Sunday, July 16, 2006

1. plays the clarinet
2. got a loving girl friend
3. got great friends
4. poor like hell
5. studying in NYP
6. gt a hp
7. gt a com

7 things that scare me

1. cockroaches
2. needles
3. my dad
4. being broke
5. anything with more than 2 eyes
6. tests
7. heights

7 random songs at the moment

1. mahler 3
2. paper cut
3. white america
4. dimitri's symphony No.5
5. carnival overture
6. immortality
7. the noises by the insects and birds from the jungle behind my house..counted ?

7 things i like most

1. my swatch
2. my clarinet
3. my laptop
4. my hp
5. my bed
6. my bath room
7. my life

7 people to do this

1. fahmi
2. shereen
3. eugene tay
4. yunshan
5. terri
6. lulu
7. petunia

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 21:38

die ah , dunno whether tml
can follow dear for her class outing ..
my body's not n good shape now ..
and i think i need to clarify this ..
for christ's sake ,
my gf did not ask me to pierce my ears ..
i thought at the beginning
that 2 or 3 people asking me this question ..
it would be ok ..
now the so many people are asking me ..
and get this right ..
she didnt approve of it at the start

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 15:02

Saturday, July 15, 2006

hey Sembawang Symphonic Winds ,
congrats on winning the Gold & being
the top band in the 2nd Division !!!
great job guys !!! keep up the good work !!!

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 23:12

Friday, July 14, 2006

currently finding for a song
to upload on to this blog ..
cant seem to find one ..
and listening to mahler 1 , 4th Mvt.
brings back memories ..
the largest amount of effort i
ever made for a song i played hehe ..
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can you believe it ..
i actually managed to get mr luk to agree playing a new song
and when i finally gt it out of the NYPSO library ..
the damn box of scores had no conductor's score la ..
neither does the librarian know where is the score ..
and its the symphony number 5 that i wanted to try ..
man what dumb luck ..
shall bring out a copy of the clarinet part ..
get permission to search and borrow the conductor score ..
check with swo if they got the same score ..
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ok .. when are with my friend's siblings ..
made a short trip from their house to the nearby
shops , cheers , 7-eleven and what have they ..
anyway on the way back i was speaking to her 10
year old brother ..
me : so do you listen to music ? if yes what kind ?
bro : ya , symphony 92.4 and pop songs..
me : really ? y do like this kinda music ?
bro : alot of instrument sounds and very nice to sleep ..
me : hahah what else leh ?
bro : some songs very nice happy happy de ..
me : like cartoon ah ? cheerful de , relaxing right ..
bro : ya hahah ..
me : bring or you some symphonys want ?
bro : okie haha ..
never thought a 10 year old would actually
lik this kinda music , cant even begin to figure how
did he managed to find that channel ..
both his elder sisters are in band
but neither likes symphonies ..
not bad for a young kiddo i guess ..
what shall i get him ? mahler symphony 3 , 2nd and 3rd Mvt. ?
shall burn a few songs into aCD for him ..
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had my ear pierced today
at J8 hahaha ..
wasn't even pain at all as
described by some friends ..
i think injections are worst ..
this was so quick and painless that if there wasn't the "bang" sound
the person taking it wouldn't even realised that it had already been done ..
and thanks dear for teaching how to take care and stuff ..
the shop keeper went on and on in chinese so fast
i could barely mentally process the words before the next
sentence of chinese came in ..
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went to watch pirates of the carribean
with dear today after piercing my ear ..
was quite a nice show ..
quite comical at some parts ..
loved the organ music part ..
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so bored ..
dunno what to try out next ..
so bored ..
shall try out a tatoo with my
friends the next time we go out ..
but hell it costs a bomb for one ..
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tomorrow's the competition ..
i am sure SSW will do well ..
get it done and over with tml ..
after tml can slack a while ..
wonder what is the next repertoire for SWO ..

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 00:03

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

how do u define playing in tune ?
as an indivual practicing ..
it should be with the tuner right ..
tune the notes to the tuner since u gt no reference pitch right ?
than how about when we are playing in an ensemble ?
like sectionals or sth .. when there are other players ..
every stand in every section has their own "tuning pilliars" right ..
so the other players in a particular section would tune to their
"tuning pilliars" depending on what stand they play in right ..
so if you gt a situation where ur main reference pitch
player plays say slightly sharp and the player really really
cant do anything about being that much sharp ..
i mean it was very sharp because of enviromental factors
the player tried her best to play as nearly in tune as possible ..
shouldn't the others tune accordingly ?
wouldn't that be call playing in tune as a section ?
than we take the same situation but we edit it ..
say the section is in tune to the "main tuning pilliar" player ..
but a player decides to play according to the tuner
and not with the section ..
so who is playing it right or wrong ?
is that player wrong ? or is the section wrong ?
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then if you a situation where ur section
has already tuned , made the neccessary adjustments
to their instrument and stuff like that ..
but than halfway while playing a music ..
some notes start to get out of tune ..
do u tune ur instrument to those notes
or play the tuning notes and adjust the instrument ,
and if those particular notes are still out ,
adjust as we play the music ?
anyone feel free to tag ur opinions ..

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 15:51

Monday, July 10, 2006

shall ask Mr Luk again tomorrow
whether he would like NYP to purchase mahler from SWO
to let NYP sight read and maybe perform ..
for those NYP members who have heard the song
and think that i am mad to say perform it ..
my reply in advance is
Nothing is Impossible ,
If u have already given up before the battle is fought
than u'll never know whether you could have won it a not ..
shall also bring out Dimitri Shostrakovich's Symphony No. 5
from the NYPSO library ..
hahah , found the score recently ..
tried it , found it nice and practiced a little on the solo + 1st clar part ..
i must say it's a little challenging ..
but thats transcription for u hahah ..
than wanna bring Noah's Ark down in
the future if its possible ..
let the band try some fun pieces which
can improve their standard yet hold their interest ..
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recently got a Mahler 5 recording by
London Philharmonic ..
conductor Klaus Tennstedt ..
have yet listen to it ..
what else ..guess that's it bah

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 23:15

isn't it a pity that our society emphasizes very
much on how an indivual performs on the surface ?
everyone is judge based on their performance ..
since the day you are born till the day u die ..
physical training tests , academic exams ,what have u , blah blah ..
if you do something wrong , people mark you down ,
this person cannot make it la without even considering other factors ..
the slightest mistake puts u down by one point ..
even the way one expresses their love foranother one is also being judge ..
he bought her an expensive diamond ring ,he must love her alot huh ..
he didn't get her anything , that shows how much she means to him ..
this person so fat , must be lazy , a good for nothing ..
what really matters to people is what the person has achieved ..
they dont bother what the person has done to achieve what he has achieved ..
like what a friend told me which i find sad but true ..
it doesn't matter to our fellow singaporeans back home ,
how tough / easy this competition is ..
what really matters , what matters only , is what u have won ..
and the only way u can hear people praise you is to win the gold
nothing lesser or u'll hear unpleasent remarks ..
like what is used to describe some music stuff ..
on the surface , the swan glides through the water ever so elegantly ,
what is really happening beneath is oblivious to the eyes ..
a more obvious example would be the exams students go through in schools ..
fail means stupid , pass is okok , distinction is gd ..
and from the streaming exams ..
students are segmented into the different streams avaliable for them ..
for slow learners Normal and blah blah ..
but are all of them really slow ?
there are quite intelligent students there too ..
yet they are all condemned as plain stupid ..
from this examples we can tell that what
people really wanna see are just results results results ..
no one really cares about the behind the scenes work ..
this perfomance based society of ours certainly has produced some good stuff ..
but at the same time its has also brought on us many disadvantages too ..
sad to say , only the fittest survive ..

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 22:42

the NYPSO Clarinet section blog
is currently under construction
and is due for completion by this
Saturday 15th July 06
the tag board is already up
so feel free to give constructive opinions
on how the blog could be further
made better ....

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 02:57

Sunday, July 09, 2006

hmm .. negotiations are under way with my dad to get back my
monthly allowance , so hard to survive with this measly $10 a day sum ..
and mind u .. this $10 day is only 4 days a week ..
and it covers everything under the sun except for my phone bill ..
had 8 mosquito bites in a single night , last night ..
had maggi mee for lunch and dinner , yucks ..
cooked maggi mee for dinner and the packet of
seasoning dropped into the soup ..
got told off by GF for being too vulgar ..
what else , ran out of cash again ..
was toldafter cooking maggi mee that my dinner was the
packet of nasi brani in the fridge ..
ate that as well ..
and when my parents returned home ..
they told me that was lunch and they said
" here's your dinner "
what luck ..
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and now there is the SL of NYPSO clarinet section making trouble for me ..
going around instigating this year 1 .. transforming the weak minded
creature into his puppet ..
fuck u man .. see this is what u get for shooting your mouth and idealogy off
to other people about me .. do your home work before you bad mouth
me to anyone else .. the walls have ears ..
if its not for some seniors giving advices ..
i would have humilated you Mr year 1 , in front of the band ..
than you will know what happens when you throw
an egg against a rock .. u son of bitch small fry punk ass ..
life is never gonna be easy for you anymore in NYPSO ..
i have at least a year and a half more to toy with you ..
lets see who can last ..
we shall treat you as anonymous , hows that ?
i think you will like that ..
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okie let me see what has happened recently ..
yogi the german tore down half of one of the christmas tree
in the front lawn of my house ..
dad's so pissed hahah ..
went to NJC concert with her ..
than reached home super late ..
been having band practices , hope competition goes well ..
what's done is already done , the rest is up to the judges ..
like the SSW brass sound when they play together ..
quite nice , some X factor that seperates it from NYP de ..
not what u would usually hear in the band s you play in bah ..
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would like to comment on something ..
a friend told me in his/her blog that when he/she advertised SWO's
conert to a NYPSO cum xxxx-xxxxx player ..
he was turned down with this statement --
"SWO is an enemy band of my band , so i dun wanna go"
was kinda shocked that someone could say something like this
in front of another person's face .. especially to an alumni ..
well hey .. not telling you off ..
but i feel we should not - not attend a concert just because of band politics ..
that goes for the music we play as well ..
lets play music for music right ..
lets not pollute its purity with other stuff ..
as far as i know , SWO has never termed other bands as
our enemy band , so why term us as yours ..
is it because the music our band play is of a standard not
achivable by yours ?
when my friend told me that ..
i also suddenly remembered why you ingnored me
when i tried to advise you to correct your bad habit on the clarinet ..
hmmm..anyway its really up to you ..
these are just my thoughts

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 21:58

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Crystal Pendants from Swarvoski ..


Vandoren Klassik Ligature


check out the crystal pendants ..
beautiful eh ..
amazing how stones could actually be so beautiful ..
was with my mother while she was shopping for ear rings ..
saw this in one of the glass display casings ..
took 2 shots .. these are it ..
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the Vandoren Klassik Ligature ..
its a gift to me by my junior cum friend Fahmi ..
my birthday gift to be exact ..
nice of him right ..
he gets everyonsomething on their birthday la ..
nice guy ..
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ok , for today ..
went to Performance Motors Limited ( PML ) at i think Kampong Arang
to send in my dad's 545 for servicing ..
had free "long black" coffee ..
bought a new shirt for there ..
went for breakfast at the coffee shop behind PML ..
took the M6 ..
then sent my mum to her workplace ..
went out with elder bro and dad to the office ..
followed them in the car around sheton way ..
bro made some runs (changing documents ) ..
after which we made a trip to Bras Basah Complex ..
racky around for large acrylic sheets ..
got what we needed ..
and the best part of the day ..
went to the Mini Cooper Show Room ..
man i love those cute Mini's ..
best of all , Porsche's show room is located just beside Mini's ..
shall accompany dad the next time Porsche invites him again ..
kk..back to the Mini ..
Elder bro was planning to buy either the Mini Cooper S or the Volks Wagon Gold GTI ..
so had a test drive on the Mini ..
for the design i would give 70 out of 100 ..
for the passenger comfort , 50 out of 100 .. its sporty so firm suspension , bouncy ride ..
totally fails the sound insulation part man
for the "pull" the car has ..
what a disappointment ..
overall .. it fails though i love this car ..
amongst all the cars i ever rode in ..
the M6 is still the best .. the pull back on the body due to acceleration is wow ..
comfortability is wow even though u are going at 180km/hr on sports mode ( hard suspension )
as for sound insulation .. it beats even the Porsche and most other sports cars ..
the looks could be better though .. this design looks a bit dull ..
the 5 series's alot fiercier , brilliant ..
*** note : the M6 has taken on the Ferrari F430 and emerged the winner ***
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gotta own one of this fabulous machines ..
either a ferrari , BMW M or the Porsche ..
right now .. the cheaoest in my shopping list would be the Porsche Cayman S..
Porsche Cayman S ---- 300K to 400K
BMW M6 ------------- 500k to 600K
ferrari 360 Modena--- POA
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kkk , enough about the machines ..
after the drive , price talk ..
went to alexendria road market for dinner at 5 ..
than i went out from there ..
came home ..
dad brought me to suntec for some stuff ..
fetched my mother first ..
then did my stuff ..
went with my mother to swarvoski ..
dunno how women shop ..
buy on impulse de ..
anyway ya .. she just made my dad cry again ..
then after that went to TonyRoma's for dinner AGAIN hahah ..
my 2nd dinner hahahah ..
the quality of the food and service there has
dropped hell lot over the years ..
never gonna go back there ever again ..
than came home le ..
did my stuff and here i am ..
shall attend band tomorrow to test out the ligature ..
man i love my swatch ..
thanks dear .. makes me think of you ..
shall try to sneak my dad's M6 to fetch you to your J2 Prom Night heehee ..

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 00:27

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

typing in this entry from my GF's place ..

planned to attend NYPSO practice today de ..

than can try out the new ligature fahmi bought for

at the same time ..

even skipped some lessons

just to go home to take my clarinet ..

then my gf suddenly called hahah ..

and that was it ..

NYPSO , so sry ..

when the girl calls ,

the guy just cant say no ..

hahahah ..

sry fahmi ..

see u on thursday band practice i guess ..

shall pass u your ligature then ..

i managed to find the box haha ..

lucky you .. hope u like it ..

hope it helps you to further

improve on your playing too ..

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brought some liquor

for dear to try ..

mixed it 7-up ..

it's

--Molinari Sambuca extra--

--product of Italy--

--42% alc./vol.--

she teared the moment she sallowed it ..

hahah .. well she cant drink ..

and that's a good thing haha ..

now she knows she cant really

drink as compared to

last time le haha ..

shall save the rest for SWO chalet ..

about 3cm left in the bottle ..

too strong to drink it down

on its own ..

the alcohol smell

is very heavy ..

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for 3rd july ..

well , went out shopping with gf ..

went to orchard ,

then clementi ,

then boon lay ,

then somerset ..

imagine the distance we traveled on foot too ..

hell of a long route we took ..

went to the heeren ..

saw a beautiful swatch ..

fell in love with it ..

and it became my birthday present

from my gf and i

to myself ..

its impossible for either one of us

to pay for it single handedly ..

after much talk ..

finally got dear to pay

lesser than what she wanted ..

but it was still quite a sum ..

Thanks dear for the swatch ..

muacks muacks

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 17:46

Monday, July 03, 2006

first 3 pics .. Family Beamers
followed by 2 pics of a ferrari at the Hilton Hotel

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 23:48

Saturday, July 01, 2006

a bottle of red wine as

my birthday gift from my elder bro marcus ..

early present

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hmmm ..

realised many things recently ..

many things have happened between me and her recently ..

so many things i dunno where to start from ..
they are not bad things ..

in fact they made us realise

more about each other ..

made us realise each how important the

other party really meant to us ..

i guess it sort of surprised me too ..

how much of an impact my

thoughts could have on her ..

i never thought a person could "think too much"

and end up crying for a few nights

because of another person .. it all seemed very

much like a fairy tale in the past ..

something which you would

only hear in stories ..

until recently when she told me ..

some of you reading this might say ,

ahhhh , she's bull shitting ..

but hey man .. i trust my gal ..

i trust what i see ..

such is love that it can cause one

to become over protective and over

possessive of another indivual ..

and i guess when this happens ..

that person tends to become easily jealous

and perhaps because he/she thinks too much ..

also lose trust in the others ..

is that why they say love can be hurtful

at times besides breaking up ??

anyway to my darling ..

if you read this post ..

just remember that nothing

will happen between me & her ..

we are friends thats all ..

yes , she may be attractive and all ..

and she may have the stuff that i am looking for in my "perfect girl"

but hey ..who cares about her physical looks man ..

everyone of us is made different , unique ..

even if she has a heart of gold ..

i already have you ..

and no way will i let you

go , just so i could have her ..

neither will have both of you at the same time ..

i gave you my word ..

you can bet your life to anyone

that i wont break it ..

you may be the first one that

i have said this to ..

but you should also know

that once i have really set my mind on

something , i would put my committment into it ..

all i ask of you is just to have faith in me ..

to trust me ..

i am no longer the mitchell i

used to be ..

so darling ..

pls pls trust me ..

her terrible boy horribly blogged @ 22:47