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Xinhui's birthday cake

Left to right: Xing Ern, Aliza, me, Hwi Soo, Sharon

I guess we've all been busy lately with competition pracs, PTs and sucky exam schedules. Jiayou percs! I had fun yesterday (:

Deborah

perc '10

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!

Hahaha I just remembered I kept to my promise and photoshopped a face made of perc instrus! I even used it for my ICT project (which I got highest in my class for! The teacher must love percussion too <3)

Yayy auds are finally over!

It has been gruelling and tiring and frustrating preparing for them, so now that they're over, yayyy. Come to think of it, we spent so long trying to find a choice piece and practicing scales and rudiments and it was over in what, half an hour? I guess it'll be like that for the upcoming concerts too. All our hard work for the past few months, gone in a matter of hours on stage.

We don't think we'll get in considering out terrible performance, but it's not like we had high expectations before heh. Unexpectedly, we got in! Haha this may sound very dead/expected now but that's only because we received the news a while ago so the excitment lessened a bit. If not this paragraph would be peppered with ":D" all over.

So, naïvely thinking they would be so nice as to give us time to warm-up, I got there only fifteen minutes before the auds, before I realized we were supposed to go there early to warm-up. Oh no.Thankfully my number was E15 (Sharon's was E18 because she forgot to take it, and had to go back afterwards -.-), so I still had some time to warm-up while the others went for auds first. But there were no mallets to practice on! So I just pretended I knew where the keys were. And yet the glissando was impossible because everytime I did it, there would be a huge gust of wind and all the papers would fly away!

Then I met my church friend from St. Margaret's Girls' School Symphonic Band, who introduced me to her perc friends, Angeline and Zhen Ni, who had long and difficult scores from Legend of somethingsomething Hero. And they looked so pro and intimidating. Wonderful.


Honestly, we thought we were the worst percussionists present! There was a girl called Marianne whom I auditioned with, and she was playing the snare drum score from Overture No. 1 for Wind Bands! And Angeline could play the snare drum score from Technology. Great. One is SYF standard and the other is Cadenza standard. Who are we to go for auditions against these percussionists! We contemplated going home - at least we would never know if we could have gotten in, then face the rejection. But I'm glad we just went ahead in the end, because of the pleasantly surprising results!

Anyway, we reasoned that we've already come so far, so we shouldn't give up. We even had the courage to come to Ang Mo Kio Secondary School! So we had to go on. And they were bound to notice the only two RGS girls sneaking out of the compound with their bags, so we had no choice but to stay hehh.

But the fact that our numbers were so far behind, which we initially thought was a good thing, only made it a lot worse! Yes, we had time to practice, but we also had a lot of time to socialize, thereby finding out that people were playing much much better pieces than us and as a result losing our nerves. We were so close to the brink of insanity that we had to escape to the canteen to drink Milo and to the toilet to...use it. What else could we do there! Oh wait there's something else but I don't think Sharon wants me to share it hahaha.

The suspense was building up as the minute hand of my watch ticked by! Oh yeah I took it off when I went into the classroom and my auditioners gave me the oO look - I thought we were supposed to do that? Anyway then we both started having breathing difficulty because I was hyperventilating, and Sharon had blocked nose

But then we received a heartwarming SMS, so our breathing returned to normal. Or mine, at least, because Sharon still had a blocked nose. Soon my turn came! I didn't even realize it was my turn until Marianne called me! Oh no oh no I fumbled around with my mallets and sticks and scores before I realized Marianne took her whole bag with her so I wasted more time trying to put everything back into my bag again before I decided to just carry the bag on my back and my sticks/scores in my hands. Bad start!

Then I walked up the stairs with Marianne, and we started chatting and arguing - nice way to make friends - about who to go first. When we reached our final destination - pun intended - the teacher WHOM I THOUGHT WAS GLORIA - you'll get what I mean after reading about the actual audition below - commented on how we looked like we knew each other from 10 years ago. Huh, so you argue a lot with people you know from 10 years ago?

Anyway then we walked to the classroom for our auds. And we heard the guy before us playing the drumset and crash cymbals and tambourine and we actually concluded that he had come for different auds. Little did we know, what the auditioners had prepared for us!

We talked a bit more outside, and then I found out that somebody had stepped on my paper. Now it had a huge shoe mark at the top ohmygoodness. What a great way to leave a good impression. I wonder if they'll mark me down, thinking I step all over my scores or something!

Anyway, after Marianne went in, I heard her playing tambourine/drumset/crash cymbals too. And that's when I realized what a horrifying situation I was in! So I started freaking out again, and suddenly needed to go to the toilet really urgently.

But then Marianne came out, gave me a horrified expression and then whispered, "Good luck!" and shuffled away. Thanks for the luck, but I'm quite sure I didn't need that horrified expression of yours to scare me even more...

NOTE: The following experience is too horrific to be repeated. It's better not to know.

Then Sharon and I sat at the staircase staring at our auditioner and taking photos. Before we made calls and decided to have dinner together! I can't remember what happened already - the only reason why the above is so specific is because I wrote it on the following day, except I forgot to post it - but I know that my mother, sister and I ran into the MRT, but darling Sharon was too slow and was trapped outside! So we had to waste time waiting for her to arrive on the next MRT hahaha.

Sighh I can't remember anything else, so I guess that's all. I'm just so glad we both got in! Tomorrow's our first day yayy I can't wait!

Yup that's all I was just looking through the drafts and found this ancient post. Why I forgot to post it I forgot. Oh and Sharon you have 4 drafts about your song saved here...

Okay third post in like an hour.

Cadenza is in 86 days. I was really shocked when Yujia announced there were only a hundred days left that day. I went home and counted for fun, turns out there were only 90 days left. For Cadenza XI, we were keeping track of the days left way before it breached the double-digit mark. I guess it shows a lot of things, most importantly that we have very little time left. I hope that all of you will work hard and improve yourselves constantly by practicing the things you like, as well as the things you don't like.

I know all of you can do it! And you're almost there, but there's still a lot to learn. I'll leave y'all to count how many pracs, how many sectionals, and how many indiv sessions we have left til concert. So really focus on the things that need improving and I'll help as much as I can.

Yeah, that's about it. I think this sounded kinda disjointed, but I hope you get the point. We want to enjoy ourselves for concert, but we also want to put up a good, entertaining show for the audience so that it's worth their money, and we can walk off the stage with pride. I hope that by putting in all your effort now, you can play at VCH and leave with no regrets. This is probably going to be one of the last times we see VCH before it renovates, so treasure every moment of it - the process and actual performance.

Love,

Deborah

(As for Drumzout, I'm really thinking about it. and we'll see what happens.)

Okay uhm, photos from Inunion '09

You people need to learn to be more photo-friendly! Seriously not like me at all ):

So cute.

Seriously? The camera's up here.

Haha, the letters dropped off x)

Haha commanders photo!

Hi section!

Okay it sounds weird to say section, seeing as the sec threes almost never visit, and I haven't either,in what, over a month?

okay random photo i took of the marimba

uh this took 8 tries

this would've been perfect except when Emily took over the camera the angle changed and the sec twos looked strangely big

so I chose this one for section photo.

Although it really isn't the nicest one! But the programme booklet will be greyscale anyway, so it's not that bad. Okay I'm gonna start a new post because uploading photos is so troublesome, so I'm gonna dedicate a whole post to some photos.

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

INUNION WAS AWESOME! :)

OK it didn't start off very well, with me leaving the batch speech in the band room. Joanne left her keys so we (Yu Jia, who needed another stand, and I) had to wait for Ms. Tan to help us unlock the band room. Not a good start to Inunion because time was ticking and I was freaking out D:

Then came the batch speech! I was completely unprepared and nervous. And I couldn't even maintain eye contact with the audience because my spectacles kept slipping down and when I looked up I would just look like some grandmother. And I looked so short next to Perina! D:

But at least I'm taller than Aliza :D

Then came the concert segment, which wasn't much better. Crashing the cymbals at the wrong time, ending off later then the rest of the band for Imperatrix (haha thank you Aliza for saying it sounded like part of the song), etc. It was so depressing to screw up my own Inunion! D:

Then came the presentation of musicianship badges! I was the last person in the line, so I didn't get my musicianship badge because they ran out :( Yi Wye pretended to pin the badge on me, then I stuck my left shoulder to Sharon so the audience wouldn't see that I didn't have this bright red thing on my left sleeve like the rest of my batchmates >< After that, Jing Hui found a musicianship badge which she wanted to pin on for me personally, but changed her mind and passed it to Deborah :) Haha Sharon was so pissed because she wanted Deborah to pin it on for her too :D (I didn't want to embarrass her - she insisted I post this -.-)

Haha then came the batch items! Which ruined the depressing mood that was caused by screwing up the concert segment :) Especially Batch 11's skit! SO TRUE! The awkward conversation between seniors and juniors that I think our section always has XD Oh and Aliza and Xing Ern running around holding "SILENCE"...oO

Oh and the song that Batch 10 danced to (not Reach) - was it by some Korean band called Super Junior? Ö

THANK YOU ALIZA, XING ERN AND DEBORAH FOR PUTTING IN SO MUCH EFFORT FOR YOUR BATCH ITEMS :D

Then our batch item! Sorry Sharon for dragging you up at the last minute to make the introduction with me X) I didn't want to do it alone, so my -AHEM- kind and -AHEM- wonderful SBM finally relented after I pleaded with her to say it with me. Then she screwed up and we both couldn't stop laughing :)

Anyway, I really loved our batch item! The audience didn't really feel anything watching us but we really did bond a lot preparing for it, from listening to the song to the first time to rehearsing with props and actions :D I still remember for QC, Joanne said we looked like swaying seaweed oO So we had to add in all the actions and strange props (which Aliza and I later used to hit Sharon with XD)

After that was On My Way - I love that song! KODA FROM BROTHER BEAR IS SO CUTE <3

Ooh then after that we had band cheers! I'm so glad the Secondary Fours joined in :D Their voices were loud enough to make up for the lack of Secondary Ones' voices...we tried to follow but some parts we just went HUH. And the audience! When they didn't leave, our EmCees asked them again and it seemed like they were being chased away :D AHAHAH Our EmCees were so funny! :)

Then after keeping our instruments, we went for section dinner! So much happened on the way there. There was Yi Xian and Aliza standing next to each other while Sharon and I compared their heights, Aliza helping us carry stuff (thank you :D), Sharon and I digging inside our bags for our EZ-link cards, lagging behing our section like we do on all section outings, etc. Oh and playing with the bee Vivian's direct gave her! :D The one which Sharon thought was a butterfly -.-

When we finally reached we ran up and down the stairs trying to get seats, but in the end we just sat down on the floor near Lido.

As Aliza and Xing Ern were queuing up in the row next to us at MacDonald's, they brought a packet of french fries from which Sharon snatched one -.- Later on Aliza gets back at her by taking TWO of her fries oO

Thereafter, Sharon and I went to Starbucks. My $1 coin dropped and rolled under some table! D: -sigh- At least I still had money to buy a tall Caramel Frappucino (part of which Aliza drank. Actually she only ate the foam/whipped cream, whatever that was). Speaking of, Sharon didn't know what tall, grande and venti were. The guy over the counter asked "Would you like tall, grande or venti?" and Sharon just stared at him forever before he finally got the message and changed the question to "Would you like small, medium or large?" :D Oh and because I ordered first, he gave me my receipt and change which Sharon promptly took and put into her wallet! :D I stared at her in disbelief and she still looked up and said, "Huh? What?" before the guy over the counter said, "That's hers, not yours!" HAHAHHAHAHHA So funny. He even asked, "What school are you from?" I was thinking, OH NO WE MUST HAVE SHAMED RGS IN PUBLIC ><

OK then we went back to do the 1, 2, 3 tradition, although we already started drinking our coffee and eating fries downstairs ><

Oh then strange things started happening, like Aliza throwing things at a Secondary Four clarinet senior! And something about desert pizzas. And talking about RWinds, where Samantha and Deborah are performing, and band outing and whatnot, all of which I must miss because of church camp and going overseas! D: NOOO D: I'd rather miss church camp/my Bangkok trip for these (I want to watch my direct perform!) but my mother would never allow ><

Section photos! We took very long to get a normal shot...can somebody post the photos on the blog? :D

Then soon it was time to go home. Aliza kept asking who from my batch was from St. Hilda's! And even after giving her obvious clues ("She came to play perc!") she guessed Lei-Chen -.- Then at the tap-your-EZ-link-card place we were separated 'cos something was wrong with her EZ-link card, so I turned around and waved awkwardly at Xing Ern who had a very amusing expression on her face :) But then I saw them again because I had missed the first train, so by the time they came down I was still there. Aliza hit me on the head, making me end the call with Sharon! D<

Anyway, after they left, 2 trains came and I still couldn't squeeze in 'cos they were so crowded. I was sooo frustrated I just decided to take my dad's car. Then I met Sharon at Far East but she was already on her dad's car so we were shouting to each other at the bus stop - so embarrassing! After she left everyone was staring ._.

Then I went home to get scolded by my mom for staying out late ><

Yup that's about it :) Oh, and THANK YOU SENIORS FOR THE WONDERFUL PRESENTS! And sorry Aliza and Xing Ern for the letters ><>< (Xing Ern, did anything drop out from your drum...? D:) And I hope y'all like our tiles! :D (HAHAHHA this suddenly reminded me about the suspended cymbal Sharon drew that looked like chicken feet, which made the message become "SHARON LOVES CHICKEN FEET" :D)

LOVE,

XINHUI :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAMANTHA! :)

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY LEI-CHEN AND HILLARY AND CRYSTALBEL! :)

Hello!

Long time no see! Or maybe not oO. Anyway, EYAs are over! So you all have a lot of free time now, right? I thought I'd introduce yall to some stuff that I found pretty useful online :D.

I think I mentioned it to some of you before? The Vic Firth website has a lot of videos/scores that are really quite useful, whether it's learning rudiments or auxilliaries or timpani, yup :D. Should be under the education section :D.

Those that I find particularly useful include:

1. Percussion 101! haha it has links to playing techniques, general characteristics, maintenance, rolls, etcetc for most percussion instruments :D, and videos which explain and demonstrate :D.
2. Rudiments! ALL 40 OF THEM :D. haha and they included recordings for various speeds, which is quite fun :D. The simpler flam, drag and paradiddle rudiments are quite useful for stick control and all. Yeah, essentially you start slow, make sure you get everything right, the sound, wherever your stick is supposed to be, etc, then you speed up.
3. Rhythmic reading? I think this is supposed to teach you how to read rhythms oO. You don't have to start from the start, you can try those at the back :D. Really fun! :D. And they have recordings at different speeds too, so it's quite exciting :D. Especially things like mixed and changing meters? :D

Yeah, so go and have fun la! Just go and explore when you have the time? It's really quite fun :D

Love,

Samantha

EXAMS ARE OVERRR~!

Maybe the blog will be more active now. 2 weeks since the last post ><

Hooray. The day after tomorrow will be the end of band break! And the start of preparation for Arts Fest and Inunion. Inunion! I don't think our batch is well-prepared >< Oh no. Helppp.

Cheers,
Xin Hui :)

hello percs!

Just came by to wish every single one of you all the best for EYAs/promos (for the J1s)/'A's (for the J2s)!!! - though I highly doubt they'd see it ><. Yup jiayou jiayou! :D.

(Oh, Deborah, the orchid plant you gave me is so lovely! It keeps flowering! Besides the 13 flowers on the 2 stalks, it grew 2 more stalks, with tiny buds that I think are going to flower really soon! It's really beautiful and lovely, and definitely a lot healthier than all the other orchids! My dad is impressed oO.)

See all of you tomorrow during band phototaking!

Love,

Samantha

hello. (:

i shall write more than 5 words. i promise.

kinda sad that it's band break now, but then again, when EYAs are over i guess it'll be cool to finally go back. let's just enjoy the break for now!

sorry, i really have nothing to say, so i'm just gonna say that the sec ones are really very luo suo. no offence, but you guys are talkative in a funny way. haha :D yup, but i agree that you all can really talk too much sometimes. and maybe talk alot of rubbish. i may or may not be referring to the section blog.

oh yup, WATCH YOUR BACK.

i'm watching. haha. im bored, paiseh sorry. ^.^

Happy Hari Raya Puasa! :)

Hi

Not everyone has so much time to tag/post everyday right -.- but it's good that yall are trying to keep the blog alive. I appreciate it(: though I dunno if you'll have as much time next year, or the year after that, for that matter. But I'm trying, so you should too! (when you get to sec2/3, that is)

Oh gosh, drama serials, of all the unexpected things... Ehm. Stress to her the importance of the blog and the emails, especially. I'm sure if she realised how important they are, she'd try to check more often. I see her using the computer in the Shaw Lab sometimes after RS, not sure to do what, though. I'll remind her to check her email more often too.

Haha, eh. The poems are quite cute lah. I think xh's would sound better if she didn't try to make it rhyme. And for the last time, I won't piggyback you for very obvious reasons, one very obvious reason, actually. So obvious that Sharon had to literally ask 'why' ten times before I caved and told her. Then she asked why again. -.-

Okay keeping this post short. I'd come up with a poem too, but I have other things to do. Maybe next time.

Love,

Deborah.