wad a way to waste 2 weeks sia...first my bdae...then 2 consecutive public performances...then NEW PHONE!!(NUMBER:9321 2483)...then BAND CAMP!!!!...then exchange with 5 schs....then today's post...haha....my bdae was not that bad lah...for the first time in dunno how many bizillion years...i actually received a "happy bdae" from a girl..or three for that matter(im not suaning anybody here...im juz suaning myself)...then the 2 performances were pretty okay...except that the waiting time is boring...then band camp!!!lets start with the more controversial parts...firstly...im sure batch prac is of any use to us...except before investiture...how do you all expect us to improve when we are conducted by our very own batchmate who doesnt even have a frigging clue of wad to do???and we are not even allowed to practise some other songs which will help us in techniques????like wad dear han sheng said...if we want to improve on songs, we muz first improve on our techniques rather than juz playing the song over and over again...so wad if you can get that triplets right after 20 times of playing it?you sure you can get it right the next day?NO!!you cant cuz your basics are not even there!!!to practise it, practise on your tonguing first then try on the notes of the song...not prac the notes and hope that by luck, you will learn how to tongue faster....the only reason why you can do that is bcuz your tongue has got used to playing that note and thus, it will sound like you have mastered that skill, but not bcuz you have mastered it...whats more, with a person who doesnt have a clue abt the song conducting you all, do you expect to improve???...worse still...if that guy makes a wrong interpretation of the song, we will end up with the wrong interpretation and when mr oura scolds us, we get another one by some other guy....MOREOVER...im sure playing loud is called blasting...pls lah...if thats the case, mr oura would have addressed it during concerts and not you coming out and say that we are blasting....cuz we are juz playing the normal volume that we are supposed to...the sec3 trombones make up like 1/3 of the tbonez and our batch only makes up like 1/4 of the band???so naturally, the tbonez tend to stand out among the others right!!!...sigh...maybe nxt year, we shld not have any batch pracs till bfore investiture....then the exchange!!!i seriously dunno why nanyang called us pro when they are the undisputed champion of today...they were seriously much much better than us and we were seriously crap today...the sunrise sounded alright bcuz the other bands were staccato-ing that bass tbonez part(and theres one band where the bass tbone wasnt even recongizable)....but still...MUCH TO IMPROVE!!esp. ocean!!...comeon man...there are only 4 weeks left and if we work hard...we can make up for the 90 % that mr oura wants us to do for ocean...then GWH and presentation is ours!!!COMEON!!....
