Concise-tion

Someone just told me to have entries that are more concise. Hmmmm.

Haven't touched my blog for sooooooooooooooooooooo long.

NBC just ended last Saturday, with RJCSB getting second place, losing out to TJ band by 3 points. Quite a difference considering how close Mus'art were to us. But then again, Mus'art was judged with 1st division so there may be marginal affecting factors there.

Everything was quite messy before the competition. Getting to the verese vv late (due to both RI gates closed, we had to use RJ gate), Jiaying's bad mood (which is scary and unsettling), didn't have enough time to tune as a band (unlike TJ), whistling of TJ guys, and nervousness before going on stage (of the band playing too loudly, which kind of caused our previous demise to TJ). The playing itself was all right. Better than A Tempo, but we can do better. From the recording, Stars and Stripes sounded pretty good, without overplaying and not much intonation. Just a nice peice that we rushed in. Machhu Picchu was not as loud as normal (thank God), but intonation sucked. And there were tempo problems, and the percussion and clarinets had some minor screw-ups. In all, it didn't sound as good as I thought it would. Probably the low quality of the recording.

So as the second placed band, we get to play this Sunday again! Yippee. Another late night home and a lethargic Monday.

They haven't made the announcement about our NBC yet. It's a competition leh, and people worked hard for it you know. No different from sports competitions actually. What's the discrimination between performing arts competition and sports competition? It's a good way to boost band morale (although second is nothing much to be proud of) and increases awareness of the band. Did you know that some people didn't even know there's a band in RJ? GG.

Found Jianwei's blog, which led me to other band members' blogs. Hanxin's blog sounds and looks posh. Woohoo.

Had the most embarrasing incident in my RJ life ever. It was concerning a certain honeydew, Yang Guo and Xiao Long Nu, loose grip, a group of petrified guys, difference between swords and dao1s, Annalyn and Ruth. Get the picture already? Go figure.

Other than that. My life is as mundane as ever. Haven't officially started revision for Promos yet, and there's like 60 days left only. I WILL NOT GET PWNED BY SCHOOL EXAMS EVER AGAIN.

Ok. Mommie is scolding me for shouting to myself. oUch.