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Saturday, October 28, 2006

11:23 AM

I've not posted for 4 consecutive days. I've decided to skip the couple of days, as if I tried to squeeze everything into one post, Blogger would probably sue for for taking so much of its bytes. Besides, I have forgotten a lot of juicy details that make my blog so interesting and enables me to use my humour to great effect.
By the way, I focus more on quality than quantity (though some of you readers might disagree).
I'm feeling quite guilty as those few days have been pretty eventful. However, if I'm going to miss a lot of details, I might as well skip them.
I shall skip to Friday, which was yesterday.
It was supposed to be a holiday for us, but there seemed to be some kind of mistake and therefore, Friday saw a band practice for us. I have several theories on this:

1)Mrs Chan forgot that Friday was supposed to be a holiday as she was busy deciding where the next mine was in Minesweeper.
2)Mr Lim decided that perhaps having a band practice on Friday was good luck (Maybe that's why he wore his lucky jeans again)
3)Neptune was at a 90 degree angle to Mercury and Venus was having a solar eclipse. This series of astrological events somehow created a kind of influential magnetic field that turned all the teachers into unfeeling robots that don't care about the welfare of the students (somehow, the same effect applies to Welfare Secretaries)and thus, there's a band practice.

And those who disbelieve me, you should have asked J.K. Rowling to confirm this fact. She ought to be grateful that I let her claim credit for the books I've written.
Alright, that's quite enough fibbing.
Anyway, this is the first time we used the new band room for practice. The band room is quite enormous to say the least (compared with the cramped place we used to share with crickets).
I just hope people don't go round kicking basketballs around or dunking soccer balls into baskets (Trust me, they do that sometimes) and hit one of the lights on the ceiling. I don't want to see such an article:
"Lights fell down on School Band, 80 dead, one sole survivor"
SINGAPORE Yesterday, a freak accident left almost an entire band dead. The lights hanging on the ceiling suddenly collapsed and the band, which was reported playing 'Beethoven's Fifth Symphony' by ear-witnesses, crushed the clarinetists on the first row, followed by the flautists and saxophonists on the second row. The students, ages ranging from 12~17, died instantly. On the third row, where the french hornists and euphonium players sit, the live wires electrocuted them to charred flesh. The last row might had been spared, but the brass instruments from the third row conducted the electricity and killed off the trombone and tuba players there. Somehow, the percussionist players panicked in the darkness and started hitting themselves with their mallets. The conductor, who was closing his eyes when he conducted, did not notice a thing but sadly, he stabbed himself with the baton accidentally and the wound proved to be fatal. In the end, everyone was dead, except for a single student who went to the toilet and is now traumatized by the incident. The juvenile court has decided to protect his identity, therefore, his name cannot be revealed. He is now genuinely shaken and resides in the Singapore Mental Institution, where he receives treatment. The last time a reporter saw him, he was muttering something about 'Skeer-zun-dough'.

So, those people who are keen on playing soccer or basketball in the new band room, bear in mind that anything could happen.
And if you are skeptical about the probability of this happening, I refer you to JRR Tolkien. Where was I? Oh, about band practice.
Anyway, the Euphonium section was pathetic that day. Only Weiqi and me turned up. Oh, it might fair to say that Kheexuan was there for the last half-hour. Anyway, Jinghao had been ignoring Weiqi's calls for 3 days, so we suspect it had something to do with his headaches and Japanese lessons again. (Which, for your information, is a euphemism for pon)
So Mr. Lim told us some ground rules and stuff like that at the beginning. Like the fact that he would lock the front doors and we would have to come up by the back door if we are late. Personally, I always thought that coming up by the back door was the fastest way. Besides, I doubt some idiot who comes to school at 6 o' clock every day would be late, unless he had to plan some sort of camp for a bunch of p5 twits and he had to learn some dance steps on Monday to teach them. Therefore, he've been trying to think of an excuse.
Of course, I'm guilty of having to skip band practice, as I really love it, but some things can't be helped. Currently, if any of the majors read this blog, now you would know the real reason. I would probably give you some lame excuse but I promised, I don't skip band practice because I don't feel like going. I know, we have a concert soon and the Euphonium section is really busy, but I have a lot of other personal commitments too. Please try to understand that I try my very best to make it for every practice.
Anyway, Mr. Lim seemed to be still affected by the astrological phenomenen and he dished out a new score called 'Cin Cin'. And Euphonium had a solo. Weiqi was downright adamant about playing the solo. So while the trombones and woodwinds played the harmony, the melody players (euphonium) were strangely silent. Mr. Lim didn't seem to care and he just went straight on. (He was probably pitying us) and subsequently, we had a lot of scores that had euphonium solos. It turns out that Mr. Lim had not given up the hope that Jiunn Lin might cancel his trip to make it for the concert.
I had to side-read a lot of pieces. However, Mr. Lim did 'Jericho' also, so I could play a little. However, he also scolded us a lot on this piece - there was this part where we were always coming in one beat early. The worse part is, there were only two of us, so if the dynamics were marked 'p', we probably have to play 'mf'.
Weiqi was not very pleased with Mr. Lim, as far as I can see.
And there were a lot of parts where Euphoniums were the main melody player. And we messed up, time and time again. I've resolved that I would practise hard enough to abolish those mistakes.
Which would probably take me a long time, but I would work as hard as I can. Which is pretty tedious when you have a barrage of activities waiting for you to complete.
WAIT.
I'm very sorry, I think I have to stop for a while. I've just read Zhenyang's blog and I think I've done something wrong, again.
It seems like I shouldn't have reminded him about Sean. As a friend, I would probably be quite apologetic and beg for forgiveness and cheered him up, but I've given my word that I would be completely honest on my blog. Therefore, I should say my part.

I'm sorry that I reminded you about Sean - I forgot that you aren't me; you don't speak about your emotions freely. I know you are trying to forget about Sean. But all I want to say is that I've tried that and it hadn't worked for me. I realised that it 's simply not fair that I have to work so hard while he would probably just laugh it off. Why should I care about his life so much? Just this practice, I was sitting right beside me and even though I was being unusually vocal, he didn't seemed to notice. Now, I just think of him like a normal person I would pass on the street. He does not matter to me, nor I matter to him. When he speaks, I would probably reply, seeing that he is a band member. I would reply to him like I would reply to someone I don't know well, probably someone like Nicholas.(I think our conversation exchanges in the entire year totals up to less than I can count on my fingers)
I know that people like Sean care more about the snails on the pavement than people like us. So why should I waste my energies?
That's all. I hope you can understand. And can you promise me to speak more freely to me? I hate to stab someone without even knowing how I did it.

Anyway, sorry readers. I just felt I had to say something. Anyway, the day went pretty well and I felt super-recharged after a long time of no band practices.
On the way out of school, I saw Mr. Lim and I was walking behind him, without making a noise. Eventually he found out and said, "Wah, you stalking me ah?" and we chatted a while. Then he asked me what bus goes to Potong Pasir. I didn't know, so he took a cab and waved bye. Anyway, if he's interested to find out, someone tell him that he can take 157 (from Nanyang side) and sit till Toa Payoh bus interchange and take 142 till Potong Pasir.

So I shall end, for this entry is not well-written and I can't think of anything to write about. I promise, more is to come.

Next Post's spoilers:
Liu Zhen
More about Zhenyang
Concert today

signed, jiasheng