Saturday, December 02, 2006

Weather: Grey sky, gonna rain soon (i think)
2nd December 2006

Hi.
ok, i shall blog bout the crescent girl's exchange and what happened yesterday in this post( nxt post) . (its gonna be long) if you have no time to read this, my advice is read it when you're free =D. haha (anyway, who would be really intereseted to see this? goshh~lol)
Part 1 of post:
Crescent exchange
When i woke up, the sun still had not rise. 6am i think. Cos i was meeting wei jun at white sands earlier for breakfast that day. WE( half of the band) is supposed to meet at pasir ris mrt station to go to crescent for an exchange with all of mrs chua's bands for the syf 07 set piece. So took the mrt from tampines to pasir ris.Walked into white sands. Then waited, waited and waited. Then i decided to call wei jun and guess what?? " The bus driver driving damn slowly laa.. bla bla bla" So me, being the good senior, decided to be patient, and wait for his little cute junior. By that time when he arrived, we have not much time left to eat. We actually agreed to eat at "ka yun toast", the food there is good. However, due to time constraint, there is no time to enjoy a nice breakfast slowly. Further more, the place is so packed. So 2 little hungry boys decided to walk to mcdolnalds and eat. By then, it was time to meet the band already. When we meet, we chit chatted while waiting for the others, then somehow ( dunno how) talked till the band badge. I realised that i had stuffed it in my bag somewhere and wanted to wear it ( i stuffed it in cos no time, rushing to meet wj) then i realised that my band badge was lost. mann, sighs, really hope that i can get back my badge.>.<
k, then after that, took a train to red hill. ( from the east to the west) whew, the ride was long , really long. So to abide time, the band in the mrt chit chat chit chat to let time pass. Before we know it, we were lugging our instruments big and small all the way to crescent.
When we finally reached crescent, we were greeted by their band major. She lead us to their band room, where we deposit our bags, set up instruments, and then leave to band room. We were like lost rabbits, trying to find where the respective sections are. For me, "flutes and piccolos", find find find.. lalala, then finally found them. We said hi and all that. then started sectionals.

During sectionals, i was looking forward to meeting piccoloists. And then i found out something. That day, only crescent's piccolist and i were present. Ngee Ann and ANglican high's piccoloist wasnt present. So talked talked, introduced. THen tuned. Then started working on the set piece. For the set piece, there were 2 movements- movement 1 is called sunrise while movement 2 is called night safari. We decided to work on movement 1 first. Cos for movement 1, piccolo is really nothing to do. All the same stuff, some little bits here and there, etc. SO when we finished, the crescent piccoloist looked really suprised. cos she thought it would be long. haha. BUt then during the sectionals, i was teaching her. yup, she is sec 2. haha. So there is some extra time, we saw that the flute 1s were having sectionals with a tutor. forgot what her name is =p, but she was good =). there were 5 flute 1s.1 Haising, 1 AH, 1 Ngee Ann, 2 Crescent. haha, they were still working on the score. For flute 2, there were 3, 2 crescent and 1 haising. haha, for haising flutes and pic. pic- me, flute 1- qiyun, flute 2- wei jun. yup. haha. then after that, the tutor tutored us, piccolos with flute 2, gave us some really good pointers to work on. By that time, it was already time for break. The crescents walked off into the band room, leaving me and weijun sitting on the bench, not that we dun wanna rest, we decided to try out on some parts of the movements. While practicing, we suddenly saw someone. somebody legendary, somebody whom my dunno how many batches of senior have spoken to me so many times- wang tong lao shi. i dunno, according to xinhui and zhi hao, she can use 1 lao po ka flute and play like a real professional. we didnt really get the chance to speak to her, but we finally managed to see her in person. haha, we then rounded up what we have learnt and walked to the band room to keep our instrus to join the others. haha, while walking, we wang tong lao shi and mr chua were at the enterance of the band room, mr chua said" there, haising flutes". something like that. so went for break.

"we ate mcdolnalds- apple pie and chicken burger" then headed up to the hall where we have combine, all 4 schools.

whew, when we entered the hall, it was big, WAY big, and cold too!
we sat together(the pics) with the flutes. then started combined. quite all right. Movement 1 is very soothing and meledious. but got 1 part where there is a flute solo ( piccolo accompany) that was so scary, suddenly the whole band just quietened down. haha. yup. that marks the end of movement 1. But already knew the piece, and lots of pointers, so told all the pointers to manning and huiqin who havent touched the piece. =).
Then we decided to try movement 2- night safari.Its more fun, more complicated. haha, but there are high notes for the piccolo. due to extreme coldness, its super hard to screech out those high notes. hha, i dont really wanna type out the details, which is interesting. cos there is a lot. so there marks the end of the day. took a train back to tampines and walked ALL the way to huiqin's hse to return her piccolo. and walked all the way home. ( huiqin's live at tampines west(changkat) while i live in tampines east)SO FAR AWAY. haha, i borrowed her pic cos both piccolos spoil. BUt i managed to fix one of them ytd. haha, so nice to blow after that. But when i reached home, i was dead beat. I wanna sleep.haha. so that marks the end of day 1.