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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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Friday, September 7, 2007
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It was fun today, as was yesterday.

Had combined band in the foyer today. Mr. Sukit made us do some tonguing exercises and scales while standing in a circle. This way we can listen to each other and play louder. Then when we sat down and played a concert Bb note, the intonation was very good. Like some kind of miracle method. Too bad it didn't last for long ,haha.

Did ensemble practice for the second part of practice. The Toccata in D Minor group disbanded due to difficulty of the song. Ended up without group, so I went to join the double brass quintet.

After band, went to Hougang Mall with Joshua, Ivan, Melvin, Gerald, Clarence, Kenneth Ang and Kenneth Ong. Had our lunch at Café Cartel. The food was great, and we had a lot of fun there. Played some number game while having ice cream. Basically, someone will write a number on a piece of paper. Each turn, 1 person will try not to guess the number. For example, number 7. Someone guesses 50. Then it narrows down, like 1-50, 1-28, 1-9 and so on. The unfortunate guy does a forfeit, which is drinking a few sips of a mystery concoction. We add random stuff each time like waffle, ice cream, tomato sauce, water, peach tea, lemon and who knows what. Then we stir it down until it becomes all liquefied. Played this for around an hour, so everyone had their fair share of the evil thing. In the end, the drink kinda tastes like alcohol, lol. Ivan and I gulped down the entire cup in the end.

A super funny conversation took place just now, when Kenneth Ong ordered his tea.

Waitress : You want it served now or later?
Kenneth : huh?
Melvin : Shao de or leng de? (hot or cold?)
Kenneth : Orh, Shao de.
Waitress : Don't have shao or leng de. Only got now or later.

Hilarious right?! We were bursting with laughter for the next minute or so.

Anyway, there are only 2 more days left. I swear I'm going to enjoy every minute of it. Then I should probably go into study mode once school starts again.



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Posted at 9:22 PM

Thursday, September 6, 2007
KCM SL Training Course - Day 1

Assembled at school before 8am. Were delayed a little cause some Kamal and Kenneth Ang were late. The bus journey there was super long, like 1 hour 15 minutes. So expectedly, we were damn late. Montfort band was the last to arrive, so it was kinda awkward entering the lecture hall with people staring at us. By the way, ACS(I)'s campus owns Montfort's many many many times.

The lecturer was Mr. Toshio Akiyama. First thing he did was show us a video and teach us about proper breathing techniques. Next, he taught warm up section by section, starting with the woodwinds. After a 10 minutes break, it was the brasses' turn. We did mainly lip slur exercises. Then, Mr. Akiyama combined the band. Just a random note, St. Patrick's brasses like to blast play excessively loud. Bus ride back was faster, around 50 minutes.

Except for Zhen Hui and Lemuel, all of us went to Hougang Mall's KFC to eat. Then someone suggested watching a movie, so we headed to The Cathay at Dhoby Gauht. Got tickets for Ratatouille. I treated Kamal, Kenneth and Joshua since they didn't have enough money on them, lol.

The show was so-so. CG food looked nice. The movie had a nice plot, but was a bit boring. We went back home after the movie.

5 consecutive days of band, wah lau.

...Nicole loves Ivan (don't ask questions, she wanted it xD)

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Posted at 9:48 PM

Monday, September 3, 2007
Aljunied



I'm back from WindWorks, after going there to remove the dent from my horn's bell (see post). The repair cost was 50 bucks, much less than what I expected, hah. Mr. Yap talked to me like scolding sia, asking things like why never take care of my horn, why did it get dented and stuff like that. And apparently, Montfort is quite notorious for never paying up in time.

There was E Math lesson in the morning. Started chpt 9, Area and volume of similar figures and solids. Didn't understand for a good part of the lesson, cause Jeremiah was talking to me and someone kept sms-ing me, lol.

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Posted at 6:37 PM

Saturday, September 1, 2007
Zwei

Great start for a holiday!

Teacher's day celebration yesterday. It started with Aces Day workout. Not much of a annual thing for us. Technically, ours should be 'Aces Days', since we do the mass workout twice a week.

Later, we went up to the hall for the second part of the celebration. First up was the award presentation ceremony for those who excelled in their exams the previous year. Then, there were some singing, by both students and the teachers. Quite meaningful la. The celebrations ended with a cake cutting ceremony, and a mass singing of You Raise Me Up.

Ate at McDonald's with some people before going to Punggol CC for soccer. Played all the way to 1.45pm. Then, walked back to the junior school with Terence, Aaron, Gerald, and Kenneth. The security was still as annoying as ever. Heard that they even quarreled with Daren and wanted him out of the school. Greeted Mr. James Chng aka. Sir with Aaron, then hung around for awhile. I went back first to prepare for the class outing.

Went to meet Terence at Hougang MRT at 4.45pm. He overslept, so we were late to meet the others. Arrived at City Hall and went to Marina Square. Spent another 15 minutes trying to find Seoul Garden, but turns out it was at the entrance where we came from, lol. Ate from 6 to 7.45pm. Jun Jie eat damn a lotlong man. Appetizer for 1/2 hour, main course for 1 hour 15 minutes, haha. And all of us were very lame, especially Terence. Fried egg, took the sashimi and prawn from the sushi to cook, and a lot of stupid stuff la. Some of us went outside to do pumping in the middle of our meal some more.

After eating, went up to GV Marina with Chong Jun to check out the show times. Since the earliest was Evan Almighty at 9.05pm, we watched that. Bought the tickets for them first and went back to meet them. Went to the science booths in the center to waste time. Spent most of the time playing with some electrostatic thingy. Think it's called a Wimshurst machine

'The working principle of the machine is that as the two counter-rotating disks made of insulating material porting metal sectors pass one another in front of the crossed metal bars with brushes, or neutralizers, they induce a charge imbalance on one another, with a positive feedback effect that increases the charges exponentially until ionization of the air and sparking limit the charge concentration. The generated charges are then partially drained off at the collecting electrodes, which consist of combs of sharp metal points mounted on horseshoe-shaped conductors, placed at a small distance from the surfaces of the disks, without touching them, at the sides of the machine.'

Fine, I don't understand. But we had fun playing with it anyway. Turns the discs and somehow, static electric was produced. Then we like like transmitting it around through our fingers. (See picture below). And then we can feel this tingling sensation, lol.



The movie was funny, as expected. An ok movie overall.

Today's my 1 year anniversary at SSW. Actually, it's suppose to be tomorrow, but its a Sunday. Woke up early, and was damn tired since I came home and slept late last night. For today's rehersal, we worked on the first movement of Deux Movements. Then, we sight-read Vivaldi's Piccolo Concerto in C Major a few times. Finally, we ran through the second movement of Third Symphony before calling it a day.

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