hey! i'm back after days of studying. i feel nerdy with all that geog and chem info in my head. and blogspot changed the page where yu can compose your entries. now it's further equipped with better qualities. i like verdana better than trebuchet. ahh.
a word of caution: very longg entry.
ooh. it's midnight already. band fiesta in a few hours' time. i'm excited about it somehow. gonna enjoy my phototaking sessions there at botanical gardens! ahahs. i remembered the last time i went there last year, saj(?) was playing american graf 12. i think they got the grooviest band award cuz they brought balloons and sweets with them to entice the children to cheer for them! i heard the bands who performed last week weren't veryvery good, maybe except for st pats. ahh. i feel scared for SYF 2005.
so anyways, we (jAss, hoi, jc, xy and i) sat in for combine last wednesday. how fun. it was our first time. we were acting all seniorish sitting on the floor beside the clarinets. hoi and jAss tried to study. how odd. haha. i truly understand why the ex-seniors kept stretching their necks whenever they sat beside the clarinets, cuz it's really difficult to figure out what's going during combine.
and she didn't scold AT ALL for the broken baton! boy, i wanted to cry. i was so relieved that my heart almost came out. i seriously thought we're gonna get a thrashing from her and all. but no, nothing happened! she wasn't even angry! i must really thank God, or i'd have been butchered by her. whew.
i wanted to kill ms ann on friday. she was being absolutely pmssy during pe. but that's not the worst part. the worst part was when she couldn't stop picking on the four of us. she stalked us as we moved from station to station. she eyed us closely enough to spot every single mistake we committed, and was all ready to jump at the chance to tell us off. but what the hell. the rest of the class were also making the same mistakes. she should just die. she's making my life in tkgs a whole lot more miserable. one lokeyeo is enough. ohh, sk calls her 'the killer' by the way. she tortures us by making us run around the school three to four times. heheh. but all of us cheated on friday. we couldn't care less. we went into hiding during the third round and re-emerged at the fourth round. ms ann is lazy therefore she didn't find out. stupid dick.
ahh. enough about her. she's making my blog all oily with her fats. she needs liposuction really. she needs help.
so, we had the geog and chem cas on sat. i studied till my brain cells burst. ahh. i was stupid to leave out simple cell. it was only ONE page. ONE miserable page. and it's the LAST page. i actually thought it wasn't gonna come out so i happily skipped that portion. and. yes. as usual i'm unlucky. it came out. i wanted to knock my head against the wall ah. grr.
however, i was smart enough to ask mrs khoo for last minute tips one day before the geog ca. heheh. not smart la. just plain kiasu. i must say mrs khoo is reallyreally very generous with her 'tips'. they were practically answers to our geog questions actually. ahahs. i felt so glad that i cleared my doubts the day before the ca. thongs lied. nile river didn't come out at all. liarliar. but i didn't study. so.. heheh. :]
i realised after typing so much, i haven't reached the part i most wanted to say: saturday.
17 july 2004/one day before band fiesta/(technically) our last band prac
the sec fours arrived at school at the crack of dawn. studied a bit and took the cas. lets not talk much about them since i screwed BOTH papers up. ahh. yeah. i felt extremely happy after the papers cuz they were like heavy burdens taken off my shoulders. wanted to die while mugging the night before. so when the cas were all over, we were suddenly in seventh heaven. :))
went for sectionals and had this longg briefing before lunch. my stomach rumbled and thundered. seriously. i hope no one heard. heheh. quite embarrassing eh. yupp. finally, it was lunch. ran to the coffeeshop to buy food and all. had fun eating. haha. couldn't stop laughing actually, cuz neem was telling us how mdm khoo told her to wear court shoes to school if she didn't have trackshoes/schoolshoes. lols. and we combined at the foyer!! don't yu realise? the seniors ALWAYS have their last combine (technically) at the foyer. then it will be followed by the presentation of ms sia's birthday presents. aww. i'm gonna cry. i recalled the times when we were sec twos. we had to sit at the sides of the foyer listening to the seniors practising for band fiesta. and when we were sec threes, i can still remember geraldine and her chocolate cake!! we had our turn yesterday. our LAST combine. it was fine. except that i didn't touch my instru for a week so i felt a bit detached(?) from it. haha. we got treated to ice creams once again! how nice. so after combine, we sang a birthday song for ms sia and presented her with gifts. hehs. that was the funny part. most of the sections gave her the same stuffs! including us! haha. i'm quite sure she thinks that we think she stinks. :]
we even tried other instrus today! but we got scolded for it.
shit. i think i typed a lott! but never mind. i'm in the mood to! haha. five days away from comp, that's why. :))
wokay. so i went for this president's young performers concert at the esplanade just now. sso performed. and i saw president SR nathan! haha. i know it's nothing really great about it so never mind. the concert was good. can't find a better word for it cuz i don't know how to appreciate orchestra music exactly. but i liked the harp for the first piece. it was enchanting. the music produced by the harp is just heavenly. :] but there was this highly irritating boy beside me who kept fidgeting. fortunately, they went away after the intermission. the second piece was THIRTY TWO minutes longg!! it featured a violin soloist throughout the entire piece. i pitied the soloist cuz i believe his arm must have hurt. fancy moving them non-stop for half an hour. but his playing is superb i must admit. when i close my eyes (aka sleeping), i could picture what was his music trying to depict. the music was supposed to create a 'suitably dream-like mood while the violin floats like a disembodied spirit'. yeah. i kinda had that vision.
the third piece was a piano concerto. the pianist is fabulous too. her fingers were.. wow. ((limited vocab la)) ohh. i didn't see ma yue. the clarinet solos were all played by a female caucasian. yupp. not ma yue.
the esplanade reminded me of our 26 june 2003 concert. the spacious changing rooms and all. ahh. that place is so reminiscent of my fond memories in band. i cried while singing if we hold on together just now. the lyrics are so meaningful. i'm sure i'll miss band. i don't wanna leave band so soon. it'll be hard for me to let go. why can't time just freeze?
urgh. i'm awfully exhausted now.
we're having fish and co for lunch later! i bet we're gonna break the bank cuz we're treating neem too. birthday treat la. happy belated birthday neem! play well for band fiesta people! :))