the seventh avenue - boring chapters of caleb's life

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

i wanna say something before i start blogging about my daily activities - i seem to be getting more and more winks from speedate (the facebook application), even though i typed in this for the profile section,

"don't bother to wink me if you won't start the conversation. i don't really open up easily to other people =) and conversation =/= wink ._.".

i mean can't they read, don't wink if you don't start the conversation, as simple as that =/ not that they appeal to me anyway, so whatever.. oh and sad thing is, one of the girl that seem to get along with me (or at least i think so) kinda stopped talking to me after my absense from online activities because my illness..

ok, let me have a moment to stop emo-ing..

*a moment later*
haha, ok thats lame, anyway, i went out with my parents today! yup, i love going out with them on mondays, cos thats the ONLY time that i can actually enjoy spending time with them. and today, we went to my cousin's place for lunch. had lots of fun looking at all our old photos. me and marcus even did a remake of a photo that was taken when we were 8 yrs old! haha, can't wait for him to post it on facebook =p (maybe we should wear red and redo that photo again! haha)

after that, my parents fetched grace to bugis, cos she needed to get some stuff. during our car ride there, we chatted a bit, oh and grace if u wanna know queena, vice versa, u can visit her blog, or let me know =)

and because i still have got quite a bad cough, i tried to prevent myself from coughing in the car, so that the germs wont spread, but once it was so bad that my right eye actually started tearing for no reason lol and i think my cousin saw that lol how embarrassing =x

and then after which we went to newton for awhile for my parents to settle some stuff. so i was left all alone in the car at that time.. decided to lower the volume of the radio and blast some classical music with my ipod and it was actually really relaxing.

serenity
and then we headed back home for dinner.. one word to describe the entire dinner table, "FRIED!". haha yup, fried fish, bitter goud with fried fish, chicken wings and pork chop..

so thats all for today i guess.

now lets backtrack a bit to sunday. went to bukit merah's (my alma mater) band concert. ms chong is still as cute as ever, ms prema.. i miss her scolding us nuts =p mrs lim actually remember me haha *ahem* was one of her top students *ahem* ya and mrs chung? - wency's teacher - actually remembers me ._.

yup, and now for the concert.. i initially wanted to do ratings for each song, but i decided not to in the end because i have not been in the band scene for quite time. so, here are my comments instead..

*note: these are my opinions and is not meant to offend anyone in anyway*
Festivo
when the first note actually cracked like humpty dumpty, wenn turned her face and gave me an agonising look lol. hmm, for a first song, it was actually not very good. even if u say that the nerve and stuff are getting to you, its really still not good enough. and the band is out of tune.

Yorkshire Ballad
a better song, but it isnt very good as well. one thing i noticed is how the euphoniums are freaking dragging the whole band's tempo to like super slow in one part of the song. still out of tune.

Fugue on Yankee Doodle
for an easy song, it was really bad..

Sun Dancing
hmm, its strange but ive got no memory of this song =/ not even how it sounded like haha. so no comments.

Rumble on the High Plains - Guest Band
very entertaining and its a good strategy to make your audience focus on the drumming as the band just sneaked through the entire song haha

Coral Sea (a.k.a. 珊瑚海) - Guest Band
not a song that i liked, but i found it average. not a bad song, but its not good either.

Hips Don't Lie - Guest Band
as i have said, this band knows their weakness' however, they still can't hide them, so, this was average too!

Do-Re-Mi
it was ~~not good~~ bad for a simple piece. pitchy, messy..

When You Tell Me You Love Me - With Singers
was listening to the singers so i didnt really notice the band's playing for this song. but the singers were quite bad also la.. zhao xia~

Moonlight Represents My Heart - With Singer
same as the song b4, didnt really notice the band and was enjoying the singer. haha much more entertaining than the previous song.

In Time of Triumph - Combined With Guest Band
I thought that this was actually the best song of the concert.

Hawaii five-o (Encore) - Combined With Guest Band
i actually found it ok, but the others are complaining about the tempo being too slow =/

so thats all the songs..

overall, i thought that the guest band was actually a lot better than bmcb and some people should just stick to what they are assigned to. shall not say more to prevent myself from being flamed.. and before anyone start flaming my tagboard, let me say this..

Quoted from Riah's blog:
"let me tell you the secret ingredient of my secret ingredient soup! it is.. nothing! it is delicious because you believe that it is so - kungfu panda"

with that said, everyone has different expectations from your concert so you can't expect everyone to like/hate your concert. so if you guys enjoyed your concert, then so be it and stay happy with that feelings, like how we did with jubilance =)

so after the concert, my bitch left us.. so it was just me, wenn, queen and gin who went to marina square for our dinner.

i know! i am recovering from my illness and should avoid these food, but i just couldn't help myself =p

after which, we went to macdonalds for dessert..

and then wenn caught me in my emolisation stance..

haha will post a collage of the outing after i recieve more pics!

that's all for now..
enjoy this super long entry haha
caleb

Labels: Tales of Caleb

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