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Tuesday, October 04, 2005

ndp now also long past...

2 months in fact..

so many things have happened,....

during the block offs aft ndp...
my n several of my camp frens met up for badminton...
and now my bunk mates n i plays it regularly almost every nite in our camp's badminton courts...

now is 5 of us playing regularly..... then joined by some others from the diff bunks...

we even took turns to buy rolls of shuttlecocks...
bringing our rackets....
buying our own rackets for those who doesnt have one...

even to the extend of buying the net n using pole as make-shift net poles...
but it works fine...
(as the hall's net n poles are locked up in the store aft office hours...)

not bad la...
lost abt 5-6kg i tink...

another 5kg to go...
hahahah~

had a outdoor performance on 2nd oct @ botanic garden...
it's a children day's performance...
SAF Central Band collaborating with a puppet troupe...

titled "World of Imagination"....
story tells of a little boy named 'joey'...
hu's imaginations brought his storybooks alive....
taking him on a journey under the sea, on a carribean island...
n coming face to face with a gigantic firebird~!

so the puppet troupe act out the scenes with 90 puppets...
and central band provided the music...

huge turn-out in the audience....
a lot of kids...
all fancinated by the puppets...

even a dog barked at 'joey'....
the 1st puppet to appear on stage....

we had a sec sch band coming to our camp for a band exchange...
it's a new thing for us...
it was proposed by 2SG(ORDed)Meina...
and it happened on sept'05....

it's sort of a saf band familiarisation program...
sort of like an out-reach to the students in sch bands...

the 1st sch tt came is Fuhua Sec Sch Band...
under Ms. Doreen Tan...

been a while since i saw her or performed in her band...
(she used to conduct mi in moulmein wind ensemble, which also had a combined concert with shuqun sec sch band.)

another familiar i saw in the sch band was a trombonist who played with mi in mus'art.. it's Ms. Lai Xin Lan...
last i heard she was in nie for the trainee teacher course in 2001...
now she's a teacher in fuhua n also 1 of the teacher-in-charge of the sch band...

anyway, the band arrived in the morning.... was welcomed by our officers, had a talk, then a guided tour ard our building "White House" of Nee Soon Camp....

then it was tea break n section masterclasses held by our Section Leaders....

Fuhua had 5 trbs tt day... MY S.L. hosted the masterclass for trbs.... 1st time i saw him teach... eye-opener....

then it's lunch break... then combine full band in the 'E.E. Dragon Hall'...
we played 2 piece, then they played 2 piece, n we combined n played another 2 piece...

haiz.... one of their trombonist then asked mi.... u are keith izzit...
i was wondering... huh, i noe her meh...?
dun remembering toking to any fuhua pple b4....
then she say she went to mus'art on the sunday b4 coming here....

then she met jon from trombone choir.... and apparently he's been telling her abt mi...
nothing positive.... damn....

basket~! dulanz~!
he's gonna get it from mi...
muaahahahahah~!
nv die before...

so she exchange contacts with mi...
she came to watch the children day performance at botanic...
she gave mi n ronnie(my brother also a trombonist in central band) a drawing each...
it's good her drawing...
it's Sakura from Clamp's Cardcaptor Sakura...
she noes i like manga n animes...

so happens tt she loves to draw...
so she draw for us as gifts...
hee~

ocs parade was on 1st oct...
so worked on both sat n sun...
now 2 days off...

hahahah~!
shiok~!

i'm preparing now for my LTCL exam at end of the year.... everyone pls pray for me...
for those not familiar with the levels of music examinations...

in saf.... we, the regulars are required to take thoery n practical exams...
in music.... there's the entry level of grades 1 to grade 8 exams...

followed by the diploma level of exams...
in music diplomas, there's 3 levels....
Associate, Licentiate, Fellowship...

for my practical exam, i'm doing Licentiate, Trinity College London end of this yr....
taking a jump from my last exam, grade 8....

skipping the associate n going st8 to licentiate...
quite a lot of us are taking our licentiates this yr...
a few of the more senior regulars took theirs last yr...

ok la...
hopefullying i can update more often...

Best Regards,

Keithz~! ^_^v

Blasted by a Bass Trombonist @ 1:29:00 AM

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