Band practice yesterday. I was dismissed from class at 12.30pm and practice started at 2.30pm. I went to the food court with Xue Qi at Tampines Mart. Guess who I saw the moment I walked in a few steps. Darryl and Karl (Oboe). He ignored me, as usual. After we ate, we went back to school and did nothing much. Checked out the Band noticeboard. Then at 2.30pm, practice started. Supposed to set up instruments and go to the canteen with our section. Did Darryl abandon me? He left with other people. Went there and he asked me to play high B flat to tune-sharp as usual. After that, I didn't do anything until 3pm when Mr Yeo came. I stained my shirt again with slide oil. Last time I stained it because Cai Yan was teaching how to oil my slide then I touched the oil and touched my shirt. This time I adjusted the tuning slide then touched my shirt because I didn't know there was oil on my hand.
Today, practice wasn't fun or nice. It was tiring. Kevin had MT Oral today so he came at 4pm+. Maybe it was so tiring because I had my 2.4km run earlier. I still have other reasons if that's incorrect. Today we had rehearsal for National Day. When the Uniform Groups people bring in the national flag, we played Trumpet Voluntary (now we are playing it again), when it's Sekolah Sediya (School attention) we played Majulah Singapura. We kept repeating this. Everytime the emcee said something wrong, the teacher ask us to do everything again. This is another reason. I was unhappy because Darryl didn't talk to me yet he talk to that idiot beside him as if he knew him for a year already. Darryl! What are you thinking?! You ignore your own junior but act so friendly to other people's junior! What's more, that's the one who bullied your junior! How could you be so friendly to the person who bullied your junior and yet ignore your junior?! Serene (Saxophone) is right although she was just joking I think-you're gender biased. Cai Yan is right. You don't talk to me because "you haven't really grown up yet." Mood affects tiredness, so this is another reason.
Kevin said while waiting for their turn to be tested for oral, they told scary stories. Darryl said "Crazy ah? Now what month?" Then Kevin said there were talking about one very scary story when suddenly he heard a girl's voice he never heard before-"Cheng Heng" He turned around and Cai Yan was there, hahaha! How could he never have heard her voice? I saw her before practice but she didn't see my till I called her because she was looking at her phone. For Majulah Singapura, I think Darryl's counting is not very good. We're supposed to play F G F G but he's one count early there. When I start F G F, he's already at G F G. So when I'm at position 1 he's at 4 and vice versa then I got confused and didn't play properly there.
I felt so cool when I was playing Majulah Singapura. The slide position has to change very quickly-there are quavers and dotted quavers (0.75 counts) so I move the slide very quickly that's why I felt cool :D
We had to stand and take the national pledge and racial harmony pledge (National Day and Racial Harmony Day is going to be celebrated together on 8 August). First time I didn't put my fist to my heart and also didn't say the pledge because I thought it was just a rehearsal so don't need. I also didn't say the racial harmony pledge most of the time but I did raise my right hand. I think it was the first time, Mr Yeo spotted me not saying the racial harmony pledge and stared at me in a very obvious way so that I would notice and get his message (to say the pledge). At first I didn't know, then when I noticed (which was about the same time Darryl noticed and looked at me) I quickly opened my mouth and recited. Oh yes! Kevin said "Miracle, Samuel coming tomorrow." He doesn't come on Saturdays and I was happy because he's my senior and I never interacted with him before. Yup, that was yesterday's Band practice.
Labels: Band, Concerts/Performances, Seniors, Slide oil, Sports, Trombone