Sectionals . STOCK TAKING

28th December- ( Same as 26th December)
29th December- CCAO

yup yup. see you guys on the 19th!

-su

hey! here's what i found (:
"Most percussion instruments are less tricky to take care of. Polish for cymbals can be bought at a music store, but keeping the cymbal dry and wiping it down after practicing will keep it from tarnishing. Drums can be wiped down with a damp cloth and dirty heads can be cleaned with a light soap on a cloth. If you've had your drum out in the rain, make sure to dry all the parts of the head. Skin heads (like on bongos) can be cleaned with just water, and make sure to loosen the head when you do because it will soak in the water and when it dries it will shrink again. Skin heads are also really sensitive to cold and warm weather, so keep it in a temperature controlled room if possible. Other percussion instruments can be wiped down with damp cloths and maintained as such rather simply in that way."

HAha.
I'm sure Kimberley, Hillary and Sam had fun spring cleaning...

i know why Kimberley had to be the one cleaning the air-cons....cos she's the only tall one among the three of you!!! shorties!!! nah..joking joking.
"cleared alot of mr beans, cobwebs and spiders"...
Please please please dont tell me you guys killed the spiders. -covers eyes- ><
you all destroyed their homes (cobwebs) and take their lives!?!?!? tsktsktsk. cold-blooded.

Regarding:
"things to get soon for the section:
1. the cupboard from ikea misuzu was talking about
2. 26 new files!
3. a nice cloth to polish our glock with"
...I talked to Mrs Koh about it. According to her, we cannot get those stuff with our own money. Instead, we need to give ms lim a list of what we need and she has to approve it before we can get them. If she ms lim approves of it, she'll either get it for us or we get it ourselves and then claim from treasurers. yea.

Something i realised while spring-cleaning on tuesday,
I found 3 pencils in the basket which belong to smart alecks who think that by keeping their pencils in the section area, they'll never have to be fined for not bringing their pencils. so smart!... later your pencils'll run out of lead and i'll laugh.HAHAha. you'd still have to pay for the fine. (:

yupyup.
-expects to see a super clean and shiny and nice smelling perc area(: -
Remember to practice! eh....if you dont have sticks with you, USE CHOPSTICKS LAH! hehe. i left mimi+momo in the band room too.): but i have timp sticks at home though. hee.
see you guys after band break!

hugs, misuzu.

today was spring cleaning again!

only kimberley samantha and i were there and we

• vacummed (sp?) the floor of the whole section area
• packed the corner infront of the timpani
• cleared the stuff behind the smallest timpani (singular timpano?)
• cleared alot of mr beans, cobwebs and spiders
• arranged all the stands, counted them and found out that stand no. 24 was non-existent and there was a clone of stand no. 20
• tried to untangle the currently half untangled fishing line that's supposedly for the triangle
• (kimberley did this) cleaned the aircons

IN CONCLUSION, today's spring cleaning was productive! go three of us!

things to get soon for the section:
1. the cupboard from ikea misuzu was talking about
2. 26 new files!
3. a nice cloth to polish our glock with

band break till 19th dec (i think?) so yay we'll see each other after that.
OH NO I THINK I LEFT MY STICKS IN THE BAND ROOM (ie. i cannot do any sticking!)

noooooo):

hillary!

Inunion '06.

So Inunion is over, and I guess all I can say is that we're really really sorry, and that we'll work harder together, and never never let this happen during SYF next year. We're all learning from this, so practise more, and always watch conductor during practice.We'll make each band practice after this the best one we've had.

To RB: Well done for all the pieces! (:

This is the start of rgssb 07, and rgssb percussion 07.
Jiayou we can do this (:

hey percs...
just a few things to tell you guys if some of you are still feeling depressed...

look at the brighter side!!!
we learnt something. which is good.
it's a blessing in disguise (maybe?) to teach us to be more alert in the future, to be bolder and to be more confident...

things weren't that baddd...
sec1s were good! i'm sure sam looked cool and zai on the drumset.
sec2s, your skit was so funny. .... .. HAHAHA.

work harder. perhaps we lacked practice, were unfamiliar with those pieces...werent alert enough after a long day of prep-ing,distracted,scared...so many other reasons that we can work on, ya?

GO PERCUSSION! YUPYUPYUP. can we do it? yes we can! (:

with millions of hugs and truckloads of love,
misuzu (:

haha sorry the last post was by me :P

and i'm posting again! back with a new quote by misuzu during today's section lunch!
she was referring to a certain person whom i think we all know (dont we?) :D

"he has that sparkle in his eyes!" *looks really enlightened as the sunlight beams down on her*
we could almost see a halo appear above her head.

anyway inunion's TOMORROW! yo, sam dont be scared haha because kimberley and i (and hopefully crystalbel) will be freaking too. we are playing with you HAHA. we will all play well and not screw up your inunion(:

so jiayou add oil!

ohno i havent written inunion notes):

<3 (less than three) hillary!

hello i shall revive this blog(:

hoho so we played variations on an english folk song and imperatrix (spelling?) today for bandprac. so fun :D i like perc solos yay

and just to add words to my post, here's a wonderful quote by our wonderful misuzu this wonderful morning when she was trying to screw back the toms onto the drumset (which were so heartlessly rearraged and left to die by an unidentified person/people)

"eh xian, you screw this one i screw that one... oh no this sounds wrong!"

haha yes we know misuzu(:

oh to add on, sam had her first auditions today! (first right) go sam jiayou for inunion. must act cool on the drumset :D and yay to us sec twos, we're are having our second inunion!

and the "talk" today at the end of band was quite funny haha
yay rgssb perky percs'06!

yo xian....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
you're 15 now so grow up! hahahaahaha.nah. just joking.you're more mature than i am...geez.
stay cheerful and bubbly and sweet and cute and happy and gay (which explains the colour)...and all the other millions of nice things about you. (:
rock on, sbm!

Hey guys!
We won't be having section chalet cos hillary, cryst and sam cannot make it. so we'll have section outing instead, probably after the 18th Nov (Inunion). maybe on 2nd December? we cant have our outing on a week day cos Peixian's having her WEP. yupyup. everyone try to keep the 2nd December free ya?

Reminder: Band resumes in week 9.
Inunion in week 10.

Look forward to seein' you guys again!!!

Yo.

EOYs are over! Time to plan for the holidays.
We need to:

- SPRING CLEAN!!!! which includes arranging files.
(speaking of which, who's in for buying new files? our files are...erm... not in a good state. very dangerous. hmm.)

-Do LOTS AND LOTS OF STICKING!!! who hasnt been practicing at home for the eoy week, say 'aye'. tsktsktsk.

-Prepare for Inunion. sam and chenrui's big day.

-Plan for Section outing? or Section Chalet? OR Do YOU WANT BOTH? *grins* Chalet----initially we (xian n I) planned to merge with saxes. but saxes (or specifically, cheryl) said that they're (or rather, she's) gonna make percs sleep outside the house cos it only has one one or two beds. -_-'' I negotiated with them (cheryl), that perc'll cover 60% of our dinner fee (eh. dont worry. i'll pay for that additional 10%) but they (cheryl) still rejected that offer cos "percs and saxes don't math together". sheesh,stewpid saxes. alliteration!!! cool. heh. kay. ahem. jk. anyway,we cant crash brasses' chalet cos... they wouldnt let us. neither would clarinets nor flutes.
sooo, we're left with having a perc-only chalet. the problem is, our section has only seven peeps. and chalet's kinda costly. you guys know right? approximately 100++ bucks? which means one person would have to fork out 20++ bucks.... eh. think abourrit ya.

Outing-- can be movies, lunch (and breakfast and dinner?(: ) and biking at east coast, volleyball at the beach, dunking, pretty much similar to chalet but no scary stories, supper, board games, horror movies at night. *** at the same time,we can celebrate all the birthdays. yup. xian's birthday's coming...and erm...a few others' belated birthday. yupyup.

okay. Happy holidays. erm. wait. no. i meant post-EOYs. looking forward to band prac. ********* those who havent paid section funds, PAY UP!!!! our piggy bank only has...haha. super sad. guess. yupyup. practice the Christmas Scene!

-su

even the best fall down sometimes says:
what does "first time" make you think of?
we were strangers starting out on a journey says:
err something gross
we were strangers starting out on a journey says:
o.0

XIAN!!!! you see? you see? our juniors are sickos! you dont know how many *rated stuff they showed me during our conversation.
yucks. yucks. yucks. i cannot sleep tonight...nightmare.

you all better not contaminate the sec ones' minds kay. goons.

-su