Monday, December 12, 2011
Guitar camp!
There are two things I want to write about in this post.
Firstly, from 5 Dec to 10 Dec, Guitar camp!
Initially I was a bit worried.... Nervous.... Since I don't know most from the main ensemble, and the thought of playing in the man ensemble was.... Haha, well, I know I can't reach that standard..... yet. Haha. But it seems that the camp is overall, enjoyable. Camps are meant to bond! And I think the only camp where I don't feel really bonded is.... A camp a few years ago.
Anyway, I'll leave out the nitty gritty details. Some highlights:
1) 1st day (5/12): It started out awkward, for me. Haha, the workshop members were sitting in our own circle while the main ensemble were in theirs. Then admin stuffs, checking into RH (I've been wanting to stay on campus for a long time actually), lunch and ice breakers, then sectionals, dinner and changing strings, and the x'mas party planning. It was my first sectionals with the altos. I think it's horrible haha! For me, cos I just got the score and my sightreading fail and playing fail. And tuning fail. Alto guitars are tuned differently from primes. I felt something was amiss when the notes I played didn't sound like the ones others played. And I couldn't tune my guitar to standard tuning cos it seems very awkward. Haha, and I didn't ask cos it seems very silly! Hahaha, so that was the first day with the wrong tuning. I tried to tune to others' notes. But I could remember the excitement when I first saw I had an alto assigned to me! Haha, no need to borrow other people's guitar already. I love my alto! Haha!
2) 2nd day (6/12): Nose got blocked and body ached from sleeping on the floor. And the room is really dusty and dirty and ants-y and.... Argh, I'll elaborate more later. Sectionals and lunch.... Main ensemble practising for the NUH CIP on Fri so gave us the workshoppers some time to practice. I'm not the only one who's struggling :/ And Dayl left after day 1, so I'm the only workshopper in alto! Goodness! Haha. Main ensemble and night games followed. I really liked the music! Jap songs ftw! Not J-pop though haha. Night games were creative and fun! Haha, the photoframe game, the syllabus game, the pictionary game and the drink game! Gave me diahrrea the next morning >.< But haha! I got to know more people.
3) 3rd day (7/12): The day started with the usual breakfast, sectionals and lunch. Then mini-ensemble for the first time. Goodness. Only gt 3 people from alto 1. Ended up the last song I had to play solo cos our dear SL was playing the cembalo and Yin Yun had to leave for games. Horrible. No sound! Haha. Guess that will spur me towards trying harder to play! Oh my! (Won't forget that experience) Then games dinner and main ensemble. And then Rika and I brought back our guitars to prac. Halfway through, I saw a weird stick insect that runs v fast, looks like centipede. Then a weird bug on the bed beside Rika. Both os us were really scared! Finally mustered up the courage and caught the weird bug. But the weird stick insect on the floor ran away! We didn't dare to sleep in the room/ on the floor and went to Cheers to look for insecticide. But don't have! Almost wanted to go Rika's house (which was near) to sleep. In the end we squeezed on the bed. But eventually I still ended up on the floor haha.
4) 4th day (8/12): The usuals, then amazing race. Quite fun! Vivocity to make pocky stickman, then Holland V to look for eggs and crack 'em. Orchard central to get 10 honks (Honk for X'mas! Why nobody want to honk!), scape to kick slippers (I'm such a bad slipper-kicker, I keep hitting Shruti, sorry!!) and finally to the not-so-secret final station PS (Elizabeth let slip the final location haha). Ate dinner there and bought my baygon to kill the weird insect in the room! Finally can sleep in peace (hopefully).
5) 5th day (9/12): Breakfast, then prepared to go NUH for the CIP performance. Helped to load the equipment since the workshoppers are not performing. Walked under the hot sun from PGP to NUH Tower block! In my oversized black guitar shirt! Haha. Lunch at megabites at NUH and listened to the main ensemble. After that, sectionals, dinner and main ensemble.
6) Last day (10/12): Breakfast sectionals lunch. We had sectionals by ourselves while Shu Hann went over to alto 2. Our dear SL personally coached me and I realised that I made quite a lot of mistakes! Goodness me. But hey! I felt I improved over the few days. Thanks Hejing! Alto 1 is awesome! Main ensemble with Dr. Robert afterwards. Then OTOT, preparing for the X'mas party. We were quite last minute, but hey! Everything went fine! Haha. Went to collect the food at utown koufu. Sooo long. Cut my toe with cardboard lol. We went back with the ayam penyet and everyone was there already! Ate, then section performances. So spicy!!!!! Sorry for no decorations haha. After that was games, guess song title/ artist/ continue the lyrics. Then the find items starting with the letter to spell the word game (that was played during TJ prom last year). And then we had Murderer, which name was changed to Pedobear (lol!) and revelation of Angel and Mortal. My angel was really nice to give me letters everyday. And his handwriting was so nice (nicer than mine) such that I thought my angel was a girl initially. And my mortal! Haha, sorry for not preparing nice paper, and giving the final clue on Fri. Haha, but I think it was sufficient to let him guess it was me. And the party ended with forfeiting the X'mas comm. Lol. What is this. All the comms got forfeit, except the breakfast comm. Lol.
Anw, I couldn't go for LPG. Cos of some relative's wedding dinner. Lol. She's a complete stranger to me although we are relatives. I want to go LPG! Haha, but I don't want to embarrass myself. Maybe I can go for the next next LPG, after I'm better at the guitar. Ok set. Nobody/ Nothing is going to deter/ stop me from going for it. Haha, meanwhile, practise!!!
One thing to admit, I had thoughts of quitting during sectionals, like, I feel I'm going too fast, haven't even master my basics then going so fast already. But everytime the ensemble plays together, the thought will vanish. Anyways, I've decided I'm going to stay in guitar and not gonna be a quitter. Hopefully it will help in my guitar learning and I'm gonna zoom towards my goal!
The End of Guitar camp! Haha, it was quite a fun and fulfilling one. Made quite a lot of friends too ^^
The second thing I want to talk about, 11 Dec 1am to 6am, the stayover!
After guitar camp ended, family came to pick me up. Yay they bought my dou hua!!!! Went home and unloaded things (fat luggage and my alto), then bathed and went out to meet lingxiang, wanjing, weiting and jasme. They came to fetch me cos it was like 1 am already. We went to eat supper at ecp mr teh tarik. Ate tissue prata with chocolate chips (Those colourful chocolate vermicelli on doughnuts) and teh tarik. Quite nice! But quite expensive too for roti prata. After that went to fly kite at marina barrage! Phobia of holding the kite for fear it will fly away!! It was super cold there (but not as cold as the Dance Studio before the X'mas party) Took a lot of photos with the special lights effect. Super cool. Weiting is the artist and helped us draw a lot of nice things. Haha! Then we recorded 2 songs for the "19 and unaccomplished" album. Lol! Eventually we went to eat breakfast at marine parade hawker centre and went home cos we were all tired. Luckily I remembered to bring my house keys.
After that I slept awhile then went out to buy bed. Haha!
What a happening life! Haha. Till the next time then! I shall go and catch up on things while I was away.
Labels: guitar
Monday, December 12, 2011
Guitar camp!
There are two things I want to write about in this post.
Firstly, from 5 Dec to 10 Dec, Guitar camp!
Initially I was a bit worried.... Nervous.... Since I don't know most from the main ensemble, and the thought of playing in the man ensemble was.... Haha, well, I know I can't reach that standard..... yet. Haha. But it seems that the camp is overall, enjoyable. Camps are meant to bond! And I think the only camp where I don't feel really bonded is.... A camp a few years ago.
Anyway, I'll leave out the nitty gritty details. Some highlights:
1) 1st day (5/12): It started out awkward, for me. Haha, the workshop members were sitting in our own circle while the main ensemble were in theirs. Then admin stuffs, checking into RH (I've been wanting to stay on campus for a long time actually), lunch and ice breakers, then sectionals, dinner and changing strings, and the x'mas party planning. It was my first sectionals with the altos. I think it's horrible haha! For me, cos I just got the score and my sightreading fail and playing fail. And tuning fail. Alto guitars are tuned differently from primes. I felt something was amiss when the notes I played didn't sound like the ones others played. And I couldn't tune my guitar to standard tuning cos it seems very awkward. Haha, and I didn't ask cos it seems very silly! Hahaha, so that was the first day with the wrong tuning. I tried to tune to others' notes. But I could remember the excitement when I first saw I had an alto assigned to me! Haha, no need to borrow other people's guitar already. I love my alto! Haha!
2) 2nd day (6/12): Nose got blocked and body ached from sleeping on the floor. And the room is really dusty and dirty and ants-y and.... Argh, I'll elaborate more later. Sectionals and lunch.... Main ensemble practising for the NUH CIP on Fri so gave us the workshoppers some time to practice. I'm not the only one who's struggling :/ And Dayl left after day 1, so I'm the only workshopper in alto! Goodness! Haha. Main ensemble and night games followed. I really liked the music! Jap songs ftw! Not J-pop though haha. Night games were creative and fun! Haha, the photoframe game, the syllabus game, the pictionary game and the drink game! Gave me diahrrea the next morning >.< But haha! I got to know more people.
3) 3rd day (7/12): The day started with the usual breakfast, sectionals and lunch. Then mini-ensemble for the first time. Goodness. Only gt 3 people from alto 1. Ended up the last song I had to play solo cos our dear SL was playing the cembalo and Yin Yun had to leave for games. Horrible. No sound! Haha. Guess that will spur me towards trying harder to play! Oh my! (Won't forget that experience) Then games dinner and main ensemble. And then Rika and I brought back our guitars to prac. Halfway through, I saw a weird stick insect that runs v fast, looks like centipede. Then a weird bug on the bed beside Rika. Both os us were really scared! Finally mustered up the courage and caught the weird bug. But the weird stick insect on the floor ran away! We didn't dare to sleep in the room/ on the floor and went to Cheers to look for insecticide. But don't have! Almost wanted to go Rika's house (which was near) to sleep. In the end we squeezed on the bed. But eventually I still ended up on the floor haha.
4) 4th day (8/12): The usuals, then amazing race. Quite fun! Vivocity to make pocky stickman, then Holland V to look for eggs and crack 'em. Orchard central to get 10 honks (Honk for X'mas! Why nobody want to honk!), scape to kick slippers (I'm such a bad slipper-kicker, I keep hitting Shruti, sorry!!) and finally to the not-so-secret final station PS (Elizabeth let slip the final location haha). Ate dinner there and bought my baygon to kill the weird insect in the room! Finally can sleep in peace (hopefully).
5) 5th day (9/12): Breakfast, then prepared to go NUH for the CIP performance. Helped to load the equipment since the workshoppers are not performing. Walked under the hot sun from PGP to NUH Tower block! In my oversized black guitar shirt! Haha. Lunch at megabites at NUH and listened to the main ensemble. After that, sectionals, dinner and main ensemble.
6) Last day (10/12): Breakfast sectionals lunch. We had sectionals by ourselves while Shu Hann went over to alto 2. Our dear SL personally coached me and I realised that I made quite a lot of mistakes! Goodness me. But hey! I felt I improved over the few days. Thanks Hejing! Alto 1 is awesome! Main ensemble with Dr. Robert afterwards. Then OTOT, preparing for the X'mas party. We were quite last minute, but hey! Everything went fine! Haha. Went to collect the food at utown koufu. Sooo long. Cut my toe with cardboard lol. We went back with the ayam penyet and everyone was there already! Ate, then section performances. So spicy!!!!! Sorry for no decorations haha. After that was games, guess song title/ artist/ continue the lyrics. Then the find items starting with the letter to spell the word game (that was played during TJ prom last year). And then we had Murderer, which name was changed to Pedobear (lol!) and revelation of Angel and Mortal. My angel was really nice to give me letters everyday. And his handwriting was so nice (nicer than mine) such that I thought my angel was a girl initially. And my mortal! Haha, sorry for not preparing nice paper, and giving the final clue on Fri. Haha, but I think it was sufficient to let him guess it was me. And the party ended with forfeiting the X'mas comm. Lol. What is this. All the comms got forfeit, except the breakfast comm. Lol.
Anw, I couldn't go for LPG. Cos of some relative's wedding dinner. Lol. She's a complete stranger to me although we are relatives. I want to go LPG! Haha, but I don't want to embarrass myself. Maybe I can go for the next next LPG, after I'm better at the guitar. Ok set. Nobody/ Nothing is going to deter/ stop me from going for it. Haha, meanwhile, practise!!!
One thing to admit, I had thoughts of quitting during sectionals, like, I feel I'm going too fast, haven't even master my basics then going so fast already. But everytime the ensemble plays together, the thought will vanish. Anyways, I've decided I'm going to stay in guitar and not gonna be a quitter. Hopefully it will help in my guitar learning and I'm gonna zoom towards my goal!
The End of Guitar camp! Haha, it was quite a fun and fulfilling one. Made quite a lot of friends too ^^
The second thing I want to talk about, 11 Dec 1am to 6am, the stayover!
After guitar camp ended, family came to pick me up. Yay they bought my dou hua!!!! Went home and unloaded things (fat luggage and my alto), then bathed and went out to meet lingxiang, wanjing, weiting and jasme. They came to fetch me cos it was like 1 am already. We went to eat supper at ecp mr teh tarik. Ate tissue prata with chocolate chips (Those colourful chocolate vermicelli on doughnuts) and teh tarik. Quite nice! But quite expensive too for roti prata. After that went to fly kite at marina barrage! Phobia of holding the kite for fear it will fly away!! It was super cold there (but not as cold as the Dance Studio before the X'mas party) Took a lot of photos with the special lights effect. Super cool. Weiting is the artist and helped us draw a lot of nice things. Haha! Then we recorded 2 songs for the "19 and unaccomplished" album. Lol! Eventually we went to eat breakfast at marine parade hawker centre and went home cos we were all tired. Luckily I remembered to bring my house keys.
After that I slept awhile then went out to buy bed. Haha!
What a happening life! Haha. Till the next time then! I shall go and catch up on things while I was away.
Labels: guitar
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Upcoming events/ activities!
Jul 2012
15: An engagement*
16: A case competition
20: Photocopy day
23: Decorating for MF
24 - 27: Matric Fair 2012*
Aug 2012
* Look forward to updates!
As the calendar fades
Past events
Aug 2011
09: NDP 2011
11: Start of school (A new chapter!)
Oct 2011
09: Guitarras Expresivas
Nov 2011
19 - 28: Sem 1 Finals
30: SSB Outing to Punggol #
Dec 2011
02: NDP11 YPC BBQ
05 - 10: Guitar camp #
11: 19 and unaccomplished night outing #
20: Release of Sem 1 Results
Jan 2012
04: Guitar chalet
05: Ikea trip
06: YPC lunch
07: Guitar prac
09: Start of school Sem 2
14: LPG2012 (Which I can't go)
23 - 24: CNY
Mar 2012
11: NAF12: Asian Waves #
13: Guitar Recording
24: Guitar AGM and Annual Dinner
28: Hall Application Results
Apr 2012
02: LSM1104 CA2
21 - 27: Sem 2 Finals
May 2012
07: Orientation meeting, going to see music school
08: Arts Leaders Retreat #
20: First violin lesson!! #
26: Sungha Jung and Preston Reed's concert #
28: Release of Sem 2 Results #
Jun 2012
12: Practising cowbell
21: Do matric fair publicity at partner's house
23: Start of sectionals #
24: Elva's birthday lunch #
30: Sectionals #
Jul 2012
02 - 03: LS Prep Camp #
10: Prac for cp #
12 - 14: LS Camp #
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