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# 19/0/06 - 20/07/06-
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go:
it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
Heyy.
Sry huh. all you readers out there. i've missed a day in the blogosphere. Please understand. I've been rather busy these days, and i can't really afford to update every single day. The "O"s are just 15 weeks away. I've got to start my revision any time now. okayy. here i go.
20/07/06
Today was quite a fun day, first thing in the morning, we were called to assemble at the auditorium. Because Mr Lee wanted to have a talk with us. The teachers mentioned it was good news. So everyone was like rushing down. You see, the auditorium has limited seats, i think not enough to accomodate the whole secondary 4 level. Guess what, there was the good news, and the bad news. I shall start with the good news first.
The good news is, our 10 mins break we usually have from 9.40-9.50 everyday, is now being extended to 10.00. Why? The teachers have our interests at heart i suppose. They say, its normal to be hungry, to miss breakfast, or even feel sleepy during our recent english remedials from 7.00 to 8.00 every morning, so they intentionally alotted this time slot, for us to purchase our food in the canteen, or chill out at the students' lounge. This applies only for the sec fours. Thoughtful of the teachers i might say. Hey man, the school isn't such a bad place to be in after all. I'm starting to enjoy this. ;)
Just as everyone was getting rowdy, here came the bad news. Yesterday, a few reporters came to our school. For what purpose, you might ask. Trust me, it was nothing good. I think i haven't mentioned anything about the blogs that are against our school yet? Have I? Okayy. here goes. the reporters obviously found the blog. www.thisblogdoesnotexist.blogspot.com . There, our head-prefect was insulted, then the teachers were insulted too. That joker has been warned. He spammed untrue rumours all over, and we even had an RI guy telling him not to insult his own school. I hope he deletes his blog soon...or else by next week, it'll be a police case. Things will really start getting ugly.
Okayy!
Enough le. Other happenings ! haha =)
My chinese paper add 1 mark! now 56 marks . CHEERS ! had a HCL test today, quite easy , but i didn't have much time to complete the paper. I guess i hung at the students' lounge for too long. Was late for lesson .
Mrs. Neo is soooooooo good. She didn't reprimand me for not bringing my stuff. I think she knows i didn't bring anything, but she just took a look at me, but as i was copying her notes, so i guess that did the trick :)
I can't believe i forgot to bring my physics file to school today. Thats very wrong. 'cause im supposedly the only one who HAS a complete file. I didn't really expect poh choon to come out with a file, too. But mine was still thicker. Haha. Went to SK's house today...but his bro was at home. SO i didn't really get to do anything. We caught a movie though. Pirates of the Carribean.
Thats a hella darn good show. 4/5 !
Life is forever still so unexpected. I was on the train from toa payoh to dhoby ghaut , when this girl boarded the train at somerset. Haha. First look, i was stunned. The girl looked like hui zhuang...my pr school classmate. Haha. her uniform had the insignia NYGH. i take that to be Nanyang Girls High? i suppose so. After i got home, i checked her friendster. Guess what. she is from NYGH. Like, Oh-My-God. i think she saw me too. hahas. What a nice way of reunion huh.
I'm watching the Singapore Idol Results Show now. I'll stop here for today.
Man, i hope Paul, Jay and Joakim make it in huh.
bye !
aXiomaTicaL =)
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19/07/06
The harder you fall,
the higher you bounce.
Today's post will be rather short i would say. Thats because nothing much really happened, all but what that stupid john did to me. =) no offence there.
And so it went like this.
Mr Heng gave us a small test or whatever he calls a practice on japanese music. Yea, we're learning about japanese music and all that. Its rather linked to the chinese orchestra instruments, i would say, like for example, the ryuteki resembles the chinese dizi, while the shamisen resembles the sanxian and so on. Okay. So we were supposed to listen to an extract. and answer the following questions.
(a) What is the instrument playing here?
(b) Describe the instrument.
(c) In western music terminology, what genre do you think this piece is in?
(d) What form, (in that genre) do you think it is??
(e) Describe the musical function of this instrument in the piece.
(f) Describe one instrumental effect evident in this extract. How is this achieved?
okayy. And so i heard the recording, and i said. Thats a Biwa... Its a Lied. and through-composed. What did john say? I followed his answers, as he was usually the one who did better amongst the two of us. Check this. i wrote john's suggestions in.
Answers
(a) Shamisen. Ans : Biwa
(b) Obviously the description was wrong. (a) is wrong already. Ans : bearing particular resemblance to the chinese Pipa, the biwa has 3 tuning pegs at the top, 4 strings streched over the wide resonator box, and is played either by strumming of plucking, with the use of thimbled fingernails.
(c) Oratorio . Ans : Lied.
(d) Binary form. Ans : Through-composed.
(e)Accompaniment. Ans : Accompaniment.
(f) Pitch-bending. Ans : Pitch bending / percussive beat. Achieved by tapping resonator box.
What do i learn from this? sometimes, luck comes into play when people do better than me. Oh no. I'm being very EVIL here. hahas. I'll promise to do better next time.
Off to watch SG Idol ! bye!
aXiomaTicaL =)
it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
Heyy.
Sry huh. all you readers out there. i've missed a day in the blogosphere. Please understand. I've been rather busy these days, and i can't really afford to update every single day. The "O"s are just 15 weeks away. I've got to start my revision any time now. okayy. here i go.
20/07/06
Today was quite a fun day, first thing in the morning, we were called to assemble at the auditorium. Because Mr Lee wanted to have a talk with us. The teachers mentioned it was good news. So everyone was like rushing down. You see, the auditorium has limited seats, i think not enough to accomodate the whole secondary 4 level. Guess what, there was the good news, and the bad news. I shall start with the good news first.
The good news is, our 10 mins break we usually have from 9.40-9.50 everyday, is now being extended to 10.00. Why? The teachers have our interests at heart i suppose. They say, its normal to be hungry, to miss breakfast, or even feel sleepy during our recent english remedials from 7.00 to 8.00 every morning, so they intentionally alotted this time slot, for us to purchase our food in the canteen, or chill out at the students' lounge. This applies only for the sec fours. Thoughtful of the teachers i might say. Hey man, the school isn't such a bad place to be in after all. I'm starting to enjoy this. ;)
Just as everyone was getting rowdy, here came the bad news. Yesterday, a few reporters came to our school. For what purpose, you might ask. Trust me, it was nothing good. I think i haven't mentioned anything about the blogs that are against our school yet? Have I? Okayy. here goes. the reporters obviously found the blog. www.thisblogdoesnotexist.blogspot.com . There, our head-prefect was insulted, then the teachers were insulted too. That joker has been warned. He spammed untrue rumours all over, and we even had an RI guy telling him not to insult his own school. I hope he deletes his blog soon...or else by next week, it'll be a police case. Things will really start getting ugly.
Okayy!
Enough le. Other happenings ! haha =)
My chinese paper add 1 mark! now 56 marks . CHEERS ! had a HCL test today, quite easy , but i didn't have much time to complete the paper. I guess i hung at the students' lounge for too long. Was late for lesson .
Mrs. Neo is soooooooo good. She didn't reprimand me for not bringing my stuff. I think she knows i didn't bring anything, but she just took a look at me, but as i was copying her notes, so i guess that did the trick :)
I can't believe i forgot to bring my physics file to school today. Thats very wrong. 'cause im supposedly the only one who HAS a complete file. I didn't really expect poh choon to come out with a file, too. But mine was still thicker. Haha. Went to SK's house today...but his bro was at home. SO i didn't really get to do anything. We caught a movie though. Pirates of the Carribean.
Thats a hella darn good show. 4/5 !
Life is forever still so unexpected. I was on the train from toa payoh to dhoby ghaut , when this girl boarded the train at somerset. Haha. First look, i was stunned. The girl looked like hui zhuang...my pr school classmate. Haha. her uniform had the insignia NYGH. i take that to be Nanyang Girls High? i suppose so. After i got home, i checked her friendster. Guess what. she is from NYGH. Like, Oh-My-God. i think she saw me too. hahas. What a nice way of reunion huh.
I'm watching the Singapore Idol Results Show now. I'll stop here for today.
Man, i hope Paul, Jay and Joakim make it in huh.
bye !
aXiomaTicaL =)
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19/07/06
The harder you fall,
the higher you bounce.
Today's post will be rather short i would say. Thats because nothing much really happened, all but what that stupid john did to me. =) no offence there.
And so it went like this.
Mr Heng gave us a small test or whatever he calls a practice on japanese music. Yea, we're learning about japanese music and all that. Its rather linked to the chinese orchestra instruments, i would say, like for example, the ryuteki resembles the chinese dizi, while the shamisen resembles the sanxian and so on. Okay. So we were supposed to listen to an extract. and answer the following questions.
(a) What is the instrument playing here?
(b) Describe the instrument.
(c) In western music terminology, what genre do you think this piece is in?
(d) What form, (in that genre) do you think it is??
(e) Describe the musical function of this instrument in the piece.
(f) Describe one instrumental effect evident in this extract. How is this achieved?
okayy. And so i heard the recording, and i said. Thats a Biwa... Its a Lied. and through-composed. What did john say? I followed his answers, as he was usually the one who did better amongst the two of us. Check this. i wrote john's suggestions in.
Answers
(a) Shamisen. Ans : Biwa
(b) Obviously the description was wrong. (a) is wrong already. Ans : bearing particular resemblance to the chinese Pipa, the biwa has 3 tuning pegs at the top, 4 strings streched over the wide resonator box, and is played either by strumming of plucking, with the use of thimbled fingernails.
(c) Oratorio . Ans : Lied.
(d) Binary form. Ans : Through-composed.
(e)Accompaniment. Ans : Accompaniment.
(f) Pitch-bending. Ans : Pitch bending / percussive beat. Achieved by tapping resonator box.
What do i learn from this? sometimes, luck comes into play when people do better than me. Oh no. I'm being very EVIL here. hahas. I'll promise to do better next time.
Off to watch SG Idol ! bye!
aXiomaTicaL =)
the story ends like this;
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