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.
Right. Today there was a combined day camp with Whitley Sec. So after classes for E1 and E2 were over, we boarded the bus for us leftovers. We arrived around 12pm, just about time for lunch. Malay food lah, don't really like. But still ate it up quickly and went up to the hall to practice Third Symphony. Alif was there already, practising his solo part for 2nd movement. For some weird reason, my embrochure seems to have changed, and I can't change it back. Probably explains my crappy playing during the recent SSW practice.
For the combined practice, we started with warm ups and a singing exercise. Then we tried out some chorale piece. Unable to move on further than 6 bars, Mr. Sukit broke us up for sectionals. The horns did sectionals on the stage. After half an hour, we came back together for to try the chorale piece again. This time we managed to finish the first part. But by then, it was time to go. So we left our instruments in the Whitley band room and went up the bus.
I had to sit with Miss Ong to do some admin thing for the band t-shirts, bleah. Back at school, the band went up to the gallery for fall-in while I went to the store room to get the shirts. Some seem to dislike the design at the back la. Myself included, haha.
It's April Fool's day. Nothing interesting happened though. -.-'
Had an exchange with Whitley Sec yesterday. Reached school at 7.30am. The school seems quite old, lol. When we reached there, we went up to the hall first. Then we set up our instruments and went to separate classrooms for warm ups and sectionals. Did some long tones and played parts of our choice pieces for fun. At 10.30, we went back to the hall. Did two run-throughs of the SYF pieces. Whitley band played Safari and The Seventh Night of July. They sound so much better than us.
We left for school at 12.30pm. After the debrief, some of us went to McDonald's for lunch. Later, we went to the caged soccer field near my block for soccer.
Hello people, I'm back from band camp! Can say that it was damn fun, but tiring. I shall elaborate activity by activity, haha.
Fall In & Pitching of tents -
Went to school at 6.30am. Then we waited for Aaron to open the band room so we could put our barang barang inside. After that, we were allocated to our groups.
After the grouping, we went to the field to set up our tents. Dickson brought his own tent and king-sized air bed for the Ex-Cos, rich guy sia.
Lastly, we had a special mace demonstration by DM Ray Wee.
In the morning
Flowers
Edward with his camera
Shaun's Kelly MPC
Everyone setting up the tents
The Exco tent, haha
Shaun's group moving the tent
Youxian hard at work
Mrs Vivian Tan and Mrs Cassandra Tan
Ray Wee holding the mace and Aaron Tan
Rainald hugging his Baby Tigger bolster
The bolster itselfBlack pig. Mrs Vivian Tan said it looks like P-Chan from Ranma 1/2, lol
Our sec 1 saxophonist, Gideon Low
Joshua hugging his pillow
Cooking Competition -
At 9+ in the morning, we set out for Hougang Mall to shop for the cooking competition. The budget was $15 for each group. In addition to the $15 budget, we spent an extra $28 buying stuff for ourselves, lol.
When we came back, we brought everything to the area outside D&T lab to cook. In the end, the winner was Max's group, blah. At least we had fun.
The two band teachers again
Joshua with his cousin's camera
Gideon Low
Louis Wang, our alumni Hornist
On the way to Hougang Mall
Shoppingggg
Knives for sale
Youxian with his basket
This is what our group bought
Edward, Gideon, Kamal, Chien Hui, and Zhen Hui below
Foodstuff
Terence's group seperating lots and lots of cauliflower
Dish made by the teachers
The winning dish by Max's group Mix of vegetables
Blackened egg
Han Wen smoking a paper cigarette
The exco's Yong Tau Foo
Mashed potato volcano by Max's group
Louis's sausage omelette
Digging in
Exchange with Whitley & Ang Mo Kio band
The bus left school at 1.30. We reached AMKSS at 2+. There, we went up to school hall. We played Flight of the Falcon, but only up til bar 61, damn.
Whitley band played Seventh Night of July and another song which name i forget, lol.
AMKSS band played Der Vogelhandler, Merry Widow, some trombone soli song, and one other.
After the exchange, we went for dinner. Our group went to McDonalds for dinner. Each person got $4 from the teachers.
Louis and Gerald
The Ex-Cos. Dickson, Ray, Aaron, and Joseph
Skies
Piano and flute duet by Kiong Tai and Gavilan
Gideon. With longer hair and dark eyebags, he could look like L from Deathnote, haha.
Nightwalk -
After dinner, we went back to the tents to get our stuff and waited. Soon later, we got a briefing from the Ex-cos about the Nightwalk. We were supposed to walked to Sengkang MRT and back. And on the way, we had to take pictures of five things.
1. A red car 2. A cat 3. Bus 161 4. Public telephone booth 5. Sengkang MRT sign
Each group left 5 minutes after the other. Gavilan and Timothy tagged along with our group. First, we walked to the area under Joshua's block cause a cat always sleeps around there. And we managed to find it, under a telephone booth to boot.
And on our way to Sengkang MRT, we got a picture of a red car and bus 161. Theres also video evidence by Joshua's camera and Gavilan's N70, lol.
We reached the MRT station at like 9.50. We got some shots and went inside CompassPoint. We went to 7-11 to get some drinks, and then walked back.
Though we were one of the last groups to leave, we were 1st to reach back. Well, not really. Kiong Tai's group came first but they took the train back.
