Hi Pipa Liuqin (:
Are you all okay if we have our tanbo outing on 18th to 19th June, thurs to friday third week of holidays? If you are not able to stay overnight, maybe we go out on the 18th, then you go back home in the night and come back to join us on the 19th before we go for co at 2pm. It also means that we have to keep our instruments in the co room on that week's tues. Please leave a tag okay. Thank You (:
And about syf closing ceremony, please work hard. We must do even better than our syf. If we want to go overseas, we have to perform extremely well, although the past few dazu our standards have dropped a lot. I think Wu Lao Shi is correct, he said that this is our last chance to show ppl our best, especially since there are some mistakes we made during syf itself. This time no more regrets, make it a perfect one and have fun to the fullest. This is also probably the last major thing we can go through together before some of us leave. Pipa Liuqin wan sui!
Have a great holiday!
Yao Zhang
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Dazu Today
Today's dazu is one the most fun dazu ever, although attendance was very bad. The entire orchestra maybe 20 odd ppl came. Pipa had no rep, liuqin only benedict and i were there.
The most exciting part. At about 5 to 5.15pm, chen lao shi came in. I actually thought he was going to stop dazu bcos of the poor attendance. He said he had received two letters from MOE regarding syf. The first letter was the judges' comments. He will be pinning it up on the notice board this friday. Right away, we knew the next one was about syf closing ceremony. We got confirmed for the selection for syf closing ceremony!!! That means we are one of the top 3 orchestras! :) It will be on the 30th of July, at esplanade. The problem now is we have to play Gada and another song. Zhihui suggested we play the entire of gada, take it as two songs. However, could we play the gwh standard once more. Yijing has asked everyone, including sec fours, to turn up for every practice starting this friday.
The other thing that made dazu fun was bcos we played the cut off parts of gada. We started off playing bar 272, erhu ppl dont have their erhus, so zhihui started with tanbo, and we screwed up our parts. But we man lian, and quietly while zhihui talked. We got better subsequently. It wasnt really slow hor, quite fast one. But benedict and I, we were able to play most of the song! Benedict is so pro :) And benedict and I,we stayed back to help ruan and yq with their duty, cos they only had 6 ppl today. So we made a deal, ruan and yq ppl will help us with our duty next week. Please thank benedict, he dont usually stay so late, i feel kinda bad for that.
That's all for now. Oh my gosh, everything has been a total dream come true, from the gwh to the open house performance, and now the syf closing ceremony. You guys totally rock. Looking forward to meeting you all this friday :)
Oh before I end off, tanbo has a very important meeting this friday, not sure what time, but will need everyone to participate.
Yao Zhang
The most exciting part. At about 5 to 5.15pm, chen lao shi came in. I actually thought he was going to stop dazu bcos of the poor attendance. He said he had received two letters from MOE regarding syf. The first letter was the judges' comments. He will be pinning it up on the notice board this friday. Right away, we knew the next one was about syf closing ceremony. We got confirmed for the selection for syf closing ceremony!!! That means we are one of the top 3 orchestras! :) It will be on the 30th of July, at esplanade. The problem now is we have to play Gada and another song. Zhihui suggested we play the entire of gada, take it as two songs. However, could we play the gwh standard once more. Yijing has asked everyone, including sec fours, to turn up for every practice starting this friday.
The other thing that made dazu fun was bcos we played the cut off parts of gada. We started off playing bar 272, erhu ppl dont have their erhus, so zhihui started with tanbo, and we screwed up our parts. But we man lian, and quietly while zhihui talked. We got better subsequently. It wasnt really slow hor, quite fast one. But benedict and I, we were able to play most of the song! Benedict is so pro :) And benedict and I,we stayed back to help ruan and yq with their duty, cos they only had 6 ppl today. So we made a deal, ruan and yq ppl will help us with our duty next week. Please thank benedict, he dont usually stay so late, i feel kinda bad for that.
That's all for now. Oh my gosh, everything has been a total dream come true, from the gwh to the open house performance, and now the syf closing ceremony. You guys totally rock. Looking forward to meeting you all this friday :)
Oh before I end off, tanbo has a very important meeting this friday, not sure what time, but will need everyone to participate.
Yao Zhang
Monday, May 25, 2009
Happy 14th Birthday BENEDICT!!! =D
Today's Benedict's birthday! Well done guys for the job this morning haha. The entire plan was kinda screwed actually haha.
In the morning, benedict sms me asked about syf closing ceremony. I replied, but didnt say anything abt bday, wanted to give him a surprise. The moment I reached school, chionged straight to classroom, saw kenneth and yauxuan, quickly took out the card then gave zhunsong to write his wishes. Some of us were late, we were supposed to meet at 7am. Then we got together, but pingxi was missing. Finally pingxi came.
We headed for benedict's classroom. But his classroom was black! No one inside. Thought he could have gone down to terraces. Then we found his class ppl outside drama centre, all crowding together, playing games. I called benedict, gave him the card then he went back to his games. Everybody so paiseh in front of his classmates to wish. I called him out and we moved further away. Then ppl started wishing one by one haha. But there was still some awkwardness. But to benedict, we all really really sincerely wish u a happy happy birthday :)
And about syf closing ceremony. Yijing said that our co has been selected, together with dhsco and ngee ann. The results we will only know tmr. And ytd night i went to the co forum, there yijing said sth like our dizi and suona stand a very high chance of being selected for the instrumentals. He said our liuqin, ruan, bass also got a bit of chance. But I actually think the whole tanbo quite likely. I rmb that night after syf, chen lao shi told a few of us that tanbo was very zhengqi and dynamics were obvious, and he liked our section the best, and then he added, but liuqin very liang.
And to our seniors, we forgot if we told you about the tanbo blog. Here's the url, http://hcico-tanbo.blogspot.com. There the posts are updated more regularly.
Lastly, theres a video here for you all. Chiu Yin and I just watched it ytd. Enjoy (:
Happy Birthday to Benedict once again!!! :D Have a great day!
Yao Zhang
In the morning, benedict sms me asked about syf closing ceremony. I replied, but didnt say anything abt bday, wanted to give him a surprise. The moment I reached school, chionged straight to classroom, saw kenneth and yauxuan, quickly took out the card then gave zhunsong to write his wishes. Some of us were late, we were supposed to meet at 7am. Then we got together, but pingxi was missing. Finally pingxi came.
We headed for benedict's classroom. But his classroom was black! No one inside. Thought he could have gone down to terraces. Then we found his class ppl outside drama centre, all crowding together, playing games. I called benedict, gave him the card then he went back to his games. Everybody so paiseh in front of his classmates to wish. I called him out and we moved further away. Then ppl started wishing one by one haha. But there was still some awkwardness. But to benedict, we all really really sincerely wish u a happy happy birthday :)
And about syf closing ceremony. Yijing said that our co has been selected, together with dhsco and ngee ann. The results we will only know tmr. And ytd night i went to the co forum, there yijing said sth like our dizi and suona stand a very high chance of being selected for the instrumentals. He said our liuqin, ruan, bass also got a bit of chance. But I actually think the whole tanbo quite likely. I rmb that night after syf, chen lao shi told a few of us that tanbo was very zhengqi and dynamics were obvious, and he liked our section the best, and then he added, but liuqin very liang.
And to our seniors, we forgot if we told you about the tanbo blog. Here's the url, http://hcico-tanbo.blogspot.com. There the posts are updated more regularly.
Lastly, theres a video here for you all. Chiu Yin and I just watched it ytd. Enjoy (:
Happy Birthday to Benedict once again!!! :D Have a great day!
Yao Zhang
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