Man.. ive not blogged for a very very VERY long time! XD

(my ex Horn section, how i will miss them so! and how come my face got squished?? i look like the Gatsby advertisement lol!)

haha.. so sorry for the long wait! im finally back whoo hoo! haha.. ive not been free for the past few days because i had to manage some admin stuff at home. haiz. it was pretty tiring for me ba. especially that i had IOC! oh goodness. IOC, Individual Oral Commentory. 8 minutes of terror. i tell you. my knees were knocking so hard that others would think that i was feeling cold rather than feeling nervous lol!

well.. to start with, i believe i left off at the part of my school's Symphonic Band Night. heh.. ok.. i believe i can start uploading photos:

(Chicken Rice! haha.. looks good right?)

well, the first thing we had after our band practice on that day of the ACS(I) NDP parade was that we went back home, took a bath, rested for awhile before going back to school to prepare for the band concert night. XD. we had already prepaid food, so we were munching on it. not to mention that Isaac really 'enjoyed' his meal, considering that Kinky was just the table next to us. XD

(Me, Samuel Ho, and some unknown saxophone junior eating chicken rice lol![paiseh.. i forgot my junior's name haha])

hmmm, we were eating really happily on our food when i noticed on the far corner on the wall that THERE WAS STILL ONE MORE OF OUR CHARITY BAZAAR POSTED STILL UP THERE! haha.. i immediately tore it down and gave it to Kinky as a present. courtest from Marcus Low. isaac, i hope you and Kinky will spend lots of love and happy times together. haha.. tell me when you guys are going to get engaged ok??? XD ill be waiting! haha. joke joke! i think isaac will most probably flare up and swear at me in japanese when he reads this blog. haha. after all.. thats isaac for u. heh.

(all smiles as everyone prepared themselves mentally and physically for the concert!)

well, the concert proved to be a bang. literally. haha. apart from the fact that i screwed up on my playing at a certain piece. well, the conductor held the silence for so long! haha. and furthermore i felt like sneezing, so well, i sneezed into my trumpet, producing a very very VERY obvious sound, most probably a concert Bb i think. haha. and it was in tune lol. i was so embarrassed after that incident lol. my seniors kept rubbing it in. haiz. man, why do the weirdest things always occur to me??? haha..

(the dreaded thing, the CHIMES!)

well, after that it was obvious we had to clear the stage. heh. we had lots of trouble with all the percussion instruments lol. man, especially the CHIMES!!! haha. believe everyone had alot of trouble carrying that thing, considering it was so bulky and heavy. i think i had a sore throat the next day because i was yelling 'heave! heave!' up the stairs. haha. it took about 7 or so of us to lug that 'thing' up the stairs. haiz. can we get a lighter chime set next time? sheesh... T_____T

(Everett, Edward and I taking a photo. whose that guy in the background?? T_T)

well, that night seemed to be the most fulfilling time of my life i guess. haha. we had lots of fun! and i really really enjoyed myself that day. haha. my senior gave me a rose, thanking me for the years i had been with him. heh. ive got to admit, i didnt expect anything from him. when he gave it to me i was pretty shocked. haha. well, he also gave me a letter that went with the rose. this was what was written on the letter:

' Dear Marcus,

Thanks for making Festival Of Arts a success! gos bless you my mushroom headed Junior (sheesh man.. why did he have to write that???), and thanks for just always making me laugh ^_^. Hope to see you in IB [IB is International Baccalaureate,in case you didnt know, and it is a course in my school]! let's continue to make music with the band.

JML'

sheesh, i felt really weird when i read the message. haha. i kept questioning myself after that, do i make people laugh alot? haha. i guess i cant answer that question. XD

(a photo that everett took with my handphone)

heh. after that, my friends invited me to eat Macdonald's supper at King Albert Park. haha. i ordered fries and ice lemon tea. then we were discussing on the events of the day. sad to say, i had to leave at around 11.45 pm so as not to trouble my parents to drive down to KAP to pick me up. haha.

i guess thats all i have to type for this day then. till next time! XD!

Joke of the day(taken from the book Skive):

if you think pies are round, you are so wrong, because pie are square! (pi r ^2[area of a circle])

The Long Awaited Post! *edited!

(Majulah Singapura! haha XD)

hwaaa... its been DAYS since i last posted. heh. so sorry readers, was too busy with my work. and yea. somehow my dad decided to fix the router at home, so i couldnt access the Internet. haha. pai seh pai seh. now im BACK! haha.. alot of things happened. let me share it with you guys out there! heh. today its also NATIONAL DAY! whoohoo! haha.. if you guys didnt realise it, today's date is 09/08/07. haha. pretty nice number, thats why im blogging today! haha. another good day to have blogged was the 20th of July, 20/07/2007! XD

heh. soo hmmm.. lets start with the bad stuff that happened to me this past few weeks:

(the stall.. ROTIPRATA.COM)

well, there was this time, my juniors, dexter and mattheus, and i, went to eat Roti Prata at Dover mart. well. that day because we had a long band practice, so well, we had to stay in school for the whole day. during that lunch break, we decided to go out of the school to eat as we thought that there was no more canteen food.

well, we arrived at this prata stall called rotiprata.com. my juniors decided to order thosai, while i ordered a mushroom murtabak. we paid on the spot. well, my junior had to pay for me as i did not have any spare change. thinking that i also ordered thosai, he gave another $1.60 to the uncle at the stall.

when the food arrived, the seller asked my friend to pay for the murtabak. my friend thought there was a mistake in the food, so he was quite upset, till i just said that ill take the murtabak. so my poor junior had to pay another $2.40 as the murtabak cost $4. however, the indian guy didnt accept the change! he kept insisting that we should pay $4 and not $2.40.

well. my friends and i were quite upset with him, and we spent the whole day arguing with him. then the indian guy got angry and took the murtabak and walked off, keeping my friend's earlier change of $1.60. isnt it UNREASONABLE???? for the whole day i was fuming mad at that stall and yea. i swear ill never go and eat at his prata stall ever again!

haiz. that was seriously the most 'pain in the neck' incident that i have ever gone through.

(all arise for the conductor, Dr Lee Tian Tee!man, did he see me taking a photo of him?)

yea. well. apart from that, we had many funny incidents that happened in school. one of which was the incident quite long ago, whereby all participants for the ACS National Day Parade were excused at 1.30pm for their contigent marching. i was also allowed to leave at 1.30 as the band had to perform their marches that day.

hmmm.. lets just say that there were many incidences of 'prison breaks' that happened in our class. well, that day we had Adv Maths for our White Space Period (a period for makeup lessons), so i had to admit. it was pretty boring. heh. Jim.. if you want to escape, at least do it without Mr Chua knowing la.. haiyo.. liddat also dunno. haha! XD

(The ACSI flag contingent party)

heh. i fell sick on the day of the ACS National Day Parade. the doctor told me i was suffering from a contagious flu. hmm. i didnt know that flu can be contagious! XD heh. that aside, we had a rehearsal for the National Day Parade, which started at 6 am early in the morning. all of the band members lugged their sleepy eyes to the Queenstown stadium. well, there was some smart ones that decided to 'pon' that day, as well, we had a concert in the night. heh. good job David Yee and Gu Wei! haha.

(the marching by the Primary sch scouts! or should i say walking?)

haha. and well, i guess the even that woke me up was the March pass by the different contingents. haha. it was extremely funny when it came to the primary school scouts! they were more like walking than marching. some of them even had their hands in their pockets lol! haha.. i guess i cant really blame them because they are still young. haha. reminds me of the recruit band drill time. XD

for those that didnt know, our Symphonic Band had a band concert on the 4th of August, at 7.30pm. haha. so sorry, we werent allowed to take photos during the concert, so yep! i didnt take much photos, only those before and after the concert. XD

haha. forgive me if there arent many pictures being uploaded. somehow my computer cannot upload that many pictures. not too sure why either. heh. i guess ill have to end here for the time being, until i can upload more pictures than i can continue editing this blog. till next time! XD

Joke of the day:

what do you cann a fly that has no wings?

Answer:

a WALK!