Saturday, 3 November 2007

Tamagoh/Jammin/TheArena/Dinner.

First lemme talk about yesterday. Yesterday, our new band instructor for our section, percussion, arrived. And he was non other than the "Tamagoh"! It was really exciting and all. The reason why i placed the open and close inverted commas is because, as i found out yesterday, that "Tamagoh" is his stage name, not his real name, because he used to endorse tama drums, but now he endorses Pearl drums, or rather they sponsor him, along with zildjian. Man, someday i really wish that promark, zildjian, paiste tama, one day endorse me too! That would be sweet.... Anyway, than he shared with us many tips and his many experiences with drumming. I was like 'whoa...' After hearing what he has to say, i concluded drumming really is all about the discipline of practicing... Its something like math, whereby practice is everything.



Oh yes and before i forget, because, being me, i asked tamagoh to autograph the drum sleeves that he didnt want. So yeah. Really cool, it was a zildjian one.

So than after band, Vera,Yap and i went to eat at KFC at clementi. I actually expected my parents to disapprove, but to my surprise, they did. So yeah, its a win win situation. =) Than, we went, we ate, we enjoyed. haha. yes. After that, Vera and i took a bus to church and jammed! Boy, i must say that, that was one of thee most enjoyable and fulfilling jamming sessions i had in a long long time. Nice jammin with ya vera ;) Some other time okay? Ok than, erm yeah than my family and i went to carrefour. haha. and yes, my brother and i did what we did best there, erm, ballet. We did film it, but i decided not to show it, the concept is about the same basically.



This is vera rocking her heart out.
Ok thats enough talk about yesterday. More of today.

Gosh, where do i begin. Okay, lets start with the break of dawn, haha just kiddin.
Today, was particularly special. Today was the 2nd round of audtions for the arena. I was really excited, i don't know, but it was just the whole, you know TV thing. But dont get me wrong, pls. Ok so, the team practiced a few times, and i must say, Xing Ya's line was like really good! Like really really funny! I really enjoyed their intro, with shuan doing his snapping , ching sheng doing his Japaneses catch phrases, Robert and his animated way of talking, and finally the best and my personal favourite, xing ya's one liner! It sounded like something i would say, and it went something like this... ( Pls take in mind that Xing Ya is quite tall, oh in fact very tall for her age, shes about 1.77m? around there..) She said " Wow, my teachers and my teamates both agree, that my height matches my intelligence!" To be honest when i first heard that, i bust out laughing! I just couldnt take it. It was great.

Than it was time. Time for them to show off their 'verbal bio-technics' with flash and substances. They really did well, and impressed the judges. During the whole day today, i was grumbling, about one thing. Why didn't i bring a camera!?!?!?! Yes, it was that frustrating. Today was the perfect day for photo opportunities and i didn't bring a camera. Grrrr-eat. But never mind. I will get the vid uploaded when i ask my friend for it, cause he recorded their whole audition on his phone. ( The joy of having a camera phone. Ah....)

After watching many rounds of auditioning, it was time for the results. "Hwa Chong Institution" Loud applause and cheers were heard. "The next team, Fairfield Methodist Secondary!" This time, i screamed. It was just so overwhelming! Fairfield!?!??!!? I was more than elated. I just can't find the words right now to express. But it was awesome. God was. Is. The team went up and later did some interviews and filled out a questionnaire. We really thanked God, cause surprisingly, the teams we expected to get in, didn't.

So than to celebrate we went to eat at holland's coffee club. Boy, i must say it is really erm, lets just say that just don't go there if you have a budget. But the food was really good too, i have to say.



Overall, thats my day in words as far as i can remember. And, i really enjoyed it. Seriously.

As for the arena, in the words of Ching Sheng, "watashitachi wa kanarazu katsu da yo!" in other words, we will surely win! =)




This is what we played during band, the sesame street theme song! Yeah!

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