Hi people!
(this must be the 1st time in 100 years that i blog) that's cos tmr's labour day, and i don't feel hardworking enough to do homework at this time of the night.
anyway, first things first. (being guai here)
CASS: why didn't you sms me that u'd not be in school on tuesday?!?! though i knew that on monday...still, u ok le mah? *graps your head and nods it virtually* ok, take it as yes.
Saw this story somewhere, thought it was rather funny...
"Hello! You have reached the automated answering service of your school. In order to assist you in connecting to the right staff member, please listen to all the options before making a selection:
- To lie about why your child is absent - Press 1
- To make excuses for why your child did not do his work - Press 2
- To complain about what we do - Press 3
- To swear at staff members - Press 4
- To ask why you didn't get information that was already enclosed in your newsletter and several flyers mailed to you - Press 5
- If you want us to raise your child - Press 6
- If you want to reach out and touch, slap or hit someone - Press 7
- To request another teacher, for the third time this year - Press 8
- To complain about bus transportation - Press 9
- To complain about school lunches - Press 0
- If you realize this is the real world and your child must be accountable and responsible for his/her own behavior, class work, homework and that it's not all the teachers' fault for your child's lack of effort: Hang up and have a nice day!
interesting...
sorry, i was just bored. Pei Er's post's probably loads more interesting than mine. (seriously, i've just sat here trying to type something for the past hour) i just can't bring myself to write posts like Pei Er's or chewy's motivational ones.
bored to middle of earth,
wendy
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ok this is my first time posting
expect a lengthy post
wanted to say this chunk during section meeting
but couldn't find the time to and didn't dare to
So far, these are my impressions of yqp section people (no offence). Some of the things are also what I feel is good about that person and I should learn from.
Chew Fei
- role model
- very mature
- 幽默
- 威风 （that's why sometimes dare not ask personal questions)
- respect her in terms of higher authority unlike the rest of yqp members
- kinda like between sec 4 senior and teacher role, so there is a difference my respect for her and regard her with more authority
- nice :)
- 能干 (does so many things-counsellor, section leader, BSP)
- leadership!!!
- time management!!!
- percussion
- MOST IRONIC THING: When I need her, she disappears. When I don't need her, I see her. 缘分不是很好。
Xin Yi
- enthu
- percussion
- considerate
- willing to teach me and Jia Ni percussion
Wendy
- understanding
- asks about other stuff and is concerned about juniors :)
Jaime
- understanding
- mature
Joy
- humourous :)
- drama :)
Cassandra
- humourous in a different way
- happy-go-lucky
- percussion
- optimistic
- playful
- good interpersonal relationships
Yunge
- pro in Chinese
- one of the more serious at times among the Sec 2s
Sylvia
- makes an effort to interact with juniors
- yangqin
Weishan
- also one of the more serious at times among the Sec 2s
- but can suddenly become very serious
Rachel
- enthu
- appreciate people
- leads Sec 2 batch
- giggle :)
Yuka
- giggle
- adorable
- drama (get very excited)
- makes an effort to interact with juniors
Jia Ni
- pro in Chinese
- good time management
- enthu
Please don't take some things to heart and these are merely my opinions of the people in our section. For me, my main role models in this section are Xin Yi, Chew Fei and Jiani.
Ok, let's talk about myself now.:) I felt a big change in terms of cca definitely as I have to stay back until very late ie. 6 pm as compared to slacking in my old cca till 4 pm. Haha. Also, unlike in primary school, there is a lot of extra time used for section meetings and lunch prac. No, not that it is bad. I just hope that really effective section meetings in the morn should be inform by whatever way. If not if there is one every morn, I notice that not everytime we are discussing about relevant and useful stuff. I could have used that time to do other things. Ok back to me. Besides, I feel the tremendous workload, especially projects. Therefore, I need to have better time management and improve interpersonal relationships. I tend to be too frank and rude at times when my emotions lose control. Maybe you won't know what I'm talking about yet, just ask my friends and they will know. And be more enthu! And sometimes, because you all are seniors and not as close to my friends in class if you compare, i dare not ask certain questions. That is because I am afraid that if I ask, it shows that I am not respecting them. These questions I am referring to are those personal questions. Ok maybe I am really capo. Besides, I have got back my naughty self. Haha. Because the people here dun really bother about playing pranks. I was naughty only during p1-3 and p4-6 very guai. Haha.
Ok for the section, I hope that we can release any gatherings more on time and be more practical in terms of money wise, not everybody is so rich like me.:)
End of lengthy post. :)
Pei Er ( Your junior) :)
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yo yo people!! coming up: post for week 6 (:
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tuesday: supposed to have lunch prac, but in the end when we went there the door was locked so all of us left after chewfei addressed some stuff. er. i think she talked about how the sec 2s dont inform her stuff. sigh. sorry chewfei!! ><
wednesday: sec 2 s had a tiny presentation on their batch reflections. on the whole the sec 2s think they are doing very badly now and there is alot of space for much more improvement. a summary of what was discussed:
- felt that we are giving too much trouble to chewfei
- not alert enough during pracs
- not paying attention during toh lao's prac
- forever laughing D:
- not prac-ing for yangqin. hai
and of course there was a little part when we told the whole section why we should really appreciate chewfei and how we can help her with her heavy burden. yaye (:
thursday: lunch prac was slack, in my opinion... we were supposed to listen to the QWDB but the CD player wouldnt read the CD-RW. so sad right!! in the end the people who wanted to prac perc prac-ed perc. then the ones who wanted to prac yangqin tuned the yangqin and prac-ed yangqin. er, then xiaozu was ok i guess. all of us started with snare first while the sec ones were at yangqin. !@#$%^&* i dont like my inconsistent left and right hand. bleh. ): and anw, only the yangqin managed to follow the timetable until toh lao prac-ed storm warning and dance non-stop o_o and also because of that we didnt manage to prac QWDB at all, or even anything else that was on the list. -.- but then because of we werent following the time table, me and weishan had a lot of time to analyze the new score shan1 jian4 . and we couldnt find alot of parts, and we couldnt read a lot of words/notes/signs...... darn the person who wrote the score -.- for yangqin, i think it was ok lah. qq seemed quite happy to me. at least i didnt get scolded. yaye (: on the whole i think prac that day was quite ok, apart from the part about the time table..... oh man sorry chewy!! D:
friday: lunch prac was basically all yq with only a few of us, and i have no idea where everyone else went to ><><><) about the 秦胡. there are like 10 000 details on it, and apparently what i copied doesnt really link, and i cannot read some words (-.-) so im not writing it down unless someone really wants it noted down, which i doubt so. anw, the lecture lasted for 1.5h, and some people slept for that 1.5h ._. //when we went back to m401, sheila, cherie, ester, tricia came to jie4 shao4 the many many concerts coming up, and sheila, as her ending statement, reminded us that we have to behave during lin lao shi's dazu. so yep! thats about all for this week, or rather, it's all that i can rmb ><
people jiayou for QWDB AND DIYI AND ANY OTHER FRIGGING PIECE!!! and sectwos jiayou for guzheng pieces!!
jiayou yang ching dah chee association!!! (:
rachel the teddy <3
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hello !
i shall blog about all 3 co practices this week (:
tuesday, linlaoshi's dazu :
as we all know, linlaoshi was being assessed by 3 assessors that day. (they were seated at the back, looking rather bored o.o)
and we started dazu with sha di er (:
dang, i couldn't really remember what comments he made. :x
then after sha di er he lian-ed bali,
and later at the uber fast part the yq-ers kinda died-ed ):
practise !dang .
then it was SIGHTREADING !
the piece appeared to be 'xing kong', the syf set piece for 2005, if i'm not wrong :x
it sounded nice !
me and jaime didn't get to play, but i like yuka's part (glokenspiel, pardon me if i spelt it wrongly :x).sounded cute.
then later the assessors and linlaoshi went out to "have a talk".
then it was sha di er again (:
i think i remembered hearing linlaoshi saying that we are quite on track and in good progress .(:
so, yqp-ers, jiayou !we shall make the concert a blast ;D
Thursday, xiao zu time :
well .started with snare for me (:
we learnt about the "shuang tiao" and the roll (:
i seriously can't do the shuang tiao .apparently, only rachel managed to master it .
roll is fun !;DDDD
then later we had to go qulao there.
it was horrible :x
i guess we really have to find time to practise yq !
and also to go there on time :x
qulao was rather angry with the fact that we didn't automatically go in to the room and find her for yangqin lessons :x
uh-oh . we shall be punctual next time (:
oh , and while rachel, joy and i were in m402, tohlaoshi was prac-ing storm warning and dance with sec3 and sec 1 people !;D sounds cool ;DDD
Friday, mrs ee's da zu :
we prac-ed di yi er hu kuang xiang qu for the whole of da zu today.
she started with the whole orchestra playing from the start, then later go to each section to lian .perc didn;t get to play much, but yq had quite a few parts to play .
i remembered the part where mrs ee described it as water flowing in the moonlight. ;D
i think that part sounded rather nice !especially the yq part ;D
but she said that needed some practice to perfect it , so i believe the end result (concert standard) would sound real beautiful and like what mrs ee described, like water flowing in the moonlight !xinyi, cass, rachel and yunge, jiayou !;D
we managed to lian quite alot today (:
i guess the orchestra was cooperative today !
mrs ee was cheerful most of the time, and she didn;t sound like the previous dazus !so let's all jiayou too !;DDDD kampateh !
alrite. i shall stop here !
yqp, let's all work hard for the concert !
then people will look at yqp with admiring eyes (o.o !) and appreciate us for what we've achieved ! (sounds very ..... rite .lol .)
weishan the exaggerated one (?)
P.S. yuka, you're more marshmellow than me !;D
and sorry rachel for the niu li ge scores !):
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3rd May, 7.30pm
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$12
songs include 石板腰鼓，夏日里的舞蹈，阿佤山，闯将令.
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Hell0! By far, this is my first time posting so YAY! Anyway, I am here to post about dazu and xiaozu for this week (which is week 4), yup.
1. Let's start with xiaozu first, ok? Right, so for xiaozu, we learnt snare!!! How fun!!! (Although I must admit that I am really very very very confused with how it works and stuff, and how overly immobile my left hand is.) Anyway, I guess we must PRACTICE! Jia you! We really have limited time to do the stuff we want so yeah. D:
So next was... QWDB! Oh my goodness, I feel the stress! We really have to practice practice practice! Well, we have to finish memorizing our scores soon (especially us tong3qi4, cause we have no time to flip pages and *yikes* we got "scolded"). So yup, we have to memorize yeah? Hopefully we'll all be able to memorize by the next practice! ^^
For QWDB, some parts were changed/edited/clarified, so to those who weren't here on Thursday, please take note! (Actually, they already did. ^^) Oh and right, we should memorize the dynamic changes and all the little details (eg. movement, hands, etc.).
Oh, and QLS seemed angry on Thursday! I think she was quite pissed with how we were all missing lessons... actually missing HER lessons. So now, we have a timetable put up (in the YQ room) of the time we are going for her lessons! NO MORE ESCAPING! D: (Well, although we find her fierce and stuff, think of it this way, at least the sec ones are ok with her! *Seriously, is that a good thing? I think it is right?* ^^)
So that was for xiaozu. Did i miss out on anything? I am not too sure, sorry! If I did, really really sorry!~ Now, let's go on to Friday, dazu.
2.Dazu started pretty late, i reached m4 at 1515 and everyone was just still setting up/settling down. (Sorry i was late, we had drama and had to clean up our faces.) Erm, I think those who can come early, try to set up first? (That way, the yq peeps can also avoid getting squashed by the pipa/erhu/ruanliu. Hahaha.)
Well, we played di4yi1 that day... so i hid behind. Firstly, I must apologize for making a lot of noise, I am really sorry! After that, we resorted to using paper (but that's a different story already).
Apparently, Mrs Ee wasn't feeling very happy... (I don't mean to rake up bad memories, i had my share of it too).
We can't blame her, actually, even though we dread that song so much, we still have to perform it. And of course, who wouldn't wish to perform this song or any song well? So long it's for nyco, our concert, we must do our best right? It's the satisfaction you get after that, "This crazy song and I managed to perfect my part and we played it so uber well!" So, let's JIA YOU more ok? ^^
And though Mrs Ee was really really putting on a hei1lian3 that day, don't be discouraged or anything! Just means she thinks we're not up to standard YET, but if we practice (ah, that word again), we WILL be of standard! ^^ YAY! (Of course, the whole co must work on this together yup.(:)
Oh, and the issue of tuning comes up again. Chew fei suggested we meet up every 1/2 week(s) and tune for like a good 2/3 hours. What do you think? I think it's quite good, cause 1 hour (during lunch prac) is not quite enough to even finish tuning one yangqin. Yup.
3.About those who are wanting to know more about lunch prac, I am afraid I can't tell you much. Sorry! But i will try.
Basically, lunch prac is about practicing! Most of the time, we either practice tai4yang3 (and the yq peeps tune) or we practice QWDB. Yep. As for sec ones, we are in the process of teaching them how to tune! So they can help us tune! (And I realised Pei Er has a bad sense of direction, she said so herself! Hahaha!)
4.Well, that's all I have about lunch prac, so sorry! Let's talk about some other stuff... example our morning circle with the ssabollec people!
Hahaha! How did you find it? I thought it was way too noisy! I couldn't hear most of what the ssabollec people near Zimin said. Furthermore, it doesn't help that I can't even see them! So, I not only don't know how they look like, I don't know their names! Oh no! Are we going to have another circle with them again? ^^
Oh and basically now you can do almost anything during morning circle~! from eating, doing homework to talking crap! Hahaha! It's bonding! ^^
5.Here are some other stuff.
5.1Right, about barricades, continue with the hard work! Yay! We can do it! Just, we should try to find out a more efficient and fast method so we can set up in a shorter time when we are rushing off to class/home/whatever. ok? ^^
5.2Everyone please try to check the blog as regularly as possible! I must admit that i am guilty of not checking regularly enough! SORRY! Yeah and everyone go check what your batch's duties is or your own personal duties ok?
5.3Oh, if you are going to be late or not coming for xiaozu/dazu/lunch prac, sms cass or any of the sec threes. ^^ Please do not forget ok? (Preferably, ask for a reply from the recipient, we don't want something like sylvia's case to happen again! Hahaha!)
Right i think that's all I have to say... Am I talking too much? I am so sorry~! I shall officially stop here. Breathe and say YAY! Hahaha. Thank you for reading so far! ^^ I feel so touched! Thank you!
In case you didn't realise it,
this post is posted by yuka, ME~ ^^
P.S. Sorry for late post, my internet connection was *uek*.
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Cockroach here! :D Thanks for all the meaningful posts from all blog contributors! Keeps the blog lively, though our tagboard is quite dead already. It's good that nowadays there are posts on everything that goes on during CCA, aids in having reflections or even just having a good laugh sometime. I feel so speechless. Alright, okay, will just like to say that...
WHY KILL PEE LOVES YOU!
Don't ever forget that! We are all special to be part of this group, no matter what kind of different experiences each of us go through. At the end of the day, you work hard for everything in CCA, perhaps because of some kind of undying love for the section and orchestra. And...
No You Causes Ordeals
(Peace behold.)
Just some notices on the side line:
1) Going for the SCO performance? Let's meet up at 2.45pm at Orchard MRT Station.
2) YQP talk on Monday morning at 7.00am sharp, quadrangle. If everybody is not there, the meeting will not take place. This is how important the meeting is.
3) Remember the tasks I assigned to everybody? Some are done well, some aren't. Will catch up on this soon. Meanwhile, please make the effort to do every task well, before I get to you.
Remember this YQP mantra? Well, I just did :)
We listen, we learn, we try, we work hard, we can, we happy.
Take care, drink water, eat good food, sleep if you like, and always remain cool and shuai!
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oh i realised that sheila posted about the goals on NYCO blog. so if you want a clearer picture, you can check out the latest post on NYCO blog xD
rachel (:
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heyo people!! im here to post about xiaozu, prep talk, dazu for this week (: ah and i think lunch prac too!
so today, during lunch prac, before the door was opened, part of yqp was sitting outside of m402 discussing about The Big Plan. the plan to play a prank on toh lao. it's planned to be like this, wendy will be on the phone with joy, then wendy will come tell us that joy is in hospital with a serious injury and wont be coming for xiaozu. well joy is really going to be in the hospital, but doing CIP and not with some injury. yea then the section will plead and beg and sa3 jiao1 (go on our knees if even neccessary) with toh lao to let us go to the hospital to see joy. but then he's not authorised to just release us, so we predict that he would feel awkward. then wendy will ask toh lao to talk to joy who is (really) on the phone, then joy will say something like, "what was the date two days ago? april fool!!" and then we laugh. HAHAHA. of course lah, how can we not laugh when it's the end of the joke :D
yep so that was about the plan. then chewfei came to open the door and we started sorting out the stacks of new and old scores into the new files. but then we didnt manage to complete them 'cause we didnt have time and then there was really alot to do ):
xiaozu started off with qwdb. i think overall the practice was okaye..... just that we have to work more on taifeng and dynamics and alertness. like me and yuka would have to remember when we have to change instruments. ): and then i would have to remember where is pp and where is f. nevermind, practice makes perfect (we'll aim for perfection and land somewhere near perfection :D ). we jia you bah!! the competition is like very very near (in may right?) so we would have to work really really hard to play the piece well!! then when we win, we will feel a great sense of accomplishment. but that is not until after we have practiced and bonded. we need that chemistry!! so i hope that everyone can jia you and work on both techinal and non-technical stuff. this competition will really benefit all of us!! xD ohohoh and the fact that toh lao got a a bit angry during xiaozu showed that some of us were going overboard. well, im sure you all get what i mean. D:
prep talk. it's a serious talk with the whole co about performance now, our attitudes, and what goals do we have, and how we are going to achieve them. (and it is also the first time i hear the pin-drop silence with the whole CO ) there were alot of hearfelt words from some of the seniors, and it is very obvious that people who really care about this CO (mainly seniors and a few juniors) are very much affected by the overall !@#$%^&* attitude in the CO. there are of course some people who i had seen not paying attention to sheila.
firstly, i think it's really inconsiderate and disrespectful. sheila in any case is a senior, our president. no matter how indifferent the person is to the matter, she should at least still listen right. its so disturbing when you see people poking one another in the joking way when you hear the seniors talking about serious stuff. really, where did our CO spirit disappear to?! secondly, this only shows that these are the ones who really have no feelings whatsoever towards 1. the situation now 2. the whole CO 3. the seniors 4. maybe even batchmates and juniors o_o
sheila started off with explaining what was happening (well im sure i dont need to elaborate on it) then she got us to share our views.
a summary of what was pointed out on that matter: we dont seem to be clear on what we are doing and why we are doing. with that, we arent moving on, and are showing signs of deproving and back-tracking. additionally, there are people who care more about whether they have fun than whether if she is able to play the piece well. and there are also people who totally dont care about being in the CO. these are people who didnt come into CO on their own accords, or came because they wanted to, but slowly grew to dislike CO. it has been pointed out that it doesnt matter whether you like it or you dont like it. if it is something you have to do, you should still do it to your best! if you want it to be fun, can. once the beautiful music is out everyone will feel the elation and there's the fun. however, if you hadnt been part of playing that music, then of course you wont feel anything. instead of making yourself feel worse, why not make the best out of it. (:
and to solve these problems, motivating words and solutions have been shared. like shawn says (whoo shawn you rock!!), we are like a army, us being the soldiers and Mrs Ee the general. and the coming concert our enemy, something we have to conquer. we cant go in, Mrs Ee fighting with all her might, then us poking the enemey with no enthusiasm at all. it is a losing-battle. we all have to follow the general's lead and chiong arrr!! then there is a huge chance for us to conquer it. but attacking with no strategy is also no use. we need to train hard and perfect our skills and come up with plans. in the CO's context, we would have to lian and prepare and keep the morale up, just like in a war! just that this war wont have any bloodshed but still! we should really work hard to conquer it, then we'll know that all the hardwork was worth it. (:
some other things pointed out: juniors are hating seniors because they think that seniors and bossy and unreasonable. well, all i can say is, fellow peers and juniors!! we better 反省反省. hai..... D:
well, thats about all for prep talk, i guess... ><>enjoying playing good music together.
yes music is one of the main tings, but we also have to play together to play good and enjoyable music. so as you can see, they are all interlinked. there is a difference when you practice alone and when you practice with the section of with the orchestra. and again, she stresses that playing good quality music is what we really should aim for and it is what will leave a very good and deep impressions on the audience, Mrs Ee, graduating seniors, and us. that is what that really counts.
there are factors that affect the quality of music:
- the conductor
- our instructors
- the venue of practice
- number of practices
- our instruments
- us who make up the orchestra
- our clarity of our targets (what do we want to achieve?)
our (the whole orchestra) first target now, is the coming highly-awaited NYCO concert.. it is important as it is between 2 SYFs and it will reflect how we have improved/deproved/remained the same, and it will give us a rough gauge of how we will fair for the next SYF. the concert is also a major chance for us to gain more experience and to enjoy the music together (:
then after the concert, we'll ahve SYF! now is the the one that will accurately and fairly potray how hard we've worked and how our hard work has paid off. so we must jia you!!
Mrs Ee also said hat the CO needs to have discipline in order for everything to function. discipline includes discipline to practice at home, to tune our instruments, to be considerate to others during dazu, to be puctual for all events/activities etc etc.
she also stressed the two very important things that NYCO lacks. TEAMWORK and FRIENDSHIP. TEAMWORK is something that the orchestra is very weak in, and that is probably because there's no bond across the different sections. we need to care more for each other so that there will be strong friendships among all of us! with that, there will definitely be teamwork!
FRIENDSHIP. when we have no feelings for anything, we definitely cannot work with it. no feeliongs for NYCO, for your own section... there's really no point cooking up with valid excuses to pon practices or activites. everyone knows what is behind those excueses. there are people who try not to come for holiday pracs with valid reasons some more o_o. if we really have problems that we have to skip practices for 'valid' reasons, then it will be best to go talk to mrs ee... /:
additional news: Lee Shan Shan is no longer in charge of the CO. so now the heavy workload is split between Ms Chooi and Mrs Ee. lets not give them anymore trouble yea?
for dazu we lianed di yi er hu first. well it was better than the last time, but there is still alot more room for improvement. definitely xD ohoh and now we have a amplifier for lim qing. we should really thank (er i forgot his name but still ... -_-) him for setting it upi for us and he is offering to deliver it here and bring it back every single friday!! i think he is so nice!!
we only lianed taiyang for a bit 'cause there wasnt much time, then after that was the mei gui hua thingy. in the end we werent using the song for the concert 'cause mrs ee said it wasnt relavant. but we can still keep the song and use it when we need it for mini performances. yaye (:
well i guess thats about it for thurs and fri. xD
rachel the random (:
ps: please pardon the typos ><
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hey!!
i have the recording of 沙迪尔传奇 in my phone. so if anyone wants it can get it from me through MSN or i can bluetooth to you (:
it's in aac format btw
rachel the random.
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DAZU DAZU!!
er hello im here to post about yesterday's dazu but frankly speaking i dont really remember alot but i'll try... /:
i think the really sad thing about today was we didnt tune the yangqin 'cause when yuka first arrived the door wasnt even opened yet. o_o and at that time it was quite late already. so when sylvia arrived a little while later, she and sylva ban-ed the yangqins in.... and when i reached at 3+pm, they have only ban-ed 2 yangqins, so can imagine how late the door was opened huh. and because there wasnt enough space, the 2 yangqins in front had to be touching each other at the sides, so it's like slanting in.. which isnt supposed to be during dazu. but no choice lah. there wasnt space, and there wasnt enough time to ask the people to move... ><
the first song we played today was 梦之 Bali, then it was quite screwed, 'cause i think the CO has been concentrating on other songs and so didnt lian4 this one. i guess you can say it's quite forgotten already /:
lin lao shi started off with part B. and it was bad 'cause we couldnt really follow the dynamics (i couldnt control the volume of the feng luo D:) and lin lao shi was quite er unhappy. he lianed it alot of times, and kept reminding us when was first house, second house, and for the first time, i think he has a temper afterall. /: i think if he wasnt that little bit angry today, dazu could have been quite screwed. it just goes to show that our CO still lacks discipline D: and yes we lianed part B for very very very long. but i guess we managed to do what he wanted in the end, which is good (:
while lin lao shi was busy with other sections, me and sylvia and yuka were figuring out the changed parts. 'cause after jocelyn left, there were some adjustments and transfers from sylvia's and cass' score. and because it has been a long long time since we played this song, we had a really hard time to trying to figure out and remember who plays what and when. yes we managed to sort it out, but we didnt get to play it 'cause lin lao shi didnt lian4 that ending place.
then he moved on to part C, the one that i like and dont like at the same time (if you've seen my score you should understand why) that one was still ok, other then when it came to my pop-song-NOT-pop-song part, i sort of er played wrongly 'cause i was reminding myself to use alternate hands at the end but confused myself more as a result. but i did in the second try (with everyone staring o_o) yaye (: but then the CO didnt exactly play very well for that part too. somehow, it was worse than the last time we played meng zhi bali, which was a long long time ago. -.-
i remember there was this part where yangqin and perc-with-melody had to play together. then yangqin had some problems but i think it was sort of solved in the end. then yuka had so much fun playing that she didnt even hear lin lao shi say stop and she just went on until she finished the paragraph. which was so amusing HAHAHA xD
lin lao shi told me to help him keep the rhythm using the mu yu. the difficult thing about it was that you have to keep to that particular speed while making sure that the sounds quality is constant. i admit, i cant do it. not without lin lao shi prompting and guiding><
er. i think overall for this song, we really did it below standard. the notes werent zhun3, then the beats werent accurate too! and worst of all, some people didnt even play. o_o
oh yes btw, mrs ee came in in the middle of bali. and she must have observed alot of things like the differences in our attitude with hers and lin lao's da zu. yes she must have seen some things. and she's probably going to hack us on friday if she's not satisfied about what she has seen/heard. x:
before he moved on to sha di er, he told us that on the next practice with him, there will be some exam going on for him, and i think it has to do with conducting. and he says he doesnt need everyone , so only a few people needed. and he needs a guzheng. HAHA so happy!! for me i think that was the only good news of the day :D
for sha di er, he lianed starting from the bar 50 i think.... anyway it's the fast part. and i think we did ok. it wasnt as screwed as meng zhi bali ._. but like what cass says, the song is very noisy now 'cause everyone is just playing very loudly as we dont know the dynamics. ok maybe we do, just that we werent following it -.-
i think lin lao shi had a hard time trying to control the volume from bar 72 to 73. this is the part where the tims come in. then we were supposed to wait for the tims or something. er.
okaye i think thats about all thats essential for yesterday's dazu.....
or more like there's nothing more that i can remember.... sorry!! ):
rachel the random one.
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