Yay!

I've edited my former post to make it less offensive... the title oso...

Anyway, I'm so happy!

Why? read on!


a smb message:
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Re: National Brass Competition
From: Melissa Lai-Choo Siew Gek 01-12-07
To: CCA School Band

Hi guys,

6 boys took part in the above competition and did us proud! They
scored 84 points, which makes us 1ST PLACE!! I will announce to sch
once I get the official results...but congrats to the boys, great job!!

Attached is their performance video...sad to say resolution is
pretty poor...well, in the first place my cam not that great,
somemore the original file size is very large so I had to re-encode
it to something much smaller so u can download...so of coz quality
gone case...still, u can hav fun figuring who's who...:)

By the way, i think the black shirt and bright color tie looks very
nice and smart, how about using that as indoor performance attire
next year? your comments in the response box...:)

Oh yes, reminder- Monday reporting time: 9 am SHARP! Don't be late
for exam...:)

Mrs Lai

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Haha! Just read the first paragraph and you'll know why I'm happy!

The rest is just an example of how Mrs Lai's post sound like: informal and interesting and catchy...


On that day, we went to sch at 11+ to warmup and prepare for the competition.]

Around 3 am (we had to report at 3.29am as we are performing at 3.57am), we took off to YMS (Young Musician's Society) which is near Sim Lim Square.

I took Darence Leng (my conductor) 's car with 3 others while the rest, including 2 seniors, took mrs lai's car

Mrs Lai's car is a light-blue nissan dunno-what which is kind of cute, and leng said that the colour is girly and so is the car

There are tons od plush toys in mrs lai's car and he used 3 "bears" to be cushions for the instrument in the boot

"Boohoo," said mrs lai
"U very zabo leh, so many dolls," said leng
"Haha," said us

"lame..." says u


We arrived and went to warmup shortly after, and while waiting to warmup we ate mars bars (i ate half a mars bar)

We tuned and did the starting... so nervous are we...

Then someone come in and tell us to get out cuz we will be performing.

So we got out and walked down the stairs (we walked up the stairs to warmup) and entered the auditorium, which is around a quarter the size if our school's audi...

We got up the stage and moved the chairs back and moved the stands up front and completely ignored the seating plan arranged for us (the audience may think that we siao) cuz we need to do some choreography.

So we started (some audience beneath frowned because mebbe the starting wasn't that good) and we played (some of the audience smiled as they recognised the melody we're playing and they moved to the rhythm) and the audience seemed to be impressed by our playing.

After that we left...

Leng treated us to McDonalds and while eating, a senior which accompanied us to the competition and gave us support called Leng...

And WE GOT FIRST! YAY!

Guess that we won not because we were very good, but the other teams were lousy... haha...

This is a quote found by a participant who's also a blogger (blog address http://breathesodeep.blogspot.com/) : "Haha, you can say that we were owned by Hwa Chong Institution Brass Sextet."

What a joy reading that sentence. I can feel the pride in me man!


Anyway, cheers*



ps. the gift for 1st prize is a $300 voucher to a music shop i dunno where...