♫♪I'm back to happy Bass Trombone!!♪♫ SYF is next week... After the first 2 days of SYF the results show that the standard has increased by a lot... I'm thinking that the worst could happen, so I wouln't be surprised at the results of my band, unless we get a silver or beyond. I'm going to miss my juniors... A lot... Haiz... Amanda, Zijian, Hui Shi... I made cards for them yesterday :) Now I have less time to study for the damn tests next week, all of which require memorising loads -.- But it's ok, they're more important :) I love you juniors! ^_^ I always will...♥ Jay Chou's new Sprite commercial theme song; full MV!!! :D He's the director by the way ^_^
Hey! Zijian! I wish you'd create MSN you know!

Labels: Band, Jay Chou, Juniors

♫♪I'm back to happy Bass Trombone!!♪♫

Now I don't even have time to write diary until weekends... -.-"

This week again, my feelings change so many times I don't know what to feel...

Thursday we went to Parliament house for learning journey. Cool, we saw the PM. And when we were leaving we saw Dai Yang Tian and his camera crew, don't know doing what. Anyway, not interested in him... If it was Jay Chou it would be a different story, haha...

Friday sectionals... Serene & Germaine came back! :D Omg haven't seen Serene for so long! I miss you Senior ^_^

Saturday band exchange programme at Fajar Sec! :D With Mr Yeo's other bands: Greenridge Symphonic Band & Dunearn Military Band, and Twinny's band Woodlands Ring & the sir's other band Teck Whye, and Han Wei's band Chestnut Drive and Changkat Changi (which is about our size).

So happy to see my Twinny again! :D And when I saw Han Wei I didn't know it was him at first, because I wasn't wearing specs and he also wasn't and had no more Jay Chou hair, haha! There was no break, so sad, because I wanted to look for the 2 of them to get a picture at least -.- I didn't go for SYF rehearsal then I don't know how to enter... -.- Not nice, my part. The others all very good :) After the exchange ended, I gave Twinny the chocolate and cards :D Then went to give Fajar Trombone Section the lollipops. They gave us a card for the Lower Brasses! Haha :D Thanks ^_^ And finally when we were leaving I managed to talk to Han Wei a bit :) I want to have an NCO Trombone Outing in June holidays or after O Levels! Twinny & I will organise one if no one does! I miss the section unity! :(

Oh and I didn't get sweets from anyone D: Not fair, Zijian gets sweets everyday, and his section got sweets also, but I don't have :( Then I very emo. Tsk, not fair never give me :( I don't even know what I'm emo for, that afternoon was just emo... I think band la, it's always band, isn't it? -.- Bastard. Anyway, I'm leaving soon.



*手中的铅笔在纸上来来回回 我用几行字形容你是我的谁*

Labels: Band, Events/Occassions, Feelings/Emotions, Jay Chou, School, songs, Sweets, Trombone

♫♪I'm back to happy Bass Trombone!!♪♫

Hey! You know when I saw on twitter that Super Junior M had collaborated with Jay Chou I immediately went to look for the song! :D Jay Chou and his lyricist Vincent Fang wrote a song for SJM's new album Perfection 太完美. The song is called Love Is Sweet 幸福微甜 and it's so Jay Chou style!!! ^_^ Got rap in it even :D And, it's their only song that sounds Chinese. Their songs all sound like Korean songs with Chinese lyrics, but this one sounds more Chinese ^_^ I can't really hear the words when they sing (just like Jay, haha!) but that's because most of them are Koreans not Chinese, so it's not surprising.

This song is so beautiful... The music and lyrics are so sweet... 幸福微甜

快樂不避嫌 我們住在彼此 心裡面 一天天 累積眷戀

Labels: Jay Chou, songs, Super Junior

♫♪I'm back to happy Bass Trombone!!♪♫

Hello :) This first week of school has been busy... =v= But I think it'll get worse, haha. Band practices as usual, and Friday had Sec 1 Orientation. I want the Sec 1s! :D I want to be in charge of them, and teach them marching and everything... I want them to be mine first before anyone else can "pollute" them as Taufiq says. It should be fun teaching them from basics. Last year no trombone junior, so I haven't taught basics for almost 2 years. Anyway, anyone in the right mind would know that I'd rather teach Sec 1s. A few more weeks and they'll come in, but I think I already know one junior who will be here: Chong Pin! I wish I could snatch him to trombone section, haha! I want a girl and a boy, 2 hardworking ones who will love trombone like I do :) It's hard to find people I get along with. Anyway, the CCA display was... not bad. But it's of course not good either. The individual instrument introduction I played the same thing as last year, Kevin & I took turns to play When The Saints Go Marching In :) Just that this year... no Kevin beside me! :( I miss Kevin :( And some people played the "solo" wrongly =v= I should have thought of playing Sorry Sorry and 菊花台. I should go learn more Jay Chou songs... My favourite ones (that's a lot!) We have 30+ interested but not all will join. Hope Chong Pin gets in, I should be able to get along with him :) I think he will get in. We played Rockin To The Rhymes and It's A Small World... I'm gonna take the Sec 1s like my life depends on it, because after all they're saving me. Enough about band, you must be getting bored. Let's read about class now, which I rarely write on.

I'm still the EL rep of 4R1 even though I said before I don't want to continue. But no one volunteered, and I don't actually mind doing it for my
4R1 so I agreed to continue. But my assistant changed. Haha, they wanted Cui Yi but Ms Deepa chose Brandon's index number, which is just 1 away from CY. Well, he's not bad, started collecting money for TYS quite fast :) (But he started fast, I collected fast. Ah... haha!) There was also a Bio test, which I studied for very last minute. But well, I suppose it's better than last year's SA2 because they didn't test a lot on things I didn't study... I hope I answer correctly la...

Chinese class, we are grouped according to last year's scores, and we are mixed 3 classes. I'm in 1A! 1A's target for O Levels is A1! ^_^ But I think they're being a bit ridiculous. Some people here get 50+ and the target is A1? The range is quite big...wonder if anyone got 70+, I only got it in early Sec 3... And 1B is aiming for A1 when they're the ones that fail? So you can roughly gauge the standard of 1C which is aiming for B3? The grouping is better than Sec 3 of course, but... it doesn't make sense to me la... There should be more than 3 classes if possible... Anyway, it's still an honour to be in 4-1A and 4R1 ^_^ This year, I'm going to study more. See you :)


*乘着阳光 海上冲浪*

Labels: Band, Chinese, Events/Occassions, Jay Chou, songs, Trombone

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! :D To Band, I wish you the motivation to get me my Gold award for SYF! It's OURS! I wanted to wish something more but I realised that's the only thing you need... To my lovely 4R1-ers! I wish us the courage to face setbacks and push forward! I wish us a fun and fulfilling last year together, and all the best results in the whole school! Let's continue this stereotype and show everyone that 4R1 IS the BEST CLASS! To my dear seniors, my pillars of strength, I wish you all the strength to stay happy and persevere through the toughest times with a vision of the best future. This is what you gave me :) I hope that you all will be strong to protect yourselves because you are grown up already, moving on or in the real world already! I ♥ you everybody :) I hope we will be friends next year :) 我一直都没变，还在每天许愿 ☆

The FIRST person to wish me Happy New Year (without me wishing first) is... Surprise! KEVIN! :D I wished Nurlena, Mavis, Suky, Stacia first :) Kevin seems different from last time... in a good way ^_^ Oops! Clarification: I don't like Kevin (in a BGR way). Stacia, does this line look familiar? Haha! Oi must tag ah, if not the da jiejie will spam you! :D She thought I like him... =v= Not her fault though, that's why I'm clarifying! I was watching MBC Gayo Daejun online, Super Junior sang Sorry Sorry (my favourite song by them!) and Bonamana! :D Their performance was about 12.40am so I had to wait so long... Now I can go to sleep! Suky! Read the previous post last paragraph! For you! ^_^


*想看你看的世界 想在你梦的画面*

Labels: Band, Events/Occassions, Feelings/Emotions, Jay Chou, Seniors, songs, Super Junior

♫♪I'm back to happy Bass Trombone!!♪♫

Band practice today! We played with a mute to train... ah my low notes just suck :'( It didn't use to be like this... JAY CHOU IS TRENDING IN BAND! :D Almost every practice the conductors say "Don't be a Jay Chou! Articulate the notes!" hahaha!

Anyway, the 3R1-ers left at 9.25am. I'm proud to say we were not late when everyone else was. We went to SPCA for a talk and interact with animals, but I didn't touch any. The dog area stinks quite badly, I don't know why but individual dogs don't usually stink... but that area almost made me vomit :s

There was band gift exchange today but I missed it. Anyway Hui Shi took mine for me :)


*天青色等烟雨 而我在等你*

Labels: Band, Jay Chou, songs, Trombone

♫♪I'm back to happy Bass Trombone!!♪♫

Hello! 好久不见，你还好吗？Today there band practice resume! :D Damned juniors took the slide oil and both didn't come -.- So I used slide cream with the spray (I changed the water Mr Yu!) which is even better, haha!

We have the SYF Set piece, Memories of Friendship. I accidentally took 1st trombone score and read it and only realised I took wrong one after the break, just before we started on it -.- 我还挂念着 1st trombone 嘛……But it's surprising, the 1st trombone score is easier to sight read than 3rd trombone, because the faster notes have positions close to each other, 3rd trombone has to move more. There are 2 parts where trombone has melody. It's a nice song with a "very Japanese" melody as Mr Yu said. Well, it's written by Satoshi Yagisawa. The song is mostly crotchets for trombone. It's actually a bit... easy, but I dare not boast because my sound is still yucky, corrupted by braces. Damn it, next appointment is in January eh, and SYF's in APRIL! After that the next appointment's probably MARCH. Even if I take out, it's too close to SYF and it'll be even worse than with braces. Ya anyway, we also played Celebration and Song once today, ew.

Just now I was busy finishing writing Chinese story. I'm gonna hand write it on nice paper or decorate my paper! :D I wrote a story called 学长的学妹，很明显我写的是谁吧。I took extra care 把他描写得很好哦！



*岸边的丘陵崎岖不平浪入侵　我却很专心分辨得出你的声音*

Labels: Band, Chinese, Jay Chou, songs, Trombone

♫♪I'm back to happy Bass Trombone!!♪♫

Hello! :) Yesterday was our last band practice before the HK trip... I feel so sorry for Mr Yu, he must be feeling the same as Mr Yeo, but he doesn't show or say anything, he rarely scolds people. Why?... He really shouldn't be wasting his life here. I think we're so lucky to have Mr Yu, but he would be better some place better where he can build up his reputation...

Today I practised trombone! ^_^ Yesterday got dental after band, braces tightened, so I MUST play to get used to it. We won't have time to practice in HK, unless I use Tuesday which is Disneyland day, because I don't have to stay at Disneyland the whole time allocated. I never liked this kind of place anyway... :)

I'll be leaving for the airport in a few hours. Tomorrow my flight is 6.45am, Band has to report at 4.30am, so I have to wake up at 3.30am (not 2.30am, save half hour because I want to eat at the airport, save another half hour because I'm taking cab) Have to sleep soon (but I'm still full from dinner -.-). Oh my gosh, I'm so gonna miss you! I'm already missing you a lot! But being in HK means I can't go online, so I'll miss you MORE! I'll be back at midnight on 5 Dec, miss me! :)



*紧紧地把那拥抱变成永远*

Labels: Band, Jay Chou, Overseas, Trombone

♫♪I'm back to happy Bass Trombone!!♪♫

Today got band practice! :) Should be sectionals but Mr Yeo came so we had combined practice. I think I'm gonna play lousily for the Winter Band Festival. My mouth hurts, my heart hurts. I'm not as confident of my parts as I used to be before I put braces. I didn't memorise my score like I did last year. Actually, I don't purposely memorise, it comes naturally. But now I can't memorise :(

Anyway, today Mr Yeo mentioned some of my favourite things: Jay Chou and China!!! :D
He was talking to Kwot Sin who always mumbles everything he says.
Mr Yeo: Do you like 周杰伦？
Kwot Sin: No
Hui Shi (looks at me)
Me: (quietly) Yes! Yes! Yes! *nods frantically* :D
Hahaha! I once showed her my phone background which is Jay picture ^_^

Then at It's A Small World, the part that says "The Orient" he asked them to be more oriental. Then he said people have a (I forgot that word! >_<) that oriental is (then he starts singing). Then he say "We are from China. Mao Zedong says..." haha, actually ah, Yu Bin was there -.- And Chinese DON'T talk like that! Luckily never say offensive stuff, if not my face black already.

Tomorrow is my birthday, and I got an email reminder from hotmail that it is my birthday, haha! I wonder how that happened! This year, I was supposed to make 2 birthday cards, but only made 1... I doubt I'll be getting any this year, he doesn't know my birthday, I think. Tomorrow I'm seeing Band. I remember last year Rebekah said "Today is Rebecca Tan's birthday!" and if she didn't say my surname it'll sound funny, haha! Well, I'm not expecting anything :) Cards are better than presents though! :D Haha! Eh... very unexpectedly, Han Wei from NCO is the first to wish me happy birthday this year, just now only :O Saw my MSN display message, and he won't be at home tomorrow, so wish me just now. I think China is going to wish me tomorrow! ^_^ But I'm kind of greedy, what about the other one?



*夜未央 你的影子剪不断*

Labels: Band, Birthday, Jay Chou, songs, Trombone

♫♪I'm back to happy Bass Trombone!!♪♫

Hi hi! :) I'm back from the 36th NCO Band Camp! :D 5 days... tiring but super FUN! I've never laughed so much in 5 days and never eaten so many times in 5 days before, haha! The laughter is thanks to my NCO Trombone Section 2010! We're the most hyper section in the NCO Band! They always say funny things then start laughing like crazy, haha, they're a fun bunch :) During lectures in the auditorium (that's 1/3 the size of the one in school) and even combined practice with Mr Kajiyama (conductor of Aichi Meiden High School, Japan) they also so active, haha. The guys definitely eat a lot also. And of course, I met my twinny there! We had an exchange with 5 other bands on Valentines' Day last year. After that I found WRS band blog and saw that there's a Rebecca trombonist who was ABM. Now we're both BM and my twinny is also a small girl who eats slowly ^_^ We had 16 trombonist, even more than trumpets. They said this year has a lot of trombones, yeah! Trombones rock! Of course I have a BM friend from Percussion too, China girl :) I met her on the bus to the pre-camp briefing :D

The Passing Out Parade yesterday was totally cool! We rock! It's the best camp I ever had. The kind of feeling you have when you finish a song and the audience scream, and you stand there basking in the glory and pride with our instruments held high... Incomparable to anything I've ever experienced! :)

Today still had band practice and marching in the morning. Wake up early again... Tired eh... Hazirah taught NAS band what she learnt! :) During combined practice, this band sings so softly... At NCO when Mr Kajiyama told us to sing, wow, a full sound. The playing also is so soft! I start missing NCO Band already, so early in the morning... But I'm back to my beloved NAS Band now :) Today time seems to fly. Nearing 12pm I didn't even feel like practice was ending... Oh ya, my Baby (trombone) is at home ^_^ I'll keep Baby here for now, because I'm using Taiwan anyway ^_^ Now I can practice at home with my favourite trombone! One of my favourite la... :D

Did you miss me? I missed you!


*不会松手*

Labels: Band, Camp, Concerts/Performances, Events/Occassions, Feelings/Emotions, Jay Chou, songs, Trombone

♫♪I'm back to happy Bass Trombone!!♪♫

Hello! No NAS Band practice for me today (because there's lesson) and no Band Major Band, that's tomorrow. Haiz! The others are mostly better than me! -.- Not fair, no braces... Grr... so angry! Yesterday was so emo...

Today's lesson was sucky. Physics 2h, A Math 2h -.- Then lunch with Appu and Xinyi, then Chem 2.5h (exceeded by 0.5h). During Chem SPA, oh my gosh, Appu spilt a lot of some nitrate then I got a gigantic shock! I thought it was acid... When anything spills I always get a shock because I think it's acid... Phew! Oh and I got silver nitrate on my hand, stained -.- Oh ya, Mrs Pong gave sweets and Popular voucher to those who's born in Oct-Dec. My month only 2 people, me and Francoise. I think it's the month with least people born in 3R1...

I think eye candy is nicer than candy :)


*我想就这样牵着你的手不放开*

Labels: Band, Jay Chou, Lessons, School, songs

♫♪I'm back to happy Bass Trombone!!♪♫

As the header says, I'm back to happy Bass Trombone from happy 1st Trombone :') It was yesterday...

Friday, we watched a movie and did a "test" which was more like reflections, after FIESTA. We had about an hour for FIESTA! I spent it with Sarah walking around and talking :) I support Jasmine by buying 麦芽糖 from her! ^_^ Haha! The apple slices came with some sweet sauce then Sarah ask for one without the sauce -.- And 2R3's stall name is Sticky Corner, haha! :P
*We know we are so close, so close, and still so far*

I hate people late and wasting time, especially everyone's time. I taught my juniors sectionals for a while. I hate my sound, I hate braces. I love Band, I love Trombones. I wish I could play with my juniors, but I suppose it's better for them if I don't. I asked to go back to Bass Trombone, for them, the Band. Benjamin agreed to take 1st Trombone. What about for me?

Saturday, marching. I hate people late. I love marching. I hate the way they march. I love Band. Today was the switch back to Bass Trombone.... Feelings can't always be put into words, if not we wouldn't have feelings. Today we only played 2 songs, Can You Feel The Love Tonight and Highlights from High School Musical. I've forgotten the feeling of playing Bass Trombone, the loose embouchure, the round solid sound... The notes seem to be better for me, but I'll have to wait until I play more to see how much more and better I can play. Benjamin seems to have some problem with the 6.5 mouthpiece. He says he can reach the high notes better with the size 1 mouthpiece, interesting, haha. I've got a feeling you'll play well Ben, even if your rhythm is not perfect :)



*将愿望折纸飞机寄成信 因为我们等不到那流星*

Labels: Band, Events/Occassions, Feelings/Emotions, Jay Chou, Juniors, songs, Sweets, Trombone

♫♪I'm a happy 1st Trombone!!♪♫

Hello :) Exams over today and band practice resumes today... But I had time to go home although it takes one hour, because exam ended at 9+ and band starts at 2.30pm. I'm jealous you know, you go out with friends while I stay at home...

I MISS MY TROMBONE BABY!!! 1 month no band practice, now there'll be tweets on band again ^_^ I love trombone and band a lot you know! I oiled the slide and polish my baby to make her nice and healthy! :D I feel very 委屈 for my trombone that her slide is in such a state... The seniors should have taken care of her more lovingly....

Tomorrow's marking day, no school, which means I will waste a day of my life tomorrow, unless I go study Chemistry or Physics. Before the exams I was thinking I should make notes not just for Bio, but all the Sciences. My Bio notes also didn't complete up to date... Well, I don't make notes consistently... And I realise Bio is harder to make notes because there's lots of diagrams which without them will be a lot harder to study. So if I don't draw it I'll be using the textbook in the end... -.- Ok, I'll end on studies. What should I do tomorrow? I'm definitely not going out because there'll be no one going with me, and I don't go out with friends... :( Urgh...! It's irritating when I have so much free time in Singapore! Oh yes! I actually could go to TAIWAN again! But, it's about 10 days and I'm already going to HK with Band... There'll be EAP in November, which will have homework, and of course there's holiday homework, and I have to study (though I don't know if I will). So I think I'll have not enough time to finish my work. But I want to go!!! Don't presume that I'll have chances to go in future, because no one knows the future, but if I could go after O Levels, I'd go to Taiwan or China! :D


＊我到了这个时候还是一样，我从末变心，夜里的寂寞容易叫人悲伤＊

Labels: Band, Exams, Jay Chou, songs, Trombone