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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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FRIENDS

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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Be a better person
Travel to US and Europe
GPA of 3.5
My own horn
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Sunday, July 29, 2007
Adagio

It's great to be back online! 2 days without the internet is boringggg~. I just asked my dad to help me a few minutes ago, and he told me to reset the main switch for the computer. Did that and tried to access the net, then woah, can work liao. To think the solution is so easy... at least I managed to finish reading the HP book while I had nothing else to do.

There was band practice yesterday morning. Had an hour of sectionals before going up to the hall for combined. Went through the pieces for our performance a few times before calling it a day.

Headed to Sembawang for SSW rehearsal with Gerald. Got back my Egmont score from Hafiz, and had some self-practice. Then we left for AMK Hub with Tian Ze, Mr. Andrew Ng, Jonas and Alif to meet up with Fikri, the birthday boy. Went to the arcade first. Mr. Ng pro at Time Crisis lah, he didn't die till almost 1/2 an hour later. Mr. Ng left, and we walked to the Pizza Hut near the interchange for dinner. Fikri and Alif later went to watch the Simpsons at Jubilee while the rest of us went home.

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Posted at 3:01 PM

Thursday, July 26, 2007
What Shall We Die For

I'm exhausted. Have been sitting at the computer for 6 hours since I came home from school, arranging the choice piece for the upcoming section competition. Glad it's finally finished, cause listening to the same piece 50 times over is not fun. -_-

And I still haven't finished reading the Harry Potter book yet, 4 days liao. Sigh...

Get well soon Daren. I know having a dislocated knee is not that fun either (:

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Posted at 10:41 PM

Monday, July 23, 2007
I so hate spoilers

I haven't been blogging for awhile, due to laziness. But, the past few days have been interesting ones. YRHD on Friday. Konzert XIV on Saturday. Didn't do much on Sunday, except read the last and final book of one of my favourite series, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows! Yeah yeah, don't say it's stupid.

And today during morning assembly, I was sitting with Terence and James on either side of me. Then those two bastards kept discussing about HP. Told them to shut up, but they went ahead and spoiled the ending for me, idiots la. That's one major downside of not finishing the book by the weekends, surely got people want to spread spoilers one.

On a lighter note, my class raised $799 for the racial harmony day last Friday, crowning us the top stall. Mrs Lee's classes have been winning for many many years already, funny hor.

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Posted at 8:55 PM

Friday, July 20, 2007
Youth and Racial Harmony Day Celebrations

Daren Ng

Anything at only $1


Our coconuts and coconut jellies.


3E2's (Nincompoops) Menu


Jing Rui stirring the soya bean milk.


Jun Jie


The other semi-identical pair of twins in my class, Shawn and Daren Ng


Milo Ice Blended



Tadaa!


Chocolate Fondue at $1 per stick


See the number of customers patronizing our stall :D


Ivan and Louis with Alif's songkok


Ivan and me with Alif's songkok... and my drink


Muffins selling at $0.50 each


Chicken and Nuggets, S1 for 3 pieces


Alif and his 'hand'


He's A Pirate


3E2


Alif and Poh Shen. Half-flash, half-not-flash


Melvin 'de' Ho

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Posted at 3:20 PM

Wednesday, July 18, 2007
First Love

Mass school workout in the morning. Then we had Physics. Mr. Khatib, a theoretical engineer from India sat in to observe the lesson, followed by CLB, Math, recess, English, A Math/free period.

Pure History was canceled due to reasons unknown, so I went for band early. Had sectionals for 1 hour, then foot drill for another. Then Ivan told me there were some people from SWO coming down. Didn't know to believe or not. At 5pm+, we went up to the band room. Imagine my surprise huh.
Tian Ze(Saxophone), Chen Chung(Trombone) and Timothy(Trombone) were standing there. Alif said there were 3 girls downstairs waiting also. But apparently girls can't enter the school, so says the security guard. That's one new fact I learned about the school today, lol. So they came to promote the upcoming concert, and the response was ok. The concert is sort of a welcome back for SWO. They went to Sydney this June for the 18th Australian International Music Festival and emerged overall champions for the Open Division. I think most Sec 3s are going. And there are some Sec 1s also.

Only 2 more days till the concert day. Can't wait.


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Posted at 7:24 PM

Monday, July 16, 2007
Money woes


Splurged a lot recently. I spent $100+ in like 4 days, haha. It's money I've been saving for a new phone some more, T_T.

- Paid $50 for band uniform (Friday)
- Ate at KFC (Saturday)
- Bought some stuff at Popular (Saturday)
- YCK concert ( Saturday)
- Ate at the food court in Raffles City (Saturday)
- Bought a lot of food in SCC's cafeteria (Sunday)
- Went to LJS for early dinner (Sunday)

And today, school ended at 1pm cause of the 'O' level Mother Tongue Listening Compre exam. Went to AMK Hub with some of my classmates to catch a movie. But they wanted Transformers, so I watched Harry Potter with Joshua, Gerald, James and Jia Wei instead. As with all other HP movies, they cut out a lot of parts lah. I think those who don't read the book won't understand some things. So we walked around while waiting for the others to end their movie. Saw Gladys (P. High) and Fyon (Whitley). There was a lot of students there also. I guess AMK Hub is quite appealing since it's the newest mall around. Around 45 minutes later, they came out of the cinema. They didn't want to eat, so we just went home.

Now I'm quite broke, zzz.

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Posted at 5:52 PM

Friday, July 13, 2007
There's elegance in Mace Training

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Posted at 7:28 PM

Thursday, July 12, 2007
"We want a Roti Prata stall in the canteen!"


Today's Q&A session for the Student Council President candidates was damn entertaining. The questions asked were very frivolous, but also very funny. My personal favorites are Justin and Saravanan. But Sara is a bit of a boot licker, so I think I'll vote for Justin tomorrow.

It stretched over two periods, so we missed the possibly Bio practical ; dissecting sheep hearts with bare hands! Chem practical was a breeze. Why can't Physics SPA be as easy?

Discussed the roles for the video thing during IT lesson. My group name is Random 5, cause we simply assigned numbers to ourself and use the random function to select our roles, haha.

Great day... no homework. :D

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Posted at 9:29 PM

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Gaming, part of school life?

Valor @ Montfort, the e-gaming centre officially opens on Friday. Being the only school to have one, there'll be a press and live telecast. Too bad theres band on that day, haha.

Currently available games :

- Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
- Counter Strike: Source
- Warcraft III: Frozen Throne
- Battlefield 2142

1 hour of game play costs $1.50. Not bad sia, 50 cents cheaper than outside lan shops. But the environment, graphics, sound, mouse, are not as good, lol. If things go well, they'll be selling games and game merchandise (prepaid cards etc.) at cheaper rates. Next time want to challenge others at DotA or CS, no need to go find lan shop liao.

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Posted at 7:15 PM

Monday, July 9, 2007
Random snapshots

Melvin Ho (DM 07-08) and Kenneth Ang's (T-bone SL) back


Alif Zaini (ADM 07-08) and Kenneth Ang's (T-bone SL) back... again


MSS's Clock Tower


Birds


The newly carpeted band room

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Posted at 8:45 PM

Saturday, July 7, 2007
Two bands in a day

It's 07/07/07. See, today is so special, haha.

It was raining in the morning, so I suppose that's the reason we didn't do foot drill. Most of the Sec 3s were not there either due to the fact that they had the Youth Rally or A Math remedial, so I took charge. Mr Sukit arrived at 9am, and we started off the practice with singing, then warm up. Did PotC later.

At 11.45am, I left with Alif and Gerald for SSW rehearsal. Reached there just before we went off for sectionals. Brass and Woodwinds were at separate rooms. Half an hour later, we went back to the music studio for combined. Finished 70-80% of Aroldo. There's only 1 more rehearsal left. It's going to be my 5th concert. Also my 5th concert at VCH. I hope to be able to play with SWO at the Esplanade next year. I think I'm going to be the only hornist for SSW this concert, -__-.


Concert Recommendation

Sembawang Wind Orchestra proudly presents:

Konzert XIV

Date: 21st July 2007, Saturday
Time: 7:00 pm
Venue: Victoria Concert Hall
Ticket Price: $12, free seating

Music Director: Mr Desmond Ng

Repertoire

SWO

Rebroll
Do-Enka Express
Passion of Christ Mvt 1 - Ferrar Ferran
4th Symphony (Yellowstone Portraits) - James Barnes
and many more.

SSW

Aroldo


Please contact any SWO or SSW members for tickets or simply contact me at garylim802@gmail.com.

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Posted at 9:18 PM

Friday, July 6, 2007

Band is becoming a miserable place to go to. MSSMB, I mean. Maybe it's because of the teachers. Or maybe it's because of all the stress. Maybe both. 2 juniors quit today.

The band has become something different already. It's not quite like what I used to know la.

Band matters aside, we had the Internal Assessment for Physics SPA just now. Had to report to the Physics lab at 11.45pm, in between our recess. Mr Tan only turned up 15 minutes later, but at least we had some time to revise our notes. Pendulum experiment again. But this time, we had to find out gravitational acceleration as the string gets shorter. I didn't know what to do, cause we were suppose to make the pendulum bob oscillate in circles. And whenever I tried, it kept hitting the table. Since I couldn't get any data, I fabricated my own, lol.

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Posted at 7:29 PM

Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Histone

Youth Day was yesterday. It's good to have a break on Mondays for a change. Didn't do much at though. I simply used the computer and watch TV during the day, and did my homework at night.

First period of the day was P.E, where we had the class soccer 'tournament'. We called our team Melvin's Knights. Don't ask why, it's just for fun. Initially we wanted to use Busthird, but it was rejected by Mr. Toh. So my group (Melvin's Knights) vs. group 4 (Anything). Brimming with certainty of our victory, my team won, with the score 1-0. And I scored the winning goal, yay. It's not a very evident win though. Will try harder next time. :D

The originally English period at 2.30pm was canceled cause of the Life Sciences thing, so we had a free period. Tried the $1.50 for two scoops ice-cream the NCC were selling. Then at 3.45pm, we went up to the Bio lab. We were to do DNA extraction from banana slices. I remember doing this before, like in P6, but I forgot the steps, haha. Paired up with Ivan to doe the experiment. It ended at around 5pm, and we were dismissed.

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Posted at 5:40 PM

Monday, July 2, 2007
Namikaze Satellite

Songs Quiz (taken from Alif's blog)

1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
(commentary in italics)

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY"YOU SAY ?:
Merry Go Round - YUI (no idea what this means)

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?:
He's a Pirate - Klaus Badelt (I'm a pirate!, bwahaha)

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?:
Stomp - Montfort Military Band (...)

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?:
Dearest - Ayumi Hamasaki (dunno...)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?:
The Merry Widow Selections (to be a merry widow)

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?:
Summer Parade - DEPAPEPE (to enjoy all summers)

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?:
Marche Slave (shit, they think of me as a slave)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?:
Change the World - V6 (they can change the world)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?:
Vestige - T.M Revolution (hmm..)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BESTIES?:
Disillusion - Tainaka Sachi (they are disillusioned)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?:
Shrek Dance Party (dancer?)

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?:
Skulls and Crossbones - Klaus Badelt (pirate again!)

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?:
Quiet Night - Rie Tanaka (nice song)

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?:
With Heart and Voice (dunno what this means, but it's cool)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?:
RUN RUN RUN - High and Mighty Color (i fear running)

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?:
Can't take my Eyes off You (hahaha)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?:
Passing the Flame - Patrick Doyle (no idea)

WHAT SONG WILL BE THE SUBJECT WHEN YOU POST?:
Namikaze Satellite - Snorkel

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