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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.
MSN. garylim802@gmail.com
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Sunday, November 11, 2007
Band Camp, November 9 to 11 '07
1st Day
- Formation Choreography (2pm-5.30pm)
 Marking of parade square by Joshua, Hong Zheng and Kenneth  Chair...? 
 Ivan posing 
1st Day
- Flag-making & Inter-group soccer match (5pm-6.30pm)
 Group 1  Group 4  View from the soccer court during sunset  Rainbow! 1st Day
 Stop-sign in the carpark  Group 3 outside Kovan MRT 
2nd Day
- Breakfast
 Jeremy opening a can of condensed milk
2nd Day
 In Hougang Green  Trees in Punggol Park  Yuan Xuan  Joel with the 'sandcastle'  Group 3 with the 'sandcastle'  The lake in Punggol Park  In AMK Hub  Outside Yamaha at Plaza Singapura  At the Fountain of Wealth, Suntec City 
 Tampines Interchange  I'm sure you know where this is  All so serious one -__-
2nd Day
- Obstacle race (4-5.30pm)
 Alif demostrating the games  Drunken Sailor, with a broomstick  Kamal, lol  Clarence 
 Three-legged race 
 Hong Zheng  Four-legged race...  Gideon
 Soccer at 5.30am 
 Btw, that's Ivan Labels: band, camp, school holidays
Posted at 8:53 PM
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Friday, September 7, 2007
1-99
 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.
Labels: band
Posted at 9:22 PM
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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)Labels: band, course
Posted at 9:48 PM
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Friday, August 24, 2007
Re-perception
Hi people. To start things off, welcome to my new blog, and do leave a tag.
Many things happened today.
Firstly, there's yet another new junior in band. And guess which section he's in? If you guessed the trumpet section, give yourself a pat on your shoulder, cause you're right. Now I have 10 juniors to teach, omg xD
Secondly, I passed a fairly difficult E Math test, beating Melvin, Alif and 10 other people, who failed. Now my Math test passing streak is 3, or 4! I declare my math standard officially not the worst in the class.
Thirdly, the horn section is now unisex, or uni-section. We can play for both brass and woodwind quintets, haha.
Fourthly, there was a pumping frenzy during band just now. Since Melvin wants me to mention his name, I will. So, the whole band did many many many push-ups just now. Reasons are unknown.
Miss Ong asked me to go for the trumpet instrumental workshop. So now, three days of the september holidays are occupied. There's also lessons and all, so I guess it is not going to be much of a holiday. But I should be able to squeeze some time out. Does anyone want to plan an outing or something in advance?
Found this cool website from Alif's blog where you can simpsonize yourself, so I tried it for fun. Here is what I would look like as a Simpson.
 Gary-simpsonLabels: band, school
Posted at 9:38 PM
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Saturday, August 18, 2007
Note
The first session of drills in preparation for display band wasn't that bad. Just that even moving your fingers or hands can get you pumped. So throughout the practice, there were like people doing pumping every minute or so. Not that I disapprove; it's certainly a good way to improve the discipline of the band.
After band, some of us went to the court in Punggol CC to play soccer. Then, we went to Hougang Mall for lunch. Since we had quite a lot of time on our hands, decided to go to Vivocity to catch a movie with Joshua, Aaron and Gerald. It has been super long since the four of us went out together. I think the last time was during the end year holidays last year, haha. We were accompanied by Kamal for part of the journey there. He left halfway for home though. Anyway, the queue was damn long at the cinema. Wanted to watch Secret, but Joshua couldn't stay pass 8+pm, so decided not to watch anymore. Walked around around before going home. Kind of a wasted trip, lol.Labels: band
Posted at 8:08 PM
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Friday, August 17, 2007
Imperiality
Yo.
Didn't get to play my instrument today, cause there were oral examinations going on. The band did maintenance and stock check instead. Some keys of the unused hanstone horn are now totally stuck due to long periods of un-usage, geez.
Going for the SL training course by Kunitachi College of Music on 7 & 8 september. Response from the band was quite good. About 20 are going, either for the SL course or instrument workshop.
There's a new member anyway, brought in by Jeremy Lucas and Chien Hui. Mr. Sukit torture me sia, put him in trumpet section. Now I have 9 people to take care of. Great...Labels: band
Posted at 8:02 PM
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Sunday, August 5, 2007
MSSMB @ Montfort's Heritage Quest
 Kamal, tough guy sia
Spent the rest of the time greasing my slides, oiling and polishing my horn. The band fall-ed in at 10.45am and went in the band room for warm up. Was supposed to run through the pieces with the band but Daniel came in to conduct us.
After a quick stock check and briefing, we boarded the bus. Got down at Kovan Hub and did some warming up on our own. Then the time finally came to go in. Left our cases backstage and went to the front. I knew the stage was small, but was still quite fascinated. After putting the percussion instruments and straights (trombones and trumpets), theres hardly any space left, so we had to sit in front of the stage. The area is like damn small lah, so we have to cramp within a approximately 2.5x4m space.
The performance went better than I had expected. I had thought that the shoppers would be walking around and talking loudly, like in all malls. But they actually stood around quietly to listen to us, so the atmosphere wasn't too bad. Quite a lot of mistakes here and there, but it was acceptable. The endings could have left a bigger impact though.
Kept our instruments and went outside KFC there for lunch. McChicken burger and a cup of sprite from Yoshinoya, haha. Gathered again at 2.50pm and set up our instruments again for the second performance. This time Alif warmed up the band with a Concert Bb Major scale. Today like everyone stealing my job lah, -__-.
The second performance wasn't as good. Had to play from memory since my stand was missing. But Mr. Tan and Mr. Leow said it was good anyway. Got everything up to the bus and went back to school.
Thanks to all those people who came down to support the band today.
Don't be sad lah Ivan. I understand your pain, since Alif also kicked my horn, LOL. Your saxophone can and will be repaired... sooner or later.
Photos below are the courtesy of James.
 Labels: band, performance
Posted at 8:24 PM
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