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Monday, February 28, 2005

"Don't watch tv... it's not good... you should create your own entertainment..."

yes... it's "create your own entertainment"... not "create your own fantasy" as what wilson said... he must be fantasizing too much... haha... just joking...

anyway, sorry for the lack of posts... i was quite busy these few days... either that or my sis was using the computer so i couldn't use... or it was so late i had to sleep... or i was just plain lazy to switch on the pc...

anyway i shall start on saturday's ntuco concert... (yeah i'm skipping a lot but that is to keep my post short shorter...) first song they played was xi3 xun4... sounded damn guai lan... i dunno why... and the snare drum played cheat... he was supposed to play hou ban pai for like 16 bars but he cheated by playing 2 8th note on the first count of every 4 bars, then played hou ban pai... for those of you who dunno what i mean, you can ask me... however if you are a khaki shorts, pls dun bug me and get lost... then next song was some unknown song... never hear before... but it exposed the weakness of the gurl playing diao cha... her basics were sucky and she could not roll properly... much like my juniors... when she was using the cushioned side of the diao cha stick i could already spot her weakness... worse, at some part of the song, she had to use the other side of the stick to hit the diao cha, the part without the cushion... and it was SO obvious she couldn't roll properly as seen (or heard) by the uneven "ting ting ting ting ting ting..." sound... wah... tak boleh tahan sia... i think i'm better then her lor... haha... Ah, another thing... i recognized 1 percusionist (i think used to be from dunman high...) he was damn pro... i recognized him from the east zone school's co... he was in the year 2000 east zone... he's always playing either the ling zhou or timpani... haha, kinda like me... but i bet he'll thrash me... anyway they had some erhu solo... with piano ban zhou... the piano was like louder lor... and i was more interested in the piano than the erhu... haha... then they played gu3 yue4... not bad... i think i'm able to play that... then got some suona solo... wah... damn pro... i bet he can play zhan ma on suona... then jiang1 jun1 ling4... played the song before... but the one they played was totally different from what i played... then fei1 tian1... wah... simply love the first part... with the koudi and all that... funny thing was, the person playing the koudi was playing bangdi... hmm... shouldn't it be qudi? maybe nobody is pro enough bah... his ying1 zhun3 was perfect sia... walao... damn zai... then last song was chang2 cheng2 sui2 xiang3... to my surprise, the person who sucked played the diao cha for the previous song was playing paigu for this song!! walao... she cocked up like some shit sia... kept hitting the side... worse, at the end of the song where everybody is rolling, she was like rolling with her drumsticks moving in a 'V' shape and she was rolling with her arms instead of her wrist... walao... so un-chio... ok, that sums up that night besides the sucky kfc dinner where an indian woman with attitute problem was serving us rubbish...

oh ya, btw, i broke another drumstick (DAMN...) and you know how? by hitting the side of the drum... dotz... i didn't even use a lot of force or what... bloody hell... some more that was the GOOD drumstick... haiz... so now only got 1 good pair of drumsticks... i went to buy a pair though... from karl heng... kaoz... cost $20 sia!!! first time i ever paid for something i used for co... all my previous drumsticks i didn't pay a single cent... and also the guzheng 'nails' and tape... didn't pay any money... maybe the instructor thought that i was a good investment... haha... anyway a normal pair of drumsticks cost like only $8 to $12... but $20... wah... but nvm... i'm willing to pay the money for it... if this drumstick breaks the moment i use it, i dunno whether to laugh or cry...

okies... betta go now...

~Ðä®®ëñ~ posted at 8:12 PM

Saturday, February 19, 2005

"He who is weak eats only vegetables"
Romans 14:2

haha... the bible is suan-ing the vegetarians...

arrrgghh.... dammit... got a damn bad sore throat and flu... all thanks to kenneth... say what allergy... anyhow... how i wish i can dun go to sch on monday... and tuesday... and for the rest of the week... but damn... cannot... it's ca week... haiz... first day already geog ca... i think i'm going to fail... haiz... had my drum lesson yesterday... and the person who was before my class was actually a friend of some ex-victorian... the two ex-victorians (they are twins) and some more other friends arranged to meet the guy learning drums before me to watch some movie... and becos i was wearing school uniform, they came to talk to me... blah blah... then they noticed a group of people waiting outside the class... and he asked me, "these people are in your class ar?" then he noticed something peculiar about the group of people there ... "eh? all girls ar? how come no guys?" haha... then i said ya, i was the only guy... actually there was 2 other guys... but 1 transferred to another lousier class (becos he was too lousy) and the other pontang class like free (also becos he was lousy) haha... then that ex-victorian's friend was like saying... actually more like shouting... "LUCKY SHIT!! some lucky shit sia!! WALAO!!!" wah... like who cannot here sia... i was like ok ok... not so loud... those girls can hear lor... haha... anyway didn't cock up much during the lesson... so still quite ok...

ok... better go now... byes...

~Ðä®®ëñ~ posted at 5:41 PM

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

"Ming, blunder......"

(btw "ming" is sort of a nickname for 1 of my friend who always blunders... haha...)

yay... had pe today... was hoping for soccer but no, we had floorball instead... still quite fun though (may not be fun for wilson but was fun for me...) my match ended 3-3 and i scored all 3 goals for my team... haha... yeah... actually i had like at least 15 chances lor... but i kept missing the goal... damn... but out of those 15 or more chances i managed to score 3... haha =p... i was dribbling all around but kept missing... everybody was marking me (must be becos i'm good... haha) everywhere i go i could hear someone from the other team say "ey, beware of darren..." wah... anyway my first goal was skill lor... i dribbled here there everywhere whatever until i was to the left of the goal... then i whacked the ball into the goal (missed the gk's face by like 20cm...) haha... second was a bit of luck invloved... i was defending and i cleared the ball, aiming my clearance at the gk in the process... and guess what, the gk blundered and missed the ball... haha... third goal was also skill... the ball was bouncing in front of the goal and the defender and i kept trying to hit the ball... he kept missing and i kept possesion of the ball (haha...) and so while it was bouncing, i sort of hit the ball upwards (it wasn't whacking) towards the goal and in it went... haha... anyway after that i decided to be gk for my own team becos i was damn tired (after running here and there)

haha... actually got quite a lot of stuff to say... like the china people in our chinese class... 1 thing to say though... they can read the passage aloud faster than i can read the words... haha... ok... better go... wanna go practise my piano... or keyboard...

~Ðä®®ëñ~ posted at 8:56 PM

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

"I have a dream... a dream that singapore would be safe so that people can sleep soundly every night..."

yeah dream on, dude...

hmm... yesterday was valentine's day... haha... was just like any other day though... nothing special... then i read the straits times that the school supplied and found out that other schools were sort of doing it differently... they exchanged flowers and other stuff... and vs? doing nothing... oh well... then read that roses usually cost $25 during normal days... but on valentine's day, the price is doubled... wah... really know how to suck money sia... haha... and also 1 more thing... learned something about ann siong yesterday... actually he's quite poor thing... oh well...

today, however, was total defence day... damn sian... had various speeches by different people... 1 of them was the "i have a dream" one... a bit lame... but it wasted some of the social studies time, which was quite good... was slacking during the whole of school... was practically stoning during e.maths lesson... as she was toking i was playing with my calculator... i started at 0.000001 and kept on plus-ing 0.000001 until it reaches 0... at around 0.002189 or something i accidentally pressed the minus sign and the word "ERROR" came out... damn... by then i gave up liao... and so my brain remained dead until i reached the co room after school... the co room is like my second home... haha... i feel sort of secure in it...

oh ya... kenneth, you should stop suan-ing ann siong... he's damn poor thing... haha...

~Ðä®®ëñ~ posted at 8:43 PM

Sunday, February 13, 2005

i hate spastic people... maybe becos they bug me the most... i also hate gays... possibly becos of my experience with them... this would mean i hate lesbians too... and of course bisexuals also... but what about my friends? are my friends turning into gays? or lesbians? i certainly hope not... maybe heaven doesn't want me to have a true friend who will be with me forever... that seems to be happening to me... do i really hate lesbians? or do i say i hate them becos i hate gays? is it becos of the fear that some day my gf would dump me for another girl? like what happened to someone i know? is it really hatred? or fear? 1 things' for sure... i'm not going anywhere near them... but somehow they just keep appearing out of nowhere... for instance, someone i know is obviously lacking huge amounts of testosterone in his body... do i feel fear? i dun think so... it's more like hatred... disgust... hatred... is it natural? that the world would have some people lacking in testosterone? but wouldn't that make them so-called "sissy" or "tomboyish"? not gay or lesbian... or is it becos they WANT to be gay or lesbian? i think that may be the only explanation... or that's what i would like to think...

well, so much for crap talk... if i had to pay a penny for every time i say "i hate gays", i would be stealing tissue paper from the one-dollar auntie and selling them for a profit...

~Ðä®®ëñ~ posted at 6:41 PM

Friday, February 11, 2005

"Which one cum first... chicken or egg?? the answer is bear cum first..."

wah... just now during my drum lesson i kena thrashed by 3 girls sia... 2 of them from katong convent and the other 1 from presbytarian high... they were from some other class which was ahead of mine and when the teacher asked them to play the rythmn they could play it so easily... then when i play i cocked up so many times... but anyway in the end i could still sort of catch up with them and managed to play correctly... haha...

actually got some stuff i wanna say about co today... but thinking of my juniors make me feel sian... so i shall end here instead... haha...

~Ðä®®ëñ~ posted at 9:50 PM

Thursday, February 10, 2005

"Potest qui vult"
St Pat's School motto

"potest qui vult" actually means "when there's a will, there's a way"...

damn... just now typing halfway the computer suddenly hanged... nvm... i think i still can rmb some stuff...

anyway 2 days ago, went to visit my uncle (my mother's side)... collected ang pows... watched "kung-fu hustle" and "chronicles of riddick"... haha... kung-fu hustle was damn funny sia... haha... then ate steamboat... blah blah... then yesterday, went to visit my father's side of the family... btw, my parents gave me extra ang pows for my birthday... haha... anyway at my auntie's house, we ate roti prata with some chicken curry... then went back to my uncle's house (mother's side) and again watched movie... this time it was "breaking news"... haha... aiya... must make use of his 40-something-inch tv and his pile of dvd's mah... and damn... forgot to eat the shrak's fin they cooked... so wasted...

my chinese birthday is coming... haha... well, based on the chinese calendar, my birthday is this saturday... and for those of you wondering how i know this since the chinese calendar is so screwed, my chinese birthday is on the fourth day of chinese new year... haha...


~Ðä®®ëñ~ posted at 6:16 PM

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

"eh...? isn't that our people behind the curtains? SHIT!!!"

Teerapong

yesterday: had chinese new year rehearsal... skipped bio lab... dunno whether i should be happy or what... the emcee damn bastard... keep wasting our time... like always, we were all sitting in the hall waiting, toking cock to each other etc... the emcee wanted "more movement" from the guy acting as sun wukong... walao... i think he did like 6 times or something lor... kaoz... in the end the whole thing finished at 5 plus... went home, then went out again to take the vcr from the repair shop... 2nd time liao... every time they say it is fixed i go there and try and the image is like shit... and the same thing happened... i kept telling the ah-ma there that it is not fixed properly and she will say "fixed liao... fixed liao..." (of course not in such good language) walao... anyway on my way back i bought chicken chop for dinner... when i reached home, my sister was eating the fried wings or something from mcdonalds... she still had the chicken prosperity rubbish burger thingy but she couldn't finish, so i ate her burger... after which i ate my chicken chop... wa... damn full... when my mum came home she wanted to start cutting the cake to eat... and i said i dun want but my mum still insisted... and so they sang happy birthday song... blah blah... and cut the cake... but wait, IT'S NOT EVEN MY BIRTHDAY YET!!! walao eh... took 1 bite of the cake and went to sleep... then at 3am my mum woke up, switched on the light and began catching mosquitoes, waking me up in the process... all the way until around 3.30am plus... wa... i still got cny performance leh... no need sleep ar...

today: performed for st pats... before us was actually some lion dance thingy... halfway when the "lion" was supposed to "stand up" and when 1 of them was on the other's shoulder, the bottom person suddenly collapsed or something... sending the guy on his shoulders tumbling down to the ground... ouch... anyway the st pats performance was quite normal... nothing much to say... then back at vs... performance also can la... but ann siong, teerapong and i nearly missed the performance!!! haha... but also nvm, they can't start without me and ann siong... anyway we were waiting in the co room, lights and air-con all off, everything checked and ready to go, waiting just for the key-bearer to come up and lock the door... and so we waited and waited... finally teerapong went to get the key from wilson and we locked the door... and while we were walking to the backstage, we were laughing at jefferey chia for his costume... (btw, the curtains were closed) we were at the side of the hall, upstairs laughing when the wind blew the curtains to sort of uncover what was behind... IT WAS CO!!!! OMG!!! we were like oh shit and running to the stage... ann siong still had to move his yang qin... and i had to thank my juniors for helping me move my xiao gu... and like 1 minute after ann siong arranged his yang qin and all that, the curtains opened and we were performing already... haha... scary sia... anyway after that i went back to pri sch to meet my ri friend (who's quite biased against rgs... lol...) and blah blah... none of my teachers recognized me... dunno whether to be relieved or sad... then we ate lunch... blah blah... anyway on my way home on the bus, i missed my stop again!! i was like dreaming... i think that was my 3rd time in 4 weeks or something like that... haha...

ok... better go now... have to prepare to go my uncle's house for cny celebrations...


~Ðä®®ëñ~ posted at 4:11 PM

Saturday, February 05, 2005

"The phrase 'Silence is golden' does not work anymore... silence kills you..."
Setho Sing Fee

had my drum lesson yesterday... it was damn fun... didn't noe what happened to all the guys in the class though... i was the only guy there... and also the oldest... rest were girls... 3 katong convent, 2 nanyang girls and the last one i dun know... actually only had 1 kc girl but i dun noe what happened... suddenly 2 kc girls from another class joined us... (or joined their friend) the good thing about having no guys was that the class was going damn fast... (the guys in my class all suck like hell... except me... really...) and some more the 2 girls from the other class learned what we were currently learning before... so they were like damn pro... scareded sia... anyway we were going so fast... i almost could not catch up... (keyword: almost... i still did anyway) we played 1 rythmn after another (some were damn cool...) had to sight-read the scores... then seeing that we looked so tired, he let us play some songs... YEAH... we played 'you're my angel' by shaggy (not sure of the title... but i noe it's something angel...) and some other song which i dun noe the title... anyway he turned up the volume of the hi-fi to almost the max and told us to "play what we feel". and so we did... DAMN FUN... i was practically bashing the drum set... then for the bass drum the foot pedal normally we would just step on it (as in the foot is on the pedal and we step on the pedal while your heel stays on the ground...) but during the song i was actually stomping on the pedal... haha violent sia... the after the song i looked at the bass drum skin and saw that there was a dent at the part where it was hit... oops haha...

i dun really wanna tok about today's dazu... but i shall just say a little bit... we are playing 3 songs for both the vs and st pats (short for sanitary pads) performances... ying2 chun1 jie1 fu2, xiao3 bai4 nian2 and xing1 nian2 ge1 da4 jia1 chang4... and as always the cny songs are damn lame... but what to do... haiz... at least my juniors can play the cny songs properly... their skills are a bit like crap... a bit only arh... if you compare the skills of the 5 of my juniors combined and the skills of daniel and me combined, i think we are still better lor... wah... best was still sec 2... haiz... can't stop reminiscing... still can remember... the 2 of us... can play whatever songs we got... we 2 could cope with whatever songs we had lor... then for some perfomance the 2 of us played 5 instruments for 2 songs... song bo... i was playing dagu, paigu and snare drum... daniel was playing timpani and xylophone... we were damn zai sia... but now... my juniors can't even get the pai1 zi3 right... kaoz... then some more they out of 10 times can only play correctly 6 times... that is rubbish lor... haiz... sometimes i think i'm pampering them too much... like today daryl cocked up (again!! no surprise...) and he was looked at me and said "are you angry with me?" and i was like "what you want me to do? kiss your hand is it?" knn sia... you make mistake you think of why you made that mistake and try to find a way not to make that same mistake again... and not look at your senior and ask him for forgiveness, losing your concentration in the process... and did i say i hate spastic people? yes i did, in previous blogs... every time i make mistake i will think of why i made that mistake (and sometimes creating excuses...) but the main thing is to make sure that i dun repeat that mistake... my juniors never fail to repeat their mistakes over and over again... and they must keep talking and talking during dazu... wah... i am sick of telling them to just shut up... so SHUT UP!!!

~Ðä®®ëñ~ posted at 6:31 PM

Thursday, February 03, 2005

"Goodbye forever now... you have gone sooner than you should have... you were passed down to me from your original owner-- my teacher-- who thought i had the potential to do great things... well, he thought right... he left a mark on you-- his initials-- and the year in which he got you: '99... but no sooner than 1 year later, he passed you down to me... you accompanied me for consecutive years in the east zone schools chinese orchestra concert 2000 and 2001 (which was the reason i got you from him...) and have done me proud... you have suffered splinters and cracks all over, but still carried on... it wasn't your time yet, but you have gone prematurely... if there is anyone to blame, it should be me, for my carelessness have led to your situation now... maybe i wasn't far-sighted enough; i just couldn't anticipate what was coming... i thought it was fine for you to lie there harmlessly on the xylophone, but alas, a bump on the xylophone over the gap at the elevator has caused your untimely disappearance... maybe my reflexes were too slow, for if i had reacted faster, i could have caught you on your first bounce, or maybe your second bounce, but by your third bounce, it was too late... you were already unknowingly rolling into the deep unknowns of the elevator shaft... Goodbye forever now... I will remember you always..."

i lost my one of my drumstick today... my primary sch co teacher gave me that drumstick becos i needed a heavier and bigger drumstick for the east zone schools chinese orchestra concert... quek ling qiong personally asked me to get a bigger one so i could play louder... and so i told my teacher and he gave me his drumstick... thus i used it for that concert and also the east zone concert the following year... the stick was so well-used until the thickness became 3/4 the original thickness... but now, it's gone forever... sigh...

today something else happened... a liuqin got squashed under my junior's weight (haiz... percussion again...) well, actually this was what happened: two people were sitting down... for no reason 1 guy pushed the other... and the other lost his balance and his hands landed on the liuqin... and straight away the liuqin broke... aiya, anyway i'm sure other people will blog about this... i'm too distracted thinking of my lost drumstick... well, at least i took 1 last pic of it (with my other drumsticks...)

~Ðä®®ëñ~ posted at 8:24 PM

Wednesday, February 02, 2005

"hmm... 166cm..."
Ho Kiat Chong

damn... am i short or am i short... i have realised that the current vsco committee is very short... the tallest is who? clayton... and he's only like what, 170+ ? the last batch of comm mostly had so many tall people... ok, let me rephrase... the last batch of sec 4's (the whole level) consists mainly of tall people... and we are like so short...

anyway, the only memorable lesson today was pe (like always...) we first took our height and weight... and i was 166cm... and that's totally short... and for my weight... well... i'll let you know that i gained 3kg in 1 month... haha... which of course is good for me... then we played soccer... blah blah... wilson left the game to play in another match just becos the other team was too lousy... WALAO!! proud lar... anyway i didn't do too bad... missed a few clear-cut chances... oops... then johnathan got whacked in the face by the ball... ouchie!!

then back in the co room i tried to play yang qin for zhan ma... realised that i suck so much... i can't even roll properly and my left hand is totally spastic... haiz... my wrist like got some problem... in percussion we use like 60% wrist, 40% arm... but yang qin is like 90% wrist and 10% arm... wah... not used to it... i suck too much liao...

gtg liao... go watch charmed... hehe...

~Ðä®®ëñ~ posted at 8:23 PM

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

"Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soi..."
Lorraine Tham

the above is actually taken from moulin rouge movie... the song... it's actually in french and it has a very interesting meaning... it actually means "would you like to sleep with me tonight"... haha... i think lorraine tham learns french or something... she said that phrase as fast as i could say the numbers 1 to 10... as if she's been repeating that phrase for like 10 years or something...
stayed back for a few hours to sort of practise some songs... then realised that i really suck in percussion.... haiz... i still remember when i was in sec 2... my golden year... that was my best year... now i'm like so sucky... haiz...

anyway, we received our chinese test on sec 1 syllabus today... and guess what? i got 33.5 out of 50!!! haha... ya i know... it sucks... but considering that i didn't do the zao4 ju4 that's worth 15 marks, it's quite good liao... haha...


~Ðä®®ëñ~ posted at 9:11 PM