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Friday, August 8, 2008

Ok, yesterday totally hit pit bottom on my ratings since I entered RGS. I don't even want to think about all I went through yesterday. Sigh. Since I'm writing this only today... coz yesterday I was just TOO tired to even GO ON THE COMPUTER. Can you believe it? Coz I can't. So, lets flashback to... lets see... yesterday. Band prac.
There was handover or something like that. Huijun ate three pieces of cake. The rest of us didn't. Even though HO YINGQIN very willingly volunteered that we wanted cake. So Delise went up saying, who wants cake? I serve personally leh! Then we were like it's Yingqing's fault lah! So I very generously donated my cake to Huijun. Yes. Then after that we had to practice.

After I dno, one half hour of warm ups with me not being able to do any perfectly, as usual, Samantha took out this duet book. After playing a few songs... she said:
"Ok first I will clap, then Amanda and Hazel will play. Then next Amanda will clap and Hazel and I will play. Then after that Hazel will clap and Amanda and I will play. ... Understand??"
Me and Amanda nod our heads.
"Ok, Amanda, since you are playing first eupho first, you get to choose the song. Do you want 50-50, or do you want to ask the audience?" Samantha said.
I couldn't help but smile and laugh a bit. She's actually quite funny. So after that Amanda was flipping, flipping, and Samantha said 5 4 3 2 1. Amanda was then at Do-Re-Mi. Samantha said:
"Ok, I close the book and open randomly arh..." And Amanda shook her head. So we played DoReMi. (DRM) Then in the 4 bar or so, Amanda suddenly stopped playing. I was like think: GAHHH! NOW WHAT! WHY SHE STOP!"
Samantha said: Wait. Stop. This woman thinks that she can play DRM without even looking at the score, so I shall take this stand and show Hazel only, then you can just walk off and play then come back."
By then I had to laugh a bit.
So after that Amanda clapped. Then Samantha said:
"Wait. Amanda, your clapping is like, Ta... Ta... Ta.. Ta.. Ta. Ta. TATATA." Actually, she demonstrated, but I can't very well show you now right?
Then there were accents on the notes. Samantha said:
See? Accents. Which are important. Like, for example, in speech, intonation is also VERY important. For example, I say... um... oh I slap Amanda. It's different from i slap AMANDA. Right? Then Amanda was laughing softly and I had to laugh too, coz the other time Amanda said Samantha also always threatens to slap her.

So actually my direct isn't that bad. Being strict is one thing, but she can be nice, too. I just hope I get better. It really sucks not being able to play warm ups. On the bus, all I can think of now are warm-ups. Ditto when I'm bored. I think I'm going crazy.

My direct is now SL. Which is obvious, seeing as she is the only Sec 3 Eupho. Which means next time I will be, too. Errkk. The thought of it... Anyway, it doesn't really matter, does it?
And may EUPHOS rock on forever. (Eat your heart out, HYQ!)
EUPHOS ROCK> BAND ROCKS> <3
Hazel
Euphoniumist (Euphoist? Euphonist?)

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