juz came back from supper with jiayin, tim, michelle, amy, jac n dq.
was at NYJC attending the choir concert before that. i gotta know that their concert title was "Cadenza 2005", and was rather surprised by it. I tot "Cadenza III" wld be the last time the name "Cadenza" will be used for an NYJC choir performance. that was quite many years back liaoz.... 4 years liaoz. Cadenza was consonance's second public performance. think after that, nyjc dun have any concert liaoz. wah.... come to think of it, itz been quite long ago!
anyway, what i wanna say is, i was glad to know "Cadenza" is still being used. afterall, cadenza placed a special meaning to the older nyjc choristers. dun believe, ask junhong they all.
the concert was.... mediocre. actually, i found first half quite bad. many mistakes, and voices wasn't really geling. sounded rather stiff, and throaty. the basses was seriously lacking in past time with good company. sops weren't able to hit the high notes well. tenors was soft (but there are true tenors in the choir, not bad!), and i din listen much to altos. sunset and exsultate deo were quite a disaster i felt. but at least, the last 2 songs of the first half were much better though.
the cutest thing is, jiayin sang for one of the soloists! hahaha... it was quite distinct for me lar... having heard her sing for so many years. but charlene doesn't seem to have noticed it though.
second half was much better. they were doing walt disney medley. singing still wasn't very good, and they are very much on the softer side. but, the whole spirit is very good. i love their dances and choreography. it was lively, very bright, smiles on their faces, and they are feeling the music more. as such, they are able to convey it much better to the audiences too. nice!
glad to see the choir is still surviving strong. spirits still high. shiok. but come to think of it, hmm.... itz been many years since i've ever felt high and elated after concert.... and sad to say oso, i dun think i will feel much for this coming concert.
jiat lat... why huh? getting old?
*yawnz* i shall go and watch anime now... finish full metal alchemist liaoz. shiok! time to start reading Da Vinci Code!
*haven't downloaded the rest of the photos from my KL trip. after i've done so, i shall go complete my half written memo*
from the trip! shiok... nice trip. enjoy it very much. will post pictures and write abt the trip when i have more time. now, dun have. need to prepare to go choir... shack...
that woman from Lee Foundation is damn freaking rude siah
na hiay, juz now was calling Lee Foundation to ask abt grants and subsidies, and kanna a rude bitch.
called Lee Foundation and 6535 4055, got transferred and met a impertinent bitch.
me: "Hi, good afternoon. I am calling to know whether Lee Foundation provides any grants, subsidies or sponsorship in choral arts performances in Singapore...."
bitch: (interrupts, in rude tone) "WHAT CHORAL ARTS!?!"
me: "errhhmmm, choral arts as in choir performance..."
bitch: (seems buay siong) "UNDER WHAT BODY!?"
me: "errrmm, we are actually..."
bitch: (interrupts again) "WE ONLY GIVE TO NON-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS"
me: (feeling #*!^&#*&) "only to non-profit organisations only izzit? okay. thanks. bye." (hangs up)
after that, i feel more and more buay song... hahaha.... but Lee Foundation dun have a website. feel like complaining oso dun have a complain line or email to direct to.... na bei.... sianz....
i probably call at a wrong time... around 4:30pm... cos my singnet account cocked up. cannot access my emails inside, and the contact numbers are inside one of the emails.... lan lan... that asshole probably juz want to finish me off and pack her bag...
P.S: and oh, will i get sued for mentioning names here? i hum chee... i clarify. i only say SOME SPECIFIC BITCH is rude hor... nothing else intended hor. (look how well some organisations has protrayed Singapore as... woohoo~~~)
help! who got NAC, Lee and Shaw Foundations email contacts?
wanted to write abt the VJC concert i went juz now, but after finishing the previous post, i realised i've forgotten what i wanted to write liaoz. hahahahah~~~~
anyway, vjc choir isn't really that good this year. victoria chorale is so so so much better.... esp the male voices. vjc guys are too dull and heavy, while vc guys are so much brighter and clearer. enjoyed the short performance by vc more than vjc on the whole.
anyway, does anyone reading this blog have email contacts to NAC, Lee and Shaw Foundations? i need them. gotta do some work. URLs oso can (i got NAC urls, give me Lee and Shaw Foundations ones)
money impt? yeah... so important until pple want to cheat me out of it... haiiz
haha... my title says it all rite?
last week, a thursday i think, i was at a KTV with my friends. a call came.
from an army friend. was surprised that he called.
a bit of description of this army friend of mine. he likes to gamble quite a bit. on top of that, he borrows money to gamble, and takes a long time to return to pple. but hey, dun look down on him. i think he wins more than he loses.
so when he called me, i guess high chance he wants to borrow money from me. tot of not picking it up, but well, eventually i did pick it up.
and indeed, he was seeking to borrow money from me. 100 bucks.... not a large sum. so i tot, i juz try try lor. lend him, so maybe can help him a bit. if cannot get back the money, itz not a large sum after all. he said he will return me by the end of next week.
monday nite, i recieved an sms from this same person. read the sms, and was caught by surprised. he actually asking my bank account number so that he can return me money first! half of it, $50. okay, i was surprised, but glad.
but then, the next morning, he msged me again. this time, crapped a lot. say he got into some problems with the bank. bank cannot release money etc blah blah blah.... so asked if i can lend him another 100 bucks, and he return me 150 bucks at the end of the week.
thatz it.
he confirm is trying to con me money liaoz. 放长线，钓大鱼 huh? return me a bit of money first, then borrow again, thinking that i will think that he will return me the money.
haiiz.... i guess i can tell myself i've donated $50 to a charity liaoz.
hahahahahahah..... forget it
somehow, i m being treated like a fool. itz okay that he dun return me the money... cos i never really did think that he will. out of thinking "ok, give him a chance. can help, then help a bit lor", i lend him the money. nvr return nmd. take my kindness as shit nmd.
what i hate is, he is taking me like an idiot. ni na bei chao chee bye, do i look like a fool?
cos i've not been using eudora anymore, so i was thinking no point keeping it inside my computer. so i juz deleted it away.... not back from dhoby ghaut, and supposed to send xieli and jennifer gmail invites, i suddenly realised i dun have their emails anymore.... hahahahahahahahaha.
crap.
nmd.... i dun email pple very often anyway. but still, itz good to keep a nice list of emails around. i think i juz gave myself some more work to do during this holiday.
might go for a road trip to malaysia next weekend. discussed that with daniel they all during the chalet. shiok. and after the discussion, drank until siao!! i think first time i drink until this sei. the rest oso drink until a bit mad diaoz. some even vomit. heng i stop before i need to vomit. but that feeling did come.... and i took that as a major hint to stop. *phew* sei but still sober enuff to stop.
activities pack. i think will go nus later this morning to get my laptop reformat. then i think i will take whole day to get most of the programs re-installed into my lappie. sat got choir. sunday can rest at home. monday going to xieli's hse play mahjong.
so many things. and i have to bloody get my ass moving to run.
the title says it all, pls do not watch "Divergence".
if u have money to spare, u can use them to buy me a present.
anyway, gotten $30 HMV vouchers from xianghong, junhong and yanhong as a bday present. cool~~ i can use them to buy myself a earphone then. save money save money.
mother's day. went chomp chomp. totalled $80 worth of food.... a bit "kua zhang" but it was a damn satisfying meal
yesterday night went to watch "The Kingdom of Heaven" with jiayin they all. quite a nice show. i oso gotten a free haversack for my bday present. haha.... now i can save money from getting a new one =P
before the show, went to Borders and walk walk... was thinking to myself that i shld try to pick up a few books to read in this holidays... there are quite a few things i wanna do leh
1) must get my body back to shape liaoz... haven't been doing exercise for one whole year liaoz. esp during exams keep eating good food =P gotta try to wake up earlier each day and do some 5BXs and running... hopefully can get back decent fitness before my stupid reservist comes and haunt me again
2) wanna do some reading... of any sort. saw a book named "The Rule of Four". Seems quite interesting. oso wanna read "The Da Vinci Code". Heard that itz intriguing. Am reading (and finishing) "Totto-chan"
3) wanna go for a trip. China trip not going liaoz. see if thailand trip materialise.
4) wanna learn some other programming stuffs too. wanna pick up some photoshop skills, learn visual basic, or javascript/html/php (i.e. web design programming).
5) and if i do (4), then i can revamp this blog. have oso applied for a 50MB webspace (free anyway) that is given to ISE students free. with some web knowledge, i can juz go and play around with that 50MB.
6) still pondering shld i get a job. need money to do all of the above. but feeling lazy.
7) do some packing/cleaning of my room. this i think one weekend shld be enuff.
8) reformat my harddisk. am already in the midst of tidying and backing up my stuffs liaoz. half-way thru.
9) copy all my MP3s into cds nicely (including naming all the songs nicely, printing cover pages etc etc)
10) finish watching the animes which i've downloaded and never really did get to watch them.
dunnoe what else liaoz.... but thatz quite a lot of things to keep myself occupied already. will add more when i tot of them.
there are some other things i need/want to buy too.... thatz why i need money. guess lan lan i must work....
1) i gotta get a 512MB memory stick to upgrade my lappy a little bit. after i've finish reformatting it of cos
2) get a mp3 player... my CD player's spoilt for a long time liaoz.... but this is luxury. it can wait.
3) get a new earphone. the current one getting cranky. but this can wait too.
4) get a new handphone. this, i will get it this hols.
5) wanted to get a haversack, but i've gotten it for my present liaoz. yay! the current one i m using is going to fall apart.... everywhere is holes....
6) another 100 blank cds... i left none now...
7) another pair of blue jeans. and a windbreaker too.
....better dun list down too much.... wun be able to afford them.... guess itz time for my ERS to come out liaoz.... unless i force my parents to release my own money from the fix deposit.... they dun allow me to do so when i refuse to take allowance from them (so now i lan lan... gotta feed on them liaoz)
heng the last paper (cs) was do-able... juz that there is time is seriously lacking in completing the paper though... but heck siah. results come out then say =P
anyway, went out with the mugger peepz (julius, daniel, james and johnny)... rather, itz the SINGAPOREAN TEAM in ise (except for johnny)
ate until siao... ate lunch in yih at 111, ate at chinatown at 5, ate again at far east plaza at 9, then again at 3am at lau pa sat.... shiok siah
but then, in the end i only had 2.5 hrs of sleep, and i have to wake up to go watch the SYF competition.
this year all the choirs did quite well.... with probably only YJC and CJC being quite off.... YJC got the only bronze and i think CJC probably barely scrap though the silver.
ajc was damn good though! vast improvement... in fact, i think ajc is the best choir that day (but i nvr get to hear acjc cos i was late... but the rest said they din do as well as previous years...)
and i went to pee during hwa chong's performance... sianz... heard that they did damn well too.
anyway, nyjc gotten a silver. a clear silver, but not very near to the gold i think. after their performance, i m pretty sure they will not be able to get the gold this time. in fact, i think pjc overall did better than nyjc. (btw, jiayin is conducting pjc too).
but still, i m proud of nyjc choir, as always.
looking forward for the next syf~~~ (that time, i will be year 4 liaoz.... kaoz. 25 years old...)
nOthiNg rEallY inTerEstinG aBt me....
a mUgger in nUS, a loNer in liFe, a cHoiristEr in mY alUmnI cHoiR...
oH, smThing to bE prOuD of mYselF, cuRRent CAP 4.9...wiLL conTinUe to uPdatE thIs in tHe fUtUre.
bTw, i dId thIs blOg juZ foR fUn oNly...WannA kNoW hOw thIs workS...
oH...aNd aNothEr btW, i'vE reAllY baD gRamMer...so iF u R noT haPpY wiTh it, pLs sTop reAdinG n clOsE yoUr wiNdoW...dUn agoNisE uRselF...
