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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

merit!

aha! got my viola exam results back. waaaaaayyy earlier than i expected, just 15 days after my exam. apparently, my teacher called the ABRSM office for my results. (:

didn't manage to get my scoresheet, but my score's 123. hmmm. the score's about what i expected, but lower than i had hoped. nevertheless, this really brightened up my otherwise sickening day.

yea sickening sickening day. literally. felt unwell throughout the day, thankfully there was no PE. which'd have been 16 laps of swimming bleaaahhh! but that will have to be done tomorrow anyway.

wo0ts man utd won! 1-0 to manutd. hahaha well done SAHA!!! (: haha in yer' face benfica, for knocking us out of champs league prematurely last year :D lalala!

damn, don't feel like blogging right now. so till next time

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Saturday, September 23, 2006

as it draws to a close...

manutd dropped points against Reading!!! damn! i sure hope it's not a repeat of last september, where we dropped points like crazy and spoiled the perfect start to the campaign.

it was pretty unlucky for manutd last night. we were dominating in terms of possession and shots at goals. yet they took the lead through a penalty. we equalised 17minutes before time, but Reading started playing a survival game, comparable to putting eight bodies in front of the penalty box. and crap, we had to settle for a 1-1 draw. we created countless chances up front, but there wasn't any leading striker to convert them. starting with 4-5-1 and playing wazza as lone striker was disappointing. bleearrgh. let's wish fergie signs someone like Torres come January :D

the weekend has been pretty uneventful. redraft of philo essay,looking up resources for atomic bomb project, mugging for math test next wednesday. and of course, reading Revolution, which took up the bulk of my time heh. oh and tomorrow's voting day already!!! X)

watched a vcd called Glory Road yesterday. a film about this basketball coach who took over a certain Texas West College's basketball team. this team was a total unknown in college basketball, and very few highly-rated players were willing to take up the proffered scholarships. so the coach, Don Hasten, started offering the basketball scholarships to skilfull black streetball players who were not given an equal chance to play in other colleges (this story took place in the 60s, where was still a great deal of social stratification between the whites and the so-called coloured people) so these players went all the way and clinched the position of National Champion.

interesting film, and a good way to spend 2 hours after some "mugging" xP. and this story (which is a true story, by the way) was dubbed the emancipation proclamation of the 60s.

aarrggh. i really have to return to my mundane chores now. ><

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Thursday, September 21, 2006

Glory Road

it's been quite some time since my last post. haha been caught up with lots of things going on. my schedule can only get tighter as the Common Tests and other stuff drawing close! in for a few... exciting weeks. =)

election speeches have been going on at the podium the past week. tomorrow will be down to the last few candidates!!! the candidates have really put in a lot of effort this year, compared to last year. just look at the number of huge banners around the school and things like bookmarks, stickers, badges been circulated. whoa, it's pretty overwhelming. i don't know the sec 1 candiates that well. the sec 2 candidates are however, simply put, good :) and i will be voting for quite a number of them!

Said said VOTE FOR Said!!! Tohster!!! TimOwnz!!! Chay and Chia!!!=) there, collecting money for advertising space though.

however, the past week saw its fair share of disappointments too. after being the black horse of the inter-class soccer tournament but sprinting all the way to the semi-finals, we got eliminated in the semis by a team which we underestimated. (got your wish, jinghui! lol) complacency did get the better of us as an opposition player score having broken clear of our defense. and despite guodong's brave attempt at a block, it proved futile in the one-on-one situation. the ball slid into goal (guodong's fingers did make contact). it was really disappointing, this being one of the last competitions of the year we'd be taking part in, bearing the name 2H, before we split in sec 3. however, to all the players in 2K, we're gonna be putting up a tough show on monday in the 3rd/4th placing match!!! :D be prepared xP

currently obssessed with a particular fanfiction with the link on karmin's blog- Resonance! 79 chapters if i'm not wrong!!! been staying up late to read, and it's a nice change to sims 2 xP and i think it's time for more. wheee

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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

EXAM OVER

wahaha! EXAM'S OVER! haha not exactly spectacular. but it was pretty satisfactory compared to last year's :P hopefully, the examiner shares my sentiments heh.

pieces
not bad! i was satisfied with my playing. last note for Tchaik's piece was however a semitone too sharp xP but since it was a sustained note, i decided to gradually shift it back a semitone lower using "huge" vibrato. which miss lim said was not bad as i ended it off confidently despite the out of tune note. xD Processional was better, although some parts sounded a little bit too sharp. damn. but apart from that, the piece was generally well done, in my opinion xP i do not know what the examiner thinks. lol, i can write a whole essay on "masks" man. the unaccompanied Bach piece was a little unstable though >< the notes were correct, but i screwed the phrasing quite a bit. but ended off pretty well *i hope*

scales
would rather not talk abt it xP evil examiner. give me separate bows for the easiest ones, and slurred for the tougher ones. ><><><><

sight-read
hah! nice guy! gave me all alto clef. no treble phew. rhythm was again screwed, as usual. but i carried on confidently. pretty pleased with it. upon 18 rite? hopefully that can fetch me 14 as well >< but that's already being VERYVERYVERY optimistic about it. shall be working on it =)

aural
lol. have absolutely no idea if i did well for this component. sight-singing and singing from memory were *okay* xP hopefully. the other components i have no confidence at all. would be happy if i actually get 13/18 >< again, being super optimistic liao lol.

generally, it was quite up to expectations despite some unexpected fumbles, hopefully i can achieve a merit. but i'm gonna work on my mistakes and try even harder next year (:

haha and maybe i should start doing all my undone homework heh.

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Monday, September 11, 2006

damndamndamndamn

i can't sign into msn. damn. and i'm getting more nervous with each passing minute. 12 more hours to my viola exam ><

it always come down to last minute, that i start regretting not practising more. well, even when i'm typing all this, i'm practising. i'm typing with my toes =)

0___0 jus remembered there's RE semis tomorrow as well. which means i have to rush back to school after exam >< damn! thought i could go home and rest and finish all my stuff which i've left undone so as to obtain more practice time. tomorrow's gonna be a looooooooooooooong day. but i can't get to sleep. convenient eh? =)

aural and sight-reading are proving to be extremely difficult. i'll try to be ultra polite to the examiner tomorrow. so hopefully she'll give me easy ones. xP i'm crapping. cos i simply have nothing to do now but PRACTISE!!! msn is still down....

well, i think i shall go sleep lah. and practise more when i wake up :) cheers. erm, wish me good luck? XD

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Sunday, September 03, 2006

long overdue post =)

woohoo! finally convinced myself to log in to blogger.com and post. =) no promises that this is going to be a long one though, i'm hooked to Sims 2! X)

in chronological order:
Thursday
Teacher's Day Celebrations taking place in schools all around Singapore, most of them at least. ben wee, xueqian, yuzhou and i had to, however, miss the celebrations taking place in RI as we were performing in RSS (for those like saiful who're more than prepared to rat on us, we've got excuse letters. but i'm pretty sure the ongoing activities were more than enough to drag the attention away from our absence) I was really looking forward to going back- meeting teachers, old friends, and the new students whom i hardly know. and the weird feeling i have in my stomach everytime i return to rss kept coming back. loads have changed since i last went back. and i realised how few teachers i still recognise. so we started practising for our quartet item, with alex playing the cello parts heh. peixin arrived, and ben wee started working on his ~~wee~~wienawski piece. both performances went well! and cbw's piece was k, fine, stellar =)

spent most of the time chatting with everyone. i really miss the days i spent there, and i wish i'd treasured it more. but i'm glad i went there instead of gongshang, which was actually my mum's preferred choice then. never going to forget all my time in rss, my best moments took place there, and i have a feeling there're many more rss-ians who think the same way, yea?! =)

after the celebrations, which ended with some super spastic photo-taking, i went to queensway with ben wee! haha. shared the cost of a cra-sze t-shirt, which was meant to be a surprise teacher's day present =)

i realised, the last 3 paragraphs ended with "=)". and this makes the 4th =)

Friday
RISE lanning in the morning. boring for me as most of the people were playing dota -.- most of my time was whiled away chatting on msn, and watching getting pwned in dota. heh... that kinda sums up my day, apart from a lot more sims 2 x)

Saturday
lesson with mr sze. the whole lesson was the selection of grade 8 pieces. >< damn, they're tough. so i have to go for another lesson on wednesday, which will be nothing but scales. haha, bbq at david's hse on wednesday! wo0ts! looooooking forward to it! =) and we gave him the cra-sze t-shirt when cbw arrived. haha glad he liked it. it was a gamble lol. either he liked it, or he could have been offended. thankfully it turned out well wo0ts! more sims 2 of course. erm, happy birthday cbw! and i went overnight at huihan's house! yay! lots of xbox 360! which rocked. and sleeping throughout the night in 16 degrees aircon in the attic was even more fun!

Today
blah. boring day. the highlight was a wonderful dinner with my mum's side's relatives at some restaurant near Yio Chu Kang. the food's fabulous, though the chili crab tasted funny. not spicy enough X) and so little flesh lol xp

damn, i need more sims 2. cheers! TAG!!!! TAG!!!! TAG!!!!

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