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Profile zhiguang 270490 nus med CO.liuqin.ruan i like hotcakes, waffle crisps, chocobabies. and i really like the music of chopin and rachmaninov (: Tagboard Exits alvin chao tong charmaine chong chen christopher chun hui dao teng davin douglas gim thia grace han lin harry pan jessly jia hao jian ting jian tong jonathan justin keng wei kevin lionel magdelene michael michelle minhui minzhe rachel samuel sean seryang shi ling shiwei shou hao shu peng siew boon song sim szu an ting feng xuan yi yee jiunn yijing yi xiang yuan yin yu guang yun heng zheng you 07S7E! 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(: WOW. i just realised. it has been 2.5 years! i was talking about lessons with my teacher. i have to say that i have never ever looked forward to any lessons with my teacher. One of the reasons was that I was never really prepared for any of them. It's either her expectations of me are too high or im just simply too lazy to practise. when i was P4 she wanted me to take part in the national chinese music competition that took place at the end of the year. with that i have to practise 6 to 8 hours a day. she drew up a timetable for me indicating how long i should be practising and what i should be practising. that was how my holidays got burnt during my primary school days. it was literally like wake up 8am - brush teeth and then start practising. what's worse is that i need to obtain the signature of my parents and record them in a notebook as evidence to show my teacher. hahah those were the days. that year the set pieces for the junior category were 旱天雷 and 达姆达姆. i guess i was still very young and small so i couldnt play the zhongruan yet. so she chose for me a liuqin choice piece 欢腾的天山 to be played on the gaoyinruan. the preparation was very intense. i had to play the pieces over and over again at home. then i have to rehearse how to enter and leave the stage. i have to learn to bow to the audience, and also emergency procedures, like for example what to do when my string breaks. for the competition, my parents even ordered a tailor-made chinese suit. hahah back then had to go thru so many things just to prepare for a competition. i remember vividly that back then the competition was held at some ulu drama centre. it was a very old building, and i think it might have been demolished by now. it has been a decade since i last went there. (oh man so old alr!). there was a preliminary and final round. i was lucky to have made through the preliminary rounds. then during the final rounds. i recall, my string broke. i have played quite a part of the piece before the string broke. but luckily i was taught to remain calm, so i went in to get a new instrument. and played the piece again. that year rosyth co also sent its ruan ensemble to take part in the competition. it was a good result because all of us put in our utmost effort! i dunno why i cant seem to recall anything that occured during P5. hmm mebbe this signals the end of this entry! will write again soon! Saturday, January 30, 2010 No. I cant just give up on my blog like that. It has too many memories already. It has been nearly 7 years. Thus I've decided to give it a new look (: I realised I still have a story to finish. hahah Tuesday, December 09, 2008 just came back from co prac at sngzheng's house. and im totally lost for words because his house is the largest i've ever seen. seriously! the living room looks like a hotel lobby, and there are soo many so many rooms. and a gimongous swimming pool. OMG and his attic is almost as big as the Singapore Conference Hall stage. 0.0 my dad came to fetch me and a few of us home, and he was horrified by the size of sngzheng's house too! haha and we're going there again tmr. yeahh man! soo many things happened over the past few days! (: congrats to fellow bhce members - binghong, hubert, junyuan for getting into NAC finals! congrats to ser yang, ester and min hui for getting in the ruan open finals! went to watch the ruan open prelims on sunday and i think i've really lost touch with ruan already =/ need to go prac hard le. i realised that there's only 3 days left to ensemble finals O.O ohhh mann!! this is scary. Wednesday, December 03, 2008 WOOHOO! braddell heights chamber ensemble got into the finals! i was soo relieved. X/ after our performance we watched the rest of the groups, and some were really outstanding. that made me felt so nervous all the way until the results were released. but when the announcer came out and read out "no. 3"! all of us were so happy that we screamed with joy. xD most of BHCE members had already practised for like 2 to 3 months. i only joined the day my A lvls ended and till now i've only been with them for 2 weeks exactly! but this felt like months already and the unity, camaraderie in the ensemble greatly touched me. now we have 10 more days to lian4 our final pieces and we're really gonna showcase the best we have to offer. we're gonna show that besides 3 golden eagles and a shiny crystal ball, there is another grp called BHCE who can make a name for themselves. and yes we will. (: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 good music makes me lose my breath! wooo! i dont know if this is the life i wanna live after A's. woke up at 12pm today, ytd it was 1pm. haha and later there's gonna be prac at 3pm. there's 4A chalet today but i can only go after my practice =/ a lot of ppl seem to be applying for universities and scholarships and stuff. rahh i havent really thought of what i wanna do. what to study!!!? or mebbe i shouldnt study. just go get A lvl cert and start working. xD ahh i dont know. okay shall go get lunch now. my sis' complaining that she's hungry. i've missed breakfast for 2 consecutive days. >< Sunday, November 23, 2008 okay this is going to be my first post in 5 months! was trying to watch the arsenal match but my com just refused to load. AND THEY LOST AGAIN. AHH STOP LOSING ARSENAL! haha but im not that sad because the feeling that A lvls are over is keeping me happy all day long. now i do not have to spend time sitting at the desk MUGGING NON STOP. do not have to suffer from those sleepless nights. do not have to keep rambling to my parents and make them as stressed as i am. do not have to suffer from poor appetite. do not have to wake up early xD. do not have to use my entry proof anymore. do not have to look at A lvl seating plans. do not need to drink chicken essence every morning. do not have to listen to the examiner say the instructions over and over again. it goes "candidates are reminded not have any unauthorised materials in their possession. any candidate who is found to possess any ... will be deemed as an act of cheating and will be denied the chance to sit for the paper and for subsequent papers" smth like that! and i can now keep those stacks and stacks of notes away! cant burn it because it might be of help to my brother. =X the next few days is gonna be hiong man. there's gonna be bhco prac for the whole of next week! it has been like months since i played the ruan. woo! that feeling of playing in an orchestra is just great! totally enjoyed myself. :D the prelim round is going to be on 3rd dec! pls come down to support! thankyouthankyou! xD andand next week there's gonna be 4A chalet. but dunno if the practices will clash =/ it has been soo long since we gathered as a class. shall look forward to it :D ohh my and im gonna be soo freeeeee. cos im enlisting in april. april april april april april april april april april april april. that means i will celebrate my birthday at tekong ._. hahah okay this is a totally rojak post. ._. --- ohh i must showcase this nicey pic to the world. it's my class prom page picture! drawn by our very own shen2, bin sheng! its super kawaii neh! Tuesday, June 03, 2008 i rmb i switched on my com and listened to shui mo. i dun know exactly why i listened to it. but yeahh, i was going thru my daily routine - checking mail which has totalled up to 1285 mails. @.@, then check soccernet to see if arsenal did any acquisitions in the transfer market. i thought that took quite long, but shui mo hasnt ended. ohh my. i have to admit, it did sound nice initially, but playing that piece for soo many times makes me feel sick about it. it's actually the first song that i found bored while playing it. can imagine how the audience felt while we played it. >< aye but that's not the point. the pieces that hcco played were all nice =) *ahhaha self-delusion* had concert comm aar today at serene centre macs! pointed out all the areas that can be improved and areas that we did well in. =) overall it was good! like there were no MAJOR screw-ups. ahhaha. ohh my aside from that. SATs! im totally dead for it. it's this saturday and i feel so unprepared for it. anyway i dun even know how to prepare for it. must thank peizhi for helping me borrow it from the school library because i was not wearing full sch u! =) okays it's 11.34pm now. im supposed to be packing my room now. i told myself today im gonna sort out all the sheets of paper that has been lying around in my small lil room by today. rahh shall do so in a while! *** shall continue from where i left. aye that part wasnt impt. i just knew it was such a sudden turn of events that even myself did not believe it. i started to like what i was playing. confidence grew. my teacher still gave competitions to us small lil kids, to test our skills and stuff. there was once she tested us to see if we are good enough to buy our own instruments, and i managed to pass =) those were the nice things. but i guess the bad memories still overshadow the good ones. i rmb vividly like, there was once, we din play up to our teacher's expectations. our teacher then made us stand under the scorching afternoon sun in the sch field, with our instruments held high in the air. there was once where she even made us stand in the canteen with the same pose, during the afternoon session recess time, with all the students walking past laughing at you. it was really bad. i was a rebellious kid i rmb. i talked back to my tcher many a time. i rmb she scolded me, and i just shouted back at her. like totally rude, but i felt i was right cos she was just a meanie. it was so serious that she told my parents she din want to have such a student like me anymore. but yeahh, my parents hoot me real bad and i apologised to my teacher and everything went bad to normal. i rmb a similar case like that happened again in p6, but yeahh everything was okay in the end. my first syf experience was in p4. that time syf was held at nanyang girls' high sch siew mei auditorium. i kinda forgot how the whole experience went. but rosyth co played the set piece, which was 遍野春花 and our choice piece 春节序曲. yay we got gold. and that time it was still that the format where they selected the top 5 schs, and had another round of competition to choose the top pri school co. we got 2nd that year, our first year competing in syf. lost to ngee ann primary school i rmb. i rmb ppl like junkai, wenqi, yongjie were all in the same co last time. hahaha. its amazing how we ended up in hcco! hmm mebbe i shud talk abt private lessons. because at that time, most of the co ppl in my pri sch were having private lessons with their instructors alr. i wasnt. i was like okay okay with everything that i have. contented, yeah. =) even my fellow peers playing the same instrument as me were having private lessons then. it was such an IN thing. lol like a privilege to have it. i was like shocked when my tcher told me that i shud have private lessons under her. kinda scary actually. i rmb the first lesson i went, she gave to me a wang hong yi liuqin cd. it is still with me today, and the first piece in that cd is 江月琴声! the piece i played for hcco concert. really amazing. haha. but thats not the point. the first lesson she also handed me this imba long 练习曲, or whhat u call an "etude" to prac. it's like 2 pages full of semi quavers. and im supposed to prac using the metronome, slowly progressing in tempo. i heck care abt it, din prepare at all for the second lesson. i watched tv rather than practised my instrument. i did not even bother to lian4 that etude she gave me. whoa then guess what. after the second lesson. she made my stay at her house until i could play the entire piece once without stopping. my father came to fetch me after 1hr of lesson, but my tcher asked him to go home and only come after receiving a call from her. i was super traumatised then. i was just a p3-becoming-p4 student, then had to be detained at her house, like being in jail that kind of feeling. i rmb i cried. cried really badly, cos i wanted to go home. my lesson was like early in the morning, and i could only go home when the sky turned dark. truly horrible experience. subsequent practices i was told to prac using a faster tempo, my target was 160 on the metronome. i nv achieved that anyway. but i feared being scolded before i attended every lesson. then during lessons i would try to cut down the time i have with my teacher by acting as if i got stomachache and need to use the toilet. rather lame leh, to think of what i used to do in the past. aye but the main point is that the most scariest thing on earth then was to be scolded by my teacher. i wouldnt know what punishment was waiting for me the next time round. yeah im tired alr. it's 12.14am now and i still need to pack my bag! shall continue my little story again soon! =)