NYTE's blog 2008

Borodin

2008-08-23T07:08:00.001-07:00

Hello TE. In order to save our DYING blog, I shall post something. >=(
Here's a video from youtube that shows the playing of the Borodin String Quartet Miss janice was talking about.
It's really nice, really.....except that I can't really hear the Violin 2 person clearly, while the violin 1 person play until super loud at the begining and they were all rocking from side to side wildly. hehee, lol. enjoy anyway.

Will we be like them someday, somehow? geesh. I don't know.

All I know for now is that you guys must practise like xiao from today! :)

JY alright!

~Jy

Music is a Language

2008-08-23T07:07:00.003-07:00

Woohooo! I started learning Jap today....hehe...though I'm not posting anything that's related to TE but JAP IS FUN!

haha....and hiragana is EASY. easy-peasy.
A E I O U
KA KI KU ....er then I forgot. I can't remember all 46 characters just yet. I can't write out all too but I think i will soon be able to....haha...
Would rather take Jap as my 3rd Lang then FRENCH! Aaraargh! French has so many grammar rules i'm sick of them...Not like Jap, it's so cute and much more easier than french, but i still like both. haha.

Anyway, JIAYOUs everyone for the upcoming blocks! Jiayou jiayou jiayou!
And for those who are still in TE, hurry up practice and go TE! :)
Hm....why aren't you people posting anything? I'm sure you all have lots to say! Enthu, enthu!
Where has it gone?? P:

Well that's all for now then. ^^
See ya.
* Have i crapped enough? *
> C~JY < "Jap rocks!"

My story....XP

2008-08-23T07:07:00.001-07:00

Hello, Jy Here. :) hehe
TE rocks! Haha, but then it wasn't my first choice in my choice of CCA list to come to NYSE too. And I DON'T really like music at all when i first started out piano. Yeh. I love art, and hope to join AEP when i come to NY, but then it was my mom who forced me to join HMP, then later on forced me to go in strings.

When i started out piano, it was like forcing a lion or tiger or whatever carnivorous animal to eat veggies. I hated music like hell and I protested but my mom just ignored me and continued asking my piano teacher to teach me and expect me to get distinction for all my piano grades which obviously i didn't. I nearly failed my grade 4 (or was it 5?) ABRSM exam. I didn''t really care that much and wanted to join art classes but my mom said no and I went emo-ing in my room.

To show my mother how much i loved art, i drew everyday and didn't even touch the piano. (haha, i admit i was silly that time.....XD) My mother scolded me but i didn't care that much too.. ..p:

Anyway, after forcing me like siao i finally gave in and then I started practicing everyday like crazy until i finally got a distinction for my grade 6 practical, and that's when I fianlly appreciated music and fell madly in love with it since then. (haha, it was a miracle, seriously...)
But i still love art a lot........

You should already be bored now, so i shall stop crapping now about all this nonsense.
Ooohh and i found all of yixuan's and chia wei's stories nice and i hope the rest of TE can post about themselves.....:) pls pls! it's fun to read....hehe.

-JY p:

加油，TE！

2008-08-23T07:06:00.003-07:00

Yo TE,

another nice rehearsal again with you guys. XD

But too bad now we lost another member, which is Yixuan. :(

And we had already lost Michelle....:(

Anyway, good luck everyone and jiayou for the rest of the year! Practice hard ! ;D

加油，TE！

~

2008-08-23T07:06:00.001-07:00

hello:D chia wei here:D TE rawks!
tho i am sort of forced into stringgs,i love TE:D
i shall type out mua story
ONCE UPON A TIME,IN A FARAWAY LAND...AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER
i learn chinese dance since i was 3 which is about 10 years already.
i tried to get into NY thru chinese dance last time...which obviosly i failed to do so.i stop learning chinese dance for quite awhile already...since my grade 8 examination which took place last year december...the day we got back our PSLE result...suey!i also stopped for about another half a year between P5 and P6.okay..that is not the main point.
i am sort of forced to do everything i do, learnt and whatever...even coming to NY. my brother was in HCI and my sister is in NY...so it seemed that i am/will/supposed to/must come to NY.the pressure was like OMG!okay...examples of stuff i am forced to do:take third lang,learn violin,join NYSE.
let's talk about it one by one
-third lang-
my sister takes japanese for third language for sec 1 and 2. she cannot continue because of AEP. at first, my mother asked me whether i want to pick up a new language and i replied NO straightaway.she asked me why, i say i don't like it and it is optional not a must. then she started to give me a lot of reasons like since i have the opportunity, why don't i learn it?there's no harm trying something new. your sister is as busy as you and she can take jap and cope with her studies why cant you?(hey! c'mon. we are two different person with totally different characteristics and personalities) then she asked me again...can i say no? maybe i can...but to stop her from babbling on and on again...the only thing i can say is...YES
-violin-
my sister got her piano grade 7 this year and my brother got his violin grade 8 when he was(i think)sec 1.he used to learn piano and stop when his violin was around grade 5. i tried piano for the first half of p5.i suck.so my mother wanted e to try other instruments.i told her i don't want to. i was rather busy then with a lot of cca, activities ,school work and all. then she started using my siblings as examples again...this time i didn't say yes...i just nodded my head. i think she saw me hesitate, so on my brother's next violin lesson, she asked the teacher straight away. so when he said that he can teach me...i got basically no way to turn back.
-stringgs-
maybe it is my fault...i've always wanted to join chinese dance and even expect myself to join chinese dance if i get into NY or maybe confirmed that i will join chinese dance. so when my mother told me to join strings i was rather puzzled. i assumed that she will agree to me joining chinese dance. so we talked to each other for one whole night just discussing(or forcing) about what CCA i should join. of course, i mouth is not as powerful as hers, i surrendered.
i hated violin....so much that i feel like throwing it out of the window sometimes when i practice.i hate people forcing me to do stuff that i don't want to. especially when it is not compulsory. she made it seemed as tho it is...
maybe it is becoz of my da sao, maybe becoz of you guys, maybe becoz i got no choice...i started to love STRINGGS:D i hated it that i am unable to join the day camp during the june holidays. TE is nice:D maybe becoz it is compared to ME...it is so much better, more fun and all:D
okay i am crapping in the post...this is a rather long winded one...
shall stop talking about sad sad stuff which is in the past
shall post some random pics i took on tuesday

ho ho! this is our dear cecilia doodling on the TE board! haha. it that zhi yuan at the back?

yoo hoo!! my oh-so-cute exdesk partner adjusting her specs:D say cheese!

aha!cecilia and ashley!! should be yi xuan at the back....oh! she's going to ME:( i'll miss ya!

our two deary cellist and one and only violist! i wonder why zi qing looks so happy:D

a rather cool looking plastic bag, dontcha think so?
MPH unscramble it HMP
:D:D:D:D:D haha. i am being rather lame
did our dear ex-TE concert mistress chose it on purpose?

MILKY BARS FROM MICHELLE!!!
oh how sweet can she be?
lovely milky bars:D
okay..no more pics
this is a awfully boring and no content post
content 0/10
language 1/10
creativity -1/10
total 0/10
OH I FAILED!
okay this post is getting lamer
shall stop here!
hope you guys don't mind me post the photos

:)chiawei V1

XD

2008-08-23T07:05:00.005-07:00

Here to crap.
Regards to Hilary's comment on how my post was like two or three lines only, I might TRY (only try) to crap more in this particular post.
I would like to say properly that CECILIA and I made this blog. It was so not made by myself. I chose the blog skin and Cecilia made the email/blog account, whatever you call it.
Well, miss janice is back and mr sze is coming back. at 8 july or something liddat. (Sheesh. it is already the 5th of july and yet i havent practised a single piece he gave me. i m officially DEAD.) Let's not think about the unhappy things. ><>
I just started viola this year and I kinda was 不爽at the fact that i could not continue to learn violin like i previously had learnt in my primary school for only like half a year. And the teacher did not care about us one, he just like good and not good. I have never even known about what exactly was intonation problems until i found out when I joined this CCA.
Joining this CCA wasn't exactly what I had wanted anyway. I had thought that I could actually get to join other CCAs other than music as being a HMP student, I would be exposed to quite a lot of music. In order to escape music, I had thought I wanted a sports CCA or something, something totally unrelated to music. But, I later found out that music CCAs are actually COMPULSORY for HMP-ers. I was like, why did I even wanted to join HMP in the first place when there are so many restrictions. Thus so, I got into NYSE unexpectedly. (I did not even go for the auditions cause I didn't realize we HAVE to join music CCAs)
After joining this CCA, not able to continue violin was like my worse nightmare. Nothing just seemed right to me that moment and I just blamed myself for the bad luck I had. Now, I liked viola and even liked this CCA. Viola's sound quality is actually much more unique and nicer than a violin's! CCAs are fun when I get to play as an ensemble with other people. We produce a nice harmony and the music is really nice.

Well, I hope you somehow got the idea how i ended up in NYSE and in Viola section. (:

*hoped i have crapped enough*

-Yixuan

mwahaha

2008-08-23T07:05:00.003-07:00

Hello all TE members. At Cecilia's and Yi Xuan's request I shall post this post, and try to make it as long-winded and as beat-around-the-bushy as possible.

First, hello to this very new blog which Yi Xuan has so nicely created for all of us. I hope that all of us will contribute a lot to keep this blog alive, get good grades (hey looky here! 3 G's!) for all assessments by Mr Sze, participate in the SYF in the year 2009, and last and the least, get into Main Ensemble (aka ME) as soon as possible so that we can go overseas and slack like mad.

Next, I have to let into you all a very secretive secret: MY BASS TEACHER'S BORROWED 300-DOLLAR BOW BROKE ON FRIDAY! yay how nice. I didn't exactly SEE it break... So for more information please look for the anonymous girl named "Yuan Mei" (hp. no: 555-5555-555). Hahahaha. And the bow was so colourful! What a pity...

Gentle but un-gentle reminder to you all: THERE IS NO CCA ON THURSDAY BUT THERE IS NEXT TUESDAY. yay. so we have one free day (which is today by the way) and I'm currently using it to post on this new-but-already-dead blog. How wondrous.

And another thing: POST MORE DUDES AND DUDEDS. this blog is far deeper from dead already (other than the tagboard, which is being spammed by Yi Xuan).

Great, great. My long-windedness is working so perfectly. I already managed to type so much while all you pathetic lost souls could only type one or two sentences.

Okay that's it for now. I shall go and reconcile myself...

-iceheart D: