And so my song had been performed last Wednesday. I guess overall, i was pretty satisfied with the performance. Though when i heard my recording, i think i played a tad too much at the later ends of the song. Have a video recording too, but i don't want to post, 'cos will feel 'pai sei' about it. Ha ha.. 没脸见人.

Below are the results posted today:

Lyrics:
- Farewell In The Skies (7.6)
- Ai Ge Qian (7.56)
- Wang Ji (6.67)
- Forbidden Love (6.57)
- Fall From Grace (6.45)
- Yong Yuan (6.14)
- Play It Slow (6.14)

Melody:
- Ai Ge Qian (7.33)
- Wang Ji (7.28)
- Farewell In The Skies (7.25)
- Waiting (6.85)
- Forbidden Love (6.5)
- Play It Slow (6.29)
- Fall From Grace (6.23)
- Yong Yuan (5.88)

Arrangement:
- Ai Ge Qian (7.44)
- Waiting (7.4)
- Farewell In The Skies (7.0)
- Wang Ji (6.71)
- Play It Slow (6.43)
- Forbidden Love (6.25)
- Fall From Grace (6.18)
- Yong Yuan (6.11)

Singing:
- Farewell In The Skies (7.3)
- Ai Ge Qian (7.00)
- Fall From Grace (6.82)
- Wang Ji (6.71)
- Waiting (6.55)
- Play It Slow (6.43)
- Forbidden Love (6.13)
- Yong Yuan (6.00)

Overall:
- Ai Ge Qian (7.33)
- Farewell In The Skies (7.33)
- Waiting (6.93)
- Wang Ji (6.84)
- Fall From Grace (6.42)
- Forbidden Love (6.36)
- Play It Slow (6.32)
- Yong Yuan (6.03)


Scoring wise, 'Farewell in the Skies' fared better then 'Have You Ever', though i still prefer the latter, not because it's my 1st song. I like it, just because i like it?

Going down to Pasir Ris Station later for SCC Chalet. It's the 3rd one already, but this time i'm not the organiser. Ha ha. Jiamin just called me, saying only Weiming, me and her will be meeting up as the rest will be coming after work. Shao is coming also, i just told him about it yesterday. Will be back on Sunday night.. or Monday afternoon.. i don't know.

So till then, toodles ~


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The Nut within the Shell 101:

Fact #22:

My room is always very messy, and i like have to do massive 'spring cleaning' for my room once every 2-3 weeks... or when i feel like it. Friends of mine who comes over won't really realise this because i always tidy my room to a mint condition prior to their visitation.

The worst remark i got from my family about my room was, "There's so much rubbish around that you can't even see the floor!"



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an eventful day, though i won't say why.

But i know that everytime i look at this post, i will remember the scenes that unfolded.

This is the very first step i'm taking. I don't know what the future holds, i don't know if i'm prepared for it. What i do know is, i have to give it my all.

There's no turning back.

-yademoseybdoogyasotevahllaew-


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The Nut Within the Shell 101:

Fact #61:

I like to bite the end of my straw on my drink, so much so that it's deformity almost prevents any liquid from flowing up again. I didn't start off with this biting habit initially. When i was young, i remember seeing my sister always biting her straw too. So it was the 'Monkey-See-Monkey-Do' scenario.

So straws out there, beware!


P.S. I'm actually running out of random facts for my 101 section. If any of you wants to dig out infomation about me, requests are accepted at the tagboard. But please do start off with small little tidbits before asking those all-time popular questions. (See? My blog is interactive!)


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Video Selection of the week:



This is a pretty straightforward fill-in for any beginner to learn after getting the basic techniques down. The constant open hi-hat is something new for me, but i think after a little practice, should be able to get in done. I believe he was double stroking whenever he did his filling in, and he also accents on the ride by double stroking every certain interval.

Oh yes. Please ignore the text that appears and what he says at the end. Just listen to the drums.


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It sucks. Totally. When you think you've met a friend, who is more then just a friend. A friend who can tolerate your idiocy. A friend who knows you a lot more then others. A friend whom you can spill your guts to and share your woes. A friend whose residence is just separated by one street. You're thinking all that, and then you realise, she's moving away. As if graduating wasn't enough. Now this has to happen.

I can honestly say i'm not very happy about it. Not one bit.

Adding on, let's focus about my results, or rather, a lack thereof, which i received about a week ago. I was expecting a F, but lo and behold! The school surprised me with 3. It wasn't until a few days later before the realisation set in. Refering back to my past results, i had failed a module which is only taught once a year, meaning it's dead set in stone that i have to retain for another year. Now i have failed another 3 modules in this semester. I'm looking at a possible 2nd year to retain in. Even if they decide to cram my timetable, i'm still looking at 1 year 6 months at least. Thus, worst case senario, 5 years in ngee ann.

When ziqin, qiuyun, zhiwei, fun and company's batch graduate, i'm still here.
When xueting, gary, ken, cheryl and company's batch graduate, i'm still here.

I hate this. Everyone is going, and i'm hating it. Even if it's still early to say this, but hell, i'm going to be left behind. Everyone i know is gone, poof, au revoir, see you later, and i will be alone once again. The band of SCCeans i spent my time with will just be nothing but a distant memory.

I can cry, scream, punch the walls, grit my teeth all i want, but nothing is going to change. I'm through with blaming myself. I'm just unable to accept the consequences. EVERYONE IS LEAVING TOO SOON DAMMIT.


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Let me tell you about a dream i had. There was a bunch of SCC people, and i was somewhere at the sidelines watching. Just watching. I heard one of them say something about going somewhere, and they just started leaving one by one. They couldn't be bothered with my presence. No one cared anymore. I just stood there and watch the last of the group disappear over the horizons.

Where are you people going? What about me? Why am i left behind?

Perhaps, this is a glimpse of what my future is to be..


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As usual, zero updates. Well, at least i'm better of then people like stiff and jiayi, and definately henghui, whose blog is dead for the 3rd time.

So what happened from 4th march to 10th march? Ehh, i don't remember..

Okay, i remember last wednesday night i went with jia to buy her dinner before going home to eat my dinner.

Last thursday went to cut my hair. Farewell my beautiful locks~ Hahaha, i'm not so emotionally attached to my hair. Well, i did enjoy the thought of "let's see how long i can keep my hair before i get irritated", but the ugly side of not being able to style and maintain long hair reared it's ugly head. Also, everytime the fan blew my way, strands of hair would just fly everywhere. Even my hairband is not enough to hold back some of the hair growing from god-knows-where side of my cranium. Went to IT Show at suntec after that. Bought a couple of stuffs, and had to use my POSB card too..=/ I think my account balance is going to fall below the 4 digits margin again.. and to think i recently deposited some cash in.

Friday night went out with jia again, to buy her dinner again, before going home to eat my dinner again. Went abit kuku on the bus back home. Jia said there was something wrong with my head. Well, she says that all the time. Haa.

Saturday was spent in clubhouse. Helped a little with gala dinner and stuff. I personally handpumped 102 black and purple balloons (2 burst, so left 100), and it was only after i finished them all before qiuyun decided to just transport 20 balloons over to the gala dinner venue and re-inflate 80 new balloons tomorrow again. Chienwen kinda broke down a little under pressure as she was having problems with the minus one songs and the message dedication board. Felt a little bad as she thought the guys were making too much noise, according to her. And so, everybody left at about 5 to 6-ish and the last three to leave were me, qiuyun and ivy. Took a bus to JEC for dinner at KFC. I jokingly mentioned to qiuyun that for all 3 KFC dinner that we went to, i was sitting opposite her. She gave me one of her signiture 'whatever' look. Priceless.. LOL!

Sunday.. SCC Gala Dinner! I can tell this is going to be a long post, so i'll entry this tomorrow maybe, or tonight, depending how you look at it cos it's like 3.20 a.m. already.. so yeah..


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The Nut within the Shell 101:

Fact #51:

I learned how to ride a bicycle on 14th February, 2003. Funny ain't it?

The story was that there was a small group outing that day, and you know all about young adolescent crushes right. Well there was this girl in that group, and she was riding on a bike most of the time. That's what you do usually at East Coast Park anyway. So i borrowed someone's bicycle and just kept going on and on,on and on, pedaling on the bike. Finally, after about two to three hours, i learned how to ride a bicycle. Haha. Have you heard of ABCDE?

A boy can do everything for girls. Hahaha.


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I so want to go sleep now, but i said that i would update, so here i am.

Went to clubhouse again (6th day in a row, might i add). This time was to help chien wen do some song recording. Wednesday was to pass photos to qiuyun, Thursday was for cheryl and huiyi drumming lesson, Friday was to meet mandy for my song, and both weekends for filming of SCC Movie.

Speaking of Friday, this very embarrassing situation happened to me. It was around 11p.m. already when i boarded the bus from ngee ann. As i went up the bus, something, like a speck of dust or sand, flew into my eye. It wasn't really painful or anything, just irritating. Ok, now imagine 2 scenarios:

1) I was looking down after tapping my card and furiously blinking my eye to get the intruder out of my eye.

2) A girl in front walks pass the first few empty seats, notices that the back of the bus was full, turns around and walks back to the front seat.

What happened was event 1 and 2 happened simultaneously, causing a forehead collision of epic proportions. One of her friend behind me went like,"你很好笑 leii 你."

I quickly scooted to the back of the bus after muttering apologies to save myself (and possibly the girl's) some face. It was like, so embarrassing can? In the end, after sitting down, i still can laugh to myself.

After all, how many friends do you know who have had this type of head banging incident?

Mandy's chord arrangement for my song is like "HOLYSHIT OWNAGE" nice! Okay, maybe i exaggerate a little, (yaya a lot, whatever), but the flow of the song is really really cool. Currently awaiting melody so i can fill in the lyrics.

My other song, which is done by steve, is done melody-wise. Funny thing about that was that i originally asked steve to play the chords mandy sent me before, and somehow or another, through chords changes here and there for convenience sake (mostly his..), it became a new song altogether. Has those kind of "touchy-touchy" feel.

Hopefully the lyrics won't be much of a letdown. Worked on it for a few days already. I can relate to the feel of the melody, and i know just what to write about, but i still have some problems writing it down in words. Looks like i'm not so literate after all.

An expression of one's own emotions. 手放开.


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Here's a random tidbit for you. Go measure your fore finger (that's the first finger from your thumb) and your ring finger (third from your thumb).

Research has shown that people with a longer ring finger then their fore finger has the blueprints for a female body. Same goes for vice-versa.

That means if you have a longer ring finger, that means you have the genes-makeup, brain, thinking, etc.. of a female.

If you have a longer fore finger, that means you have the genes-makeup, brain, thinking, etc.. of a male instead.

That doesn't mean that if your a guy with a long ring finger, you're a gay or something like that. It just means that before birth, the original sketches for you indicated that you would be a girl. However, the sex-deciding factor (which i think is the XX-XY chromosomes thingys..) thought otherwise, therefore you poofed out as a boy.

So even though you have the body and soul makeup of a female, your young brain, though female inclined, is still sceptical to external factors. Countless sources of media, books and age-old parenting would mold your brain with the infomation of 'how a boy should behave'.

..that is, if i remember correctly what the tv show told me. =/


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The Nut within the Shell 101:

Fact #13:

My all time favourite number is 13.

If restricted to single digits, then it would be 3.

Otherwise, it's the much tabooed 13.



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Temporary holding site until i find another skin.


..or i could just stick with this one.


Will update soon, the next time when i wake up anyway.

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