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Monday, August 31, 2009

Some thoughts on music performance

Argh this is the second attempt at a new post in...3 days? shall narrate da fail happenings.

Attempted to blog in a library. i mean the library. the rj one. Happily ranted, bitched about (whoops thats for girls only), moaned, grumbled, launched into a tirade against all sorts of things and people (least of all the impending teachers day celebration that was gonna take up 1h of my life. not that it wasnt good. i wouldnt know. whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopsssss xd). Then happily clicked "publish post". whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopsss (second one).

the com screen happily (i would guess so) displayed some runtime error thing. or some other error. bottom line, my post was gone. and this one didnt autosave post unlike my trusty homecom!!! so my heartwrenching, heartfelt 500 word post was gone. moral of the story?


nope its not dun blog in library. its dun blog on an imac in the library. isit a coincidence that the windows coms get snapped up way before the imacs do? oh wait thats why i managed to land an imac after wasting 30 min in canteen talking to random ppl eh....

Anw, didnt blog for a long time....yeah was feeling quite pissed off over a trio thing (some collaboration with rjpianoensemble the piano pros) cause it was gonna get cancelled over clashing with an econs test =.= i understand the rationale, but our stellar and inexplicable music department made it sound like this thing has no precedence whatsoever cause we're not representing the school. OKFINE we're not a sports cca. so?

that being said, I have nothingnothing whatsoever against sportsccas. Music ppl forgive me, but i understand now what sports ppl go thru to get their medals, compared with musicalgroups just exercising fingers and arms for glory once every two years lasting a full 7 minutes on stage (those arent my words). Sports demands a lot from mind and body, music comps to me (well at this level) simply depends on whether an individual wants to turn up for rehearsal or not. and oh yeah whether he/she can be bothered to practice ensemble pieces at home just once a week (honestly, i cant). So...*respect*

That being said, I still love RJchamber more than ever :) but everytime the efforts of our good batch seems to be getting stonewalled. Its like we are damn enthu about a concert than we rush up and grab our instruments and we....hit a stone wall. yeah stonewalled. Wats wrong with having an outside sch concert for just once in our measly two years in RJ? Whats wrong with us putting up a concert in an SYF year? We cant cope? Please, we train once a week. Well, if u can call that training. And some sports groups have two seasons a year. or more. And they certainly train more than once a week (not some of my sports friends though......whoops pon). So whats this about us not being able to cope or whatnot? Thus, I have drawn two conclusions.

1. Not trying to point out the obvious, but maybemaybe just maybe (a tinnylittlemaybe) someone high up and mighty doesnt view music ccas on par with sports? (again this is a JUSTMAYBE)

2. Someone more close to home is invidiously stonewalling us. (yes speculate on this urself. hint? errr that person is kinda old enough to be equivalent to the life of my favourite tree planted outside my beloved hdb block).

That being said, I have two other damn pro music groups, equally pro as RJCE which kicks ass. YO and OMM. Thus I am still getting my musical "training" and "experience" elsewhere. that being said, im still a horrible player, but im improving. How about other ppl just in rjce! hopefully our gallant exco can do something abt this eh. at least lets have one concert outside sch next year eh =) not that I hate the PAC or anything (old PAC joke by nichsien pops up "where do u find corn in the PAC?????




......the corner!!!" ok insert a dramatic pause somewhere and that might actually be funny. oh yeah and insert fake laughter too please. ok backontrack (yeah love running) but err if u have to choose between performing in the PAC and in the NAFA whateveritiscalled concerthall....err only the person who-is-as-old-as-the-tree-outside-my-beloved-hdb-block will choose PAC. oh yeah and two other random people. dun get it, theres always two random people choosing to kiss ass. ) and finally disclaimer...all names implied in the abovementionedpost are err...fictional and invalid? all products of my sick imagination. darn that reminds me of enthalpy change of reaction...its sum of enthalpies of formation of products minus sum of enthalpies of formation of reactants. Yep im mugging chem energetics now for those who are dim witted enough not to realise.


K need to get back to mugging. shall post abt the TWO omm concerts (in five days), us getting the HSBC youth excellence award (YAY WOOT XD XOXO) *btw anyone knows whats XOXO* and err my piano trio thing. and my love life. k bye!


(Disclaimer 2: the love life thing was purely fictional and was merely intended to arouse ur sleeping minds after reading that long post. that being said, no failblog pics today to cheer ya up! cant be bothered. alternatively, u can go there urself at failblog.org. promise loads of fun, laughter, err peace and joy there!)

bye.



(FINAL FACEPALM ADDITION: AHHHHHHHH REALISED THE LIBRARY POST IS BELOW FACEPALM ROLLING ON THE FLOOR FACEPALMING MYSELF). Ok i srsly didnt notice before typing this. BUTBUT the com srsly displayed some error and my post was gone!!!!!!!!! OK I guess I owe RJlibraryimacs an apology eh.....ok....sorry but i still prefer windows. so no apologies :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))

hahax.