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Saturday, March 29, 2008

6:14 PM

HEY YO!!!
hmm... melissa, you're to small to be the farmer! you should be the... hmmm... barn mouse? haha jus kidding... XD. about block test.... very disturbing... stupid LA teacher made this stupid comment that made me VERY DISTURBED! UHHHHHH!!! kill him. :P heh heh heh... or should i torture him first? oh yeah, cannot... got SPCA. Singapore Prvention of Cruelty to ANIMALS!!! wahaha... XD. actually come to think of it, there are no sloths in farms... unless it's a sloth farm... which totally dosen't make sense... wahaha... i shall be a komodo dragon. cos they're very slow(sometimes) wahaha... XD. yeah, wait... i shall be a VISITING komodo dragon (come and eat all your animals... ) WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! XD. haiiii.... so sian... now block test over nothing to do... haha... jus kidding. i wish for money.. wahaha. hmm... yeah... gosh, alot of crap...

6:10 AM

hey cellists!

aren't you all glad that exams are FINALLY OVER? :D:D:D well i'm not -.- cause now all my stupid sucky results are flying back to me! ): i did really badly for math man! I COULD HAVE GOTTEN FULL MARKS OK! i'm just so bloody careless. so careless that i didn't even realize my careless mistakes when i was checking through (i checked through the paper twice can!) booooo ): but my other papers (so far) were quite good! 85% for both LA and HMP! and I ACTUALLY PASSED 50% FR CHINESE. HAPPY ^^ hope you all got good marks too!!!!! if not, well, jiayou! it's only CA1, weightage not very highhhh ;)

ohoh rachael, the first two desks of our pretty farm weren't around on thursday! i was gone for YO concert, audrey was gone for CIP, and well you and yuhe weren't around too. DAMN COOL PLEASE :D hahahaha i hope you all didn't die arh! tell me what hpned during that reh on tues k! (:

btw, i've updated the links! YAYYYYY(: oh and btw i think we need to decide what to call our section. i went to stella and weiyu's blog, and i realised that stella calls us NYCE, weiyu calls us NYCS. hahaha hmmmm i wonder.. nanyang cello ___? OH OH NYCF. NANYANG CELLO FARM HAHA

let's see who's in our farm!
stella: the slowest animal on earth aka sloth ...
weiyu: ...
lois: ...
peining: ...
rachael: ...
zhiyuan: the slowest animal with the highest pee capacity level on earth aka tortoise ...
karo: ...
yuhe: .. hoho this is such an easy one. fish GLUBGLUB
audrey: pig OINKOINK
lydia: parrot SQUAWK
yours truly: FARMER <3333333

hm. ok we'll decide for weiyu, lois, peining, rachael and karo next time x)

oh and people, now that exams are over, please think of the DESIGNS ok! (and please also keep the THE THING WE'RE DESIGNING a secret. you knw what i'm referring to ;) ) i've got a few ideas alr, but all abit lame -.- hahhaa

oh yeah! carnagie! ahhhh i'm really quite worried for carnagie lah. our standard is seriously..................... ok i'll talk to you all about it on tuesday, but zongzhi i'm going to make you all work a whole lot harder, but don't worry i'll be working with you all all the way!! (: go go cellists! <3

LET'S MAKE USE OF THE NYTRIP TO GET FULLYBONDED (: haha! i'm thinking of having lunch sectionals closer to the trip, maybe two/three weeks before, and then section lunches every lunch one week before the trip! yay we can go do alot of cool stuff together! haha I'M GETTING SO EXCITED ^^ haha i tell you i'll be REALLYREALLY HIGH on the night before we leave! hahhahaha! WOOOTS!

signing off,
MEL! (:

back from camp

Friday, March 28, 2008

10:56 PM

hey hey hey there my dear cello-mates !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :]]]]]

sorry for not coming for CCA on the thurs. was away in camp at ....... JJC!!! (jurong junior college). i must say it was damn fun! woah........... though yeah, i sorta miss cca. was actually wondering what you guys were doing then! nothing much happened right? heard from jiaqi that you guys had rehearsal then sectionals. man, lots to catch up!!! anyone care to tell me the changes made for the movements?????heehee. heard that mr sze is having a good mood nowadays. it's great to hear that. hahaaaaa. it's nice when he's all smiley; not shouting and screaming at us!!! nonetheless, we still have to practise and practise and practise!!!! :] yeah!!!!!!!!!! it's a really important thing to do to ensure that we do not play badly! as we all know, we have a bad reputation for you know.... mahem.... need not elaborate. (sorry mel, we will jiayou..... :p)

well, it's going to be april already. how time flies!!!! it's going to be the trip to carnegie at new york!!!! argh. juniors, you were right! it seems like two months. but if we count the number of days we have left, it's terrifying! oh wells........... jiayous NYSE.

quite sad ya guys know? i just realised that everyone has started to not tag or post anymore on this wonderful blog. POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *****melissa and cello section especially!!!!!! heeeheeee :]

kay kay. me going off now. take care everyone. and let's work our way to the new york trip!

love, rachael

Thursday, March 20, 2008

9:43 AM

hey yo everyone! i'm here just to post one video! will update proper after tests(: meanwhile, jiayou everyone! just a few more days (:
hahaha the name of the video is "Stringfever-History of music", by these quartet called "stringfever". these guys have really funny expressions, and their instruments are really cool! electric strings... all of them have 5 strings lah! xD oh and i think the part 5:13 is the funniest. take note of that part man;)

Monday, March 17, 2008

9:26 PM

HELLOS.
im blogging in school, during recess cause i just dont feel like eating. well anyways. i cant believe that we're having block test tmr. it's like really fast? and yeah, we should practice our parts you know. i have a suggestion: maybe we should like take turns to listen to how awful our playing is. yeah. then it'll maybe motivate us to practice more? i dont know how big carnegie is but oh well, from how melissa say it. it's like a really grand place? something like singapore's esplanade? yup. we should practice. cause if not cello will always be the lousiest section in the ensemble. so practice ya?:D

Life has been pretty complicated for me these days.. yup. and stressful. i still cant get rid of my habit of doing things at the last minute. i rushed through 2 assignments yesterday. hiaz. i cant believe my chinese teacher actually accused me of lying for not doing homework- indirectly. i was telling the truth okay. like wth. hiaz. now i've became the black sheep of the class..

i cant wait for the new york trip. me and stella are counting down to 13 june! which is 88 more days to go! yup. oh ya, stella said that every cellists should chat online together on the day before the NY trip. and yay! melissa's going to new york too((:! hahas. and it's not that i like mr sze and not like mrs ho, it's just that i find it a waste if we just like shop shop shop in NY. and like what melissa said, mr sze has went to NY a lot of times, so he can like bring us to famous places in NY(: yup. hiaz. so sad cant be in the same room as mel. i mean regina's nice!, but i can make fun of melissa more if im in her room. like i can take a pic of her when she's sleeping or sth:D? hahas(:
oh well. anyways, good luck for the block test tmr((:

weiyu

Saturday, March 15, 2008

9:54 PM

hmm.. okay. haha. this vid is like really crazy. notice cellist shaking head with long hair. FYI, they all have spectacles on at the beginning... somehow managed to make them DISAPPEAR in the midst of performing...
before>bespectacled
after>went for lasik surgery while performing and spectacles nowhere to be found!(?!)

<3 stella
p.s. thanks for fixing the tagboard! :)

tagboard?

Friday, March 14, 2008

8:54 PM

hello! erm... where's the tagboard? i can't find it, so i have to post... heeheehee... :) anw, you can't trust me to do anything with the template... 'cos i'll mess it up... honestly... mess until jialat jialat... :):) haha...
<3 stella
p.s. 救命! haha, anybody who's free can you check out the tagboard problem? :) TY!!! :) hahas...:)

enjoy...:)

2:47 AM

hey everyone!

i've posted some recordings of borodin on the left! should be quite easy to spot considering i've used bold, italics, underline and strikethrough on it 0.0 haha. go listen ok!

i think we should all form our small quartets to practise borodin AFTER YOU ALL HAVE LEARNT YOUR NOTES AND EVERYTHING, HINTHINT;) why? cause it's originally "Borodin String Quartet No.2 in D major", only we're playing it as a string ensemble, so playing it in its actual form would probably let us get a better idea of how it should sound. besides, it's really alot easier to listen to each other in small groups, agree agree?(: maybe i'll go ask jiale at a later date. bwahaha

on a more serious note, jiayou and all the best for block tests, everyone! don't forget to practise once those migraine-inducing things are over =/

meeeeeeeeel.(:

MY FIRST POST!

Thursday, March 13, 2008

1:09 AM

HEY! MY FIRST POST IN NYSE CELLO SECTION BLOG! AHH!!! THIS DAY MUST GO DOWN IN ALL HISTORY BOOKS! cos im very important. haha. kidding... :):) i like sweets so i cannot stop eating because, well, they ARE called sweets, so they're sweet? hehhehheh... i am not retarded. i am MISUNDERSTOOD! dosen't mean somebody always says wierd things means the person is retarded... OH-KAYYYY???? hahahahaahahahahaha... never chat with me online. the whole window will be filled with "haha"s. heehee....... MUAHAHAHAHA! funny... i am not retarded by saying this.. ok, TYPING this... FYI, this is not a "retarded" post. OH-KAYY?? hahas... hmm... your eyes shoukd be BURNING now... too much crap. :):) DOES NOT=RETARDED! (ahem ahem... WEIYU PLEASE TAKE NOTE). =.= yeah... so i guess i should end here? yay. ok, THE END!!! thank you, thank you...

<3 stella-ella-ella-eh-eh-eh.....:)

hello again...

Sunday, March 09, 2008

3:36 AM

great to be back again. hahahaaa. i think the latest one who posted was weiyu, right? nice to know that a sec one is starting to post! now our cello blog is not dead!!!! yay.... speaking of which, where on earth is our tagboard?! i can't see it!!!! wailsss ..~~~~ sighs....

camp's over. i tried to post during the camp, but no idea what happened to the computer, cannot post it on the blog. so, a whole post of 'wonderful stuffs' gone... >.<

yups, i'm sure really excited about the NY trip as well. though i'm also worried at the same time. i can't play well. i;m afraid that i'll cause the whole performance to be lousy. i'm always out of tune.... sighs... my parents have been stressing on how dangerous america is and all. yups..... just listening to them and mr sze talking about NY sends shivers down my spine. brrrr....... :X oh wells. just hope we'll all arrive back in singapore safe and sound. lots of terrorists attacks around the world. i agree with weiyu, mas selamat incident is really getting nowhere. i;'m not going to say anything bad or offensive here. (this is a public blog for goodness sake. who knows a police or mas selamat himself sees this???!!!!! ) sighs.......... i really hope that singapore will catch him soon. MM Lee is really right. there's a reeeeeeeal high possibility that he'll come back and bomb singapore if he has escaped. who doesn't want to take revenge?? and singapore is so small and all. i'm really getting quite worried down here. it's been around two weeks. bah. kay. just hope we'll all stick together in NY. ***fingers crossed... ...***

heeeeheeee. i know weiyu. NYSE seniors are the best. i've been really nice as well, right? muahahaaaaaaa. that was what i thought about NYSE when i've been in this cca for around a month. everyone is seriously nice and kind. we're lucky huh? (rmb i'm only one year older than you; whatever i say makes sense!!!)

kaes. shall stop crapping here. or else melissa may start to complain about long posts. have fun everyone! can't wait to see everyone in the oh-so-beautiful gowns. ahhaahahaaa. :] can't wait for june. fun fun fun!

love, rachael :]

Saturday, March 08, 2008

7:32 AM

helloos!
im like the first sec one cellist to blog :D cause the retarded stella should be retarding at home that she has no time to blog. wait, that doesnt make much sense, but oh well. im feeling soo hyper now even though its really late at night.
i totally agree with mel on using brains sometimes is better than drilling. but, you see, i dont have much brains, so i have to drill those difficult parts like siao..
the last strings session was on tues, and i've yet to kill audrey for not moving forward. i nearly died when playing with melissa. i was like, trying so hard to keep up cause i didnt really practice those parts. but i know them now. so ya..
bringing the flight case home was really difficult. cause the flight case is like as tall as me?? or maybe im taller abit((: and i dont think i will be able to fit into the flight case. cause im not as puny as melissa(:
the strings seniors are all very nice and friendly(: they made me feel really welcomed on the first day i came for practice((: haha. but i got a shock when they gave up the pieces, cause its like 10+ pages long. back in my primary school, the most number of pages is 2 only...
cant wait for the new york trip! but i heard that some building in times square got bombed): so sad. it was in the papers.
and oh god, im so sick of mas selemat's picture. it's everywhere. it's at the guard house, it's on buses, its even on one of the CCA boards. i wonder what it has got to do with that CCA. oh well. and i've yet to receive his picture, and i dont want to receive it. no i dont.
nothing more to blog about. shall just stop here(:

Monday, March 03, 2008

4:48 AM

hey everyone!
i'm finally here to update! bwahaha

first off, to reply rachael's post: yes, friendship problems are tough aren't they >< they make us quite sad at times, but then again we all need friends! ironic, huh. i've had a few friendship problems in ny, but there was only one that really had a lot of impact on me. when i was in sec2, i had a bestfriend whom i was reallyreally quite close too! then one day we had a fight, and i didn't treasure that friendship enough to try to patch things up with her. so it just ended like that, with both of us sad and pissed. for me, after it ended this is what hpned to my feelings k. it moved from sadness to sadness, loneliness and misery, then on to hatred (i did really idiotic things at this stage) and then on to remorse, to hope, and then it all faded away. and now when i really want to make amends we've both changed such that it seems abit impossible to patch up. sad ): so, treaure yr friends!

ok moving on.... OMG I DON'T LIKE THOSE PICTURES, BOOHOOHOO. you all bully me! hurt my fragile feelings): eh if you all wanna take, take those that are more glam leh! like hmm i can dress up as a socialite, grab a small cute dog and pose for you. free of charge k! omg i'm so nice

and about our slack section.. haha. that can't be denied lah. it's true! we are slack. and i've got some reasons why!

1. yr SL is basically a super slack person who basically practises only when she needs to (=x)

2. yr SL finds that hardcore drilling is not her cup of tea(or coffee, whatever), she feels that we should use our brains to practise instead of hardcore drilling.

...not that drilling isn't effective; it is, it definitely is! but just that i believe that practising with yr brain will get you to that desired standard faster than drilling. and i really hateee drilling so i can't bear to do it to others. i always hoped that my section would be hardworking and dedicated enough to practise and think of ways to imrove by themselves. not that you all aren't ok, most of you are! only a select few isn't working enough..(hmmm, maybe i should try drilling eh. since it works on all the other sections. only i die of boredom and you all die of misery lah. but that's fine, we'll all die together xD )

3. i would say that cello teachers are generally less demanding than violin teachers (idk about viola or bass teachers alright). but again that's just my opinion from the years i've been learning both instrus

4. look at our orchestra parts lah. look at it. mozart loves giving us repetitive notes. and haydn's not far off either. when do we ever get the solos (which are actually the ones that really forces us to prac)? rarely! BUT! when these darn solos do come up they're often at a standard which is beyond alot of us. so we do try, and mind you we do improve, but if one compares our standard with the other sections it really is far awayy. unfair? maybe.

in conclusion: there are premises as to why we aren't too hardworking, and we do try to improve! but still that's no excuse. we need to try harder! sure we can play the simple parts, but the hard parts we're still a distance away. we can't be the section that pulls the rest of the ensemble behind just because we can't play the hard passages! so, come on buck up everyone! noone can't help you if you aren't willing to help yrself mah.

sectionals should be when you all have practised the piece at home alr, and there are some fingering/bowing/articulation problems that needs to be sorted out, then we all discuss it together dur sectionals. intonation, dynamics and whether you're basically able to play the piece or not should be settled on your own, and not having the seniors check whether you've practised and force you to practise on the spot during sectionals

ok i'm sorry i know my post is rather wordy and boring. but at least i updated! righright? yeeees. mel is nice!

alright, toodles!
MEL, your every friendly, considerate, caring and nice SL! (:

post. another one by rachael :]

Sunday, March 02, 2008

8:01 PM

all right!!! me currently in school trying to kill time and all... feeling quite upset about some friendship problems now.. sighs.. can't help it. sec school's just too complicated. good thing i have my family?! >.<

oh wells, no idea what to crap about. comment: great pics of mel!!! muahahaa..... a nice model for our dear cello section. way to go SL! :] imagine what the other NYSE members have to say about the pics ....

hmmm... CCA's going on as usual. lots of comments from Mr. Sze that the cello section have not been practising hard enough. i;'m seriously getting quite nervous about the whole performance in NY. no idea if we'll do well. ok, correction here. we WILL do well. hopefully ...... the high notes in the pieces for cellos is so difficult to play. argh..... save me. save us! bah

camp is just a few days! yay... ~~~ though the programme sounds ok only. sheesh........ lots of prac for the drama performance. also have to do loads of prep for the NIGHT TRAIL. a great and wonderful thing that my class got to do this. muahahha . (again...)

ok. just wanna say jiayous everyone in NYSE. work hard for the performance at the Carnegie Hall!!!!! show them what we've got!

love,
rachael :p