MusICian

phew, the weekend is finally over! it seems crazy to say this, but if you know what i’ve gone through, you’d be glad too that my weekend is over. haha.

start with friday, shall we? the morning didn’t start that well; had a little misunderstanding and couldn’t get out of it. attended pragmatics class (finally) at 9am, basically sat there without contributing to the class discussion at all, and figuring out how i should allocate my tickets after i swopped 2 of them with cloud. class ended early, and i went over to vivocity toastbox to get my favourite thick toast, slacking just a little while there. finally got on the train to sengkang, and spent most of the journey finishing up the seat allocation. had lunch at NCHS, with a few band members keeping me company, whilst trying to hurry me. haha. the prac didn’t go on that well… recruits did more theory than practical because the seniors needed their instruments for footdrill downstairs. there was only 1 saxophone (4 players), no french horns (2 players), 4 cornets (5 players) and 4 clarinets (6 players). oh well, didn’t manage to do many exercises of SOE. the horror was when i checked the members at their footdrill session… and when i took them personally as well. gave them a lecturing session on effort, and the lack of ambition and desire in their pursuit. i hate doing this; it always makes me feel very bad. i left NCHS that day wondering if they could do a proper video on saturday, and i was indeed very very stressed up. went for a pool session with victor, renjie and mr png, destressed quite a little! then had a good talk with mr png before going home. sir, i’m glad to be of help to you

saturday began with me waking up very late (too drained from the day before), rushing down to PRSS for sectionals. did some constructive work with the clarinets, shaped some sound, worked phrasing. they looked happy with the sectional! then watched them do their drill video before rushing down to changkat for theirs. sir did the recording while i went to have lunch with the 2 tutors. went back and saw the poor drum major under serious attack; he was so blur… went to NCHS for their prac, did sectionals with the percussion cos mrs angeline tan couldn’t come. didn’t manage to work much (in my opinion, but at least i explained some important concepts); i think they are quite worried about the drill session after that, especially joe and poh yih. eventually, they produced a Gold Medal effort, and the drill session was done in a record breaking 1 take for stationary drill and 2 takes for marching! worried the hell out of me…

stoned at KFC after that, half expecting the NCHS ppl to drop by for dinner. marked the recruits’ mini theory test till i fell asleep! seriously. dozed off a few times. finally the NCHS ppl came and i was able to stay awake. went off for reuinion dinner at grandma’s and was practically falling asleep, if not for terry chatting with me about NUS. strange, we never used to chat! anyway, was glued to the TV after that, an old show on TV. went home dead beat, sweating in dad’s car cos the air-con is faulty. kaputt. had a good chat with sweetie on msn before literally dozing off on the laptop. went to bed feeling at least a sense of accomplishment.

sunday, band prac day! woke up at nearly 1pm, cooked noodles for myself while i rummaged through my emails and other stuff. got to mus’art very late, sight-read overture to candide (the Eb clarinet part is really tough…) and also theresa teng’s songs. the medley is incredibly long: 6 songs together! play till lips burst. and the title translation is so cheesy: when you will come back again, a lot of words, i only care about you… practised a bit of immer kleiner (half expecting the piece to arrive today) before going over to NUS subway for dinner. as my earlier premonitions, immer kleiner arrived! but the parts weren’t enough so we couldn’t start that prac. stressed! NUSWS prac was quite productive but i was dead tired and couldn’t make the most out of it! did give it my best shot though, and benefitted

there goes the weekend. and also all the excuses i gave myself for sleeping till 1230 today

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