BMTC POP

Finally today finished BMTC POP. Wednesday was the full day rehearsal. Thursday School 2 POP and today the School 1 POP. Saw Edwin (sp trumpeter) and Liang jie (sp percussionist) POPing. Quite a relax and easy job.
I broke my specs yesterday nite..><||..Old specs man..had been with my since yr 3. I dropped it on the floor and when I picked it up..it became 2 pieces..diaoz!! Had diffculty looking at stuff..esp buses..Cant see the mace and baton well also. Luckily there was the bass drum. Made a new pair juz now. My right eye had a drop in degree!!! Geez..frm 300 to 250 degrees. Left eye..no change. At least my right dropped. Better den nothing.

posted by gonnie at 9:13 PM

Backache..

I am having a bad backache right now..Jogged 2.4km route yesterday. I had not jogged for months..:Pp now..the sudden jog makes my back ache..I guess I have not been warming up properly (at least on my back.) I could hardly bend ard..making my movement really unfexible and inconvenient. Had been applying Yoko Yoko (a kind of muscle relieve med.) every hour and then. Thats so unbearable man.
My IPPT for this yr will start on 30th Sept. I better exercise for that...><||
My ORD leave was approved on Thursday. Woah another step closer to ORDing.
Attended IBM (spband I Believe in Music). 1st half was ensemble band (different section bringing out their item) Flutes sounded the best. The tbone section put up a slide presentation for the past alumnis. Touching. Percussion sort of performed a musical thingy. Very creative and enjoyable. The trumpets are not bad though a bit short (the performance la..). 2nd half was the combined full band. The freshman perf. 2 pieces and den combined wif the rest of the band members.
The full strength of spband massive. A total of 130 members!!! It has been a while I actually see so mani clarinets (well clarinets are sort of a endangered species in spband) and tubas! 9 tubas man...and thats a lot..The concert was not bad. Sound of the band was strong and big (of coz...so mani ppl) Basses are heard clearly. Very. Overall intonation was ok..hey is a 130membered band ok..hard to tune. I really wish the trumpets will project a bit more but their sounds in American Graph. was goot. Precise and clear.
Going to haf BMTC POP rehearsal next week.

posted by gonnie at 1:52 PM

You can view CTAWE concert photos here.

Did a funeral depolyment yesterday...is my 2nd one..

Had a weird dream yesterday morning...I dreamed that I was looking out of my window and saw a fast flowing river with lots of rocks on it. And there was a pillar in the middle of the river with a red button at the side. Den suddenly a girl appear in front of me. I dun remember wat happen but I knew that if I press the button on the pillar all the rocks will sink into the water. THats wat I did (I think so coz the rocks all sunk). I found myself in a boat with the girl and we were travelling downstream.
I realised I was going to have an adventure (like Indiana Jones..). We were going to a Pyramid to unearth some remarkable treasure. All I know was I seemed to know that the treasure is in an unground vault under the Pyrmid. It was superbly dark and dangerous (I haven arrived at the Pyramid yet..I juz know b4 when I was in the boat already..).
So eventually the girl and me reached the place which looks like a dock...the Pyramid entrance was juz beside the dock ><||. I remember that we were walking down this park in the Pyramid and suddenly gotten chased by guards..We hoped on to a train (huh a train in a Pyramid...). There was this skeleton gunner wanting to shoot me. The girl wacked the skele on its head and it crumbled ..I supposed it died..
Thats where I woke up..well my HP rang and it was my BOS asking me to go down for breakfast (I was doing duty). Werid dream.

Had my 3rd CTAWE concert on Thursday..I was having a bad time. Was in lowly low of the lowest form that day. Mispitches were free of charge...haiz...nevertheless..it was over..

Went to Zouk on Wednesday night/Thursday morning. Been quite a long time since I gone there. Went wif Zhien, Glen, Xuliang and Kelvin. Lots of hot chicks :pP (as usual). Met Glen's frenz there and both of them join us. I went home at 245am.

Will have off tml coz of the funeral depolyment we did yesterday.

posted by gonnie at 8:36 AM

AOH3-Photos

Took lots of picture during the last day of the AOH. You can view it here.
Now I will be having offs for the next 7days though I have to go back camp for duty on Friday...

posted by gonnie at 1:31 PM

AOH2

Over! Its finally over! After 5 days of hard work..4 shows each day...the AOH ended today.
Sharon Au and Christopher Lee came to host the final Mainstreet parade. We let ourselves go and dance and sing and shout!!! Simply fun and crazy! Party man.

posted by gonnie at 11:05 PM

AOH

Back at home at last. I haf been staying in camp since Thursday for the Army Open House. It 1st started on Thurday, and will end on Monday. I had the chance to return home tonite.
The grounds of SAFTI is opened to various primary/secondary schools on Thursday and Friday. Did 2 display and 2 mainstreet parade on Thursday and 1 display and 1 mainstreet parade on Friday. All were really goot (heard frm our specs). Lots of stuff to see and play. There were exhibition of all army stuff, frm arty to commandos to guards. On Friday morning, some of us went to try the Urban Warfare. It a game like laser quest. 10 vs 10 "capture the flag" competition. Each of us were given a STA 21 and a battle suit. 1st time using it. Kinda of heavy (we dunch hold rifle..). A laser thingy is attached to the tip of the rifle and when fired, it will emit a sensor. If you are hit, your rifle will render unless. You need to reset your battle suit to continue playing.
We were given 25 rounds of blanks to fire. To our surprise, our opponent were from the commandos unit!! SAF band B vs the commandos!! Lose liaoz...But in the end, we won...wow SAF band won commandos unit in Urban Warfare..tyco nia hahaha. But anyw it was a cool experience. You dun get to handle real rifle in a normal day.
There was also free milo drink for everyone. Yummy thick cooling milo. My fren drank 17 cups in 1 day...I wonder how he can do it...I only manage 4 :Pp. I got lots of free goodies from the Open House. There is one that you only need to do chin ups and you will get 1 goody pack frm them. Well it was not much but the bag was nice. Theres another game in which you are to stand in a rectangular box and catch flying pin pong balls for a prize.
We also saw Fiona Xie at the exhibition. Apparently she was there to film the Open House for some program. Everyone was standing there looking. Hahah.
Today is the offical opening of the Army Open House. Played fanfare for Minister Teo Chee Hean and then the display. Good job! :Pp Ended the day with the Main Street parade.
1 thing bad abt this parade is the meals. We were practically eating KFC everyday!!! I cant stand the sight of fried chicken now...Too much!!
Everyday is a tired day for us..Lets hope it will end soon and well.

posted by gonnie at 10:48 PM