::another busy weekend for me.. both days was like outside for 14+ hours..

Saturday
band overload today.. band in the morning, band in the afternoon, band in the evening..
had band practice in the morning.. then had a small outing to national stadium for the central judging of display bands.. me, wee chong, chuan xin, shirley, shi chie, chester, yuxi and lucius went to junction 8 to have out lunch first..
by the time we reached the national stadium, was already 4+.. the last marching assessment band was finishing, so waited awhile for the display band part to start.. tried a pano of the national stadium.. the stitching not really good though.. click below to see a larger version..


National Stadium Pano
dunno why, but the bands this year doesn't seem as good as 2 years back.. maybe because I've seen them before, nothing much new.. maybe for that female drum major using the mace to flaunt her feminity? then thats something new..
anyway, Me, Wee Chong, Yuxi had to go already.. 3 of us going for CJC's concert, so shared a cab there.. showed them around for awhile before we went to look for our own friends.. met Wei Jie there too, he was with 2 other girls.. his sec sch friends or something.. not really sure.. was joking with him, like both hands over their shoulders.. hahaa.. then met Xiu Ting and she passed me my ticket..
anyway, met Melvin, Sean and Jackie outside the PAC before the concert started.. then met Janice at the door, took a quick pic then tried to find Andrea and her friends.. they were sitting quite high up, asked them to shift a few rows down but they didn't want.. saw Carmen, Eric and Mike just before the concert started and invited them to sit beside me... there were just nice 3 seats to the right of me..
the concert overall was quite good.. but the fun of watching a concert isn't there when you practically know every piece already.. like watching a movie and you know the entire storyline before hand..
the percussion ensemble was something new and interesting...


started off in total darkness.. they were standing at the sides of the PAC, then made some music while the walked to the stage.. then there was the 2 solo side drum parts, like a call and response thing.. and a rhythm test with the audience, like he hit some rhythms then the audience trys to follow.. haha, quite fun..
went down to look for some people I know, like Jonathan, Niva, Jeremy, Benjamin and Natasha.. CJ clarinets was quite small after like so many left after 1st intake... yea, including me.. chatted with them for a short while.. if I were to compare CJ and NY clarinet sections, though NY clarinets' bigger in size and we are very much bonded as a section.. but musically, I would prefer CJ..
anyway, Alfred and Jocelyn came to join us later and we went out to eat.. tried to hold back my tears as we walked across THE bridge to the other side.. probably would be my last time walking across.. brought back some memories.. went to Prata House to eat.. it seems fitting that out first class outing was to there and I would end it there..

Sunday
woke up early in the morning for the Dragonboat Fun Race.. my class was going, so went there to support and at the same time take some pics..
prepared my stuff and headed out to Lavender.. brought my S2 IS and S80 with me.. my S2 for those dragonboat shots and my S80 for group shots, fun shots etc.. reached there slightly after 9 and the first batch had left.. Sarah was waiting for Dwayne when I reached there.. the group departed 30mins later and we walked to the indoor stadium there.. walked past the area where we had dragonboating for orientation..
the rest of the class were already there.. played some games while waiting for it to start.. Min Jun pointed out the lizard that was behind us.. took some pics of it before it scurried away..


what are you looking at??
spidyboy and his amazing friends were up next.. can guess who came up with that name, Simon of course... did a small cheer before setting off..


Jia You, Jia You, Jia You!
nothing much to talk about after that, so I'll let the pics do the talking..


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overtaking..


overtaking.....


overtaken.


paddles



one look and you can tell where's 0621..
then went to the bridge to take some pics..





quite obvious which is me right??
started to rain later on... had to dash for cover at the restaurants there.. anyway, they still continued despite the rain..


stayed back for the prize presentation and the group pics for Dragonboat while the rest of the class went off first.. was suppose to meet up with them at the drive-thru KFC nearby, then took the wrong direction bus.. ended up at nicoll highway there, had to walk one big round because of the construction going on there to reach the other side of the road.. then took 16 all the way back to where I started.. didn't wanna risk ending up in the wrong place again, so walked there.. and guess what, if I didn't alight so early, it would have taken me directly there...
was pretty hungry by the time I got there.. quickly ate and we left for Esplanade.. went to Esplanade's library to study.. didn't really study much there, was spending most of the time looking for scores.. found a book I liked, but found out I can't borrow it cos I'm not a premium member.. read through some notes for awhile, then we went to to rooftop area to have a look-see..
had our dinner at Glutton's Bay...


eat this!
anyway, had real fun during the weekend.. lotsa memories revisited and made..::

.:JeReMyChAn blogged on 10:17 pm:.
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