Date : Saturday, December 20, 2008
Time : 9:09:00 pm
Title : My CCA commitments..

JC & Poly Band Festival.
Been very busy with this as this period of 17-21 Dec is the Band Fest period, held at NIE. Took up almost all my time as this lasts for the whole day. Had to put off social bookings till after the concert tomorrow.
Today was the last day we had combined practices and sectionals at NIE.
Been having lunch at the NTU canteen, which has pretty much good food at an affordable price, the western food there is cheaper than the canteen in SRJC.
Got to mingle around & know people from all over pre-U institutions in Singapore.
Only 9 JCs and 4 Poly participate in this Band Festival. But the band strength of each band is considerably large..

The Band Festival concert tomorrow is at Esplanade concert hall, 5 PM-7.30 PM. Tickets selling at $13 for circle seats and $16 for stall seats. Anyone who wants to buy tickets can google up Esplanade events and purchase tix thru Sistic. (:
Verdi and Puccini band each play 3 pieces. Honour Band play 4 pieces.

The pieces are quite hard but with practice its made easier. Been trying to pitch the freakin' high notes. Playing level 1 of a score is tiring & can make you die. Been trying to figure out some rhythm & trying to catch up on some fast parts but practice made it better I guess.... We completed all our pieces & our conductor let us try sightreading on some very difficult scores of a much higher grade. The original speed is like 2 beats per bar on certain parts & there are so many quarter notes & triplets bla bla... our brain not that fast enough to process all the music information within milliseconds lah. Crazy speedy fast tempo. Can't even catch.
There's a part with Alto Clef & I've no idea what is it yet... I only know treble and bass clef. I shall google more about band stuffs! (:

Overall, the band fest experience is fun. A good place to refill my passion & enjoy myself while learning.. hahahahaha. After all the music lessons & theory, I miss my keyboard piano which I abandoned & its lying dead in my room. I feel like playing the piano all of a sudden. D:

Been taking like 1.5 hour/about 2 hours to travel to and fro from home to NTU and vice versa. The journey is long during peak hours... so anyone who is going University in the year 2011 can pool money with me & share a hostel room with me if we ever enter NTU! Haha! The Hall of Residence there looks nice & a 5-star cottage feeling. Bestie is my first choice for a roommate. Imagine doing assignments n mugging sessions. :P

Off to send an e-mail to wawa, love ya!