♫♪I'm a happy 1st Trombone!!♪♫
Last Saturday (4 Sept) was Germaine's birthday :) And band. Marching in the morning. It's not fun like I said in Sec 1. I taught Hui Shi (Tuba) because it's her first time marching. Well, I didn't teach her everything I wanted to, because her turnings (ke kiri/kanan/belakan pusing) were wrong sometimes and because there's not enough time. At 9am practice starts. We had 3 new pieces today, for the HK trip. All Disney songs... Can You Feel The Love Tonight, Disney Favourites & It's A Small World. Why must play Disney songs just because it's Disneyland? Haha. Oh ya DC didn't come because he overslept -.-
It's A Small World is super cool! Know why? Because it's full of glissando one after another! :D I love that, I love glissando! This is the first piece where we get gliss after gliss, normally it's none, one or a few spread out in the piece. But this is so cool!!! :D It would be cooler if I had a nice trombone sound -.- Disney Favourites had a few glissando too... Can You Feel The Love Tonight, trombone got one line melody, and slow songs really show the lousiness of the band. We're also playing highlights from High School Musical for the trip. Have not played that for so long, yuck. Oh and, Celebration And Song is our SYF piece next year! :O If I don't get the braces out a few months before then, I can go despair for my entire life and screw up O Levels... It's been almost exactly a year alr, 2 days to a year now! -.- It was 9/9/09 last year -.-
So anyway, we've got 4 pieces for HK trip and need one more. I think they're all nice, especially It's A Small World, of course!!! :D But Can You Feel The Love Tonight should be taken off... Mr Yeo advertised his Philharmonic Winds performance at Vivo City on 5 Sept.
So Sunday I went to support him, and to watch Philwinds perform... Was late by a few minutes -.- Started at 5pm ended at 6pm. I could see him but cannot see trombone at all! :( There was alto sax solo, eupho solo, trumpet during part of a song, marimba solo, NO trombone solo :( I recorded all the pieces except for the one I missed part of because I was late, which is ABBA songs medley. Oh and for Ponyo they let 4 kids conduct them. I think the first girl was the best because her tempo is consistent and her strokes are correct, although once she missed one stroke and the conductor helped her back. The other 3 are like anyhow wave haha, and of course inconsistent. But to my surprise they follow the inconsistent tempo, haha! And the conductor actually told the girl they wouldn't follow her and in the end she was fine, but they followed the others. Ironic, haha.
Monday band and workshop. We practiced the 4 HK trip songs and the SYF piece. After band we had to go to ACJC for workshop, 20 of us. But Jaslyn and Athirah stayed back for half an hour to do some scores stuff then we were late -.- And the person at the table scolded us. "Hurry up, you're already late". We took bus to Tampines MRT and then MRT to Buona Vista (in the WEST) and walked from there to ACJC with just my phone map. Is that not rush enough? It started at 2pm, I don't know how late we were but I think around 2.15pm... It was till 5.30pm. It was leadership workshop, I thought music. The presenter told a lot of stories, some very long. Some was like so long that the front part has no link to his topic. Like when I came in with Jaslyn, he was talking about his experience on SIA plane... He showed us some mace stuff with a rifle, and he taught a girl volunteer to spin the rifle! :D After the workshop, I walked to MRT station again and took 2 MRTs home.
Today, no not band again. Chemistry mass lecture and of course Darryl's birthday :) Cold and sleepy in the auditorium, at least I had jacket ^_^ I like candy (eye candy rather, haha) but can't have it :(
