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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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Adam
Alif
Andre
Angeline
Cassandra Ong
Cheng Fu
Daren
Ernest
Elizabeth
Esther
Fikri
Freida
Gavilan
Grace
Gladys Lie
Gladys Goh
Ignatius
Ivan
James
Kai Jun
Louis
Matthew
Nick
Nicole
Poh Shen
Qiu Ling
Rainald
Riyaas
Rytha
Shawn
Shirly
Timothy
Xiao Ting
Yi Huan
Yuko

OTHERS

Montfort Band
Sembawang Symphonic Winds
SG Band Fusion



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GPA of 3.5
My own horn
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Thursday, June 28, 2007

A new school policy was declared this morning. We are allowed to wear ankle socks on Fridays. But it doesn't affect us upper sec students in any way, cause we already already do. Let's hope next time can wear black shoes also, haha.

Had the first IT lesson today at the Valor @ Montfort room, the same room being used for the e-gaming. There were like 50 iMacs inside lah. Then the teacher kept saying, "This is a razer mouse ah. If anything happens to it, you guys have to pay up $75". In actual fact, it was just an apple Mighty Mouse.



Super obvious right?


Anyway, we're doing Videography. Formed my own team of 9 liao. Over the next few weeks, we'll be doing videos/movies. Best entry will be sent for competition, and the best video will win the school and the team $10,000. I want!

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Posted at 9:09 PM

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Wah, I am damn suay lah. During SYF this year at SCH, someone kicked my almost brand new 1-month old horn and there was a minor dent on the bell. And yesterday, Alif and Melvin were fooling around in the band room when Alif inadvertently kicked my horn. The bell hit the chair, and when I got to it, there were two large dents on the bell. Apparently it's my fault since I left it on the floor, just like during SYF, where everyone else also did. Why am I so unlucky such that my instrument is the only one that got kicked? Miss Ong says the next time it gets hit, she will take away my precious Hanstone horn and give me the old horn. Furthermore, I have to pay for the repairs. Probably heading to WindWorks with Alif next week to get the dent removed.

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Posted at 8:14 PM

Monday, June 25, 2007
two of the band's biggest jokers become exco


Section Leaders

(Names in parentheses are the assistant SLs)

Flute, Oboe, Bassoon : Lee Hong Zheng (Terence Lim)
Clarinet : Joshua Melvyn (Gerald Lim)
Saxophone : Alif Zaini(Gideon Low)
Horn : Me (Tan Yi Sheng)
Trumpet : Me (Shafiq)
Trombone : Kenneth Ang (Clarence Chong)
Tuba/Euphonium : Zhen Hui (Alvin)
Percussion : Jia Wei (Lemuel)
Chief SL : Me


Congrats to the new committee. Do work hard for the band.

Kinda got the post I want. And I don't mean the SL one. Being able to conduct the band is fun. Only downside is that I can't play myself, haha.

Quite a fun back-to-school today. There was a back-to-school talk by Mr. Simen in the morning for 1 and half hours.

Then back at the homeroom, Mrs. Lee discussed about MS@M and the racial harmony day thing. Like all other years, my class always sell food one, don't know why. Received a new timetable. Now lessons end as late as 5.30pm leh. And there's one more new subject, IT.

For Bio, we continued on respiratory system in animals. For Math, we started on trigonometry. Ok, I guess it wasn't that fun after all.


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Posted at 8:55 PM

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Since I have so many tags not replied, I'm going to reply them here.
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FiR : yo. it wasn't down lah, just that quite little people only. and yes, we enjoyed it.

Nicoles' : percussion SL leh, what do you expect? anyway that kid is like 8 years old only :D

Ivan : oh, that night someone say your mother cook one. no, you look good!

alif : it's so-so, would be nicer if it wasn't so salty.

joshua-x : you go organise lor. then invite me, haha.

fikri : lol, montfort is full of weird people.

gladys!! : sure thing.

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That's all. Have a good day. (:

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Posted at 12:28 AM

Friday, June 22, 2007

Went to the McDonald's near school yesterday morning to meet Joshua and get some homework done. Andre and Aaron came by later. I finished E Math and half of English. It took four hours, so that's not much of an accomplishment. Matrices just takes so damn long to complete.

Took bus 161 to Compass Point cause Aaron and Joshua wanted to patronize the arcade. We headed to the Time Zone at the basement first. Played some basketball and Time Crisis 4 then went up to the other Time Zone on the third floor for Drum Mania. Then Aaron played Percussion Master with this young kid. This kid beat every other challenger except Aaron, who owned him. So he kept taking money from his dad to try and defeat Aaron for like 45 minutes. Finally he gave up and left, hah!

Aaron's friend whose name I do not know, joined us. We were going to study, but then decided not to in the end. Andre went home, and we went to Pizza Hut for dinner.

Took bus home after that.

Oh yah, I saw quite a lot of people today. Saw James in McDonald's. Saw John/someone who really looks like him from the bus outside Compass Point. Saw Jarvis and Kelvin from 3E1 in the arcade. Didn't expect that right, haha?

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Posted at 11:39 PM

Thursday, June 21, 2007
S3E2 (+ one 3E1 and one 3E5)'s class BBQ

Yesterday's class barbecue was great. Since it just popped up all of a sudden, only around 15 people turned up. Nevertheless, it was good fun. Thanks guys! (and in Mrs. Lee's case, lady)

So at 6.30pm, my parents went to pick up Alif, then Terence and Jun Jie and drove us to East Coast Park. Being the first to reach there, we cleaned the table and lay down all the stuff. Ivan and gang arrived with the charcoal awhile later. Then we started off with the BBQ.

Right, just a brief introduction. I'll let let the pictures do the rest of the talking...




Jun Jie starting the fire.


Clarence and Alif


From left to behind. Jing Rui, Wee Ong and Chong Jun

Chong Jun and Jiong Le

Chicken wings

Chicken meat

Chicken Franks
(they not scared bird flu ah, so much chicken)

The freaking salty but addictive Bee Hoon, courtesy of Ivan's mother.

Delish chocolate muffins, courtesy of Alif's mother.

Jun Jie and Ivan

Acting cute...

Chong Jun being emo.


The satay man and nerd boss, Terence Lim

Clarence. Next to him is the biggest lamer in the world, Melvin Ho!

Ivan, Alif and Clarence showing off their dance moves~

Jun Jie playing with his DIY flamethrower

Deodorant + fire -> a sweet smelling flamethrower


Attempt at artistic shot 1

Attempt at artistic shot 2


Cleared up everything, and by 12.20am, we were at outside ECP waiting for taxi(s). I shared a cab with Gerald, Alif and Melvin back since we lived relatively near each other. Melvin got off first, followed by Alif, and then us twins. That reminds me. Better collect money back from them on Monday. Alif, you still owe me 6 bucks more!

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Posted at 9:57 PM

Tuesday, June 19, 2007



Few days left, and I still can't get out of the holiday mood. Woke up at 8.30am(very early for holidays) today for English lesson and the first thing I did when I got back home was sleep, wah.

Had a discussion with JJ, JR, Ivan, Alif and Gerald after class about having a class BBQ. We spent 1 hour in the study area discussing all the details. So we decided on having the BBQ at East Coast Park tomorrow. Super duper impromptu lah! Had doubts about who would actually go, but we still went ahead anyway.

We walked to Hougang Green to use the AXS machine there to book the barbecue pit. Then we had lunch next door at Long John Silvers while calling people up. Wrote down the things we needed to buy then went up to Shop & Save to purchase them. Everything amounted to $114, haha. Gerald paid the money and we went back home.

Let's hope tomorrow will be a success.

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Posted at 8:11 PM

Sunday, June 17, 2007
'Ennui-ness'

Wah lau, holidays are so damn uninteresting.

I finally started on my English homework, so many pages lah.

Can someone organize an outing or just ask me out? Spending the whole day watching TV and playing Gunz Online is boringgg~. The only outing planned so far is the SGbandfusion BBQ this coming Friday.


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(For all Band members out there)

Sembawang Symphonic Winds Recruitment


Sembawang Symphonic Winds is currently
recruiting for new members. All young
musicians between the ages of thirteen
and eighteen are welcomed to join. But,
we are NOT looking for players on
project basis.

If interested, please kindly e-mail Cheng Fu or me your FULL NAME, SCHOOL and
INSTRUMENT PLAYED to
chengfu90@gmail.com or garylim802@gmail.com or you can add him
in msn if you want.

Thank you.

Band Rehearsals:
Every Saturday, 0930 - 1530 (1 hour of
lunch break included)

Venue:
Sembawang Community Club, Music Studio

Bus Services:
Bus No. 169 (from Woodlands, Yishun &
Ang Mo Kio MRT Stations)
Bus No. 882 (from Sembawang MRT Station)

Audition:
Audition is NOT needed.

Instruments:
Instruments WILL NOT be provided.
Except Baritone Saxophone, Percussion
Instruments and Tuba.

Music Director:
Mr. Desmond Ng

Resident Conductor:
Mr. Andrew Ng

About Sembawang Symphonic Winds:
The Sembawang Symphonic Winds was
formed in February 2005 and inaugurated
in July 2005 by former Deputy Prime
Minister, Dr. Tony Tan, advisor of the
Symphonic Winds’ parent band, the
Sembawang Wind Orchestra, under
Sembawang Community Club.

The Sembawang Symphonic Winds cater
mainly to youths between the ages of
thirteen and eighteen. Its formation is
to encourage community service through
music making.

The Sembawang Symphonic Winds envisions
to create an environment fostering
music appreciation and awareness, in
the process enhancing creativity and
thinking skills. In line with the
Ministry of Education’s call for young
to be more actively involved in
community service, the Sembawang
Symphonic Winds aims to participate in
various community activities like
charity fund raisings, visits to old
folk homes and community outreach
programs and performances.

The Sembawang Symphonic Winds also
aspires to develop young musicians
towards musical excellence. It also
places a strong emphasis on character
building and interpersonal skills.

Through the Sembawang Symphonic Winds,
the Sembawang Community Club and the
Sembawang Wind Orchestra hope to cross
cultural boundaries, to appreciate and
encourage music culture heritage.

In July 2006, the Sembawang Symphonic
Winds participated in the 2nd Division
of the 1st National Band Competition
and was adjudicated by both local and
foreign musicians from Japan and
Thailand. The Sembawang Symphonic Winds
clinched the Gold award and attained
champion in the category.

Current Repertoire :

Deux Mouvements - André Waignein
Aroldo - Giuseppe Verdi/Arr. Frank Cesarini

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Please consider ah, thank you. Message me if you have any enquiries. (:

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Posted at 11:05 PM

Friday, June 15, 2007
TSTTST1/2T

I've just memorized 3 minor scales, namely concert F, G and D minor, but only the harmonic minor part. Thanks to the scale book for horn I bought last year. I still don't get the steps for melodic minor scale. Still an achievement though, yay. 2nd movement of Third Symphony isn't as hard as I though, but still difficult. 1st movement the worst lah, so many accidentals all over the place.

Theres only 9 more days till school starts again. 3 weeks passed so quickly, with band and stuff. How unbelievable. I was supposed to go out a lot during the holidays, yet I only went out like 4-5 times so far. Better make full use and enjoy whats left of the holidays while I still can.

So... anyone want to go out? Movies, shopping, homework-ing, or just plain walking around, just call me.

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Posted at 8:54 PM

Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Hound's Tooth



Just came back from the so called 6G reunion. Ever since our graduation in 2004, someone will organize movie outings every now and then. For today, we watched Shrek 3.

Met at Hougang MRT at 12pm. Wee Ong, Jing Rui, and Clarence were already there when I reached. Waited for Hong Zheng and Daric before boarding the train. Then we stopped at Serangoon MRT to wait for Ivan, the tardy one. Supposed to meet at 12pm, he still at home, hopeless lah.

Got off at Orchard. They decide to watch at Cineleisure, so we walked to Somerset. After spending 5 minutes choosing between Ocean's Thirteen and Shrek 3, we finally got the tickets for the latter. Went down to the food court for lunch.

Clarence wanted to buy a bag at Far East Plaza, so we walked back to Orchard. We went in Level One @ Far East Plaza and into a shop called Hound's Tooth. The bag $62, and Clarence tried to bargain down to $55. In the end, he got it for $60, lol.

Walked back through Orchard Road a third time. At last, we entered the cinema. The movie was nice, especially the ending. I wonder why most movies stop at the 3rd sequel. Anyone know the reason?

The movie ended at 5pm. Went down to Heeren and spend a long time at HMV. After which we headed to Takashimaya. Again, we spent a long time there doing nothing in particular, except walking. Later, we took the MRT back and bid our farewells before going our seperate ways.

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Posted at 7:36 PM

Sunday, June 10, 2007
Montfort Band and Whitley Band goes to the beach. Well, some of them at least.

Yo. It was a great day at Sentosa yesterday. But I don't mean it literally, cause the sun's rays were relentless. All the way from the morning in the school car park all the way to the evening in Palawan Beach, it was damn hot. And don't even start mentioning the vitamin D crap. It only takes 10 to 15 minutes in the sun to get the body it's Vitamin D requirement.

The foot drill assessment was poorly done. Sec 3s were tested individually, and the sec 1s and 2s in groups. I recall making 2 mistakes. Not looking straight ahead and sometimes not saying the timing. Fail liao. The new DM better be a Sec 3. I can't imagine seniors taking orders from a junior.

I need to start on my Math homework now. I'll blog about the rest tomorrow, I think.







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Posted at 9:35 PM

Friday, June 8, 2007
Wooh, I got a B



There was a practical music test today. Too bad it went section by section. I hate it when someone get my hopes up, and then I end up being let down. Like today, there was suppose to be a test for seniors, individually. It was canceled for some reason.

Anyway, the test started off with aural singing. My turn lasted for only 5 seconds, and I suppose that is a good thing. Then we did scales and 12121 thing.

Later, Terence read out the results. No one got an A, but 4 people got a B. They were Alif, Zhen Hui, Alvin and myself. This judging isn't really fair, since the only part we did alone was the aural singing. I feel that some people should have gotten higher and some lower. The next test is somewhere in August. And next time, it will be individual! There will be a sight-reading piece, set piece, and choice piece. More scales also. Now lets just hope Mr. Sukit sticks to as planned.

At 12pm, we went down to the foyer for foot drill. We foot drill-ed like never before, because the test is tomorrow, and I guess no one wants to fail. But it's damn strict lah. 1 simple mistake equals to a fail. And if we fail, there's no chance of getting a good post. The one with the top score becomes the next drum major, be it sec 1, 2, or 3.

After band, I dragged my lethargic self and my horn to the bus stop. Took 74 to AMK and then the MRT to Khatib to meet Hafiz. Why? I was collecting the tickets for the OPWO concert. My first time being to Khatib, and I must say that exploring a new neighbourhood is quite fun. So with some directions from Hafiz, I walked through Khatib Central and into Yishun Street 81. I was surrounded by a sea of HDB flats, but I aimlessly continued to walk straight, haha. Then I saw something which looked like a school, and I went to get a closer look. Luckily, it was OPSS. Got the tickets and headed back to the MRT station. I was thirsty then, so I bought a drink from 7-11 before heading back to Hougang.

Ok, I slept for 3 hours just now. But I'm still tired, and I need to be alert for the test tomorrow right?

Time to hit the sack, soon.

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Posted at 9:21 PM

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Lets see... Here's a summary of what I did from yesterday to today.


- Went to school at 9am for E Math lesson

- Ended at 10am, when I suddenly decided to attend the camp

- Prepared the drinks for the students and slacked off in the staff lounge

- At 1pm, a few of us went down only to find out there wasn't any food left because lunchtime was at 12pm

- Went home to take clothes, eat, bathe, and soccer ball (which is apparently still at MJS)

- Back at school, helped to boil water at the science lab for the students.

- Soccer at quadrangle and than car park.

- More staff lounge

- At 6pm, we went down for dinner.

- Comp. lab was then open, so we went up to find our spots (computer & sleeping area)

- Computer. Watched Romeo X Juliet

- Cup noodles and milo/coffee/milk tea for supper at 11pm

- Watched D. Gray Man until 2.27am

- Slept from 3am-5am on the table

- Watched Deathnote the movie till 7+am

- Breakfast (cup of milo for me)

- Continued watching D. Gray Man all the way to 10.30am

- Took pictures with the class (pictures taken by Jeremy Leong, the non MJS-ian)

- Chatted with Sir outside staff room

- Went with the others to the bubble tea shop, where I got a peanut waffle.

- Walked home

- Slept from 2.45pm to 7.50pm.

and here I am.

See ya.

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Posted at 8:22 PM

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Yo, remember the camp last december for MJS's graduating class of 6A'06? There's another one again. But now, it's a study camp for 6B'07. Being the *cough*role-model students that we are, Mr. James Chng (aka. Sir) has called us back to help. The camp lasts till tomorrow at 11am.

So right now, I'm in the computer lab. Now its 10.39pm. Alif is going home at 8am tomorrow, so I'm probably going to follow him back. Frankly, I'm tired of this place. There's only around 9 hours left. Currently re-watching Romeo X Juliet on http://anitube.blogspot.com. And I'm going to watch D. Gray Man and Claymore later.

long while later...

It's 2.27am now. 1/2 of the class sleeping liao. The rest doing lame stuff, haha. I just finish 8 episodes of D. Gray Man. Think I'm gonna catch some shut-eye now.

long while later...

Haha, It is 5am liao. I just slept for two hours. But it's really uncomfortable and cold lah, so I'm going to watch more anime.

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Posted at 9:42 PM

Sunday, June 3, 2007

A lot of MSSMB members have been criticizing the back of the new band t-shirt. So, I would like to know what the public thinks of it, just for fun. =P


(click to enlarge)



MSSMB T-Shirt

How do you find the back of the shirt?




It's nice
It's okay
It's ugly





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Posted at 7:44 PM

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Second day of day camp at Whitley yesterday. Went to school at 7.45am to help out with the band. But Jia Wei and I had lessons later on, so instead of getting on the bus, we went to Hougang Mall before our class. Then at Hougang Mall, there was this lady(probably a foreigner or a migrant) who wanted to use my phone to call her husband or something. She uttered some foreign language and the only words I understood was "phone" and "husband". So I let her. We went down to McDonald's, where we were joined by Kenneth Ang and Joshua, who also had classes later at 11am. And after having our breakfast, we headed back to school cause I had an English lesson at 10am.

After waiting outside her classroom for quite awhile, Mrs. Lee finally came. With food some more, for those who hadn't had breakfast. Some kind of pancake lah. For the lesson, she ran through some notes on essay writing. I didn't really pay attention, cause Zhen Hui keep asking me about stuff like scales and time signatures, hah.

After class, we went to the foyer to look for Mr. Tan. He wasn't there, so some of us went to find him in the staff room. Then the mini bus/van headed to Whitley. Had lunch before going to the band room to set up my instrument. We played Star Wars for combined practice, all the way till 4pm. By 4+, those who were going for the concert at NYJC fall in-ed at the carpark before going up the bus.

We reached at NYJC at around 4.25pm, quite early. Saw Clement there. Terence distributed the tickets just before 5, then we went in. Our band took up the first 2 rows. The concert was fantastic! Tone and balance, no problem at all. And for a band with only 20-30 people, they were damn damn loud, which isn't a bad thing. The emcees were very entertaining. IMO, most desirable section was the trumpets.

After the concert, most of the Sec 3s walked out the Ave 3 way to the bus stop. Jia Wei, Ivan and Jeremy got on 105 back. The rest of us took 159 which goes back back to Hougang Ave 9, in hopes of finding a place to eat. But alas, the bus was going the wrong direction towards Bishan. But thanks to Hong Zheng's great navigational skills, we ended up in AMK hub. At least there is a food court there. The food there is very ex, but we still went there to eat before heading home.


Desford Colliery Band


Candid shot. Note the new band tees

The gleeful Alif

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Posted at 8:44 PM