ahhhh pardon me for letting my blog lie stagnant for 2 weeks. *chokes on the mound of the dust collected*
well, life goes on after syf - emotions are evanescent after all. now busy preparing for the upcoming band concert, etude 32.
i think my conductor might have gone off his rocker, because the pieces we're playing make internal combustion sound like twinkle twinkle little star.
FANTASY VARIATIONS. *a clap of thunder and a flash of lightning* (lol i'm kind of into stupid effects today)
nightmare for any band player, esp. if you play the brass instrument that resembles a small tuba(as defined in the oxford english dictionary).
and stage band, SIGH still havent finalised stuff yet, and we're still in the planning process, i need a miracle.

okay la enough about band. its really true that men are from mars and women are from venus! a new study from professor lam has showed that our brains function on entirely different wavelengths and our dna is only 98.9% identical, compared to monkeys whose dna is 99% similar. lol okaaay that was crap.

gp and econs tmr!

this is it, i have turned the corner. i see it now, the final last 100m, they lie so invitingly ahead - the most difficult 100m though.
i see the crowd, the 800 odd people peering down at us. the pressure is immense. the tension in the room causes the air to be colder than it actually is; a clap cuts the tension, like a scissors does a taut string.
our riposte is the swift movement of the conductor's arm - a wave of the starting flag, the bang of the gun as we embark on this final 100m, the most important 100m, the 20min we have practised 200 hours for.

what more can i say. tears, sweat and blood have been shed for this day. was it worth crying for you? was it worth blowing our lungs out (literally)? was it worth straining every single muscle in our body to force out that high A flat, or that extra half a beat's worth of a long note?
YES IT WILL BE!
but most importantly, i submit tomorrow into the mighty hands of God. let your will be done.

music quotes

ahh im stuck rotting at home on a sunday evening with no mood to do homework.
OHH and i found some really cool quotes about music! here are the ones which struck me.

1. A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. -Leopold Stokowski
2. Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. -Ludwig van Beethoven
3. The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. -Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
4. Music is love in search of a word. -Sidney Lanier
5. You are the music while the music lasts. -T.S. Eliot
6. Music can noble hints impart,
Engender fury, kindle love,
With unsuspected eloquence can move,
And manage all the man with secret art. -Joseph Addison

OKAY.. that was random. hmmm wish i could write them all on the band board but i doubt it would help us. let me see.. 111 hours more till our time on stage!