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.:Saturday, April 14, 2007:.

its already past midnight.. meaning its the 14th of April! well, as usual didn't recieve much birthday wishes.. Kok Wey was the first to wish me, follow by Jill next.. msged Annie to wish us happy birthdays, cos we share the same birthdate.. though not the same year, Annie's 2 years older than me (can't really tell right..)

*I'll continue this post later, got quite some stuff that I wanna blog about.. night..

starting off with Thursday.. a short day of lessons as per normal.. it was also the 4th day for the Sec Sch's SYF, Montfort was no. 97, the first band for the 2nd half of the afternoon session.. so had some time before their 4pm slot.. figured that this would be the only slot I'm free enough to get it before Sat so took 156 to Bukit Timah..
had a pleasant suprise as I boarded 156..

the whole interior of the bus was retrofitted with stylish white leather seats.. part of an advertisement campaign for Nokia.. quite cool.. changed to 157 to Accent.. bought 2 boxes of Vandoren 56 rue Lepic reeds as part of my birthday gift to the section.. (yes I know its ironic that I'm giving presents out for my birthday, instead of the other way round..) don't wanna reveal the exact cost, but lets just say 2 blue notes were used..
it rained during this whole time, and there wasn't any shelther to the building.. got abit soaked, luckily I brought an extra set of clothes.. took 174 to Orchard and 700 to SCH.. wasn't quite sure where to alight, so ended up walking back to SCH.. they had just arrived as I approached the entrance.. lotsa familar faces with some new ones.. went to see the clarinet section, they had just gotten new RCs.. very shiny, unlike some of NY's RCs.. hahaa..

caught up with my batch-mates there, namely Gerald, Sean, Joel, Desmond, Matthew and Thomas.. actually most of the alumni's that went to watch were from my section.. missed the times we spent together as a section.. it really the process rather than the results..

Wee Chong and Douglas were there also to support Maris Stella who were immediately after Montfort..

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..

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.:Saturday, April 15, 2006:.

yesterday was good friday... but not just any good friday, it was the best friday I had.. well, it didn't exactly went perfectly as I had dreamt, but close enough.. the day before had a few people backing out at the last minute, so I was quite disappointed.. on the flip side, went to K-Box for the very first time with my class... only know like less than 50% of the chinese songs they sang.. of course english songs are my cup of tea as the expression goes..
the day started off dreary, raining outside and I didn't feel like going out.. reached my aunt's place at 4.. the buffet people were already there and setting the buffet up.. hung around for awhile then my dad drove me to Kembangan MRT since it was still drizzling outside.. was there 15 mins earlier than what I told them to meet, so went to the nearby 7-11 to get some batteries.. and guess what, Alfred, Shaun, Yu Bin, Edison and Jason were there at the 7-11 also..
they waited at Kembangan Plaza while I went opposite to meet up with the rest.. saw Rommel and Linda first, then the rest started coming in.. Sean was also there, didn't know Linda is his classmate now, another weird coincidence with him.. the rain had stopped by the time everyone came.. walking there, everyone sorta banded off into their own groups, my current classmates, the CJ ppl (or pair I should say, only Rommel, Linda and Hannah from T24 turned up..) the Montfort ppl, the NTU attachement ppl, pri sch ppl (also another pair, Wei Hao and Yong Hong).. think I can easily draw a Venn Diagram, the groups like so distinct, with only a few overlap cases like Sean who would be under both CJ and NTU...
anyway, enough of me talking.. on with the pics..

the house..
in case you're wondering... yes, that is an indoor swimming pool... but quite risky walking past though as you can see from the narrow walkway..
had some introductions first... they didn't really seem interested to know each other though.. like sticking with the same group... there's hardly any interaction between the different groups.. I mean if it were me, I would definately mix around and get to know my friend's friends better.. like "hey, how's Jeremy in NY now..." or "so how did you get to know Jeremy?" don't see much of that happening..

the sumptous buffet..
then had buffet dinner next.. didn't really get to eat much, only like got one plate of noodles.. spent the rest of the time chatting, taking pics etc..
the different groups like went to different parts of the house to eat..

the Montfort people at the rooftop bbq area..

my NY classmates at the 2nd floor..

and the rest downstairs..
my aunt was generous enough to open a bottle of wine for us.. so had a little toast..

red red wine...
played Taboo afterwards.. which wasn't really sucessful.. like all the Montfort people would gang up and describe the words in "Gerald terms".. and obviously the rest don't have a single clue..
then Jack got 0621 to the rooftop area to dance our mass dance.. hahaa...

dance dance dance...
then got everyone downstairs to have cake... though the house is quite big, having everyone at a particular area quite squeezy..

me..
then had some group photos next..

Montfortians..

0621!

Family..
the coffee cake was nice.. then took more pics later on.. but I won't post it here... you'll find it on friendster...
to end off this extremely long post.. just wanna thank those that make my 17th birthday such a memorable one.. firstly, my auntie for letting us use her house as a venue.. all my friends who came.. in no particular order.. Wei Hao, Yong Hong, Ernest, Sean, Bernadette, Jeanna, March, Rommel, Hannah, Linda.. my Montfort friends, Lian Jie, Lampy, Yu Bin, Jason, Edison, Alfred, Wen Shao, Ming Wei, Shaun, Joachim, Dave, Desmond, Yong Liang, Bernard and Keck.. my NY classmates, Jack, Michelle, Angie, Yuan Ting, Yan Hao, Jin Hao, Tiat Ming, Jun An, Ji Bin, Min Jun, Tricia, Dwayne, Yong Huan, Joel, Ping Chong, Hek Ming, Sok Hua.. and last but not least, my family and cousins..
THANK YOU!
all those who couldn't make it but still wished me happy birthday.. Thank You.. I really appreciate it..
this day isn't about presents or cakes.. its about you guys, whether you were there or not, or somewhere in Canada, it doesn't really matter... they say friends make the person.. then I'm nothing without all you guys.. really grateful to have such a wonderful bunch of friends..
I couldn't ask for more..

Labels: 14th April