Wednesday, December 23, 2009
MERRY CHRISTMAS 2009
Hello everyone :) Merry Christmas 2009! It has been an eventful year to say the least.
- There was the Sec 1 orientation in one corner of the school hall. Remember the false start to the first song? (Or maybe that was last year. Hmm.) Anw, many Sec 1s came in this year, resulting in...
- Choosing of Sec 1 juniors. Holy cow, that was a mess! We were randomly pulling in people to come and try the trombone. Then we had a piece of paper with all the potential people. It ran one whole page. Then we lost it. Then we found it again. :)
- SYF 2009@ Singapore Conference Hall. God, we were damn scared when Mr Chan went to pull out the slip of paper which indicated which day we were. SYF came and we got GOLD :) I still remember us screaming like banshees when we found out, eventhough we were reminded to keep our feelings to ourselves. It was like "Silver... Silver... Gold... Silver... CHIJ... GOLD!"
- Section Competition 2009 - ah the creativity of our section.^^ "She's dead." "I know." Haha. Great acting people. :) Eventhough it wasn't 1st/2nd/3rd material, it was decent stuff.
- Auditions for EOY concert.
- Sec 4 farewell. :') The stupid "We're both sick" excuse and it turns out they were a few tables away from us, the hide-and-seek-the-pinafore, the random pictures, the speech, the video :D
- Nov '09 Band Camp. Ponyo! It was pretty intensive, but very productive. I lost my windpipe :( Any extras, ppl?
- Faith, Hope and Love Concert Pt. III - it wasn't the highlight of the year, and it could have been better. But it was still a concert - a couple of songs were cool like tmr - and it bonded the section/band. If that was the only result achieved (along with better playing and ticket sales), that's good, I think.
Ah well. We did have a productive band year :)
So enjoy yourself this Christmas and Happy New Year 2010^^
P.S. Why does Santa have 3 gardens? Because he ho-ho-hos. (Geddit? He hoes the garden, and since he ho-ho-hos, he has three gardens. Haha. XD)
IJ Trombones | 12:44 PM
Monday, August 24, 2009
24 august 2009
hello people! i will most prob not be in school for the next week. miss me okay? practice hard. make our seniors proud of us. we can do it. okay i am starting to tear but not because i am sad but because of the fever and the strain on my eyes. haha. play well. bye!
love,
tharanii
IJ Trombones | 7:32 PM
Sunday, August 23, 2009
August 2009
Hey peeps :)
Our dear SL has H1N1 so pls (1) practice hard in her name (2) make her a get well card (3) let's arrange a section visit so that we all catch it and can pon school :D
Haha, just kidding about the last point. I think.
Some highlights of the month:
AN AWESOME PERSON'S BIRTHDAY :D Thank you people for making it one of the best! I love ya! Boston Brass Concert was cool, especially the trombone guy. Here's an excerpt of a conversation between Tharanii, me and Mr Larry LaDuke.
Tharanii: That's the trombone dude.
Me: You wanna talk to him?
Tharanii: Yeah.
(go up to him, who was talking to a bunch of guys, all depressingly taller than us)
Me: Hey, are you the trombone dude?
Mr Larry: Yes, I'm LaDuke.
AHAHAHA. Geddit?
Tsk. Slow people.
Anyway, it was an AWESOME concert as always! Their songs were superb, their technique made us ashamed (again) and their tone made me want to fall over the railing. In a good way. And they were entertaining too:D Especially the last part where they sang their parts :)
We went back to school and got locked out. Have I mentioned that part? It was partly hilarious anyway. If we didn't come back after a great concert, I think someone would have blown his/her top, but we were pretty cool about it. The security guard patrolling the area eventually noticed us and certain heroic people went up in the dark :D It was cool, because halfway through, all the lights turned off automatically in the school and after a long silence, I thought "Are they still alive?"
But yeah:) Nice day.
What else...
Oh yeah, come for sectionals people! It's good for you (1) you practice and improve yourself (2) we laugh so much that it's a bit of a stress reliever too.
And I interrupt my own sermon to tell you dreadful news.
Did you know you can get a disease from playing the trombone and trumpet? :O I read it in a book. Apparently some trombonists overexert their lungs and get some lung disease. But puh-lease, we can't get it in secondary school, we aren't loud enough yet.-.-
Yups...
And Cecilia and Daphne came back on Saturday :D It was nice! Great! Awesome! I didn't feel so old anymore and it was kind of reassuring in a way to have seniors around :) Hint to certain people! Haha.
Good luck to Phyllis and Catherine for their upcoming 'O's!
And get well soon Tharanii!
Peace out,
Grace
IJ Trombones | 5:45 PM
Thursday, June 18, 2009
18 june 2009
HELLO PEOPLE! ok. actually i do not think there is nothing much to say but here are some things we need to get done.
SECTION COMPETITION
we must must try and get something for like section competition cos well the trombone section usually does not get anything. sad sad. anyway, the french horns have already finished preparations for section competitions or so i have heard. and the lovely trombone section still stoning a bit blur blur and everything. please tell me if you have any suggestions. being funny makes us a step closer to getting something in the competition. so we should aim to be funny. i am a genius man!
SECTION OUTING
you guys should be getting the sms regarding where to meet and everything soon. and some of us might have to pay for the tickets. i was thinking that if like some of us had the tickets while some did not, the ppl with the tickets need to also split the cost of the tickets for the others cos it is not fair for some to go for free while others have to pay. do not complain about having to pay for others or you will get it from me.
i think that is about it. please come down for self practice especially those who have not gone down for sectionals or self practice. need to go down at least three times. do not tell me i did not tell you.
and it feels weird not to have the seniors' names on top of ours in the section members list. don't you thing so? although our names are very pretty, still... HAHA. joking joking.
bye,
tharanii
IJ Trombones | 4:48 PM
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Practice
Hello(:
For the lack of anything better to write, I shall pen down the band practice dates this week.
Monday (8th June)
Nothing, but I'll be in school from 8am to 2pm so if you want to come down for self-practice, you can.
Tuesday and Thursday (9th & 11th June)
Junior band from 9am to 12nn. But the band room will be open at 8am (it's always open from one hour early and onwards).
Wednesday (10th June)
Main band from 2.00pm to 5.30pm. Hmm, actually I forgot when it starts but I think it's two o'clock.
Saturday (13th June)
Combined practice.
It'll be nice if you can come down early for band and practice. It'll be good, then if Mr Chan ever asks whether a section comes down for practice, we can say we did:) Haha. But yeah, it's better to practice this week than come down again during the third and fourth week, y'know?
Does anybody wants to go for a section outing in June? Go and watch another scary movie haha.
x grace
IJ Trombones | 4:04 PM
Monday, May 25, 2009
Holidays
Hey allThe June holidays are coming soon
Aren't you glad?
Just decided the blog needs a little livening up.
You all should have come
for VJC's Majestia on Saturday
It was quite nice
The trombones had a lot of great parts
With super tonguing and glissandos
all over.
I recorded it (don't tell)
So if you want you can see it
Estee's photo is in the concert book :D
Ok, I'll see you (hopefully) during junior band tmr.
x grace
P.S. I can't believe you forgot my trademark jokes. Ok, I heard this in church.
This random dude went to Beethoven's grave one day and to his terror, he heard Beethoven's music (Moonlight Sonata) played backwards. Thinking it was just him, he went back home and told his friend. The friend didn't believe him and the next day the two of them stood by his grave and Beethoven's music (this time Fur Elise) was played backwards again. Scared to death, they decide to return for the last time the next day, since third time's the charm, right? On the third day, they heard Ode to the Joy played backwards. They went to the caretaker and asked him whether this was routine. And the caretaker said, "Of course. This is Beethoven's grave. He is decomposing."
Haha, geddit?
IJ Trombones | 7:45 PM
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
hey i added a counter :D
hahah , its late i know ):
blahs, haha , goodluck trombones,
:D we rock everyone`s socks { haha } :O
okay guess who`s this :B
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