Thursday, February 24, 2005

Thinking of a title is lame

Well...Today's been a typical JC day.

Oh! I did something cool this morning. I drank a cup of coffee in the morning to make sure I didn't doze off during Malay and other lectures...and so I was there attempting to do my hmwk 1 1/2 hours before school started (school starts 8.40 on thursdays). Gave up trying to do it after 5 minutes (I haven't changed one bit since...Pri 5?) and downed my drink. I promptly left for the band room to practice. Then the stragest thing happened while I was playing. I was getting that nice crispy tone that my flute gets when it's warmed up, and so I decided to take my playing a bit further. So I did 'I recommend' at 2x the speed, and then I started tonguing at the speed of light...it became so innate. And my figners were flying. Then I played Amazonia, and a flew through all the high notes and running passages. I finished off 2 bottles of water...and when I had finished, I cldn't sit still.

My Friends, I had just experienced my first caffeine high. Cool eh? When you have coffee and then you play a wind instrument, the extra intake of oxygen that you get through playing that metal tube just encourages rapid metabolism in the body, making you REAAALLY Hyper. Cool, I should try this everyweek!

Anyway, apart from that, I had a mundane day. It was revealed to us that the 'O' level results were not to be released on Friday (tmrw). No news had been gotten. And what You Zhi my BM told me, his batch had rumours for 2 weeks. What is this, man? Give us the results so I can buy the uniform already!

Seriously, I'm just gonna have faith that God will take me to His destination for me. And that he'd make it clear. NJC's been exciting me for a long time and I know it's the palce

I dislike time. I don't have enough time. So I shall have to sign of here and scram to do my other thingsssss

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

First Public entry

Hello

I kinda decided to get something more exciting. My secret diary is kinda boring in the sense that yeah, there isn't anyone to share it with. And I'm begining to think Diaryland is boring. But as far as possible I'd like for this thing to be slightly private. I intend to post what's in my mind, and perhaps ppl can access them and comment but I definitely want to remind ppl that I'm only human and many a time I'm wrong in my justifications on certain issues and my stands. And I might come across as being very aggressive in my writing but then again, when I'm aggressive it's for a reason.

It's come to my notice the state of AMB from other blogs I read. I heard tt the YuYing music exchange was fun for many ppl except Zakiah. Indeed, look at how miserable she seems on her blog. Not only is she battling ongoing illnesses (which she braves just for the sake of the band), she has the pressures of heading an unwilling band and being headed by teachers and seniors who expect something worthy from the band. Her blog goes on and on about how slowly the band moved, the focus the bandsmen have on SYF etc. Compare that with any other bandperson's blog on the Yuying exchange, and they only tell you how fun it was and how nice the gifts were. Did anyone rmb anything about getting punished by Mr Lim? Or wre they aware in the first place?

I find this to be absolute selfishness. It's chronic...seriously. How long I've been disgusted at the attitude of AMB. It's ONLY abt fun. You think we got a Gold 2 years ago through having fun? Or how about our first concert? It was all fun right? NO! I mean even the people in my new Symphonic band in NJ know how to be fun-loving and they know how to loosen up. But they're faaar more hardworking. And it's a shame because some new players have never played in a band before or they're even weaker than AMB ppl. How shameful it is for me to look back at my own band and see the opposite!

If you seriously want to start concentrating on your SYF, you start concentrating on pleasing your leaders. I've had enough of this crap. Time after time the leaders leave feeling dejected because they've been maltreated. Not a sign of that in NJCSB. You want to talk about a family? It's more evident in NJCSB.

THere's a children's game called Follow the Leader. If you still insist on behaving childishly, please play this game instead. Your seniors are dependent on your support so give it to them. If you truly love AMB, then please, PLEASE show it!! Many ppl say it but don't follow up and that disgusts me!

Now to search for my watch....