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The name is Gary. I'm a person who likes to be who I am. A 16 year old who just graduated from Montfort Secondary School. I'm now in Ngee Ann Poly studying Mass Communication. My interests? Making music, watching dramas, blogging, shopping, and the occasional reading.

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Sunday, January 14, 2007

It's Recruitment Day!

Yo.

Yesterday was a fun day indeed. I went to school at 7am. There, some of us helped to carry the benches from the canteen and into the study area where our stall was.

Later, Zhen Hui and I decorated the board. Halfway, we were helped by our new band teacher, Mrs Yeo. She helped us to cut out some pages from the M9 booklet to paste onto the board. Meanwhile, the rest of the band were going through the pieces. At 8.50am, we went down the the study area and got ready.

At 9.30am, the Sec 1s left the hall and came down. That's when we started playing. The order of the songs were Rich Girl, The Pink Panther meets the Flintstones, Circle of Life, and then Shrek Dance Party.

After that, it was time to pull in the Sec 1s. Alif, You Xian and I played some songs from the Movie Themes book, but we stopped like in 3 minutes cause it hard to even hear myself, haha. Then there was a mace-work performance by our very own Ray Wee. If you want to see a video of it, go to either Aaron or Joshua's blog.

After some more pulling of Sec 1s, we played Shrek Dance Party again. After that, we went up to the band room and kept our instruments. Unfortunately this time, we got a nice long 15 minute lecture from Mr Tan about communication between the members and the teachers. Since the YCS people were just next door, I'll bet they had some fun listening to us get scolded.

At 11.55, my parents fetched us (the SSW peeps, except Shaun since he took a year's leave for his 'O' levels) to Sembawang CC for 'practice'. When we reached there, Tian Ze approached us. Unknown to us, all SSW members had to audition for the chance to go to Sydney with SWO for the Australian Band Festival/ Competition or something like that.

The audition criteria ;

1. Scales up to 4 flats and 4 sharps
2. 3 Choice Pieces of our choice
3. Side Reading
4. Aural
5. Practical Musicianship

Since this was a surprise to us, we had only 10 minutes to prepare. Anyway, I was the first from Montfort to go in, bleah. The judges were Mr Desmond Ng & Mr Andrew Ng.

Firstly, scales. They tested me on Bb Major and C Major. Kinda messed up a bit on this one.

Next, the choice pieces. I play Flight of the Falcon, Rhapsody for Euphonium, and Circle of Life. This was ok, though i was corrected by Mr D. Ng a few times.

Then side reading. I was damn shocked when they said Rebroll, lol. Screwed up big time on this.

Fourthly, Aural. This means i have to mimic whatever tune he plays on the piano. This aspect was quite good. Starting notes were correct both times, but sometimes i missed the later notes by 1 semitone.

Lastly, practical musicianship. I had to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in Eb Major and G Major scales. This was also good. Anyway, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is 1155665 4433221 5544332 5544332 1155665 4433221.

After that. I went to the cafeteria for lunch with Joshua. Maggie Mee, haha.

Back at the band room, Mr D. Ng told us about the SWO trip. Then we listened to some recordings previously played by SSW and SWO. After that, we were free to go.

Fikri, Joshua, Gerald, Alif and I went to Yishun GV's Long John Silvers for dinner. We sat down and chatted until 6pm.

Parted with Fikri, and then went home with the Montfort people after that.