hello everybody.. just got back from the band camp yesterday.. although i did not stay overnight for the band camp, i went for the training every morning.. and usually the training ends earliest by 2130, and the latest was 2200.. and starts at 0730 in the morning...
Day 1 (6th June 2006) Tuesday
Everyone were asked to report by 0800 so i reached there 15 minutes earlier as usual.. I saw huiyan and ruibing sitting at the wooden beach somewhere near the carpark and thought that the band room was not open yet.. Awhile later, we saw the 'pig' in the taxi, which was coming into the school compound.. we quickly walked away, however i was asked by jiajun to carry 'pig's' clarinet.. so i did so.. when we reached the band room, most of the people were already sitted without their instruments.. the carried on with the briefing and half way thru' it, a lot of people turned up, one by one.. after briefing, we set up our instruments and started with combine and later sectional.. basically, the training in the morning was a great one without anyone being scolded.. taught vanessa how to play as she was my 'buddy'..
later, it was time for lunch..had chicken rice for our lunch.. the rice tasted horrible.. it doesn't taste like chicken rice.. i think it tasted like normal rice.. the chicken is worst. all are bones.. there were only small bits of meat on it.. and the texture of the meat is dry and hard.. it's the worst chicken rice ever with the sour chilli sauce which is not spicy at all.. i poured all the chilli i had.. we had drinks (i forget what we had), which taste okay only.. although the chicken rice was horrible, i managed to finish the whole packet of it.. i was hungry at that time and had to buy a toasted egg bread to fill my hunger.. haha..
after that it was practice again.. combine and sectional.. nothing special actually happened, however, all the friends and alumni begin to turn up one by one.. with zhengyi coming the earliest in the morning.. he was a soloist of immer kleiner.. wow.. his playing was terrific.. the sound is so round and warm.. only that some of the running notes could not be heard.. i think because he is out of breath.. but overall he was great.. had a tea break and we were each given a cup of tea and two piece of toasted cheese bread.. as they 2 pieces of toasted egg bread were already cold, therefore it tasted horrible.. the cup of tea tasted so sweet and there was not a bit of tea taste in it at all.. after that we had combine again.. at about 1730 we played captain's ball.. was in the same team as qi yao and he threw the ball so hard that it hit my stomach.. lucky got muscle there or else i would have vomitted.. haha.. :x after the games, we were asked to go for a bathe and take our dinner at 1845 and get ready in the band room for night practice by 1930.. as i was not staying overnight, i intended to bath at home and just change my clothings.. dinner was fried kway tiao.. it is spicy and the ends of the bean spout were not peeled off.. it tasted horrible.. as everyone was tired, we played very badly for the night practice...qi yao and choon yi was scolded very badly by the pig.. anyway we were allowed to go off by 2130.. for those who were staying, they were supposed to be in their assigned classroom by 2230.. as it was late already, i decided to take a taxi home and give wanting a ride to the bedok mrt station, however the fishy followed us.. make the whole taxi stinks and can you believe that she actually talk bad about that pig behind of him.. what kind of people is this.. always act innocent and act as if she is very helpful and kind in front of pig but now she talk bad about him.. lucky i am not this kind of people.. at least i don't act helpful and kind in front of pig.. i do things the way i am.. reached home at around 2230 and bath and slept as i was so so tired..
Day 2 (7th June 2006) wednesday
reached school at around 0715 to 0730.. my dad drove me to school as i insisted.. this was a really tiring day.. for the whole morning, we had combine and sectional again.. however, this time round the practice was not as good as yesterday morning.. he started to scold everyone and even drop the flute section for being slow and not united and bla bla bla.. for breakfast they had hotdog bread which i decided to skip because it looks undelicious ( i think there is no such word) until it was lunch time.. today's lunch was delicious.. had CHICKEN CHOP.. haha.. drinks still tasted horrible.. after lunch time scolded again until 1630, we were asked to play games.. however this year's band camp wasn't that fun as the previous band camp two years ago as we were not allowed to play wet games.. meaning that we were not allowed to play with water bombs.. what a disappointment from that horrible teacher with a natural bird shit hair near her forehead.. guess those who are in the school before will be able to match the desciption with a school teacher in the school.. it is none other than the horrible speaking english teacher miss jumiah.. yucks.. she don't allow us to play with the water as she said that we were wasting the water and will later dirty the school.. erpx.. she really let all our moods go from good to .... haizzzz.. as we were not allowed to play with water games, we played captain's ball again.. was in the same team as lydia.. from the game alone, i can know her true character.. she is an individual worker and is always trying to score using her own might which is of course a failure.. when she is losing already, she will play very violently.. not only i felt that but even some of the sec4s felt that.. lydia, if you happen to see this, this is the truth okay.. its not that i am trying to say that you are bad.. but this are you bad points which you should try to change for the better and not get worst.. i always believe that teamwork is very important.. and playing a friendly match is even more important as i believe that you will not want to see your opponents, furthermore your own friends including your seniors get injured just because of the violent game which you had played.. well that's all i've got to see.. change or some of the people will not like you.. after the game, we were all allowed to bath and eat our dinner.. we had bbq that night too.. we were to get ready by 1900 and prepare for the night practice.. i did not bath but i did wash my hair.. the night practice was quite a 'fruitful' one and the combine played was quite nice.. we played the whole concert's songs until my lips starts to get pain.. the practice ended at around 2200 and we were allowed to report at 0900.. i was suprised because we were usually not allowed to report so late.. at first i wanted to stay overnight but my parents don't allow and therefore had to go home..
Day 3 (8th June 2006) Thursday
i reported at 0845 and thought that we will be having combine followed by sectional.. however, i was wrong.. we had sectional for the whole morning and without any combine.. we were then asked to pack up and go home at 1200... wow.. that's cool.. i still thought that we would only be allowed to leave at 1230.. haha.. after that some of the band members went to macdonalds to have our lunch.. after lunch we sat until 1745.. we sat there talking about lots of things.. this includes the things which were encountered during the camp.. it is not only one person who saw, felt or even heard.. but a number of them.. even the pig who wanted to be brave to sleep alone in the band room told one of my alumni that this school is quite difficult to sleep.. furthermore, he still walked around the school in the middle of the night around 0300 to 0400 when people were asleep.. should describe no further more.. if you want to know about all this, perhaps you could ask me when you see me online or in school.. all of them were quite scary..i am glad i did not stay overnight.. and on one night, i walked out of the school alone.. lucky i did not see nor hear anything.. thank god.. anyway if i really did stay overnight, i should be snoring soundly in the classroom.. :) that's the end of the band camp.. should write again next time..
buzzing off: Yo!SiXian
8thjune2006