23 days ago. ACJC changed their SYF choice piece from Variations on a hymn by louis bourgeois to with heart and voice. back then i was seriously thinking oh no. We’re gonna die. without any doubt. We practised the previous song so freaking hard! we practised day and night and night and day! yet, sadly to say, i still could not play it.
My first impression of with heart and voice was that it was a nice sounding song, however it did not strike me as something amazing. but still i did not mind the change in song. since it had to be changed, we MUST do our very best. so i practised very hard. really hard. those days i just wanna stab myself when i can’t get the stupid notes! those long tiring nights we just played the same few bars at the dark bleaches. i wanna scream fuck or smt! i was at the point i just wanna throw my instrument on the floor. then mr alvin still asked me to play bar 14 with olivia on first clarinet. omg those few bars was totally killing me!
“INTONATION!” he would always scream. and then stare at me lols. then there was the stupid rhythm! we were always rushing!!! gosh. then there is bar 24. craziness. bar 26 high C was ALWAYS a headache. then A major part i must control my tongue from harshness. then bar 101 another crazy staggering part HE ALWAYS SAY CLARINETS PLAYING NONSENSE!! TSK. REALLY MEH?! 199 was another crazy part. lols.
once, mr heng asked me oli mag and the flutes to play 199. then normally i tongue very hard one (i think…) then i was scared of course! after playing the part he asked me: “why your face so red? you never breathe izzit?” i said i got. then i dunno how he hear until I FORGOT TO BREATHE =.=” craziness. then the back was quite ok i think. singapore flyer was another crazy song. ”A” stands for Annoying. intonation was urgh!!! then “E” stands for EVIL. so hard to play it properly when people always say our triplets is WRONG! i really go TICK-TOCK-TICK all the time while playing the part. still always say wrong haiz. the running notes i was happy with it though :)
the day before syf, there was an optional sleepover in school. out of the 44 of us, only 6 of us didn’t stay. (mainly me, mag, peishan, khalid, cherry and joel) i still dunno why the others would stay! they would be sleeping on the floor from 8pm and had to wake up by 230am! i slept at 530pm at home and woke up at 130am at home lols. then went to fetch mag and peishan and khalid XD then i realised I FORGOT TO BRING TIE! we went home to take then go school. phew…
we must be the most crazy school to start practising at 330am. WHICH CONDUCTOR COMES AT 345am to conduct?! our beloved conductor: Mr Alvin Seville. :D then at 5 we packed up and left the school at 630 cause the stupid woodwind bus was delayed like crap. on the bus, they said the sleepover was super funny! many ppl were snoring XD (e.g. gordon and leonard etc lols.) then ppl were sleeptalking LOLS. huiyi say zuriel was like saying wat:”ok, i will play softer” LOLS!! then when ezzul woke him up, he was like:”NO MOMMY NOOOooo…” XDDD
then we arrived at about 7 at trcc to practise till 830 then stoned and thought and discussed about the music. then tuning room and then SYF! ok. i admit. i did not play one part properly. i was sooo stunned at the OBVIOUS error made by the percussion when they were late with the saxophone DURING THE MELODY at wat? 169?? then i forgot to come in at my part >< luckily huisan came in then i rmbed i had smt to play! i came in the next bar lols. then after SYF we were like i dunno wat to feel. then hearing AJC and CJC made us feel so bad. we thought they were really good. they really are. then we went for lunch eating subway cookies and stoning everywhere. at 315, we entered the concert hall and await the results. i was really NERVOUS. i wanted to puked. i felt so giddy! i was talking crap with enge. the adjudicators only entered the stage at 353! then they were like introducing them and all those shit. then finally came the results. i swear my heart was gonna burst then! the emcee was M.E.R.C.I.L.E.S.S. he announced the results sooo quickly. there is no time for imaginary drum rolls >< when he reached band #12 Anglo Chinese Junior College i was already gonna burst!! GOLD WITH HONOURS!!! OMG!!! we yelled and screamed and cried immediately! i still dunno how they can cry immediately! lols! they should get the star awards or smt XD i love you all ACBAND! <3
To God be the glory, the best is yet to be.
