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Alo ppl!!! I'll be going out in a while... Juz wanna post to say tt when i go back to s'pore.., i'll be typin abt my WHOLE trip here... Frm my lonely journey on the plane.., to going to watch pantomimes...,to going to Manchester..., to going to London and seeing Big Ben, Buckhingam Palace (the change of guards..!!) .., to going on the London Eye..( a humongous ferris wheel)..., and loads loads more... I've been having loads and loads of fun.. Eating EXTREMELY delicious food.., experiencing SNOW!!, getting LOADS AND LOADS of presents for Christmas.. Even frm Santa!! hehekz.. i even met my one and only kuzzin whom i've neva met b4, zeyd.. he's reli kewl.. skaterboi.. hahakz.. but 4 now.., i'll juz leave u guyz to be jealous after reading this and i'm gonna go have more fun during my last few days here.. i'll be missing school on the first day coz my flight is on tt day itself... reaching s'pore on 3rd.., my mama's b'dae... miss evrione... but i'll be back soon... gtg.. buaixz!
chaoz
-dyna
1:51 PM aloha ppl!!! first of all..., let me stress out how GREAT England is.... It's reli reli reli reli reli reli reli ... (goes on and on...) kewl!! and cold as well.. heeheez... I would reli lurve to start all the way frm my flight here but i haven't got much time.. my aunt wants to use the comp and i reli don't want to keep her waiting... (I'm starting to tolk like ppl here ay..? hehekz...)
So..., I'm just gonna type abt the fantastic day I had today...
Today's the day that I went for the play and meal with my kuzzin, aunt and her colleagues and their family... It was a whole lot of fun... It started off with one of Aunty Minah's colleague, Lesley, driving us from Bollington (here).. to Manchester... Oh yeah..., Manchester... On the way there... I got to see loads of stuff including where Manchester United plays their games... Mwakakakaka.. And I know where Beckham lives... Wakakaka.. hehekz... ( I know Beckham's not in Man U anymore but still... heeheez..)
When we finally reached there..., we walked to the building where the "lowry" theatre was and sooner than i thought.., the play started.. It was The Wizard of Oz... I am sooooooooooooooooo lucky to have seen it... It's reli reli good... The sets and special effects were fantastic... It was reli good.. The actors were brilliant.. The whole thing was just unbelievably good... I already had a nice time then but it was only one third of the day...
Next, we were off to dinner at Piccolino.. Another GREAT experience for me... I ate decorated food!! hehekz.. something that I've always wanted... I had Baked field mushroom with mozarella and stuff for starters..., my main dish was pizza.. It was reli huge.. I didn't even finish half of it... heeheez... next we had dessert... I had Dark chocolate cake with Cappucino cream or sth lyk dat.. It had frost as decorations... reli kewl... after the meal..., my aunt decided to follow some of her colleagues to wander around Manchester.. She reli made the right choice as we had a wonderful time..
First..., we had a ride on the travelling big wheel.. It's a HUGE ferris wheel.. about... hmmmmMmmm... about 21 stories high... KEWL HUH,..?!? hehekz... It was reli reli fun... I was thrilled looking at all the lights and tall buildings and stuff... but there was one thing that bothered us..., the temperature... Although it's reli fun having smoke coming out of my mouth whenever i tolk or breath.., i felt very numb and frozen as it was reli reli reli cold.. though there wasn't any snow... pity.. It doesn't matter anywayz... I'm happy the way it is.. I didn't let the temperature get in my way as I know tt it's part of my experience... The temperature will NEVER go that low in S'pore sooo I might as well enjoy it while it lasts... hehekz.. soo... after the wheel.., we headed for the German market... but it was closed when we reached there... it was alredi dark at tt time... so we headed to a pub instead... uhuh,... a pub...
obviously i didn't drink stupid things... I didn't have anything there.. I was too full after the meal.. seriously... felled stuffed up... so i just set around.. the main motive of going into the pub was actually to warm ourselves up before we headed to the cars and go home... we spent about an hour there... i thought i was going to sit around and stay quiet the whole time but... i played snooker!! hahakz.. it was fun... Aunty Minah's boss and his daughter were playing as a team and another colleague didn't have a partner.. .My aunt encouraged me to join them as I had played snooker before... but i had reli lost all the skills and stuff as i hadn't played for months! so i just did nonsense and when at the last moment, when we were quite close to winning.., i got the black ball in before our coloured one sooooo we lost.... if u don't know wat i mean.., it's ok... but i'll just explain a lil'... I caused my team to lose... I sort of "helped" the other team win... but i didn't take it seriously... though i went lyk... "sorry...." and in my heart i went... " URGH...." .. heeheez... I had fun though...
They played a few more games... My aunt played one too and she was good even though tt was her first tym... Soon..., Rehana had to go and play as evryone had their turns alredi... And she didn't have a partner so I played with her... I thought I was gonna suck again but I rocked! It just so happened tt my luck was with me at tt time.. I scored quite a lot... Rehana did good too... Though the other team won.., evryone realised tt i played well.. (I'm not boasting or anything... I was shocked, myself.., when I shot some great goals...)
We headed out of the pub when evryone had finished their drinks.... Evryone was going... " That was very good Dayana...".... " I think they're looking for, Dayana the profesional Snooker player..."... I was laughing and smiling... Thanking my luck... hahakz... It was a great day out with Rehana, Aunty Minah and her nice nice Colleagues... They are soooo nice...
We walked for about five minutes to where the cars were parked and then got a lift from one of the nice colleagues... I shook hands with Aunty Minah's boss when he was leaving and he said, " That was really good snooker playing, Dayana.." I smiled and said thank you.. It was reli funny..
After about 20 to 30 mins, we finally got home... Now, I am here typing away on Aunty Minah's laptop beside the fireplace feeling warm and comfy.. My aunt is still waiting for the comp while reading a book... I should reli get off now... I'll be typing loads more soon.. but this is it for now... I am living a dream right now.. And let me tell u guyz one last thing..., England is reli what u guyz think it is... a nice and cute and kewl country,.. And this house is just soooooo Fairy Tale- like... with a fireplace..., a christmas tree... with presents underneath it... I have one too!! heeheez... can't wait to open it on christmas day... this year, i'm gonna celebrate christmas! hehekz.. kkz... better get going... buaixz!! reli miss u guyz back in S'pore... S'pore's a great country.., trust me... but England's a great great country... hehekz... kkkz... bubyez.
chaoz
-dyna
12:53 AM The last three days of band has been kewl... They were on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.. Tuesday, the percussion section had sectional with our tutor. He could not make it for Friday's sectionals so he had it earlier.. I pity him a lot.. The percussion section is a whole lot of head ache.. we can't play well.. the problem with us is tt we don't listen to each other and play.. we juz play wat we know.. we're not united when we play songs.. tt's so dumb.. kkz. sooo..., sectional was quite bad.. it was really obvious tt our tutor was not happy with us but he was smiling throughout... poor poor him...
after sectionals..., we had main band... played all those hard hard songs again.. we were bad as usual.. but mr. wong miraculously does not give up.. though he was in quite a bad mood.. the rest of the things that happened on tt day i've forgotten olredi.. hehekz.. too much of band to rememba evriting..
thursdae was a much better dae.. we even ate free pizza from canadian.. ms siah ordered a few for us all.. so sweet.. me and diana took large slices each.. mwakakakka.. hahakz.. the rest just took small slices but i saw this small skinny sec 1 member with the hugest pizza slice there was.. hahakz.. unexpected.. there was also fried chicken and coke.. it was kind of like a feast.. we had that during break.. on that day.., we practised our syf set piece... mr wong went through it step by step... we ended up sounding nice.. we also played a new song on that day.. it's a fun piece as we all have to sing at some parts too.. it's oye como va... santana's song.. the drumset score's quite complicated but i think i can play it once i figure it out... so... we ended the day with evryone singing and humming the song.. oye como va... mi rit mo... bueno pago sa.. mu la ta... hahakz.. ..
next dae... yesterdae... vewi vewi fun... played oye como va again.. we had main band b4 sectionals... played some simple songs and then went back to going through the syf set piece.. we're getting better.. and then... sectionals... percussion was actually allowed to go home as we already had sectionals on tuesday but only some went home... the rest, including me, stayed behind to enjoy the last practice.. we were fooling around and were very noisy... but i had to stop once a while to go sort the files out and clear the area.. the percussion corner was very very messy... but i stopped for quite some time when my junior, alfred, found a dead cockroach.. he, being afraid of the thing himself, carried it with a rubber band and chased ppl around.. he threw it and the cockroach landed on my skirt.. it hung on my skirt for a while b4 i shove it off.. alfred took it up with the rubber band again... and this time..., the whole percussion section was screaming and running around.. another of my junior, tian yong, carried one of the crash cymbal and used it as a shield.. his sword was a drumstick.. it was so funnie... after the cockroach frenzy, it was the attack of the rubber bands.. me and alfred were shooting rubber bands at others as well as another junior, fathiah.. we were all laughing and screaming... my head ached at the end of it.. after the rest of the band had finished their sectionals..., slowly one after another came back to the bomb shelter from their respective sectional classes and kept their instruments.. evryone also had to clean up the bomb shelter and stack up all the chairs as it was the last day of band for the year.. sooo sad... after the place was cleared.., evryone went home.... the end...
now i am sitting at home wondering wat to do though i know i have loads and loads of stuff to do.. lyk... clean up my room..., sort out all my lord of the rings and harry potter things.. and... PACK MY BAGS COZ I'M GOING TO ENGLAND IN FOUR DAY'S TIME! mwakakakaka.. hahakz.. i can't wait.. i'm reli lucky... thank god.. thank my momma... mwakakakakkaa.. kkz.. gtg now. gonna go to changi beach for a walk with my aunt and kuzzins... heeheez.. buaixz!
chaoz
-dyna
12:41 PM On 1st December, there was a musical put up by Coral Secondary featuring the Coral Concert Band.. The band was a blast... Many were impressed but as for the play, i'm not sure... my mum, aunt, granny, sis and cousins, went for the show.. They were there to watch the play, as well as witness me as the drummer of the show!!! wakakakakkakakaka.. hahakz.. kkz.. back to normal, no more newspaper reports... on the morning of 1st december, majority of Coral Concert Band members gathered at the canteen with bloated bags. We were in for three days of torture, fun, and lameness... It was kind of stupid to have had a camp on the day of the musical performance itself but i went for it anywayz.. So, the camp began with us getting into our groups for the three days.. I was the leader of group two.. Didn't like it at all.. I knew I wouldn't do much as a leader as i'm just sick and tired of leading... so, i just stayed calm and didn't do much at all.. heeheez.. i didn't care abt my group... I was alwayz with my friends... kz, back to the camp.. After we got to know our groups, everyone got to put their bags in the classrooms that we were gonna sleep in for the two nights.., but for me, only one as i was gonna send my mum to the airport.. She was going to Kenya after the musical performance..
The first day of camp was quite fun.. After drills, we played frisbee.. It was cool.. We played it like captain's ball.. My group won bcoz of these three guyz who had a strategy going on... After the game, everyone was exhausted.. We had time to relax and then it was sectionals.. The percussion instructor was not there so the percussion section were all doing their own things.. Most were practising their parts for the musical.. That's what i encouraged them to do ahz.. We practiced certain pieces together a few times.. Had fun..
After a break, we had a last rehearsal for the musical with the casts... Everything went fine and soon it was the show itself.. It began at 7.30p.m though people had already started coming at 7... It was surprising to see that the hall was full even with the fact that singapore idol was on that very same day and time itself.. I started to get a little tensed when the show was about 5mins away.. Had a really bad headache as i had been laughing, joking and fooling around all day... I asked the percussion section to sit together and we kind of did meditation in a circle.. We giggled together and had a nice chat before the show.. One of my juniors did a last minute practice.. He was really nervous as it was his first performance with the band..
The musical began without me even realising it.. Soon it was over and i still didn't really realise.. It was all too soon.. But i was really really happy when it was all over... Actually, mr. wong, along with the whole band, didn't like the fact that we had to play for the musical as it wasted a lot of our time.. We were behind time for practising for SYF... kz, as i was saying.., the musical ended all too soon.. many praised the band.. the band teachers and mr. wong himself, said we did alright.. My family, even though they missed the first quarter of the show as they were late, as usual, said that the band was good too.. My mum and aunt were impressed with me.. I think ahz.. hahakz.. My granny also... I was really happy to see them.. but they went home without me after we chatted for a while.. I stayed there and after a long break for the band members to mix around with the audience and others, we all carried our instruments back to the bomb shelter.. The percussion instruments needed loads of help to be carried down to the bomb shelter from the hall.. .. Other band members made loads of trips to help..
Soon.., everyone was back in the bomb shelter... We had to fall in and after being dismissed we had supper.. It was really really noisy.. Among the noises there were screams of.. "Taufik's gonna win!!!" hahakz.. We had the singapore idol fever.. Me and my friends were all nervous about the results.. But it was gonna be out 15 mins later.. We waited patiently.. Took some section photos.. as in the percussion section together.., the flute section together.. and so on.. After everyone had taken photos with their own section, we took one huge band photo.. It was really fun as everyone was posing and fooling around.. After all of that, many went to change to their night clothes.. I didn't as i was gonna go send my mum to the airport that night.. She came to pick me up at about 11.15p.m... At the airport, i felt quite strang as i was dressed quite formally.. I was wearing the musical attire which was a black blouse and long black pants.. I was the only girl allowed to wear pants as i played the drumset and it would be quite hard for me to play it in a skirt.. After my mum went to board the plane, me and my family went home.. I slept peacefully while the rest of the band members were sleeping on tables and floors.. hahakz.. hehehe... kkz.. ..
I went back to school at 8am the next day.. I think only my friends knew that i had gone back the night before.. No one else realised.. I think ahz..
They were having breakfast when i came...
After that, we were all tortured by mr. wong... Had drills and we were bad.. So mr. wong trained us strictly.. Very strictly... We had to do a lot of pumping becoz of any mistakes.. Total was about 60.. But i think we improved a lot in drills.. The day continued with our bodies aching like mad..
We watched a video of concerts conducted by this late old musician who's mr wong's idol in the music room.. After that was sectionals.. The percussion instructor was there.. He went through two songs with us.. We had a lot of fun.. I won a pair of drumsticks from him.. It was Mike Mangini's.
On that day, the games weren't as fun as the day b4.. It was a totally lame game.. All groups had to tie themselves together and walk around the school like that.. Only the leader was allowed to walk free and lead their group to different stations around the school where we had to play games.. The games were mostly crap.. I didn't do much.. I hated it.. I tried to lead but it was lyk impossible bcoz of some of the group members... but i didn't care much.. I was most of the time just standing around and letting them walk on their own.. After the whole lame moment.., we had main band.. I knew my group members weren't happy with the game overall.. I wasn't as well...
Main band was tough... We were back to playing tough songs after weeks of practising songs for the musical.. I played the drumset crapily, as usual.. Main band ended at around 11p.m... We had supper and all were sent off to go and sleep... but noone was sleepy.. The girls decided to play games but we were too noisy and one of the teachers came to make sure we went to sleep.. After she went off we went back to playing.. heeheez.. but she came back again and made us do push ups for having too much energy.. We had to do 20... After that, we still didn't go to sleep.. We spyed on the guyz who were at the other side of the building, running about and flashing torchlights.. We flashed our torchlights at them and kept on running back into the room whenever we felt that someone was coming.. It was really fun.. Well, not exactly fun.. It was kind of funny.. We really had nuthing better to do.. Soon, everyone had to "wake up" for treasure hunt in the middle of the night.. It was around 2 in the morning.. We had to go around the school finding station masters to get clues from them to find the next clue.. This game wasn't lame but it was all messed up.. The clues were distributed wrongly and noone won.. My group was working together for this game.. we had a lot of fun running around the school with creepiness all around in the darkness.. heeheez.. We were all called back to the parade square where the teacher apologised for the mess.. She let us all go back to sleep and allowed us to wake up late the next day... As everyone was tired, we dozed off so easily and woke up at 7 in the morning.. Some went to shower while others just washed their faces and freshened up.. Had breakfast at around 8 plus... After that, we continued watching the video in the music room.. Soon, it was over and it was time for the best part of the camp... WATER GAMES!! hahakz.. It was really fun.. First, we played "dog and the bone"... Groups that were called had to run to the centre and take plackets of water and throw at their opponents.. I was only a little bit wet but soon, everyone had started filling plastic bags and containers of water to throw at each other.. I was soaking wet after my junior poured two big red plastic bags of water on me.. It was very very fun.. Even the teacher was getting wet..
After almost everyone got soaked, we were made to fall in and march to a corner where our seniors threw packets of water from the third level... After that, they were all caught and sprayed at with a hose.. It was very fun.. I enjoyed myself a lot.. I bet most of them did..
Many washed up and showered after the fun and we packed to go home.. Went to the bomb shelter with our stuffed bags and had prize-giving before we were dismissed.. I walked all the way home with my heavy heavy bag and straight away, went to have a bath.. After that, I slept for a few hours.. My body still aches now as i think we had to do a total of 100 + push ups throughout the camp.. I am darker too.. but it was all very fun so i didn't regret going for the camp.. Next band practice would be on Tuesday and I have a lot of time to rest... That's it for now.. Bye!
chaoz
-dyna
THE END...
1:52 PM
chaoz
-dyna
1:51 PM aloha ppl!!! first of all..., let me stress out how GREAT England is.... It's reli reli reli reli reli reli reli ... (goes on and on...) kewl!! and cold as well.. heeheez... I would reli lurve to start all the way frm my flight here but i haven't got much time.. my aunt wants to use the comp and i reli don't want to keep her waiting... (I'm starting to tolk like ppl here ay..? hehekz...)
So..., I'm just gonna type abt the fantastic day I had today...
Today's the day that I went for the play and meal with my kuzzin, aunt and her colleagues and their family... It was a whole lot of fun... It started off with one of Aunty Minah's colleague, Lesley, driving us from Bollington (here).. to Manchester... Oh yeah..., Manchester... On the way there... I got to see loads of stuff including where Manchester United plays their games... Mwakakakaka.. And I know where Beckham lives... Wakakaka.. hehekz... ( I know Beckham's not in Man U anymore but still... heeheez..)
When we finally reached there..., we walked to the building where the "lowry" theatre was and sooner than i thought.., the play started.. It was The Wizard of Oz... I am sooooooooooooooooo lucky to have seen it... It's reli reli good... The sets and special effects were fantastic... It was reli good.. The actors were brilliant.. The whole thing was just unbelievably good... I already had a nice time then but it was only one third of the day...
Next, we were off to dinner at Piccolino.. Another GREAT experience for me... I ate decorated food!! hehekz.. something that I've always wanted... I had Baked field mushroom with mozarella and stuff for starters..., my main dish was pizza.. It was reli huge.. I didn't even finish half of it... heeheez... next we had dessert... I had Dark chocolate cake with Cappucino cream or sth lyk dat.. It had frost as decorations... reli kewl... after the meal..., my aunt decided to follow some of her colleagues to wander around Manchester.. She reli made the right choice as we had a wonderful time..
First..., we had a ride on the travelling big wheel.. It's a HUGE ferris wheel.. about... hmmmmMmmm... about 21 stories high... KEWL HUH,..?!? hehekz... It was reli reli fun... I was thrilled looking at all the lights and tall buildings and stuff... but there was one thing that bothered us..., the temperature... Although it's reli fun having smoke coming out of my mouth whenever i tolk or breath.., i felt very numb and frozen as it was reli reli reli cold.. though there wasn't any snow... pity.. It doesn't matter anywayz... I'm happy the way it is.. I didn't let the temperature get in my way as I know tt it's part of my experience... The temperature will NEVER go that low in S'pore sooo I might as well enjoy it while it lasts... hehekz.. soo... after the wheel.., we headed for the German market... but it was closed when we reached there... it was alredi dark at tt time... so we headed to a pub instead... uhuh,... a pub...
obviously i didn't drink stupid things... I didn't have anything there.. I was too full after the meal.. seriously... felled stuffed up... so i just set around.. the main motive of going into the pub was actually to warm ourselves up before we headed to the cars and go home... we spent about an hour there... i thought i was going to sit around and stay quiet the whole time but... i played snooker!! hahakz.. it was fun... Aunty Minah's boss and his daughter were playing as a team and another colleague didn't have a partner.. .My aunt encouraged me to join them as I had played snooker before... but i had reli lost all the skills and stuff as i hadn't played for months! so i just did nonsense and when at the last moment, when we were quite close to winning.., i got the black ball in before our coloured one sooooo we lost.... if u don't know wat i mean.., it's ok... but i'll just explain a lil'... I caused my team to lose... I sort of "helped" the other team win... but i didn't take it seriously... though i went lyk... "sorry...." and in my heart i went... " URGH...." .. heeheez... I had fun though...
They played a few more games... My aunt played one too and she was good even though tt was her first tym... Soon..., Rehana had to go and play as evryone had their turns alredi... And she didn't have a partner so I played with her... I thought I was gonna suck again but I rocked! It just so happened tt my luck was with me at tt time.. I scored quite a lot... Rehana did good too... Though the other team won.., evryone realised tt i played well.. (I'm not boasting or anything... I was shocked, myself.., when I shot some great goals...)
We headed out of the pub when evryone had finished their drinks.... Evryone was going... " That was very good Dayana...".... " I think they're looking for, Dayana the profesional Snooker player..."... I was laughing and smiling... Thanking my luck... hahakz... It was a great day out with Rehana, Aunty Minah and her nice nice Colleagues... They are soooo nice...
We walked for about five minutes to where the cars were parked and then got a lift from one of the nice colleagues... I shook hands with Aunty Minah's boss when he was leaving and he said, " That was really good snooker playing, Dayana.." I smiled and said thank you.. It was reli funny..
After about 20 to 30 mins, we finally got home... Now, I am here typing away on Aunty Minah's laptop beside the fireplace feeling warm and comfy.. My aunt is still waiting for the comp while reading a book... I should reli get off now... I'll be typing loads more soon.. but this is it for now... I am living a dream right now.. And let me tell u guyz one last thing..., England is reli what u guyz think it is... a nice and cute and kewl country,.. And this house is just soooooo Fairy Tale- like... with a fireplace..., a christmas tree... with presents underneath it... I have one too!! heeheez... can't wait to open it on christmas day... this year, i'm gonna celebrate christmas! hehekz.. kkz... better get going... buaixz!! reli miss u guyz back in S'pore... S'pore's a great country.., trust me... but England's a great great country... hehekz... kkkz... bubyez.
chaoz
-dyna
12:53 AM The last three days of band has been kewl... They were on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.. Tuesday, the percussion section had sectional with our tutor. He could not make it for Friday's sectionals so he had it earlier.. I pity him a lot.. The percussion section is a whole lot of head ache.. we can't play well.. the problem with us is tt we don't listen to each other and play.. we juz play wat we know.. we're not united when we play songs.. tt's so dumb.. kkz. sooo..., sectional was quite bad.. it was really obvious tt our tutor was not happy with us but he was smiling throughout... poor poor him...
after sectionals..., we had main band... played all those hard hard songs again.. we were bad as usual.. but mr. wong miraculously does not give up.. though he was in quite a bad mood.. the rest of the things that happened on tt day i've forgotten olredi.. hehekz.. too much of band to rememba evriting..
thursdae was a much better dae.. we even ate free pizza from canadian.. ms siah ordered a few for us all.. so sweet.. me and diana took large slices each.. mwakakakka.. hahakz.. the rest just took small slices but i saw this small skinny sec 1 member with the hugest pizza slice there was.. hahakz.. unexpected.. there was also fried chicken and coke.. it was kind of like a feast.. we had that during break.. on that day.., we practised our syf set piece... mr wong went through it step by step... we ended up sounding nice.. we also played a new song on that day.. it's a fun piece as we all have to sing at some parts too.. it's oye como va... santana's song.. the drumset score's quite complicated but i think i can play it once i figure it out... so... we ended the day with evryone singing and humming the song.. oye como va... mi rit mo... bueno pago sa.. mu la ta... hahakz.. ..
next dae... yesterdae... vewi vewi fun... played oye como va again.. we had main band b4 sectionals... played some simple songs and then went back to going through the syf set piece.. we're getting better.. and then... sectionals... percussion was actually allowed to go home as we already had sectionals on tuesday but only some went home... the rest, including me, stayed behind to enjoy the last practice.. we were fooling around and were very noisy... but i had to stop once a while to go sort the files out and clear the area.. the percussion corner was very very messy... but i stopped for quite some time when my junior, alfred, found a dead cockroach.. he, being afraid of the thing himself, carried it with a rubber band and chased ppl around.. he threw it and the cockroach landed on my skirt.. it hung on my skirt for a while b4 i shove it off.. alfred took it up with the rubber band again... and this time..., the whole percussion section was screaming and running around.. another of my junior, tian yong, carried one of the crash cymbal and used it as a shield.. his sword was a drumstick.. it was so funnie... after the cockroach frenzy, it was the attack of the rubber bands.. me and alfred were shooting rubber bands at others as well as another junior, fathiah.. we were all laughing and screaming... my head ached at the end of it.. after the rest of the band had finished their sectionals..., slowly one after another came back to the bomb shelter from their respective sectional classes and kept their instruments.. evryone also had to clean up the bomb shelter and stack up all the chairs as it was the last day of band for the year.. sooo sad... after the place was cleared.., evryone went home.... the end...
now i am sitting at home wondering wat to do though i know i have loads and loads of stuff to do.. lyk... clean up my room..., sort out all my lord of the rings and harry potter things.. and... PACK MY BAGS COZ I'M GOING TO ENGLAND IN FOUR DAY'S TIME! mwakakakaka.. hahakz.. i can't wait.. i'm reli lucky... thank god.. thank my momma... mwakakakakkaa.. kkz.. gtg now. gonna go to changi beach for a walk with my aunt and kuzzins... heeheez.. buaixz!
chaoz
-dyna
12:41 PM On 1st December, there was a musical put up by Coral Secondary featuring the Coral Concert Band.. The band was a blast... Many were impressed but as for the play, i'm not sure... my mum, aunt, granny, sis and cousins, went for the show.. They were there to watch the play, as well as witness me as the drummer of the show!!! wakakakakkakakaka.. hahakz.. kkz.. back to normal, no more newspaper reports... on the morning of 1st december, majority of Coral Concert Band members gathered at the canteen with bloated bags. We were in for three days of torture, fun, and lameness... It was kind of stupid to have had a camp on the day of the musical performance itself but i went for it anywayz.. So, the camp began with us getting into our groups for the three days.. I was the leader of group two.. Didn't like it at all.. I knew I wouldn't do much as a leader as i'm just sick and tired of leading... so, i just stayed calm and didn't do much at all.. heeheez.. i didn't care abt my group... I was alwayz with my friends... kz, back to the camp.. After we got to know our groups, everyone got to put their bags in the classrooms that we were gonna sleep in for the two nights.., but for me, only one as i was gonna send my mum to the airport.. She was going to Kenya after the musical performance..
The first day of camp was quite fun.. After drills, we played frisbee.. It was cool.. We played it like captain's ball.. My group won bcoz of these three guyz who had a strategy going on... After the game, everyone was exhausted.. We had time to relax and then it was sectionals.. The percussion instructor was not there so the percussion section were all doing their own things.. Most were practising their parts for the musical.. That's what i encouraged them to do ahz.. We practiced certain pieces together a few times.. Had fun..
After a break, we had a last rehearsal for the musical with the casts... Everything went fine and soon it was the show itself.. It began at 7.30p.m though people had already started coming at 7... It was surprising to see that the hall was full even with the fact that singapore idol was on that very same day and time itself.. I started to get a little tensed when the show was about 5mins away.. Had a really bad headache as i had been laughing, joking and fooling around all day... I asked the percussion section to sit together and we kind of did meditation in a circle.. We giggled together and had a nice chat before the show.. One of my juniors did a last minute practice.. He was really nervous as it was his first performance with the band..
The musical began without me even realising it.. Soon it was over and i still didn't really realise.. It was all too soon.. But i was really really happy when it was all over... Actually, mr. wong, along with the whole band, didn't like the fact that we had to play for the musical as it wasted a lot of our time.. We were behind time for practising for SYF... kz, as i was saying.., the musical ended all too soon.. many praised the band.. the band teachers and mr. wong himself, said we did alright.. My family, even though they missed the first quarter of the show as they were late, as usual, said that the band was good too.. My mum and aunt were impressed with me.. I think ahz.. hahakz.. My granny also... I was really happy to see them.. but they went home without me after we chatted for a while.. I stayed there and after a long break for the band members to mix around with the audience and others, we all carried our instruments back to the bomb shelter.. The percussion instruments needed loads of help to be carried down to the bomb shelter from the hall.. .. Other band members made loads of trips to help..
Soon.., everyone was back in the bomb shelter... We had to fall in and after being dismissed we had supper.. It was really really noisy.. Among the noises there were screams of.. "Taufik's gonna win!!!" hahakz.. We had the singapore idol fever.. Me and my friends were all nervous about the results.. But it was gonna be out 15 mins later.. We waited patiently.. Took some section photos.. as in the percussion section together.., the flute section together.. and so on.. After everyone had taken photos with their own section, we took one huge band photo.. It was really fun as everyone was posing and fooling around.. After all of that, many went to change to their night clothes.. I didn't as i was gonna go send my mum to the airport that night.. She came to pick me up at about 11.15p.m... At the airport, i felt quite strang as i was dressed quite formally.. I was wearing the musical attire which was a black blouse and long black pants.. I was the only girl allowed to wear pants as i played the drumset and it would be quite hard for me to play it in a skirt.. After my mum went to board the plane, me and my family went home.. I slept peacefully while the rest of the band members were sleeping on tables and floors.. hahakz.. hehehe... kkz.. ..
I went back to school at 8am the next day.. I think only my friends knew that i had gone back the night before.. No one else realised.. I think ahz..
They were having breakfast when i came...
After that, we were all tortured by mr. wong... Had drills and we were bad.. So mr. wong trained us strictly.. Very strictly... We had to do a lot of pumping becoz of any mistakes.. Total was about 60.. But i think we improved a lot in drills.. The day continued with our bodies aching like mad..
We watched a video of concerts conducted by this late old musician who's mr wong's idol in the music room.. After that was sectionals.. The percussion instructor was there.. He went through two songs with us.. We had a lot of fun.. I won a pair of drumsticks from him.. It was Mike Mangini's.
On that day, the games weren't as fun as the day b4.. It was a totally lame game.. All groups had to tie themselves together and walk around the school like that.. Only the leader was allowed to walk free and lead their group to different stations around the school where we had to play games.. The games were mostly crap.. I didn't do much.. I hated it.. I tried to lead but it was lyk impossible bcoz of some of the group members... but i didn't care much.. I was most of the time just standing around and letting them walk on their own.. After the whole lame moment.., we had main band.. I knew my group members weren't happy with the game overall.. I wasn't as well...
Main band was tough... We were back to playing tough songs after weeks of practising songs for the musical.. I played the drumset crapily, as usual.. Main band ended at around 11p.m... We had supper and all were sent off to go and sleep... but noone was sleepy.. The girls decided to play games but we were too noisy and one of the teachers came to make sure we went to sleep.. After she went off we went back to playing.. heeheez.. but she came back again and made us do push ups for having too much energy.. We had to do 20... After that, we still didn't go to sleep.. We spyed on the guyz who were at the other side of the building, running about and flashing torchlights.. We flashed our torchlights at them and kept on running back into the room whenever we felt that someone was coming.. It was really fun.. Well, not exactly fun.. It was kind of funny.. We really had nuthing better to do.. Soon, everyone had to "wake up" for treasure hunt in the middle of the night.. It was around 2 in the morning.. We had to go around the school finding station masters to get clues from them to find the next clue.. This game wasn't lame but it was all messed up.. The clues were distributed wrongly and noone won.. My group was working together for this game.. we had a lot of fun running around the school with creepiness all around in the darkness.. heeheez.. We were all called back to the parade square where the teacher apologised for the mess.. She let us all go back to sleep and allowed us to wake up late the next day... As everyone was tired, we dozed off so easily and woke up at 7 in the morning.. Some went to shower while others just washed their faces and freshened up.. Had breakfast at around 8 plus... After that, we continued watching the video in the music room.. Soon, it was over and it was time for the best part of the camp... WATER GAMES!! hahakz.. It was really fun.. First, we played "dog and the bone"... Groups that were called had to run to the centre and take plackets of water and throw at their opponents.. I was only a little bit wet but soon, everyone had started filling plastic bags and containers of water to throw at each other.. I was soaking wet after my junior poured two big red plastic bags of water on me.. It was very very fun.. Even the teacher was getting wet..
After almost everyone got soaked, we were made to fall in and march to a corner where our seniors threw packets of water from the third level... After that, they were all caught and sprayed at with a hose.. It was very fun.. I enjoyed myself a lot.. I bet most of them did..
Many washed up and showered after the fun and we packed to go home.. Went to the bomb shelter with our stuffed bags and had prize-giving before we were dismissed.. I walked all the way home with my heavy heavy bag and straight away, went to have a bath.. After that, I slept for a few hours.. My body still aches now as i think we had to do a total of 100 + push ups throughout the camp.. I am darker too.. but it was all very fun so i didn't regret going for the camp.. Next band practice would be on Tuesday and I have a lot of time to rest... That's it for now.. Bye!
chaoz
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