Tuesday, December 11, 2007 @6:51 PM
it's been quite an empty week
co-ordinating the pedals and right hand is getting a bit tricky, hopefully with practice all these kinks will be ironed out.
i find that the standard i've set for myself to bounce back to, is a little higher than before.
but i'm not sure if the arrangement will be appreciated as much by the trainers/judges.
honestly, at this point, i'm unsure of whether i should go on with this.
i do want to see this piece to completion , but not knowing how much these efforts are worth is affecting my drive a bit.
but of course, we shouldn't place value on our works based on what others think, but what we ourselves feel about it..
cliche. but i really shouldn't ask for much.
after all, i've been out of touch for so long.
hmm.
but that doesn't matter anymore.
JUST JIAYOU, PAM.
(:
Saturday, December 08, 2007 @11:30 PM
i've just gotten back from alumni practice! it was kinda crappy, warcrye was bleh. and we did pecos pablo too. by the time we got to omens of love, my mouth was dying. no stamina ah. :\
hmm what else? oh. MOSES ROCKS. :)
ystd i was a little disheartened because i couldn't make any sense of the percussion parts in the work i'm currently scoring. cos i'm a wind player in the band, so yea, a little hard to decipher what the percussion machine thingy was doing.
and today at alumni practice i asked moses for help, and he offered to write out the percussion parts. :D :D :D :D :D
now i'm into the 5th page out of 9. still going strong! haha.
i only have You to thank for all this. :)
Friday, December 07, 2007 @10:19 PM
パストラーレ: pa-su-to-ra-(ichi?)-re.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=H4BTv5gWnVAi told joshua i didn't want to get married, and he was like "with me? or with anyone.."
haha! but now i'd like to be mrs matsumoto, junichi matsumoto's wife. HAHA. his works are all phenomenal, and my favourite is パストラーレ which seriously rocks so you should go listen :)
i'm halfway through the 4th page of sirius, and there is supposedly 9 pages in total to write. i had to slow down kim jeong hoon's singing to x0.75, and his voice sounded so strange at that tempo. especially the vibratos! HAHA. the vibratos were hilarious. sirius is such an awesome piece to arrange. i've gone through each segment and bar so many times over the past 2 days and i haven't gotten tired of the piece. really talented composer and arranger.
HMM.
batch steamboat on sunday! we haven't caught up in ages; i wonder what we'll be talking about other than the boys' upcoming 2 year overseas trip. poor kids, we're gonna lose both them and their hair one by one over the next 2 months. serve the nation with pride, brothers. your sweat and blood will be much appreciated by the grass during your field camps.
everybody. go for andrew's recital on 19th december- a jazzy christmas. at yms (i think..)
he's gonna be the next kenny g. hahaha.
i can't wait for alumni practice tomorrow. (:
Thursday, December 06, 2007 @12:12 PM
ichini- advance from junior drumsticks and get a silent drumset.- $1200
ko- upgrade electone to ELS-01C- $16,800.00
san- XGEdit for PC (v2.645) and Mac (v2.08) - $40
si-build a composition stand customised for right/left handers, with stationery compartment/manuscript storage.
go- learn how to use a mixer! and to decipher percussion patterns from recordings and write+ store them.
sichi- and create/store more variations of the synthbrass sound.
the months ahead are difficult
but with love, dedication and passion,
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. :)
Tuesday, December 04, 2007 @10:22 PM
holidays.
it's been a while since the last paper of a levels. the last of many i've sat under cambridge university. apart from class farewell, cgssb's 40th anniversary concert, my mom's visit with grandma in the philippines, st andrew's alumni practice, picking up rollerblading, my brother's stint at the hospital to remove part of his intestine,...
apart from all that,
the holidays have been quite uneventful so far.
HAHA. i'm kidding. i'm not asking for anything more.
hmm.
i miss studying; i miss cramming.
the feeling of getting our brains saturated, the jittery nerves we'd get just before each paper.
at least studying's only going to get more intense when we get into university. it's sad, though, that we're going to have to wait 9 months before we belong to an institution again. at this point, stuck between two dispensations of life, belonging nowhere, i'm feeling a little strange.
up till now, we have moved easily up from one school to another, not having to adapt to new social circles very often. always having a place to go to each day and even getting scolded if we skipped a day at that place. i've grown attached to that cycle. it got monotonous towards the end, and i thought i couldn't wait to break away from it. but i was wrong. i need a place to belong to. all of us do.
i signed up for SAT 2 a few hours ago. after watching a day's worth of goong. haha. i'm getting so bad at studying. my study table looked more appealing in the west. but living in the east now, i know i should stop trying to study at the airport at every opportunity and getting distracted by take-off and landings. and that i should just adapt to the new study table.
whatever. i'm talking nonsense again.
i've successfully picked up the basics of hangul in a week. HAHAHAHA.
i thought i was smart for a few minutes, then i realised my iq score was just 133. :(
actor kim jeung hoon can get an iq score of 146. i'm a student. i study for a living. and 133.. argh fjgsdklfda. going to start boosting my brain power with omega3 fatty acids and ginko buliba.
who says one can't improve their iq? just watch.
you may age into a skeleton while watching, but just watch.
i wonder how it feels like to be an inspiration to somebody.
can a person get hooked on the smell of vicks?
manitoba or toronto?
local or overseas?
hmm.
Saturday, November 17, 2007 @11:04 PM
wanling and i went for alumni together. some things never change :)
having been through 2 bands journeys together, she's one person that understands like no other. i guess it's just comforting to be around someone who's able to do that, to have always been there for so long. few friendships survive so long these days.
Friday, November 16, 2007 @10:18 PM
chem mcq today; the second last paper of jc life. :)
you know today after chem, a few kids who didn't have any papers left.. started cheering. it was so hilarious, cos they were screaming at the top of their lungs but it was damn pathetic. then after a while they realised that they're part of the 1% who's finished their a's and they were gonna get walloped by the rest of us physics people if they went on with their YAAAAAAYing, so they went quiet and walked out of the hall. LOLX.
it was a good paper, compared to the other two. but arrgh for the last question, ARGH ARGH BLEH. instead of shading the option that said 2 and 3, i shaded D-1 only. basket pokeye. i think i'm going blind.
tomorrow's an eventful day!
1. sajc's open house- my juniors got so caught up with all the madness and they turned the band room into a kitchen. a KITCHEN.
2. cgssb alumni practice. :)
3. i'm going for choir! heh.
ok i'm off
astalavista, baby.
