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Saturday, July 31, 2004
Hwa Chong Homecoming Carnival 2004
Chatted wif my classmates last night b4 i slept, and i cud really feel that all my frens and i were all very excited over today. We're planning and tinking of wut to do, wut to bring and stuff like that. It's really really happening for us. Haha, not unusual for such a happening class. ;)
Woke up this morning at 5:20am even tho i set my alarm at 6:30am. gosh~ quite weird. jus i was really too excited. after having my breakfast, i searched for quite a number of old chinese cds i hav and burnt some of the tracks into my comp to transfer into my mp3 player, songs that are sung during my 2 years of jc life in hwachong, like "Ai Tai Yuan", "Zhang Xin", "Dang Ni Gu Dan Ni Hui Xiang Qi Shui", "Wang Zi Mian", etc.
After much consideration (and persuasion from my mum), i decided to wear the hwachong all the way from home back to school! haha, was quite amused. but i spent like 10 min trying to wear the pants coz it was quite tight, and i had to adjust the pants to quite a high waist level to feel comfortable. luckily my pants were long! keke... i did grow bigger in size liao. muahaha~
anyway, as i reached sch, it started drizzling. but it din stop me from taking lots of photos all the way from the bus stop. i was determined to take pictures all every significant spot in hwachong. so i snapped and snapped and snapped, deleting pics that were not nice. but still, some of them jus looked normal. oh well, can't do much too. haha~ ;p
zhengyi, zhengqi and i were the earliest and we were in our hwachong uniform. muying came slightly later on the excuse she slept quite late and was very tired. *accusing slit eyes look*
there were quite a number of changes to the school. the student lounge was divided into 2 rooms: one was student welfare room (for councilors to loan out things i guess) and the one was a career guidance room (for teachers to put books and leaflets from NTU, NUS, and scholarship boards) which no one seemed to be using today. so we happily occupied this career guidance room to sing songs. haha.
mu, qi and i got hungry so we went to coronation plaza's prince coffee place to have their student meals which cost $6 each for a western set. the ambience was always nice and the food was always filling, today's no exception too!
mass dance in the afternn. as usual had lotsa fun improvising the moves when they were three of us (yi, mu and me) dancing a couple dance. haha. jingyi (with tien hui) and peiling came too around that time. quite nice to see them after not attending the previous few outings. felt ultra sorry to peiling who organised them. :( after the mass dance session, we went to the LEP staff room and sort of rot there while yi had his long chit-chat session wif zifang abt studying in shanghai (issit?). but saw a lot of seniors there too. chit-chatted and caught up wif them abt their stuff. quite cool~
soon after, we got bored. so peiling and jingyi decided to leave since they got something on. the rest of us (yi, mu, qi and me *again*) rot inside the career guidance room singing the ultra old songs from the lyrics file that zhengyi kooped from the council before he graduated. was hving hell lots of fun singing them. Cang Hai Yi Sheng Siao, Wo Hen Chou Ke Shi Wo Hen Wen Rou, etc. my goodness, we were singing so loudly and so cheerfully that we attracted all the ppl walking past the room. one person even took pics of us and swayed to our singing! haha~
there wasnt much chatting actualli between us. we always sing and talk crapped and stuff. and when we do chat, we always try to recall the days we were back in hwachong. guess there's so much between us that the phrase "Jin Zai Bu Yan Zhong" really do apply. and i enjoyed that feeling. i enjoyed having to feel back in sch jus by being wif them. it's them that i appreciated my jc life so much too. thank you guys! i'm really looking forward to 18sep!!
ultra-high,
Johnzzon
For more photos, check out My Yahoo Photo Page
Woke up this morning at 5:20am even tho i set my alarm at 6:30am. gosh~ quite weird. jus i was really too excited. after having my breakfast, i searched for quite a number of old chinese cds i hav and burnt some of the tracks into my comp to transfer into my mp3 player, songs that are sung during my 2 years of jc life in hwachong, like "Ai Tai Yuan", "Zhang Xin", "Dang Ni Gu Dan Ni Hui Xiang Qi Shui", "Wang Zi Mian", etc.
After much consideration (and persuasion from my mum), i decided to wear the hwachong all the way from home back to school! haha, was quite amused. but i spent like 10 min trying to wear the pants coz it was quite tight, and i had to adjust the pants to quite a high waist level to feel comfortable. luckily my pants were long! keke... i did grow bigger in size liao. muahaha~
anyway, as i reached sch, it started drizzling. but it din stop me from taking lots of photos all the way from the bus stop. i was determined to take pictures all every significant spot in hwachong. so i snapped and snapped and snapped, deleting pics that were not nice. but still, some of them jus looked normal. oh well, can't do much too. haha~ ;p
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zhengyi, zhengqi and i were the earliest and we were in our hwachong uniform. muying came slightly later on the excuse she slept quite late and was very tired. *accusing slit eyes look*
there were quite a number of changes to the school. the student lounge was divided into 2 rooms: one was student welfare room (for councilors to loan out things i guess) and the one was a career guidance room (for teachers to put books and leaflets from NTU, NUS, and scholarship boards) which no one seemed to be using today. so we happily occupied this career guidance room to sing songs. haha.
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mu, qi and i got hungry so we went to coronation plaza's prince coffee place to have their student meals which cost $6 each for a western set. the ambience was always nice and the food was always filling, today's no exception too!
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mass dance in the afternn. as usual had lotsa fun improvising the moves when they were three of us (yi, mu and me) dancing a couple dance. haha. jingyi (with tien hui) and peiling came too around that time. quite nice to see them after not attending the previous few outings. felt ultra sorry to peiling who organised them. :( after the mass dance session, we went to the LEP staff room and sort of rot there while yi had his long chit-chat session wif zifang abt studying in shanghai (issit?). but saw a lot of seniors there too. chit-chatted and caught up wif them abt their stuff. quite cool~
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soon after, we got bored. so peiling and jingyi decided to leave since they got something on. the rest of us (yi, mu, qi and me *again*) rot inside the career guidance room singing the ultra old songs from the lyrics file that zhengyi kooped from the council before he graduated. was hving hell lots of fun singing them. Cang Hai Yi Sheng Siao, Wo Hen Chou Ke Shi Wo Hen Wen Rou, etc. my goodness, we were singing so loudly and so cheerfully that we attracted all the ppl walking past the room. one person even took pics of us and swayed to our singing! haha~
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there wasnt much chatting actualli between us. we always sing and talk crapped and stuff. and when we do chat, we always try to recall the days we were back in hwachong. guess there's so much between us that the phrase "Jin Zai Bu Yan Zhong" really do apply. and i enjoyed that feeling. i enjoyed having to feel back in sch jus by being wif them. it's them that i appreciated my jc life so much too. thank you guys! i'm really looking forward to 18sep!!
ultra-high,
Johnzzon
For more photos, check out My Yahoo Photo Page
Friday, July 30, 2004
A Terrible Start To Today...
do u hv this feeling that sometimes someone up there is purposefully playing a trick on u or something? i'm hving this exact feeling rite now. gosh, it's my second time i wanna go swimming and everything jus seemed to turn out wrong.
when i woke up this morning, the sun was blazing hot and i was like "hey, it's a perfect day to swim". so i prepared my gear, double checked if i brought everything (coz i always forget to bring an item each time), and left the house happily tinking i finally get to remove the ugly tan line that made my arm look (in fazil's opinion) detachable.
after i boarded the bus to yishun, i starting sneezing like there's no tomolo for no apparent reason. the person sitting in front of me had to change place and i was so utterly embarrassed. *blush* oh my, i was like "hmm, is it right for me to go swimming in this condition". luckily, jus before i reached yishun, the sneezing stopped and i started become optimistic again.
but, as i walked to yishun safra, clouds started to gather and the whole sky looks dull and moody! argh! i was cursing and swearing as i stopped abruptly in the middle of the pathway staring into the sky. i bet there were at least a few bywalkers who thought i was a mad man or something.
anyway, i decided that since i had come all the way here, might as well swim a bit. so, oh well, changed into my trunks and swam 10 laps continuously, trying to get my mind off the fact that the sun's no longer visible behind those ugly clouds. and after my laps, i discovered i had nothin to do. so left the pool despite the fact i din even stay there for more than an hour. >(
on my way back home, as if my mood wasn't bad enough, the clouds cleared up half the sky and the sun was blazing once again. *fume* that was it. i was totally pissed off. and now i'm sneezing away, tink i caught a cold or something. urgh, irritating. wut the heck, guess i'm gonna waste my afternn away sleeping and recovering from my cold. *sniff sniff*
#%#$^%&*^#ing-irritated,
Johnzzon
when i woke up this morning, the sun was blazing hot and i was like "hey, it's a perfect day to swim". so i prepared my gear, double checked if i brought everything (coz i always forget to bring an item each time), and left the house happily tinking i finally get to remove the ugly tan line that made my arm look (in fazil's opinion) detachable.
after i boarded the bus to yishun, i starting sneezing like there's no tomolo for no apparent reason. the person sitting in front of me had to change place and i was so utterly embarrassed. *blush* oh my, i was like "hmm, is it right for me to go swimming in this condition". luckily, jus before i reached yishun, the sneezing stopped and i started become optimistic again.
but, as i walked to yishun safra, clouds started to gather and the whole sky looks dull and moody! argh! i was cursing and swearing as i stopped abruptly in the middle of the pathway staring into the sky. i bet there were at least a few bywalkers who thought i was a mad man or something.
anyway, i decided that since i had come all the way here, might as well swim a bit. so, oh well, changed into my trunks and swam 10 laps continuously, trying to get my mind off the fact that the sun's no longer visible behind those ugly clouds. and after my laps, i discovered i had nothin to do. so left the pool despite the fact i din even stay there for more than an hour. >(
on my way back home, as if my mood wasn't bad enough, the clouds cleared up half the sky and the sun was blazing once again. *fume* that was it. i was totally pissed off. and now i'm sneezing away, tink i caught a cold or something. urgh, irritating. wut the heck, guess i'm gonna waste my afternn away sleeping and recovering from my cold. *sniff sniff*
#%#$^%&*^#ing-irritated,
Johnzzon
Thursday, July 29, 2004
My Unofficial Pet Cat
Yesterday, went over to sis' place to borrow bro-in-law's digital camera to take pics of hwachong this coming saturday. was quite thrilled actualli, but cannot stand all the constant nagging from my mum... almost flared up when she asked me to be careful for the 10th time. *ops*
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today i took half day off to come home early to rest, partly also due to the fact that we had to fall in wearing no. 3 uniform and i din like the sound of that. so, zoom, cleared half day off and zip, came home. thanks to joel for "tombang"-ing me and kok wee on a cab trip. yeah yeah~
anyway, slept briefly and woke up to see my unofficial pet cat sleeping in my mum's flower pot. yup, i got a pet cat, but the cat is kinda like the pet cat for my whole block la. sometimes he wud disappear for a long time and suddenly appearing. he did remind me of Bow Wow the dog, who never stayed in one place for a long time. haha.
anyway, here i am, holding on to the digital camera and taking nice pics of him. haha. he looks a bit evil in the photos actualli, *ops* not doing justice to him, coz in real life he really looks like Puss In Boots, especially when he tries to climb into my house over the door obstructor... Oooo~~~ so cute~~~~
today i took half day off to come home early to rest, partly also due to the fact that we had to fall in wearing no. 3 uniform and i din like the sound of that. so, zoom, cleared half day off and zip, came home. thanks to joel for "tombang"-ing me and kok wee on a cab trip. yeah yeah~
anyway, slept briefly and woke up to see my unofficial pet cat sleeping in my mum's flower pot. yup, i got a pet cat, but the cat is kinda like the pet cat for my whole block la. sometimes he wud disappear for a long time and suddenly appearing. he did remind me of Bow Wow the dog, who never stayed in one place for a long time. haha.
anyway, here i am, holding on to the digital camera and taking nice pics of him. haha. he looks a bit evil in the photos actualli, *ops* not doing justice to him, coz in real life he really looks like Puss In Boots, especially when he tries to climb into my house over the door obstructor... Oooo~~~ so cute~~~~
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Monday, July 26, 2004
Sudden Thoughts
Jus finished watching the Special Edition of The Lion King.
suddenly, as i was going thru my frens' blogs, i come to realise how busy i was and how busy i wud become in the next few weeks wif my personal commitments.
i feel kinda uneasy, as if i'm trying to whisp past this period of time by committing myself to a lot of stuff. not that it's a bad thing, i kinda enjoyed this rollercoaster ride of work, having things to be done every single second.
but, it suddenly feels like i am neglecting something, something really important, but i jus cannot see it. it's like i'm driving in this super fast vehicle and i din catch the real small yet really beautiful flower jus by the roadside.
perhaps i shud slow down? or am i just thinking too much? hmm~
thoughtful-for-no-apparent-reason,
Johnzzon
suddenly, as i was going thru my frens' blogs, i come to realise how busy i was and how busy i wud become in the next few weeks wif my personal commitments.
i feel kinda uneasy, as if i'm trying to whisp past this period of time by committing myself to a lot of stuff. not that it's a bad thing, i kinda enjoyed this rollercoaster ride of work, having things to be done every single second.
but, it suddenly feels like i am neglecting something, something really important, but i jus cannot see it. it's like i'm driving in this super fast vehicle and i din catch the real small yet really beautiful flower jus by the roadside.
perhaps i shud slow down? or am i just thinking too much? hmm~
thoughtful-for-no-apparent-reason,
Johnzzon
Sunday, July 25, 2004
La Solitudine
Did HQ-BO duty yesterday yet again. *Ding* HQ-BO: Headquarters Barrack Orderly. A duty which consists of answering a phone in the headquarters office (which seldom rings) (and when it does, it's only somebody from the band asking abt trivial matters), sleeping and trying to find something to do when u're not doing any of the mentioned tasks. *Ding* So, yes, i did HQ-BO duty yesterday yet again. but, ok, to console myself, it's my first time doing on a Saturday and because of this duty, i get to earn half day off. *smile* my only motivation.
hadnt been resting for quite sometime. had been using yesterday to stay away from my usual working buddies (ie band a mates) and rejuvenate from the endless parades we're forced to take part in. *ops* i din it in a negative way, jus that facing the same ppl for almost 24 hours 7 days a week can be very very sian. like there's almost nothing to talk abt sometimes, and hav to cock up with trivial and lame matters to talk abt sometimes. now, can ppl actualli blame us for being so bitchy and gossipy? haha... wut to do? we're forced to become like that. keke.
anyway, supposed to talk abt my HQ-BO duty. did it with 3sg hafiz and cpl hafiz. hafiz hafiz. oh my, i felt damn weird when i say "sergeant hafiz, hafiz is *where where where*" or "hafiz, sergeant hafiz is doing *wutever wutever wutever*". even chief was like "u're doing with who? which two hafiz??". but (dun noe whether to say) luckily, cpl (clarinetist) hafiz was involved in ndp and so most of the time, it was only 3sg hafiz and me. less confusion.
got to know a new clerk, Arthur, who is ultra gossipy oso. haha. perhaps due to the fact that he's now the new Band A clerk and yet doesnt know much abt us. so we started gossiping and gossiping abt the specs, abt the ppl and so on. den clerk gavin joined in (with me being reluctant, but heck, i needed the gossips), and we started gossiping abt other ppl in the saf bands too. haha. all these time, (sergeant) hafiz was playing table tennis with ken and the rest of the clerks in the gym. good (as in dun need to talk much to hafiz coz i dun wan). haha.
brought my "The Caves of Steel" by Asimov to read. bought it like 3 years ago and i havent got the chance to finish it in one reading. finally, with all the free time yesterday, managed to finish the book. quite good, quite interesting, esp the concept being it. altho the plot had a predictable twist in the end, the whole plot expanded really wide. in the end, the book isn't only abt the murder of the spacer, but abt the conspiracy behind all this, which, in a sort of cliche manner, lead to the notion of us realizing the need to save the environment. oh well. it cant be made into a successful movie. that's that. so, after this, i'm still not particularly interested in watching "I Robot". haha...
tried to study trigo last night after coming back from the white house. wa, lost a lot of my knowledge liao. terrible. hopefully i can regain all these information and skills before this coming wednesday. or else, *jiak lak* how i teach... *gosh*
decided to come back home to touch my comp. haha. missed my comp. felt good to be typing non-stop this way. *scroll up* wow, i must be really deprived from typing sia. suddenly i typed so much rubbish stuff. haha. will be going down for the ocs actual parade, which (hopefully) marks the end of having to take a bus to another camp for a parade almost everyday. upcoming parades: COG main and colors parade. looking forward to a really enjoyable tanning session.
slept-enuf-from-yesterday's-duty,
Johnzzon
hadnt been resting for quite sometime. had been using yesterday to stay away from my usual working buddies (ie band a mates) and rejuvenate from the endless parades we're forced to take part in. *ops* i din it in a negative way, jus that facing the same ppl for almost 24 hours 7 days a week can be very very sian. like there's almost nothing to talk abt sometimes, and hav to cock up with trivial and lame matters to talk abt sometimes. now, can ppl actualli blame us for being so bitchy and gossipy? haha... wut to do? we're forced to become like that. keke.
anyway, supposed to talk abt my HQ-BO duty. did it with 3sg hafiz and cpl hafiz. hafiz hafiz. oh my, i felt damn weird when i say "sergeant hafiz, hafiz is *where where where*" or "hafiz, sergeant hafiz is doing *wutever wutever wutever*". even chief was like "u're doing with who? which two hafiz??". but (dun noe whether to say) luckily, cpl (clarinetist) hafiz was involved in ndp and so most of the time, it was only 3sg hafiz and me. less confusion.
got to know a new clerk, Arthur, who is ultra gossipy oso. haha. perhaps due to the fact that he's now the new Band A clerk and yet doesnt know much abt us. so we started gossiping and gossiping abt the specs, abt the ppl and so on. den clerk gavin joined in (with me being reluctant, but heck, i needed the gossips), and we started gossiping abt other ppl in the saf bands too. haha. all these time, (sergeant) hafiz was playing table tennis with ken and the rest of the clerks in the gym. good (as in dun need to talk much to hafiz coz i dun wan). haha.
brought my "The Caves of Steel" by Asimov to read. bought it like 3 years ago and i havent got the chance to finish it in one reading. finally, with all the free time yesterday, managed to finish the book. quite good, quite interesting, esp the concept being it. altho the plot had a predictable twist in the end, the whole plot expanded really wide. in the end, the book isn't only abt the murder of the spacer, but abt the conspiracy behind all this, which, in a sort of cliche manner, lead to the notion of us realizing the need to save the environment. oh well. it cant be made into a successful movie. that's that. so, after this, i'm still not particularly interested in watching "I Robot". haha...
tried to study trigo last night after coming back from the white house. wa, lost a lot of my knowledge liao. terrible. hopefully i can regain all these information and skills before this coming wednesday. or else, *jiak lak* how i teach... *gosh*
decided to come back home to touch my comp. haha. missed my comp. felt good to be typing non-stop this way. *scroll up* wow, i must be really deprived from typing sia. suddenly i typed so much rubbish stuff. haha. will be going down for the ocs actual parade, which (hopefully) marks the end of having to take a bus to another camp for a parade almost everyday. upcoming parades: COG main and colors parade. looking forward to a really enjoyable tanning session.
slept-enuf-from-yesterday's-duty,
Johnzzon
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Wut I Have Been Up To...?
it's 10pm! wut the hell am i doing here online blogging? haha~ relak la... i can leave the house by 11pm and still can get back to camp on time...
juz a quickie update on wut i've been busy wif... some good things, some bad; some tasks i've nonchalantly taken up, some shuffed forcefully into my jobscope...
1) OCS day parade
The parade rehearsals occupied everyday of these two weeks, and hell, we're doing the same things over and over and over again jus for the sake of those newly commissioned officers. but, ha!, at least we got to see the unglam side of them. their drills really suck sometimes!
2) NUS Carnival 2004 theme song
My first commercial project! and i'm earning money!! thanks to zhenqiang! hopefully this project will go on smoothly. zhenqiang's bro liked the arrangement, so currently, we're getting a guitarist to play the part, and zhenqiang is coming down to my house to do recording for the piano part this sat! and, well, i'm gonna try to sing the impossible 2.5 octave range melody (tho i doubt i seriously can make it). this is damn fun~ but damn stressful oso... the clock is ticking and my time is getting shorter and shorter. *argh*
3) Demos Demos Demos!
gonna start work on the demos to two of my tunes soon, den shall pass to skyblue to vet. if i'm successful, some singers will be singing my songs soon, and i'll be signing a contract with skyblue's company very soon too! yesh!!
4) Tuition
gonna start giving tuition to a fren from tomolo onwards: MATHEMATICS C!! gosh~ i really hope i can push him to at least a C or something. feeling slightly stressed, but really wanna help him out la~ *angelic ring around my head*
5) Upcoming COG
planning the music programme for the upcoming COG. but this is least on my mind (tho it's quite important too). the stupid SPDS ppl refused to pick up my second call and i still don't know the number of steps for their static display this time round. how to do my music?? yeekz, staff maswan will sure come tekan me again... damn... and the stupid library is not open this lunch break, where is staff ridzwan when i need him!?!?!?
ok, that's fast... it's 10:09pm... 9 minutes for a blog entry... not bad huh? haha... damn, i tink i'm going mad~!
*pulling-hair*,
Johnzzon
juz a quickie update on wut i've been busy wif... some good things, some bad; some tasks i've nonchalantly taken up, some shuffed forcefully into my jobscope...
1) OCS day parade
The parade rehearsals occupied everyday of these two weeks, and hell, we're doing the same things over and over and over again jus for the sake of those newly commissioned officers. but, ha!, at least we got to see the unglam side of them. their drills really suck sometimes!
2) NUS Carnival 2004 theme song
My first commercial project! and i'm earning money!! thanks to zhenqiang! hopefully this project will go on smoothly. zhenqiang's bro liked the arrangement, so currently, we're getting a guitarist to play the part, and zhenqiang is coming down to my house to do recording for the piano part this sat! and, well, i'm gonna try to sing the impossible 2.5 octave range melody (tho i doubt i seriously can make it). this is damn fun~ but damn stressful oso... the clock is ticking and my time is getting shorter and shorter. *argh*
3) Demos Demos Demos!
gonna start work on the demos to two of my tunes soon, den shall pass to skyblue to vet. if i'm successful, some singers will be singing my songs soon, and i'll be signing a contract with skyblue's company very soon too! yesh!!
4) Tuition
gonna start giving tuition to a fren from tomolo onwards: MATHEMATICS C!! gosh~ i really hope i can push him to at least a C or something. feeling slightly stressed, but really wanna help him out la~ *angelic ring around my head*
5) Upcoming COG
planning the music programme for the upcoming COG. but this is least on my mind (tho it's quite important too). the stupid SPDS ppl refused to pick up my second call and i still don't know the number of steps for their static display this time round. how to do my music?? yeekz, staff maswan will sure come tekan me again... damn... and the stupid library is not open this lunch break, where is staff ridzwan when i need him!?!?!?
ok, that's fast... it's 10:09pm... 9 minutes for a blog entry... not bad huh? haha... damn, i tink i'm going mad~!
*pulling-hair*,
Johnzzon
Monday, July 19, 2004
To a friend...
it seems inappropriate to address u here, but i jus wish my message wud still stay with you even when i'm not online and when i'm not available to lend u a listening ear or a shoulder to cry on.
i may not know the whole incident that caused you to be so down and out, but i guess everyone has faced these kind of degree of problems before. i had my share, and it was terrible. that's why i took up so many bad habits, u shd know best.
i know you're tired, tired of facing the problem when it keeps coming back to haunt you; tired of having to talk to ppl whom you dun really wan to get close to; tired of waiting for the long term happiness you've been eagerly seeking. but i guess life has to go on, sadly, but it doesn't have to mean as a bad thing. it goes on, so that u dun hv to face the problem permanently; it goes on, so that u can look forward to more things in life. it may be tiring jus to wait, i know, but trust me, things will come ur way unexpectedly. it had happened to me now. i havent told u abt wut happened for me, but it's a very good thing which happened without me expecting it. will tell u when i got the chance and when u are more susceptible to my words.
sorry that i hav to go offline jus like that, leaving u here so helplessly. i know u dun wan to tell me, it's ok, i know u dun wan ppl to change the way they do things. but if u dun seek help, r u sure u can contain all these pressure and pain alone? confide in someone whom u can trust, whom u can really talk to. sometimes, you dun need a solution, u jus need someone to know wut u're tinking.
there r more beautiful things in life to look at. in a whole bouquet of beautiful roses, there r so many thorns, but r u going to ignore the beauty of the roses because of the thorns?
it's tiring. so give it a rest. put the rest of your energy doing something you find more worthwhile (provided it isnt as mentally or physically demanding too). remember, if anything happens, there r ppl arnd u to lend their ears (sounds weird, but heck it).
sorry la, i hv to conclude this grammatically lousy entry. had to book in. but feel free to call me anytime k? meantime, take some sleeping pills, and go to bed.
Yours truly,
Zhang Zhengyong
i may not know the whole incident that caused you to be so down and out, but i guess everyone has faced these kind of degree of problems before. i had my share, and it was terrible. that's why i took up so many bad habits, u shd know best.
i know you're tired, tired of facing the problem when it keeps coming back to haunt you; tired of having to talk to ppl whom you dun really wan to get close to; tired of waiting for the long term happiness you've been eagerly seeking. but i guess life has to go on, sadly, but it doesn't have to mean as a bad thing. it goes on, so that u dun hv to face the problem permanently; it goes on, so that u can look forward to more things in life. it may be tiring jus to wait, i know, but trust me, things will come ur way unexpectedly. it had happened to me now. i havent told u abt wut happened for me, but it's a very good thing which happened without me expecting it. will tell u when i got the chance and when u are more susceptible to my words.
sorry that i hav to go offline jus like that, leaving u here so helplessly. i know u dun wan to tell me, it's ok, i know u dun wan ppl to change the way they do things. but if u dun seek help, r u sure u can contain all these pressure and pain alone? confide in someone whom u can trust, whom u can really talk to. sometimes, you dun need a solution, u jus need someone to know wut u're tinking.
there r more beautiful things in life to look at. in a whole bouquet of beautiful roses, there r so many thorns, but r u going to ignore the beauty of the roses because of the thorns?
it's tiring. so give it a rest. put the rest of your energy doing something you find more worthwhile (provided it isnt as mentally or physically demanding too). remember, if anything happens, there r ppl arnd u to lend their ears (sounds weird, but heck it).
sorry la, i hv to conclude this grammatically lousy entry. had to book in. but feel free to call me anytime k? meantime, take some sleeping pills, and go to bed.
Yours truly,
Zhang Zhengyong
Sunday, July 18, 2004
Kim Seng Food Outing
Once again, it's a blog abt me eating... Oh my!
~//~ Yesterday went down to kim seng purely for responsibility sake, felt that i shd be down. so i went down, but the practice was surprisingly quite enjoyable. there were a lot of new faces, almost 50% of the ppl. suddenly i felt very old bird as ppl came up to me and introduced themselves and asked me how long i was in the band. haha~ i cud joke arnd with lawrence sonny they all (all the high profile ppl in ksws), so i presumed that was why they came up to me. haha~ little did they all i'm still jus a small fry... keke~
we sight-read a lot of songs. Celestial Celebration, Celebration of Life, The Cowboys (which was ultra difficult), Simple Gifts (scores courtesy of me), and lots more. very scary that we're selecting pieces for next year's concert that soon and sonny actualli drilled us thru the songs, as if we're really really confirming playing them. *shake head* very scary...
after the band prac, was pulled by sonny to go wif them to katong's Dunman Food Centre to eat dinner (or rather to feast). when we reached there, guangyi and i walked around to see wut else was good there, and we discovered that the food there were all of DIRT CHEAP PRICES!!! gosh~ two of us were like "i wanna eat this" "i wanna try that" as if they were really cheap... erm... actualli... THEY WERE!!
in the end, sonny took 10 mins going arnd ordering LOTS of food for the nine of us (lawrence, amy, kiyomi, kenichi, makato, sonny, tien tien, guangyi and me). and i also ate LOTS of food until guangyi surrendered to me for being full first as i continued munching on his fish 'n chips. in total, i ate:
1. Wan Ton Mee (ultra chilly hot)
2. Fish 'n Chips (two servings: one my own, one is guangyi's)
3. Satay (two plates shared among nine of us)
4. Crokerels (bloody bloody crokerels, and kiyomi kept screaming as she tried in vain to open them)
5. Chicken wings (each of us ate AT LEAST two...)
6. Rojak (two plates shared again)
7. Lime Juice (courtesy of sonny)
8. Sugar Cane Juice (courtesy of makato)
*rubbing-tummy* (yesh, i hv a tummy, fyi~) it's very very filling. guangyi and tien tien had this look of wanting to vomit as we walked to guangyi's van. haha... luckily they din puke.
later, as the night was still young, we all wenting LANing at Peace Centre at Selegie Road. haha, not that i know how to lan, but jus go there for fun lor. played a lot of levels for Warcraft: Judgement Day, 8 Heros, and a survival round. played there for almost 4 hours, and only ten bucks for each person. haha! so shiok!
took Guangyi's van back and chatted wif him along the way as we tried avoiding all the police cars (vans cannot go past the 60 km/h mark, so we had to siam them in order to travel fast.) inspired by his van to get one next time for myself. so shiok, so much space. and he actualli made his interior felt like an inside of a first class air plane. (jus imagine: SOFA INSIDE A VAN for ppl to sit!!!)
i was terribly tired, terribly sleepy but enjoyed myself so much. haha~ hopefully band pracs in future will be this fun!
*still-full*,Johnzzon
we sight-read a lot of songs. Celestial Celebration, Celebration of Life, The Cowboys (which was ultra difficult), Simple Gifts (scores courtesy of me), and lots more. very scary that we're selecting pieces for next year's concert that soon and sonny actualli drilled us thru the songs, as if we're really really confirming playing them. *shake head* very scary...
after the band prac, was pulled by sonny to go wif them to katong's Dunman Food Centre to eat dinner (or rather to feast). when we reached there, guangyi and i walked around to see wut else was good there, and we discovered that the food there were all of DIRT CHEAP PRICES!!! gosh~ two of us were like "i wanna eat this" "i wanna try that" as if they were really cheap... erm... actualli... THEY WERE!!
in the end, sonny took 10 mins going arnd ordering LOTS of food for the nine of us (lawrence, amy, kiyomi, kenichi, makato, sonny, tien tien, guangyi and me). and i also ate LOTS of food until guangyi surrendered to me for being full first as i continued munching on his fish 'n chips. in total, i ate:
1. Wan Ton Mee (ultra chilly hot)
2. Fish 'n Chips (two servings: one my own, one is guangyi's)
3. Satay (two plates shared among nine of us)
4. Crokerels (bloody bloody crokerels, and kiyomi kept screaming as she tried in vain to open them)
5. Chicken wings (each of us ate AT LEAST two...)
6. Rojak (two plates shared again)
7. Lime Juice (courtesy of sonny)
8. Sugar Cane Juice (courtesy of makato)
*rubbing-tummy* (yesh, i hv a tummy, fyi~) it's very very filling. guangyi and tien tien had this look of wanting to vomit as we walked to guangyi's van. haha... luckily they din puke.
later, as the night was still young, we all wenting LANing at Peace Centre at Selegie Road. haha, not that i know how to lan, but jus go there for fun lor. played a lot of levels for Warcraft: Judgement Day, 8 Heros, and a survival round. played there for almost 4 hours, and only ten bucks for each person. haha! so shiok!
took Guangyi's van back and chatted wif him along the way as we tried avoiding all the police cars (vans cannot go past the 60 km/h mark, so we had to siam them in order to travel fast.) inspired by his van to get one next time for myself. so shiok, so much space. and he actualli made his interior felt like an inside of a first class air plane. (jus imagine: SOFA INSIDE A VAN for ppl to sit!!!)
i was terribly tired, terribly sleepy but enjoyed myself so much. haha~ hopefully band pracs in future will be this fun!
*still-full*,Johnzzon
Thursday, July 15, 2004
A Dream...
after the sleepy G.O.H. parade today, i went back to bunk to catch up on my sleep. surprisingly, i managed to fall into deep sleep pretty soon. it was a pretty weird dream, a dream that i can still vividly remember now. and most importantly, i cried. i woke up (not abruptly but gently) with tears rolling down my cheeks. gosh~ it was pretty surreal.
i dreamt about going to my pri sch chinese teacher's birthday party. all my old pri sch pals were there and we were chit-chatting abt our lives. interestingly, i remembered all of us to be in our late 20s oredi, with everyone dressed up like businessmen or working class ppl. den at the end of the party, my teacher gave a speech which went something like "thank you all for coming, coz i dun noe how many times i can still do this again. u all hav touched my life somehow and ur presence here proved that i did something meaningful in my life to be remembered for." and she promptly left in a car.
suddenly there were a lot of cars lining up in front of that car which my teacher went in, and in those cars, i spotted familiar faces. they were the ppl who left this world recently too. mr ho, my uncle, it was then i cried, not because i was sad or something, jus felt relieved and happy for my chinese teacher. dun noe why... i cried and cried, because i was so happy to be there to see her leave, most importantly, happily.
i dun noe if it's a sign or something. when i woke up, i felt this sudden urge to organise a pri sch gathering to her house now, before i cud not do it anymore.
Johnzzon
i dreamt about going to my pri sch chinese teacher's birthday party. all my old pri sch pals were there and we were chit-chatting abt our lives. interestingly, i remembered all of us to be in our late 20s oredi, with everyone dressed up like businessmen or working class ppl. den at the end of the party, my teacher gave a speech which went something like "thank you all for coming, coz i dun noe how many times i can still do this again. u all hav touched my life somehow and ur presence here proved that i did something meaningful in my life to be remembered for." and she promptly left in a car.
suddenly there were a lot of cars lining up in front of that car which my teacher went in, and in those cars, i spotted familiar faces. they were the ppl who left this world recently too. mr ho, my uncle, it was then i cried, not because i was sad or something, jus felt relieved and happy for my chinese teacher. dun noe why... i cried and cried, because i was so happy to be there to see her leave, most importantly, happily.
i dun noe if it's a sign or something. when i woke up, i felt this sudden urge to organise a pri sch gathering to her house now, before i cud not do it anymore.
Johnzzon
Monday, July 12, 2004
'tis the season to be feasting!!
gosh... i'm really on an eating spree sia... juz came back after watching the movie Mean Girls with aloysius and yanhui, and having supper at the orchard open air hawkers. ate ultra fatty stuff. la-la, sting ray, baby squid, satays~~ oh my goodness... i felt full and satisfied and HIGH!
rubbing-tummy,
Johnzzon
rubbing-tummy,
Johnzzon
Sunday, July 11, 2004
Recap
another busy week jus ended.
monday: GOH parade at mindef.
wednesday: Ex Elang Indopura Parade at Paya Lebar Air Base.
thursday: Changing of Command parade at bedok guards camp.
friday: SAF Day dinner at Istana.
saturday: Transfer of Command parade at Clementi camp.
had to endure another two more weeks busily packed with parades rehearsals. gosh~ when will i ever turn slightly less darker? i tink i'm getting extremely thin nowadays. got a shock today while i took a look at my own reflection on the glass doors of mrt trains. damn~ how ah? mus i really follow the Men's Health guide?
was stressed up becoz of the saf day dinner. ppl asking me to do this and that; ppl asking me for this and that; ppl asking me how when they din bring this and that... oh wutever... *thou shall be an evil person*
the dinner went on fine, with minor glitches here and there, but there wasnt any major cock-ups for ppl to come and charge us. haha. fazil told me he saw minister teo chee hean standing alone and facing us, listening to our music. haha. *happy* finally someone's appreciating our presence. keke.
reached back in camp at around 10:30pm after the dinner (not ours). ronnie and alvin and i went to the zhu3 chao3 stall together with some more ppl (mostly smokers), while others went to prata point to eat. din eat anything but went down to 7-eleven to buy some stuff back to munch.
saturday morning: transfer of command parade, which was basically some rojak parade made up of mainly change of command parade and part of ocs parade. it was terrible. half the time we don't know wut we're doing, the other half of the time, the rsm tried to tell us wut is going on, but doesnt really make sense, so we still don't know wut we're doing. oh wutever. and staff maswan had to disallow the euphoniums (me and fazil) to put down our instruments on the ground becoz of someone else's laziness. *YES* i had to mention. *grumble*
booked out directly from clementi camp and went to clementi to have lunch with kokwee and weijyh. kok wee introduced western which was supposedly very good, and i ordered Chicken and Cheese. quite interesting, they put cheese into the chicken fillet and grilled it. then they topped it up with bbq sauce. not bad at all.
rushed down to lavendar to meet soon wei and zhenqiang for the music workshop. the workshop was quite fun and homely cause there were in total only like 11 of us. but we interacted and made frens. i learnt a lot of stuff la, abt things in the arena and things happening in other publishing companies (which sort of made sense). now, i'm really eager to try to make it. hopefully i do!
it is my first time listening to an orchestra. it was quite fun seeing all the string players doing their hand actions. *smile* they performed Firebird Suite 1919 ver and altho it was not perfect, i was still quite impressed and blown away. there were points of time when hairs jus stood up on my body. *brr* the orchestra was indeed good.
ate at a particular turkish restaurant at Arab street together with ppl i watched the concert with. i tink it was yaw chang who suggested that place. we sat at a table far away from the actual stall, in front of an indian boutique shop. weird. anyway, the food was good. we ate crispy chicken and crispy quails, and we smoked sheesha (not sashi... h.a.h.a.... ;p). after that, some of us dun feel like going back yet, so we (after much discussion) went to bedok 85 to eat the famous Ba Chor Mee. the soup was really appetizing and i kinda liked it. not the best, but still quite nice. :) another place to intro to my parents liao.
reached home like 4am. mus really thank anney for sending all of us home. i was damn sleepy and had to sleep on his car, guessed he must be feeling sleepy and tired too but still had to drive us. thanks thanks!
suddenly i'm free. *paused for a very long while* shucks, wut shd i do? dun feel like wasting the day away sia~
looking-for-things-to-do,
Johnzzon
Monday, July 05, 2004
Weekly Esplanade Routine + Yesterday Night + Today...
the cds that i borrowed from the national library were due yesterday, so had to force myself to make a trip down to esplanade library once again this weekend. not that i'm really dreading tho, haha, jus that i planned to rot at home the whole day, and this jus sort of ruined my rotting plan. (like i say, the plan rots... ok lame... *slap my own face*)
zqi was online yesterday morning. upon learning my plan for the day, he decided to tag along to find out how the esplanade library looks like. haha~ i was like tour guide liddat, bringing him around the whole marina. upon reaching the esplanade library, i dumped him at the cafeteria and i went swimming in the sea of scores, running here and there searching for specific stuff in mind. in the end, i spent like 2 hours searching and selecting scores to borrow and zqi spent 2 hrs rotting and listening to my gershwin songs on my mp3 player. *ops* felt so paiseh.
we left the place and walked around the whole marina. being zqi, once he spotted the superbowl, he pulled me in and insisted on playing at least one game of bowling. oh well, game lor. in the end we played two games each with aching hands and tired feet. no wallets were lost this time round. heng ah~!
went to carrefour and bought a cordless phone for my house, of coz sponsored by my father, not me. and two of us jus walked and walked and walked until we reach back in raffles place shopping centre. gosh~ it felt like 10 km route march sia~
justin and kokwee wanted to come my house to watch The Apprentice, but guess the timing wasnt right. and futhermore, my _____ dad only managed to tape down the last half hour of the show. oh wells, they cancelled the screening session.
in the end, when i reached home, my fren dom jio-ed me to go his place to watch soccer. so, oh well, might as well. bored for the night, and i din feel like going back to camp. managed to stay up until 0235 when the march started. for the first half an hour, greece sucked lor. they cud actualli trip themselves without anybody near them. gosh~ and they cud not hold on to the balls long enough to make a successful pass to their teammates lor... in the end, i slept even b4 the first haf was over...
greece won portugal. one nil. HUH???
this morning we had GOH. i was ultra sleepy la. din know wut was going on around me. ppl said "form up" i formed up, ppl said "break time" i sat down and dozed off. haha. but at least during the actual parade i din "ke kanan dulus" when i wasnt supposed to, not like kokwee, wide awake somemore... haha.
went back to camp, slept for the remaining morning and we continued to have full band in the afternoon rehearsing johnson lee's newly arranged (as staff ridzwan puts it) single One United People. briefly played ABBA gold and johnson lee called it a day. phew~
camp back to bukit panj, met guangyi up to collect back my cds (in my dearest doraemon cd casing), and went to bp plaza to pay my overdue m1 bill. no money liao~ sighz...
came back home. and slept. like a pig. until 8pm. had a simple dinner. still hungry. have to go back to camp to sleep coz sis and bro-in-law came over to stay. bro-in-law's reservist camp is nearer here. planning to make a trip down to 7-eleven later. *grown* dun noe if i'll call fren up tonight for chat. quite moody now...
bleahz,
Johnzzon
zqi was online yesterday morning. upon learning my plan for the day, he decided to tag along to find out how the esplanade library looks like. haha~ i was like tour guide liddat, bringing him around the whole marina. upon reaching the esplanade library, i dumped him at the cafeteria and i went swimming in the sea of scores, running here and there searching for specific stuff in mind. in the end, i spent like 2 hours searching and selecting scores to borrow and zqi spent 2 hrs rotting and listening to my gershwin songs on my mp3 player. *ops* felt so paiseh.
we left the place and walked around the whole marina. being zqi, once he spotted the superbowl, he pulled me in and insisted on playing at least one game of bowling. oh well, game lor. in the end we played two games each with aching hands and tired feet. no wallets were lost this time round. heng ah~!
went to carrefour and bought a cordless phone for my house, of coz sponsored by my father, not me. and two of us jus walked and walked and walked until we reach back in raffles place shopping centre. gosh~ it felt like 10 km route march sia~
justin and kokwee wanted to come my house to watch The Apprentice, but guess the timing wasnt right. and futhermore, my _____ dad only managed to tape down the last half hour of the show. oh wells, they cancelled the screening session.
in the end, when i reached home, my fren dom jio-ed me to go his place to watch soccer. so, oh well, might as well. bored for the night, and i din feel like going back to camp. managed to stay up until 0235 when the march started. for the first half an hour, greece sucked lor. they cud actualli trip themselves without anybody near them. gosh~ and they cud not hold on to the balls long enough to make a successful pass to their teammates lor... in the end, i slept even b4 the first haf was over...
greece won portugal. one nil. HUH???
this morning we had GOH. i was ultra sleepy la. din know wut was going on around me. ppl said "form up" i formed up, ppl said "break time" i sat down and dozed off. haha. but at least during the actual parade i din "ke kanan dulus" when i wasnt supposed to, not like kokwee, wide awake somemore... haha.
went back to camp, slept for the remaining morning and we continued to have full band in the afternoon rehearsing johnson lee's newly arranged (as staff ridzwan puts it) single One United People. briefly played ABBA gold and johnson lee called it a day. phew~
camp back to bukit panj, met guangyi up to collect back my cds (in my dearest doraemon cd casing), and went to bp plaza to pay my overdue m1 bill. no money liao~ sighz...
came back home. and slept. like a pig. until 8pm. had a simple dinner. still hungry. have to go back to camp to sleep coz sis and bro-in-law came over to stay. bro-in-law's reservist camp is nearer here. planning to make a trip down to 7-eleven later. *grown* dun noe if i'll call fren up tonight for chat. quite moody now...
bleahz,
Johnzzon
Sunday, July 04, 2004
Chat Sniplets
fren says:
how r u?
JuMb0$@|e says:
ok lor... very black... very tanned... on the face and on the hands... (woah, it rhymes)
fren says:
LOL
lame leh, bobo
SAF day ah?
JuMb0$@|e says:
yar lor
fren says:
LOLz...
JuMb0$@|e says:
oh wutever
~ // ~
fren says:
only one thing to do if u kena this kinda of situation
get a replacement
humans need love and wan to give love
u just need to change ur target
that's how i recovered.....
JuMb0$@|e says:
but why do ppl hv to give me the same bloody reasons...?
why cant very good frens be... u know?
i'm sick of hearing "u're a very nice guy, and i don deserve u... i always treat u like a very good classmate/senior/fren..."
fren says:
hahaa
tat is the worst excuse
JuMb0$@|e says:
i'm sick of hearing "u're a very nice guy, sure can get her to be with u one" from my frens...
fren says:
hmmmm
how r u and **r*n?
JuMb0$@|e says:
yeew... u sure hv good taste sia..
~ // ~
JuMb0$@|e says:
wait... i going to be busy for a few mins...
going to my piano for a while...
arranging new song...
fren says:
wah
u got piano at home?
JuMb0$@|e says:
yar.......
fren says:
r
fren says:
i
fren says:
c
fren says:
h
JuMb0$@|e says:
no lor... still under installment...
how r u?
JuMb0$@|e says:
ok lor... very black... very tanned... on the face and on the hands... (woah, it rhymes)
fren says:
LOL
lame leh, bobo
SAF day ah?
JuMb0$@|e says:
yar lor
fren says:
LOLz...
JuMb0$@|e says:
oh wutever
fren says:
only one thing to do if u kena this kinda of situation
get a replacement
humans need love and wan to give love
u just need to change ur target
that's how i recovered.....
JuMb0$@|e says:
but why do ppl hv to give me the same bloody reasons...?
why cant very good frens be... u know?
i'm sick of hearing "u're a very nice guy, and i don deserve u... i always treat u like a very good classmate/senior/fren..."
fren says:
hahaa
tat is the worst excuse
JuMb0$@|e says:
i'm sick of hearing "u're a very nice guy, sure can get her to be with u one" from my frens...
fren says:
hmmmm
how r u and **r*n?
JuMb0$@|e says:
yeew... u sure hv good taste sia..
JuMb0$@|e says:
wait... i going to be busy for a few mins...
going to my piano for a while...
arranging new song...
fren says:
wah
u got piano at home?
JuMb0$@|e says:
yar.......
fren says:
r
fren says:
i
fren says:
c
fren says:
h
JuMb0$@|e says:
no lor... still under installment...
Yesterday...
guess i've really lost the momentum of blogging. always felt very lethargic once i got home and starting to find blogging when i'm tired a bit of a hassle. haha~
~ // ~
had a very good night sleep on friday night, perhaps due to chatting on the phone till 3am. keke. woke up at 12 plus pm yesterday. woah~ hadnt done this in a very long time, waking up to hear little kids screaming to go home after cca and birds flying past my windows and pecking on my windows. haha~ i'm not trying to be poetic or something here, but these noises really do irritate me. i quickly washed up and dressed up to go down to kim seng. promised guangyi i'll go early to check on the conditions of the un-used euphoniums in kim seng.
received a call from a fren while on my way to ksws. quite worried.
reached ksws quite early, den realized they were having auditions for new members. wa~ sonny, guangyi and lawrence were sitting at the front of the band room staring at the auditee (is there such a word?) like the king, queen and jack of the spades family. (lawrence = king ; sonny = queen ; guangyi = jack) ;p sonny sort of gave me an angry stare when i first interrupted their audition session, but later on i learnt it's only him putting on a fierce front. haha~ gave me a shock.
found two unused instruments at the top of the cupboard. one euphonium and one baritone horn (omg~ so cute~~). the baritone horn was still in quite good condition (at least i could turn the valve screws and take out the valves to oil them; the slides were all movable); the euphonium was quite terrible with white weird things all over the place and i could not even take out the valves even tho i could unscrew the top. had to use a wrench to pull them out. gosh~ after maintaining them (without polishing them... coz i was terribly disgusted by the white white stuff...), i took the baritone horn to try out, tinking it was quite fun. but... er... the sound is quite terrible. i was haf expecting a bright horn sound, but it turned out to be sounding like a very nasal trombone no matter how hard i try to sound mellow. yewz...
after the audition (5pm), sonny shoo-ed us to our seats and forced us to sight-read "The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" arranged by John Wasson. oh gosh~ it was like a horn ensemble (4 horns) with the (1 clarinet; 1 alto sax; 1 trumpet; 1 eupho; 1 tromb; 1 tuba; 1 perc). sounded terribly weird. haha... almost reminded me of my first session in Audio Image band. ;p
~ // ~
after band prac (6:30pm), went down to toa payoh to search for somebody. din really manage to find him, but manage to see woei kee and his gf... muahaha~ gave him a sms but din wan to bother them, so din meet up with him. felt terribly sian and came home despite justin jio-ing me for dinner. (my location was not very convenient la~)
oh well... wanted to arrange a song last night... but din hv the mood. almost wanted to jio someone out one, but nah~ too late liao. went to sleep at 11pm (that's considered VERY early for me). sighz...
~ // ~
guess i'll be heading down to esplanade library again later to return my cds and pay my red hp bills again. sighz... wanted to stay at home and rot all day one. but, oh wells, keke...
tried my new *****s last night, damn comfortable. shall be getting more. *****s rules!
dum-de-dum-de-dum,
Johnzzon
had a very good night sleep on friday night, perhaps due to chatting on the phone till 3am. keke. woke up at 12 plus pm yesterday. woah~ hadnt done this in a very long time, waking up to hear little kids screaming to go home after cca and birds flying past my windows and pecking on my windows. haha~ i'm not trying to be poetic or something here, but these noises really do irritate me. i quickly washed up and dressed up to go down to kim seng. promised guangyi i'll go early to check on the conditions of the un-used euphoniums in kim seng.
received a call from a fren while on my way to ksws. quite worried.
reached ksws quite early, den realized they were having auditions for new members. wa~ sonny, guangyi and lawrence were sitting at the front of the band room staring at the auditee (is there such a word?) like the king, queen and jack of the spades family. (lawrence = king ; sonny = queen ; guangyi = jack) ;p sonny sort of gave me an angry stare when i first interrupted their audition session, but later on i learnt it's only him putting on a fierce front. haha~ gave me a shock.
found two unused instruments at the top of the cupboard. one euphonium and one baritone horn (omg~ so cute~~). the baritone horn was still in quite good condition (at least i could turn the valve screws and take out the valves to oil them; the slides were all movable); the euphonium was quite terrible with white weird things all over the place and i could not even take out the valves even tho i could unscrew the top. had to use a wrench to pull them out. gosh~ after maintaining them (without polishing them... coz i was terribly disgusted by the white white stuff...), i took the baritone horn to try out, tinking it was quite fun. but... er... the sound is quite terrible. i was haf expecting a bright horn sound, but it turned out to be sounding like a very nasal trombone no matter how hard i try to sound mellow. yewz...
after the audition (5pm), sonny shoo-ed us to our seats and forced us to sight-read "The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" arranged by John Wasson. oh gosh~ it was like a horn ensemble (4 horns) with the (1 clarinet; 1 alto sax; 1 trumpet; 1 eupho; 1 tromb; 1 tuba; 1 perc). sounded terribly weird. haha... almost reminded me of my first session in Audio Image band. ;p
after band prac (6:30pm), went down to toa payoh to search for somebody. din really manage to find him, but manage to see woei kee and his gf... muahaha~ gave him a sms but din wan to bother them, so din meet up with him. felt terribly sian and came home despite justin jio-ing me for dinner. (my location was not very convenient la~)
oh well... wanted to arrange a song last night... but din hv the mood. almost wanted to jio someone out one, but nah~ too late liao. went to sleep at 11pm (that's considered VERY early for me). sighz...
guess i'll be heading down to esplanade library again later to return my cds and pay my red hp bills again. sighz... wanted to stay at home and rot all day one. but, oh wells, keke...
tried my new *****s last night, damn comfortable. shall be getting more. *****s rules!
dum-de-dum-de-dum,
Johnzzon
Saturday, July 03, 2004
My First Attempt at CD Reviews
it's always difficult to review jacky cheung's albums. u know he always sings well, that's for sure, but recently his albums were generated in such ways that it tries to update jacky cheung for this generation of music listeners, ie teenagers.
finally he takes a step back into his usual self with this album, tho you still hav this feeling of commercialization to it, but to a much lesser degree as compared to his "Fever" and "Where Is He?" albums. all 10 songs were composed by him, with some of the lyrics written by other lyricists.
one major thing i come to take note of is how simple the tunes are. it's not a bad thing actualli, coz the simplicity of them actually brought out the feel to the music, allowing the arrangements to seep into the music seamlessly. there is a wide variety of genres of songs, from retro rock, to cha-cha swing; from light lounge jazz to pop ballads and folk ballads. some of the songs even sound like they were inspired by his old works, like 勇敢的故事 sounds inspired by his rock songs from "Fever" and Life Is Like A Dream and 给朋友 sounds inspired by his Snow.Wolf.Lake songs. sometimes, i cant help but be awed at his versality at composing so many genres of songs at one go.
this is not really a normal Jacky Cheung album. there werent any songs that try to impress its listeners, jus Jacky with his voice and with the songs he written. it's not bad an album, provided u're not a lover of commercialized music.
recommended songs: 02 想劈酒 | 03 燥狂 | 05 慢条斯理 | 09 讲你知
i'm not really a listener to Japanese music, coz i find that i cudnt understand the lyrics at the first listening and the trouble of having to look for the translated lyrics is such a hassle. but i started loving this rock group due to their well-written melodies and arrangements of their tunes.
this album strikes me as a cross between Taiwan's Mayday (for their melodies) and America's Eric Clapton or Bob Dylan (for their heavy rock style). yet, despite being heavy metal, they did not settle for monotonous tunes and leaving the rock feeling to their guitars and drumset ad libs. the tunes were well-written and the arrangements well-done. it was almost as if they were trying to write other genres of music but settled with the rock style in the end.
with this album, L'Arc~en~ciel seemed to be paying tribute to a lot of rock songs, with familiar guitar rhythms popping out almost every other song. (one of them started off sounding like "Rock You".) but the group seem to like to change the mood of their music very frequently by suddenly adding a string ensemble part, which was quite distracting on the first hearing, but quite interesting after some getting used to.
recommended songs: 01 接吻 | 02 READY STEADY GO | 04 Feeling Fine | 06 Coming Closer | 09 眼中人
Friday, July 02, 2004
A Great Friday...
woke up in the morning and mum looked quite okay, so we decided to head town to watch Spidey 2. she enjoyed the first one, so i wanna let her watch this second one too~
woah, i was quite surprised she'd never been to cineleisure, but come to think of it, it's not really a place for aunties like her. those ah bengs and ah lians might give her the stares of disgust. nevertheless, i decided to bring her there to watch Spidey 2 to experience different theatres. since we're goin there quite early in the morning, there wun be too much ah bengs ah lians oso.
we enjoyed the show, but mum was still comparing the movie to the old spidey tv series, saying the old one was more action-packed. weird huh? but i totally enjoyed the show. din expect it the movie-makers to churn out so much new and refreshing stuff after making the great original "Spidey" movie. lurved all the references made to the first movie too, like MJ testing out her new bf's love by kissing him upside down, and Peter having to see blurry images thru his specs and holding his pair of specs up and them to confirm he's not seeing things and so on.
supposed to meet dominic after lunching wif mum to swim at AMK, but his frens bang-seh him, furthermore he overslept. so, oh wells, he cancelled swimming. so we decided to stroll down orchard aimlessly and chat along the way.
stayed for a very long time at music plaza as dom was chatting (or rather, was forced to chat) wif this uncle from another church abt church music and buying a new organ for the church. was quite bored, so played around wif the pianos and looked thru all the scores in the shop. 2 hrs passed.
at music plaza, met serg ong!! OMG~ so jing4 bao4. wut was more shocking was that he actually recognised me too! my goodness, i tot i was so the low profile in my BMT times? but he noticed me like since the beginning of BMT la, weird, as if he was like my senior liddat. altho he's not from my platoon, but was quite close to him during those times. oh wells, wutever.
briefly chatted wif him and i continued browsing the scores as he killed time (while waiting for his fren) playing the piano.
after me and dom left the place, dom had to go home as it was his mum's bday. so i decided to take the NEL to clarke quay to meet justin and kokwee they all. at the dhoby ghaut station, saw one of my BMT platoon mates, benjamin!! he was wearing no 4 and his rank is sergeant sia~ shucks. but i was talking on the phone, so i jus briefly waved to him and he waved back.
met yanhui and kokwee at the multicoloured building beside clarke quay station. as we made our way to raffles city shopping centre, met keith, *someone* and sin. then sin was like "aiyo, come out oso never jio me~". den i made a damn evil remark "we're the young ones ma." he screamed immediately. *ouch*
we (or rather stanley) decided to settle our dinner at the food court, and jus outside the food court, we met cpt chua!!!!! *red alert* *red alert* i managed to stay calm and continued sms dom on the phone and kw and yh pretended not to see him. it was aloysius to gave us away as he tactlessly walked beside cpt chua and looked away abruptly, allowing his presence to be noticed by him. oh well, he din do anything. and he quickly camoflaged ourselves in the crowded food court.
after dinner, stanley decided to go home first, so glenn, justin, kokwee, aloysius and me proceeded to pcc to "chill out". on the way, we met serg fong, the specialist from band b who ORDed before the bands moved to nee soon.
it was quite a fun day. felt like a very eventful and enjoyable weekend. never really walked around like this in orchard for so long, i kinda enjoyed the whole walking here and there thingy. now my legs ache from all the walking, but i still feel good. haha, self-mutilation sia~
someone's name had been popping up continuously today among the ppl i met due to coincidence. weird~
having-my-supper-now,
Johnzzon
It's Time To Blog~
jus came back home from dinner wif kok wee, aloysius and yanhui at macdonald's at thomson road. it was supposedly a session to settle tomolo's movie session, that's why we were so ching chai wif our dinner location (kok wee and macdonalds do not come together).
anyway, the 980 i took to yishun had the car plate number TIB666L. Found it quite freaky. well, it's not a friday, or else it wud hv been a freaky friday. muahaha~ *ops* cold joke.
~ // ~
finally SAF day parade is over. over for me and my bandmates too. our first and last SAF day parade. the feeling's quite weird. the joyness of having to survive thru something so tough is not in me (shd i say) yet. guess i'm too used to all these parades that i've grown quite numb of them. parades? go lor, wut to do?
today's actual parade was a whisp. sort of enjoyed myself as i let my eyes wander and stare at the weird units holding banners at the spectators gallery. when they cheered during the awards presentation, oh my, all i can say is that they resemble a ruddy bunch of guys from a certain jc cheering for their sch winning the title. childish. still got weird actions to their cheers one leh. *cannot make it* shant reveal that the childish unit is commandos. *ops* wutever.
after having to see an indian who resembles President Nathan to stand in for him for all the rehearsals, we finally got to see him in person. nothing exciting coz it's not as if i never see him in person before (i wud scream if i see kit chan in person), but his appearance sort of like confirmed that the parade was an actual parade and that it wud be over soon.
always felt happy whenever i heard ppl from the gallery cheering for us band ppl when we marched past.
~ // ~
to those who know, pls do not tell others. i dun wan ppl to sympathize me coz i dun need them to. i dun wan ppl to act caring so that they can kaypo abt my life. to those who sort of know wut is happening to me but only knew haf the story, i guess u shd be able to guess the outcome of the whole incident.
~ // ~
kept borrowing conductor scores and listening to sort-of classical music. on my table now are the scores to Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird (Original 1910 Version), The Rite of Spring, Petrouchka and George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris. jus studying the timbre's that these two composers use in their songs coz i'm quite fascinated by the outcome of the sound produced by the scoring of their pieces.
am in my composing mood recently. soon wei and zhenqiang were seeking advice from me abt song-composing even tho i'm still not very good at it. kinda felt honoured yet paiseh at the same time, esp when zhenqiang said "your songs are already much better than mine", coz i dun noe wut to say since i havent listen to his songs yet.
signed up for the music composing workshop next saturday. jio-ed soon wei and zhenqiang along. hopefully it will be useful for me and for them as well.
~ // ~
a lot of things havent update, esp for the events that happened so long ago. shall be starting on my cds review soon, esp when i've been listening to SO MUCH cds recently.
1) Jacky Cheung's Life Is Like A Dream
2) Ou De Yang's Ocean
3) L'Arc-en-ciel's Smile
and much more classical cds. argh~ maybe i'll jus concentrate on these three cds la. haha.
~ // ~
i hope this is my last hectic june. i hate it when i'm so busy during the days around my birthday.
still very high and awake due to two cans of red bull and one can of F&N grape juice jus now.
cannot-sleep,
Johnzzon
anyway, the 980 i took to yishun had the car plate number TIB666L. Found it quite freaky. well, it's not a friday, or else it wud hv been a freaky friday. muahaha~ *ops* cold joke.
finally SAF day parade is over. over for me and my bandmates too. our first and last SAF day parade. the feeling's quite weird. the joyness of having to survive thru something so tough is not in me (shd i say) yet. guess i'm too used to all these parades that i've grown quite numb of them. parades? go lor, wut to do?
today's actual parade was a whisp. sort of enjoyed myself as i let my eyes wander and stare at the weird units holding banners at the spectators gallery. when they cheered during the awards presentation, oh my, all i can say is that they resemble a ruddy bunch of guys from a certain jc cheering for their sch winning the title. childish. still got weird actions to their cheers one leh. *cannot make it* shant reveal that the childish unit is commandos. *ops* wutever.
after having to see an indian who resembles President Nathan to stand in for him for all the rehearsals, we finally got to see him in person. nothing exciting coz it's not as if i never see him in person before (i wud scream if i see kit chan in person), but his appearance sort of like confirmed that the parade was an actual parade and that it wud be over soon.
always felt happy whenever i heard ppl from the gallery cheering for us band ppl when we marched past.
to those who know, pls do not tell others. i dun wan ppl to sympathize me coz i dun need them to. i dun wan ppl to act caring so that they can kaypo abt my life. to those who sort of know wut is happening to me but only knew haf the story, i guess u shd be able to guess the outcome of the whole incident.
kept borrowing conductor scores and listening to sort-of classical music. on my table now are the scores to Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird (Original 1910 Version), The Rite of Spring, Petrouchka and George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris. jus studying the timbre's that these two composers use in their songs coz i'm quite fascinated by the outcome of the sound produced by the scoring of their pieces.
am in my composing mood recently. soon wei and zhenqiang were seeking advice from me abt song-composing even tho i'm still not very good at it. kinda felt honoured yet paiseh at the same time, esp when zhenqiang said "your songs are already much better than mine", coz i dun noe wut to say since i havent listen to his songs yet.
signed up for the music composing workshop next saturday. jio-ed soon wei and zhenqiang along. hopefully it will be useful for me and for them as well.
a lot of things havent update, esp for the events that happened so long ago. shall be starting on my cds review soon, esp when i've been listening to SO MUCH cds recently.
1) Jacky Cheung's Life Is Like A Dream
2) Ou De Yang's Ocean
3) L'Arc-en-ciel's Smile
and much more classical cds. argh~ maybe i'll jus concentrate on these three cds la. haha.
i hope this is my last hectic june. i hate it when i'm so busy during the days around my birthday.
still very high and awake due to two cans of red bull and one can of F&N grape juice jus now.
cannot-sleep,
Johnzzon
