Surviving the first week of holidaze
one Conditions were perfect. My mom wasn’t at home. I was inside a room. And what did I do?
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I did a cover of Franz Ferdinand’s No You Girls. Covered every instrument but there’s no vocals in this one because..I can’t sing
two I invited Moses over to my house.
..did I ever mention that I have a thing for building IKEA stuff?
three I was claying around. For the sake of my Art project.
And take a look at my right thumb. Le hitchhiker’s thumb
four I think that it’s going to be a great year, in terms of games and such. With the Sims 3 released and the soon-to-be-released Tales of Monkey Island and BEATLES ROCKBAND, I wonder how I am going to set my mind onto SPM..
A 3D John Lennon is pretty good-looking HAHA. Ok lah, I definitely can’t get this one since it’s ROCKBAND. A whole set. No way.
five OVERDUE! I was supposed to write a post about the Band Party we had on the 29th of May, but there was no way I could upload the photos. I finally got the pictures uploaded last night (after a one-week struggle) but it’s in Facebook. Click here if you want to have a look at ‘em.
Long story short, the band party was held at Steffi’s house + neighbourhood. At the very same time, there was a Green House party elsewhere (haha green house effect). I had two choices and obviously, I picked the Band Party, because the band is “the best”
What, I’m proud to be a band geek!
Those who didn’t attend (for whatever reason) have absolutely missed the fun we had lah. The party was a good opportunity to bond with the other banditos, since we had some group activities/games. We played this Amazing Race sort of game, running back and forth from the house to the playground..pretty much like testing our endurance.
One last statement: If we’re talking about team/society parties, I’d rather go for band parties anytime. Right right right?
Sports Day ‘09
From a trombonist’s eye-view
Originally uploaded by malfrinko
It was my last Sports Day yesterday.
Fifth and last time to march and perform at Matsushita Stadium with the school band. (this is not the last band activity of the year!)
No more Atten-Hut.
No more Parade Rest.
No more Left-Face-Left/Right-Face-Right.
No more Mark Time March/Forward March.
No more Parade Dismiss.
The school band is a club/society and Green House is a [sports] team, but it seems that I have a lot of spirit for the band rather than the latter. I just don’t know why. Maybe, to me, making music with others is better than engaging in sporty stuff. I’m extremely pathetic in running and all that.
I think…if the school band did not exist, I might have been in Green’s marchpast team.
Yellow House was the champion again (for how many consecutive years already?); Followed by Red, Blue and Green. I contributed only one point to Green House and not to forget, a whole lot of sweat to the prop-painting for the Green House marchpast team.
Before the final results was announced, I was telling myself that I’d be frustrated if Green House is only less than 5 points away from Blue House.
…It turned out to be right. We were 4 points behind Blue. At times like this, you’d feel that every point counts.
I’m just glad that all of the paintings we’d done did not go to waste Yep, Green’s marchpast team grabbed the gold!
##Using an 18-200mm camera lens as an utility:##
“Eh, that fella running there..Green or blue?”
“Cannot see.”
“Oh wait wait wait, I use my camera.”
*zooms*
“Blue.”
PhotoSpam time. But before that..
Credits: Ivan [right] for taking the marchpast and band photos
Edward [left] for taking the band videos (update: JUST ADDED!)
MARCHPAST + BAND
Prefects
Scouts
This is Sparta. This is madness. Spot Faris/King Leonidas haha
Raging Spartans! Red Forever
If you tilt your head to the right, you’ll see that the “G” on the shirt is actually the power icon.
”Nature” is our theme this year. Not my favourite (and I am not into saving the earth),
but we could look at it as many things like:
The Green Lantern followers, Elves or Druids, Treehuggers, Freaks of Nature…
It’s a heart, but ye can’t see it clearly here..
This is a masterpiece which Farisha, Laura and I worked on
It’s a picture of Mother Nature but we didn’t come up with the design
This is the original picture:
CHEERLEADING
A present!
Surprise!
Can you do the can-can?
Back-breaking, man.
Awakening the dead
*punch punch*
Dispersion
“Sawadeeka! We welkam you to Bangkok!”
They’re like casting magic spells right there.
“NO don’t drop it on my head!”
Tango sort of thing?
I smell some grammatical error..
The one jumping at the front has extraordinary jumping skills.
Which way is it: West or East?
Chai Leng says “HI!”
“Pick me, teacher! Pick me!”
Hovering Humans
Hovering Humans Part 2
The undertakers
Oh gads, mid-air split.
“Hyugh. We’re so strong, we need no overly large biceps.”
Y…MCA.
No perversion allowed.
“Ugh, what’re these jellyfishes doing on my face?”
Take-off like Superman! Woosh.
Go, fight, win
Looks like the High School Musical 3 poster.
Trojan or Spartan? Aiyah, same thing lah.
“Eh, can scratch my back ah? I cannot reach the itchy part..”
Invisi-golf
TEACHERS’ TELEMATCH
Supporters
Dribble dribble dribble
I guess this was the moment when Ustaz fell down..and initially, he was leading..
TUG-OF-WAR
Chaaaaarge!
Looking at the horsies reminds me of Charlie the Unicorn
Anchor.
“Let there be Add. Maths!”
“Whaat. You call that a tug?”
“I don’t care!”
Defeated.
Victorious.
HOT HOT HOT
Gloves to reduce pain?
Mr. Chew poses with some style
Green’s Capt. Yap Yee Sam/1 2 3
“Ah come on, ye sissy sea urchin! Tug ‘arder!”
Defeated.
There’s something freaky about his right eyelid in this picture
RANDOM UNCATEGORIZABLE PHOTOS
Heng Hau’s smug-face
“I’m soaring like a candy wrapper caught in an updraft!”
Their own island
The score board fell forward..
Mr Kao looks really worried
It’s Christabel again!
He thinks he’s #1
–Post-Sports Day–
Things we [as in the band] did after Sports Day ended:
1. We “marched” to Pizza Hut.
“Fall in!”
“WOI CHECK YOUR LINE LAH!”
“Eh, wrong leg!”
“Parade, go to Pizza Hut!”
Yeah, it’s sort of a band joke/inside joke, which is cool.
2. We continued using band commands while we were in Pizza Hut.
“Atten-Hut!” *holds up a knife and a fork*
“Roll-roll-roll, down! Roll-roll-roll, eat!”
3. We took photos!
Atten-Hut!
I’m second from the left.
Just so you know, it was nobody’s birthday.
This “rock sign” was used as one of our marching signals.
Do the Lala pose!
The Trombone Section — playing air trombones!
We had to say “Trombone!” instead of “Cheese!”
Ended up having that strange smile on my face.
And next year, the trombone section will be taken care of by Han Quan (2nd from left) and Nagulan (1st from right)
Steffi and her gangstas
Gangsterism. Money. Grayscale.
More money
Kar Seng and I
He’s such a cute little fellow!
The Pizza Lifter Heroes
What goes well with bamboo trees?
A ninja! (there’s a shuriken on Steffi’s left index finger)
4. We walked back to school while talking about gangsters.
“Cross the road when the car comes. That’s what gangsters do.”
5. I found Green’s Mother Nature painting which used for marchpast and we re-arranged it. Apparently, the head went missing.
Oh well.
Sports Rehearsal
It’s not as important as the upcoming Annual Sports Day. But well wells. It wasn’t so bad, despite the absence of my close friends. I can survive with the school band people. In fact, the band’s been pretty fun, lately. Except for the part where I have to tolerate the juniors’ lame jokes. Man, I AM growing old.
Lots of candid photos ahead.
Kevin the fast-learner-but-gets-distracted-too-easily euphoniumist and Brandon the cymbalist
The emotional Mr Lim
..or should I say, Bandlord Lim?
Odd-looking fringe + Twisties between teeth + tanned skin + no sunblock applied = Yours truly
Bandlord Lim’s you’ve-gotta-be-kidding-me face
Lala band president Siew Yee and Si Min
Some people are just camera-shy
Little dude from the horn section gets a head-crushing experience
Suicidal sparrow wants to jump down!
(Really, it did)
Zi Hao, who appeared out of nowhere, came to join us, took out his phone and said, “My phone can be used for Truth or Dare..can spin quite long one..”
And that’s when the game started.
Truth – Question: “If you were to be with the last person on earth, who would it be?”
Took me >5 mins to answer that because there were so many busybodies (not shown).
Look at how uneasy I was feeling. Hahah..
Bandlord Lim laughs!
Christabel the alto saxophonist! Also, she’s a D90 user.
It so happened that she brought it today and I got to play around with it for a while. The continuous shooting (not shutter speed) is..super fast. Greater than D40’s.
Han Quan, a trombonist, looking very confused
Yu Xin/Tiny the clarinettist, busy with her music theory homework
Back to the Truth and Dare game..
Dare: Ming Ying had to hug Nagulan.
Und both of them are trombonists.
Dare: Zi Hao (not a band member) had to hug Vicky
The Truth or Dare circle + Wei-Jun who isn’t here in the picture
(he left the school band and went to pursue his librarian dreams )
Dare: Hoev Quan had to hug Pei Xi
Dare: Zi Hao had to sing a love song to Pn. Deva
Brave guy, I tell ye. There was once where he had to say “I love you” to a random girl.
Dare: Wei-Jun had to hug Melissa (I don’t think they know each other)
Free Hugs Day, eh?
Dare: Hoev Quan had to kiss Ellison’s hand
Dare: Ming Ying had to shout “I LOVE YOU!” to no one in particular.
Dare: Zi Hao had to kiss Mr Lim’s hand.
“Which hand you want? Left or right?” – Mr Lim
The last dare: Si Min (in green) had to say “You’re very good-looking” to a random boy.
Look how puzzled and lost he is! HAHAHA.
He shook his head afterwards.
The game was brought to an end and I was left with nothing to do. I got to borrow Christabel’s macro lens and snapped some photos using manual focus [it can't auto focus on my D40 apparently], with the f-stop remaining at 1.8. I think the time has come for me to make use of the Shutter Priority (S) mode, heh
Gads, Zi Hao was the only one who was willing to pose
Trumpet valves
The side of a trumpet..so much bokeh, dood.
Candid. He’s a junior trumpettist whom some of us label as “The Blur-blur Guy”No bad intentions lah, but he does look like he’s going to fall asleep if you talk to him.
Yeaaah. Sri KL’s very own water bottles.
Pretending to be a tango dancer, replacing the rose with a bass drum mallet
And to think that this was taken with manual focusing..not bad, you know! 
Epic fail!Jonathan “Chow” was telling us how expensive bass drum mallets are. ≈ RM420
Mein phone. It has been serving me for nearly three years.Won’t be replacing it for another few years although it has some ugly scratches.
Mr Phuah! 
Thimbletack does not look pleased.
Sri KL!
Who are we again?
School band!
Where are we?
Matsushita Stadium!
What are we?
The best!
Middle Schools Band Festival ‘09
Yesterday, some of us school band members participated in the Middle Schools Band Festival ‘09 at The International School of Kuala Lumpur. It was my last time, along with the other Form Fives 
The last time the band members of Sri KL participated in this was back in 2007. There’s a post on it right here. Didn’t attend last year’s because nobody in our school received the sheet music. You can’t go for the band festival without sheet music, ya know…
Just so you know, this Band Festival thingo is basically like a free workshop. We are divided into the junior and advanced group. While the advanced group practice in some classrooms under an instructor, the junior group will remain in the auditorium and they will practice there. We switch locations after our break(s). After hours of practice, we perform! This year we have a new addition though. Besides just being a band festival, a choir group performed too. (It’s nothing compared to our school’s “Choir” club okay! The pros have four lines – Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone. And how about Sri KL’s “Choir” club? Aiyah, as Calvin puts it: “I wouldn’t even call it a choir”, which is pretty much true because they’re all girls and they all seem to be altos ONLY. Where’s the darn variety?)
So anyway, I’m in the advanced/blue group, along with Siew Yee [trumpet], Heng Hau [trumpet], and Calvin [clarinet]. I was in the trombone section, and it so happened that I was the only one with a bass trombone. Oh, how I used to find the “uncommon” instruments so amusing…such as the bass clarinet and baritone sax. Didn’t spot any tall bassoons or coiling sousaphones this year.
A few flautists and a staff euphoniumist played Henry Mancini’s Baby Elephant Walk as an opening for the ceremony. Ivan, my trombone senior who is now studying in college, helped me to record a few of the performances. He didn’t manage to record the opening and the choir one, although I must point out that the choir group were so cool that when they left the stage row by row, they continued singing ’til even when they were already outside the auditorium. It’s a “Wahliaoeh!” factor. The junior group played Tribal Dance, Train Heading West and March of the Ladybugs. The advanced group played Barnum and Bailey’s Favourite, Portrait of a Clown, and Celebration For Winds and Percussions. Here are the videos:
Tribal Dance
Train Heading West
March of the Ladybugs
Percussions Ensemble! (mix of juniors and advanced)
Barnum and Bailey’s Favourite
Portrait of a Clown
Celebration for the Winds and Percussions
Iva, if you’re reading this, I envy you because you got to play The Incredibles back in ‘06 
Photo time! (Note: Photos were taken by Steffi, Heng Hau, and probably others too)
Jonathan strikes a “lan si” face
Heng Hau took this photo because he was camera-battling with Xi Ning
Going through some briefing
It’s the video man! He was talking to us and Heng Hau bravely snapped a photo of him, just like that.
Sri KL’s junior group
Trumpets
Top row: Yi Xin, [forgot her name], [forgot her name too], and Hoe Quan
Clarinets
Middle row: Yu Xin, Celine and Amber
Horns
Xi Ning in the middle
Tenor saxophones
Ryan in the middle
Flutes
Si Min, also in the middle
Trombones
Nagulan in the middle, Chia Seng on his left and Ming Ying all the way in the bottom-right corner
Junior band
Advanced band
That is I, playing le bass trombone
Heng Hau [trumpet] in ze middle
Calvin [clarinet] in ze middle
Siew Yee [trumpet] in ze wrong colour (purple, although it isn’t shown clearly here)
She’s also our band president for ‘09!
Jonathan [percussion], 2nd from the right
Here, you can also spot Harry Potter
(Seriously, when I spotted that dude, HP came to my mind right away)
That was our lunch. You’re looking at McD’s that’s worth more than RM100!
Calvin again
Calvin said that I look like a goth here…
That’s what you get when there’s not enough light.
Le Clarinettis – Calvin, Celine, Yu Xin and Steffi
Steffi was wearing red because she didn’t want to play and claimed that “the red group is for experts”
Turns out that the red-shirted people are the instructors.
“Xi Ning looks like she’s waiting for her order” - Steffi
Steffi and I
Camera-battle again!
H²’s brother, James, who is turning 20 this year
And like I said [in a few posts back], he never “leaves” the band
He’s also a brilliant painter, really
H² and Mr Chong (Sri KL’s band instructor)
Accidental sepet-ness
Yi Xin is a trumpeter and she doubles as a camera-shy trumpet holder
The yellow-coloured choir group! See, there’s plenty of guys here in this choir!
Sri KL’s leh? Not even one.
“TAKEN” says it all
This lady, Ms Lou Davey, was our conductor for the day. Dressed up in Chinese clothing.
Ya not supposed ta paff ya cheeks!
Taking a photo of a photo
You know that you’ve gotta to use the flash when you’re in a bumpy bus ride
Ivan the ex-band president, the one who recorded the vidoes, and also a full-time poser
Candid!
Ryan: Calvin, how did you get there so fast?!
Calvin: Why, through osmosis, of course!
Encik Mirai in the background and Cik Umi in the foreground
(she proved to me that she can speak German!)
Ming Ying, my trombone buddy, a.k.a. sadist
(My left arm? Don’t ask)
Recapitulation
My computer finally came home a few days ago. Some of the things which I needed to say:
one
Sports Day ‘08 was over last month. The School Band had a new uniform (and I did NOT choose the colour). When it comes to sports, I’m very inactive. This year, I’m active in a different sense. I got to design the Green House T-Shirt, draw/paint the flags and banners, and helped out with the making of the crocodile head (though I do not have a picture of it, strangely)
Nothing athletic after all, eh?
The original drawing of the T-Shirt can be found here – *THERE ARE DESIGN AND COLOUR DIFFERENCES!*
Also, the original drawing of the crocodile which appears at the back of the T-shirt can be found here – *THERE ARE COLOUR DIFFERENCES TOO!*
Band videos taken by Sucelia, below (sorry for the ultra-shaky moments!):
Bengawan Solo
(the intro’s missing..)
YMCA
two
Teacher’s Day ‘08 was also over last month. I performed Tie A Yellow Ribbon ‘Round The Ole Oak Tree on the electric guitar with Steffi (vocals), Edward (piano) and Alastair (drums). With my recent bad haircut, black turtleneck sweater and black pants, I received weird comments from my friends:
“Wah, really like the Beatles”
“John Lennon!” (quite agreeable, frankly)
“You looked like one of those guys in the Click Five”
I could’ve given this expression:
YA RLY. I’m not gonna post the video here. It’s up to you whether to search for it or not.
three
I got this rather random yet funny game for the Wii, entitled Wario Ware: Smooth Moves. The player has to do some stances and with that, they have to complete a minigame shown on the screen withing 3-5 seconds (unless it’s the boss stage). So far, the funniest one I’ve encountered is this:
It gets harder and funnier each time. If you fail to follow the dance, this is what happens:
It’s a highly recommended game for Wii owners. Especially when you have friends watching you.
four
I’m planning to take up the double bass (a.k.a. acoustic bass, contrabass).
I like it for its deep sound. I don’t care if I’m short, there’s always a stool which I can stand on..*laughs* The only problem is it’s very rare here and so are the teachers. There isn’t any which is living near my place. Most of the teachers’ places are waaaaay out of town. Could be an hour ride in the car. They say that people are willing to hire you in the orchestra due to the rarity of players.
five
My Thai grandfather passed away peacefully (when he was with his friends) back in April. You know the sad thing? He had always wanted to see my younger brother…
…but he never got the chance.
I must say, although I can’t talk to my Thai grandparents, I bet that they’re much nicer than my local grandparents (they’re racists). Days after my grandfather’s death, my mom and I found out something terrible outside our house, at four in the morning (and ’twas the day she had to leave for Thailand to pay final respect)
It’s a major family issue. It’s not another person’s death. It makes you want to say “Why?” if you were there.
Search for all the underlined letters in this entry. Put it together. You might know what it is.
Paparazzism, minus celebrityhood
With a few days left ’til 2008 arrives, how did I spend my last few 2007 days?
Anna, Ivan, Jonathan and Pei Xi
Don’t you think that they look like they’re singing while reading lyrics?
As a band member, I had to attend the annual Orientation Day for the Form Ones and New Students, sometimes known as the newbies. I’ve been doing the “instruments introduction” for two years and I hesitantly did it again for the first batch of tourists that entered.
Now, let this be an entry full of candid photos and captions, rather than just long sentences. The photos are taken with my trusty Nikon D40. Note that I did not take all of the photos.
Furniture movers, setting up things
I’m the one who’s responsible for almost all of the words there.
“Willkommen zum Bandraum”..Ja, that is German, you see?
Jon rocking out on the drums with a mean look upon his face
That’s me with the saxophone, Edward with the trumpet and Ivan with the trombone.
I’m temporarily playing it after many many months since I switched to the trombone section.
Just look at Steffi, the one with the colourful musical tie and white-framed glasses.
Now, look at Ivan. I really don’t know what to say about his pose.
Siew Yee, Pei Xi and I
Alastair, Jon, Ed and Ivan
All of us, performing Jingle Bells
Ivan poses again. He’s got style, no? C’mon, laugh with me
Er, yes, floopy bangs. That was the lousiest piano one could lay their hand on, ever. It’s been there since..somewhere early this year?
Exhaustion and out of breath..Strangely, I look a little bit chubbier.
Jon and Al of the percussion section
Isn’t that boy in yellow just cute? He’s not a member of our society, though.
Jon attempts to lift the drum set, I mean look..the toms are already fixed onto the bass drum! He claimed that he was trying to get more packs.
Too soon
There are times when one is feeling down…
Exactly what I’m experiencing right now.
The school days for the Form Threes have ended today, which is much earlier than the other forms. The bad news is that I was involved with the band meetings I had today and before and I knew that I could’ve spent more time with others…I feel guilty myself.
To make things even worse for me, 3 Beta is currently having a class party (yes, right at this moment when I’m typing this out) AND I’m not even able to attend it due to my piano class, which is quite difficult to get a replacement class if I even try to skip one. I hardly say “No” to any class gatherings, but this time, I had to say it, and how I feel so sad that I wouldn’t be able to have fun with the best class I’ve been to…for the last time.
I admit: It is pretty much a bittersweet ending for my Form Three life, though, I was not the only person to miss all that fun (my best friend, Elena, was one of them)
My best friends, Elena and Sucelia
There are very few good moments of today. I was too glad to see someone back in school again (his absence was quite long), and I guess the next time I’ll see him is next year, unless I’m lucky. Perhaps it is time for me to start speaking up, eh?
Boys will be boys..with Alan against the wall, I assume that he’s being interrogated by Chong Yee and Chen Ji
Well, now I can conclude that my school life for 2007 is the best compared to the previous years.
I’ll just have my say on two new folks who came from another school and joined us this year in 3 Beta..
Farisha, the mad gamer
Do not let her shaggy hair deceive you..she may be a silent one, but she drawing skills are great. She does very good sketches of human figures (or sometimes robots). And I warn you not to be fooled again, because Farisha is, seriously, a hardcore gamer. This girl knows/plays more computer games than guys do and it seems that she is the only person I know who owns a Playstation 3. She has also told me that her dad plays games as much as she does (or probably more). Which reminds me..3 Beta 2007 is probably the class which had the most amount of female gamers. If we include the boys, that’s like half the class. Another cool part of Farisha is that she plays the drums and guitar, but I haven’t heard her playing any of ‘em yet. The funny thing is that some has said that she has the same personality as me. I could agree on that..
Chong Yee, the Malaccan fellow
He’s also known as “acorn head” due to the..well..shape of his head. I think he’s a very strange guy, in a good sense of course. Chong Yee has a permanent calm look upon his face and he is capable of bringing both his legs to the back of his neck. I doubt that he takes yoga classes. Wilson once brought up an interesting theory on how Chong Yee could do such things:
“It’s because ah…every night, he smells his feet!”
Did you know that his brothers and cousins sometimes visit 3 Beta as if it was a family gathering?
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Here’s some of my last-minute photos taken on the last few weeks of school. I couldn’t get to capture much as I attended some band meetings..unfortunately.
Indeed, I built this. I make one every year, so it’s kind of like my personal tradition. Note that there are a few missing cards which I removed and it managed to stay strong until I tried to removed the card in the centre, as shown above..
Band excos
Yes, short hair, I know…
Ivan admiring my drawing and Wei-Jun standing in such a way that you might need to laugh..
Until the next time an update comes..
Farewell, 3 Beta!
..but not to all of you..
Of hopping socks, dancing firemen and Japanese people
Now, I know I’m not supposed to be updating this page, but I have the urge to post 2 new school band videos. Yes, they’re much clearer than what I posted back in April. These are our performances for the people from Nukata Junior High School:
Sock Hop Tonight! (again)
Wasn’t playing the trombone in this song because I decided to have a bass “cameo”
Fire Dance *new!*
Sock-hopping Sports Day 2007
Save your Nikes
Originally uploaded by malfrinko.
This is one of the most important days in any year when you’re schooling in Sri Kuala Lumpur Secondary School. Before I continue, credits shall go to Jessica for helping me taking the pictures and videos! Warning, there’s quite a number of pictures + two videos.
I arrived school early, with Zhoe June and Steffi. We [the band members] were supposed to get the first bus, but in the end, due to some late-comers, we were the last batch to leave school. Sad, isn’t it?
Once we reached the Matsushita Stadium, we unpacked our instruments quickly and got ourselves in position. Yes, the school band lead all the other marchpast members. Our ex-band members, Wendy, James and Boon Hua happened to be there.
“The fallen are the virtuous among us..”
Behind us were the prefects, scouts, blue house marchpast (house is also known as team), red house marchpast, yellow house marchpast and lastly the green house marchpast (I’m in green house).
“..walk among us, never judge us to be blessed.”
It rained on the night before. Fortunately the day wasn’t very hot in the morning, but unfortunately the field was a sticky and muddy one. The band looked like it was splitted into half as the area between us was muddy. We were marching continuously, and it probably lasted for about 20 minutes or so. Oh, the four houses were taking their sweet time to show their marching stunts and all that jazz, especially red house..but all these marching for the houses are part of the competition.
Blue house marchpast
Red house marchpast
Yellow house marchpast
Green house marchpast
Everyone who’s involved with marchpast
Once all the prefects, scouts and houses left the track, it’s the school band’s turn to perform two songs: Eye Of The Tiger (as mentioned in the previous entry) and Sock Hop Tonight! (a medley consisting of “At The Hop”, “Venus” and “Rock Around The Clock”; we cut off “Love Me Tender”)
To be frank, we received the scores/notation for Sock Hop Tonight back in 2005, but we have never performed it. Today’s our lucky day to perform it. Our conductor for today was James Ting, who was our ex-drum major and ex-conductor. This medley has got some multi-tasking for us to do. Yeah that’s right, we’ve got movements! In the first part of the medley, it featured the saxophones. In the second part, there was a trumpet solo. Lastly, my favourite part of the medley, was a trombone and euphonium special. I don’t have any explanations for Eye Of The Tiger. Watch the following videos, if you must! And try spotting me, I’m the smallest trombonist you could find in the videos, and I am far right. I don’t appear very often..
Eye Of The Tiger
Sock Hop Tonight! (though we played it in the morning)
..and here are two pictures which I was tempted to scribble on:
Right. After all that marching, there was a cheerleading performance by the school’s team, Cyrens. I did not bother to watch it. Yeah honestly, it does not amuse me much. I shall not put up any cheerleading photos here (though my friend used the camera to take quite a number of it, it’s safe with me) After the Cyrens’ performance, the running events were held for some time. And again, there was the interhouse-cheerleading competition. Only Green House was able to amuse me. The teachers’ telematch was the best and it’s funny to see how your teachers walk/run/struggle in a 3-legged-race. Lastly there was the Tug-Of-War. Probably one of my favourite events to cheer for.
(Oh, there’s no pictures left for me to post because my camera’s battery ran out in the middle of the day)
At the end of the day, the results were in. Blue house were the champions, followed by Yellow, Red and *sigh* Green. This is the third time Green fell in the last place (counted since my first year in secondary school)
The Blues go “Let’s go, blue house!” and my reply would be “Go where?!”
Oh well. All this loss doesn’t matter to me..“don’t frown, green has the crown.”
Somewhere.
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Don’t expect anymore entries; I’m pausing my computer/laptop usage for good. Will be back in..say..at the end of next month? May you all have a pleasant time!
Majorly about band, eh?
Hey, it’s Mr Ng!
Originally uploaded by malfrinko.
Did you notice that this site contains lots of stuff about band?
Two recent happenings:
1. My dad got a free iPod Shuffle (1GB storage, silver, 2nd generation) from his company, or something. He gave it to me. Yaaah!
2. I found 3 old classmates who I have not met in 9/10 years in MySpace.com. They are Mao Motohashi, Mitsuyo Iwasawa and Eugene Talmadge. They can remember me, thankfully! We’re really far apart, because they’re still studying in Yokohama International School, Japan. Hope to visit them some other time. Ah the good times..
Anyway, Sports Day is on this coming Saturday. Yesterday we had our Sports Rehearsal in Matsushita Stadium. We are playing the usual same old songs: Hot Shot!, Wawasan 2020 (some patriotic tune), Eye Of The Tiger + A medley we have never performed before..I’ll let you know about the title some other day, alright?
I find the lower brass section very interesting, goofy and fun. If Wei-Jun, Ivan and Edward Wong weren’t in the band, I’d think that this lower brass section wouldn’t be very fun. Speaking of fun people, Edward Wong is a new euphonium player (he used to play the euphonium in his old school)
One time, he sat by the drum set. Then there was a non-member who entered the band room. Edward says, “Welcome home!” Edward, who is a Form 1 student, enjoys dancing with his euphonium. I should record this next time. In my opinion, he is the funniest band member of 2007.
We have the worst bass drummers this year. Terry and Kughan of Form 3 can’t keep their tempo right throughout a session of marching practice. They need to be reminded to slow down when they’re beating their bass drums. Other than that, they could irritate the heck out of anyone. Terry can’t do anything good in band, and Kughan dropped my bass guitar the other day. I think the band needs to avoid taking in fools like them..*sigh*
Ivan is no longer a shy-guy. He carries out his duties in band well enough, but of course, as a band president, he shouldn’t fool around much. He can shout and raise his voice, see. His shyness returns when some guys make fun of him for liking a female ex-band member. Next year will be his final year as the band president. All the best to him.
Here are the photos taken on today’s holiday practice, credits goes to Steffi for helping me taking 6 out of 7 photos today!
Ivan the drum major/president of 2007
Spot me in black, holding a trombone!
Marching in a wet environment
I wasn’t playing the trombone, just lifting it up.
Kughan and Jonathan, arguing at the back?
Wei-Jun is really tall; I am really short
Chee Kin has no important job in the band, he plays the sax and he knows when to be serious
Wei-Jun testing some stuff; Ivan tried to escape from the camera’s view
Expect a new post on the 28th/29th.
