his love endures forever;

Friday, December 05, 2008

I shall blog long long about NOEL! Cuz it's so exciting XD

Ok, we reached school at 2 plus like that. had warm ups and rehersal. and full run through. this part not that exciting lah. then had dinner. Yay! the trumpets were sitting together! Section dinner :) And there were funny stuff abt Lionel and his veggies haha. Then went to change and start giving out presents! I shall thank everybody that give me stuff here:)

Thanks Shimin for the flower and letters.
Thanks Sylvia for the lollipops and the letter.
Thanks Cheryl for the chocolate.
Thanks Yating for the marshmallow.
Thanks Jia Chen for the chocolate and postcard.
Thanks Liangsai for the chocolate.
Thanks Jiawei for the lily.
Thanks Caiqin and Zhijie for the rose.
Thanks Peirong for the rose.
Thanks Dina for the bag of food :) a lot!
Thanks Elizabeth for the 'red packet' given long way in advance XD
Thanks Yong Chian for the chocolate.

I hope I did not forget to thank anyone. Sorry if I did:/ And there are actually high school guys' names up there. See, ny is a good influence XD

Now for the actual concert haha.

High school band was starting so ny band and college band stay at rua to wait for our turn. Then suddenly Mr Leng came down and asked "Where's Shimin? It's past 7 already. Are we starting?" lol. nobody knows when to start. And I brought the ny juniors up to the audi to sit cuz their part after intermission. And soon, it was our turn!

Machu Picchu. It was very good! At least for Luther and I XD We managed to play the parts that we never managed to get correct during pracs:) Super happy. Yay! High five! Although it wasn't the best that we could play lah. Got some notes nv pitch and stuff. But aiya nvm. Those parts got like dunno how many woodwinds playing. We don't play also nobody know (i hope). Haha was very scared for the solo thing at F. Cuz super fast then normally cannot tongue properly. But I played it correctly!!! And so did Luther:) Haha a few bars before the solo he still offer to play for me. I think cuz before that I complain too much that I cannot play-.- And and the part where the band rest for 3 beats, we managed to play it too! It sounded ok at the time. But haven't hear the recording. I hope it's ok:) The last 2 notes were a bit weird though. I think the band nv play together or something.

Superman! Don't really have much comments actually cuz I dunno why I wasn't exactly listening to the song. Was like just playing and looking at the audience's reaction to the superman running ard. But I think it wasn't very neat. Jia Chen made the audience laugh though. And distracted the band too I think. That's why a bit messy. The last part was funny lah. Liuzhen waving the cape.

Then there was intermission. Luther almost forgot to play the trumpet call when Khee Xuan said 'trumpet call' haha. But intermission very weird. Like 90% of the audience stay in their seats. Then outside very little ppl only. Haha they all lazy to walk out. Audi nicer. Got aircon XD

After that was the nanyang band. I wanted to listen to Amanda's solo de but was too late:/ Nvm, there's always the recording(i think). I heard that Nanyang was good:) Yay! Well done juniors:)

Then our turn again! Threnody and Warabe-Uta fantasy. Not much comments also. The solos were ok. But different ppl had different comments on Threnody. Some say nice some say not nice. But I think what we played wasn't very fantastic lah. Can be improved.

Seventh night and gelato! Seventh night was not bad. But like a bit fast. The solos were ok too! Haha Sylvia said Luther's solo sounded fierce. Shimin's solo was nice XD And gelato was good too! The percussion did rather well. Jiawei said he liked it:) Luther said he was blasting but I cannot hear haha. Maybe cuz I play too loud le. Cuz like last song then such a nice song to blast somemore. So just play super loud. No need to save energy lol.

And there was encore. Waltzing cat. Haha Lionel and Irene were too much of a success. The song was not very good. Like only half the band playing. I forgot to play some stuff also o.O Like count count count then nv come in -.- Well done cat and mouse! They were very cute haha.

Oh and the emcees were very funny. At the end of the concert they said "see u soon!" Then after encore they came out again and said "Oh, we didn't think it would be that soon". haha. But thanks Sean and Khee Xuan for being emcees and entertaining the audience:)

Then after that we had to move everything back to salt. sighs. The band room really got a lot of rubbish lah o.O But we managed to finish it before the expected time! Yay! Haha but still quite late. So in the end I cannot go for supper:( They stayed until really late I heard. Then today all wake up super late.

Yay! I think we had lots of fun that day. Although it was tiring and stuff, but we see our efforts pay off. Sense of satisfaction :)

Ok, I think I'm done :D

Oh there are more pics on facebooks. And lots more with some ppl:)

trumpets forever - 11:10 PM :)