i'm tired :/
you give me wings when i'm falling,
you lift me up when i'm down.
taking me up, touching the sky
yea you make me fly.

shucks.
i find sammmmmyyyeeeestables amusing just like how sam finds eeeeeeeemili amusing. heh.
OH shucks.
nervous breakdown.

i dont like drawing graphs!!
amath- chapter eight.
yucks! nothing but sine, cosine and tangent ):

draw and erase and redraw and erase and redraw and erase and redraw and erase and redraw and..


.. opps. the paper is torn.
and then. you just redraw and erase again till the graph looks right.
and apparently my tangent graph dont look right at all.

owells.
eoy.)):

good luck to all.
its just all about mugging.
byebye

i'm trying my best to hold on.
i can just feel myself fainting from exhaustion.

its been a week since i last posted.
the week has been pretty okay.
eoy examinations coming. omanns.
i've not started on my revision.
and i'm supposed to be doing my literature essay now):

if i lay here.
if i just lay here..

bye holidays ):

Mr Hitoshi Sekiguchi is awesomely cool!!
it was seriously an EYE-OPENER. EAR-opener?! hee..

eeks! its saturday tmrw!!

Happiness is a voyage.
not a destination

((((:

Avalon - Testify To Love
All the colors of the rainbow
All of voices of the wind
Every dream that reaches out
That reaches out to find where love begins
Every word of every story
Every star in every sky
Every corner of creation lives to testify

For as long as I shall live
I will testify to love
I'll be a witness in the silences when words are not enough
With every breath I take I will give thanks to God above
For as long as I shall live
I will testify to love

From the mountains to the valleys
From the rivers to the sea
Every hand that reaches out
Every hand that reaches out to offer peace
Every simple act of mercy
Every step to kingdom come
All the Hope in every heart will speak what love has done

WORKSHOP BY TOKYO KOSEI WIND ORCHESTR MUSICIANS 2-9 SEPT 2006

Sectional Leaders Training Course
together with Judith, Elicia, Vivien, Weilun, Zhengwei, Syafiqah, and Yinlan at cck interchange, and Jiawen at Clementi interchange, and by bus 14, we got to ACS(I)! (: Suffian had the privilege
to take a cab there. if not, i wonder how long he would take to get there. with that big, heavy tuba. probably he could have dragged it there? haha..

the school is like super BIG! ahahas. was led into the school by ACS(I) band members. actually a clarinettist and a baritonist; i think. met up with the earlier batch of SLs- Fangyee, Faith, Diyana, and KOH YUEN SEE((: they had just finished their lunch after the first part of the course- sectionals. and YES. they, mean like usual, started scaring us by telling us how freaky the thingy was. like we had to play solo.. and scales we never played before. and they went 'all the best to you', 'good luck'. they had to play scales-concert A. !! five sharps! we all freaked out. but anyway.. it didnt turn out as bad as we thought it would be. but that's because we didnt have sectionals. haha. we started with the second part of the course.

was led to the auditorium.. set out instruments, stands, got ready and we had to sit with our various sections. people we didnt know, people we had never seen before, current, potential or new sectional leaders from schools all around Singapore! a band that had 300+ players. WOW. how cool! there were like 92 clarinettists.. and 66 flute players.. and so on.. they were a bunch of professionals. to think i can e counted as one of the better players in our band, and one of the worst there. gasps!

speaker/conductor for the day was MR LEE TIAN TEE, President of WASBE( Singapore). the main thing we did was on sectional practises.
-> problems we face when having sectionals
01 rhythms
02 articulation
03 warm ups
04 dynamics
05 Intonation...

the list goes on and on...
so we learnt how to go about conducting sectionals.
Firstly, we as SLs have to be prepared, to be able to lead, and to be able to teach when members are in doubt.
Secondly, we as SLs have to set a good example. the way we behave, our conduct. and stuff.
Thirdly, we as SLs have to and should do things step by step.
Lastly, we as SLs, have to know our stuff well.

then.. we learnt about the basic articulations- the difference between notes marked with a marcato, an accent, tenuto and Forzando.

tounging-Da/Duh tounging, ta tounging. blah blah. this is chimology.
seven basic rhythms we SHOULD know. 1234.2234.3234.4234 stuff. lol!

played two songs- GelatoConCaffe and First Suit in E-flat. the running notes are scary! and cause everyone there were pros, we didnt even have time to look through our scores. and in five minutes, we just played through the whole song. and they aint easy pieces. and... it actually sounded like a song, not noise. haha! amazing. was really fun((:

i've got lots to work on!
we have the power. used to punish others?
'To lead, is to serve, give and achieve TOGETHER'

seocond session of the course on friday!
i better start working on my scales :/
it aint an easy task as an SL. but its a challenge! (:

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