Tuesday, May 29, 2007
11:49 PM

Hello, although I doubt anyone noticed or was shocked by the sudden replacement of the familiar brown by this colder grey/blue maniacal idea that leapt out of Lizzy's mind, here's a new layout just cause I haven't had a new one since like.. October.

So whoopeee.
Not done in my usual meticulous finicky style.
But pretty much characterises the whoohooo atmosphere that engulfs my J2 life in tiddly-ness.

Its a very whoohooo sort of world to live in, the pressures of J2 life and still being ignorantly blissful while being a part of it.

This is once again one of the most important times for me to continue renewing my mind in God's love and grace, and just saturating myself in His presence because please la, nothing can beat it and who wants to go listen to everyone else saying 'Die lar, die lar' anyway.

Why fill your mind and soul with rubbish when you have all the promises of Heaven in your hand.

Am such a beloved girl. (:

(Really random tonight because am tired after finally comprehending most of my J2 H1 Math syllabus and practicing Unbiased Estimates and Central Limit Theorem. Lol.)


Whee...
*toddles off*

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Monday, May 28, 2007
9:57 PM

Wheee.

Ken and I emcee-ed for Pas de Deux, TJ String Ensemble's concert.
It was... a somewhat... traumatizing experience. But new and fun nevertheless. :D
To everyone who knew me in the audience... go ahead and laugh. *dramatic flourish* I shall retain whatever dignity I have left. :X



So anyway, we turned up at noon, and were basically directed to the changing rooms and ignored for 4 hours. Ken and I left halfway so he could get his Burger King fix, and we stopped by Summer House for some really nice, sweeet, high donuts as a detour because they were so pretty we couldn't help it. :D Its at Burlington Square, and they are nice! I like I like.

We came back, sat in a stairwell like homeless late night party go-ers in our nice clothes and talked really loudly.. but we pretty much weren't missed.

Went back to the changing room and continued to wile away the time. Come 4.30PM the door suddenly bursts open and our immediate presence was demanded for.. so in a flurry we fled up to the stage, and realized.... that we didn't know our script very well at all. Ha. Ha. Ha.

So it turned out to be quite a joke overall, and since they were pretty much having quite a logistical nightmare during the first half, Ken and I attempted (sorry if we failed!) quite desperately to buy time (not enough of it, apparently) by making (really, really) lame jokes. I had to pretend I actually liked Ken's CORN joke. It was probably a blessing in disguise that we've gone through this stupid joke so many times in class that I could bring it to remembrance on stage when Ken was going "Oh my God.. Lizzy.. there are so many people... Bright.. lights..." on stage into the mike as we frantically sought for words to fill the silence and darkness.

ANYWAY! Kudos to David and Jing Hean for being such great lighting/improv stage managers. ;D And Moo Hoo Hoo to Mifa, Shik and Sugz who burst out laughing within the first 2 seconds of seeing Nef and I. Or in fact, everyone who saw us. Dil.. Samuel, etc.

SO.

Er. It was quite an experience I must say. LOL. Really funny, in retrospect. I'm just glad (I HOPE) that I didn't know a lot of people in the audience. *sweats*

AND the PHOTOS!!

I like the one with Ken in the mirror. Its very.. er, Gothic doppleganger alter ego thingy thingy!

And the backview of RANNALD SIM TING WEI was the only one I could get because as I predicted, flustered Ranny was so flustered, that was the only shot I managed to get. xP

And David's face is so. David.


Speaking of David, he was a fantastic Bottom in TJ Drama's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Totally awesome! The production was brilliantly conceptualized. I loved the concept. The acting, well, I shan't comment too much, it didn't take my breath away as much as I would have liked it to, but for a school production, I thought it was brilliant. ;D


And the boyfriend. Even though he looks rather confused here.
Hahaha.
Tomorrow will be 29th May, and it'll be a full year to when we first met. Those group MSN conversations pre-Pre-U-Sem don't count. :P

Haha. To the first time we met and had to play games on the first evening, and I borrowed his laptop on the first night (com deprivation)... and all the bridge games that traditionally count as important Pre-U-Sem activities....

And Von and Ran have recently found it particularly entertaining to tease me about those early days after Pre-U-Sem.. I don't know why these two have been in cahoots lately.. :P

And speaking of VON. That girl gave me NAIL STICKERS. Like, nail stickers. Of course, I wasn't going to put it on my nails now was I?

So.. Lizzy decided to be girly/lian and put them on her phone. So now Z-540 has little blue/white hearts and stars on it. Oh ZEH Horror. Non?

So back to Jason.. It's been a year since we met, 4 months of which we hummed and hawwed around, 8 months since we first got together. Or is it more? We don't keep anniversaries anymore, that's probably my fault. Lol.

So yes. (:
We'll see where the future goes, and how graced we are for each other.

I'm off now, spent my whole day packing and arranging my notes (again, properly, this time). Lol.

Wanna do blog layout.. a simple one, to suit the simplicity of J2 life. (LOL)

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Friday, May 25, 2007
11:42 AM

PIRATES!!!!!!!!

Okay.. So. Johnny Depp is still hot. But he didn't get enough screen time, what with the gianormous amount of pirates that suddenly decided to crop up from the trillion corners of the globe (OXYMORON!).

So the humour was all a bit forced, nothing beats the first Pirates of the Carribean, but this so totally pwnz the second.

The last sea battle was oh so cool.

And I must commend Hans Zimmer for still being able to come with a new theme and a BRILLIANT Zimmer-esque soundtrack for PotC 3 without sounding like re-runs of 1 and 2.

The new theme is this piratey song thats so full of piratey honour that you can't help but swell with piratey pride.

Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high…
Heave ho,
thieves and beggars,
Never shall we die…

The king and his men
stole the queen from her bed
and bound her in her bones……
The seas be ours and by the powers
Where we will well roam…

Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high…
Heave ho,
Thieves and beggars,
Never shall we die...


Its pretty awesome. I like I like.

Singapore looked nothing like Singapore.
The humour, I must reiterate, gets too slapstick at some points and the audience definitely didn't catch most of the little witty ones because they passed too quicky. (Especially Singaporean audiences, sometimes it takes a while to get through to them. Coughs.)

ALSO, many plot loopholes which I shan't elaborate on lest I spoil the movie for any of you.

Just.. way too many pirates and way too many crabs.

Keira Knightley is pretty, I shan't deny it, but her predominant role was to pout through the movie and I must applaud her for having kissed practically every male lead and supporting actor in Pirates at least once. I'll bet they scripted it all in just so everyone would get a chance to snog her.

What I didn't like, was how Davy Jones had suddenly become such a sentimental weakling. I so didn't understand the painful emo angst problem between him and Calypso. And the worse part was that the only line he kept uttering throught he movie was "Are you afraid to die?", which is of course, cue for them to join him aboard the Flying Dutchman.

The ending was zomgrwrnkr!?
And if you haven't caught it, remember to stay till the credits end.

I hearts the soundtrack. :D

The last fight scene was total cooooooooolnessss.
And I'll rather they not try to make a Pirates 4.

*nods*

One of the most ancipated movies of 2007 down! Next up.. POTTER!
As disappointing as the movies tend to get (much more so following the decline of the quality of the books. My love ended at book 4. Book 5 was teenage angst, and 6 was a desperate attempt to introduce too many characters and tie up way too many plot loopholes.. unsuccessfully.) I admit to being still, quite loyal to it because "no-matter-how-bad-it-is-I've-read-all-six-books-to-date-and-watched-all-four-movies".

No more Cedric, who was so smotheringly cute.

...

Oh WELL.

Midsummer's tonight. So exciting. Can't wait to watch them. :D

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Sunday, May 20, 2007
10:18 AM

Hello life, I'm back from the extended vacation I took. Haven't blogged since 3 days before SYF. The past week has been pure madness. All of us were so impervious to the practices that most of the year twos were numb to the prospect that we were actually having a concert. Right up to the point where we were about to play our first piece, Around the World, I still couldn't believe we were having a concert. Everything felt so surreal.

Like, okay.. we've practiced a few pieces 5 or 6 times in the past week. Lets put up a concert..

But.

I'm really, really, truly happy, and truly satisfied. Because we finally did Hymn justice. It was the most awesome performance we have ever done, and I believe, will ever do.

That was (for the year 2s) our one and last chance to show the beauty of that piece, and we did it. I almost cried while playing, even now I feel my hair rising as I relish in the memory of that One Moment. That one moment where the intensity was so strong, you could just feel it all around you. I know some of them did cry. That One Moment when Lin Sheng raised his arms and brought us to that crescendo. When he made that quick motion and wiped both his eyes - tears or sweat, what does it matter, because the magic was there. When we reached figure T every emotion just exploded. When we got to the last two bars of the piece, I actually played my damn running notes correctly, and as the last echo faded away, my heart just pounded so loudly in my chest as I savoured the sound of that final note.
That will be my best memory of playing with TJCSB.

Because our batch has come so far... these past few months, we've worked so hard, we've come from literally nothing to this. I don't care if we got a Gold, the significance of that name has faded, there's so much more to give thanks for.


The band.


The J2 batch (not all present). As you can see, some obviously identifiable people took the opportunity to EAT in the bandroom. Its amazing how much we've grown since the beginning. Those days of playing rubbish with one flautist, two saxists and being overpowered by the vast majority of the brasses... This year will be different. The woodwind section is.. well, sizeable. And the year ones will have one tuba, no euphos, and two trombones. Lol. The power of the basses this year was formidable. Their Esmeralda was kickass. :D And Hanafi's solo was 'GODLIKE'. (Can burn joss stick. Nigel's favourite words. =X)


And of course, the committee.. we came from a time when the girls (unfortunately, all 5 being from TKGS) were busy hantam-ing the boys for trying to run away from the 'miscellaneous' saikang that had to be done, to a point where Nigel and Yao Zong have become so responsible I can scarce believe my eyes. Nigel's speech was hilarious. Its very endearing how despite his, ahem, limited vocabulary *coughcough*, everytime he speaks, it moves people. Like when he spoke before SYF. "If we get Gold, we'll cry together. If we get Bronze, we will also cry together. Because we are TJBand. Okay?" (Not verbatim. Haha.) The two SCs have been utterly invaluable. And I'm only saying this now because we are going to step down. =x

BOBO. Whom only this year I realized, also has a sense of humour. Funnily the thing I'm going to remember him most for is........... His SPEED at cutting tickets/programmes for last year's Fiesta concert. LOL. All the round edges that I tortured everyone with. All the for the sake of Looking Good. How much manual DIY work have I put the comm and the year twos through... "No more, Lizzy. We are not ever going to paint another banner ever again." I remember those nights in the music studio during our various camps.. cutting programmes and putting on those groovy little chains. AND I DIDN'T EVEN GET TO KEEP ONE! :(

Aaaaaand I remember the HORNS discussing a certain ISSUE in the music studio during Fiesta Camp.. fastforward to March, and Lizzy is all aghast.. because. "WHAT?! HOW COME I DON'T KNOW THEY'RE TOGETHER?!" It was extremely weird for me at the beginning. But Haoj is such a responsible wannabe macho boyfriend that its so endearingly funny. Dinah and I have spent merciless moments teasing the two... but then again, Dinah and I seem to have a knack for engaging in embarassing activities very often.


Ah yes, the 5 minus 1. Not because we wanted to purposefully exclude her, the 5 of us didn't get a photo together, but she just wasn't conveniently around for this shot. =x TK power. The TK identity has faded a lot since the year started. Now its just become a fierce loyalty.. well, not to TJ per se, but to TJCSB.


And my saxtion. IS LOVE. IS LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE. X) I tried my best to be a responsible SL... even though I spent half that time panicking, and screwing up Les Mis on stage. Sarah and especially Fred spend quite a lot of time getting me to stop panicking/being stressed/looking like I'm going to cry/crying/looking angry/grave/etc etc etc. Elliot just gives me this O___o look. And Manda goes. "Eh she's crying again! Sarah you bully her right!" Poor Manda has endured her own fair share of trauma from Kejian (Mr. Flute Solo and Fairy Godfather). And Si Ying, even though I realize we never talk much and she spends more time with the lower woodwinds than anyone else, she's improved so much. Woohoo. :D In fact all 3 of them have. (:

I'm still astounded at how we managed to pull off a concert. It was so informal. Our tech runs were rubbish, in fact, the stage crew was rubbish.. (sorry, no offence but its true). We were hastily grabbing our chairs and stands from the sides 3 seconds before Nigel started conducting 3 Extraordinary Journeys, and one stand was spoilt so 3 altos were craning their necks and squinting at one score for Les Mis.


And the J2 saxists. (: My pillar of support. Manda only joined us this year. And I wouldn't have surived the past year without Sarah.


The alumni saxists. Many, many times pro-er. Aloysius has been such a source of support. He and Luther were almost always there for us through our SYF journey. And they were the ones who talked to us and accompanied us after we got the results. The alumni has been fun. I don't know if I'll have the guts to join the alumni (haha). But I'm really really really going to miss my sax....


WY and Rene, who finally came for my last concert. Yay. Yay. (:
And WY gave me another cactus. (...)
I already killed the first one she gave me. Astounding, yes. I managed to kill a cactus. In fact, not one but two cacti. The first one from WY kamikazed and died because I watered it too much. It exploded, in fact. The second one sis bought me (because I killed No.1) has shrivelled up and died because I didn't water it. What fate awaits No.3, I wonder.

And thank you everyone else who came to support. (: Some of my caregroup, especially. I have been MIA there for so long, I really really miss them. Thanks for coming. (: (: (: (:

To those who are from other bands, especially, I hope you enjoyed the concert. I hope that you enjoyed Hymn. And I hope you felt the TJ Band magic. x)

Woke up at 10.00am today. Slept at 2.00am after supper-ing and trying to stay coherent online for half an hour. Wondered peevishly why I was already awake. Lolled around for a while and decided that my brain couldn't stop thinking about band so I decided to just get up.

Time to return to studies now. :(
H3 Lit paper.. JCTs.. immediate homework.. zomg..~

TJBand, you are so special to me. (:
Year twos.. its over for us. As part of the main band. I cherish each and every moment I've had with you guys. My blisters will fade soon. My lips will stop being numb. But TJBand.. still is love. And will always be.

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Tuesday, May 08, 2007
11:10 PM

Unspoken words.


There's a sort of restless energy coursing through my veins.
ANTICIPATION.
3moredays3moredays3moredays...
According to Fred its TWO.

Noticing the difference between TeeJay and Some of the Rest.
Over here, SYF warrants us breaks from our academic pursuits. For many of us 'studies' as we know it have faded into the background, even myself. And I know that is rare.

Band has never meant so much to me as it does now.
TJBand. There's nothing like it. Nor will there ever be anything like it for me, ever, ever, again.

We get to end at 12.30PM on Thursday in preparation for SYF on Fri, which we of course - have the entire day off for.

The anticipation is driving my senses wild. I can't remember when was the last time I felt such emotions.

I guess for some schools, its a matter of conforming to the system, or slowly realizing its flaws. I don't think there's anything wrong with taking academic downtime. But to each his own. TJ is TJ. And by virtue of that we always manage to survive somehow, somewhat.

Students can only be pushed so much.

Not all of us can be like Rannald. (:

There's a lot more I'll like to say, but I'm literally dozing off while attempting to complete my sentences...

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Monday, May 07, 2007
10:59 PM

Sometimes I wonder how many words I'll have to keep holding back just to keep the peace.

Silence.

.

ANYWAY, moving along!!! Band (no the above has nothing to do with band - aka life as I've known it for the past term, you mean its week 7 already?) has been.. GOOD.

I'll say good because I know MY GOD IS GOOD YO. And I've already dedicated TJBand into his almighty hands.

Nothing much to say except I'm high (I don't really know why) and I'm really starting to adore my section. Its that warm fuzzy feeling when you've been spending this much time with each other under SUCH circumstances.

Woo. I love sax.
:D

I LOVE BAND.


*flops around*

No band tomorrow. Life as I know it will have to take a very slight momentary hiatus.. in literal terms.

But of course there's everything else. So exciting. *flops more*


Er. Yes. My incoherency is getting to me. :D

Goodnight. Till sanity regains itself. Or I regain it.
..
Something.

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Tuesday, May 01, 2007
11:57 PM

Saxy conversations.

fxxxzxx@hotmail.com says:
u are tired.
fxxxzxx@hotmail.com says:
too muchhhhh sax.
lizzy(: God's beloved ; tjcsb. The battle isn't mine, but God's. 2 Chronicles 20:15 says:
totally
fxxxzxx@hotmail.com says:
!!!
lizzy(: God's beloved ; tjcsb. The battle isn't mine, but God's. 2 Chronicles 20:15 says:
way too much
fxxxzxx@hotmail.com says:
LOL
lizzy(: God's beloved ; tjcsb. The battle isn't mine, but God's. 2 Chronicles 20:15 says:
that was so intentional
lizzy(: God's beloved ; tjcsb. The battle isn't mine, but God's. 2 Chronicles 20:15 says:
don't pretend

Whee.
Can't wait for our band tee and section tee. I'm bringing saxy back. Yeah.
Saxophonists please pay me $25 ASAP because paying the 50% deposit was zomg on my wallet.

Caught Spidey-3 after band today with Jason.
...
Well. Good&Bad.
All the logic of a Marvel movie (in other words, not much).
Harry is sultry bourgeois hawtness. PETERPARKERISFAT. I don't care, but he really has, like, a double chin and an undefined body. And the worst part was that they kept filming his unflattering angles.
Er.. too many villians, too cliche plot, same ole' loopholes, wimpy angst-ridden heroine whose primary purpose is to look pained and scream a lot, and conveniently always end up being in danger and at most times - the cause or catalyst for the trouble...

Still watchable. Draggy, yes, but watchable... Its Spiderman after all... you can count on the predictability of the good vs evil debate. Whats more with all the MORALS it literally preaches.

That a husband must put his wife first. A man always has a choice to do the right thing. Yadda yadda. Whee. Family movie, yo. And thankfully even though most of the plot circulated around the pale and pained Kirsten Dunst, the snog level was low.

OK.
I want sleep.
Shall stop here.
NIGHTNIGHT.
9 days to God's glorious victory.


PS, erratum to thankyous: LUTHER, for being there for the saxes. :D:D:D

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