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sad songs in the dead of night.
dammit i gotta curb that romantic soul >< heh what was that about hopeless romantics miki? erps i just reread my older entries and they're horrendous........ edit edit edit.
it's beautiful weather today =) i just got a pic of grey clouds. i love having a camera phone heh. lots of little things have been happening..... i actually had to write them down in my notebook so as not to miss out anything. lol.
first things first...... thursday we had a anyhow titrate session. as in really anyhow. just take some of each, and practice swirling and dropwise addition and stuff. fun. i remember something about KMnO4 and wen hao's pants =) hilarious! richard's swirly solution  someone shooting water at wen hao's phone. bugger got the sony ericsson virtualshot. 3.2 megapixels lar! but nvm im content with my phone =) quality assured. as u can see heh.  after chem prac we had fun with the irritating high-pitch ringtone. around 5 ppl have it now. super fun it irritates everybody around =) then there was the class ball. contributed by willy. he says he'll pay for it then take it home after the 2 years... but i think by that time the ball will be pok diao liao. but damn nice la heh. we all signed and all..... hmm quite touching. =p ok im weird. my class is hooked on chapteh and soccer already. well the guys are anyway, most of us. actually up to now, i still can't believe how bonded our class is. luck and 缘分 i guess. for those who aren't cognoscenti (some coolio italian word we learnt in GP), that means fate or kismet, and implies a connection between people. like between classmates, and CCA mates, and teachers etc. it's fate that you get stuck with each other for the next 2 years =) lol then today lagman got jacqed. first degree burns are the most severe? lol for once he lose =) then he was talking about kinked and kinky demand curves -_-" someone else got jacqed too... used wen hao's phone to take this picture, then asked wen hao how to delete. wen hao conveniently took the phone and disseminated the pic to everyone. lol. name classified for privacy purposes.  and one last thing. im just glad that you exist on this world =) thank you. i feel like everyone's older or younger brother. it's not always a good thing.
finally have some time to myself after doing chem in school... damn crap lar but i still don't feel like doing anything except maths and chem. physics bleargh. and econs getting irritating too. weird, seeing as how at this time last year, i was so against maths =/ oh well things change, people change. wanted to blog some angsty thing about happiness, but since im happy now, i'll leave it to another day =) my little corner of the world.
i'll post a pic of it but i couldn't get a nice angle..... basically it consists of the com, my electone, my drumsticks and pad, my hp, and my electone bench cum work table, all cosily tucked away into a corner. =) my den. had a nice long bus ride alone... gave me some time to think things out. sun's shining at a nice slanted angle, bathing everything in dazzling golden light, so much that even the roadside scenery becomes something special. as the bus putters at a lazy pace down the highway, the trees by the roadside sway in the evening wind. leaves fall, everything recedes. life goes on. i don't regret. i won't regret. taking sciences was the best thing that ever happened to me. suddenly i feel so comfortable and happy doing maths and chem (physics eeyer) that i wonder how i could ever tolerate all those bullshit subjects before. what history and lit. go away lor. im fully a science convert now ^^ feeling: weirdly confused. again.
dun feel like blogging about nbc showcase. it wasn't very good. saw sun lu there though quite cool. besides that: jia you zack! u can do it =) i realised that it's very easy to fall in love with someone when that person's in his/her element. a runner when she's running, a percussionist when he's playing, a dancer when she's dancing. it's whether u can love the person, day by day, that really counts. i dunno why i blogged about that. really i don't. whew. been getting home so late that i haven't had time to blog about the last 2 days.... i think i'll go in reverse, saturday first.
saturday was a day of small successes. had my first decent sleep for a week (8 hours, from 3 to 11), then went for band prac. yinrui's back! =) heh. we sorted out some of the mess in the band room and varese. and i'm glad to know that nothing's changed between us. somehow or other my double stroke roll improved =/ why couldn't it have improved the day before when i was competing with my juniors. but i'll come to that later. after band prac was hanxin's surprise birthday party. OH before that something funny happened with me and oura. ask if u want the details ^^ anyway due to unforeseen circumstances (cos we were packing up in the band room and cos we went to j8 to get a present for hanxin), we were late to her party. they cut the cake without us (us being me, yinrui, jeff and venetia.) =/ heh but the later bbq was fun la. apparently before we came, my batch guys, yang bin and jermyn were having an interesting conversation about screws while setting up the bbq stand =) there were 3 bbq stands altogether. heh i started the first fire =) even though mine was the last to be lit cos there was only 1 lighter and 1 fire tongs..... lol i think im continuing the tradition. cos in the j2 batch boon's the proest firestarter. heh my shifu. yup. then the guys and i were fooling around with the soccer ball before the bbq and after it. did something that i nv could do before: popped the ball up and headed it. =) quite cheap thrill la but hey, it's an achievement. after everything ended i walked from hanxin's house all the way back to the macritchie 156 bus stop. quite a fun walk. got home at around 11, played electone til 12. finally mastered the first cycle of circle line =) in case anyone's interested, the song's by reiko kashiwagi. go check it out. okay now friday. friday was Prometheum XI, the biannual RI band concert. what can i say, it was amazing. it really was. watching my juniors on stage, doing so well (even with all the screwups that i could see, cos i played the songs before), just made me feel proud, and more than a little bit ashamed. i realised that i really didn't do much to help them along. their accomplishments are really their own. kudos to brian for his timpani skills =) lol if you're reading this, u still remember the time when u couldn't tune on your own? you've really come a long way. congrats for a unforgettable Prometheum XI. Perc solis and ensemble were good. could see u guys practiced a lot. and the pacing of the 2nd half was nice too, with the sax ensemble, lower woodwinds joining in, perc ensemble, and the very well-done whistle while you work. gj guys. yar after the concert me, nar and zhu went to mac's again to talk nonsense and gossip about our missing sectionmate =) all the way til 11 pm. so now u know why i slept so late. oh yes and lastly: during the break we went backstage to find them, and for some reason or other we competed on strokes. what can i say, i got owned >< right hand bah. time to prac more. i like to make ppl laugh. i like the way faces light up when they smile. but when people do that, are they really happy? sighh sometimes i think i'm really a failure. is it too much to ask, for all my friends to be happy?
lol OMG u gotta be kidding. congrats yinrui ^^
i may have said this before, but really, all the people around me are damn random and damn nonsense. that's actually a good thing =) do i need to list? i don't think so. u know who u are.
whew it's 12.30 now and i just got back about an hour ago. nbc was okay. considering that we had only about 2 weeks of practice and we all screwed up on stage, it was actually pretty good. we're number 2 (lost out to tj by abt 3 points). not too bad =) but then being on the honour band roll means we'll be playing next week too. argh another week of getting back home at 10pm.
we had a minor scare with brian and the RI percs forgetting to bring back the temple blocks to RI... luckily tj percs were nice enough to lend us theirs. thank you derrick (though u'll never read this). anyway we managed to get the RI temple blocks back la. youall ah.... lucky no one koped it. lol. my section is cool. edison and zain are some jokers. but then hey, all of us are right? being from perc section. heh and i found out that the "shortest guy plays the chimes" tradition was started from their batch. or earlier. yar but the nbc chimes were really not funny lor. i had to stretch la. stupid chimes so tall. discrimination -.- after nbc the bunch of us went out for awhile to mac's for a light supper. some funny things happened, like shaun's lack of a jasmine green tea (but subsequent lack of a lack of jasmine), jiaying's mayo-and-chili sauce, zhu feng's 10 compasses (yes COMPASSES yeah yeah), zhuo jing's untouched long john's meal, my koping of jeff's seat, nar's ice cube down my back -_-, and other nonsense. jeff and venetia? still not so bad. jeff and fatimah? oO anyways im quite happy now. it's that feeling of accomplishment. i like being in charge of perc logistics. it feels good to know what you're doing. just finished an hour of electone and it feels really good. chem is shaping up too; i just need to revise more. and my father just washed some grapes ^^ thanks pa. i know we'll always have our differences, and you're not much of a good role model, but u mean well, and u really want me to grow up and be something. i guess i can respect that.
ever heard of the calm before the storm? this is the calm after it. i'm feeling surprisingly at peace now. all's right with the world. or maybe i'm just deluding myself. yes it's been a long, long time since i last blogged. time's a scarce commodity nowadays. no wait that sounds like econs. and im NOT going there ><
im totally not in the mood for blogging. so much happened today that could be described as screwed up..... the lessons were fine, i actually managed to get some work done during GP, and after-PE soccer was quite gd..... managed to settle some band stuff after sch, borrowing chinese cymbals from CO and missing dialogue session in the process. heh. and h3 chem was even understandable! yup. so it was after h3 that bombed. i really really dunno what to say here. those who know know. those who don't, are better off not knowing. what can i do. we tried our best. but it's never easy to judge what's best for someone else i guess. bah it's just one problem after another. and i don't want to even THINK about my own personal problem. [edit] oh crap. oh crap oh crap oh crap. reference sodium dated 12 july. [/edit] yar i promised to blog yesterday (ok technically 2 days ago since it's past midnight) but what to do, i was tired.
hmm mixed feelings now. about others and about myself. on one hand, i have no idea what somebody is up to. okay make that 2 ppl, i have no idea what they're up to. just so you know, those 2 ppl aren't related. it's 2 separate problems. and as for me... aiyah it's quite stupid la, but i realised that i've been really really slack for the last couple of years. really REALLY slack. parents just gave me a wake-up call.... my performance is probably worse than some poly students. yeah dun give me that rhetoric about how poly students aren't bad and all..... what i mean is simply that i'm performing wayy below par. and so i have a new revision plan. u won't be seeing me online much now, if at all. they're still giving me a lot of room, even now. mustn't let my parents down. hopefully by announcing it here, i'll be able to keep to that resolution. go me. afterthought: i think i'll follow up on that 2nd paragraph. this is, after all, a diary of sorts, and there's stuff that i want to remember. i told myself that i'm done, and i won't go back. so why do i keep drifting back in that same direction? if i don't stop soon i'll just get hurt. again. this time for no good reason. and not only that. i'll be hurting others too. argh please. let go. i'll blog something tmr. too tired now.
yes i know im being a joker. =) things improve after a long hiatus. after not playing soccer for 2 weeks, i find that my skill has improved. after not playing a song for months, i find that i can now actually play it better.
so why doesn't the same thing apply to my studies? >< |
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