it's been a long time since i've seen the sun shining while at home.
my baby is locked up in the mph. ):
i feel lost. like i need to pick up my gaohu and prac but it's too far away. now i feel bad for not bringing it to fac outing. sigh.
i need to prac i think i'm damn noob.
shit i suck I FEEL VERY PWNED BY BELL SONG AND DA DI.
like in ny by 1 month before syf actually i was quite zai. actually i was zai enough to be able to da pai zi during xiaozu instead of praccing. THE OLDER I GET THE MORE NOOBULAR I AM. shit la i am a bai lei.
i'm stressed ): ): ): ): ): ): ): ):
11 days.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
disclaimer: this entry is by sutyee!! not me! except she didn't have an account so i help her put up (: by SUTYEE hor!
here goes:
This is my first time blogging here for all the times in hccoxyz.
I didn’t see the point of posting an entry cos I’ve got nothing to say. But now I do somehow.
SYF is freakingly near. It’s only 12 days away.
And seriously…we are terrible still.
I wonder what effect the practices have on each of us.
Do you reflect, think about it and worry? Do you try to do something about it? Or is it merely another practice that you cant wait to get over and done with?
As a j1, what does syf mean to you? And to my dearest batchmates, what is this syf to you?
To different people, syf holds different level of importance and meaning.
Given more freedom in jc, we can choose what we want to invest our time and energy in.
Hence I believe for each and everyone who chose to join co again in jc, it’s something more than ‘cos I don’t have the skills and experience for other cca so I just join co again lorr’.
If you’ve chosen co, why is it so difficult to put in a little more in this crucial period?
I can understand that it’s difficult to put your heart and soul into something that you’ve not yet grown attached to. But like what ningfei says, ‘just co-operate’.
It all takes time for people to bond, for us to learn the many lessons of a co along the way.
It was the case for many of the j2s too.
For people with the passion, the effort comes very naturally. For people who do not feel the obligation to put in the effort, just try.
I was a little disheartened to see the juniors being so enthu for faculty outing.
It’s good to see this level of enthusiasm if I’m from fac comm.. but it’s not as a co member when it’s only 12 days to syf.
Most of us have been through syf. each and everyone do have certain amount of understanding of an orchestra.
We do know when to be soft when to be loud, the gong fa the zhi fa.
We do understand that we need practice to ensure we remember and perfect them.
We do realize that we need practice to learn from our mistakes and change them.
We do know that we need practice to play in unison.
We do know that we should listen out for each other and not meng play your part to be heard.
We do know that we need to practice to cultivate the chemistry.
But are you willing to put these into action?
It all boils down to one thing- your attitude.
It shows very naturally if you bother. People can sense it if you tried.
As a hcco member, how do we regard our role?
I have to admit I always lived under the notion that hcco is the zai-est jc co around so there’s no worries. But the reality is that: we aren’t the batch of people who clinched the honours.
Putting our past history aside, we are really nothing. We have yet to prove ourselves to be worthy of continuing being the top jc co.
The harsh reality requires us to put in 10 times the amount of effort we put in now to do so.
The harsher reality is that it requires the effort of every single member. No one can slack off cos we are an orchestra. It’s team work X team work.
Ningfei’s words make sense. We shouldn’t look at it as a competition, we should do our best.
The thing is we are FAR from doing our best.
Which is why I feel that it’s a pity because I believe we have the potential and abilities.
Why do we leave spaces for regrets to take place when we could have done something to avoid it in the first place?
In the next 12 days to come, why can’t we just make co our priority? Just like how we’ve done it in our various secondary schools?
If we’ve done our best we should be satisfied with our results.
People say it’s the process that matter. We are learning still…
Jiayou ba..
here goes:
This is my first time blogging here for all the times in hccoxyz.
I didn’t see the point of posting an entry cos I’ve got nothing to say. But now I do somehow.
SYF is freakingly near. It’s only 12 days away.
And seriously…we are terrible still.
I wonder what effect the practices have on each of us.
Do you reflect, think about it and worry? Do you try to do something about it? Or is it merely another practice that you cant wait to get over and done with?
As a j1, what does syf mean to you? And to my dearest batchmates, what is this syf to you?
To different people, syf holds different level of importance and meaning.
Given more freedom in jc, we can choose what we want to invest our time and energy in.
Hence I believe for each and everyone who chose to join co again in jc, it’s something more than ‘cos I don’t have the skills and experience for other cca so I just join co again lorr’.
If you’ve chosen co, why is it so difficult to put in a little more in this crucial period?
I can understand that it’s difficult to put your heart and soul into something that you’ve not yet grown attached to. But like what ningfei says, ‘just co-operate’.
It all takes time for people to bond, for us to learn the many lessons of a co along the way.
It was the case for many of the j2s too.
For people with the passion, the effort comes very naturally. For people who do not feel the obligation to put in the effort, just try.
I was a little disheartened to see the juniors being so enthu for faculty outing.
It’s good to see this level of enthusiasm if I’m from fac comm.. but it’s not as a co member when it’s only 12 days to syf.
Most of us have been through syf. each and everyone do have certain amount of understanding of an orchestra.
We do know when to be soft when to be loud, the gong fa the zhi fa.
We do understand that we need practice to ensure we remember and perfect them.
We do realize that we need practice to learn from our mistakes and change them.
We do know that we need practice to play in unison.
We do know that we should listen out for each other and not meng play your part to be heard.
We do know that we need to practice to cultivate the chemistry.
But are you willing to put these into action?
It all boils down to one thing- your attitude.
It shows very naturally if you bother. People can sense it if you tried.
As a hcco member, how do we regard our role?
I have to admit I always lived under the notion that hcco is the zai-est jc co around so there’s no worries. But the reality is that: we aren’t the batch of people who clinched the honours.
Putting our past history aside, we are really nothing. We have yet to prove ourselves to be worthy of continuing being the top jc co.
The harsh reality requires us to put in 10 times the amount of effort we put in now to do so.
The harsher reality is that it requires the effort of every single member. No one can slack off cos we are an orchestra. It’s team work X team work.
Ningfei’s words make sense. We shouldn’t look at it as a competition, we should do our best.
The thing is we are FAR from doing our best.
Which is why I feel that it’s a pity because I believe we have the potential and abilities.
Why do we leave spaces for regrets to take place when we could have done something to avoid it in the first place?
In the next 12 days to come, why can’t we just make co our priority? Just like how we’ve done it in our various secondary schools?
If we’ve done our best we should be satisfied with our results.
People say it’s the process that matter. We are learning still…
Jiayou ba..
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
I have limited time here.. Neways
One half an hour or so and it will be 14 days to syf.
These few days have been a wake up - go school - chiong mph prac CO - go home and sleep - routine for me. During lectures, tutorials, breaks, meetings I was frequently thinking about SYF, sometimes humming the tunes to myself. Crazy I am going to get, but not when I know that I want what I want to achieve. Todays' the 8th consecutive practice for us, I was told by Chen Yang. Tomorrow we are going to have one yet again.
Like shouhao, previously I thought if we were to progress as we were, we would reach the gwh standard by the time we reached syf. What seemed and sounded discouraging and over criticising about our practices (from snrs) became more realistic. Our dynamics, "zheng qi du", and EVEN gongfa was not yet done. Let alone tai feng and other complicated stuff like mo qi. Yet I hear grumbles about practices and see people getting unfocused (laughing talking doing homework) during practices. I must however applaud quite a number who are really worried and practising hard on their own part.
I do not know what would be our final outcome and I do not want to think about it currently. Maybe you are thinking we are already practising very hard now and we are already or almost up to the standard. But the nature of the competition is this: who sow the most seeds who reaps the most benefit. Instead of trying to gauge where we should raise our standards to so that we fit into the gwh category, what we should be working towards is the top. And that means working to our best potential, using every minute of our time have effective practice.
Only 14 days more. What we do in this 14 days will decide what memories we have for CO. For some of us, it may be the last of the 6 years we will be in a Chinese orchestra. I would not want my last year of syf to end with regret. After 10th May, you will have all the time to joke, talk, play, mug wadeva. But for the remaining time let us make sweet memories out of it.
P.S. Finally felt a little better from the flu. The last four days was kinda hellish. Especially on Monday. Take care of your own bodies and dun get ill!!
One half an hour or so and it will be 14 days to syf.
These few days have been a wake up - go school - chiong mph prac CO - go home and sleep - routine for me. During lectures, tutorials, breaks, meetings I was frequently thinking about SYF, sometimes humming the tunes to myself. Crazy I am going to get, but not when I know that I want what I want to achieve. Todays' the 8th consecutive practice for us, I was told by Chen Yang. Tomorrow we are going to have one yet again.
Like shouhao, previously I thought if we were to progress as we were, we would reach the gwh standard by the time we reached syf. What seemed and sounded discouraging and over criticising about our practices (from snrs) became more realistic. Our dynamics, "zheng qi du", and EVEN gongfa was not yet done. Let alone tai feng and other complicated stuff like mo qi. Yet I hear grumbles about practices and see people getting unfocused (laughing talking doing homework) during practices. I must however applaud quite a number who are really worried and practising hard on their own part.
I do not know what would be our final outcome and I do not want to think about it currently. Maybe you are thinking we are already practising very hard now and we are already or almost up to the standard. But the nature of the competition is this: who sow the most seeds who reaps the most benefit. Instead of trying to gauge where we should raise our standards to so that we fit into the gwh category, what we should be working towards is the top. And that means working to our best potential, using every minute of our time have effective practice.
Only 14 days more. What we do in this 14 days will decide what memories we have for CO. For some of us, it may be the last of the 6 years we will be in a Chinese orchestra. I would not want my last year of syf to end with regret. After 10th May, you will have all the time to joke, talk, play, mug wadeva. But for the remaining time let us make sweet memories out of it.
P.S. Finally felt a little better from the flu. The last four days was kinda hellish. Especially on Monday. Take care of your own bodies and dun get ill!!
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
oh my. totally in love with hccoxyz
and yes wenqi. haha remembered those days. 16 days to syf and we were praccing out jnrs like mad. staying back till like the school closed just to make sure the jnrs prac with tiao yin qi or otherwise us to scream our heads off. haha. oh wells. now it's 16 days to syf and somehow not the same feeling.
i always used to wonder how it will be when like wenqi and me and siheng and kaiying get into hc, with all the weird lil boys from opposite whom we're always suanning; praccing hard for syf together is like how far fetched idea. so amusing. and here i am now. at this far fetched, but already here moment. my goodness. and still amused. haha. and happy to be piahing together with everyone that's in here. nvm how weird they were. or even now. hahaha. whoops.
and no i don't want syf to be my last performance! neither the uh hc arts fest. how ulu pok. it's like not a nice ending. so yeap totally agree with ruihong that we MUST get into showcase!
since i'm not very good with motivational speech, i'll just put in a nice pic with almost the j2s in hahahaah. random but nvm. still nice.
hahahah we look so wonderfully happy!
and hope we can too on 100507
smile! and jiayou!! we can do it!
Hi everyone =) its been a long time since i last blogged.
How r u all feeling? Tired?
16 days to SYF. Are u all excited? Looking forward to it?
Im not going to repeat that we nid to get gwh, will feel disappointed when we didnt... ...
Actually, to me, the results do not really matter. As long as we enjoyed that few mins on the stage...........
HOWEVER,
WE MUST PERFORM AT SYF SHOWCASE! (I WANT!)
So, to ensure that we will perform at syf showcase, we must at least get a gwh. Thus, We must get gwh.
I disagree with zhengyou's "16 days later, i wanna do the victory roar in the concert hall, for the last time"
16 days later, i wanna drink honey everyday to prepare my throat for the champion roar right after SYF showcase.
(time for me to prac erhu till 10, then study for tmr's chem test till 12 and hopefully do the assignments that were to be handed in on mon.)
How about you?
How r u all feeling? Tired?
16 days to SYF. Are u all excited? Looking forward to it?
Im not going to repeat that we nid to get gwh, will feel disappointed when we didnt... ...
Actually, to me, the results do not really matter. As long as we enjoyed that few mins on the stage...........
HOWEVER,
WE MUST PERFORM AT SYF SHOWCASE! (I WANT!)
So, to ensure that we will perform at syf showcase, we must at least get a gwh. Thus, We must get gwh.
I disagree with zhengyou's "16 days later, i wanna do the victory roar in the concert hall, for the last time"
16 days later, i wanna drink honey everyday to prepare my throat for the champion roar right after SYF showcase.
(time for me to prac erhu till 10, then study for tmr's chem test till 12 and hopefully do the assignments that were to be handed in on mon.)
How about you?
16 days to syf
if you havent read bong's message posted on my blog, pls do so asap.
16 days later, my co life, will end.
maybe it'll be the last time i perform in a chinese orchestra. acty, for most of us snrs, it might be our last chance. But i hope it wun be the last, i dun want my co life to end just liddat.
16 days, we used to have so much time, but now, all we have is 16 days. Its hard to believe that everything is coming to an end so soon. Well, then again, it had been quite a long time already. Its almost time for us snrs to leave CO behind our mind and pursue our future. For this last 16 days of sweat, weariness, agony, anxiety and of coz, music , lets make them the best days of our lives.
16 days, slightly more than 2 weeks. for the past 4 days i had been reaching home at unearthly hours and whenever my dad asked, i realised my ans is all "i had co prac" I tried my best, put in all i got. now i ask you, did you? I have this feeling i may get beaten up by my dad soon, but i still have that urge to chiong to mph right now. i wanna do my part, i dun wanna have any regrets.
Imagine 16 days later u are sitting at SCH, the results were just announced, we din get wad we set out for. and u ask yourself "did i do all i could?", "wad if i put in that lil more effort 16 days ago?"
if theres a time when u should forget everything but co, its now.
16 days later, i wanna do the victory roar in the concert hall, for the last time.
jia you bah.
16 days later, my co life, will end.
maybe it'll be the last time i perform in a chinese orchestra. acty, for most of us snrs, it might be our last chance. But i hope it wun be the last, i dun want my co life to end just liddat.
16 days, we used to have so much time, but now, all we have is 16 days. Its hard to believe that everything is coming to an end so soon. Well, then again, it had been quite a long time already. Its almost time for us snrs to leave CO behind our mind and pursue our future. For this last 16 days of sweat, weariness, agony, anxiety and of coz, music , lets make them the best days of our lives.
16 days, slightly more than 2 weeks. for the past 4 days i had been reaching home at unearthly hours and whenever my dad asked, i realised my ans is all "i had co prac" I tried my best, put in all i got. now i ask you, did you? I have this feeling i may get beaten up by my dad soon, but i still have that urge to chiong to mph right now. i wanna do my part, i dun wanna have any regrets.
Imagine 16 days later u are sitting at SCH, the results were just announced, we din get wad we set out for. and u ask yourself "did i do all i could?", "wad if i put in that lil more effort 16 days ago?"
if theres a time when u should forget everything but co, its now.
16 days later, i wanna do the victory roar in the concert hall, for the last time.
jia you bah.
Monday, April 23, 2007
i guess SYF anniversary came and went unnoticed.
21st april 2005 - NYCO became the 1st ever CO to receive a GWH...
21st april 2007 - just another prac for HCCO.
it's 17? 16? days to syf; i can't really tell anymore and i'm too lazy to check.
NYCOXYZ you may remember this, i dug it out from our blog archives -
16 days to SYF, 2005...
SIXTEEN DAYS TO SYF and i can't believe there are, or is, juniors who don't know whether they are in erhu 1 or 2?!! like WTH?!! actually it's fifteen since it's like 12 plus already. jia you people.
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i know we can do it. you know we can, too. the thing about practicing is that when we're in dazu it becomes "okay, i will prac this in xiaozu", and when you're in xiaozu it'll be "go home and prac." so basically everything is a "go home and prac" eventually. so... go home and prac. haha.there are things i can't help with, like yinzhun, i can't sit next to you for one hour until you get it right. but someone can, and her name is TIAO YIN QI, she loves you a lot. she'll even sit next to you the whole day just to hear the sound of your erhu.
i'm sleepy.
i am a beetle. an ant has just crawled near me on a path with equation y = x^2. i stopped. now i am moving away... (ok if you didn't take math lecture test you won't get this.)
goodbye goodnight smileeeeeeee :D
21st april 2005 - NYCO became the 1st ever CO to receive a GWH...
21st april 2007 - just another prac for HCCO.
it's 17? 16? days to syf; i can't really tell anymore and i'm too lazy to check.
NYCOXYZ you may remember this, i dug it out from our blog archives -
16 days to SYF, 2005...
SIXTEEN DAYS TO SYF and i can't believe there are, or is, juniors who don't know whether they are in erhu 1 or 2?!! like WTH?!! actually it's fifteen since it's like 12 plus already. jia you people.
-
i know we can do it. you know we can, too. the thing about practicing is that when we're in dazu it becomes "okay, i will prac this in xiaozu", and when you're in xiaozu it'll be "go home and prac." so basically everything is a "go home and prac" eventually. so... go home and prac. haha.there are things i can't help with, like yinzhun, i can't sit next to you for one hour until you get it right. but someone can, and her name is TIAO YIN QI, she loves you a lot. she'll even sit next to you the whole day just to hear the sound of your erhu.
i'm sleepy.
i am a beetle. an ant has just crawled near me on a path with equation y = x^2. i stopped. now i am moving away... (ok if you didn't take math lecture test you won't get this.)
goodbye goodnight smileeeeeeee :D
Hello all snrs, batchmates and jnrs. Dunno how you all feeling now.. scared? motivated? shitty? calm? optimistic? unconcerned? ill? Yep SYF being 16 days away is a cold hard fact which cannot be emphasized anymore and like bong said, what is even more worrying is the fact that there are still LOTS to be done. Admist all these feelings I really hope that all of us, seniors, batchmates juniors alike, believe and genuinely trust right from the bottom of your heart that we can do it! We can get gwh we can be the top orchestra once again. To those who are dying and feeling sucky(or in which way you name it): Turn your remaining energy to practicing and motivating, encouraging each other to practise. Focus on listening to each other during practise sessions for unity and togetherness is the key to any orchestral piece. To those who have not been working hard enough, do so right NOW. Meanwhile enjoy the process of SYF and keep your spirits high! Lets us do it... together as HCCO.
Yo juniors!
Hmm...Just here to say Jia You!
Although it's merely less than 17 days to go, I'm sure you guys can still go further! So please please please treasure the remaining days to pia, as a whole orchestra. =)
Oh well, I guess I will only get to see you guys on the actual day, so meanwhile you will have my moral support(actually there's nothing else I can give too heh). Jia you and work hard!
Most importantly, enjoy the music, enjoy the last 17days together working for a common goal, and enjoy each other's company! =) And if you want, enjoy Mao! =P (opps, sorry for dragging you in, heh!)
Lots of love(heh!)
The senior from zillion centuries ago
DY
P.S. Actually, I thought you guys really have improved quite a lot, which is really a plus point. =)
Hmm...Just here to say Jia You!
Although it's merely less than 17 days to go, I'm sure you guys can still go further! So please please please treasure the remaining days to pia, as a whole orchestra. =)
Oh well, I guess I will only get to see you guys on the actual day, so meanwhile you will have my moral support(actually there's nothing else I can give too heh). Jia you and work hard!
Most importantly, enjoy the music, enjoy the last 17days together working for a common goal, and enjoy each other's company! =) And if you want, enjoy Mao! =P (opps, sorry for dragging you in, heh!)
Lots of love(heh!)
The senior from zillion centuries ago
DY
P.S. Actually, I thought you guys really have improved quite a lot, which is really a plus point. =)
Saturday, April 21, 2007
so strings got gwh.
and i'm seriously scared now... are you?
i don't know what happened to all our pracs, but there're less than 20 days on the clock now. and honestly speaking we're kind of shitty.
in ny it was pia pia pia pia pia and in chinese high for the guys it was probably slack all the way and "omg we're so proud of ourselves for not adding prac" but in hc i'm just confused. i'm torn between both, well actually no i'm still in pia mode but there doesn't seem to be any piaing involved when people don't even turn up, let alone on time.
i like xyz.
but the syf passion and shit has not yet begun to surface in me.
30 days to SYF 2 years ago i was piaing recess pracs and scolding juniors when they were 10 times better than we are now.
20 days to SYF now and i'm writing people's names on labels.
wtf?????????????
i feel like a bailei. BAILEI!!!!!!!!!!
and i'm seriously scared now... are you?
i don't know what happened to all our pracs, but there're less than 20 days on the clock now. and honestly speaking we're kind of shitty.
in ny it was pia pia pia pia pia and in chinese high for the guys it was probably slack all the way and "omg we're so proud of ourselves for not adding prac" but in hc i'm just confused. i'm torn between both, well actually no i'm still in pia mode but there doesn't seem to be any piaing involved when people don't even turn up, let alone on time.
i like xyz.
but the syf passion and shit has not yet begun to surface in me.
30 days to SYF 2 years ago i was piaing recess pracs and scolding juniors when they were 10 times better than we are now.
20 days to SYF now and i'm writing people's names on labels.
wtf?????????????
i feel like a bailei. BAILEI!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, April 19, 2007
SENTOSA OUTING!!!!
:D
SENTOSA OUTING!
Photos speak louder than words.
SL roars!
We l0ve mother nature!
Our ticket + map. =D
On train...
Happy day! :D
SENTOSA OUTING!
Photos speak louder than words.
SL roars!
We l0ve mother nature!
Our ticket + map. =D
On train...
Happy day! :D
XYZ ROX!!!
-for more photos, pm dreamer aka ruihong.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Hi all.. I am not accustomed to writing long blogs altho i have many thoughts... Need to remind you all of the stark reality that SYF rehearsal is just next sunday (22nd April). Please do not waste the chance as the booking of the SCH is ard thousand plus... Money aside, a more pertinent issue would be the chance for us to try out the balancing of the songs and get used playing on the stage. So please spend more time practising the pieces from now. If there is a time to sacrifice your studies for CO, the time would be now. I would regret the time where i have to resort to coercion to get ppl to practise but the false side of me would be unleashed for the good of all..
Jiayou bahs all!!!
Enjoy the process of SYF :)
Jiayou bahs all!!!
Enjoy the process of SYF :)
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Commending wenqi, chen yang dennis and sutyee who ran today. Lol. Not bad la we nearly won MAD, nearly won council but underestimated huangcheng. Got a 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
Anyone running on saturday? haha. train for napfa. And J1s, whens its time to slack, juuss slack and play. Time to mug then mug. Sentosa is probably the last informal outing b4 syf, pls go and be more independent in your decisions k? yeps...
Anyone running on saturday? haha. train for napfa. And J1s, whens its time to slack, juuss slack and play. Time to mug then mug. Sentosa is probably the last informal outing b4 syf, pls go and be more independent in your decisions k? yeps...
Sunday, April 01, 2007
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