poof. just came back from mervyn's other house (quice nice also) after a day of doing ERP. tried out other games like sushido, harvest time (first time playing and i won woo!), and other random games on viwawa. also managed to persuade mervyn to join viwawa (but i don't know his wawa name so i can't add him yet. hmm...)

in terms of work, we managed to get some work done. emphasis on SOME. rest will be completed later individually i think.

went on wikipedia and searched "mervyn" for fun. found out there really is a company called "mervyns" in USA. showed it to mervyn and he was excited until he found out that company filed for bankruptcy. the squeal when he found out was priceless. PRICELESS. (in a good way)

parents fatched me home with viet cos it was raining damn heavily at around 3 plus. through conversation, i found out:

-viet is not vietnamese-chinese, he is just vietnamese (he has no chinese surname)
-his name has no meaning (really)
-his scholarship only lasts for like 4 years, from last year. once he's done here, he wants to go to UK.
- he sort of understands chinese, cos some chinese and vietnamese words sound similiar.
- viet and nam weren't from the same school/class.

chinese is screwing up. it's like making a bomb. one errant twitch, one wrong word here and there and kablooiie! your marks blow up in your face. combine that with highly volatile marking, and you can see why my chinese is in a wreck now. it's not i don't have any of the right tools. it's that some tools i need are missing and sometimes i don't know how to use the tools that i have now. hope that by the end of the year i'll be able to assemble a real whopper that will be sure to ensure me a good grade (and not blow up in my face) the ironic thing is that when i'm typing this i'm trying to assemble a bomb called "ying yong wen er"

band is on tmr at 9-4. goodness, it's like working. except you don't get paid. kirk says this is going to sto ponce we get past the SYF period. it better...

just got a new junior for eupho, called errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... i forgot. sorry. i'm not very good at remembering names.

haizz... must go and finish the bomb now.

Till next post...

hai... i know it's been a looooong time since i posted something, but hey, with so much stuff going on around these few months, i can't say i have had alot of time to write...

but anyhoo, stuff in my life has been piling up for a while, so i think this will be a rather long post. bear with me.

first, my class is almost the same as last year, except different seating arrangement, i have moved diagonally forward and am now in the front row. (damn it. come to think of it now, i shouldn't have sat there. always kena catch by the teacher when i don't finish my work. also can't sleep when lessons get really boring like SS, Geog sometimes...) teachers are all the same as last year, except for languages. english teacher is mz. kuang (yes. it's mZ. she refuses to be called ms. or miss kuang because she says it's a disrespectful term. it's along story, but since it's along post, i'll write it down anyway. first, miss. something makes the woman sound as if she is unable to "catch" a husband. -_-) and chinese teacher is zhang hongshi (from china, but is korean. another complicated family tree) leassons with them have been rather interesting, with laughs, talking and intereaction. hope we can keep the chinese teacher. she's one of the better chinese teachers i've had in secondary school. and that's saying something.

cca next. practise has been hectic and long, the pressure is on as SYF is nearly a month away, and we haven't mastered like, ANY of our pieces that we will be playing. combine that with some juniors that are screwed up in terms of playing , attitude and attendance, you can see from my viewpoint as SL why i've been worrying so much. another piece of evidence showing our worrying situation: kirk is getting angry. yes. kirk almost never gets angry, and he just recently held us back to lecture us about our performance until very late. and i got angry with my section as well, to be precise, some member of my section. hai... i'll just let it pass for now. shall go home and think about my situation, what i should next and whatnot. will also play epic sounding music to cheer myself up.

and brandon got angry with his section as well. not surprising, since he gets pissed very easily (too easily, if you know what i mean) and also his section isn't performing as well as it was last time. band is in a techinical recession now, but don't give up everybody, not when we've gone so far already!

"Just gotta wait out the down cycle... yeah... everything will be fine..."- random quote from one of the enemies in the game that i'm playing now.

i also have to take this opportunity to commend my section including that person for putting in their effort during these few months, and also to tell them that no matter what happens in the end, as long as you've put in your best, don't go too hard on yourself. i know it's not easy being labelled indirectly as the "worst section" in the band, but still... always remember:

"yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. but today is a gift. that's why it's called the present."

use it well.

last week was rather hectic, one day i even reached home at 10 pm. yes. it's a new record. never once has this happened before. oh well, i guess for me everything has to be late.

-go home late
-have meals late
-sleep late
-wake up slightly late next day
-almost be late for school next day

you get the picture.

anyhoo, last tuesday spent sometime during unofficial band practice to play Take 5 with yifan. i was on piano. yes that pathetic piece of shit that sits in the corner of the band room. that thing with many silent keys and every note sharp. that thing that is only good for spare parts now. anyway, the piece was quite fun, being in 5/4 and such, yifan always had some problems reaching certain notes or getting the melody, but hey, in the end it sounded quite nice. and we might be using it for yifan's big debut next week. hmmm...

just met new sec 1 recruits for this year. i have 3 new hornists (yuran (taiwanese scholar i think. 15 years old but doesn't look like it), danial and sean. all have musical experience) and 1 new euphoniumist (jedediah. no musical experience) and i don't know exactly the reason but, but on the first day of CCA, jedediah wants to QUIT. said his first choice was table tennis, so he went to talk to mr jee, mr jee suanned him by telling him that the school didn't let him join because he wasn't good enough. ouch. if you were him, you would feel really lousy now, and even less in favour of band, wouldn't you?

thinking back, being leader of the section has taught be important skills on how to deal with people, people who listen and are cooperative, people who are more problematique, and also how to persuade and most importantly, lead. despite me not being able to play a horn, i think my section has made lots of progress. good work. not too much praise now cos i don't want to count my chickens before they hatch.

preparation for band camp has started, the theme is currently secret cos we dun want to spoil it for anyone. might volunteer to be station master or floater. (but if i want to be floater i must learn how to throw like a nitro splicer) anyway... it's going to be fun. and lame. but most of all, it's going to be useful.

went out to visit some people this chinese new year, ang pow earnings were less than previous years, but hey, everyone's earning less now, so why shouldn't we as younger people get the same treatment?

Sian. would write more but am tired now.

Till next post...