reflection

band:
wow much?

whoever would have thought i’d join a group in melb? sure i wanted to continue my drum lessons and start dance class.. but doing both at the same time isn’t exactly cheap. and i left my drum sticks and silent pad in sg. silly me.

i guess it’s really God’s grace. they needed percussionists, i wanted to be part of a band. now i can strike it off my bucket list. (= the biggest drawback was, i can’t read notes or scores to save my life.

1) can’t side read..
2) band score? never saw that before
3) i remember that 4/4 is.. but the others? what?

ok in a nutshell i was a liability to the percussion section, and to the band. no kidding. hey i don’t even know when to hit the drum. what’s more. the drum has like what, ONE note. oh yea i couldn’t hit the triangle properly either. hey o hey o.

which is weird cos when i told my friends i joined the band they all asked “geez what are you gonna play? the triangle?!” and i’m like “uhh yea..” i guess the funniest part was that i couldn’t even do it properly.

pretty much wanted to quit after the first practice. there was band camp that weekend, didn’t feel like going.. because
1) i’m just gonna suck either way…
2) strangers + me.. er.. hmm.

for the record, i made friends (haha milestone!) during camp and i wrote every single beat on the band score.

helped out for the orchestra’s prac, couldn’t read the scores again. conductor came up to me after prac, i seriously thought he was going to tell me that i really, really sucked (haha i hit everything wrongly you see) but instead he got us to join the orchestra cos they needed percussionists. (okay wow what just happened there did he not hear what i played?)

camp ended. i kinda knew when to hit what and all. fellow percussionist sent me the links for the songs in youtube, photocopied the scores for me, and i went home to beat the shit outta my table. tap tap tap everyday before i started work, and after i got done with work.

turned out well i suppose. (= i no longer needed to count bars and all and i instead listened to the melody and hit the air-bass drum at the right time. band has a nice special place in my life right now. gives me something to look forward to. and it’s also one of the first times i’ve joined something, and not quit.. (commitment issues, tl;dr) i can safely say i’m not bored of band. hooray!

which brings me to…

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150603265510545&comments

(can’t embed fb vid..)

i guess it’s just the feeling of ‘woah achievement well done char i see you didn’t give up’ that makes me happy.

i left my scores in the cymbal bag and i can’t get it back. i probably should try to though cos i think i left a letter btwn the stacks too. ack. )=

okay off to do my essays now.

2011

no pictures.

2010, safe to say was a rocky year but i guess it made me more awesome than ever.

let’s see…

jan
still in poly.. slogging my guts out..
drummed for the first (and last in 2010) time in church. people thought i was a guy even though i was wearing a pink jacket
baby passed away. (i love the pinwheel kx got for me to remember her by though. (=)
liked a guy who used to like me but things didn’t work out because i felt he was kinda sticky…
attended a wedding on jan 1st.

feb
CNY
school was over.
reunion dinner, and for the first time in 20 yrs, a dog was allowed inside my house and momsy didn’t scream even though he pooped and peed.
discovered popo had cancer

march
went to the kelong with cass, qi, teck, junny, momsy, dad and bro.
passed my driving.
gave out apples at TTSH to cheer the patients on.
worked in LEAF as a bargirl/waitress

april
went to taiwan
went to penang
lost popo due to cancer
grand aunty cheng sim passed away a week after.
was torn between uni in sg or melb and i was torn and frustrated.
decided to go to melb.

may
graduated from poly officially

june
went to the zoo with teck, pre, lamley and cass
start of the world cup season
tay ping hui got married. (wtf?)

july
cried balls a month before leaving singapore.
went to melbourne to study
germany didn’t win the world cup (SHAME ON YOU)

august
started skipping lectures. haha! :p
momsy came to find me.
lost grand aunty wang hong due to cancer

september
sis and bro came to melb.
went to tim burton’s exhibition
went to sydney, saw the harbour, wanted to climb the bridge but there wasn’t enough time
went to gold goast, visited sea world and movie world
went to my first ripley’s believe it or not muesum.
liked another guy, went bananas. hah!
watched ice hockey for the first time

october
mugged for school

november
sat for exams in a really huge and grand hall.
went surfing for the first time in my life
celebrated my first birthday overseas

december
went to cairns to scuba dive. met many hot guys. yum. feared the ocean, hated going underwater because i was so stressed out, went underwater, stoned underwater, fell in love with the idea of being near corals, the quietness..
went back to singapore for a visit
went to langkawi, parasailed, jungle trekked
went to penang (again)
had one of the worst holiday moods ever.

and that’s a wrap!

and this jan…
i went for a wedding. 1st jan. again! maybe i’ll have another wedding to attend next yr on 1st jan? hmm.

reflection

there was hail today.
and i missed it.
GREAT.

people have been telling me i’m really lucky to be in australia, this is where i’ve all the freedom i can get… even my parents tell me to be careful and not abuse my freedom. funny. do they not know me at all? (=

for one, i feel that i have more freedom in singapore. weird, but true. aussie’s fine, no complaints, my house is huge(er) than other people’s, thank goodness. because i would feel caged up and cornered. i have a roommate, we look out for each other, great. i make new friends here, great, because everyone know how i am anti-social in singapore.

i still, kinda miss going out at 10pm, 2am for supper, i miss going over to pancake’s toyogo box, waking him up, and holding him and then screaming when he bites me. haha.

and i have realised i need A LOT of space. not to do my stuff, but personal space. i’m really happy because i have no one to “account” to. if i had a boyfriend/girlfriend, then it’d be really hard because of all the new people i’m meeting. i gotta mind my words, actions, and think about what i’m doing before i actually do it.. that kinda thing..

this is quite senseless actually!

feeling quite sick right now i’ve been losing weight and i know my body’s stressed up but i can’t do much about it. i don’t even know why my body is stressed cos i’m feeling happy…..

okay i gotta sleep soon nighty night! food post sooon