Many things to update on, little time to do so.

28th Nov

Attended HCImpressione (its Impres-shion not Impression) and came away impressed with the Combined and College bands (:

Enjoyed Flight to the Future and Orient Express alot. They managed to pull off the gimmicks in Jap Graf XIV that our batch struggled with for Capriccio last year. The Saxa solo was good.. and Huiyao totally stole the thunder for the HS side. Wonder why HS manages to produce such skilled players year after year.

Took photos with Joy and Sharon. The whole audi and backstage was in utter chaos and we did not manage to find everyone to take a combined section photo.


Wonder what the Pomelo symbolises. J2 guys favourite Hongguang got the other one. Hm..

30th Nov

A's ended finally and after 1 hour of debate/wrangling over the answers some of us went to Marina Square where WIlliam got owned =P in bowling.. Jontan won the right to be the King of Bowling though (:


Up and down day at the lanes.

William went prom shopping with me when I promised him to proceed to Macs for Shaker fries. Walked about G2000 and Armani at ION.

1st Dec

The juniors invited us to Sentosa for their band outing, and some of us guys (Liangsai, Luther, XJ, William) tagged along as well to partake in 'air soccer' and football on a downward sloping part of the beach. Ended up totally wet after being involved in a tussle for the ball with XJ - in the sea.

Dinner was at Vivo's Kopitiam, and couldn't find a chilled Breezer which I had promised Edwin =/ Jason came from his law attachment, and after stoning for awhile we left for home - and I managed to catch 30 mins of 2x (:


HcBand at Sentosa. (: The lifeguard was sleeping before we got him to take the photo.

2nd Dec

Alumni Band Prac at NH. The tenors did not like me and in the end I struggled to produce any sound at all. Would have died if the conductor was Leng.

Brought my prom stuff at ION. Only bought it as there was a discount of 50%.

3rd Dec

End of the A's for those taking Bio. The band guys chose the wrong day to play soccer in school. The main court was crowded and we had to relocate to the new one set up outside the EP^3 shed.

Finally kicked a ball in a court proper after a year or so. Felt rather rusty and useless though =/

Cabbed down to NH after loaning someone's tenor. =P
And it worked wonders. Practiced Les Miserables and Foxfire. As usual the Alumni finally gathered to play one day before the actual performance and sight-read the two pieces. (Maybe not for all, as some of us had played the latter before in 2005).

Christofle came back, and it was the first time since Sec 1 I played tenor with him. Had fun ribbing each other about the accidentals.


I love the concert title.. =P

4th Dec

The Computing people finally finished their A's, and we organised a picnic at Sentosa (where else..) to celebrate this momentous occasion with them. Turned out clouds were gathering overhead and most of us were late.

We still made it to Sentosa though and set up our mat in a pavillion at Siloso (It was Palawan the other day) and waited for Judy, sY and Silu. And William just had to start on the food first =P There were beehoon, luncheon meat, tuna, bread, cupcakes, ham and salad placed out in front of us - oh, and a 500ml Tiger too. Wonder who bought that.

Frisbee was next and we were sabo-ing William as 'monkey'. Left for NH soon after before witnessing both WIlliam (why is it always him) and sY get dunked. Whoo. Did not see Louis arrive too =/ And also failed to meet up with Waimin for the last time in a few months as she had to wait for a parcel at home.


sY and Silu enjoying themselves (:

Took 97 from Vivo and made good time as the driver was running late and decided not to accept any more passengers in a race to Jurong East. Arrived in time for final Alumni Prac in the Hall, where we also had to sight-read Broadway (I got lost while playing this piece later in the evening and had to ask the Sec 1 where we were - tsk, ehh 'to you' - don't laugh..)

The movement to and from stage was completed 1 hour before the actual performance. Oh, and the actual performance did not start until 7.35pm (instead of 7pm) as the hall was largely empty. Partially it was the rain but one could not fail to notice how in-house our concert was. The audience largely comprised of parents, teachers, alumni and a few VS guys.

The main band did well (the oboe was great(: It has been quite awhile since we had such a good oboeist). Saxas had a nice rounded sound too. The only flaw came at every part with running notes for 'Twin Oaks'. Was quite obvious how unprepared the band was in tackling them.

No idea how the Alumni sounded - I know I played a wrong note for 1 count at a pause note (before changing to the right one - Eb) and choked at Broadway. Christofle took the Alto for Broadway and promptly executed the solo brilliantly with only a few minutes of practice and consultation with Mr Tan. My sight-reading is still rather suspect after 6 years. Haha.

The turnout was quite respectable after all. Only a few rows empty here and there. Hopefully next year would be better. After all, we did not suffer the one-concert curse that seems to like the HS alot.


I wonder whose tenor that is.. (: And Felix's using my old Bari. Thankfully he's better at it than I was.

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Saxas - and no I don't like that pink hairclip..

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