::brought back 2 of the school's cam for the photography course on saturday, but they didn't have any memory cards in them so couldn't save anything.. its like setting up a clarinet already and then you find there's no reed.. sure, you can finger all the fingerings but you can't do what its suppose to do..
had YPSB practice in the evening.. went to the newly renovated foodcourt outside school with Wei Jie to eat.. then met Li En on our way back, she was also going to eat, so we accompanied her.. think them two quite suitable for each other, on the surface they may not agree with each other all the time, but feel there's something deeper.. AMK brought their Prestige Eb and it was LEGEND, as Yan Hao would say it.. the tone quality was just, wow.. the D#/A# and alt B/F# keys were slightly more raised..
had a short sectional before it was scrapped because some resident was not happy.. and it was like only 5+, not like its 12 midnight or something.. funny thing though, they had no complains about the pulgilistic society and their drums.. sight read some pieces as this would be the first time I'm playing the Eb part..
then went to eat at the mac there again.. was already close to 10 by the time we finished, only got home at 11.. salvaged an CF card from my very first digicam, the A20 and tried some shots with the 350D with the 50mm 1.8 lens..





both taken at f1.8, so the depth of field quite shallow.. something very hard to achieve with a compact camera..
had photography course in the morning the next day.. thought I was late, cos I got out of the house quite late, but turns out the instructor wasn't there yet.. waited there for quite some time cos he had stomachache I think.. went through some of last lessons stuff, then went on to the relationship of aperture, shutter speed and ISO.. had to do some calculations given that the correct exposure of a picture is 1/60 f5.6 @ ISO 400.. then had to calculate if your aperture, shutter speed or ISO changes, or any combination of the 3.. its all maths actually, ratios and proportion..
then had an outdoor practical..would try to get some shots that I took.. took the 30D, one thing about using dSLRs, is that you instantly attract attention when you bring out the cam.. of course people walking around wouldn't care less, but feel that people are noticing us while we were there.. first time doing street photography, so not really used to snapping pics of strangers.. of course there were lotsa stuff to take, like the stall owners and their flowers, the people praying.. felt more at ease when snapping some pics of the performance there..
rushed back to school, and guess what, it started raining, so took 22 to the bus stop.. Sarah came to look for me for the PW file I had in my locker, and Gloria came to look for me for their parts list.. passed around the contact list for them to fill up during sectionals.. they were practicing 2nd mvt of Satiric Dances when I got there.. which was one nice big rest for me.. so practiced some other pieces by myself..
Dr Stotter came to conduct a workshop with us.. was anwsering most of his questions since I'm sitting right up infront.. think what he said was very true.. about notes, rythmn, dynamics, balance, blend, tone, intonation, style, phrasing etc.. sighted read Ammerland, asked me what I thought the shape of the phrase was, so I replied cresendo and diminuendo.. there's one line he said which I think its quite meaningful.. "There's no right or wrong in music, the worst choice is not making a choice" there was quite alot of difference when everybody was playing what they thought they should play and playing my version.. at least it sounded more clear if everyone did the same thing, instead of anyhow on their own..
went out with the clarinet section to eat.. got to know some of the sec sch people.. our next practice would be on Wed.. then Wed would be running Friday's timetable, meaning 2 succesive PEs..::

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