Woke up around 7-ish am in the morning, was pretty tired and lethargic, ok fine, pretty is an understatement, but band started at 8am, so i had no choice. At band, around 10.30ish, tamagoh arrived. Then we went up to a level 4 class room just like the time he was here and practiced. He showed us new tips, tricks, accents, and how important it is to practice. After the class, we headed back down to the bandroom on the 1st level. There i summed up all my courage and asked tamagoh for a shot together! Yes! Finally... Because i thought, "How often does a pro drummer teach you for free? eh?" And i already missed a chance not taking a photo with Tay Ping Hui and some other actor whose name i dont know, so i wasnt going to miss this chance. And here it is:
Hmm, it does look a little blur, doesn't it? Well, if it weren't so small it wouldn't look that bad. It actually looks good when it is on full screen surprisingly.Vera helped me with this shot. Its nice, it looks really natural.
Vera and I asked him a few questions and this is what we found out about him.
- He has 8 drumsets, each different drumset for different purposes.
- He has 1 drumset that cost, $8000+ alone.
- He is married to a singer. (This one we didn't ask, dont worry, he told us when he was showing us some pics of his drumset when it popped up by accident.)
- He has performed for many well known artist, and also for Mediacorp on the show, Singapore Idol. (Hence, he has worked with Iskanda Ismail)
- He is sponsored by Pearl drumsets, and zildjian sticks. ( Pretty cool if you ask me.. but i prefer tama and pro-mark sticks)
Now, this is what i observed about him.
- He owns a mac ibook
- He owns a black Panasonic Lumix camera.
- If you didn't know him, you would think he is a soldier. (Cause that was what i thought when i first met him, you can imagine my reaction)
- He owns a urban sling bag, that is packed with things such as he's zildjian drumsticks, practice pad, and even sometimes metronome.
- He likes to joke, but sometimes or rather alot of times we are too stiff to laugh, either that or his jokes are not funny.
Whoa.... with all my observations written there, i could be like a CSI - investigator. You really do observe alot when you pay attention.
Ok anyways, after that, band went on as per normal.
Oh, did i forget to mention that we have new practice pads, and its all thanks to mrgoh, who told the band teacher we needed proper practice pads.
I liked it so much i brought it home and gave it a name, its 03 for short.
Each one of the percussionist now has a nickname too, its after the practice pads, so like for eg: vera is 02, zara is 04. lame. yes i know, but its the lame-ness of it all that makes up the whole experience.
So after band, vera and i wanted to go to church to jam, but circumstances changed and so did our plans. In the end vera went home, and i went to home too.
While waiting for my dad, i took these pictures.
Well, now we know Ms Lim was in school today. =)
I like the vibrantness of the colour of her car, it suits her.
"boo.... to the batteries that couldn't even last more than 15mins of camera use." - the batteries get a thumbs down.
Ok theres more but i wouldn't post them all in one straight line, but its all around, i trust you will know which ones. Just enjoy em.
Anyway, things to look forward to this week:
1. Sec 1 JY camp - this fri to sat ( kinda short if you ask me, but its not easy to accommodate 15+ 13yr olds, with packed schedules thanks to CCA's and extra classes out of school. )
Er, thats all, so technically, it shouldn't be 'things' but ' thing' which sounds weird so its gonna be 'things'.
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