the band..
they played Sunrise and Flight of the Falcon.. hearing how both pieces turned out, it confirmed what I already had in mind.. then watched the other bands play, Maris was quite good.. they got Gold as I predicted.. Bedok North's rendition of Safari was fun to watch.. losta visual effects from the band on top of the sound effects written on the score.. too bad they don't do video recording for SYF.. hahaa..
when the results were announced, we were a Silver band no more.. and so continues the alternate Silver/Bronze trend.. at least my batch managed to buckle that trend.. just when would the glory days return again..?
well, with Sec Sch's SYF over, its time to focus on my own SYF.. as with Montfort, I'm part of the batch with all hopes for a Gold pinned on us again..
then went to the Grassroots Club to have dinner with my family.. Fri and Sat evening's I won't be free so having it on Thurs.. overslept on the train and ended up in Khatib but still made it on time for the dinner..

Friday the 13th again, started the day off on the wrong foot.. overslept, was wondering why it was so bright outside when I woke up.. but made it in time for the first period.. another long day, chem and phyiscs practs were enjoyable.. newtonian mechanics for phyiscs, which involved projecting a ball bearing.. and kinetics for chem, which involved thiosulphate and acid..
Mr Tan came to see us for sectionals, assign the parts for J1s.. need new reeds for my Alto Clar though, chipped 2 reeds already and surviving on my sole reed..

Saturday, 14th April.. as mentioned above, Kok Wey and Jill were the first to wish me on the stroke of midnight.. anyway, wanna thank all those that wished me Happy Birthday.. from band, Kok Wey, Annie, Hui Shan, Gloria, Wee Chong, Li Ying, Clement, Christopher.. from my class, Angie, Tricia, Wilson, Yuan Ting, Jun An.. my good friends Jill, Heng Tee, Alfred, Bernadette, Charmaine..also wanna thank Yia Chin, one of the photog J1s, and Yu Jing from YPSB.. two of whom I was quite suprised that they knew about my birthday and bothered to wish me even though they don't know me so well..

a big THANK YOU!

then it was Gloria's usual celebration of birthdays after practice.. quite glad to be able to share a birthday with Annie.. something that only has a probability of 1/365 of happening assuming its a Poisson distribution.. hahaa..
wrapped the 2 boxes nicely in a striped wrapping paper the night before and presented it to the section.. Huai Yu and Wei Jie were pushing it to each other on who should accept it.. gave it to Wei Jie to open it since he is afterall the SL..

anyway, some fun pics after band..


Chester pretending to be a Clarinet..
then went to J8 to eat together with Annie, Kok Wey, Alan, Wee Chong, Shao Ming and Yong De.. went to the food court upstairs to eat.. Wee Chong made me not pay for my meal since it was my birthday and treated me..
went to get a copy of Command and Conquer 3 as a present for myself.. been wanting to play it since I've heard about it.. quite a fan of the C&C series..


my fruitty cake..
wasn't much a celebration unlike last year.. it doesn't feel like a coming of age thing that I thought it would be when I was younger.. oh well..
anyway, been quite a disappointing few days in terms of results.. got back PW results.. got a D.. sometimes I don't understand why I don't perform well for the actual thing.. recieved lotsa postive comments leading up, but just fail to live up to expectations..