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Instructors: Mr Tan Thiam Hee & Mr Yea Guoming
Teachers IC: Mr Ramasamy, Ms Adeline Ng, Mr Mark Chan ex DM/BM: Mayble,Devon[06-07]; Muighern,Melodi[07-08]; Elysia,Clare[08-09] DM/BM: Siew Kim, Valerie [09-10] Committee [09-10]: 2nd Vice : Marie Quarter Mistress - Tessa Recruit Officer - Adeline, Elizabeth Welfare Officer - Dai Ling Chief Librarian - Denise Main Sectional Leaders [09-10]:
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3:51 PM | Sunday, December 28, 2008
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! 9:48 PM | Tuesday, December 2, 2008
BAND CAMP! Dont worry everyone, this wont be an essay-long post. or not. I will just sum up what we had in the three days... lots of fun! DAY 1 We arrived at 7.30am Warm-up stretching excercises and drills. Everyone looked sleepy.. Mr Tan told us to do low mark time during the video-ing, but Mr Yea says that mark time can train us better, so he decided to change it by making us raise our hands in level with our knees at 90 degrees and march so we would look less sloppish. We were told that we look alot neater after that. At 9.30, we were brought our breakfast! Thanks to Ma'am Mui Ghern that went to collect the 55 sausage buns for us, and the food ICs which made the milo! and it was delicious, people went and take more, since there were some left over. yum! Combined band practice at 10am. Mr Yea came with a shirt the colour of the curtain and Mr Tan with " Maid clothes." We practiced the set piece, and at least was better than the first time we played it o.o "At least can see the skeleton liao,"- Mr Tan. We had alot more to improve on. We were told that Mr Mark Chan is going to be one of the Teachers-In-Charge by taking over Mdm Alya which will be leaving at the end of the year. So, its good news and bad news. At 12pm, we had lunch. When we came back from lunch, band resumed and woodwinds are to go out and practice with Mr Tan, brasswinds and percussion stay in the band room with Mr Yea, to practice set piece. They corrected alot of our mistakes. We combined at 3pm and ran through the set piece again. Following up it was LOD, the choice piece. WE PLAYED EXTREMELY HORRIBLE THAT DAY! Ran though a few pop songs. At 4pm, we had games led by Yvonne and Corinne. The Blanket Game was to see whether people's reaction was fast by saying thier names out, and another was saying thier sections too, though it was harder. We ended up saying wrong sections :p One of the gruops have to do a forfeit by drinking the leftover milo from the dispenser itself. Something unfortunate happened. We had a game of Wacko and Double Wacko and it was fun shouting names and getting hit. After that we fell in and was dismissed from the first day of Band Camp. -End of Day 1- DAY 2 On this day, only half of the band turned up as usual. Although drills made us really sweaty, it was unexpectedly fun, and we learn alot after trying again and again, getting coached by Mr Yea. Mr Chan, with his pro AVA skills, filmed us while having drills. We had sectional lunch together as this bonds our sections. Suddenly Mr Tan started requesting us to play some pop songs that we had played before. We later found out the reason is that we will be performing in the school hall during 11 Jan 2009 for the ministers who will be visiting the sengkang area and schools. Sudden announcement of the performance make us feel unprepared, like we are not up to it. Tequila still sounds like milk though. Mr Tan's friend came to look around. and left. We practiced choice piece and set piece. At 4pm, we gathered at the basketball court and had fun wet games!!! We came back all drenched and had to change into dry clothes. Had a briefing on the next day, which we will be having the Amazing Race! We promised to the majorettes that we will come. "Be daring and think out of the box!" -End of 2nd Day- Day 3 Surprisingly, the number of people present is the same as that of monday's. The band had responded to Clare's command yesterday night on msn. Seems like the promise worked. Drills started our day as usual. First came the basic hentak and turning to the right, left and back. Up next was tougher, we did mark time and played Marching Along. It was not that well. Mr Yea told us in the end that we made improvments since the first day he saw us march till today. Our mark time etc were really quite there. HOWEVER, he declared that Marching Along and mark time togther was 'bleh'. More space for improvment! Afterwhich, a short break and breakfast came up before Combined Practice started with Mr Yea. During which, we went though the four songs which we are to perform for the ministers on the 11th January - Tequila, The Rainbow Connection, Believe and The Light of Dawn. In addition, we also went through Over No.1 for Wind Band once. Then, it was lunch. Amazing race was next but it was being delayed as some alumnis that are supposed to lead the groups didnt turn up. Mr Yea was nice to stay in the band room as he thinks activities allow us to bond more. The starting game was at the basketball court where the teams finish the first game to get the clue to the next station. Some of the stations require us to ask passers-by to draw different moustache on our faces, which ALL the groups actually did! And some stations were a bit digusting and embarrassing, like applying toothpaste on ourselves and the next person is to clean it off, while the station I/C laughing sadistically away. One require us to sing a happy song while acting emo. After we got back, we were all very sweaty and tired. We drank the Sinalco thingy and eat the cat ball thingy we bought from Cold Storage. After that we had prize giving session, the group who got most points in the overall Band camp in three days. The first prize goes to group 2, and first-runner-up goes to group 1. The majorettes decide to present Mr Chan with a gift as a welcoming to SJCband as a TIC. After we clear all the mess, everyone was tired and happy that we didnt fall out. -End of Band Camp 2008- Lastly, we have a list of people whom we would like to thank, for their contribution to the camp. Thank you Mr Yea for teaching and training us drills that allowed us to be more disciplined and serious in it, and putting so much time into the band and never giving up in us. Thank you Mr Tan for giving us support, although you were busy on the third day. Thank you Ma'am Mui Ghern for taking time off and spend time making this band a better one. Thank you Ma'am Yvonne and Corinne for making the games and taking over, making the band camp enjoyable for all of us. Thank you anyone of whom we are unable to name but who had in one way or another contributed to the successs of the band camp 2008. SCOLDING TIME. Some things just cant end nicely. Only half of the band turn up for three days. come on band, you can all do better than this! We are only left with a little more than a hundred days to the SYF next year. Do you think that making yourself absent will do us any good? Please dont pull the band down with your irresponsible acts of not attending practices. The Band can't just wait for ONE or TWO of you. - Legato and Tenuto |
Our Poll
To everyone: I am closing the poll as some in this band just cant understand simple instructions after constant reminders. 2008 poll results:
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