Sunday, July 27, 2008

Finally back!

WOohs. i'm finally back home from the 10day operation... freakin hell burnt whole of last week, including weekend, sitting at some park in the east blowin sea breeze n sun tanning n ZBL-ing... End result: a burnt face n palms n nearly gone mentally crazy/drained.. YES. nearly. Plus having 2 ulcers in one's mouth sux totally to the core, especially when every single lunch n dinner provided has at least one spicy meat/veg.. two words to describe: super orgasmic.

Anyways, went to watch SCO concert (The Legend of Silk and Bamboo) ytd featuring dizi n erhu masters Zhang Wei Liang and Yan Jie Min.. actually one of the few times hearing comtempory/new age CO music.. songs super power n skills super power.

Made up my decision to participate in the end of yr NAC music competition... this yr's gonna be super competitive especially for the open category, with so many pros participating too... well.. at least i can make use of this opportunity to prac dizi and not slacken down... need to gain some experience too.. gd luck to me and Sheng yong!

QuOtE Of tHE dAY: Practice makes Perfect.
-jon

Saturday, July 12, 2008

LiZhen dizi master class.

Went to Hsing Hai at 2pm with kin ren to listen a master class by Li Zhen, a dizi master from China.. Quite worth the trip, after hearing him talked about his bibliography in learning dizi and some history about Mongolia and the '草原笛派' style of playing on the dizi. He had a few demonstrations on his dizis, two of which are the big D major with 2 di muo holes and one with 8-holes, which are less seen around locally. Arghz! jus found out that the recording i did for the master class is too soft and cant hear much.. zzzz... wasted... Can't wait for his concert tml la! hahaz..

-jon

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Today's practice at cc.

It's been a long time since i have a good practice with the guys at cc... today's attendance was well, better as compared to previous months, especially for woodwind section.. there's some improvement for other sections like erhu and tanbo yue recently, with a few new guys coming for practices almost every week... Had fun playing combines with them and also the mini-intro-icebreaker session today...
Haven been putting in effort to organize the co for quite some time... guess it's time for me to step up again into the committee and reorganize things and get the co to be more lively... i hope and i trust that the newly chosen committee members today are able to work hard together to plan and make the coming concert in dec a success. :)

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Took off on Mon so, not wasting it at home whole day, did 3 main things...
1. Tried to call up singtel to ask for assistance to install the wireless connection on my bro's laptop.. wad could have been a 5min thing ended up near 1hr! Duno y got connection alrdy but still cant surf the net.. spent the near 1hr on the phone with the guy troubleshooting all the possible problems that may occur but still to no avail.. sux... arranged for technician to come fix the problem this comin sat...

2. Went to sign up for basic theory test for driving at CDC... opening an account plus the trial test plus the test itself added up to near $30 la! haha.. shudn't haf opt for the trial test... but after asking arnd some say the trial test is useful for the test.. so... :)

3. Lent one of my G diao dizi to Andrea since she so interested in playing dizi.. and 'threatened' to tell her mum that she misbehaves while on the way to her mum's car.. haha.. it's so fun bullying her! (wahaha)


Today heng got to book out... cos tml is the run at East coast park.. haha! rain again den HosAY liao... postpone again... woohoo! next week i'm gonna be on 'forced' leave from mon to wed... duno gd or bad... one time clear 3days leave now left only 10.. end of yr how to enjoy more? haha.. suck thumb!

qUoTe of THe dAY: Rewards don't come easily. Work hard for it.
-jon