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Monday, June 26, 2006

; 5:37 PM

The ERHU PEOPLE!! From left front, Zhi wen, Liang Yu, Jasmine, Anna Miss She Ling.. From right back, Gloria (Hidden), Li Yi, Me, Ying mao and Jian Wei!! P.S. Liang Yu you owe me the pic I took with you :) :(

; 5:35 PM

The Teach (Miss She Ling) And ME!!

; 5:34 PM

But how could I forget Lukas? How is also hard-core practicing...

; 5:34 PM

Oh and here are the ACS BR PEOPLE!! From left, the pipa players Ivan and Jeremy plus Ian Yang the cellist!!

; 5:32 PM

And there's the pipa people again practicing hard at solo pieces... Woah... Really hardworking!!

; 5:31 PM

Back stage... Where most girls go, "Where's JEREMY, I WANNA TAKE A PIC WIF HIM!!" :P

; 5:30 PM

Erhu 1 people :):)... From inside back to outside 2nd row... Zheng de, Ying mao, Li Yi, Gloria

; 5:29 PM

Orchestra's view from where I am... Oh look!! There's Jian wei asking liang yu something... Wonder what is it??

; 5:29 PM

Pipa people practicing... Oh and there's the all famous Jeremy with Ivan and Dawn.. How Hardworking :P

; 5:28 PM

Following pics are from phone cam, so not that good.. Anyway, Basses look cool!!

Music camp feelings plus movie... ; 4:22 PM

Yo, back for more about Music camp.... And after thinking it through... I felt that I should leave the rest of the people from the previvous post that would be mention on this one out, due to unforseen circumstances.. Though so, pop me a message anytime your free :):)...

Anyway, its time to talk about the camp and its peices...Now the camp conductor was none other than Mr. Quek Ling Kong, the SYCO conductor.. Learnt quite a bit from him about interpretation of music, modern movement of music in both the chinese music industry and the westrn music industry.. Anyway, he too mention about the importance of passion in music and explained in a clear manner the explanation of techniques and beats (9/8 comparing it to triplets)... Well, quite nice guy... last year teaching in music camp so all the way man!!

Now the songs...

Nan Yun
A New Local Composition by Mr Lim, it combines his personal wants in the songs plus depending heavily on the "Nan ying" or known as the Southern melody. This is based on the main accompliment of the pipa and main solos by the dizi. The song also emphasizes on the various notes of each major namely the "6", "3", "4", "7" (Chinese scores)...
Nice song, but I always scerw up bowing (due to matching of the gao hu people)... And has a repeating melody thus not really making it one of my fav. pieces..

Liang li ying qiao
A shorter name for a long name song... I love its various changes in tempo and theme in the song.. It includes triplets, chromatic scale and a decent melody.. Lovely piece....

Yin shui si yuan
A song with changes in melody, firstly starts off with a depressing tune which saddens hearts before going on to a more up-beat pace... The melody is difficult to master in the beginning of the peice as the composer wants to bring out the cry of the people, and I must say the people who played the melody really made it quite nice..... Then it changed to a more techno type of peice as the percussionists were playing like a techno tempo beat... Quite cool...
Nice piece....

Ji Liu

1st Movement: wen tian
It places the whole movement of Ji Liu in a very sad and helpless manner with various instrument repeating a common melody before it comes to the panio solo and that, all that, really hits me in the heart and makes emotions flow... And finally there's an erhu solo to end of the peice....
Beautiful song, my personal fav....

2nd and 3rd movement: zheng hai and yo long si shui
Basically its two songs with two different themes each with its own focus... Not really as nice as the first, but hey, there must be constrast in the pieces, right?

4th Movement: Chuan deng
Nice song and melody and had to sing out the song..... Nice song

Well, thats about that.... Oh before I end off I would like to warn the people visting that there might be crappy tags... Do not be alarmed, these are just my friends that might also use the links to place crappy tags on your tag-boards... I doubt you know them but they are Min Yang and Ian Yang... So if you see like my name with really, really crappy comments... Well, will try best to prevent that!! Sorry for the trouble... :P

Music camp + High school musical rockeD!!

Saturday, June 24, 2006

CO CAMP!! ; 8:16 AM

Hey guys.... How was teen games? Did you emerge victorious?... Would really have loved to joined you all but I had Chinese Orchestra Camp Which was extreme fun!! And to those new to the blog, hey, welcome!! This blog is for all my friends to depict my life putting all of you in focus!! So lets talk about the camp....

When I first cme for camp.... I had the urge to talk to the other members of my section but due to the fact that we were all so quiet already in pre-camp training, I had doubted the fact that the camp would not be a talking one.... But things took a turn when I became the group leader of GRP 5!!! Love the group man....

Ok, so the first person I had conversed with was Gloria.. Now gloria was pro, pro, and nice (you were thinking that I was going to put another pro there, right?).... She is quite fun to talk too... And easy too... Making it easier for me to open up to the rest of the group... Learning since pri. 3, you can see her experience on stage already..... And hey, if you're looking here, just know that talking to you was FUN! :P

Then came Anna who was arranged to sit behind me at first, before coming next to me.... Here's a little thanks for helping me flip the pages... And she is mainly the one in camp who like goes up to the new people and talk (Sometimes...)... Also fun to talk too... But one thing... Can you and Jasmine stop using me as a joke?!... But other than that, fun person to be with :):)

How could I forget Jian wei...... The little dude packs a punch with his continuously training, I think he can make it to the top... But hey, one thing, hey not to practice while the conductor is talking, not really nice... But you and Anna together pack laughs... Fantasizing in the dark,.. 0.o... LoL...

Then was Jasmine and LiYi....Those two are like the another factor needed to cause laughter in the group.... When they starts laughing at me being really Really qian bian... Its like everyone starts laughing... For example, If I says Geo rocks because you all learn about boulders.... Actually its not really funny... But because they start laughing... Everybody laughs crazily.... TO them, I can only say, You're the Bomb man...

Then there was Ying mao,... I met him at auditions and we never really did talk... But I always see him everywhere I go.... LoL... Great guy, Great skill, Must talk sometime other than MSN cause your conversation window jams my com......

Of course there was our great section leader, Hwee Leong... Who did the amazing feat of playing the solo with a fever... WoW.... What more can I say.... It takes practice and experience man.... Didn't really talk to him but can tell, he is a nice guy.,..

Zheng de was the erhu 1 guy sitting next to me.... Quiet and shy, but still talks once in a while with us... Serious and yet gentle, quite a cool combination of characteristics...

But how could I leave out this guy called Junda? The guy is like quite nice and a good listener... We all go to him to check gong fa and if there are changes in dynamics... Well, could say he is the erhu 2 section leader...

Last but not least, would love to talk about these two people, Liang yu and Zhi wen... Though I only talked to them on the last day, I had really REALLY whished I'd talked to them earlier.... Though they are sec 4 this year, they really seem younger cause get tickled easily through verbal jokes and quarrel about shirt colour.... A little something could make them laugh like crazy e.g. comparing suits with the conductor... But behind the looks and character, lies they're skill.... Its like I was so shocked when they were playing all the Grade 9 songs in one shot.... I was *Jaws drop...*... But really sweet girls...

There still many people I wanna thank, like Pearlyn, Sinting, shermanie, karina, kenny, Amanda.... But hey I'll leave that to next time... Promise cause I haven't write my feelings about this camp....

But to all these people I can only say

Thank you for the times.....

Monday, June 19, 2006

Music camp ; 7:56 PM

I really sucked today at Music camp... Its like our whole erhu 2 grp (Play the lower part one...) Totally screwed up one part... So instead of typing a long post about "All about Kellyn, Birthday edition" I just wanted her to know that she is totally important in my life....

Oh and about the post... Will type it someother time....

Off to PRACTICE!!!!

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Something to talk about.... ; 9:34 PM

Its been a while since I posted... It also looks like I should change my tagboard cause there have been complaints that it takes too long load.... Well, will change but must promise to tag, ok? Well, something to think about....

I've seen this past few days about some posts that sent many thinking... And thought of these things, which then inspired me....

We often wonder of things which are beyond our reach, events of the past... Things out of reach, unchangable... Yet we wonder what would happen if we were to do things another way... Change the past....

Why do we wonder of all these things and question their presense or their existance and keep wanting to improve the present situation... The seeking of knowledge... The Mistakes that we never fail to do in daily life... Yet when we seek these things... We often to question its reason behind why we do all these... Why? Why? And why is it worth our time.... An example, for instance, One could wonder why should seek all knowlegde and be a know-it-all.....

A little something I thought about..... And a little something for you think about... True knowledge is actually knowledge within knowledge... That being the content of the knowledge.. If we cannot apply the knowledge, what is the use of learning anymore than needed.... Some things in this world we meant to kept secert so that its presense or existance of the item or animal may survive...

That theory almost applies to anything... But I think one other example I know that goes through our heads is this.... And this is my way of interperation.....

True purpose is the purpose within the purpose.... The reason within the reason... The answer within answer.... And can someone actually answer the never-ending list of life questions?

Well, there is one person who can, which is none other than GOD, right guys? :P

Actually what I wanted to drive at the point is that God is the TRUE source and that all answers come from HIM... :)

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Remebering the past... ; 4:26 PM

As the youth camp has drawn to a close.... I've been taking this time off to think about my past with you all.... But before I get to that...

UPDATE
1) I'll be away to Penang for a few days..... So that means....
2) I'll be missing captian's ball *Sigh*
3) I'll be missing Sharing on Sunday *Double Sigh*

Oh well.... Even though I was given a choice if I wanted to go for this vacation... Well.... I thought that I must too spend time with my family members too, right?.... So, time to do a long post before I go overseas....

I've been getting appreciation from you all that I sometimes wonder how I used to yearn for others to recongise my existance and my presense in the church...

I wasn't really a attentive boy in class last time and had to constantly move around due to my hyper-activeness. I know the many teachers who taught weren't really happy about my behaviour... But I wasn't the only one.... I had people like Andre and Matthew who would go through the same thing with me during class... Making noise..... Non-stop talking.... Really brings back memories man.... Then soon after Andre left, (Me being P6 and he being Sec.1 at that time) Our class was taken by Victoria and Jeanette for games... (Remember??) That was the last year any sec 1 could take part in the children ministry I think that was why I saw the both of them teaching our class... I think it was at this point that I started to realise my need for friends and a few more lessons that now form my morals I have... I think it started from that year...

It was a certain sunday when we had captian's ball and our class was lead by Victora and Jeanette to play at the all so familiar play-ground... As we were playing I had missed my shot at the captain and hit Audery's head... As she was being hit... She slowly started crying and sit at the side... Though how many times I aplogised.. She just couldn't forgive me... (The next part is super funny...) ... I know that period of time was very hard for Victora and Jeanette to handle.. As I too stopped playing and instead walked over to another part of the play-ground to sit there and... cry.... LOL.. That time Victoria kept telling me to continue playing and that it was ok... But I could not get over that incident and how wrong I was at hitting her... Though it was not on purpose....

But because of what Victoria did.. She showed me care and concern did cause a change in the younger ones and next time when I was her age, I'm going to do the same....

P6 came and went with other significant events which I would not write... If not it would be really TOO LONG.... Anyway, Sec. 1 was the frist time I saw Wen Xin and Joachim... At first I did not really talk to them... But as time passed, (for that year) I got to know Wen Xin better for somehow, she came to talk to me.. I think...

Oh and since her brithday is coming up.. Here's a little something...
THANKS FOR BEING SUCH A GREAT FRIEND!!! YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH IT MEANS TO HAVE SUCH A FRIEND!!!

Anyway, in sec.2 I got to know Jo and Andre to a greater depth... One explaining values and discussing why and how people change (The east coast stay over...) and the other being lost and shared all his feelings to me... Mathew.. Well, we always talked and shared stuff.. But he is always the cool dude.... Always saying..."Nvm one lah... Can do it one lah..." Dude, how can you keep so cool man...... Anyway, Its how I see these lives plus many others in church that have made me what I am today...

The amount of people are just too many to name and to speak in detail... Even the scroll the size of the heavens could never fill what I wanted to express my thanks to the many out there.....

Ok, maybe half the sky....

But it is all thanks to all MY FRIENDS OUT THERE!!! It is because of you that I never feel alone... Cause I know that I have another family out there which is so much bigger and that cares about me!! That is why you see me today as one who loves to talk and give items on your birthdays... Because that only could never.... NEVER be able to express my thanks for ALL that you have done for me....

So, once again thank you!!

Dang, I hate missing Captian's ball.....

Monday, June 05, 2006

Youth Camp (Cond't) ; 7:01 PM

Oh before I forget... The sec. 1 boys you all, ROCKED.... .Fun being with all of you man...

Chang Yen... You've changed... And started scolding me less.... Ya!!.... Thanks

Victora.... Always felt that we were two worlds apart... But in this camp.. You made feel the gap being feel... And that you are a very fun and nice person to be with... And guess what... Just like Jeanette.... LoL

Matt... Our bassist... And good friend man... What esle can I say man.. Together with Ximin, Andre, Joachim and I.... WE CAN DO ANYTHING WITH GOD MAN

Youth Camp ; 3:12 PM

Youth camp was a blast man.... So much things to remember.... Firstly, I must state that it was such a waste that I missed the first day of camp.... But anyway, I still had alot of fun man...

Joachim was Pesca's grp leader which consisted of Ximin, Jun, Claudia, Audrey, Natilie, Terence and not forgeting Linchon and Uncle Chris!! Ok, lets talk about our Leader first...JOACHIM... The cool guy who can really act.. And got everybody thinking about his personiality... LoL... But he is really nice guy man.... About Terence and Uncle Chris.... No need to say much right? We all know who good they are :)... First time talk to Natilie, even though it was only for one night.... Oh well, but nice person to be with :):)... Claudia.. Surpirses me with her "chattiness".... She can talk if she wants too man.... But also nice to talk too.... Audrey, fun side seen in camp... Was also super enthu on the play... (Or was it juz to see Jo and me act gay.... *Eyes rolls.....*). Jun is cool man.... Even though went through planning with her, nvr really talked her, but this camp.... Found out that she was like me... LoL... If you're reading this... Remember? "So scary!!", "Don't worry Jun, You set the pace" :P... SO FUN!!!

But the one who most impressed me was Linchon... He changed from the un-enthu person I saw when I came in to the Enthu person in Teasure Hunt..... He really grew, Seeing him from P6 to now... Good Job, my friend!!.... Ximin was the cool dude with the pro english accent... And the way he tries to reach out to others in the camp.... Gd Job!!

Now about me... I really learnt alot in this camp... God raelly should be placed first, Above all things.... Putting away all shame and all barriers such as questioning his intentions for us with our own common sense... For it is something we cannot comprehend.... And I too realise that I cannot do without all of you... I feel deeply rooted with all of you that you all make such a big impact in my life... Unhappiness, happiness, Anger.. I can feel with you all... Maybe what Ximin said was right....

"You're just like a Santa Clause in church, you know Nigel?"

"Really?"

"You give everyone presents..."

"No lah... That was from my parents.."

"But you also give encouragement to others..."

Well, I do all that maybe because seeing my friends happier... Less burdern.... I too may gain encouagement to live each day to make others happy with their walk with God....

Maybe thats why I'm here for.... Hmmm....

Also like to take this chance to thank the committee... Andre... Though he is still searching for answers... He will be answered and our group would behind you till you find those answers.... Eunice... You really a 8rt friend (Learnt it from Theon...).... Jun... Well, whats said above... Jeanette... I always felt last time that you didn't really like... And it appeared that I was scared of you... Well, At least now you know.. I'm not scared of you.. And through this camp, I came to realise you're really actually quite a nice person (But you really looked bimbo on stage man... It looked so real... LoL).... Joel and Terence... Thanks for guiding us through everything man... You two rocked.....

Well, I'm guessing if Joel looked at the end of the post of my blog... He would be like "I'm going!!!".... So, to end off this post....

The nxt captain's ball, when? Anybody??