::exactly 1 month from the written papers.. had Chinese Orals today.. started at 2.15 like that, was a usual school day before that except the fact that they called all the 4E/5N people to the hall, to brief us on the oral.. would go down the classes starting with 4E1.. so I was the second person they were going to see for my school?
before the oral was a chinese period? just nice.. some last min minders from our teacher, a 20min break before we were suppose to go to the hall.. the rest of 4E1 had to attend Sgt Geok's lesson (call him that because at the start of each of his lessons, he'll stand at attention, like he was gonna give a command or something.. "Watch your front!" then we greet him.. not that he's strict but somewhat the opposite.. sports a army style hair-style too..)
Anyway, there was a crow in the hall.. been here since this morning.. gives a loud CAW then flies to another beam at the top of the hall.. wonder how it got in at the first place.. poor thing trapped there..
wasn't long after Gerald that it was my turn.. the crow kinda irritating, made me lose some concentration when reading the passage... the conversation part was about Singapore Idol and communication with elders.. got lotsa points in my head, but as usual with all orals, can't seem to get the words out of my mouth.. the conversation part really gonna pull me down.. maybe can get 19 very good already.. went to sit at the other end of the hall till 3+ for some quarantine period.. read some mags.. zhi hong and lian jie took some time, as a result, there were 3 people waiting behind, instead of 1 or 2.. just so glad its over.. hope I have no regrets later on..
had to go for ALW till 5.30 while the rest of the Chans and Chang could go home..::

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ALW is a course tts suppose to help u memorise stuff right??

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::had the first PE lesson of this semester.. unlikely we gonna have anymore PE lessons in Term 4, preparing for the exams and stuff.. so about another 9 more PE lesson and thats the end of PE in a boys school.. Mr Faizan announced the results of our Napfa test.. got Bronze.. because of my 2.4 run.. a detailed breakdown of my score..
Pull-ups=8, 5 pts.
Shuttle run=9.9sec, 5pts.
Standing broad jump=238cm, 5pts.
Sit-ups=43, 5pts.
Sit and reach=41cm, 3pts. (short of 1 cm to get B, 4pts?)
2.4km Run=13:09, 1pt.
think I'm the highest pts for Bronze? argh.. can't run for long distances, don't have the stamina.. if I was only a minute faster.. must get gold for JC..
2 periods of "mathes" after PE.. Dave was chewing some gum he got from Joel and they were sitting in the front row? felt like blowing the wrapper onto the floor and it lands on Mr Low's feet.. heheh.. Dave was playing with his chewed-gum, thinking it was Play-Doh, molding it to various shapes.. sick.. thought Dave was one of those civilised and educated people.. guess I thought wrong..
Chinese "O" levels oral exams tomorrow.. stress::

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ahaha. i beat u in Sit-ups, Sit n Reach, and 2.4! wohoo!!! xP

By  Anonymous, at July 05, 2005 9:32 am  

yar, and I would like to see you doing one pull up...

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Dave's unbelievely sick piece of gum.. don't want to know what that protuding thing is.. and I use to think he was such a good boy...::

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::School started again.. won't be blogging as often as the holidays anymore.. maybe 3 times a week, sounds like some excercise schedule.. 10 mins of blogging 3 times a week keeps you fit.. didn't do much holidays homework during the holidays.. think I only did Chem MCQ questions.. found out that was suppose to keep a journal during the holidays.. well, thats one Eng homework done.. still got the compre to do..
got a new timetable today.. 2 periods of lit on wed? ok, at least Monday is not triple science double maths day anymore.. lessons till 3.30 then dismissed.. Fook, Jun Feng and Addy staying back in the study area to do some homework, so joined them anyhow.. not used to going home so early.. was talking talking talking when Fook showed us a move he called the "turtle"? place your palms on the table edge with your wrist facing outwards and you just lift yourself up to like a push up position.. so all your body weight on your arms.. he held there for sometime? tried it myself.. can't even hold for a sec.. must have really strong arms and stomach muscles? freaking strong that fook.. don't try this at home kids..
Fook's a name we call Daryl cause his chinese name's Fook Kai? so thats where it came from..::

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fook doing his insane stunts again..::

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i take back sayin "all montfort guys are nerds"! coz there's def. a handful of "wannabe" breakdancers! =P

By  Anonymous, at July 05, 2005 9:34 am  

if we are nerds, whats RI?

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::talk about talent.. went to orchard road to walk walk after me tuition today... ended at about 1pm, took 317 to Serangoon Mrt and took the train downtown.. went to play for awhile at the X-Zone @ Dhoby Ghuat, walked around the basement of PS, ate a quick lunch.. already 3 something by then.. took the train to Orchard.. wanted to see if they got the earphones at Wisma Atria.. SE's Service Centre was there, next to the Sony Gallery.. couple of foreign men were looking at the phones there.. they were speaking German (I think..) and the salesman looked so lost? they didn't have much newer accessories there, cause my phone's the first phone from SE to have the new connector? so can't use the old accessories anymore.. went over to the Sony Gallery next door, played around with the PSP.. wouldn't it be so cool to have a PSP phone? surely would overtake the N-Gage.. N-Gage's screen looks so small compared to the PSP..
went over to next door to Kinokuniya, browsed through some books, read some magazines.. went out of Ngee Ann City to see somesort of event going on.. the President's Star Charity or something.. got this exhibition on diasters and stuff, got this cool water vortex going on.. suddenly heard some drumming, recognized that sound.. wasn't from any speaker or CD, was someone playing a live acoustic drum. say a huge crowd of people gathered across the street outside paragon.. crossed over to take a look..
was this 6-year old kid playing the drumset.. Singapore's Youngest Busker.. wasn't the full sized drumkit our band has, but a smaller version I saw at yamaha.. really envy him.. I can't even play a simple beat on a drumset? so young and yet so talented.. says he started to play the drums when he was 2? so parents, don't stop your kid from banging pots and pans at home, he may just have the talent.. wonder what he'll be when he grows older..
walked further down to Orchard Cineleisure.. guess what, more talent ozing out.. Teenage Idol 2005 grand finals just started outside the building.. everyone crowding around, supporters screaming their heads off.. went inside the building.. was like so empty, everyone was outside watching the finals.. had to buy a bottle of sports drink and throw the cap into the respective boxes to vote for the winner? great marketing scheme eh? some TV cameras where there.. who knows, you might even see me on TV?
took the MRT back to Bishan.. meeting my family to go for dinner together.. sort of postponed last week's father's day dinner to today.. went to Hong Kong Street Chun Kee restaurant.. the food was quite good, the only seafood there was fish?
seen enough talent for today to last a long time..::

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::Time flies is such an understatement... school's re-opening on Monday! been so busy during this june holidays.. not a single day for myself and before you know it, the holiday's over.. blink and its over..
been reading Friday's paper.. the Home section.. about 2 seemingly healthy guys who suddenly had a heart attack and died.. one's a NS service man and the other a truck driver.. reminded me of my neighbour.. Yi Da.. he too was healthy and active.. then suddenly while he was playing ball with his friends when the ball hit his chest.. he died of heart failure some 45 mins after.. to think we used to play a innocent game called "heart attack" in our childhood.. I'm very afraid that the next article you read in the news papers about deaths caused by sudden heart attacks would be about me.. had one episode where I suddenly woke up in the middle of the night, suddenly found it hard to breath and had chest pains.. started to panic at that point, but I just calmed myself down, had a glass of water.. the pains subsided, breathed normally again and went back to sleep.. that was more than a year ago, before I had this blog.. nothing like that happened since then, so just dismissed it..
still haven't done my homework..::

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::woke up at about 10.30am today.. was suppose to go for Amaths.. gotta do some catching up in Amaths.. went to meet raidah today.. still owed me $20 for the tickets.. met at Sun Plaza's macdonalds.. her other friends where there too, but they kept speaking in malay? so didn't have a clue what they were talking about.. (maybe for the occasional eng word they use..) stayed for lunch.. then help her out in her chemistry homework? they already finished the book, so had some questions that we hadn't learnt before.. but tried it out anyway.. a learning experience for me.. stayed till 3.30, then said goodbye to them.. took the train back to Ang Mo Kio, played some arcade games at the X-Zone there then went home..::

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::well, my journey in band has come to an end.. M8 was great, although there was quite a few mistakes in the music.. but thoroughly enjoyed the concert overall..
everyone was ready at the foyer with their instruments and all.. matthew was with the sec 1s..

Matthew and the sec 1s..
the percussion instruments were already moved down, just waiting for the bus.. then this small open-air lorry came.. all the percussion instruments were suppose to fit into there? so have to move some of the smaller percussion instruments to the woodwind bus.. really cramp.. so the timpani, mallets, the stomp backdrop etc had to wait for another lorry to come..
had a technical run-through of the concert, with the lighting etc.. then had dinner at about 5.30.. was quite nice actually.. the last dinner- 2 drumsticks with some sweet sause, scrambled eggs, veggies and rice.. wish we had more time to savour the food, had to go get ready for the concert already.. went to change, then recieved a message from Jill saying she wants 2 more tickets.. just in time? got 3 tickets still in my bag, went to get the tickets and reserved them for Joey and her friend.. got instruments then went into the hall to do a final tuning.. managed to snap a quick shot..

the main band.. (some people trying to aviod the camera by acting to pick up something from the floor??)
only finished at 6.45, then had to let the audience in already.. was getting a little nervous, cause had 3 solos for LOTR? most a few bars only, but solo nonetheless..
Ross Roy was ok, cause mostly its loud? but Princess Mononoke has lotsa solos, and soft.. like oboe solos.. could hear hanwen's nervous.. the sound alittle shaky, but much better than what he had ever done.. Concerto Dynamico was also ok, played it dunno how many million times.. LOTR up next.. mine is the first of a series of solos, sorta a introduction to the main theme by the flute.. then its was back to me again.. with "hobbits".. everything was ok, the sound quality, the articulation.. but maybe could play alittle louder? then had to move off for the junior band.. went to change into the 2nd half attire.. met Jill outside for awhile, just to say Happy Birthday, cause her birthday was just 2 days ago?
2nd half was much better.. with "stomp", didn't really see the actual performance, in their "stomp" attire, only saw their rehearsals.. flashing winds then followed by Abba Gold.. think the audience really like the part where we clarinets swayed our instruments to the beat? "Fernando".. cute.. then it was Shrek Dance Party.. play play play, then me, wen shao, kenneth, wilson, matthew and hippo suddenly drop our instruments and walked out on stage.. "ah, ah, ah, ah, staying alive, staying alive!" danced along with the band as they played "staying alive".. a big round of applause after we finished our dancing.. great sense of achievement.. YMCA was another melody in shrek.. sprayed the letters Y M C A onto neon paper and pasted it on styrofoam backing.. also made 2 exclaimation marks, looks very comical though.. the blues factory was up next, love the ending.. everyone holding a chord, while a the drumset bang bang bang bang.. a foot-stomping close to the piece.. anyway I was the one who chose the piece? our SYF piece next.. American Riversongs.. played about the same as on SYF day, without the clanking of the valves accompanying the tuba solo..
the usual after concert stuff.. Concerto D'amore followed by the School Song.. asked KC to help us take some pics..

our last pic as a section..
brought all the stuff down, Max was dunk by the alumni, and we all went back to school joyfully.. Max like dripping water all over the place.. unloaded all the stuff, moved the percussion instruments.. one final fall-in for the sec 4s.. was thinking back through this 4 years, what I have done and what I didn't do.. gave everyone in sight a hug before I left..
my journey has ended..
just wanna thank all those who came... bernadette, jill, raidah, yik kwang, lian jie and my classmates and of course my family.. M8 won't be the same without you guys...::

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well....the sec4 n 5 r leaving the band.....i am sure to miss u all....yup...M8 was fun n enjayable...hiaz...but time fly so fast n u all hav to leave....i take tis chance to say good bye n thank u for all the hard work u all done for the band!!!!!!

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gave out the M8 t-shirts today.. kinda nice, orange one of my fav colours? use to be the colour of this blog.. had a run-through of the concert today.. time what time the intermission would start, what time the concert would end.. the "stomp" now quite good.. haven't seen them in their attire yet though.. ragged clothes, torn pants etc.. cool..
also just found out that Princess Mononoke had a Eb clarinet part.. Jason said there was no score... took the conductors score home and extracted out the part.. also got the oboe solo written for it.. finally the Eb clarinet got a solo? basically the same, but Mr Leng wants the "I" part louder.. the harmonic balance, cause the Eb is playing a D flat tonal centre part (whatever that means..) and the flutes not loud enough?::

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today had a full dress rehearsal at the hall.. more of a technical run-through than a practice.. practiced moving about, after the intermission etc.. the "stomp" item getting much better.. much more co-ordinated.. don't wanna spoil too much of the suprise for M8... if you're interested to see what's all this about, come down to VCH on the 23rd..
well, what Mr Leng did today I think its long overdue.. something that should have been done a long time ago, since the last batch.. well, they are getting new instruments something after M8, after we're gone.. why do all good things come when we are about to go...::

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Sneak Peak..::

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::4 more days to M8... this concert more rush than M7.. was a really bad idea to ask the whole school to buy tickets.. in the end less than half actually turn up for the concert.. and those who actually turned up, some went home during the intermission? start of second half I see like got less people.. even with the smaller number of people, there was still alot of noise? they think this is their home ar? talk so loud.. damn fed up on that day, really wanted to just stand up and ask them to shut up.. but controlled.. think the audience would have a higher music apprecciation qutotion once all these people are taken out.. arghh..::

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::well, M8 is 5 days away.. leaving the band after that.. speaking of leaving, our conductors have a funny habit of leaving just before SYF.. Mr Tay left us in December 2002, some 4 months before SYF was suppose to happen.. well, luckily for SARS, SYF was pushed back 3 more months, more time for us to practice our persis anyway.. if only Mr Ng had Mr Leng's style of improving the band.. fix note by note, in that 7 months I'm sure all 1000+ notes would be all together, in tune, and a nice sound.. even those running notes for the woodwinds.. anyway Mr Ng did a mighty fine job of running the band.. such a pity he wants to leave the band and get on with his life.. hope Mr Leng would break chain of conductors leaving before SYF though..::

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::the week leading to Montfiesta 8 already.. gonna start my reflection/confession series of post about band.. well, we are officially stepping down as of after M8.. first thing I wanna get off my chest is the promotion excercise we had some months ago.. had a promotion excercise on the 2nd night of the march band camp.. the first and the last band camp organised by our batch.. many unexpected suprises.. just feel that its very unfair.. maybe because the teachers were inexperienced.. miss the old system Mr Ng had.. at least some criteria laid out, so that you know if you why you didn't get promoted.. like attendence how many %, instrument assessment etc..
well, actually cried on that night.. everyone still awake, being happy.. while I went into my sleeping bag and just silently weeped.. could hear Joel talking to the teachers about why I didn't get promoted.. kicked up a big fuss about me.. I know Joel really was concerned about me, but I don't think he should have talked to the teachers that way... still can't forget that night..::

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::the only day I'm free.. been extremely busy the past week.. not a day's rest.. so spent today just resting, not doing much.. then remembered had a library book due yesterday.. oh well, there goes my 15 cents.. ha.. returned the books to the library, paid my 15 cent fine.. went to the arcade to play for awhile.. usually play shooting games.. then got a haircut at the barber shop just next door.. my parents would be taking me to cut this weekend, so why not do it earlier... have some time for the hair to get a little longer?::

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::3 days of intensive band practice just ended.. Mon-Wed, 9am-5pm... made lotsa progress, but still M8 is only a week to go.. lunch break had to go for lunch in sections, the clarinet section being the largest.. we like flooded mac.. then Max was kind enough to treat us nuggets.. had too much points in his ez-link lar.. 20-piece nuggets disappeared after everyone took one.. more band practice in the afternoon..
Sir's Camp was also from Mon-Wed, but I only came on Tues morning, then had to go for band practice already.. after band went back to the junior side.. most of me pri 6 class mates were helping to clear the fish tank, organise stuff etc.. but most of the time we were playing there? played CS in the com lab there, don't really play much CS.. think its only my 4th time playing.. getting the hang of it already.. played till late in the night, 3am/4am.. think I slept around 3, gonna have a long day tomorrow..
more band practice today.. thomas didn't come as usual.. if his not coming late, then he'll be going off early.. he can play, but just not devoted to band thats all.. even the last few band practices before we leave he is so slack.. don't understand him.. had a preview of our "special item" at the end of band practice today.. just gonna leave you with this little teaser pic..::

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see them in action next week at M8!::

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::got my K750i today.. the camera's great, even better than my Zire's 1.2 megapixel cam.. could feel the cam focusing.. lotsa features that weren't in my T610.. mp3 player, radio.. liked the speaker.. loud and clear.. the K700i had 1 led light, this one has 2.. so twice as bright?
but still gonna miss my T610.. been through alot with me.. many fond memories we had together.. grown quite attached to me old phone, so when I first got the new one, felt alienated.. even though they are very similar in terms of interface..
my trusty T610 1st September 2003 - 13th June 2005::

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::back.. went cycling after blogging this morning.. brought my Zire along.. listen to some music while I cycle.. cycled for about 45 mins at the park not far behind my house, lotsa other people were there jogging too, mostly elderly people and adults.. guess I'm the youngest there? feels very refreshing, the wind in your hair, the early morning air.. won't get another opportunity like this very often.. don't usually wake up 5 in the morning you know? was listening to Maroon 5, then came to Sunday Morning.. the song suddenly feels more meaning full, being a Sunday Morning afterall.. some clouds started to gather as I was about to go for breakfast... cycled to Hougang Point, and had breakfast at mac.. just feel a great sense of freedom this morning.. should do this more often..
went for tuition after that.. had to take the bus there cause me dad not back from the states yet? would be coming back at around 5.. went to Causeway Point with me mum and bro after tuition.. think we also went to cp the last time I had to go for tuiton on my own? deja vu.. took 161 home after that.. felt like I was travelling in plane when 161 goes on the expressway.. like 20+mins non-stop travelling between Woodlands and Sengkang? wish they could provide some refreshments during the long bus ride.. haha...
dad was already back when we got back home.. went to New Mexico I think.. some air-base there.. went there for almost 2 weeks.. that means the car wasn't used in 2 weeks, so when we got in, the air-con smelt alittle mouldy, like our classrooms after a long holiday and we turn on the air-con.. went to Compass Point to eat, and also see the K750i.. maybe going to the Paragon road show after band tomorrow.. gonna miss my T610..::

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::Just woke up not too long ago.. slept at about 11+, had a slight case of the flu.. been talking to Cassandra lately.. she says I think too much.. I see it as pondering over my life.. basically talked about friends.. how I treat my friends equally, no special group I hang out with, no specific person I always talk to.. in the end, I feel that I'm equally distant (equidistant?) from my friends.. don't really share my feelings and thoughts with my friends, the most to this blog.. have good grades, have good achievements, material needs.. just no one to share these experiences with me.. really hope that JC life would be much better.. now just continue to strive for better grades so can get into a better JC...
went out to Ang Mo Kio today.. passed 5 tix to Yik Kwang.. he's also in band, haven't seen him much since pri 6... thanks to Cassandra for listening to me, I don't blame you for not being able to attend M8.. your moral support is more than enough..::

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::Lessons and more lessons.. went back to school almost every day for the past week.. then had band pratice after that.. 3 more weeks to Montfiesta 8.. not enough practices.. must work extra hard for our last Montfiesta to be a success..
been eyeing Sony Ericsson's new K750i lately.. bought my T610 on 1st September 2003, so June 1st marks the 21st month of my phone, can upgrade already.. the no-contract K750i already out, around $700+.. reasonable.. so with plan maybe about $400? about the same price when I bought my T610.. technology sure advances fast.. looking forward to its 2-megapixel camera.. finally, a decent camera on a phone.. would be posting more pics to this blog when I get it..::

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::went to ALW today.. 10am-5pm.. long hours.. brought my pda along, just for fun.. had a lunch break at 1, so went out with Matthew, Shermann, Edwin and Wei Xiang to eat.. found out that I can blog with my pda with my phone as a modem.. anyway, heard a familar voice when I returned to school.. was addy and his junior councilors.. they having a councilor camp or something.. could hear his voice from the first floor.. so went back to the learning hub.. played some games, such as take 8 coins and make a square with 4 coins on each side.. we were thinking so long, then matthew was playing with the coins, stacking them.. then I had an idea, we only thought of moving the coins in 2D, so of course cannot solve... they didn't say cannot stack the coins, only said move the coins.. so stack a coin on top of another on the 4 corners, making a square with 4 coins on each side! the rest of the time we were playing this sort of game.. move toothpick to make 3 squares etc.. was easy if you think out of the box..::

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::Having lunch now, using my PDA to blog... Cool... ALW today till 5... Learning about logical thinking...::

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::went for Day 2 of balloon hat festival today... Sembawang and Northland were there, so went there to see them... reached the island at about 1.30.. took the Beach Line bus.. rather crowded.. was walking to Sapphire Hall to find Jill when I saw Mr Tay walking back with Northland... didn't know he worked for Northland now.. Mr Tay left us in 2002, when I was in sec 1.. then was the return of Eng Kee... so chatted with him along the way.. they had just performed and was walking back to the Opel site to have their lunch.. Jill was "helping out" with the band, but slacking as usual.. met up with her somewhere after Sapphire Hall.. wearing a white shirt with a loosely worn tie and black long pants like the rest of the Northland people.. walked to Cool Deck area, where other bands were performing.. Raidah was there.. so 3 of us watch some other band perform.. Sembawang was performing at around 3 so me and Jill took the tram back to opel site.. they had rice and meat all nicely packaged for them and we had only delifrance bread yesterday.. no fair.. so just walked around the area till the start of the parade.. Springfield had some nice moves.. very in sync.. met Yik Kwang along the parade... was here to watch the other bands play too.. although Nan Chiau didn't participate in the Balloon Hat Festival.. gotta admit, watching the parade isn't as much fun as being in it.. as with yesterday, they all got to smash their balloon hats for the finale... can you say pop? manage to find my way back to mainland singapore afterwards.. took bus 80 back, feet where killing me, didn't want to stand in the MRT again..::

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::Balloon Hat Festival at sentosa today.. got our coloured t-shirts.. light blue, white and red, the colours of Doraemon.. most of us were in light blue, along the side while the rest were in white and some in red... performed at Sapphire Hall first before the parade begins.. reached there early so heard some of the other bands play... shrek dance party was so common, it was almost like a set piece.. haha..
Mr Leng was really sporting.. maybe he'll win the best conductor award.. won this dragon head made of balloons.. really intricate and nice.. can't see the score though..

Dragon Leng..
haha.. played Doraemon, American Riversongs.. then walked all the way back to Opel Site to make our balloons.. wasn't as hot as on thurs.. already 4 something.. twisted our balloons and got ready by 5... parade started at about 5.30.. had lotsa fun.. people singing along with us when we played Doraemon.. well.. only 1 word when we got to the chorus, DORAEMON... every was gathered at the end of the beach..

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then Xinmin played their piece for the finale and every joins in.. the spongebob squarepants theme song..
Are you ready kids? Ay eye captain! I can't hear you! Ay eye captain! Ooooo... Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Spongebob Squarepants! Absorbent and yellow and porous is he! SpongeBob SquarePants! If nautical nonsense is something you wish.. SpongeBob SquarePants! Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish! SpongeBob SquarePants! Ready SpongeBob SquarePants! SpongeBob SquarePants! SpongeBob SquarePants! SpongeBob.......... SquarePants! then every takes off their balloon hat and burst it.. closest thing you could get to having firecrackers on Chinese New Year... pop pop pop pop... setting a new guiness world record at the same time..::

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::Balloon Hat Festiva rehearsal today.. reached school at 6.30am.. for the past few days extremely busy.. if only there were 25 hours in a day.. was like the first school to reach sentosa.. nobody else was there.. so we had our breakfast there, a packet of bee hoon and a bottle of water.. the rehearsal only starts at 9.45, so we got some time to practice on our own first..
the sun was really beating down on us by the time the rehearsal started.. need not really march, could even dance if we wanted to.. so the bands formed contigents of 3, Montfort being the 1st of the 3rd contigent.. played our music along Siloso Beach wearing balloon hats.. was a mini sand-storm as hundred of people walk down the beach.. walked to the other end of Siloso Beach and waited for the rest of the bands to come in.. everything was like baking hot, think you could even use the cymbals as a hotplate to cook an egg.. any hotter the clarinets would have caught fire, hahah.
was dehydrated when we got back to our own tent... drank lotsa water and prepared for the second rehearsal.. found this clarinet mouthpiece cap on the floor, dunno who's.. me section only 2 people using the metal cap, so can't be ours.. asked Chung Cheng next to us, wasn't theirs.. asked Marsling, wasn't theirs either.. so free cap for the QM huh.. Second rehearsal started.. already 12 noon, the sun directly overhead.. so when the rehearsal was over, everyone got a free sun tan.. reached back school at about 2... went to mac to eat,some of me band people was also there, so joined them..
was already 3.15 and had to meet Bernadette at 4.. so took the Mrt to Dhoby Ghaut.. said that she would only be here at 4.15, so looked around at music plaza for awhile.. its been about a year since the NTU attachment we had a year ago, during the june holidays.. bought 3 tix from me.. so went back to the MRT.. was meeting Jill also.. she lives in Yishun, so took the MRT there... waited quite awhile for her.. said she would meet at 5.. she biked here, bought 1 tix from me.. said her friends wouldn't be interested in this stuff.. was in Yishun already, so why not take another stop down to Sembawang to meet Raidah.. been to her school once with Saiful before.. hope I could still remember where it is.. looked at the map and just followed my memory.. sold 2 tickets to her.. they were having band practice, so asked her to make an announcement to promote M8.. thanks so much.. heading down to sentosa this sunday again to watch their band play for the 2nd day of the Balloon Hat Festival.. selling the tix at the same time.. want to break the record for most tickets sold.. thats the least I could do.. collapsed into bed after travelling from Dhoby Ghaut to Yishun to Sembawang and back to Hougang..::

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::Today's the 1st Anniversary of this blog! can't believe its exactly a year since I started blogging.. seems just like yesterday... for all you readers that have been following this blog, I just want to say Thank You..
Well, back to the main content of this post.. the past 2 days had lotsa fun, although being enclosed in a room the size of a tennis court for 12+hours a day.. most of the things they taught during the Empower U programme I've already known.. like goal setting etc.. if anything, this programme just makes me wanna achieve my goal even more badly.. the food wasn't enough though.. ate every morsel in that packet and still hungry...
love the dancing! but hate the fact my school is a not a mixed school.. just let myself go crazy.. other people just standing there with their arms folded and not wanting to participate.. felt although you just step into a dance club instead of the Indoor Stadium function room.. techno music blasting.. yea..
something really really funny happened during the programme too.. towards the end of the programme, Dale and Brent (the 2 presenters) talked about a course about love they attended.. they had to sit facing a stranger, and repeat the line: "I Love You" to that person.. so they showed it to us, the sec 1s were giggling as usual, thinking "they're gay,hehehe" immature brats.. this kind of I Love You is saying you fully accept the person the way he is.. so a sec 1 guy said he would like to try.. so he sat facing Brent.. everyone was giggling when he start, then there was silence.. "I Love You. puuut..." someone just let one rip, breaking the silence.. everyone was laughing their heads off.. laughed till I had tears in my eyes..
also asked us to give at least 5 hugs each thing before we start a segment.. so just hugged the first person in sight.. felt like we were brothers... forced us to be more open and not so narrow-minded in thinking.. as I said earlier so wished I my school was a mixed school.. heheh..::

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